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Literary General & Other

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Atlas Shrugged

By Rand, Ayn

The year 2005 marks Ayn Rand's Centennial Year. The astounding story of a man that said that he would stop the motor of the world-and did. Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in its suspense, Atlas Shrugged is unlike any other book you have ever read. "A writer of great power ...

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Deaf Sentence

By Lodge, David

The subject of enthusiastic and widespread reviews, David Lodge's fourteenth work of fiction displays the humor and shrewd observations that have made him a much-loved icon. Deaf Sentence tells the story of Desmond Bates, a recently retired linguistics professor in his mid-s ...

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A Gate at the Stairs

By Moore, Lorrie

Lorrie Moore is the author of the story collections Birds of America, Like Life, and Self-Help and the novels Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? and Anagrams. Her work has won honors from the Lannan Foundation a ...

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Ben, In the World

By Lessing, Doris

At eighteen, Ben is in the world, but not of it. He is too large, too awkward, too inhumanly made. Now estranged from his family, he must find his own path in life. From London and the south of France to Brazil and the mountains of the Andes. Ben is tossed about in a tumultu ...

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Chronic City

By Lethem, Jonathan

JONATHAN LeTHeM is the author of seven novels. A recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, Lethem has also published his stories and essays in The New Yorker, Harper's, Rolling Stone, esquire, and the New York Times ...

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Between the Assassinations

By Adiga, Aravind

Welcome to Kittur, India. It's on India's southwestern coast, bounded by the Arabian Sea to the west and the Kaliamma River to the south and east. It's blessed with rich soil and scenic beauty, and it's been around for centuries. Of its 193,432 residents, only 89 declare the ...

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Best Friends Forever: A Novel

By Weiner, Jennifer

Best Friends Forever: A Novel ...

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Area 51

By Doherty, Robert

When nine atmospheric crafts of unknown origin were discovered in the Antarctic in the late 1940s, the U.S. government established Area 51 to study the abandoned technology. Dr. Hans Von Seeckt, who is the only original member of the secret research committee, has observed t ...

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Bottom of the List

By Attridge, Steve

Paranoid recluse Adam Bittermouth's Roebuck University makes a fortune. But as a seat of learning it gets bottom marks when money-grubbing bean counters replace professors and students become craftily manipulated cash cows. From his opulent high-tech hermitage in a tower 5 ...

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After the Fire, a Still Small Voice

By Wyld, Evie

“Ravishingly atmospheric and wisely compassionate . . . There’s no doubt that Wyld is a writer of immense abilities and depth.
—Donna Seaman, Booklist

“At times startling, Wyld’s book is ru ...

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Tales of Judge Dee

By Di, Zhu Xiao

"Someday I'm going to teach these greedy people a lesson," said Judge Dee, a tall broad-shouldered man with a foot-long black beard and matching side-whiskers. The legendary figure comes back! He continues to solve baffling cases in 7th century China, but at a faster ...

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Sleep Before Evening

By Ball, Magdalena

Marianne is teetering at the edge of reason. A death in the family sends her brilliant academic career and promising future spiraling out of control until resentment towards those who shaped her past leads her on a wild and desperate search for the truth about herself. On ...

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The Martian Child

By Gerrold, David

In 1995, David Gerrold finalized an adoption process that would end up changing his life forever. As he would discover, however, there were many times ahead when the joy of single fatherhood would be tempered by a single profound thought: What the hell was I thinking? ...

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Salt

By Zuber, Isabel

In this beautifully crafted debut novel, poet Isabel Zuber deftly traces the joys and the sorrows of a passionate but troubled marriage in Appalachia at the turn of the last century.
Anna Stockton was a bright and imaginative child, reveling in a rare wild freedom in ...

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Going Home

By Scarinci, John

Going home on an easter Sunday, Andrew Lazar must confront his distant and embittered father, Jimmy Lazar, a one-time talented minor league baseball player and Vietnam vet whose foot was amputated during the war. Although he is now recuperating from a serious heart attack, J ...

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The Baby Book

By Sears, William

A young woman's impassioned pursuit of a sealed cache of T.S. eliot's letters lies at the heart of this emotionally charged novel. ...

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The Buffalo Soldier: A Novel

By Bohjalian, Chris A.

