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High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never
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Barbara Kingsolver (Read by)
Meditative essays from novelist Barbara Kingsolver, on life in the desert, working motherhood, landlocked hermit crabs, and other subjects. A sample: "In my first three years of high school, the number of times I got asked out on a date was zero. This is not an approximate number."
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White Album
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Joan Didion
This collection of essays recounts what took place on the long morning after the 1960s, when everyone was coming down from their particular bad trip. Didion observes the dramas that explode as America goes into collective detox: the mother abandoning her five-year-old daughter on the central reservation of Interstate 5; Huey Newton and the Black ...
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The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
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Vivian Gornick
As Vivian Gornick puts it, "In every work of literature there's both a situation and a story. The situation is the context or circumstance, sometimes the plot; the story is the emotional experience that preoccupies the writer: the insight, the wisdom, the thing one has come to say." In addition to her own experience with the form, Gornick also ...
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Welcome to the Monkey House
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Kurt Vonnegut
WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE is a collection of Kurt Vonnueguts shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, what these superb stories share is Vonnegut's audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision.
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Keeping Up Appearances: Hyacinth Bucket's Book of Etiquette for the Socially Less Fortunate
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Roy Clarke, Jonathan Rice
Hyacinth Bucket - pronounced "Bouquet" - star of the BBC1 comedy series, "Keeping Up Appearances", imparts her personal views on protecting one's social standing. There are sections on etiquette in the home, entertaining, social obligations, how to strike up an acquaintance with members of the aristocracy, and improving the mind. They all give an ...
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Tender Buttons
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Gertrude Stein
First published in 1914, TENDER BUTTONS is considered by many to be one of the greatest works of experimental writing in this century. Divided into three sections--Objects, Food, and Rooms--the prose poems that make up the work are beautiful but notoriously obscure, more committed to grammatical and musical innovation than to conventional sense ...
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Old songs in a new cafe
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Robert James Waller
Nineteen essays, most of which originally appeared in the "Des Moines Register," including Waller's first published piece, "Riding Along in Safety with Kennedy and Keralt."
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Writings from the New Yorker: 1927-1976
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E B White
Beautifully written, full of vitality, humor, love of life, and the free spirit, these short pieces and essays are classics to be read, savored, and read again. Here, in matchless style, E.B. White writes about everything from cicadaas to Khrushchev.
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What Are People For?
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Wendell Berry
This is a collection of essays which span most of the author's writing career exploring such issues as waste, economy and pleasure, the responsibility of a writer, racism and stewardship of the Earth.
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Thurber on Crime
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James Thurber, Robert Lopresti
James Thurber, American humourist, was not a man to shrink from danger - as long as he was safely ensconced behind his typewriter or drawing board. This is a collection of his ruminations on everyday villainy: stories, articles, essays, drawings and reflections on the evil that men and women do.
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United States: Essays 1952-1992
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Gore Vidal
An omnibus collection of writings--critical, political, and personal--from one of the most venerable figures in American letters. Vidal tackles such subjects as the Kennedys, Tennessee Williams, Americans and sex, and the fiction of France. This volume won the National Book Award in 1993.
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Paperweight
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Stephen Fry
A hilarious collection of the many articles written by Stephen Fry for magazines, newspapers and radio. It includes selected wireless essays of Donald Trefusis, the ageing professor of philology brought to life in Fry's novel "The Liar", and the best of Fry's weekly column for the Daily Telegraph.
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My World & Welcome to It
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James Thurber
A collection of 30 stories, essays and musings, first published in 1942, by the distinguished American humorist, James Thurber. Complete with his familiar bizarre drawings, the collection offers glimpses of the world Thurber evoked with his dry humour.
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Gumpisms: The Wit and Wisdom of Forrest Gump
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Winston Groom
America's most endearing new hero will win smiles and hearts everywhere this July--in the eagerly anticipated Paramount motion picture Forrest Gump, starring Tom Hanks, and the accompanying novel. Now, straight from the movie and book comes Gumpisms, a treasure trove of wit and wisdom from the world according to Gump.
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How to live with a neurotic dog
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Stephen Baker
This hilarious, tongue-in-cheek, self-help parody is a "musthave" for dog owners who are baffled by their dog's quirky habits and questionable conduct. Whether Fido compulsively chews up old blankets, obsessively licks the hardwood floor, or barks uncontrollably at an empty corner, bestselling humor author Stephen Baker offers "expert" advice on ...
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Advertisements for Myself
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Norman Mailer
A collection of stories, essays, newspaper pieces, notes, and part of a play.
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Getting in touch with your inner bitch
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Elizabeth Hilts
This is assertiveness training with a twist - how to avoid "toxic niceness" and stick up for yourself. Chapters are filled with cartoons, anecdotes and quotes ranging from the hysterical to the poignant.
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Getting Even
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Woody Allen (Read by)
In this book Woody Allen revenges himself upon such significant subjects as death, obesity, organized crime, the invention of the sandwich, adult education, laundry lists of famous people, and Latin American revolutionaries.
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1066 and all that : a memorable history of England,comprising all the parts you can remember,including 103 good things,5 bad things,and 2 genuine dates
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W. C. Sellar, Robert Julian Yeatman
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Unpopular Essays
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Bertrand Russell, Earl
A classic collection of Bertrand Russell's more controversial works, reaffirming his staunch liberal values, "Unpopular Essays" is one of Russell's most characteristic and self-revealing books. Written to 'combat! the growth in Dogmatism', on first publication in 1950 it met with critical acclaim and a wide readership and has since become one of ...
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Cats in May
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Doreen Tovey
Tovey's warm and hilarious tales about the engaging antics of her Siamese cats are charmingly illustrated in this new edition.
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Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies
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Robertson Davies
As a novelist, playwright, editor, educator, and critic, Robertson Davies has made a substantial contribution to the cultural life of his native Canada. This is a collection of his journalistic work.
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Civil to Strangers
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Barbara Pym
This short novel and four stories were all written in the 1930's, when Pym was in her 20's. CIVIL TO STRANGERS takes place in Up Callow, a quiet Shropshire village. The townspeople--and one married couple in particular--are drastically changed when a glamorous Hungarian named Stefan Tilos arrives on the scene.
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Cats in the belfry
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Doreen Tovey
Rediscover this lovable classic in a delightful new illustrated edition of these warm and witty cat tales, first published over forty years ago. Animal lovers Doreen Tovey and her husband Charles acquire their first Siamese kitten to rid themselves of an invasion of mice, although they worry about the cat attacking the birds. But Sugieh is not ...
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Visiting Mrs.Nabokov and Other Excursions
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Martin Amis
An anthology of sharp-witted personal essays on topics including the 1992 Republican Convention, Graham Greene, and Madonna.
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