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Product Description: What's the thing you hate most about the one you love? Mary doesn't know whether it's the way he doesn't quite reach the laundry basket when he throws his dirty clothes at it (but doesn't ever walk over and pick them up and put them in), or the balled-up tissues he leaves on the bedside table when he has a cold, or the way he never quite empties the dishwasher, leaving the "difficult" items for her to put away...read more

Stagnating in an unfulfilling job and boring relationship, Izobel Brannigan performs a Google search for her own name and discovers a Web site that depicts her as an exciting, glamorous woman, a finding that prompts her to discern the identity of the person who holds her in such high regard. Original. 15,000 first printing.

Introduces the major events and people in world history in the twentieth century, and discusses developments in technology, the arts, and society. (view table of contents)