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The Christmas PromiseThis holiday season, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Noel Collection returns with another heartwarming story of secrets, heartbreak, forgiveness, and the true meaning of Christmas. On the night of her high school graduation, Richelle Bach's father gives her and her...
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La Casa En El Árbol de 39 Pisos / The 39-Story Treehouse: Mean Machines & Mad Professors!Juntos, Andy y Terry viven aventuras disparatadas. Quién sabe qué anécdotas desternillantes y aventuras alocadas nos esperan? Al fin y a cabo, la vida NUNCA es aburrida en una cada en el árbol de 39 pisos! Andy y Terry viven en una casa en...
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Cortázar de la A A La ZPor qu un lbum Cort zar? Porque no pod amos esperar m s. Con motivo del centenario de su nacimiento, la Internacional Cronopia reclamaba ya con demasiada insistencia una nueva aproximaci n al escritor y al hombre. Por qu no intentar un almanaque, un...
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Mark Twain in Berlin: Newly Discovered Stories & an Account of Twain's Berlin AdventuresAssembled for the first time, this collection includes stories penned by Mark Twain about his everyday life, the beginnings of a novel about the lonely Prussian Princess Wilhelmina von Preussen, and his travels in Berlin which began in the fall of 1891. Twain, a...
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A Memoir of the Warsaw UprisingOn August 1, 1944, Miron Bialoszewski, later to gain renown as one of Poland's most innovative poets, went out to run an errand for his mother and ran into history. With Soviet forces on the outskirts of Warsaw, the Polish capital revolted against five...
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Mark Twain's Notebooks: Journals, Letters, Observations, Wit, Wisdom, and DoodlesThe original and insightful collection that combines Mark Twain's journal writings with his rarely seen sketches and doodles. Fascinating and often hilarious, this is a complete record of the thoughts, ideas, and observations of the father of American literature. A national treasure and a...
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Hemingway: A Life in PicturesA loving homage to one of America's greatest writers. In this first-ever tribute to her grandfather, Mariel opens the family album to reveal all aspects of the man. More than 350 carefully selected photographs show a childhood filled with harbingers of the future --...
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Trail Mix: Wit & Wisdom from the OutdoorsTrail Mix: Wit & Wisdom from the Outdoors is a collection of quotes, poetry, and passages from classic books that provide outdoor inspiration to those in the woods, on the mountain, beside the water, or at home. Featured throughout the book is a pantheon...
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The Six: The Lives of the Mitford SistersAn Instant New York Times Bestseller"Riveting. The Six captures all the wayward magnetism and levity that have enchanted countless writers without neglecting the tragic darkness of many of the sisters' life choices and the savage sociopolitical currents that fueled them." --Tina Brown, The New...
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A House Among the TreesFrom the National Book Award-winning author of Three Junes, a richly imagined novel that begins just after the sudden death of world-renowned children's book author Mort Lear, who leaves behind a wholly unexpected will, an idyllic country house, and difficult secrets about a childhood...
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Borges at Eighty: ConversationsThe words of a genius: Borges at Eighty transcends our expectations of ordinary conversation. In these interviews with Barnstone, Dick Cavett, and Alastair Reid, Borges touches on favorite writers (Whitman, Poe, Emerson) and familiar themes -- labyrinths, mystic experiences, and death -- and always...
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BirthdayBefore you know it you are no longer young, and by the way, while you were thinking about other things, the world was changing--and then, just as suddenly you realize that you are fifty years old. Aira had anticipated his fiftieth--a time when he...
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Inventing Paradise: The Greek Journey, 1937-47In the looming shadow of dictatorship and imminent war, George Seferis and George Katsimbalis welcomed Henry Miller and Lawrence Durrell to their homeland. Together, as they spent evenings in tavernas, explored the Peloponnese, and considered the meaning of Greek life and freedom and art,...
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No More Words: A Journal of My Mother, Anne Morrow LindberghIn 1999 Anne Morrow Lindbergh, the famed aviator and author, moved from her home in Connecticut to the farm in Vermont where her daughter, Reeve, and Reeve's family live. Mrs. Lindbergh was in her nineties and had been rendered nearly speechless years earlier by...
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Louisa May AlcottDear Reader: The Childhood of Famous Americans series, sixty-five years old in 1997, chronicles the early years of famous American men and women in an accessible manner. Each book is faithful in spirit to the values and experiences that influenced the person's development. History...
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Under the Royal Palms: A Childhood in CubaIn this companion volume to Alma Flor Ada's Where the Flame Trees Bloom, the author offers young readers another inspiring collection of stories and reminiscences drawn from her childhood on the island of Cuba. Through those stories we see how the many events and...
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Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffrey CartwrightEdwin Mullhouse, a novelist at 10, is mysteriously dead at 11. As a memorial, Edwin's bestfriend, Jeffrey Cartwright, decides that the life of this great American writer must be told. He follows Edwin's development from his preverbal first noises through his love for comic...
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Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five ContinentsThis heartfelt and revealing account of Paul Theroux's thirty-year friendship with the legendary V. S. Naipaul is an intimate record of a literary mentorship that traces the growth of both writers' careers and explores the unique effect each had on the other. Built around...
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The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 3, 1926-1929The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 3: 1926-1929, featuring many previously unpublished letters, follows a rising star as he emerges from the literary Left Bank of Paris and moves into the American mainstream. Maxwell Perkins, legendary editor at Scribner's, nurtured the young Hemingway's talent,...
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Born Naked: The Early Adventures of the Author of Never Cry WolfFarley Mowat's youth was charmed and hilarious, and unbelievably free in its access to unspoiled nature through bird-banding expeditions and overnight outings in the dead of winter. The author writes of sleeping in haystacks for survival, and other adventures, with equal shares of Booth...
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