The Buffalo Soldier: A Novel ...

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Swift As Desire

By Esquivel, Laura

Swift As Desire ...

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Searching For UnMediated Truth

By Hoffmann, Gregg

Veteran reporter Garrett Hartmann considers journalism a calling and despises the fact that he has become part of a media industry manic on infotainment, commercialism, spin, and hype. He's also gone through a bitter divorce and lost his dearest friend and mentor.
So ...

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Vinyl Cafe Unplugged

By McLean, Stuart

Bestselling author and radio storytelling sensation Stuart McLean revisits the heartwarming and hilarious friends from his iconic Vinyl Cafe.
Dave and his wife Morley would no doubt tell you that life is what you make it. Unfortunately for them, that means a co ...

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Poetry General & Other

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Amazing Peace

By Angelou, Maya

Maya Angelou, poet, writer, performer, teacher, and director, was raised in Stamps, Arkansas, and then moved to San Francisco. In addition to her bestselling autobiographies, beginning with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, she has also written ...

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Bird Eating Bird

By Naca, Kristin

Bird eating Bird is a new collection of poems from Kristin Naca, winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series mtvU prize as chosen by Pulitzer Prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa. Playful and serious all at once, Kristin's work explores the richness of her cultural and linguistic her ...

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Dead End Road

By Wink, Richard

"Richard Wink writes in a clear, interesting, resounding voice that brings the reader into any scene he draws upon. Tightly written and thoroughly enjoyable, Richard Wink's new volume is not to be missed." Jack Henry: Poet and Host of Rob & Jack America "A consummate mast ...

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Ants on the Melon

By ADAIR, VIRGINIA

Already singled out by The New York Times and the subject of a feature in The New Yorker, Virginia Adair has, after decades of shunning book publication, decided to collect eighty of her best poems in a volume that will surely be hailed as among the most accomplished works o ...

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Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats

By Keats, John

Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats ...

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Anguished Echoes: Nuances of Conflict

By Nwachukwu, Christopher N.

In writing poetry- especially this collection- ANGUISHeD eCHOeS -I am influenced by the perception that man is caught in a struggle with his own fear, pain, losses , mischievous surprises of Fate combined with the inhuman machinations of his kind t ...

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Pacific

By Scott, R. Welvaert

Star-crossed lovers, David and Marti, set out to fulfill their dying wish: see the Pacific Ocean. They begin in Minnesota, where they meet at an AIDS clinic, and Pacific chronicles David and Marti's journey through the Black Hills, past Devil's Tower, and to Cannon Beach. Be ...

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My Father's Gloves

By Spiering, David

My Father's Gloves touches on that most conflicted of family bonds, the one between fathers and sons. With a hauntingly painful voice, Spiering explores the burdensome yoke of a father's expectations and the struggles a son must face as he grows into manhood. His poems are a ...

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Nakedness, Death, and the Number Zero

By Haxton, Brooks

The critically acclaimed poet and translator Brooks Haxton embraces life, from our naked beginnings to the first signs of middle age and beyond, in this inviting collection of poems. The book opens with the dramatic birth of twins, and speaks in the intimate voice of a husba ...

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She. . .

By Hall, LaVerne

LaVerne's poetry tells a story. It is colorful, compelling, has character. It will make you laugh and cry. It is soulful, sinful, sensational. It is profound and provocative. It is inspirational and insightful. It will make you recall, reflect, and reminisce familiar situat ...

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Eclectics II

By Shanks, Danny L

eclectics by definition from Webster's dictionary means to choose. Choosing what seems best from doctrines, works, and styles. eclectics II is a selection of different topics from life today in America. everything from Professional Sports, Retirement, Gambling, Firewo ...

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A Walk With God

By Hayden, Robert B

This book will empower you to face life's problems with joy and thanksgiving. Then you do have life and life more abundant. These poems are the lessons put into action from serving God and country.
Years ago Robert wrote, I though not a hero, am an American Veteran li ...

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Beauty Fades by Wretched Tidal Waves

By Saunders, Joseph

Observation Deck
Standing on this deck I look down and observe.
This deck is high above the lives of my friends
At times I feel higher than all human kind
I stand alone humbled in this crowd
As the crowd separates Between the entertainer ...

