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What do readers say about Tuesdays with Morrie?
beautifully written throughout sad but uplifting heart warming tale a good bookMaybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way throug... More details on Tuesdays with Morrie
He had always been a dancer, my old professor. The music didn’t matter. Rock and roll, big band, the blues. He loved them all. He would close his eyes and with a blissful smile begin to move to his ow...
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What do readers say about The Tao of Pooh?
light-hearted and simple fun and thought-provoking tertiary level text poetic, beautiful, and insightfulFor Taoists everywhere, the New York Times bestseller from the author of The Te of Piglet.
Happy 90th birthday (10/14/16), to one of the world's most beloved icons of literature, Winnie-the-Pooh!
The how of Pooh? The Tao of who? The Tao of Pooh!?! I... More details on The Tao of Pooh
Let's imagine that we have walked down a narrow sheet in a large Chinese city and have found a small shop that sells scrolls painted in the classic manner. We go inside and ask to be shown something a...
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What do readers say about The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter?
dark and depressing smooth and mature beautiful and tragic sparse and simpleFrom the master of Southern Gothic, Carson McCullers's coming-of-age story like no other about a young girl's fascination with her brother's wedding.
Twelve-year-old Frankie is utterly, hopelessly bored with life until she hears about her older broth... More details on The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Jake shivered. Although the sun was bright there was a chill in the room. Singer held up his forefinger and went into the hall. When he returned he brought with him a scuttle of coal and some kindling...
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What do readers say about Room?
incredibly traumatizing book rape and captivity gripping, moving and thought-provoking unusual yet believableThe award-winning bestseller that became one of the most talked about and memorable novels of the decade, Room is "utterly gripping…a heart-stopping novel" (San Francisco Chronicle).
Held captive for years in a small shed, a woman and her precociou... More details on Room
I count one hundred cereal and waterfall the milk that's nearly the same white as the bowls, no splashing, we thank Baby Jesus. I choose Meltedy Spoon with the white all blobby on his handle when he l...
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What do readers say about The Stone Angel?
first-person, present tense narrative skill, beauty, and insight sympathy and humor a story of dyingThe Stone Angel, The Diviners, and A Bird in the House are three of the five books in Margaret Laurence's renowned "Manawaka series," named for the small Canadian prairie town in which they take place.
Each of these books is narrated by a strong woma... More details on The Stone Angel
ABOVE THE TOWN, on the hill brow, the stone angel used to stand. I wonder if she stands there yet, in memory of her who relinquished her feeble ghost as I gained my stubborn one, my mother's angel tha...
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What do readers say about In Siberia?
description and travel a true classic an excellent book depressingAs mysterious as its beautiful, as forbidding as it is populated with warm-hearted people, Syberia is a land few Westerners know, and even fewer will ever visit.
Traveling alone, by train, boat, car, and on foot, Colin Thubron traversed this vast ter... More details on In Siberia
The ice-fields are crossed for ever by a man in chains. In the farther distance, perhaps, a herd of reindeer drifts, or a hunter makes a shadow on the snow. But that is all. Siberia: it fills one twel...
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What do readers say about H is for Hawk?
lyrical and dreamy prose that approaches poetry birds, raptors and falconry a grief memoirOne of the New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of the Year
One of Slate's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Past 25 Years
A Best Book of the Year: TIME, NPR, O, The Oprah Magazine, Vogue, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Seattle T... More details on H is for Hawk
FORTY-FIVE MINUTES north-east of Cambridge is a landscape I’ve come to love very much indeed. It’s where wet fen gives way to parched sand. It’s a land of twisted pine trees, burned-out cars, shotgun-...
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What do readers say about The Leopard?
sicilian historical fiction italian literature classic beautiful and insightful a historical novelThe Leopard is a modern classic which tells the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution.
In the spring of 1860, Fabrizio, the charismatic Prince of Salina, still ru... More details on The Leopard
The daily recital of the Rosary was over. For half an hour the steady voice of the Prince had recalled the Glorious and the Sorrowful Mysteries; for half an hour other voices had interwoven a lilting ...
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What do readers say about Bobcat and Other Stories?
lyrical without being flamboyant short story collection infidelity to plagiarism beautiful sentence structure"Wise and funny . . . [A] near-perfect collection."
-Entertainment Weekly
Rebecca Lee, one of our most gifted and original short story writers, guides readers into a range of landscapes, both foreign and domestic, crafting stories as rich as novels.... More details on Bobcat and Other Stories
It was the terrine that got to me. I felt queasy enough that I had to sit in the living room and narrate to my husband what was the brutal list of tasks that would result in a terrine: devein, declaw,...
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What do readers say about Rabbits for Food?
stream of consciousness extremely well written sometimes funny, always compelling unusual and extraordinaryMaster of razor-edged literary humor Binnie Kirshenbaum returns with her first novel in a decade, a devastating, laugh-out-loud funny story of a writer's slide into depression and institutionalization.
It's New Year's Eve, the holiday of forced fello... More details on Rabbits for Food
The dog is late, and I’m wearing pajamas made from the same material as Handi Wipes, which is reason enough for me to wish I were dead. I’m expecting this dog to be a beagle, a beagle dressed in an or...
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