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Newsletter #51

August 3, 2015

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3 books featured in this issue

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Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

by William Finnegan

TRUE

I've never surfed, and I'm not about to start now. But Finnegan's memoir of fifty years of surfing (while building an acclaimed career as a journalist) is a thrilling immersion in both the wonder and... (Tom)

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Indi Surfs

by Chris Gorman

MADE-UP

Wow, this book just jumps off the shelf! The Day-Glo realism of surf-dad Gorman's illustrations explode his simple, boldface story of paddling, falling, and persevering into something unlike anything... (Tom)

Cover of The Hierarchies of Cuckoldry and Bankruptcy

The Hierarchies of Cuckoldry and Bankruptcy

by Charles Fourier

TRUE

This might be the funniest—or the truest—book in the store. Fourier, you may recall, was the French utopian socialist from your economics classes who influenced Marx and predicted the seas would somed... (Tom)

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