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Rehearsals for LivingA revolutionary collaboration about the world we're living in now, between two of our most important contemporary thinkers, writers and activists. When much of the world entered pandemic lockdown in spring 2020, Robyn Maynard, influential author of Policing Black Lives, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson,...
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Predator: A Memoir, a Movie, an ObsessionA searching memoir of a life lived in the flicker of an action film, by the author of I Will Take the Answer In his first memoir, Ander Monson guides readers through a scene-by-scene exploration of the 1987 film Predator, which he has watched...
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On Writing: A Memoir of the CraftImmensely helpful and illuminating to any aspiring writer, Stephen King's critically lauded, "one of a kind" (Wall Street Journal) classic bestseller shares the experiences, habits, and convictions that have shaped him and his work. Long live the King hailed Entertainment Weekly upon publication of...
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The 104-Story Treehouse: Dental Dramas & Jokes Galore!New York Times-bestselling team Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton invite readers to come hang out with them in their 104-Story Treehouse--the eighth book in the illustrated chapter book series filled with Andy and Terry's signature slapstick humor! Andy and Terry live in a 104-story...
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Who Was Maya Angelou?Born in Missouri in 1928, Maya Angelou had a difficult childhood. Jim Crow laws segregated blacks and whites in the South. Her family life was unstable at times. But much like her poem, "Still I Rise," Angelou was able to lift herself out of...
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OblivionWhere do writers go when they die? The forgotten ones, at least, go to The Cafe of Minor Authors where they drink endless cups of cappuccino, self-obsess, and nurse their shattered dreams. Some authors, it's rumored, can escape Oblivion if they try hard enough...
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The Chronicles of Deltovia: Volume 1Three friends. Two worlds. One epic notebook. Escape into The Chronicles of Deltovia, the greatest story still being written! Three middle school girls--Misha, June, and Ollie--know their epic fantasy story could be the next Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones. The only...
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One Long River of Song: Notes on WonderFrom a "born storyteller" (Seattle Times), this playful and moving bestselling book of essays invites us into the miraculous and transcendent moments of everyday life. When Brian Doyle passed away at the age of sixty after a bout with brain cancer, he left behind...
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Chekhov Becomes Chekhov: The Emergence of a Literary GeniusA revelatory portrait of Chekhov during the most extraordinary artistic surge of his life. In 1886, a twenty-six-year-old Anton Chekhov was publishing short stories, humor pieces, and articles at an astonishing rate, and was still a practicing physician. Yet as he honed his craft...
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A Story Is to Share: How Ruth Krauss Found Another Way to Tell a TaleThe extraordinarily told, one-of-a-kind story of legendary author and children's book icon Ruth Krauss Born a baby late at night there's no parade just crashing rain She listens listens writes and draws stitches pages sews a book She finds another way to tell a...
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King Kong TheoryOut of print in the U.S. for far too long, writer and filmmaker Virginie Despentes's autobiographical feminist manifesto is back--in an improved English translation--"blistering with anger, and so precisely phrased that it feels an injustice to summarize it" (Nadja Spiegelman, New York Review of...
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The Presence of Absence"Flows with depth and power....wide-open wonder."--Washington Post "Simon Van Booy electrifyingly combines story with parable....wise, witty and always breathtakingly beautiful."--San Francisco Chronicle, Best Fiction of 2022 As a writer lies dying, he has one last story to tell: a tale of faith and devotion,...
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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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Speak, Memory: An Autobiography RevisitedSpeak, Memory, first published in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised in 1966, is an elegant and rich evocation of Nabokov's life and times, even as it offers incisive insights into his major works, including Lolita, Pnin, Despair, The Gift, The Real...
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Tsubaki-Chou Lonely Planet, Vol. 2When Fumi started her job as the live-in housekeeper for the acclaimed--and very crabby--author Akatsuki Kibikino, she never thought in a million years that she'd get along with him...yet here she is, her heart fluttering at every tiny gesture! Not that she's got time...
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Pete the Cat's Groovy Guide to Love: A Valentine's Day Book for KidsSpread the love, Pete style Pete the Cat shares some groovy words from the heart in this fun collection of all his favorite famous quotes about self-love, pursuing your passions (or doing what makes you happy), and friendship.This cool cat adds his heartfelt take...
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We Took to the Woods, 2nd EditionIn her early thirties, Louise Dickinson Rich took to the woods of Maine with her husband. They found their livelihood and raised a family in the remote backcountry settlement of Middle Dam, in the Rangeley area. Rich made time after morning chores to write...
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GutsGuess what -- Gary Paulsen was being kind to Brian. In Guts, Gary tells the real stories behind the Brian books, the stories of the adventures that inspired him to write Brian Robeson's story: working as an emergency volunteer; the death that inspired the...
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1q84: 3 Volume Boxed SetThis deluxe three-volume paperback boxed set--gorgeously designed editions in a see-through case, with a removeable sticker on the shrink wrap packaging--is a collector's item in the making. It beautifully showcases Haruki Murakami's most ambitious novel yet, 1Q84--a love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a...
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The House on Mango StreetIn The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros draws on her own experience as a Hispanic woman writer facing obstacles in a patriarchal community resistant to change. Published in 1984 to instantaneous acclaim, the book is made up of lyrical passages, interconnected vignettes, and...
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