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Soul's Temptation

Daniel Bennet has become a cultural phenomenon after penning an international best-selling novel based on his ordeal trying to bring a powerful criminal to justice. He has everything he could...

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A Girl's Story

In A Girl's Story, Annie Ernaux revisits a night fifty years earlier when she found herself submerged and controlled by another person's desire and willpower. It was the summer of...

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Fyodor Dostoevsky--The Gathering Storm (1846-1847): A Life in Letters, Memoirs, and Criticism

This second book in a three-volume work on the young Fyodor Dostoevsky is a diary-portrait of his early years drawn from letters, memoirs, and criticism of the writer, as well...

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The Storytellers: Straight Talk from the World's Most Acclaimed Suspense and Thriller Authors

Have you ever read a suspense novel so good you had to stop and think to yourself, How did the author come up with this idea? Their characters? Is some...

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Bright Day (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)

Gregory Dawson, a middle-aged and disillusioned writer, is holed up in a Cornish hotel working on a film script he must finish. A chance encounter with an old acquaintance in...

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Back Roads to Far Towns: Basho's Travel Journal

Basho (1644-1694) is the most famous Haiku poet of Japan. He made his living as a teacher and writer of Haiku and is celebrated for his many travels around Japan,...

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Edith Wharton in France by Lesage, Claudine

From French scholar and author Claudine Lesage, comes Edith Wharton in France, an examination of Wharton's years (1907-1937) in France. Lesage, with her innate knowledge of French culture, uses previously...

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Unwritten

Twelve-year-old Gracie Freeman is living a normal life, but she is haunted by the fact that she is actually a character from a story, an unpublished fairy tale she's never...

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Mardi Gras in Mobile

Mardi Gras in Mobile began its carnival celebration years before the city of New Orleans was founded.In the 1700s, mystic societies formed in Mobile, such as the Societe de Saint...

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Days and Nights of Love and War

Days and Nights succeeds not only because of its socio-political authenticity and lyrical style but because of its interweaving of anger and tenderness, elation and sorrow.--The Nation Days and Nights...

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Typewriter

A neglected Russian typewriter clicks, clacks, and rings to life with a new owner.Author: Yevgenia NaybergPublisher: Creative EditionsPublished: 02/25/2020Pages: 32Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 10.40h x 10.50w x 0.60dISBN: 9781568463445Audience: Ages...

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Twain at Sea: The Maritime Writings of Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Samuel Clemens (1835-1910) repeatedly traversed the ocean during his globetrotting life. A keen observer, the man who recast himself as Mark Twain was fascinated by seafaring. This book compiles selections...

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Conversations with Vladimir Nabokov

Conversations with Vladimir Nabokov brings together candid, revealing interviews with one of the twentieth century's master prose writers. Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) was a Russian American scientist, poet, translator, and professor...

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Conversations with Joe R. Lansdale

Joe R. Lansdale (b. 1951), the award-winning author of such novels as Cold in July (1989) and The Bottoms (2000), as well as the popular Hap and Leonard series, has...

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The Singular Mark Twain: A Biography

In this magisterial full-scale biography of America s greatest storyteller and satirist, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Fred Kaplan refashions our image of Mark Twain and etches a...

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Who Loves You Like This?

Edith Bruck tells the story of the 'Lager' with the inherent strength of a wounded animal and in confronting the unbearable sadness of it closes the account and does not...

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Stirring Prose: Cooking with Texas Authors

Stirring Prose: Cooking with Texas Authors is a delightfully revealing look at some of Texas's best writers. Initially conceived as a Who's Who of Texas authors, Deborah Douglas quickly realized...

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Motor-Flight Through France

Shedding the turn-of-the-century social confines she felt existed for women in America, Edith Wharton set out in the newly invented "motor-car" to explore the cities and countryside of France. In...

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Boyz N the Void: A Mixtape to My Brother

Writing to his brother, G'Ra Asim reflects on building his own identity while navigating Blackness, masculinity, and young adulthood--all through wry social commentary and music/pop culture critique How does one...

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Birth Certificate: The Story of Danilo Kis

Danilo Kis (1935-89) was a Yugoslav novelist, essayist, poet, and translator whose work generated storms of controversy in his homeland but today holds classic status. Kis was championed by prominent...

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Aldous Huxley: Brave New World

A biography of writer Aldous Huxley that describes his era, his major work--Brave New World--his life, and the legacy of his writing.Author: Raychel Haugrud ReiffPublisher: Cavendish Square PublishingPublished: 01/30/2010Pages: 144Binding...

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Hole in the Sky: A Memoir

In a beautifully written--at times heartbreaking--memoir, Kittredge tells stories of his grandfather and father and recounts his own struggle as he progressed from farmer to writer. An honest reckoning of...

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Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography

From Simon & Schuster, this definitive biography is based on five years of interviews with Simone de Beauvoir, and is written with her full cooperation. Author Deirdre Bair penetrates the...

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