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Adam Snell, English Professor at the University of Washagon, has disappeared, and somebody is trying to destroy the extant copies of his book.
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The Best American Short Stories 1994
Editors Tobias Wolff and Katrina Kenison selected twenty-one stories for this volume of the well-known series.
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Best New American Voices 2000
Culled from over one hundred prestigious writing programs around the United States and Canada, Best New American Voices 2000 offers a remarkable panoply of writing...
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Defining vulgarity as any action that is at once ignorant, popular and harmful, American Vulgar runs the gamut of American culture from Fast Foods to NPR, exploring...
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A blockbuster adventure tale in the tradition of Rabelais, Cervantes and Swift.
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Back in America
Barry Gifford’s spare eloquence considers such diverse topics as his friend Allen Ginsberg’s death, the art of Vermeer, a cowboy wino, and September 11th in this...
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Marked by maturity and poetic vision, Harmless Medicine is fiercely devoted to the margins of queer life in the generation after the first wave of the AIDS epidemic...
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This literary thriller concerns Lena Dawson, a fingerprint analyst who is trying to get to the bottom of a series of mysterious infant deaths. Along the way, Lena...
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Why Are We in Vietnam?
When Why Are We in Vietnam? was published in 1967, almost twenty years after The Naked and the Dead, the critical response was ecstatic. The novel fully confirmed...
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Sebastian finds himself a part of a clandestine technological experiment, but manages to escape. Will he and his new friends escape the wrath of his mysterious...
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Is any superhero cooler than Batman? He's a crime-fighting vigilante with a tragic past, a lawless attitude, and a seemingly endless supply of high-tech gadgetry...
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Billy Wilder's work remains a masterful combination of incisive social commentary, skilled writing and directing, and unashamed entertainment value. One of...
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From Booklist Gr. 7-up. About the only thing left to do with the story of Batman's origins seems to be to set it to music, Beverly Hillbillies style ("Lemme tell ya...
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Profiles the careers of top rock groups and performers from 1955 to 1980.
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This volume features the continuing struggle of T.H.U.N.D.E.R. vs. the Warlords; Noman facing Demo's caveman-like minions; Dynamo battling an android double;...
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Set during the French Revolution, The Vampire’s Angel traces the lives of three characters: a Parisian priest (Xavier), his noble sister (Catherine), and a...
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Lady of the Light is a continuation of the saga begun in The Light Bearer. Seven years have passed. Auriane's life has been an idyll by a river; she he lives in...
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  Yesterday's regret; today's deadly fix.  Impulsive acts during emotional upheavels from the past return to haunt, ending in the death of a photo-...
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One Shot Too Many, Appalachian Adventure Mystery
  Yesterday's regret; today's deadly fix.  Impulsive acts during emotional upheavels from the past return to haunt, ending in the death of a photo-...
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