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The Overnight
Published: 2005-04-01
Hardcover: 400 pages
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A bookstore can be a wonderful, welcoming place of both commerce and curiosity. That's the goal for Woody, an American recently transferred to England to run a branch of Texts. He wants a clean, orderly store and lots of sales to show his bosses when they arrive from the States for a pre...
My Ideal Bookshelf
Published: 2012-11-13
Hardcover: 240 pages
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The books that we choose to keep --let alone read-- can say a lot about who we are and how we see ourselves. In MY IDEAL BOOKSHELF, dozens of leading cultural figures share the books that matter to them most; books that define their dreams and ambitions and in many cases helped them find their way in...
My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop
Published: 2012-11-13
Hardcover: 392 pages
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In this enthusiastic, heartfelt, and sometimes humorous ode to bookshops and booksellers, 84 known authors pay tribute to the brick-and-mortar stores they love and often call their second homes.In My Bookstore our greatest authors write about the pleasure, guidance, and support that their ...
The Art of Floating
Published: 2014-04-01
Paperback: 464 pages
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At a time when nothing seems real,it takes something truly unusual to put your life into focus. When her beloved husband Jackson disappeared without a trace, popular novelist Sia Dane stopped writing, closed down her house, stuffed her heart into a cage, and started floating. It wasn’t ...
Rosie
Published: 1997-06-01
Paperback: 275 pages
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In Anne Lamott’s wise and witty novel, the growing pains of motherhood are portrayed with rare humor and honesty. If Elizabeth Ferguson had her way, she’d spend her days savoring good books, cooking great meals, and waiting for the love of her life to walk in the door. But it’s not a...
The Devil in the Marshalsea
Published: 2014-06-10
Paperback: 400 pages
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"Antonia Hodgson’s London of 1727 offers that rare achievement in historical fiction: a time and place suspensefully different from our own, yet real . . . A damn’d good read." —Elizabeth Kostova, author of The Historian London, 1727. Tom Hawkins refuses to follow in his father’s f...
The Imaginary Girlfriend: A Memoir
Published: 2002-12-03
Paperback: 180 pages
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“The Imaginary Girlfriend is a miniature autobiography detailing Irving’s parallel careers of writing and wrestling. . . . Tales of encounters with writers (John Cheever, Nelson Algren, Kurt Vonnegut) are intertwined with those about his wrestling teammates and coaches. With humor and ...
Regeneration (Regeneration Trilogy (Plume Books))
Published: 2013-12-31
Paperback: 256 pages
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"The trilogy is trying to tell something about the parts of war that don't get into the official accounts" –Pat Barker The first book of the Regeneration Trilogy and a Booker Prize nominee In 1917 Siegfried Sasson, noted poet and decorated war hero, publicly refused to continue serv...
Ask Me: 100 Essential Poems of William Stafford
Published: 2014-01-07
Paperback: 128 pages
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“In our time there has been no poet who revived human hearts and spirits more convincingly than William Stafford.” —Naomi Shihab NyeSome time when the river is ice ask memistakes I have made. Ask me whetherwhat I have done is my life. —from “Ask Me” In celebration of t...
My Story as Told by Water: Confessions, Druidic Rants, Reflections, Bird-watchings, Fish-stalkings, Visions, Songs and Prayers Refracting Light, From Living Rivers, in the Age of the Industrial Dark
Published: 2002-08-05
Paperback: 304 pages
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In this remarkable collection of essays, acclaimed author David James Duncan braids his contemplative, rhapsodic, and activist voices together into a potently distinctive whole, speaking with power and urgency about the vital connections between our water-filled bodies and this water-cover...
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