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Description not available.A collection of humorous personal essays by the co-writer of the film Pipe Dream includes writings on her eccentric Florida grandparents, the imagined life of a French truffle pig, and the vicissitudes of modern life.
PUBLISHER: Morrow/Avon
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction 
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 | Leslie's Journal by Allan Stratton
Description not available.Through her diary, Leslie recounts her life after her parents divorce and she starts dating Jason, who isn't what he appears. AUTHOR: Allan Stratton
PUBLISHER: Annick Press, Limited
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Bring Larks And Heroes - Thomas Keneally
Set in a remote British penal colony in the 1790s, Keneally's novel gives a searing insight into the settlement of hungry transports and corrupt soldiers. A young corporal is confronted by harsh reality and the demands of his conscience.
Bring Larks and Heroes
Thomas Keneally
Paperback, 247 pages
ISBN 0140109293
Viking Penguin
1988
Set in a remote British penal colony in the 1790s, Keneally's novel gives a searing insight into the settlement of hungry transports and corrupt soldiers. A young corporal is confronted by harsh reality and the demands of his conscience.
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CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Giant Country by Don Graham
The collection begins with a twist on book introductions that sets the tone for the essays to come -- a self-interview conducted poolside at an eccentric Houston motel favored by regional rock bands. The following essays are organized into four parts -- Places, Pages, Polemics, and Pictures. Graham provides a rich sampling of his knowledge of Texas literature and movies in pieces that blanket the territory from Katherine Anne Porter to John Graves and Larry McMurtry and from moo-cow cattle-drive epics to soggy Alamo sagas to urban cowboy melodrama. AUTHOR: Don Graham
PUBLISHER: Texas Christian University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Orphans of the Living by Jennifer Toth
An expose of America's foster child-care system that confirms the author's worst fears: for many children, it does more harm than good. AUTHOR: Jennifer Toth
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | The Waste Land & Other Poems by T. S. Eliot
Eliot's major work, The Wasteland , was controversial when it appeared in 1922. Considered both obscure and radical, it utilizes a combination of modern slang and ancient myth, arcane literary allusion and jazzy modernity. Eliot also included helpful but pedantic footnotes. However, the poem is lyrical and hypnotic, and its collage-like mode is, in the end, an effective form for the expression of Eliot's view of the fragmentation and degeneration of modern life. Much of the poem's final shape was influenced by Ezra Pound, who served as Eliot's mentor in its writing--a fact which only emerged with the publication of a facsimile manuscript in 1972. AUTHOR: T. S. Eliot
PUBLISHER: Harcourt Trade Publishers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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