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My Journey through Life Expressed in Poetry

By Strelow, Fred O.

We planned a trip out west-but wondered how to go
Decided on a train ride-and proceeded to make it so
Made the reservations-we left early in the day
Traveled west across the nation-sightseeing along the way
The mountains and the valleys-the rivers winding ...

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Heights of the Marvelous

By Colby, Todd

There is so much happening in poetry in the United States right now that there is no way that a single anthology can encompass it all. The best one can do as an anthologist is to offer up a snapshot of what one sees as most interesting and hopefully the reader will be enl ...

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Apostrophe

By Kennedy, Bill / Wershler-Henry, Darren

In the tradition of the phonetic poems of Hugo Ball and the "readymades" of Dada, this exploration of the nature of verse straddles the line between form and nonsense, between intention and happy accident. An apostrophe is a poetic figure of speech in which a person, abstrac ...

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Animalessence

By Burrelli, Louise

Using the format of an alphabetical parade of animals, the author reveals how the poetic imagination links the worlds of humans and animals. In literature, animals have often served as metaphors for human conduct and emotions. The poems presented here follow in that traditio ...

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Twelve Poems and A Story for Christmas

By Philp, Geoffrey

The poems describe the journey of a newlywed couple, Mary and Joseph, to their ancestral homeland where they are to be registered in a census decreed by a tyrant. Mary is pregnant and Joseph knows that the child she is carrying is not his. As they travel through the harsh l ...

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Adrift

By Morrissey, Natalie

The death of a child is the greatest loss of all.
Losing one's child is a non-negotiable experience that can cast one adrift in uncharted waters in a boat without anchor or rudder. Initially, one's mind is kept busy attending to necessary arrangements-but within a few d ...

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A Gamut of Poems

By Tozzi, Vincent

Constant Forces Reign
Sadness and gladness
Are one and the same
Tears and laughter
Should have the same name
Opposite emotions
Which toy with the mind
Minus one
The other you'll not find
Bring on the tears
There's a laugh for ...

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Literary Criticism

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Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays

By Wallace, David Foster

Consider the Lobster: And Other essays ...

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The Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1900-2000

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The Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1900-2000 is a collection of the most influential writings on the theory of the novel from the twentieth century.
- Traces the rise of novel theory and the extension of its influence into other disciplines, ...
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Uses of Literature

By Felski, Rita
Uses of Literature bridges the gap between literary theory and common-sense beliefs about why we read literature.
- explores the diverse motives and mysteries of why we read
- Offers four different ways of thinking about why we read literature - fo ...
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Literary Feuds

By Arthur, Anthony

Some of our most illustrious writers have tried their best to sink their fellow authors, using all the weapons at their command--wit, humor, sarcasm, and invective. In these eight profiles of quarrels between famous scribes, the reader will find both wonderful literary gossi ...

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The Echo Maker

By Powers, Richard

On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, 27-year-old Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near-fatal accident. His older sister Karin, his only near kin, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a protr ...

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Writing in the Margins: The Ethics of Expatriation from Lawrence to Onda

By Papayanis, Marilyn Adler

Writing in the Margins: The ethics of expatriation from Lawrence to Ondaatje ...

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Ordinary Enchantments: Magical Realism and the Remystification of Narrat

By Faris, Wendy B.

Ordinary enchantments: Magical Realism and the Remystification of Narrative ...

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The Way We Argue Now: A Study in the Cultures of Theory

By Anderson, Amanda

How do the ways we argue represent a practical philosophy or a way of life? Are concepts of character and ethos pertinent to our understanding of academic debate? In this book, Amanda Anderson analyzes arguments in literary, cultural, and political theory, with special atten ...

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Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography

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Davis's perspective on the extraordinary cultural changes that occurred during her lifetime and of the remarkable--and sometimes scandalous--people who shaped the events. ...

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Herman Melville's Whaling Years

By Heflin, Wilson

Fascinating study of how Herman Melville's own whaling adventures influenced his writing, not only Moby Dick. ...

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CliffsNotes The Prelude

By Paul, M. a. Warren

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CliffsNotes Victory

By Lybyer, J. M.

