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In Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes created an unlikely duo-a laboratory mouse and a man-who captured the hearts of millions of readers around the world. Now, in Algernon, Charlie, and I, Keyes reveals his methods of creating fiction as well as the heartbreaks and joys of being published. With admirable insight he shares with readers, writers, teachers, and students the creative life behind his classic novel, included here in its original short-story...
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The thrilling first-ever biography of Proust translator C. K. Scott Moncrieff, penned by his great-great-niece
"And suddenly the memory returns. The taste was that of the little crumb of madeleine which on Sunday mornings at Combray (because on those mornings I did not go out before church-time), when I went to say good day to her in her bedroom, my aunt Léonie used to give me . . ." With these words, Marcel Proust's narrator is plunged back into...
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An extensively revised and updated edition of the bestselling biography of Harper Lee, reframed from the perspective of the recent publication of Lee's Go Set a Watchman
To Kill a Mockingbird-the twentieth century's most widely read American novel-has sold thirty million copies and still sells a million yearly. In this in-depth biography, first published in 2006, Charles J. Shields brings to life the woman who gave us two of American literature's...
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Renowned mystery author Arthur Conan Doyle and famous illusionist Harry Houdini first met in 1920, during the magician's tour of England. At the time, Conan Doyle had given up his lucrative writing career, killing off Sherlock Holmes in the process, in order to concentrate on his increasingly manic interest in Spiritualism. Houdini, who regularly conducted séances in an attempt to reach his late mother, was also infatuated with the idea of what he...
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The Stephen King Companion is an authoritative look at horror author King's personal life and professional career, from Carrie to The Bazaar of Bad Dreams.
King expert George Beahm, who has published extensively about Maine's main author, is your seasoned guide to the imaginative world of Stephen King, covering his varied and prodigious output: juvenalia, short fiction, limited edition books, bestselling novels, and film adaptations. The book is...
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Le parcours d'une vie est bien différent d'un individu à l'autre. Pour certain, le chemin sera linéaire et sans embûche. Celui que vous découvrirez tout au long de ce récit que ma conjointe vous propose, sera rempli de courbes sinueuses, de montagnes russes ainsi que de vagues vertigineuses. Encore remplie d'énergie aujourd'hui, elle vous raconte son épopée de Guerrière dans ses mots bien à elle de petite Gaspésienne. Ceux qui la connaissent...
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Loula voit le jour au Cameroun, au cœur de l'Afrique, au sein d'une famille aussi complexe que dysfonctionnelle. Élevée dans l'ombre d'une mère au comportement toxique, elle doit naviguer à travers les méandres d'une culture et de coutumes bien éloignées de celles qu'elle connaîtra plus tard.
"Elle se nourrissait de nos peines" est le récit poignant d'une vie marquée par la douleur et la résilience. Loula dévoile avec courage les moments...
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In the same inimitable, uncensored, and hilarious style that has made him one of the most popular voices on satellite radio, Jason Ellis unleashes his no-holds-barred words of advice on diet and exercise, cultivating your signature look, partying, getting laid, maintaining a relationship-and more!
Maybe-like Jason Ellis-you want to have sex with multiple partners and then talk about it on the radio while wearing cheetah pants . . .
Or maybe you...
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In his debut poetry collection, The Nature of Things Fragile, Peter Vertacnik depicts a world fraught with vulnerability and loss. Utilizing a wide range of both received and nonce poetic forms, including sonnets, villanelles, triolets, a sestina, epigrams, blank verse, and word-count, he confronts the illnesses and deaths of loved ones, both recent and long past ("Face Value," "Odd Elegy," "Trace,"); the memories of old houses and towns left behind...