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The Great Detective: The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes
Zach Dundas · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
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A wickedly smart and rollicking journey through the birth, life, and afterlives of popular culture's most beloved sleuth Today he is the inspiration for fiction adaptations, blockbuster movies, hit television shows, raucous Twitter banter, and thriving subcultures. More than a century after... |
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The State of the Art: A Chronicle of American Poetry, 1988-2014
David Lehman · University of Pittsburgh Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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The acclaimed annual, The Best American Poetry, is the most prestigious showcase of new poetry in the United States and Canada. Each year since the series began in 1988, David Lehman has contributed a foreword, and this has evolved into a sort of state-of-the-art address that surveys new developments... |
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CRUSH: Writers Reflect on Love, Longing and the Power of Their First Celebrity Crush
Cathy Alter · William Morrow
Pages: 272 |
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A star-studded collection of essays from acclaimed and bestselling authors and celebrities that illuminates the lasting power of desire and longing, and celebrates our initiation into the euphoria, pain, and mystery that is our first celebrity crush.You never forget your first crush . . .CRUSH... |
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Book of Hours: Poems
Kevin Young · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages: 185
Format: Hardcover |
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A decade after the sudden and tragic loss of his father, we witness the unfolding of grief. "In the night I brush / my teeth with a razor," he tells us, in one of the collection's piercing two-line poems. Capturing the strange silence of bereavement ("Not the storm / but the calm... |
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What If?
Randall Munroe · Mariner Books
Pages: 303
Format: Print book |
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From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language,... |
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Dad Is Fat
Jim Gaffigan · Crown Archetype; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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In Dad is Fat, stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan, whos best known for his legendary riffs on Hot Pockets, bacon, manatees, and McDonalds, expresses all the joys and horrors of life with five young children—everything from cousins celebrities for little kids to toddlers communication skills... |
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