June 29th, 2010 
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Brand : University Of Chicago Press
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“Not many books can be called indispensable. This one can. . . . Many people, reading this sane and cogent book, are going to feel as if doors and windows had been opened.”–Wallace Stegner, American Scholar
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June 28th, 2010 admin 
Brand : Leisure Fiction
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When a deep-cover FBI agent disappears along with a ton of Semtex explosive, the government turns to Nathan McBride, former Marine sniper and covert CIA operative, to recover them.
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June 27th, 2010 admin 
Brand : Oxford University Press, USA
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Now brought completely up to date, the new edition of this classic work on documentary films and filmmaking surveys the history of the genre from 1895 to the present day. With the myriad social upheavals over the past decade, documentaries have enjoyed an international renaissance; here Barnouw considers the medium in the light of an entirely new political and social climate. He examines as well the latest filmmaking technology, and the effects that video cassette
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June 26th, 2010 admin 
Brand : Writers Digest Books
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The historical novelist has a responsibility to make his fiction both meaningful and accurate. “The Art & Craft of Writing Historical Fiction” offers comprehensive instruction on everything from conducting research to character development and world-building to navigating matters of historical license. Author James Thom instructs readers on how to find and use historical archives; conduct physical and field research; re-create the world of their novel, as the book’s
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June 25th, 2010 admin 
Brand : Wild Lily Arts
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Sara Summers Stanton has raised three children and works as a high school teacher at the same school she attended growing up. Her 25 year marriage is showing cracks in the facade and now she’s dealing with breast cancer. In a rare moment of taking care of herself instead of everyone else, Sara takes a sabbatical and goes on the trip to Italy she has always dreamed of taking. This search for a more authentic life leads to Julia, a friend she hasn’t seen since the
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June 24th, 2010 admin 
Brand : Graywolf Press
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Fiction imagines for us a stopping point from which life can be seen as intelligible,” asserts Joan Silber in The Art of Time in Fiction. The end point of a story determines its meaning, and one of the main tasks a writer faces is to define the duration of a plot. Silber uses wide-ranging examples from F. Scott Fitzgerald, Chinua Achebe, and Arundhati Roy, among others, to illustrate five key ways in which time unfolds in fiction. In clear-eyed prose, Silber eluci
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June 23rd, 2010 admin 
Brand : St. Martin’s Griffin
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In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world.This venerable collection brings together award winning authors and mas
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June 22nd, 2010 admin 
Brand : Penguin (Non-Classics)
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The New York Times bestseller, “a marvelous new collection of stories by . . . one of the most remarkable writers of our century” –Richard Bernstein, The New York Times
Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century. Now for the first time in English, all of Borges’ dazzling fictions are gathered into a single volume, brilliantly translated by Andrew Hurley. From his 1935 debut with The Universal History of Iniquity, through
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June 21st, 2010 admin 
Brand : Llumina Press
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May 1944: The world holds its breath as the Allies prepare to launch their all-important invasion of Europe. The invasion plan is a secret that must be kept at all costs, but the secret is beset from all sides: a sleeper spy in England, a disaster during an invasion rehearsal, a double-dealing French Resistance leader, a ruthlessly-obsessed Gestapo head. And, for an American intelligence officer, it is a race against time to save both the secret and the woman he lov
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June 20th, 2010 admin 
Brand : W. W. Norton & Company
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How short can a story be and still truly be a story? This volume of 75 very short fictions, none more than 750 words in length, demonstrates that less can be more. Here are short pieces by masters such as Raymond Carver, Margaret Atwood, and Tim O’Brien, as well as fiction by newer talents.
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