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Little

Edward Carey · Thorndike Press Large Print
Pages: 673
Format: Library Binding

"An amazing achievement...A compulsively readable novel, so canny and weird and surfeited with the reality of human capacity and ingenuity that I am stymied for comparison. Dickens and David Lynch? Defoe meets Margaret Atwood? Judge for yourself." --Gregory Maguire, New York Times...
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Help Me!

Marianne Power · Grove Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

I wanted to find out what would happen if I really did follow the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People? Really felt The Power of Now? Could life be transformed? Could I get rich? Skinny? Find love? Be more productive and fulfilled? Because I really did want all the things these books promised....
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Talk to Me

John Kenney · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From New Yorker contributor and the Thurber Prize-winning author of Truth in Advertising comes a wry yet tenderhearted look at how one man's public fall from grace leads him back to his family, and back to the man he used to be.It's a story that Ted Grayson has reported time and time...
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Sitcom Writers Talk Shop: Behind the Scenes with Carl Reiner, Norman Lear, and Other Geniuses of TV Comedy

Paula Finn · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 274
Format: Hardcover

Behind every great television show is a group of professionals working at the top of their games - but no one is more important than the writers. And while writing comedy, especially good comedy, is serious business - fraught with actor egos, demanding producers, and sleepless nights - it also...
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The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth: And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine

Thomas Morris · Dutton
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

This wryly humorous collection of stories about bizarre medical treatments and cases offers a unique portrait of a bygone era in all its grisly weirdness. A puzzling series of dental explosions beginning in the nineteenth century is just one of many strange tales that have long lain undiscovered...
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The Children of Jocasta

Natalie Haynes · Europa Editions
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

Thebes is a city in mourning, still reeling from a devastating attack of plague that invaded every home and left the survivors devastated and fearful. This is the Thebes that Jocasta has known her entire life, a city ruled by a king -- her husband-to-be.Jocasta struggles through this miserable...
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