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The box garden - Carol Shields
SUMMARY: Charleen, a divorced woman attending her widowed mother's second wedding, makes startling discoveries about other family members attending the reunion and achieves a new u... -
The best early stories of F. Sc - Francis Scott Fitzgerald; Bryan
SUMMARY: Edited and with an Introduction by Bryant MangumForeword by Roxana RobinsonBenediction • Head and Shoulders • Bernice Bobs Her Hair • The Ice Palace • The Offshore Pirate ... -
The art of fiction_ a guide for - Ayn Rand; Tore Boeckmann
EDITORIAL REVIEW: A newly published resource taken from a famous lecture course given by Ayn RandIn 1958, Ayn Rand, already the world-famous author of such bestselling books as *At... -
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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 Yankee Years - Joe Torre; Tom Verducci
SUMMARY: The definitive story of one of the greatest dynasties in baseball history, Joe Torre's New York Yankees. When Joe Torre took over as manager of the Yankees in 1996, they h... -
The Wrong Man - John Katzenbach
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Bestseller Katzenbach (_The Traveler_) manages the impressive feat of taking a thriller cliché and using it as the basis for a powerful and c.... -
The World Without Us - Alan Weisman
EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Time* #1 Nonfiction Book of 2007 *Entertainment Weekly* #1 Nonfiction Book of 2007 Finalist for the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award *Salon* Book Awards 2... -
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - Lyman Frank Baum
Dorothy is a young girl who lives on a Kansas farm with her Uncle Henry, Aunt Em, and little dog Toto. One day the farmhouse, with Dorothy inside, is caught up in a tornado and dep... -
The Woman in the Dunes - Kobo Abe
One of the premier Japanese novels of the twentieth century, The Women in the Dunes combines the essence of myth, suspense, and the existential novel. In a remote seaside village, ...