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The Deepest BlackA crime novel unlike any you've ever read--based on true eventsWhere does the line blur between fact and fiction?Acclaimed author Randall Silvis is looking for a story--any story to follow up the series of gripping mystery novels that catapulted him to success. And then,...
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de ProfundisWritten from Wilde's prison cell at Reading Gaol to his friend and lover Lord Alfred Douglas, De Profundis explodes the conventions of the traditional love letter and offers a scathing indictment of Douglas's behavior, a mournful elegy for Wilde's own lost greatness, and an...
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La Novela del Verano / Beach Read (Spanish Edition)Dos escritores, unas vacaciones y una apuesta.Todo puede suceder durante el veranoJanuary Andrews es escritora de novelas románticas y una soñadora empedernida.Augustus Everett escribe novelas serias y cree que el amor verdadero es solo un cuento chino.Pero January y Gus tienen mucho más en...
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Time Is the Thing a Body Moves ThroughHow do the bodies we inhabit affect our relationship with art? How does art affect our relationship to our bodies? T Fleischmann uses Felix Gonz les-Torres's artworks--piles of candy, stacks of paper, puzzles--as a path through questions of love and loss, violence and rejuvenation,...
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Running in the FamilyAn autobiographical journey of discovery gathers together fragments of memory, experience, and family history in order to understand the meaning of his parents' legacy and his own heritage.Author: Michael OndaatjePublisher: VintagePublished: 11/30/1993Pages: 208Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.28w x 0.56dISBN: 9780679746690Accelerated Reader:Reading Level:...
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Young Agatha ChristieThe hilarious adventures of the acclaimed mystery writer Agatha Christie as a child--a curious little girl who treats the everyday world as one big crime scene! As an unusual child with a penchant for puzzles, Young Agatha imagines thrilling twists on the classic fairytales...
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Who Is Jeff Kinney?Even as a kid, everyone thought Jeff Kinney was talented. People loved his drawings, and when he went to college, his comic strip Igdoof was so popular that it spread to other universities Still, Jeff faced challenges. His cartoons were rejected by syndicates that...
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Who Was Laura Ingalls Wilder?Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books, based on her own childhood and later life, are still beloved classics almost a century after she began writing them. Now young readers will see just how similar Laura's true-life story was to her books. Born in 1867...
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Out of Africa: And Shadows on the GrassSet in Africa, it is the story of Dinesen's years in Africa--together with Shadows on the Grass.Author: Isak DinesenPublisher: VintagePublished: 10/23/1989Pages: 480Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.20w x 1.00dISBN: 9780679724759About the AuthorIsak Dinesen is the pseudonym of Karen Blixen, born in Denmark in...
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China MenAuthor: Maxine Hong KingstonPublisher: VintagePublished: 04/23/1989Pages: 320Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.90dISBN: 9780679723288Award: National Book Awards - WinnerReview Citation(s): Booklist 11/01/1992 pg. 503Booklist 04/01/2002 pg. 1301About the AuthorMaxine Hong Kingston is the daughter of Chinese immigrants who operated a gambling house...
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Letters to a Young PoetRilke's powerfully touching letters to an aspiring young poet, now available in a beautiful hardcover Penguin editionAt the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, suffering, and...
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The Summer of the Great-GrandmotherAnyone who has dealt with, or will soon deal with, the death of a parent will find some solace, understanding, and companionship in this perceptive book, which is, in the end, more about living than about dying.--The Washington Post.Author: Madeleine L'EnglePublisher: HarperOnePublished: 01/01/1984Pages: 256Binding...
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The Drowned and the SavedIn his final book before his death, Primo Levi returns once more to his time at Auschwitz in a moving meditation on memory, resiliency, and the struggle to comprehend unimaginable tragedy.Drawing on history, philosophy, and his own personal experiences, Levi asks if we have...
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Maya Angelou: My First Maya Angelou [Board Book]This board book version of Maya Angelou--an international bestseller from the beloved Little People, BIG DREAMS series--introduces the youngest dreamers to the powerful speaker, writer, and civil rights activist. Maya Angelou spent much of her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas. After a traumatic event at...
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Come, Tell Me How You LiveOver the course of her long, prolific career, Agatha Christie gave the world a wealth of ingenious whodunits and page-turning locked-room mysteries featuring Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot, and a host of other unforgettable characters. She also gave us Come, Tell Me How You Live,...
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Fish Out of Water: A Search for the Meaning of LifeWhat Happens When One of America's Most Admired Biographers Writes His Own Biography? For Eric Metaxas, the answer is Fish Out of Water: A Search for the Meaning of Life--a poetic and sometimes hilarious memoir of his early years, in which the Queens-born son...
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The Beauty of Dusk: On Vision Lost and FoundFrom New York Times columnist and bestselling author Frank Bruni comes a wise and moving memoir about aging, affliction, and optimism after partially losing his eyesight. One morning in late 2017, New York Times columnist Frank Bruni woke up with strangely blurred vision. He...
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Goodnight, John Boy: A Celebration of an American Family and the Values That Have Sustained Us Through Good Times and BadA wonderful history and celebration of The Waltons TV show.Goodnight, John-Boy is a nostalgic memory book of The Waltons, the number-one television show of its time. Filled with behind-the-scenes anecdotes and profiles of people who appeared on the show, it introduces readers to the...
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Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native MemoirI sat down to write a book about pain and ended up writing about love, says award-winning Chickasaw poet and novelist Linda Hogan. In this book, she recounts her difficult childhood as the daughter of an army sergeant, her love affair at age fifteen...
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Freckled: A Memoir of Growing up Wild in HawaiiFor fans of The Glass Castle and Educated, comes mystery author Toby Neal's personal story of surviving a wild childhood in paradise.We never call it homeless. We're just "camping" in the jungle on Kauai...We live in a place everyone calls paradise. Sure, Kauai's beautiful,...
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