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This series of letters, in which Steinbeck explicates the process of writing EAST OF EDEN, provides a rare close-up of the writer's methods and attitudes. AUTHOR: John Steinbeck
PUBLISHER: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction 
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 | Desiring Italy by Susan Cahill
This collection of writings from more than 20 women authors, including Mary McCarthy and Jan Morris, describes the allure and seductive gravity that all of Italy holds, from Venice to Sicily. AUTHOR: Susan Cahill
PUBLISHER: Ballantine Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | The White Fire of Time by Ellen Hinsey
In the three sections of this metaphysical book-length sequence, Hinsey explores the physical body in its daily life, the nature of language, and the journey of the soul. AUTHOR: Ellen Hinsey
PUBLISHER: University Press of New England
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles
After her father is taken away by Union soldiers, Adair Randolph Colley, who is 18 at the height of the Civil War, is herself imprisoned on a false charge of spying for the enemy. The prison commander, Major William Neumann, falls in love with her and, just before he is reassigned, helps her escape. Now the two lovers must somehow find each other again in the chaos of Civil War America. Paulette Jiles's extensively researched novel draws on her own family history in Missouri. AUTHOR: Paulette Jiles
PUBLISHER: Morrow/Avon
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Revenge by Stephen Fry
A model student at an English public school is falsely accused of smoking pot when the boys who dislike him (practically the whole school) sneak some marijuana into his room. But another compromising object also happens to be in his possession, and when it's discovered, along with the pot, events follow a comically unexpected path that, after a series of farcical events, ends up avenging him on his tormentors. AUTHOR: Stephen Fry
PUBLISHER: Random House, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | The Natural by Bernard Malamud, Ken Howard
One of America`s great baseball novels, THE NATURAL is the story of venerable ballplayer Roy Hobbs, who was forced out of the game when he was young but returns to baseball to pull the New York Knights out of their slump. Malamud has said of this novel: Baseball had interested me, especially its comic aspects, but I wasn`t able to write about the game until I transformed the game into myth, via Jessie Weston`s Percival legend with an assist by T. S. Eliot`s WASTE LAND plus the lives of several ballplayers I had read, in particular Babe Ruth`s and Bobby Feller`s. AUTHOR: Bernard Malamud, Ken Howard
PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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