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My Half Orange: A Story of Love and Language in SevilleIn his late thirties, John Julius Reel left his native New York for Seville, hoping to reinvent himself, find his voice as a writer, and cast off the shadow of his famous father. When his girlfriend dumped him after a month-long visit, the last...
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Taking Things Hard: The Trials of F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald published America's favorite novel, The Great Gatsby, at the young age of twenty-eight. Despite this extraordinary early achievement, Fitzgerald finished just one novel in the next (and last) fifteen years of his life, ending as a mostly unemployed Hollywood screenwriter. Taking...
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Wandering Through Life: A MemoirTheinternationally bestselling author of the Guido Brunetti mysteries tells herown adventurous life story as she enters her eighties In a series of vignettes full of affection, irony, and good humor, DonnaLeon narrates a remarkable life she feels has rather more happened to her thanbeen...
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Making It WriteWriter for Hire Veronica Blackstone's latest client is writing a memoir with a shocking twist ending, until she's found dead before finishing it. Can Veronica unravel the clues within the memoir to discover the killer? As a writer for hire, Veronica Blackstone puts her...
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George's Run: A Writer's Journey Through the Twilight ZoneGeorge Clayton Johnson was an up-and-coming short story writer who broke into Hollywood in a big way when he co-wrote the screenplay for Ocean's Eleven. More legendary works followed, including Logan's Run and classic scripts for shows like The Twilight Zone and Star Trek....
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Make Way: The Story of Robert McCloskey, Nancy Schön, and Some Very Famous DucklingsA beautiful and fascinating picture book biography that follows the lives of Robert McCloskey, creator of Make Way for Ducklings, and sculptor Nancy Schön, whose famous bronze ducks grace Boston Public Garden. In the beginning, there was a boy named Robert McCloskey, growing up...
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Magill's Survey of American Literature: 0This revised edition of Magill's Survey of American Literature, originally published in 1991, with a 1994 supplement updates essays and adds many newones, covering 340 writers at the heart of literary studies. Magill's Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition offers profiles of major U.S....
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Montesquieu: Let There Be EnlightenmentAuthor: Catherine Volpilhac-AugerPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 01/26/2023Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 9.06h x 5.98w x 0.87dISBN: 9781009249096
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A Time Outside This TimeA blistering novel about a writer's creative response to the daily onslaught of fake news, memory, and the ways in which truth gives over to fiction "An absorbing portrait of an inspired artist in the midst of our maddening cultural moment" --Ayad Akhtar, author...
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Hans Christian Andersen (Spanish Edition)This beautiful Spanish-language book, translated from the hugely popular Little People, BIG DREAMS series, can be enjoyed by fluent Spanish speakers and those learning the language, whether at home or in the classroom. En este libro de la serie Little People, BIG DREAMS, aclamada...
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The Young ManWINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breathtaking, published in France in 2022, is about her affair with a man 30 years her junior. "A sublime book." --Olivia de Lamberterie, Elle "Once again the work of...
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Writing a WrongWriter for Hire Veronica Blackstone's latest client is found dead and police suspect a burglary gone wrong, but Veronica isn't convinced in this intriguingly plotted mystery. As a writer for hire, Veronica Blackstone puts her keyboard to use to help others. That includes writing...
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Maya Angelou: (History Book for Kids, Biography Book for Children)This Maya Angelou children's book is a perfect introduction to one of the world's most famous writers. Maya Angelou was an African-American author, poet, playwright and civil rights activist. She wrote seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and a long...
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The World Split Open: Great Authors on How and Why We WriteSince 1984, Literary Arts has welcomed many of the world's most renowned authors and storytellers to its stage for one of the country's largest lectures series. Sold-out crowds congregate at Portland's Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall to hear these writers' discuss their work and their...
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The Scarlet BoyGeorge Grantley has fond memories of his boyhood days spent at Anglesey House with his childhood playmate Charles Scarlet, happy times that came to an end with the Scarlet boy's tragic death in an accident. Now Anglesey House stands empty, and George thinks it...
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Portraits of Learned MenThe most complete translation available of these brief biographies of great European figures, written by one of the leading historians of the sixteenth century. Portraits of Learned Men provides a fascinating synopsis of the contours, mentality, and trajectory of humanistic culture in Italy and...
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Richard Wright: Later Works (Loa #56): Black Boy (American Hunger) / The OutsiderNative Son and Black Boy are classics of twentieth-century American literature--and yet the novel and memoir known to millions of readers are in fact revised and abbreviated versions of the books Richard Wright wrote. The two-volume Library of America edition presents for the first...
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Unverschmerzt: Johannes Bobrowski - Leben Und WerkZum 40. Todesjahr legt der Band neue Studien zu Leben und Werk des Lyrikers und Erz hlers Johannes Bobrowski (1917-1965) vor. Mit 29 Beitr gen aus zehn L ndern wird erstmals versucht, das breite thematische und methodische Spektrum der internationalen Forschung ber diesen Autor...
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A Table for One: Under the Light of JerusalemA TABLE FOR ONE is set in the intimate Jerusalem cafes of the 1950s and 1960s, where the scent of the fresh roasted coffee and cigarette smoke wafted in with the elan of a lost European culture. Appelfeld found that it was only in...
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Novalis: Signs of RevolutionAuthor: William Arctander O'BrienPublisher: Duke University PressPublished: 12/20/1994Pages: 384Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 9.22h x 6.02w x 1.16dISBN: 9780822315193About the AuthorWm. Arctander O'Brien is Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of California, San Diego.This title is only available via back order
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