Books from Random House
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Selected Letters of William Styron
By William Styronhis conscious restraint in the book, Styron expressed his lifelong distaste for “the Hemingway tight-lipped mumble school." “I believe that a writer should accommodate language to his own peculiar personality,” he continued, ...
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Havanas in Camelot: Personal Essays
By William StyronS'H1;'R'S NOTE SEVERAL mowrns BEFORE THE ONSET or ms FINAL illness, \Villiam Styron began to assemble materials for a collection of his personal essays. Most of the items in the present volume, including the title essay, ...
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Power: Vintage Minis
By William Shakespeare... PASTERNAK PENROSE PEREC PETTERSON POLITKOWSKAYA PROUST PYNCHON OUINN REMAROUE RIWAS ROTH RUSHD|E SARAMAGO SCHAMA SEBALD SHUTE SNYDER SOLZHENITSYN STEVENSON STYRON TAN TANIZAKI THIONG"O THIRL WELL THORPE THUBRON TOLSTOY TREMAIN TYLER ...
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Real Boys' Voices: Boys Speak out about Drugs, Sex, Violence, Bullying, Sports, School, Parents, and so much more
By Todd Shuster, William PollackNow, in Real Boys' Voices, Pollack lets us hear what boys today are saying, even as he explores ways to get them to talk more openly with us.
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Straight Jacket
By Matthew ToddGrowing up as LGBT, so different, in a culture that has treated us the way I laid out in Chapter 2, bearing the brunt of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, is so emotionally traumatic that our minds can't deal with it.
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The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read
By Stuart Kelly... 103, 159-60, 255, 258, 2/82, 314 Bible, authors of, 18-22 Boccaccio, Giovanni, 104, 107, 216, 333 Boethius, xvi, 105 Borges, Iorge Luis, 48 Boyce, Sam, hidden dedication to, 333 Burroughs, William Seward, 322-24 Burton, Sir Richard, ...
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
By Laura Hillenbrand... Kathleen Birchall, Ruth Decker, Joyce Forth, Marian Tougas, Jan Richardson, Jennifer Purcell, Karen Heer, and Angie Giardina. Stanley Pillsbury spent many afternoons on the phone with me, reliving his days aboard his beloved Super ...
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The Ringo Starr Encyclopedia
By Bill Harry... John Hiatt's Bring The Family, Pink Floyd's A Momentary Lapse Of Reason, the Beach Boys' Kokomo, Richard Thompson's Daring Adventures and Amnesia, Tom Petty's Full Moon Fever and new albums by Maria McKee and Dave Edmunds . . . an ...
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Tomorrow Is Another Day: An Adams Family Saga Novel
By Mary Jane StaplesMrs Rebecca Cooper answered her knock. Mrs Cooper was a handsome, church-going woman with striking blue eyes and a charitable disposition. She was the adoptive mother of Horace, who was married to Susie's sister Sally.
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Hearts And Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote
By Jane RobinsonSelina Cooper Papers, Lancashire Archives (DDX 1137/1; NB the reference DDX 1137 covers the whole Cooper collection). 9 Housman, Unexpected Years, pages 269–70. 10 Kate Frye's 'Organiser's Report Book' for the New Constitutional Society ...
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American Daughter: Discovering My Mother
By Elizabeth KendallShe wore her hair long, in a brown pageboy to her shoulders with a barrette holding the finger waves on the left side. She had a generous mouth, a turned-up nose, the look of an expectant, if. Chapter.
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Cheat and Charmer: A Novel
By Elizabeth Frank... of her new pairs of Jax slacks and a light blue cotton shirt and fasten her hair back with a tortoiseshell barrette. There was no doubt about it: Veevi looked better. When had the letter come? “Shall wer" Veevi said. “Shall we what?
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Home Safe: A Novel
By Elizabeth BergShe has black hair shot through with silver and it's coiled on top of her head and anchored with a child's barrette. She's wearing a lot of eyeliner, no other makeup. She looks up into the sky and there is a full moon, and she thinks, ...
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Poles Apart: Why People Turn Against Each Other, and How to Bring Them Together
By Alison Goldsworthy, Laura Osborne, Alexandra ChesterfieldWhen the GOP Representative Joe Wilson shouted 'You lie' as Obama proposed the health care legislation at a joint session of Congress, Wilson's campaign contributions that quarter soared to $2.7 million, 98 per cent from small donors.62 ...
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What Have I Done?: 2020’s must read memoir about motherhood and mental health
By Laura DockrillThe psychotherapist is blonde and bright and pretty with impressive white teeth and sparkly eyes. There is a fire. The smell of candles and plush velvet sofas. A little white dog looks up at me – I wish I could swap lives with that dog.
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Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners
By Laura ClaridgeDaughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners Laura Claridge. the Century, and because oi' some Familiarity with the development of Tuxedo, I shall be glad to write the article for youfand at your price,” she had grandly ...
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Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
By Nancy MilfordVirginia Woolf called it “donkeywork”—for who but a domesticated ass would harness herself to what is recoverable of the past and call it A Life? Isn't there something curious, not to say questionable, about this appetite for other ...
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Class of '88: Find the warehouse. Lose the hitmen. Pump the beats.
By Wayne AnthonyMARKS. It was Saturday night: PARTY TIME! A load of us were round a friend's house before going to a big dance party out in the sticks. Before we left for the gig, we canned a quarter-ounce of sniff. Our mate Dean has only got one leg, ...
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How to Adopt a Child: Your step-by-step guide to adopting and parenting
By Louise AllenFrom understanding what adoption is, through to step by step guidance on the entire process and the challenges that come up along the way, this is the only book you will need to read on adoption.
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The Light Between Us: Lessons from Heaven That Teach Us to Live Better in the Here and Now
By Laura Lynne JacksonIn The Light Between Us she takes us through her struggle to come to peace with her gift and use it to help others.