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  Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking: A Novel

  by Aoibheann Sweeney

  An arresting new literary talent addresses the journey of light years-or is it a hop-from an island in Maine to the island of Manhattan Miranda's father has always seemed to her as obscure and elusive as the thick New England fog that surrounds their isolated island home. When she was three years old, her parents moved from Manhattan to tiny Crab Island off the coast of Maine so he could work on his... (more)
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  Love Story

  by Erich Segal

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  In the Lake of the Woods

  by Tim O'Brien

  First published to critical acclaim by Houghton Mifflin, Tim O’Brien’s celebrated classic In the Lake of the Woods now returns to the house in a gorgeous new Mariner paperback edition. This riveting novel of love and mystery from the author of The Things They Carried examines the lasting impact of the twentieth century’s legacy of violence and warfare, both at home and abroad. When long-hidden secrets about the... (more)
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  Tomcat in Love

  by Tim O'Brien

  A wildly funny, brilliantly inventive novel about a man torn between two obsessions: the desperate need to win back his former wife and a craving to test his erotic charms on every woman he meets. He is 6'6" tall, a cross between Ichabod Crane and Abe Lincoln. He is a professor of linguistics, bewitched by language, deluded about his ability to win the hearts of women with his erudition and physical appeal. He is... (more)
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  The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers (Vintage)

  by John Gardner

  "John Gardner was famous for his generosity to young writers, and (this book) is his . . . gift to them. The Art of Fiction will fascinate anyone interested in how fiction gets put together. For the young writer, it will become a necessary handbook, a stern judge, an encouraging friend."--The New York Times Book Review.
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  On Moral Fiction (Basic Books Classics)

  by John Gardner

  A genuine classic of literary criticism, On Moral Fiction argues that "true art is by its nature moral."