"Baron Axel Heyst and his lover, Lena, a woman he saved from a sordid life, share an idyllic existence on the island of Samburan, until three intruders from Lena's past threaten to destroy their happiness. This concise supplement to Joseph Conrad's Victory helps students und ...

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CliffsNotes Volpone & The Alchemist

By McGlone, James P., Ph.D.

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CliffsNotes The Way of all Flesh

By Parsell, Roger E., Ph.D.

ernest Pontifex, protagonist in The Way of All Flesh, battles his father's iron will in a personal struggle to fully realize the potential of the self. While taking the position of an intellectual gadfly determined to attack the shams of society, Pontifex also assumes the de ...

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CliffsNotes A Passage to India

By Ostrander, Norma

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CliffsNotes Winesburg, Ohio: Including: Life

By Morris, Ann R., Ph.D.

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CliffsComplete The Scarlet Letter

By Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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CliffsNotes Adams the Education of Henry Adams

By Baldwin, Stanley P.

This concise supplement to Adams' The education of Henry Adams helps students understand the overall structure of the work, actions and motivations of the characters, and the social and cultural perspectives of the author. ...

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The Brontes and Education

By Thorm ßhlen, Marianne

All the seven Bront � novels are concerned with education in both senses, that of upbringing as well as that of learning. The Bront � sisters all worked as teachers before they became published novelists. In spite of the prevalence of education in the sisters' lives and fict ...

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CliffsComplete Alices Adventures in Wonderland

By Carroll, Lewis

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> Steinbeck, John

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Journal of a Novel

By Steinbeck, John

each working day from January 29 to November 1, 1951, John Steinbeck warmed up to the work of writing east of eden with a letter to the late Pascal Covici, his friend and editor at The Viking Press. It was his way, he said, of "getting my mental arm in shape to pitch a good...more ...

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> Adiga, Aravind

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The White Tiger: A Novel

By Adiga, Aravind

Introducing a major literary talent, The White Tiger offers a story of coruscating wit, blistering suspense, and questionable morality, told by the most volatile, captivating, and utterly inimitable narrator that this millennium has yet seen. Balram Halwai is a complicated...more ...

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> Morrison, Toni

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Sula

By Morrison, Toni

“extravagantly beautiful. . . . enormously, achingly alive. . . . A howl of love and rage, playful and funny as well as hard and bitter.” —The New York Times
“exemplary. . . . The essential mysteries of de...more ...

> Lessing, Doris

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Cleft, The

By Lessing, Doris

In the last years of his life, a contemplative Roman senator embarks on one last epic endeavor: to retell the history of human creation and reveal the little-known story of the Clefts, an ancient community of women living in an edenic coastal wilderness. The Clefts have...more ...

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> An Aurora Teagarden Mystery

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A Bone to Pick

By Harris, Charlaine

Death comes calling on a small-town librarian whose life is passing her by. Aurora "Roe" Teagarden's fortunes change when a deceased acquaintance names her as heir to a rather substantial estate, including money, jewelry, and a house complete with a skull hidden in a win...more ...

> Area 51

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Area 51

By Doherty, Robert

When nine atmospheric crafts of unknown origin were discovered in the Antarctic in the late 1940s, the U.S. government established Area 51 to study the abandoned technology. Dr. Hans Von Seeckt, who is the only original member of the secret research committee, has observed t...more ...

> Arsene Lupin

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Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Thief

By Leblanc, Maurice

The suave adventures of a gentleman rogue -- a French Thomas Crown Created by Maurice LeBlanc during the early twentieth century, Arsene Lupin is a witty confidence man and burglar, the Sherlock Holmes of crime. The poor and innocent have nothing to fear from him; o...more ...

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> A Burke Novel

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Blossom

By Vachss, Andrew H.

In this savagely convincing novel, Burke finds himself in a fading Indiana mill town, trying to clear a boy charged with a series of sexually motivated shootings. He's intent on finding the real sniper?an his unlikely ally is a beautiful woman named Blossom, who has her own...more ...


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Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition, The Review: This little ebook with nice almost fairy tale story contains eternal wisdom beneath the surface. Fear of failure is usually much worse than anything that could possibly ha ... more	CliffsNotes To Kill a Mockingbird Review: At times it can get slow, but I read this ebook download for school and we really got in depth about motifs and the meaning/messages ... more