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"Eight-year-old Edgar Fini remembers nothing of the accident people still whisper about. He only knows that his father is gone, his mother has a limp, and his grandmother believes in ghosts. When Edgar meets a man with his own tragic story, the boy begins a journey into a secret wilderness where nothing is clear: not even the line between the living and the dead. In order to save her son, Lucy has no choice but to confront the demons of her past."--Amazon.com....
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Quirk Books
Pub. Date:
[2017]
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English
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Funny and totally true childhood biographies and full-color illustrations tell the tales from the challenging yet defining growing-up years of J. K. Rowling, Beverly Cleary, J. R. R. Tolkien, and 12 other great writers.
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"This work views in depth both American literature and character from the time of the American Revolution to the present. From it, there emerges Fiedler's once scandalous - now increasingly accepted - judgment that our literature is incapable of dealing with adult sexuality and is pathologically obsessed with death."--Jacket.
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
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"Abortion Stories is the first volume of its kind to bring together a diverse collection of writings on abortion published before 1973, when Roe v. Wade legalized abortion in every American state. These stories, poems, essays, and memoirs reflect a rangeof representations and responses to abortion during this era, but when read together, they demonstrate how when abortion is illegal, women's lives are always more precarious and limited. In this volume,...
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Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Pub. Date:
2012
Language:
English
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"A staggering thirty-eight-course banquet of literary mania and mayhem, served up by some of the most amazingly astute, deeply disturbing, immensely entertaining chroniclers of crazy ever to grace the printed page"--P. [4] of cover.
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North Light Books
Pub. Date:
[2014]
Language:
English
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"Truth. Beauty. Experience. Emotion. The artists included in Art journey : portraits and figures say that they have discovered all of these things and more through their work. Sometimes it's in the eyes. Or perhaps it's in the hint of an expression that seems to beckon one closer, begging to share a secret. Maybe it's in the tilt of a chin. Or the posture or stance of one's subject. But in a well executed portrait or figure? Something special, something...