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21) Roughing it
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Mark Twain's semi-autobiographical travel memoir, "Roughing It" was written between 1870-1871 and subsequently published in 1872. Billed as a prequel to "Innocents Abroad", in which Twain details his travels aboard a pleasure cruise through Europe and the Holy Land in 1867, "Roughing It" conversely documents Twain's early days in the old wild west between the years 1861-1867. Employing his characteristically humoristic wit and flare for regional dialect,...
22) Potboiler
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2012
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323 p.
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Torn between envy and grief when his oldest friend dies, college professor Arthur struggles with his failed ambitions while reflecting on his late friend's successes and marriage to a woman Arthur loves, with whom he reconnects over a series of surreal events.
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Memoir trilogy volume 3
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Viking
Pub. Date
2009
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266 p. ; 22 cm.
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In this autobiographical novel, a young English biographer is researching a book about the late South African writer John Coetzee, focusing on Coetzee in his thirties, at a time when he was living in a rundown cottage in the Cape Town suburbs with his widowed father--a time, the biographer is convinced, when Coetzee was finding himself as a writer.
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Presents a book of reflections for those seeking wisdom, guidance, encouragement, and inspiration on the road to a meaningful life.
As a prominent woman juggling many roles, Maria Shriver knows just how surprising, unpredictable, and stressful everyday life can be. In this moving and powerful book, she shares inspiring quotes, prayers, and reflections designed to get readers thinking, get them feeling, get them laughing, and help them in their journey...
27) By the book
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Meant to be volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
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A young, black woman working in publishing makes a surprise connection with an author who has failed to deliver his highly anticipated manuscript.
28) Mom & me & mom
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In this book, Angelou details what brought her mother to send her away, and unearths the well of emotions she experienced long afterward as a result. For the first time, she reveals the triumphs and struggles of being the daughter of Vivian Baxter, an indomitable spirit whose petite size belied her larger-than-life presence, a presence absent during much of the author's early life. When her marriage began to crumble, Vivian famously sent three-year-old...
31) Cakes and ale
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Vintage International
Pub. Date
2000.
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308 pages ; 21 cm
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Alice James Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
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79 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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"Explores the vulnerable ways we articulate and reckon with fear: fear of intergenerational trauma and the silent, hidden histories of families. What does it mean to grow up in a take-out restaurant, surrounded by food, just a generation after the Great Leap Forward famine in 1958-62. Full of elegy and resilient joy, these poems speak across generations of survival. How much of the world do we fear? How can we find comfort and ancestral power in this...
33) True fiction
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Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2018]
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237 pages ; 22 cm
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When a passenger jet crashes onto the beaches of Waikiki, bestselling thriller writer Ian Ludlow knows the horrific tragedy wasn't an accident. Years before, the CIA enlisted Ian to dream up terrorism scenarios to prepare the government for nightmares they couldn't imagine. Now one of those schemes has come true, and Ian is the only person alive who knows how it was done ... and who is behind the plot. That makes him too dangerous to live. Ian goes...
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Other Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
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189 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
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When Hélène and her friend Guillaume try to find out whether her mysterious great uncle is the real author of "The Black Insignia" series of young adult adventure stories, their investigation turns up a dark secret from the past.
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At age fifty-eight, John Steinbeck and his poodle, Charley, embarked on a journey across America. This chronicle of their trip meanders from small towns to growing cities to glorious wilderness oases. Written during a time of upheaval and racial tension in the South-which Steinbeck witnessed firsthand-Travels with Charley is a stunning evocation of America on the eve of a tumultuous decade.
38) Sweet tooth
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Recruited into MI5 against a backdrop of the Cold War in 1972, Cambridge student Serena Frome, a compulsive reader, is assigned to infiltrate the literary circle of a promising young writer whose politics align with those of the government, a situation that is compromised when she falls in love with him.
39) Devil house
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2022.
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Gage Chandler is descended from kings. That?s what his mother always told him. Years later, he is a true crime writer, with one grisly success?and a movie adaptation?to his name, along with a series of subsequent less notable efforts. But now he is being offered the chance for the big break: to move into the house where a pair of briefly notorious murders occurred, apparently the work of disaffected teens during the Satanic Panic of the 1980s. Chandler...
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