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Krik_ Krak! - Edwidge Danticat
From Publishers WeeklyDanticat's collection of stories detailing daily life under dictatorship in Haiti was a finalist for the National Book Award. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Inf... -
Killers - The Most Barbaric Mur - Nigel Cawthorne
‘On 24 February 1994, the police turned up at 25 Cromwell Street, an ordinary three-story house in central Gloucester, with a warrant to dig up the back garden. The door was answer... -
Keith Haring Journals - Keith Haring; Robert Farris Tho
SUMMARY: During his lifetime, Keith Haring's spontaneous, archetypal creations won both a street audience and the respect of the art establishment. Kept from his teens until his de... -
Kafka Was the Rage_ A Greenwich - Anatole Broyard
From Kirkus ReviewsBrilliant, funny, penetrating observations on life and culture in N.Y.C. after WW II from critic Broyard, who died of cancer in 1990 (Intoxicated by My Illness, ... -
Junk - Melvin Burgess; Julia Eccleshar
From WikipediaJunk (released as Smack in America) is a 1996 Carnegie Medal- and Guardian Award-winning novel by Melvin Burgess. The book is about the experiences of a group of teen... -
Johannes Brahms - Jan Swafford
An illuminating new biography of one of the most beloved of all composers, published on the hundredth anniversary of his death, brilliantly written by a finalist for the 1996 Natio... -
Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He ... -
Interesting Times_ A Twentieth- - Eric J. Hobsbawm
Eric Hobsbawm is considered by many to be our greatest living historian. Robert Heilbroner, writing about Hobsbawm's The Age of Extremes 1914-1991 said, "I know of no other account... -
Illywhacker_ A Novel - Peter Carey
From Publishers WeeklyFirst published in 1985, this picaresque tale from Australian novelist Carey presents the life story of a highly unreliable 139-year-old con man. Copyright 19... -
How to write Science fiction an - Orson Scott Card
(1990-First Edition) SUMMARY: Orson Scott Card shares his advice on how to break into this field, how to develop fantastic story ideas, and evolve fresh plots.