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No WordsMeg Cabot, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Princess Diaries, returns to Little Bridge Island with a new story about a children's book author with a case of writer's block and an arrogant novelist who have to set aside their differences as...
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Pop Song: Adventures in Art and IntimacyA warm and expansive portrait of a woman's mind that feels at once singular and universal, this collection of essays interweaves commentary on modern life, feminism, art, and sex with the author's own experiences of obsession, heartbreak, and vulnerability (BuzzFeed). Like a song that...
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Ernest Hemingway in the Yellowstone High CountryIn the 1930s, iconic American author Ernest Hemingway spent five summers at a ranch on the edge of Yellowstone National Park. Here he did some of his best writing, and his experiences in the mountains are connected to twelve of his most famous works,...
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Going SoloFrom the bestselling author Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG comes an autobiographical account of his exploits as a World War II pilot Superb stories, daring deeds, fantastic adventures Learn all about Roald Dahl's encounters with the enemy, his worldwide travels, the...
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Working"One of the great reporters of our time and probably the greatest biographer." --The Sunday Times (London) From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply moving recollections about his...
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After She Wrote Him"Pure delight, a swift yet psychologically complex read." --Dean Koontz"It's truly unusual, unique, and every thriller lover should make the time to read this." --Suspense MagazineIt's an author's job to create a new world in the pages of a book. But when lines start...
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Cross Bronx: A Writing LifeIn his inimitable prose, master storyteller Peter Quinn chronicles his odyssey from the Irish Catholic precincts of the Bronx to the arena of big-league politics and corporate hardball. Cross Bronx is Peter Quinn's one-of-a-kind account of his adventures as ad man, archivist, teacher, Wall...
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Jane AustenDiscover the remarkable life of Jane Austen, the great British novelist, in this book from the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series. Little Jane was born into a large family with seven brothers and sisters. She grew up reading and writing stories in...
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Sigrid Undset: Reader of HeartsNovelist Sigrid Undset (1882-1949) left a mark on twentieth-century literature, not only in her homeland of Norway, but across the West. Her painterly eye for the Scandinavian countryside, her uncompromising emotional realism, her concrete sense of history, her bold vision of woman and man--these...
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Tuesdays in Jail: What I Learned Teaching Journaling to InmatesIn 2011, novelist Tina Welling began teaching journaling workshops for the mostly male inmates at the Teton County Jail in Jackson, Wyoming. What began as a little-understood impulse on her part became a meaningful journey with surprising results. Welling was floored by how much...
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How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an AnswerWinner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for BiographyHow to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love--such questions arise in most people's lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: How...
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The California Days of Ralph Waldo EmersonIn the spring of 1871, Ralph Waldo Emerson boarded a train in Concord, Massachusetts, bound for a month-and-a-half-long tour of California--an interlude that became one of the highlights of his life. On their journey across the American West, he and his companions would take...
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Over My Dead BodyThe news from Ghastly, Illinois, is grave--and that's something to laugh about The International Movement for the Safety & Protection Of Our Kids & Youth (IMSPOOKY) dictates that Seymour cannot live in the mansion at 43 Old Cemetery Road "without the benefit of parents."...
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The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron CurtainA NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER I was born at the beginning of it all, on the Red side--the Communist side--of the Iron Curtain. Through annotated illustrations, journals, maps, and dreamscapes, Peter S s shows what life was like for a child who loved...
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You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A MemoirThe first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as a political activist of prodigious energies, Wole Soyinka now follows his modern classic Ake: The Years of Childhood with an equally important chronicle of his turbulent life as an adult in...
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Mailer's Last Days: New and Selected Remembrances of a Life in LiteratureThis book of essays by Norman Mailer's biographer, Dr. J. Michael Lennon, collect personal and literary reminiscences, insights, and investigations from the last half century. Through the rising action of his life in literature, Lennon's remembrances track the influence not only of his literary...
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Who Was Roald Dahl?Just in time for Roahl Dahl Month Roald Dahl is one of the most famous children's book authors ever. Now in this Who Was . . . ? biography, children will learn of his real-life adventures. A flying ace for the British Air Force,...
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The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in SiberiaThis is the remarkable true story of a family during one of the bleakest periods in history, a story that "radiates optimism and the resilience of the human spirit" (Washington Post). In June 1941, the Rudomin family is arrested by the Russians. They are...
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Not a Tame Lion: The Life, Teachings, and Legacy of C.S. LewisFinalist for the best biography of the year with Christian Book Awards.The life, thought, and legacy of C. S. Lewis--a Prophet for our TimesOne of the most brilliant minds of the twentieth century, C. S. Lewis bridged literature, philosophy, and religion. He taught at...
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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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