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|  | City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Celebrating the 40th anniversary of City Lights' Pocket Poets Series, this collection is edited and introduced by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. AUTHOR: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
PUBLISHER: City Lights Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction 
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 | On the Road by Jack Kerouac, Tom Parker
Sal Paradise, a young writer, travels from New York to Los Angeles with his friend Dean Moriarty, and an assorted hodgepodge of women, bohemians, and others. Rich descriptions of characters, places and music show Kerouac`s exuberance and his love of the freedom of the road. Revolutionary not only in subject matter but also in style, this book (written in 1950) launched the Beat movement and crowned Jack Kerouac its king. Autobiographical, as are most of Kerouac`s books, ON THE ROAD involves characters who were Kerouac`s real-life friends and Beat cohorts: Neal Cassady, Gregory Corso, Allan Ginsberg, William Burroughs (here appearing, as in Burroughs`s own fiction, as the character Bill Lee). Publishing legend has it that Kerouac typed the manuscript frenziedly on large rolls of Teletype paper, not pausing for revision, and deposited these rolls on the desk of his startled editor. AUTHOR: Jack Kerouac, Tom Parker
PUBLISHER: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | John Steinbeck by Catherine Reef
This biography of writer John Steinbeck stresses the historical events--the Great Depression, the dust bowl, the plight of migrant workers, and World War II--that shaped his life and writing. Illustrated with b&w photographs. AUTHOR: Catherine Reef
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company Trade & Reference Division
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
Another autobiographical novel from Kerouac, THE DHARMA BUMS, encompasses the ideals of freedom set forth by Whitman and Thoreau, with Buddhism thrown in for good measure. Focusing on the friendship between Ray Smith (modelled on Kerouac) and Japhy Ryder (Gary Snyder), the Buddhist sub-theme is evoked in Smith and Ryder's wish to introduce the concept of Dharma to others. Acknowledged by Kerouac scholars to be a more mature work than ON THE ROAD, THE DHARMA BUMS is called perhaps the most representative expression of the Beat sensibility in a work of fiction by Sue L. Kimball in Critical Survey of Long Fiction. AUTHOR: Jack Kerouac
PUBLISHER: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Jerusalem's Heart by Bodie Thoene, Brock Thoene
Description not available.The third volume in the historical epic of modern Jerusalem continues the dramatic story of the holy city with the Israeli War for Independence in 1948. By the authors of Jerusalem Vigil and Thunder from Jerusalem. Reprint. AUTHOR: Bodie Thoene, Brock Thoene
PUBLISHER: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | A Hippopotamusn't by J. Patrick Lewis, Victoria Chess
Description not available.More than thirty mostly humorous poems about a variety of animals. AUTHOR: J. Patrick Lewis, Victoria Chess
PUBLISHER: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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