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The romantic manifesto_ a philo - Ayn Rand
Review''Bernadette Dunne is a good match for Rand's voice, delivering the novelist's passionate convictions with a metered cadence. Dunne's clear conveyance of Rand's essays is imp... -
The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Many will greet this taut, clear-eyed memoir of grief as a long-awaited return to the terrain of Didion's venerated, increasingly rare persona... -
The Voice of Reason_ Essays in - Ayn Rand; Leonard Peikoff; Pete
SUMMARY: Here is the final collection of articles and speeches by the bestselling and world-renowned novelist, essayist, and philosopher. -
The Myth of Mental Illness - Thomas S. Szasz
50th Anniversary Edition With a New Preface and Two Bonus EssaysThe most influential critique of psychiatry ever written, Thomas Szasz's classic book revolutionized thinking about ... -
The Man Who Ate the 747 - Ben Sherwood
EDITORIAL REVIEW: J.J. Smith is an official keeper of world records. Wherever he goes, would-be record holders vie for his attention. But J.J.'s boss says his records are dull. Eit... -
The Frailty of Flesh - Sandra Ruttan
SUMMARY: When a young boy is found murdered in a park, the boys brother says that his sister was the murdererbut shes nowhere to be found. Constables Hart and Tain find evidence th... -
The Essays of Montaigne -- Comp - Michel de Montaigne
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The Authentic Life of Billy the - Pat F. Garrett; Fredrick Nolan
More than twelve decades after Billy the Kid's death in 1881, books, movies, and essays about this western outlaw are still popular. And they all go back to one source: The Auth... -
Step Across This Line_ Collecte - Salman Rushdie
From Publishers WeeklyRoughly one-fourth of these essays deals with the response of the media, various governments and Rushdie himself to what he calls the "unfunny Valentine" he r... -
Star Wars_ Death Star - Michael Reaves; Steve Perry
The untold story of the ultimate weapon—created to annihilate worlds...and enslave a galaxy! The Death Star's name says it all, with bone-chillin...