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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
Diane Ackerman
W. W. Norton
W. W. Norton
Amazon Significant Seven, September 2007 : On the heels of Alan Weisman's The World Without Us I picked up Diane Ackerman's The ZookeeperÂ’s Wife . Both books take you to Poland's forest primeval, the Bialowieza, and paint a richly textured...
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Fight Club: A Novel
Chuck Palahniuk
W. W. Norton
W. W. Norton
The first rule about fight club is you don't talk about fight club. Chuck Palahniuk's outrageous and startling debut novel that exploded American literature and spawned a movement. Every weekend, in the basements and parking lots of bars across...
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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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The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
Oliver Sacks
Touchstone
Touchstone
In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century" (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. Oliver Sacks's The...
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A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
W. W. Norton & Company
W. W. Norton & Company
Anthony Burgess's modern classic of youthful violence and social redemption, reissued to include the controversial last chapter not previously published in this country, with a new introduction by the author.
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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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They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing
Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein
W. W. Norton
W. W. Norton
At a time when so many lament the decline of writing skills among Americans, They Say/I Say teaches the core moves of effective argumentative writing. Suggesting that there are certain moves that experienced writers use instinctively, and that...
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Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
Scott Mccloud
Harper Paperbacks
Harper Paperbacks
A comic book about comic books. McCloud, in an incredibly accessible style, explains the details of how comics work: how they're composed, read and understood. More than just a book about comics, this gets to the heart of how we deal with visual...
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