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Brother, I'm Dying: National Book Award FinalistWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for AutobiographyA National Book Award FinalistA New York Times Notable BookA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century From the age of four, award-winning writer Edwidge Danticat came to think of her uncle Joseph as...
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About EdA moving story about love, AIDS, grief, and memory by one of the most adventurous writers to come out of San Francisco's LGBTQ+ scene. Bob Glück met Ed Aulerich-Sugai in 1970. Ed was an aspiring artist; Bob wanted to write. They were young men...
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Incest: From "A Journal of Love" -The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin (1932-1934)The continuation of the story begun in Henry and June, exposing the shattering psychological drama that drove Nin to seek absolution from her psychoanalysts for the ultimate transgression. "It is [Nin's] posthumously published uncensored diaries that will make her immortal" (Booklist). Introduction by Rupert...
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Who Was Jane Austen?Step into the world of Georgian England and learn more about the genteel life of this beloved author. Although Jane Austen's works were first published anonymously and brought her little personal recognition, today they are rarely out of print and have inspired movies, television...
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Letters to a Young PoetRilke's Letters to a Young Poet are arguably the most famous and beloved letters of the twentieth century. Written when the poet was himself still a young man, with most of his greatest work before him, they were addressed to a student who had...
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Swear on This Life"Raw, real, and gripping." --Colleen Hoover From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Before We Were Strangers, a warm and witty novel about a struggling writer who must come to grips with her past, present, and future after she discovers that she's the inspiration...
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I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft, Volume 1Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born to a well-to-do family in Providence, Rhode Island. As a child, he revealed remarkable precocity in his early interests in literature and science. Ill-health dogged him in youth, rendering his school attendance sporadic; and in 1908 he experienced a...
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City Kid: A Writer's Memoir of Ghetto Life and Post-Soul Success"City Kid is perhaps one of the seven greatest books ever written. It has the realness of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the warmth of The Color Purple, and the page count of Tuesdays with Morrie. It's a must read."-Chris Rock From Nelson George,...
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Boccaccio: A BiographyA comprehensive biography of the celebrated author of the Decameron, a medieval masterpiece written in early Italian. Boccaccio (1313-75) stands with Dante and Petrarch as one of the "Three Crowns" of Italian letters, a trio of writers who shaped the history of humanism, literature,...
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A Trace of Poison: A Riveting Historical Mystery Set in the Home of Agatha ChristieIn this captivating English murder mystery from an acclaimed author, Agatha Christie's housekeeper must uncover the killer amongst a throng of crime writers. "Balances Downton Abbey-style period charm with a tight plot that twists and turns right until the end... a plot that would...
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Love StoryThe new enemies-to-lovers romcom from Lindsey Kelk'Lindsey Kelk is the Taylor Swift of romance writing - she makes me PROUD to be a romance reader!' DAISY BUCHANAN'Love Story might just be [Lindsey's] best yet. It has everything I could possibly ask for in a...
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An American Childhood"An American Childhood more than takes the reader's breath away. It consumes you as you consume it, so that, when you have put down this book, you're a different person, one who has virtually experienced another childhood." -- Chicago TribuneA book that instantly captured...
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World More Beautiful: The Life and Art of Barbara CooneyThis stunning and lyrical picture book biography details the life and art of celebrated children's book creator, Barbara Cooney. For every kid who loves art, here is the inspirational story of beloved illustrator and two-time Caldecott Medalist, Barbara Cooney. Barbara was born in a...
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Gather Together in My NameIn this second volume of her poignant autobiographical series, Maya Angelou powerfully captures the struggles and triumphs of her passionate life with dignity, wisdom, humor, and humanity. "A curiously heartening story in which decency, honor, truth, love do exist, imperfectly, fractionally and flickeringly, not...
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Radiant Black Volume 2: Team-UpThe first wave of cosmic forces have arrived on Earth, desperate to reclaim the Radiant - and as they tear through Chicago, the only thing standing in their way is RADIANT BLACK and some unexpected new allies. In the aftermath, the city of Lockport...
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Time Is the Thing a Body Moves ThroughW.G. Sebald meets Maggie Nelson in an autobiographical narrative of embodiment, visual art, history, and loss. How do the bodies we inhabit affect our relationship with art? How does art affect our relationship to our bodies? T Fleischmann uses Felix Gonzalez-Torres's artworks-piles of candy,...
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Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted LifeInstantly heralded for its "masterful" and "thrilling" portrayal (Boston Globe), Shirley Jackson reveals the tumultuous life and inner darkness of the literary genius behind such classics as "The Lottery" and The Haunting of Hill House. In this "remarkable act of reclamation" (Neil Gaiman), Ruth...
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My Life in Dog YearsGary Paulsen has owned dozens of unforgettable and amazing dogs. In each chapter he tells of one special dog, among them Cookie, the sled dog who saved his life; Snowball, the puppy he owned as a boy in the Philippines; Ike, his mysterious hunting...
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Who Was Roald Dahl?Just in time for Roahl Dahl Month! Roald Dahl is one of the most famous children's book authors ever. Now in this Who Was . . . ? biography, children will learn of his real-life adventures. A flying ace for the British Air Force,...
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Who Was Edgar Allan Poe?Filled with broken hearts and black ravens, Edgar Allan Poe's ghastly tales have delighted readers for centuries. Born in Boston in 1809, Poe was orphaned at age two. He was soon adopted by a Virginia family who worked as tombstone merchants. In 1827 he...
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