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Sleeping at the Starlite Motel: and Other Adventures on the Way Back Home (Vintage)
This is a collection of 37 short vignettes of strange and charming characters encountered by Bailey White on travels ranging from the Florida Everglades to northern Vermont. White is the author of "Mama Makes Up Her Mind" as well as a first-grade teacher and NPR commentator.
This is a collection of 37 short vignettes of strange and charming characters encountered by Bailey White on travels ranging from the Florida Everglades to northern Vermont. White is the author of "Mama Makes Up Her Mind" as well as a first-grade teacher and NPR commentator.
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I Was Amelia Earhart (Vintage Contemporaries)
A fictional account of Amelia Earhart's disappearance, as told by the aviatrix herself. She details her love of flying, her aspirations as a child, her relationship with her husband G. P. Putnam, as well as with Fred Noonan, her navigator, and the notorious disappearance itself.
A fictional account of Amelia Earhart's disappearance, as told by the aviatrix herself. She details her love of flying, her aspirations as a child, her relationship with her husband G. P. Putnam, as well as with Fred Noonan, her navigator, and the notorious disappearance itself.
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The Collected Stories of John O'Hara
John O'Hara was as acclaimed for his grimly realistic short stories as he was for his novels. Set mainly in the Pennsylvania coal country where he grew up, his stories--and his fiction in general--were about striving, upwardly mobile characters and are invaluable slices of 20th-century social history.
John O'Hara was as acclaimed for his grimly realistic short stories as he was for his novels. Set mainly in the Pennsylvania coal country where he grew up, his stories--and his fiction in general--were about striving, upwardly mobile characters and are invaluable slices of 20th-century social history.
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The Shape of Snakes (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
After 20 years abroad, Mrs. Ranelagh returns to England intent on securing justice for "Mad Annie," a local woman who, Ranelagh is convinced, was murdered by someone who felt that the Tourettes-afflicted Annie was a distasteful nuisance. When she voiced her suspicions 20 years before, nobody believed Mrs. Ranelagh. But this time, she vows, it's going to be different.
After 20 years abroad, Mrs. Ranelagh returns to England intent on securing justice for "Mad Annie," a local woman who, Ranelagh is convinced, was murdered by someone who felt that the Tourettes-afflicted Annie was a distasteful nuisance. When she voiced her suspicions 20 years before, nobody believed Mrs. Ranelagh. But this time, she vows, it's going to be different.
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St. Mawr & The Man Who Died
ST. MAWR, a short novel from 1925, tells the story of a young woman's devotion to a horse whom she considers superior to the men in her life. THE MAN WHO DIED (1929) is an unorthodox retelling of the life of Christ in which, after his resurrection, he impregnates a priestess of Isis.
ST. MAWR, a short novel from 1925, tells the story of a young woman's devotion to a horse whom she considers superior to the men in her life. THE MAN WHO DIED (1929) is an unorthodox retelling of the life of Christ in which, after his resurrection, he impregnates a priestess of Isis.
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End in Tears (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
The 20th mystery in Ruth Rendell's Chief Inspector Wexford series focuses on the relationship between parent and child, and the odd iterations of modern family life. When an 18-year-old mother is brutally murdered and her pregnant friend is soon found dead as well, Inspector Wexford is on the case, delving for the first time into the world of unwed motherhood, single-parent childrearing, and a sinister business enterprise that quite literally sells babies for profit.
The 20th mystery in Ruth Rendell's Chief Inspector Wexford series focuses on the relationship between parent and child, and the odd iterations of modern family life. When an 18-year-old mother is brutally murdered and her pregnant friend is soon found dead as well, Inspector Wexford is on the case, delving for the first time into the world of unwed motherhood, single-parent childrearing, and a sinister business enterprise that quite literally sells babies for profit.
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Light Action in the Caribbean: Stories
Lopez's characters confront mystery--in the shape of secret letters, chance encounters, wild animals--and their lives are spiritually altered by the subtle consequences. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001.
Lopez's characters confront mystery--in the shape of secret letters, chance encounters, wild animals--and their lives are spiritually altered by the subtle consequences. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001.
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