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300 Arguments"Jam-packed with insights you'll want to both text to your friends and tattoo on your skin....A sweeping view of a human mind trying to make order of the world around us."--Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere There will come a time when people...
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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition Volume 11Mark Twain's complete, uncensored Autobiography was an instant bestseller when the first volume was published in 2010, on the centennial of the author's death, as he requested. Published to rave reviews, the Autobiography was hailed as the capstone of Twain's career. It captures his...
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Spinster: Making a Life of One's OwnA New York Times Book Review Notable Book "Whom to marry, and when will it happen--these two questions define every woman's existence." So begins Spinster, a revelatory and slyly erudite look at the pleasures and possibilities of remaining single. Using her own experiences as...
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Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and WritersA National Book Critics Circle Finalist for Criticism A deeply Malcolmian volume on painters, photographers, writers, and critics. Janet Malcolm's In the Freud Archives and The Journalist and the Murderer, as well as her books about Sylvia Plath and Gertrude Stein, are canonical in...
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Papa Hemingway: A Personal MemoirBetween 1948 and 1961, Earnest Hemingway and A. E. Hotchner traveled together from New York to Paris to Spain, fished the waters off Cuba, hunted in Idaho, and ran with the bulls in Pamplona. And everywhere they talked. For 14 years, Hotchner and Hemingway...
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Elia Kazan: A LifeElia Kazan's varied life and career is related here in his autobiography. He reveals his working relationships with his many collaborators, including Harold Clurman, Lee Strasberg, Clifford Odets, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, James Dean, John Steinbeck and Darryl Zanuck, and...
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Days Like Smoke: A Minnesota BoyhoodThe memoir of a small-town childhood by one of Minnesota's favorite writers, now published for the first time I've always thought of the Red Owl Grocery Store in Plainview, Minnesota, as my training ground, for it was there that I acquired the latent qualities...
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The Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of PlinyWhen Pliny the Elder perished at Stabiae during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, he left behind an enormous compendium of knowledge, his thirty-seven-volume Natural History, and a teenaged nephew who revered him as a father. Grieving his loss, Pliny the Younger inherited...
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Guts: The True Stories Behind Hatchet and the Brian BooksGuess 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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Who Was Jules Verne?Meet the father of science fiction, Jule Verne. Born in France in 1829, Jules Verne always dreamed of adventure. At age 11, he snuck onboard a ship headed for the Indies only to be discovered by his father and have his dreams dashed. After...
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Stupid Love ComedySuzu Sakura is a lazy author who can't keep a deadline, is twenty-four hours late to meetings, and falls asleep in the middle of crunch time-you name it It seems like no one can keep her in line, but then she gets a new...
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The Apprentice TouristA Brazilian masterpiece, now in English for the first time: a playfully profound chronicle of an urban sophisticate's misadventures in the Amazon A Penguin Classic "My life's done a somersault," wrote Mário de Andrade in a letter, on the verge of taking a leap....
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Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era*National Bestseller*New York Times bestselling author Laurence Leamer reveals the complex web of relationships and scandalous true stories behind Truman Capote's never-published final novel, Answered Prayers--the dark secrets, tragic glamour, and Capote's ultimate betrayal of the group of female friends he called his swans....
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The Complete Works of Fante BukowskiLiving in a beat-up motel, consorting with the downtrodden and mid-level literati, Fante Bukowski must overcome great obstacles: a love interest turned rival, ghostwriting a teen celebrity's memoirs, no actual talent -- to gain the respect and adoration of critics and, more importantly, his...
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Yoshi No Zuikara, Vol. 1: The Frog in the Well Does Not Know the OceanThirty-two-year-old Tohno Naruhiko has been scraping by as a manga creator for ten years, and when his latest series gets canceled, he finds himself at a crossroads. Tohno's always had his sights set on fantasy, but this time around, his editor's got another idea-a...
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MortalityOn June 8, 2010, while on a book tour for his bestselling memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens was stricken in his New York hotel room with excruciating pain in his chest and thorax. As he would later write in the first of a series of...
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Sir Andrew and the Authoress: A Regency RomanceLady Josephine, the duke's eldest daughter, has a secret. When her brother's horrid best friend discovers what she's been hiding up in the castle tower, she has no choice but to take him into her confidence. As the daughter of a duke, Lady Josephine...
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Where the Flame Trees BloomNoted author Alma Flor Ada offers young readers eleven stories from her own childhood in Cuba - true stories about relatives and friends and the hacienda where she grew up for much of her elementary years.Author: Alma Flor AdaPublisher: Aladdin PaperbacksPublished: 11/28/2007Pages: 80Binding Type:...
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The Concord Quartet: Alcott, Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau and the Friendship That Freed the American MindWe will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds.--Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar, 1837 From the start of transcendentalism and America's intellectual renaissance in the 1830s, to the Civil War and beyond,...
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97,196 Words: EssaysA selection of the best short work by France's greatest living nonfiction writer A New York Times Notable Books of 2020 No one writes nonfiction like Emmanuel Carr re. Although he takes cues from such literary heroes as Truman Capote and Janet Malcolm, Carr...
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