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Plainsong (hardback US edition)
In a future not very far from now, poet Julia Reynard believes herself the only survivor of a global plague. Pregnant and isolated in the English countryside, she's...
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Advice for Aspiring Writers The Author Enablers are here to answer your questions about writing and publishing. Together, Kathi and Sam have more than 25 years of...
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Advice for Aspiring Writers The Author Enablers are here to answer your questions about writing and publishing. Together, Kathi and Sam have more than 25 years of...
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Edited by Susan Davis and Gina Hyams   About the Anthology With wit, sensitivity, and unflinching honesty, Searching for Mary Poppins brings together twenty-...
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The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley
Hailed as the Thomas Edison and Henry Ford of Silicon Valley, Robert Noyce was a brilliant inventor, a leading entrepreneur, and a daring risk taker who piloted his...
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Descendants
Hemmings's bittersweet debut novel, an expansion of her first published short story ("The Minor Wars," from House of Thieves and originally published in...
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Talking with Mother Earth/ Hablando con Madre Tierra
Tetl’s skin is brown, his eyes are black, and his hair is long. He’s different from the other children, whose taunts wound him deeply, leaving him confused and...
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Zipitio
El Zipitio is older than the rocks, even older than the river. He wears a tall black hat and has a round shiny stomach and long pointy nails. He hides down by the...
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Trees Are Hanging From the Sky
Trees are hanging from the sky, their roots are snakes, or sometimes rivers, their leaves are fish. Are those roots entwined in clouds or stars? Our hero's mother...
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The Granny Diaries
How to get along with that bristly person (your daughter) who stands between you and your grandkids   The Granny Diaries -- This delightful guide gives new...
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This splendid volume of short fiction testifies to Margaret Atwood's startlingly original voice, full of a rare intensity and exceptional intelligence. ...
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Collected here, the Massey Lectures from legendary novelist Margaret Atwood investigate the highly topical subject of debt. She doesn’t talk about high finance or...
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What do we mean when we say that someone is a writer? Is he or she an entertainer? A high priest of the god Art? An improver of readers’ minds and morals? And who...
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The internationally celebrated author of more than twenty-five books of fiction, poetry, essays, and criticism, Margaret Atwood is one of Canada's most esteemed...
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RCMP Corporal Holly Martin has taken her first post, a small detachment in Fossil Bay on Vancouver Island. On her first day, a scuba diver finds the body of a girl...
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Summer on Vancouver Island gets off to a rough start when the body of a homeless man is found in the bush. RCMP Corporal Holly Martin finds drug paraphernalia at...
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When first published in 1972, Survival was considered the most startling book ever written about Canadian literature. Since then, it has continued to be read and...
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These beautifully crafted poems - by turns dark, playful, intensely moving, tender, and intimate - make up Margaret Atwood's most accomplished and versatile...
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Celebrated as a major novelist throughout the English-speaking world, Atwood has also written eleven volumes of poetry. Houghton Mifflin is proud to have published...
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Margaret Atwood's Power Politics first appeared in 1971, startling its audience with its vital dance of woman and man. Thirty years later it still startles, and is...
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