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Over My Dead BodyThe news from Ghastly, Illinois, is grave--and that's something to laugh about!The International Movement for the Safety & Protection Of Our Kids & Youth (IMSPOOKY) dictates that Seymour cannot live in the mansion at 43 Old Cemetery Road "without the benefit of parents." Ignatius...
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Distant Neighbors: The Selected Letters of Wendell Berry and Gary Snyder"The letters are valuable for ecologists, students, and teachers of contemporary American literature and for those of us eager to know how these two distant neighbors networked, negotiated, and remained friends." --San Francisco Chronicle In 1969 Gary Snyder returned from a long residence in...
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Modern American Memoirs: 1917-1992In "Modern American Memoirs", two very discerning writers and readers have selected samples from 35 of the finest memoirs written in this century, including contributions by such diverse writers as Margaret Mead, Malcolm X, Maxine Hong Kingston, Loren Eisely, and Zora Neale Hurston. Chosen...
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Three by Annie Dillard: The Writing Life, an American Childhood, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek"One of the most distinctive voices in American letters today." --Boston GlobeA stunning collection of Annie Dillard's most popular books in one volume.Pilgrim at Tinker Creek took American letters by storm when it was published in 1974, winning the Pulitzer Prize, the accolades of...
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The Complete Stories of Truman CapoteA landmark collection that brings together Truman Capote's life's work in the form he called his "great love," The Complete Stories confirms Capote's status as a master of the short story. "To best experience Capote the stylist, one must go back to his short...
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33 Days: A Memoir"In June of 1940, Laeon Werth and his wife fled Paris before the advancing Nazis Army. 33 Days is his eyewitness account of that experience, one of the largest civilian dispacements in history. Encouraged to write 33 Days by his dear friend, Antoine de...
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J.R.R. Tolkien: A BiographyThe authorized biography of the creator of Middle-earth. In the decades since his death in September 1973, millions have read THE HOBBIT, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, and THE SILMARILLION and become fascinated about the very private man behind the books. Born in South...
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Escaping Into the Open: The Art of Writing True"Crystal clear, bracing as ice water, Escaping Into the Open should be read by all scribblers regardless of material success." --Rita Mae BrownBestselling, award-winning novelist Elizabeth Berg knows a thing or two about writing, having graced the world with wonderful works of fiction including...
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The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 4 1944-1947: Vol. 4 (1944-1947)The author's experiences in Greenwich Village, where she defends young writers against the Establishment, and her trip across the country in an old Ford to California and Mexico. "[Nin is] one of the most extraordinary and unconventional writers of this century" (New York Times...
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Martha's Vineyard - Isle of Dreams"In the winter of 1982, long before she became the watercolor artist and author we know today, Susan Branch, 34-years-old and heartbroken from the sudden and unexpected end of her marriage in California, "ran away from home" to the Island of Martha's Vineyard hoping...
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Trilogía de la Noche: La Noche, El Alba, El Día (Memorias) / The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, and Day (a Memoir)Trilogía esencial dentro de la literatura del Holocausto.Un adolescente en los campos de exterminio nazis (La noche), el posterior periodo de reflexión en Palestina (El alba) y la historia de amor en Nueva York, consciente de que la herida no se cerrará (El día).El...
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Q's Legacy: A Delightful Account of a Lifelong Love Affair with BooksThis memoir tells the remarkable story of how Helene Hanff came to write 84, Charing Cross Road, and how its success changed her. Hanff recalls her serendipitous discovery of a volume of lectures by a Cambridge don, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. She devoured Q's book,...
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Margaret Wise Brown"Leonard S. Marcus... has masterfully written about a fascinating woman who in her short life changed literature for the very young. I was throroughly enchanted."--Eric CarleThe authoritative and enchanting biography of Margaret Wise Brown, the beloved author of Goodnight Moon. Now in development as...
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Mamita / Mommy«Quién sabe, me dije, si no existía entre madres e hijos una frecuencia exclusiva para ondas que no han sido descubiertas. Un deber familiar ha sido postergado durante décadas por el escritor protagonista de esta novela: contar la excepcional historia de sus abuelos y...
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Life on the MississippiFashioned from the same experiences that would inspire the masterpiece Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain's most brilliant and most personal nonfiction work. It is at once an affectionate evocation of the vital river life in the steamboat era and a...
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La Novela del Verano / Beach ReadDos escritores, unas vacaciones y una apuesta.Todo puede suceder durante el verano.January Andrews es escritora de novelas románticas y una soñadora empedernida.Augustus Everett escribe novelas serias y cree que el amor verdadero es solo un cuento chino.Pero January y Gus tienen mucho más en...
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El Juego del Ángel / The Angel's GameEn la turbulenta Barcelona de los años 20, un joven escritor obsesionado con un amor imposible recibe la oferta de un misterioso editor para escribir un libro como no ha existido nunca, a cambio de una fortuna y, tal vez, mucho más.Con un estilo...
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El Amor Que Dejamos Atrás / The Things We Leave UnfinishedLa faceta más romántica de Rebecca Yarros autora de la serie EmpíreoGeorgia Tras perderlo todo en un doloroso divorcio, decide regresar al lugar donde creció, la casa de su bisabuela Scarlett Stanton, una famosa escritora que murió dejando una novela inconclusa. Noah Harrison, es...
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Vacuuming in the Nude: And Other Ways to Get AttentionA New York Times Bestseller! Peggy Rowe is at it again--this time giving a hilarious inside look at her writing career. Peggy Rowe has been writing all of her adult life. In fact, she doesn't know how not to write--even through those years of...
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My Dog SkipThis classic story of a boy, a dog, and small-town America is "a rich experience all around.... Skip turns out to be a dog worth writing about.... I'd take him home in a shot" (The New York Times Book Review).In 1943 in a sleepy...
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