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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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Some Writer!: The Story of E. B. White6 Starred Reviews! New York Times Bestseller! A People Magazine Best Children's Book! A Washington Post Best Book! A Publishers Weekly Best Book! Boston Globe-Horn Book Nonfiction Award Honor recipient Caldecott Honor winner Sweet mixes White's personal letters, photos, and family ephemera with her...
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Stories of My LifeThe beloved author of Bridge to Terabithia and other classics of children's literature reveals the fascinating personal stories that have shaped her creative life.For nearly fifty years, Katherine Paterson's stories have captured readers young and old. From Bridge to Terabithia's Leslie Burke to the...
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Her Dying DayPerfect for fans of Shari Lapena and Hannah Mary McKinnon, a mystery writer's sudden disappearance leads a budding filmmaker down a dark road to treachery, murder, and long-buried sins. Aspiring filmmaker June Masterson has high hopes for her first documentary, the true story of...
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A Booklover's Guide to New YorkAn illustrated guide to New York City tailored for the book-obsessed explorer showcasing the city's best bookshops; libraries; homes and haunts of world-famous writers; and scenes from literary classics with charming drawings by the famed New Yorker cover artist Pierre Le-Tan. A Booklover's Guide...
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Black BoyA special Harper Perennial Deluxe Edition of Richard Wright's powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South--a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human sufferingWhen it exploded onto the literary scene in 1945, Black Boy was...
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Radiant Black, Volume 1: A Massive-Verse Book"The perfect superhero comic for anyone missing Invincible..." - Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead, Invincible) RADIANT BLACK is the first series in Image Comic's MASSIVE-VERSE, the most acclaimed new series of 2021! Visionary writer Kyle Higgins (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Ultraman) and artist Marcelo...
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