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Callow's biography of Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) stresses the brevity of Stevenson's life and the immense amount of travel he managed to pack into it. He also discusses Stevenson in relation to other tubercular writers, such as Chekhov and D.H. Lawrence. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. AUTHOR: Philip Callow
PUBLISHER: Dee, Ivan R. Publisher
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction 
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 | 20,000 Leagues under the Sea by Jeff Ham, Jerry Stemach, Jules Verne, Malvina Vogel, Malvina G. Vogel
A ship-sinking monster confounds American boats until they discover that the creature is actually a submarine powered by the nefarious Captain Nemo (Nemo is Latin for nobody), a swashbuckling villain with grandiose ideas and deadly intentions. Probably the most famous of the novels in Verne's Voyages Extrordinaires series. AUTHOR: Jeff Ham, Jerry Stemach, Jules Verne, Malvina Vogel, Malvina G. Vogel
PUBLISHER: N A L
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Wish You Well
When evil businessmen come around, looking to exploit the land for profit, high-speed car chases and a dramatic courtroom climax result.
Set in the 1940s, WISH YOU WELL tells the story of 12-year-old Louisa May Cardinal's coming of age. Born and raised in the Big Apple, Louisa is sent to live with her grandmother in the Appalachians after her father is killed in a car accident. The Virginia mountain folk teach Louisa rustic values, but Baldacci throws some trademark elements of action and suspense into his homespun tale. When evil businessmen come around, looking to exploit the land for profit, high-speed car chases and a dramatic courtroom climax result.
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | A Man in Full
At last, Tom Wolfe delivers his first novel since the incredible The Bonfire of the Vanities -- and he doesn't disappoint. With landmark praise from virtually every major media outlet, and incredible hardcover sales, A Man In Full is a stunning literary achievement -- and truly the paperback publishing event of the year.
PUBLISHER: Bantam Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Novellas & Other Writings by Cynthia G. Wolff, Edith Wharton
The second Edith Wharton volume in The Library of America series contains five tales of Edith Wharton along with her autobiography and a previously unpublished autobiographical fragment. AUTHOR: Cynthia G. Wolff, Edith Wharton
PUBLISHER: Library of America, The
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Elmer Gantry by Flo Gibson, Sinclair Lewis
Elmer Gantry, the hero of Sinclair Lewis's satire of fundamentalist religion, is not unlike today's corrupt and greedy TV evangelists. A charlatan and womanizer, Gantry begins as a Baptist, and rises to become the head of a Methodist church. Lewis's novel, which scandalized the churchgoing public when it was published in 1927, reveals the hypocrisy he found in organized religion. AUTHOR: Flo Gibson, Sinclair Lewis
PUBLISHER: N A L
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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