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Am I Overthinking This?: Over-answering life's questions in 101 charts

Michelle Rial · Chronicle Books
Pages: 136
Format: Hardcover

Am I overthinking this? Probably. This is a book of questions with answers, over-answers, and many charts: Did I screw up? How do I achieve work-life balance? Am I eating too much cheese? Do I have too many plants? Like a conversation with your non-judgmental best friend, Michelle Rial...
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These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson

Martha Ackmann · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

An engaging, intimate portrait of Emily Dickinson, one of America's greatest and most-mythologized poets, that sheds new light on her groundbreaking poetry.On August 3, 1845, young Emily Dickinson declared, "All things are ready"?and with this resolute statement, her life...
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A Reasonable Doubt: A Robin Lockwood Novel

Phillip Margolin · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A magician linked to three murders and suspicious deaths years ago disappears in the middle of his new act in New York Times bestseller Phillip Margolin's latest thriller featuring Robin LockwoodRobin Lockwood is a young criminal defense attorney and partner in a prominent law firm...
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The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison

Ralph Ellison · Random House
Pages: 1072
Format: Hardcover

A radiant collection of letters from the renowned author of Invisible Man that trace the life and mind of a giant of American literature, with insights into the riddle of identity, the writer's craft, and the story of a changing nation over six decades These extensive and revealing...
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The American Canon: Literary Genius from Emerson to Pynchon

Bloom, Harold · Library of America
Pages: 435
Format: Hardcover

Our foremost literary critic celebrates the American pantheon of great writers from Emerson and Whitman to Hurston and Ellison, to Ursula K. LeGuin, Philip Roth, and Thomas Pynchon.Harold Bloom is our greatest living student of literature, "a colossus among critics" (The New York...
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The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984

Lynskey, Dorian · Doubleday
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

An authoritative, wide-ranging, and incredibly timely history of 1984--its literary sources, its composition by Orwell, its deep and lasting effect on the Cold War, and its vast influence throughout world culture at every level, from high to pop.1984 isn't just a novel; it's a key to understanding...
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A Small Town

Thomas Perry · Mysterious Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In A Small Town, twelve conspirators meticulously plan to throw open all the gates to the prison that contains them, so that more than a thousand convicts may escape and pour into the nearby small town. The newly freed prisoners rape, murder, and destroy the town -- burning down homes and businesses....
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The Museum of Desire: An Alex Delaware Novel

Jonathan Kellerman · Ballantine Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Psychologist Alex Delaware and detective Milo Sturgis struggle to make sense of a seemingly inexplicable massacre in this electrifying psychological thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense. LAPD Lieutenant Milo Sturgis has solved a lot of murder cases. On many...
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Spitfire: A Livy Nash Mystery

M. L. Huie · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover

A page-turning new historical mystery for fans of Susan Elia MacNeal's Maggie Hope series and Kate Quinn's The Alice Network.How far would you go for vengeance?It's V-E Day 1946 in London. World War II is long over, and former spy Livy Nash is celebrating with her third drink...
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The Depositions: New and Selected Essays on Being and Ceasing to Be

Thomas Lynch · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A wry and compassionate selection of essays reflecting on mortals and mortality, from the acclaimed author of The Undertaking.For nearly four decades, poet, essayist, and small-town funeral director Thomas Lynch has probed relations between the literary and mortuary arts. His life's...
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