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|  | Pages & Pockets by Pleasant Company Staff
Description not available.Featuring envelopes for mementos and prompts to encourage writing, a combination diary and scrapbook offers girls a private place to doodle and draw, record their daydreams, and store their personal treasures. Original. AUTHOR: Pleasant Company Staff
PUBLISHER: Pleasant Company Publications
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction 
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 | The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
In Saul Bellow`s autobiographical novel, Augie March is a poor Chicago boy growing up during the Great Depression. Drifting from job to job, he falls in love with Thea, an eagle trainer, and develops schemes--each more grandiose and unrealistic than the last--for making money and becoming famous. THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH is often called one of the great American novels; it was, at any rate, the novel that marked Saul Bellow as a great American writer when it appeared in 1953. AUTHOR: Saul Bellow
PUBLISHER: Viking Penguin
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Not-Knowing
For a complete description of this product, please click the product image.Donald Barthelmes premature death at the age of fifty-eight brought to an end one of the most provocative careers in the history of American literature. Groundbreaking works such as Come Back, Dr. Caligari; The Dead Father; Snow White; Great Days; Overnight to Many Distant Cities; Guilty Pleasures; and his two short-fiction collections, Forty Stories and Sixty Stories, have earned him a place among the most influential and imitated authors of the last half-century. With his marvelously strange and darkly ironic vision of the world, his wizard satire and deadpan humor, Barthelme spoke of and for our time like no one else. He spoke of our national obsessions and weirdnesses, our unspeakable practices and unnatural acts, in what is for many the distinctive voice of postmodern America. NOT-KNOWING is the second posthumous collection of Donald Barthelmes work. Like THE TEACHINGS OF DON B. (1992), it brings together shorter works now almost impossible to come by. While the first volume featured the authors tantalizing experiments in satire, parable, fable, and playwriting, this new volume focuses on his diverse nonfiction pieces, collectively referred to here as essays, although, as always with Barthelmes work, they are feistily resistant to any label. Categorizable or not, NOT-KNOWING contains Barthelmes pungent comments on writing, art, literature, film, and city life, which are, as John Barth says in his Introduction, among the permanent literary treasures of American postmodernist writing. Also here are several interviews with the author--invaluable for understanding this very private man--including two never before available. The interviews range over the last eighteen years of Barthelmes life, and they give readers the opportunity to watch his ideas as they expand, change, and settle.
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Kid's Address Book by Michael Levine
Description not available.Provides children with more than 2,500 mailing addresses and more than four hundred e-mail addresses for some the most famous people in music, Hollywood, sports, and politics, such as N'Sync, Britney Spears, Jim Carrey, Shaquille O'Neil, Greenpeace, Eminem, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Mark McGwire. Original. AUTHOR: Michael Levine
PUBLISHER: Berkley Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Killer Angels by Cliffs Notes Staff
Description not available.Offers an author profile, critical commentary, chapter summaries, and character insight into the novel. AUTHOR: Cliffs Notes Staff
PUBLISHER: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | The Journey of Luke Skywalker
Description not available.The mythological underpinnings of the Star Wars saga are revealed in this compelling new study of Luke Skywalker's journey of the hero and its implications for modern viewers.
PUBLISHER: Open Court Publishing Company
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Science Fiction & Fantasy
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