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The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water The book I choose to read is call The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water and the author is call Charles Fishman. Who is Charles Fishman? Well, Charles was born in Miami, Florida and went to Harvard University. He now lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with his wife who is also a journalist. They have two children and four pets in which two are Labradors and the other two are parakeets. Besides The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future, he also, has wrote The Wal-Mart Effect that is the bestseller and an Economist Book of the Year, The Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life that was also the bestselling collaboration with Hollywood producer
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