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If You Knew Then What I Know NowNew York Magazine's The Year in Books pickThe Millions' A Year in Reading pickSalon.com's Writers Choose Their Favorite Books The middle American coming-of-age has found new life in Ryan Van Meter's coming-out, made as strange as it is familiar by acknowledging the role played...
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Over the Hills and Far AwayInspired by the twenty-three "tales," Matthew Dennison takes a selection of quotations from Potter's stories and uses them to explore her multi-faceted life and character: repressed Victorian daughter; thwarted lover; artistic genius; formidable countrywoman. They chart her transformation from a young girl with a...
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Jane and the Waterloo MapJane Austen turns sleuth in this delightful Regency-era mystery November, 1815. The Battle of Waterloo has come and gone, leaving the British economy in shreds; Henry Austen, high-flying banker, is about to declare bankruptcy--dragging several of his brothers down with him. The crisis destroys...
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Haunted Helena:: Montana's Queen City GhostsHelena was born of the gold rush, nurtured by the wealth of its financiers and raised on its political struggles. The lawless gold camp and its vigilante hangings left an indelible imprint on the modern community. Restless spirits from Helena's turbulent past still linger...
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Autobiography of Mark Twain - 100th Anniversary Edition"It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense." - Mark Twain Within your hands is a glimpse into the life, mind, soul, and "truth" of cherished American icon, Mark Twain. This uncensored autobiography is not only a legacy...
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Pathologies: A Life in EssaysIn these fifteen searingly honest personal essays, debut author Susan Olding takes us on an unforgettable journey into the complex heart of being human. Each essay dissects an aspect of Olding's life experience?from her vexed relationship with her father to her tricky dealings with...
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Conversations with Jim Harrison, Revised and UpdatedConversations with Jim Harrison, Revised and Updated offers a judicious selection of interviews spanning the writing career of Jim Harrison (1937-2016) from its beginnings in the 1960s to the last interview he gave weeks before his death in March 2016. Harrison labeled himself and...
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Balancing ActOne of the most acclaimed storytellers of her time, #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels weaves unforgettable tales of love, family, friendship, and self-discovery. Together in one volume for the first time, here are two classic stories about following your heart--wherever it...
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Oh My Mother!: A Memoir in Nine AdventuresA dazzling mother-daughter adventure around the world in pursuit of self-discovery, a family reckoning, and Asian American defiance In Chinese, the closest expression to "oh my god" is "wo de ma ya." It's an interjection, a polite expletive, something to say when you're out...
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Retablos: Stories from a Life Lived Along the BorderRecommended by the New York Times and NBC News, and called one of the Best Books of the Year by Buzzfeed The New York Times directs readers to Retablos if you want to know what's life really like on the Mexican border. Solis grew...
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Brummett Echohawk: Pawnee Thunderbird and ArtistA true American hero who earned a Purple Heart, a Bronze Star, and a Congressional Gold Medal, Brummett Echohawk was also a Pawnee on the European battlefields of World War II. He used the Pawnee language and counted coup as his grandfather had done...
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The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and ReviewsAuthor: Eudora WeltyPublisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupPublished: 08/29/1990Pages: 368Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.68lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.19w x 0.76dISBN: 9780679730040About the AuthorOne of America's most admired authors, Eudora Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1909. . She was educated locally and at Mississippi State College...
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To Be the Poet"I have almost finished my longbook," Maxine Hong Kingston declares. "Let my life as Poet begin...I won't be a workhorse anymore; I'll be a skylark." To Be the Poet is Kingston's manifesto, the avowal and declaration of a writer who has devoted a good...
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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition Volume 10"I've struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. "And I will give it away--to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography." Thus, after dozens of false starts and...
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Between Two Millstones, Book 1: Sketches of Exile, 1974-1978Russian Nobel prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) is widely acknowledged as one of the most important figures--and perhaps the most important writer--of the last century. To celebrate the centenary of his birth, the first English translation of his memoir of the West, Between Two Millstones,...
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Esta Bruma Insensata / This Senseless FogUna fascinante meditación narrativa sobre la originalidad en la literatura, de la mano de uno de nuestros narradores más originales En un caserón medio derruido de Cadaqués, Simon Schneider vive entregado al tranquilo oficio de proporcionar citas literarias a otros escritores, entre los que...
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Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light: EssaysThe bestselling author of American Housewife and Southern Lady Code returns with an "inspiring, hilarious, straight-to-the-point" (Entertainment Weekly) collection of essays on friendship among grown-ass women. "Ellis' prose is filled with so many laugh lines, you might want to go ahead and book the...
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Jacob's Ghetto: You're not the product of your environmentJacob, a bright 10-year-old African American boy with exceptional writing ability, seems to have a promising academic future ahead of him. But living on the south-side of Chicago, life at home is nothing but. He is living in a drug-infested community with a residence...
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The Plays of Oscar WildeWith an Introduction and Notes by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London. Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, Lady Windermere's Fan. The combination of dazzling wit, subtle social criticism, sumptuous settings and the theme of a guilty secret proved...
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The Farm in the Green MountainsThe charming, return-to-the-land memoir of a refugee family who flees Nazi Germany and finds their true home in the backwoods of rural Vermont Alice and Carl Zuckmayer lived at the center of Weimar-era Berlin. She was a former actor turned medical student, he was...
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