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Caroline Von Paulus is a French actress, fashion model and singer, better known by her stage name – Bambou. She was the partner of the French singer Serge Gainsbourg from 1981 until his death in 1991, although they were not married.
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Wayfinding
The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World
M. R. O'Connor - 2019-04-30
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At once far flung and intimate, a fascinating look at how finding our way make us human.In this compelling narrative, O'Connor seeks out neuroscientists, anthropologists, and master navigators to understand how navigation ultimately gave us our humanity. Biologists have been trying to solve the mystery of how organisms have the ability to migrate a...
Caroline Paul
2021-01-05T16:36:13.000Z
Crazy about this book by @the_ochronicle Don’t know how I missed it when it came out a year ago. My brain has gotten smaller during the pandemic and certainly I’m feeling lost these days. To heal both I’m going to try to old paper map thing. Just like ancient times.      source
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Blacktop Wasteland
A Novel
S. A. Cosby - 2020-07-14
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IT'S A CRIME THAT HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.Beauregard "Bug" Montage: husband, father, honest car mechanic. But he was once known - from North Carolina to the beaches of Florida - as the best getaway driver on the East Coast. Just like his father, who disappeared many years ago.After a series of financial calamities (worsened by the racial prejudices ...
Caroline Paul
2020-12-23T23:43:03.000Z
Best book about a heist gone wrong ever. I sped through this like a getaway driver. Looking for a literary page turner, here you go. Thank you @blacklionking73 for Blacktop Wasteland      source
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Seeing Gender
An Illustrated Guide to Identity and Expression
Iris Gottlieb - 2019-10-22
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Seeing Gender is an of-the-moment investigation into how we express and understand the complexities of gender today. Deeply researched and fully illustrated, this book demystifies an intensely personal—yet universal—facet of humanity. Illustrating a different concept on each spread, queer author and artist Iris Gottlieb touches on history, science,...
Caroline Paul
2019-10-18T17:00:14.000Z
Beautiful new book by @irisgottlieb!      source
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The Stars
A New Way to See Them
H. A. Rey - 2016-12-06 (first published in 1952)
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This is a clear, vivid text with charts and maps showing the positions of the constellations the year round....
Caroline Paul
Giving out this book is my small way of encouraging people to look up, make sense of the sky, and along the way experience an existential jolt.      source
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The Dog Stars
Peter Heller - 2013-05-07 (first published in 2012)
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Hig somehow survived the flu pandemic that killed everyone he knows. Now his wife is gone, his friends are dead, and he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, Jasper, and a mercurial, gun-toting misanthrope named Bangley. But when a random transmission beams through the radio of his 1956 Cessna, the voice ignites a hope deep...
Caroline Paul
I really love The Dog Stars. I picked it up because I love the stars, basically.      source
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The Things They Carried
Tim O'Brien - 1998-12-29 (first published in 1990)
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In 1979, Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato—a novel about the Vietnam War—won the National Book Award. In this, his second work of fiction about Vietnam, O'Brien's unique artistic vision is again clearly demonstrated. Neither a novel nor a short story collection, it is an arc of fictional episodes, taking place in the childhoods of its characters, ...
Caroline Paul
A beautiful book by a writer who fought in Vietnam.      source
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Sea Kayaking in Baja
Andromeda Romano-Lax - 1993-06-01
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Sea Kayaking in Baja...
Caroline Paul
My friend and I read this book. The author listed the routes, where you would pull into camp, what you would need to bring, how you get down there. We followed Sea Kayaking in Baja to a T.      source