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We Need to Talk About Kevin
Shriver, LionelCatapult 2011The inspiration for the film starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly, this resonant story of a mother’s unsettling quest to understand her teenage son’s deadly violence, her own...
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Elements of Fiction Writing--Characters & Viewpoint : Proven advice and timeless techniques for creating compelling characters by an a ward-winning author
Card, Orson ScottPenguin Publishing Group 2010Vivid and memorable characters aren't born: they have to be madeThis book is a set of tools: literary crowbars, chisels, mallets, pliers and tongs. Use them to pry, chip, yank and...
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Selected Stories
Dubus, AndreOpen Road Media 2010Twenty-three unforgettable short stories from one of America’s most celebrated literary masters. John Updike once said of his friend and fellow writer Andre Dubus: “[He] is a shre...
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The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
Davis, LydiaFarrar, Straus and Giroux 2010 1. utgåvaThe Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is an event in American letters. Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers. She has been called "an American virtuoso o...
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Stories of Your Life and Others
Chiang, TedKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010From the author of Exhalation, an award-winning short story collection that blends "absorbing storytelling with meditations on the universe, being, time and space ... raises questi...
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The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
Christie, AgathaHarperCollins Publishers 2010A movie star A deadly cocktail A murder When glamorous Marina Gregg came to live in St Mary Mead, tongues were sure to wag. But, with a local gossip's sudden death, has one tongue...
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Even More Laughs
Boyle, T. Coraghessan; Meehan, Thomas; Slavin, Julia; Roth, Philip; Lethem, Jonathan; July, Miranda; Saki; Mathews, HarrySymphony Space, Inc 2010From silly chuckles to rueful ironic glee to deep cosmic laughter, this new volume of humorous tales samples the best of recent seasons of the popular public radio series Selected...
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Winter's Passage : An Iron Fey Novella
Kagawa, JulieHarlequin 2010Julie Kagawa's bestselling series The Iron Fey captivated the imagination—and hearts—of readers of all ages with its mix of magic, fantasy and romance. Enjoy this special bridge no...
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Too Much Happiness
Munro, AliceBooks on Tape 2010Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers—the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize.
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Friday Night Bites : Chicagoland Vampires Series, Book 2
Neill, ChloePenguin Publishing Group 2009The story of a young heiress's initiation into the dark society of the Chicagoland Vampires continues... Ten months after vampires revealed their existence to the mortals of Chicag...
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Immortal : Love Stories With Bite
Caine, Rachel; Vincent, RachelBenBella Books 2009In Immortal: Love Stories With Bite, edited by New York Times bestselling author of the House of Night series P.C. Cast, seven of today's most popular YA vampire and contemporary f...
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Stories
Poe, Edgar AllanTantor Media, Inc. 2009 UnabridgedBetween 1841 and 1844, Edgar Allan Poe invented the detective fiction genre with his mesmerizing stories of a young French eccentric named C. Auguste Dupin. Introducing to literatu...
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Brothers : A Novel
Hua, YuKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009A bestseller in China, Brothers is an epic and wildly unhinged black comedy of modern Chinese society running amok. Here is China as we've never seen it before, in a sweeping, Rab...
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Unquiet Dreams : Connor Grey Series, Book 2
Del Franco, MarkPenguin Publishing Group 2008Fueled by a mysterious new drug, Celtic fairies and Teutonic elves battle for turf and power-with humans caught in the middle. As the body count rises, Connor Grey uncovers a vast...
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God Grew Tired of Us : The Heartbreaking, Inspiring Story of a Lost Boy of Sudan
Dau, John Bul; Sweeney, MichaelDisney Book Group 2008"Lost Boy" John Bul Dau's harrowing experience surviving the brutal horrors of Sudanese civil war and his adjustment to life in modern America is chronicled in this inspiring memoi...
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The Copper Beech : A Novel
Binchy, MaeveRandom House Publishing Group 2007NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The Copper Beech is as soothing as a cup of tea.”—People In the little Irish town of Shancarrig, the young people carve their initials—and those of th...
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After the quake : stories
Murakami, HarukiNaxos AudioBooks 2007In 1995, the Japanese city of Kobe suffered a massive earthquake. Nearly 6,000 people died. after the quake was the imaginative response from Japan’s leading novelist, Haruki Murak...
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Unshapely Things : Connor Grey Series, Book 1
Del Franco, MarkPenguin Publishing Group 2007In the alleys of the decrepit Boston neighborhood known as the Weird, fairy prostitutes are turning up dead. The crime scenes show signs of residual magic, but the Guild, which pol...
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Threshold
Kiernan, Caitlin R.Penguin Publishing Group 2007A strange girl speaks of being charged by an angel to battle monsters and claims she cannot do it alone. She needs Chance’s help. Chance Matthews has suffered enough tragedies. The...
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The view from Castle Rock : stories
Munro, AliceBooks on Tape 2006In stories that are more personal than any that she has written before, Alice Munro pieces her family history into gloriously imagined fiction. A young boy is taken to Edinburgh Ca...