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The Fiction Class

by Susan Breen

Published: 2008-02-26

Paperback: 296 pages

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Fiction Ruined My Family

by Jeanne Darst

Published: 2011-09-29

Hardcover: 320 pages

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The youngest of four daughters in an old, celebrated St. Louis family of prominent journalists and politicians on one side, debutante balls and equestrian trophies on the other, Jeanne Darst grew up hearing stories of past grandeur. And as a young girl, the message she internalized wa...

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The Fiddler in the Subway: The Story of the World-Class Violinist Who Played for Handouts. . . And Other Virtuoso Performances by America's Foremost Feature Writer

by Gene Weingarten

Published: 2010-07-06

Paperback: 384 pages

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GENE WEINGARTEN IS THE O. HENRY OF AMERICAN JOURNALISM Simply the best storyteller around, Weingarten describes the world as you think it is before revealing how it actually is—in narratives that are by turns hilarious, heartwarming, and provocative, but always memorable. Millions of peo...

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A Field Guide to Burying Your Parents

by Liza Palmer

Published: 2009-12-23

Paperback: 304 pages

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Grace Hawkes has not spoken to her previously tight-knit family since her mother's sudden death five years ago. Well, most of the family was tight-knit-- her father walked out on them when she was 13 and she and her two brothers and sister bonded together even closer with their mother as a...

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A Field Guide to High School

by Marissa Walsh

Published: 2007-08-28

Hardcover: 144 pages

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Andie has just finished eighth grade and will be starting high school in the fall. The good news: Her super-popular valedictorian big sister, Claire, is graduating and won't be there to put Andie in the shadows. The bad news: Her super-popular valedictorian big sister, Claire, is graduatin...

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Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change

by Elizabeth Kolbert

Published: 2006-12-26

Paperback: 240 pages

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Long known for her insightful and thought-provoking political journalism, author Elizabeth Kolbert now tackles the controversial and increasingly urgent subject of global warming. In what began as groundbreaking three-part series in the New Yorker, for which she won a National Magazine Awa...

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A Field of Darkness

by Cornelia Read

Published: 2007-07-11

Paperback: 336 pages

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Madeline Dare would be the first to tell you her money is so old there's none left. A former socialite from an aristocratic family in decline, Maddie is a tough-talking, would-be journalist exiled to the rust belt of upstate New York. Her prospects for changing her dreary lifestyle seem dim--until a...

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Fields of Fire

by James Webb

Published: 2001-08-28

Mass Market Paperback: 496 pages

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They each had their reasons for being a soldier.They each had their illusions. Goodrich came from Harvard. Snake got the tattoo ? Death Before Dishonor ? before he got the uniform. And Hodges was haunted by the ghosts of family heroes.They were three young men from different worlds plunged...

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Fieldwork

by Bruce Jackson

Published: 1987-02-01

Paperback: 328 pages

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Fieldwork: A Novel

by Mischa Berlinski

Published: 2008-01-22

Paperback: 356 pages

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When his girlfriend takes a job in Thailand, Mischa Berlinski goes along for the ride, planning to enjoy himself and work as little as possible. But one evening a fellow expatriate tips him off to a story: a charismatic American anthropologist, Martiya van der Leun, has been found dead--a ...