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A Progressive Education
Richard Howard · Turtle Point Press |
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How extraordinary that the only poetry collection devoted to the trials and tribulations of an entire class of sixth graders is written by the eighty-five-year-old MacArthur Grant and Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Richard Howard!Although loosely based on the poet's own progressive... |
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A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Nonfiction
Terry Pratchett · Doubleday
Format: Hardcover |
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Terry Pratchett has won the hearts and minds of readers around the globe with his bestselling Discworld series of novels. But what his many fans may not realize is that he has been writing nonfiction throughout his career. Some of it relates to Discworld, of course, but much of it - especially... |
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Science...For Her!
Megan Amram · Scribner
Format: Hardcover |
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Megan Amram, one of Forbes' "30 Under 30 in Hollywood & Entertainment," Rolling Stone's "25 Funniest People on Twitter," and a writer for NBC's hit show Parks and Recreation, delivers a politically, scientifically, and anatomically incorrect "textbook"... |
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101 Two-Letter Words
Stephin Merritt · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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A one-of-a-kind celebration of the 101 two-letter words allowed in Scrabble.Rolling Stone has called singer-songwriter Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields the Cole Porter of his generation O, The Oprah Magazine has hailed cartoonist Roz Chast as the wryest pen since Dorothy Parkers.... |
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Faithful and Virtuous Night: Poems
Louise Glück · Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for PoetryA luminous, seductive new collection from the "fearless" (The New York Times) Pulitzer Prize-winning poetLouise Glück is one of the finest American poets at work today. Her Poems 1962-2012 was hailed as "a major event... |
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The Great Detective: The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes
Zach Dundas · Houghton Mifflin
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover |
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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... |
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The Getaway Car: A Donald Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany
Donald E. Westlake · University of Chicago Press
Pages: 223
Format: Paperback |
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Over the course of a fifty-year career, Donald E. Westlake published nearly one hundred books, including not one but two long-running series, starring the hard-hitting Parker and the hapless John Dortmunder. In the six years since his death, Westlake's reputation has only grown, with... |
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The Skeleton Crew: How Amateur Sleuths Are Solving America's Coldest Cases
Deborah Halber · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 285
Format: Hardcover |
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Solving cold cases from the comfort of your living room ... The Skeleton Crew provides an entree into the gritty and tumultuous world of Sherlock Holmes-wannabes who race to beat out law enforcement - and one another - at matching missing persons with unidentified remains. In America today,... |
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A Force for Good: The Dalai Lama's Vision for Our World
Daniel Goleman · Bantam
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover |
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For more than half a century, in such books as The Art of Happiness and The Dalai Lama's Little Book of Inner Peace, the Dalai Lama has guided us along the path to compassion and taught us how to improve our inner lives. In A Force for Good, with the help of his longtime friend Daniel... |
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