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Stone FruitPatrice Powell is a New York-based magazine writer for European Art magazine. She reluctantly returns to her native Iowa to write a story about the death of Nan Wood Graham - the famous face of American Gothic. In returning to Iowa to research the...
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J.M. Coetzee - Photographs from BoyhoodAuthor J.M. Coetzee sold his house in Cape Town, unaware that he was leaving behind unique documents from his teenage years. In the attic of his former home, the new owners discovered a forgotten brown suitcase and a large cardboard box, containing a complete...
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Conversations with Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieNigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (b. 1977) is undoubtedly one of the most widely acclaimed African writers of the twenty-first century. Best known for her insightful fiction, viral TED talks, and essays on feminism, she is also a notoriously outspoken intellectual. As she puts...
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My Life as a Villainess: EssaysNew York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman, a journalist for many years, collects here her recent essays exploring motherhood as an older mom, her life as a reader, her relationships with her parents, friendship, and other topics that will resonate with a large audience....
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Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheThis new critical biography provides a complete picture of German novelist, playwright, and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Offering fresh, thought-provoking interpretations of all Goethe's major works, including novels such as The Sorrows of Young Werther and The Elective Affinities, plays such as Egmont...
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Antes Que Anochezca = Before It Grows DarkThe Cuban-born novelist describes his poverty-stricken childhood in rural Cuba, his adolescence as a rebel fighting for Castro, his suppression as a writer, his imprisonment for his homosexuality, and his flight from Cuba.Author: Reynaldo ArenasPublisher: Planeta PublishingPublished: 12/03/2013Pages: 352Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 7.60h x...
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On Walking onOn Walking On looks outward onto--or rather, walks through--the work of various writers for whom walking was or is an important element of daily life. The number of writers who were or are serious walkers is striking, and the connection goes back to antiquity,...
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William Saroyan: Places in TimeLavishly illustrated with beautiful, evocative watercolors, this record visits dozens of locations influential to the life of Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Saroyan, best known for his play ""The Time of Your Life."" Accompanied by well-documented biographical research, this series of paintings highlights places critical...
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This Tilting WorldOn the night following the terrorist attack that killed eighty-three tourists on the beach at Sousse, a woman sits facing the sea and writes a complicated love letter to her homeland, Tunisia, which she feels she must leave forever. She also writes of her...
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The Story I Am: Mad about the Writing LifeThis is a gorgeous book, one that will inspire anyone to make the next sentence.--Jericho Brown, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 2020 A hymn of praise for the craft of weaving words in order to survive.--Kitty Kelley Roger Rosenblatt has always been...
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Mark Twain - Roughing It: I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in 1835 and is far better known by his pen name; Mark Twain. An American author and humorist of the first order he is perhaps most famous for his novels, The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer, written in 1876, and...
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Philip K. DickOne of the greatest writers in science fiction history, Philip K. Dick is mostly remembered for such works as Blade Runner, Minority Report, and Total Recall. His dark, fascinating work centered on alternate universes and shifting realities in worlds often governed by monopolistic corporations...
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Henry David Thoreau for Kids, 64: His Life and Ideas, with 21 ActivitiesAmerican author and naturalist Henry David Thoreau is best known for living two years along the shores of Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts, and writing about his experiences in Walden; or, Life in the Woods, as well as spending a night in jail for...
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Missions of Love, Volume 12SIBLING RIVALRY When Yukina goes to Shigure's house to apologize, her attempts are thwarted by the appearance of Shigure's brother Hisame This twisted sibling will do anything to discredit his brother and torment his beloved Mami, but what is he plotting this time? Meanwhile,...
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Missions of Love, Volume 9QUESTIONABLE LOVE After coming to the realization that Kirishima-sensei was her first love, Yukina goes to face him on her own to finally know the love that she's been seeking all this time. Meanwhile, Shigure hears a rumor that reveals Kirishima-sensei's dark past and...
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The Journal I Did Not Keep: New and Selected WritingFor almost six decades Segal has quietly produced some of the best fiction and essays in American literature, as this generous sampler attests.--The New York Times Segal is a monumental writer, one of the finest of her generation; this lovely collection is a fine...
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Tennessee Literary Luminaries:: From Cormac McCarthy to Robert Penn WarrenThe Volunteer State has been a pioneer in southern literature for generations, giving us such literary stars as Robert Penn Warren and Cormac McCarthy. But Tennessee's literary legacy also involves authors such as Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor, who delayed writing his first novel but...
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Mikhail and MargaritaAn NPR Best Book of the Year: " A] brilliant novel of love, betrayal and censorship . . . Deeply suspenseful" (Margot Livesey, New York Times-bestselling author of Mercury). It is 1933 in Russia and Mikhail Bulgakov's enviable literary career is on the brink...
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Hidden Hemingway: Inside the Ernest Hemingway Archives of Oak ParkThinking of Ernest Hemingway often brings to mind his travels around the world, documenting war and engaging in thrilling ad- ventures. However, fully understanding this outsized international author means returning to his place of birth. Hidden Hemingway presents highlights from the extraordinary collection of...
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Diary of a StalkerNever judge a book by its cover. . . Xavier Preston is tall, dark, and handsome, and the problem is that he knows it. He's a bestselling author who is accustomed to adoring female fans, both young and old, flirting with him, throwing themselves...
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