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Who Is Judy Blume?Learn how Judy Blume went from a stay-at-home mother to one of the most beloved American authors of the twentieth century. Readers adore Judy Blume for her personal stories about the journey from childhood to adolescence. She has always been an imaginative person and...
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Who Is R. L. Stine?Reader beware! The biography of R. L. Stine, author of the hugely popular Goosebumps series, is a scary-good time! R. L. Stine began writing stories at the age of nine, after finding a typewriter in his family's attic. (Was it a haunted typewriter? Who...
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The Rings of SaturnThe Rings of Saturn, with its curious archive of photographs, records a walking tour of the eastern coast of England. A few of the things that cross the path and mind of its narrator (who both is and is not Sebald) are lonely eccentrics....
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The Most Secret Memory of MenA Best Book of 2023 by the New York Times and The New Yorker and Longlisted for the National Book AwardA gripping literary mystery in the vein of Bolaño's Savage Detectives, this coming-of-age novel unravels the fascinating life of a maligned Black author, based...
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Rehearsals for LivingArticulating abolitionist and anti-colonial presents and futures, Rehearsals for Living asks what it means to get free.Author: Robyn Maynard,Leanne Betasamosake SimpsonPublisher: Haymarket BooksPublished: 06/28/2022Pages: 320Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.00dISBN: 9781642596892About the AuthorRobyn Maynard is a Toronto-based Black feminist activist and...
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Only Stars Know the Meaning of Space: A Literary MixtapeIn this "absolute marvel of a book" (Dinaw Mengestu, author of Someone Like Us), acclaimed author Remy Ngamije offers up a vibrant collection of award-winning short fiction. Presented as a literary mixtape, Only Stars Know the Meaning of Space is a work that provides...
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Mark Twain's Hawaii: A Humorous Romp Through HistoryMark Twain's wit and wisdom is timeless. Mark Twain's Hawaii: A Humorous Romp through History, combines Twain's own writings on Hawaii with personal reminiscences by others who met him at that time, and traces Twain's journey through the region just as he experienced it...
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Island Treasures: Growing Up in CubaThe author of My Name Is María Isabel offers an inspiring look at her childhood in Cuba in this collection that includes Where the Flame Trees Bloom, Under the Royal Palms, five new stories, and more.These true autobiographical tales from renowned Hispanic author and...
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Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American ImaginationThe definitive, fascinating, all-reaching biography of Dr. Seuss. Dr. Seuss is a classic American icon. Whimsical and wonderful, his work has defined our childhoods and the childhoods of our own children. The silly, simple rhymes are a bottomless well of magic, his illustrations timeless...
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A Fine Romance: Falling in Love with the English CountrysideA thrilling ocean voyage on the Queen Mary 2 from New York City to Southampton culminating in a two-month ramble through the charming backroads and small villages of the pastoral English countryside in the spring of last year is the subject of this delicious...
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A Choice of WeaponsGordon Parks (1912-2006)--the groundbreaking photographer, writer, composer, activist, and filmmaker--was only sixteen in 1928 when he moved from Kansas to St. Paul, Minnesota, after his mother's death. There, homeless and hungry, he began his fight to survive, to educate himself, and to fulfill his...
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Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935-1961The extraordinary untold story of Ernest Hemingway's dangerous secret life in espionageA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A finalist for the William E. Colby Military Writers' Award"IMPORTANT" (Wall Street Journal) - "FASCINATING" (New York Review of Books) - "CAPTIVATING" (Missourian)A riveting international cloak-and-dagger epic...
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Wishful DrinkingThe bestselling author of Postcards from the Edge comes clean (well, sort of) in her first-ever memoir, adapted from her one-woman Broadway hit show. Fisher reveals what it was really like to grow up a product of "Hollywood in-breeding," come ofAuthor: Carrie FisherPublisher: Simon...
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The Summer You Were There Vol. 4NOT READY TO LET GO At the start of summer, Kaori suggested to her writer classmate Shizuku that they should pretend to date to give Shizuku material to write about. Together, they've not only gone on dates and grown closer, Kaori has also helped...
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Little Naturalists: Henry David Thoreau in the WoodsIntroduce your baby to Henry David Thoreau, his time at Walden Pond, and how he enjoyed living in the woods.Henry David Thoreau was an American author, poet, historian, and philosopher. Millions of people have read his writings, and a favorite of many is Walden,...
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Life Among the SavagesIn a hilariously charming domestic memoir, America's celebrated master of terror turns to a different kind of fright: raising children. In her celebrated fiction, Shirley Jackson explored the darkness lurking beneath the surface of small-town America. But in Life Among the Savages, she takes...
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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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I Am Maroon: The True Story of an American Political PrisonerIn this cinematic memoir, follow one man's journey from gang member to Black liberation leader to political prisoner-and the justice and redemption he fought for along the way. Inspired by Malcolm X, Russell Shoatz became a lifelong crusader for justice, a soldier in the...
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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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Chickens, Gin, and a Maine Friendship: The Correspondence of E. B. White and Edmund Ware SmithDuring the 1950s and '60s, writers E.B. White and Edmund Ware Smith carried on a long correspondence by letter, despite living only a few miles apart on the coast of Maine. Often the letters were written from one or the other while they were...
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