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The Adventurous World of Mark TwainTwo of Mark Twain's best-known books, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, are adventure stories about young boys. From a young age, Mark loved to read, especially stories about robbers and adventurers. Learn more in The Adventurous World of...
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Jack LondonJack London (1876-1916) lived a life of excess by conventional standards. Daring, outspoken, politically radical, amazingly imaginative, and emotionally complicated, the author of literary classics such as The Call of the Wild and The Sea-Wolf emerges in Kenneth K. Brandt's new biography as a...
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Letters to Lawrence Durrell 1937-1977Anais Nin and Lawrence Durrell, along with their mutual friend Henry Miller, formed a triumvirate they called the "three musketeers" in Paris during the 1930s. Not only did they support each other's work before becoming individually famous, (Nin for her Diary, Durrell for his...
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I Got the Dog: A Memoir of RisingI Got the Dog has teeth. Amanda Boyden's memoir is unflinching, poignant, raw, sometimes hilarious, sometimes brutally painful--the self-portrait of a woman unafraid to scream into the universe: I survived this And this. And this. Follow my lead. Dog tails Boyden from childhood in...
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The Ginger Man LettersShowcasing for the first time 250 of renowned author J.P. Donleavy's most intimate letters, this scrupulously edited collection throws an extraordinary light on the composition, publication and afterlife of The Ginger Man -- the genesis of a masterpiece that went on to sell 60...
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The Boy with Shoes: A Kenyan ChildhoodThe Boy with Shoes is about life in the 1980s in Mbale, a small town in Western Kenya. Hillary Lisimba Ambani is growing up with a strict disciplinarian mother whom he calls Thatcher who beat the hell out of him for every infraction he...
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The Light in the Dark: A Winter JournalAs November stubs out the glow of autumn and the days tighten into shorter hours, winter's occupation begins. Preparing for winter has its own rhythms, as old as our exchanges with the land. Of all the seasons, it draws us together. But winter can...
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The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: A Day in the LifeSixty years in the making and the capstone of a monumental literary career, The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: A Day in the Life is the final volume of the autobiographical trilogy from the author who is considered Borges' heir and the vanguard of the...
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Stone FruitPatrice Powell is a New York-based magazine writer for European Art magazine. She reluctantly returns to her native Iowa to write a story about the death of Nan Wood Graham - the famous face of American Gothic. In returning to Iowa to research the...
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J.M. Coetzee - Photographs from BoyhoodAuthor J.M. Coetzee sold his house in Cape Town, unaware that he was leaving behind unique documents from his teenage years. In the attic of his former home, the new owners discovered a forgotten brown suitcase and a large cardboard box, containing a complete...
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Conversations with Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieNigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (b. 1977) is undoubtedly one of the most widely acclaimed African writers of the twenty-first century. Best known for her insightful fiction, viral TED talks, and essays on feminism, she is also a notoriously outspoken intellectual. As she puts...
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My Life as a Villainess: EssaysNew York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman, a journalist for many years, collects here her recent essays exploring motherhood as an older mom, her life as a reader, her relationships with her parents, friendship, and other topics that will resonate with a large audience....
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Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheThis new critical biography provides a complete picture of German novelist, playwright, and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Offering fresh, thought-provoking interpretations of all Goethe's major works, including novels such as The Sorrows of Young Werther and The Elective Affinities, plays such as Egmont...
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On Walking onOn Walking On looks outward onto--or rather, walks through--the work of various writers for whom walking was or is an important element of daily life. The number of writers who were or are serious walkers is striking, and the connection goes back to antiquity,...
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William Saroyan: Places in TimeLavishly illustrated with beautiful, evocative watercolors, this record visits dozens of locations influential to the life of Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Saroyan, best known for his play ""The Time of Your Life."" Accompanied by well-documented biographical research, this series of paintings highlights places critical...
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This Tilting WorldOn the night following the terrorist attack that killed eighty-three tourists on the beach at Sousse, a woman sits facing the sea and writes a complicated love letter to her homeland, Tunisia, which she feels she must leave forever. She also writes of her...
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The Story I Am: Mad about the Writing LifeThis is a gorgeous book, one that will inspire anyone to make the next sentence.--Jericho Brown, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 2020 A hymn of praise for the craft of weaving words in order to survive.--Kitty Kelley Roger Rosenblatt has always been...
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Mark Twain - Roughing It: I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in 1835 and is far better known by his pen name; Mark Twain. An American author and humorist of the first order he is perhaps most famous for his novels, The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer, written in 1876, and...
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Philip K. DickOne of the greatest writers in science fiction history, Philip K. Dick is mostly remembered for such works as Blade Runner, Minority Report, and Total Recall. His dark, fascinating work centered on alternate universes and shifting realities in worlds often governed by monopolistic corporations...
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Henry David Thoreau for Kids, 64: His Life and Ideas, with 21 ActivitiesAmerican author and naturalist Henry David Thoreau is best known for living two years along the shores of Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts, and writing about his experiences in Walden; or, Life in the Woods, as well as spending a night in jail for...
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