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The Ghostwriter Secret, 2Steve Brixton, top detective, rescuer of quilts and also America, has opened up his own agency. He has a crime lab that doubles as a bedroom. He has a chum named Dana. And he has lots of business cards. So when the Fairview Diamond...
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Vivir Para Contarla / Living to Tell the TalePocos libros han despertado tanta expectaci n en todo el mundo como la autobiograf a de Gabriel Garc a M rquez, autor de Cien a os de soledad y ganador del Premio Nobel de Literatura. En sus memorias, Garc a M rquez nos habla...
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Mark Twain: A LifeRon Powers's tour de force has been widely acclaimed as the best life and times, filled with Mark Twain's voice, and as a great American story. Samuel Clemens, the man known as Mark Twain, invented the American voice and became one of our greatest...
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Airman's OdysseyThree classic adventure stories, reminders of both the romance and the reality of the pioneer era of aviation: Night Flight; Wind, Sand and Stars; and Flight to Arras. Introduction by Richard Bach. Translated by Lewis Galantière and Stuart Gilbert.Author: Antoine de Saint-ExupéryPublisher: Mariner BooksPublished:...
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A Common Pornography: A MemoirIn 2003 Kevin Sampsell authored a chapbook memoir of the same title. It was written as a kind of "memory experiment," in which he recollected luminous details from his childhood in independently amusing chapters. It functioned as an experiential catalogue of American youth in...
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Must Love Books"After five years working at Parson's Press, an old-school business book publisher, Nora is the last editorial assistant standing, desperate to get out. But she can't leave until she finds another job to cover rent, especially when Parsons cuts already unlivable salaries. That's when...
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García Márquez: Historia de Un Deicidio / Garcia Marquez: Story of a Deicide«Cada novela es un deicidio secreto, un asesinato simbólico de la realidad. Publicado a comienzos de la década de los setenta y desaparecido de las librerías desde hace muchos años, este ensayo, que en su origen fue la tesis que le valió a Vargas...
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Rude Talk in Athens: Ancient Rivals, the Birth of Comedy, and a Writer's Journey Through GreeceRude Talk in Athens is brave, brilliant, and incredibly funny. There are loads of very specific characters, including Mark himself. It's the Mark Haskell Smith version of hanging out with Stanley Tucci and Anthony Bourdain, but in present day and ancient Greece. I agree...
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MontaukCasting himself as both subject and observer, Frisch reflects on his marriages, children, friendships, and careers; a holiday weekend in Long Island is a trigger to recount and question events and aspects of his own life, along with creeping fears of mortality. He paints...
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Diary of a Short-Sighted AdolescentThe short-sighted adolescent is a poor schoolboy who is in love with literature, and tries to emulate the lives and works of the writers he most admires. He is also fascinated by science and history, and stays up all night reading. At the age...
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Mary ShelleyNew in the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the incredible life of Mary Shelley, the English novelist and creator of Frankenstein. When Mary Shelley was a little girl, she used to write stories beneath the trees in her garden. As an...
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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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WavesA young woman and her wife's attempts to have a child unfold in this poetic tale that ebbs and flows like the sea. 2019 Harvey Award Winner After years of difficulty trying to have children, a young couple finally announces their pregnancy, only to...
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The Bee Cottage Story: How I Made a Muddle of Things and Decorated My Way Back to HappinessInspired by Frances Schultz's popular House Beautiful magazine series on the makeover of her East Hampton house, Bee Cottage, what began as a decorating book evolved into a memoir combining the best elements of both: beautiful photos and a compelling personal story. Schultz taps...
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J. D. Salinger: The Last Interview: And Other ConversationsFrom the moment J. D. Salinger published The Catcher in the Rye in 1951, he was stalked by besotted fans, would-be biographers, and pushy journalists. In this collection of rare and revealing encounters with the elusive literary giant, Salinger discusses--sometimes willingly, sometimes grudgingly--what that...
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Conversations with Joe R. LansdaleJoe R. Lansdale (b. 1951), the award-winning author of such novels as Cold in July (1989) and The Bottoms (2000), as well as the popular Hap and Leonard series, has been publishing novels since 1981. Lansdale has developed a tremendous cult audience willing to...
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The Genius of Language: Fifteen Writers Reflect on Their Mother TongueFifteen outstanding writers answered editor Wendy Lesser's call for original essays on the subject of language-the one they grew up with, and the English in which they write.Despite American assumptions about polite Chinese discourse, Amy Tan believes that there was nothing discreet about the...
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Long Memories and Other WritingsIn 1975, the young Lovecraft scholar Peter Cannon met the elderly Frank Belknap Long, one of H. P. Lovecraft's closest friends. Over the next two decades, until Long's death in 1994, Cannon himself became a close friend of Long, and in the memoir Long...
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Crazy DaveThe unflinching and marvelously humane story of a man born with Down syndrome in an Ojibway community.Author: Basil JohnstonPublisher: Minnesota Historical Society PressPublished: 04/01/2002Pages: 336Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.13h x 5.90w x 0.86dISBN: 9780873514231Review Citation(s): PW Notes and Reprints 02/11/2002 pg. 180Publishers Weekly 02/11/2002
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When I Was Your Age: Original Stories about Growing Up"Memoirs of adolescence by renowned YA authors. . . . Readers can journey to places where the seeds of imagination and keen powers of observation are planted." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Tell me a story of when you were little" is something children...
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