The best-selling author of A Child Called "It" continues the inspirational story of his life as he reveals the story of his struggle through the challenges of adolescence, detailing the taunting he endured from bullies, the joys of making his first real friends, and his desperate quest to escape his ...
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Fourteen-year-old Miri lives on a mountain where her ancestors have quarried stone and lived in poverty for generations. Then just before winter's first snowfall, a delegation from the lowlands arrive with exciting news. The king's priests have divined that her small village is the home of the futur ...
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The author recounts his childhood in Depression-era Brooklyn as the child of Irish immigrants who decide to return to worse poverty in Ireland when his infant sister dies. Read by Frank McCourt. Book available.
In the small town of Mitford, rector Father Tim and his lovely wife Cynthia ponder their retirement plans, trying to raise their siblings, while a brash mayoral candidate is calling for development and "progress"
DESERT SOLITAIRE, widely considered to be one of Abbey's best books, is the account of two summers he spent in the canyon lands of southeastern Utah. First published in 1968, the book has acquired a huge following over the years, and stands as one of the author's most impassioned pleas for the prese ...
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In the tradition of Jack London, Gary Paulsen presents an unforgettable account of his participation in the 1,100-mile-long dogsled race called the "Iditarod". For 17 days, Paulsen and his team of dogs endured blinding wind, snowstorms, moose attacks, and more--yet relentlessly pushed on to the end. ...
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Having inherited his father's considerable artistic talents but unable to find buyers for his traditional works in the face of his peers' contemporary creations, Chaz Wimont accepts a commission to restore an antique fresco in a European castle, a job that brings unexpected success and a sinister of ...
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In the tradition of James Herriot, Bailey White, and Garrison Keillor, author Jan Karon brilliantly captures the foibles and fortitude of an hilarious cast of characters. No matter where you listen to At Home in Mitford, you'll find yourself transported to a delightful, ordinary town where there is ...
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Marilynne Robinson's long-awaited second novel is named after the town in which it is set: Gilead, Iowa. The time is the 1950s, and John Ames, the town's beloved pastor, is dying of heart disease. Widowed early but recently remarried, John has a very young son. The novel is a final act of love: a le ...
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Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
Hemingway's well-documented fascination with big-game hunting is magnificently captured amidst rich descriptions of the beauty and strangeness of East Africa, where he and his wife, Pauline, journeyed in December of 1933. An impassioned portrait of the glory of the African landscape, this immediate ...
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One of the pilots who helped to carry out Doolittle's mission of bombing Tokyo in April 1942 furnishes details on the preparations and planning for the raid and describes the attack and its aftermath. Reprint.
Father Tim, lifelong bachelor, marries the vivacious Cynthia. She must cope with his dog, he with her son, and all of them with a cranky new computer. This book is part of Jan Karon's Mitford series, all of which take place in a town in the mountains of North Carolina.
Although they are sisters, princesses Addie and Meryl are very different. Addie is shy and fearful while her older sister Meryl is bold and daring. Ever since their mother was killed by the mysterious Gray Death (a plague that is still running rampant through their kingdom), the sisters have been be ...
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When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers were still p ...
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A mysterious series of paintings in a Hong Kong art museum, including one featuring a woman who bears a striking resemblance to her, draws photojournalist Jordan Glass into a painful search for the murderer of her twin sister, killed one year earlier, as she becomes embroiled in a deadly duel with t ...
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Max Morden is an aging art historian whose wife has recently died of cancer. In his grief, he takes a trip to the seaside, to the "rubble of the past," where he and his family spent holidays as a child. Here grief and memory coincide as he ponders not only his wife's death, but the drowning of two c ...
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In this memoir, initially published in 1954, the wife of a baptist minister explains how she and her husband adopted 12 children deemed undesirable by white, middle class society. Children from white, Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Mexican, and Native American backgrounds formed an unusual fam ...
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Persuaded to join a tour of Scotland, Jim Qwilleran finds his enjoyment of the trip threatened when a jewel thief swipes a suitcase, the bus driver vanishes, a fellow tourist is found dead, and Polly is tailed by the Pickax Prowler.
One of the "hundred most important books of the twentieth century" (New York Public Library), finally published in complete form.<BR>The story of Helen Keller, the young girl who triumphed over deafness and blindness, has been indelibly marked into our cultural consciousness. That triumph, shared wi ...
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In the late 1960s, the author spent nearly two years on the ward for teenage girls at McLean Hospital, a renowned psychiatric facility. Her memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perceptions, while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. "Searing . . . captures an exqu ...
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When the seemingly normal fourteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon is swept into an alternate dimension, he finds himself hailed as a savior in a place called Denduron, a territory in the throes of revolution against a magical tyrant. Original. 75,000 first printing.
<i>The Master</i> tells the story of Henry James, an American-born genius of the modern novel who becomes a connoisseur of exile, living among artists and aristocrats in Paris, Rome, Venice, and London. Colm Toibin captures the exquisite anguish of a man whose artistic gifts made his career a triump ...
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Springing from the depths of the Depression, the birth of the comic book superhero spawned a new genre that still resonates seventy years later, a journey chronicled in an in-depth look at the people and personalities behind the creations.
The greatest and most dramatic performances by pitchers are featured in an illustrated study that includes Nolan Ryan's seven no-hitters and three perfect games by New York Yankees Larsen, Wells, and Cone, among others, in a volume that is accompanied by a companion DVD.
In 1979, Michael Klein, an aspiring singer/songwriter living in New York City, was broke, friendless, and drinking too much. When his lover, Richard, left him to work on a race track, Klein followed, and so began his extraordinary five-year sojourn on tracks in Ohio, New York, Florida, and finally K ...
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