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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Four previously uncollected murder mysteries, two of which feature the young Adam Dalgliesh: The newly appointed Sgt. Dalgliesh is drawn into a case that is pure Agatha Christie; A pedantic, respectable, censorious clerk's secret taste for pornography is only the first reason he finds for not coming forward as a witness to a murder; A best selling crime novelist describes the crime she herself was involved in fifty years earlier; Dalgliesh's godfather...
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Independently published
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"You have to stand up and fight for what you believe in. Monica is determined to bring down and expose the dirty secrets of a hypocritical State Senator who voted against Roe. Monica and the other eleven short stories in this collection are a snapshot of America today. Monica is standing up and fighting for abortion rights and for her personal freedom to choose. Sometimes, we all have to take a stand for something."-- provided by publisher.
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A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick
"I had been so engaged by Ann Patchett's multifaceted story, so lured in by her confiding voice, that I forgot I was on the job. [...] As the best personal essays often do, Patchett's is a two-way mirror, reflecting both the author and her readers." — New York Times Book Review
Blending literature and memoir, New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett,
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"A small book for anyone in search of hope, looking for a path to a more meaningful life, or in need of encouragement. "Happiness occurs when you forget who you're expected to be. And what you're expected to do. Happiness is an accident of self-acceptance. It's the warm breeze you feel when you open the door to who you are." Years ago, Matt Haig began writing notes to his future self. These notes were meant as gifts to his future self: offerings of...
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English
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The author's first encounter with a racialized America came at age seven, when her parents told her they named her Austin to deceive future employers into thinking she was a white man. She grew up in majority-white schools, organizations, and churches, and has spent her life navigating America's racial divide as a writer, a speaker, and an expert helping organizations practice genuine inclusion. While so many institutions claim to value diversity...
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English
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""Any story that starts will also end." As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and heart. At the center of These Precious Days is the title essay, a surprising and moving meditation on an unexpected friendship that explores "what it means to be seen, to find someone...
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And Other Stories
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Fifty Forgotten Books is a very special sort of book about books, by a great bookman and for book-people of all ages and levels of experience. Not quite literary criticism, not quite an autobiography, it is at once a guided tour through the dusty backrooms of long vanished used bookstores, a love letter to bookshops and bookselling, and a browser's dream wish list of often overlooked and unloved novels, short story collections, poetry collections...
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Addie Baum is The Boston Girl, born in 1900 to immigrant parents who were unprepared for and suspicious of America and its effect on their three daughters. Growing up in the North End, then a teeming multicultural neighborhood, Addie's intelligence and curiosity take her to a world her parents can't imagine--a world of short skirts, movies, celebrity culture, and new opportunities for women. Addie wants to finish high school and dreams of going to...
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Presents an anthology of pieces from the early golden age of Vanity Fair magazine, from 1913 to 1936, written by such luminaries as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Clarence Darrow, Dorothy Parker, D. H. Lawrence, e. e. cummings, John Maynard Keynes, and Carl Sandburg.
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
The story of American baseball during WWII, both the players who left to join the war effort, and the replacement players who didn't belong in the majors but struggled to keep the game going on the home front.
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The Experiment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The Shortest History of China charts a path from China s tribal origins through its storied imperial era and up to the modern Communist Party under Xi Jinping including the rarely told story of women in China and the specters of corruption and disunity that continue to haunt the People s Republic today. A master storyteller and exacting historian, Linda Jaivin distills this vast history into a short, riveting account that today s globally minded readers...
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Library of America
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Featuring some of America's greatest writers and poets, this landmark anthology is a one-of-a-kind field guide to the American literary imagination. Americans have always been fascinated by birds and from the beginning American writers have captured this keen interest in a variety of genres: poems, journals, memoirs, short stories, essays, and travel accounts. Here literature professor and avid birder Andrew Rubenfeld, in collaboration with acclaimed...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"An engrossing new biography of Sylvia Plath focuses on her remarkable literary and intellectual growth and achievement, restoring the vivid creative woman behind the longtime Plath myths perpetuated by a pathology-based approach to her life and art. With a wealth of never-before-accessed materials, Heather Clark here brings to life the brilliant daughter of Wellesley, MA who had poetic ambition from a very young age, and was an accomplished, published...
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English
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"From the universally acclaimed, best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking: ten pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. Here are six pieces written in 1968 from the "Points West" Saturday Evening Post column Joan Didion shared from 1964 to 1969 with her husband, John Gregory Dunne about: American newspapers; a session with Gamblers Anonymous;...
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Vanderbilt University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"Strong Inside is the dramatic, untold story of Perry Wallace, a brilliant student and talented athlete who became the first African-American basketball player in the SEC at Vanderbilt University during the tumultuous late 1960s. The fast-paced, richly detailed biography places Wallace's struggles and ultimate success into the larger contexts of civil rights and race relations in the South"--
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet: Here are photographs of Murakami's extensive and personal T-shirt collection, accompanied by essays that reveal a side of the writer rarely seen by the public. Considered "the world's most popular cult novelist" (The Guardian), Haruki Murakami's books have galvanized millions around the world. Many of his fans know about his 10,000 vinyl record collection, and his obsession with running,...
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