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How Fiction Works
James Wood
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Amazon Best of the Month, July 2008 : The first thing you'll notice about How Fiction Works is its size. At 252 pages, it's a marvel of economy for a book that asks such a huge question and right away you'll want to know (as you might at the...
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Books: A Memoir
Larry McMurtry
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster
Amazon Best of the Month, July 2008 : It wasn't enough for Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry to become one of the most prolific, bestselling, and beloved of American writers. Besides writing nearly forty books, including the Pultizer...
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The Garden of Last Days: A Novel
Andre Dubus III
W. W. Norton
W. W. Norton
From the author of the New York Times bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection House of Sand and Fog —a new big-hearted, painful, page-turning novel. One early September night in Florida, a stripper brings her daughter to work. April's...
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Fight Club: A Novel
Chuck Palahniuk
W. W. Norton
W. W. Norton
The only person who gets called Ballardesque more often than Chuck Palahniuk is, well... J.G. Ballard. So, does Portland, Oregon's "torchbearer for the nihilistic generation" deserve that kind of treatment? Yes and no. There is a resemblance...
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami
Knopf
Knopf
In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he’d completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention triathlons and a dozen...
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Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
Charlotte Brontë
Penguin Classics
Penguin Classics
A new edition of one of Penguins top ten Classicsthe novel that has been teaching true strength of character for generations ( The Guardian ) A novel of intense power and intrigue, Jane Eyre has dazzled generations of readers with its...
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How to Read a Book (A Touchstone Book)
Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren
Touchstone
Touchstone
How to Read a Book, originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a living classic. It is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader. And now it has been completely rewritten and updated. You...
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.... When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident. I maintain that the Ewells started it...
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