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Parnassus on Wheels

by Christopher Morley

Published: 2010-09-10

Paperback: 198 pages

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1918. Parnassus on Wheels is the story of Roger Mifflin, a sprite like figure who moves through the New England countryside with his traveling book wagon. His story shows how book selling can be one of the world's highest callings, spreading enlightenment with a dose of delight. See other titles by this...

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Parnassus On Wheels (The Art of the Novella)

by Christopher Morley

Published: 2010-08-31

Paperback: 144 pages

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1918. Parnassus on Wheels is the story of Roger Mifflin, a sprite like figure who moves through the New England countryside with his traveling book wagon. His story shows how book selling can be one of the world's highest callings, spreading enlightenment with a dose of delight. See other titles by this...

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Parrot and Olivier in America

by Peter Carey

Published: 2010-04-20

Hardcover: 400 pages

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From the two-time Booker Prize?winning author comes an irrepressibly funny new novel set in early nineteenth-century America.Olivier?an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville?is the traumatized child of aristocratic survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot is the motherless s...

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Parrot in the Oven: Mi vida

by Victor Martinez

Published: 1998-03-31

Paperback: 224 pages

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Dad believed people were like money. You could be a thousand-dollar person or a hundred-dollar person -- even a ten-, five-, or one-dollar person. Below that, everybody was just nickels and dimes. To my dad, we were pennies. Fourteen-year-old Manny Hernandez wants to be more than just a pe...

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The Parrot Who Owns Me: The Story of a Relationship

by Joanna Burger

Published: 2002-05-14

Paperback: 272 pages

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Parrotfish

by Ellen Wittlinger

Published: 2007-07-10

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Last week I cut my hair, bought some boys' clothes and shoes, wrapped a large ACE bandage around my chest to flatten my fortunately-not-largebreasts, and began looking for a new name.Angela Katz-McNair has never felt quite right as a girl. Her whole life is leading up to the day she decide...

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Part of Our Time (New York Review Books Classics): Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties

by Murray Kempton

Published: 2004

Paperback: 360 pages

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Master journalist Murray Kempton re-creates an era when many believed that the only hope for America's future lay in violent revolution. Writing as both a radical and a skeptic, Kempton looks back--from the vantage of the very un-revolutionary 1950s--on the tangled affairs of Alger Hiss and Whittaker...

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Partials

by Dan Wells

Published: 2012-02-28

Hardcover: 480 pages

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The human race is all but extinct after a war with Partials?engineered organic beings identical to humans?has decimated the population. Reduced to only tens of thousands by RM, a weaponized virus to which only a fraction of humanity is immune, the survivors in North America have huddled t...

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The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake: A Novel

by Aimee Bender

Published: 2010-06-01

Hardcover: 292 pages

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The wondrous Aimee Bender conjures the lush and moving story of a girl whose magical gift is really a devastating curse. On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents? attention, bites into her mother's h...

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The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake: A Novel. Aimee Bender

by Aimee Bender

Published: 2011-02

Paperback: 304 pages

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On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents' attention, bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother's emotions in the slice. She discovers this...