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Sam: They were with us before Romeo & Juliet. And long after too. Because they’re forever around. Or so both claim, carolling gleefully: We’re allways sixteen. Sam & Hailey, powered by an ever-rotating fleet of cars, from Model T to Lincoln Continental, career from the Civil War to the Cold War, barrelling down through the Appalachians, up the Mississippi River, across the Badlands, finally cutting a... (more)

Making Shapely Fiction

by Jerome Stern

A deft analysis and appreciation of fiction--what makes it work and what can make it fail. Here is a book about the craft of writing fiction that is thoroughly useful from the first to the last page--whether the reader is a beginner, a seasoned writer, or a teacher of writing. Jerome Stern maintains that learning to write spontaneously is the first step to writing well. You will see how a work takes form and shape... (more)

Wrong Information Is Being Given Out at Princeton: The Chronicle of One of the Strangest Stories Ever to Be Rumoured About Around New York

Wrong Information Is Being Given Out at Princeton: The Chronicle of One of the Strangest Stories Ever to Be Rumoured About Around New York

by J. P. Donleavy

Alfonso Stephen O'Kelly'O known as Stephen, son of rumoured former bootleggers, ex-naval gunner, unemployed compuser, student of dairy cattle in Wisconsin and of music in Italy, has little to recommend him as a marriage prospect but his tender heart, his chivalry, and his comprehensive knowledge of the great city of New York. So when the exquisitely pneumatic and extraordinarily wealthy Sylvia Triumphington,... (more)

The Sexual Life of Catherine M.

by Catherine Millet

Since it was first published in France, The Sexual Life of Catherine M. has become a bestseller all around the world and has been hailed as one of the most important books on sexuality to be published in decades. Since her youth, Catherine Millet, the eminent editor of Art Press, has led an extraordinarily active and free sexual life—from al fresco encounters in Italy to a gang bang on the edge of the Bois... (more)

Poems.

by William Carlos Williams

1. Adam Against The Sky Apology Arrival At The Ball Game At The Faucet Of June The Attic Which Is Desire Autumn The Banner Bearer The Bare Tree A Bastard Peace The Bitter World Of Spring Blueflags Book 2 The Botticellian Trees Burning The Christmas Greens The Catholic Bells Classic Scene The Cod Head The Complete Collected Poems 1906-1938 (1938): The Sun The Crimson... (more)

Poems.

by John Ashbery

Self-Portrait won a Pulizer Prize, National Book Award, and National Book Critics Circle Award, but Ashbery remains famously abstruse. "Something important is going on here," says LJ reviewer Graham Christian, "and on the chance that we figure it out, Selected Poems is worth having." Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, Or, Six Good Reasons to Stay Homeand Bolt the Door

Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, Or, Six Good Reasons to Stay Homeand Bolt the Door

by Lynn Truss

Sticklers, unite! In the spirit of her three-million-copies sold, #1 New York Times bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves , the queen of zero tolerance takes on the sorry state of modern manners. "Talk to the hand, 'cause the face ain't listening," the saying goes. When did the world stop wanting to hear? When did society stop valuing basic courtesy and respect? It's a topic that has been simmering for... (more)

Wicked : sexy tales of legendary lovers

Fantasy encounters with Sigmund Freud, Joan Collins, Warren Beatty, Rudolph Valentino, Chairman Mao, Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald, and God (among others)... What made Lincoln’s hat stand up? Did Chairman Mao keep a Little Black Book? "Seduction" follows Warren Beatty on his tireless erotic journey, with characters like Joan Collins and Joyce Carol Oates chiming in on his legendary prowess. In "The Ballad of... (more)

The Time Traveler's Wife

by Audrey Niffenegger

A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, and it is Audrey Niffenegger's... (more)

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

In the world of the near future, who will control women's bodies? Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births,... (more)

Middlesex: A Novel

by Jeffrey Eugenides

A dazzling triumph from the bestselling author of The Virgin Suicides --the astonishing tale of a gene that passes down through three generations of a Greek-American family and flowers in the body of a teenage girl. In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry blond clasmate with a gift for acting. The passion that... (more)

In the Skin of a Lion

by Michael Ondaatje

Bristling with intelligence and shimmering with romance, this novel tests the boundary between history and myth. Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and earns his living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling beneath Lake Ontario. In the course of his adventures, Patrick's life intersects with those of characters who reappear in Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning The English Patient. 256 pp.

The Jane Austen Book Club: A Novel

by Karen Joy Fowler

The Extraordinary New York Times Bestseller In California’s central valley, five women and one man join to discuss Jane Austen’s novels. Over the six months they get together, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable, and love happens. With her eye for the frailties of human behavior and her ear for the absurdities of social intercourse, Karen Joy Fowler has... (more)

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential writers of the nineteenth century. THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: A concise introduction that gives readers important background information A chronology of the author's life and work A timeline of significant events that... (more)

Mirror Mirror: A Novel

by Gregory Maguire

The year is 1502, and seven-year-old Bianca de Nevada lives perched high above the rolling hills and valleys of Tuscany and Umbria at Montefiore, the farm of her beloved father, Don Vicente. But one day a noble entourage makes its way up the winding slopes to the farm -- and the world comes to Montefiore. In the presence of Cesare Borgia and his sister, the lovely and vain Lucrezia -- decadent children of a... (more)

Paris to the Moon

by Adam Gopnik

Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafés, breathtaking façades around every corner--in short, an exquisite romanticism that has captured the American imagination for as long as there have been Americans. In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife, and their infant son left the familiar comforts and hassles of New York City for the urbane glamour of the City of Light. Gopnik is a... (more)

Disgrace

by J. M. Coetzee

Disgrace --set in post--apartheid Cape Town and on a remote farm in the Eastern Cape--is deft, lean, quiet, and brutal. A heartbreaking novel about a man and his daughter, Disgrace is a portrait of the new South Africa that is ultimately about grace and love. At fifty--two Professor David Lurie is divorced, filled with desire but lacking passion. An affair with one of his students leaves him jobless and... (more)

Outlander: Book 1

Outlander

by Diana Gabaldon

Claire Randall is leading a double life. She has a husband in one century, and a lover in another... In 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon--when she innocently touches a boulder in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach--an "outlander"--in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border... (more)

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Only Revolutions: A Novel

by Mark Z. Danielewski

Making Shapely Fiction

by Jerome Stern

Wrong Information Is Being Given Out at Princeton: The Chronicle of One of the Strangest Stories Ever to Be Rumoured About Around New York

by J. P. Donleavy

The Sexual Life of Catherine M.

by Catherine Millet

Poems.

by William Carlos Williams

Poems.

by John Ashbery

Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, Or, Six Good Reasons to Stay Homeand Bolt the Door

by Lynn Truss

Wicked : sexy tales of legendary lovers

The Time Traveler's Wife

by Audrey Niffenegger

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

Middlesex: A Novel

by Jeffrey Eugenides

In the Skin of a Lion

by Michael Ondaatje

The Jane Austen Book Club: A Novel

by Karen Joy Fowler

Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

Mirror Mirror: A Novel

by Gregory Maguire

Paris to the Moon

by Adam Gopnik

Disgrace

by J. M. Coetzee

Outlander

by Diana Gabaldon