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"Wallace's explorations of morality, self-consciousness, addiction, sports, love, and the many other subjects that occupied him are represented here in both fiction and nonfiction. Collected for the first time are Wallace's first published story, "The View from Planet Trillaphon as Seen In Relation to the Bad Thing" and a selection of his work as a writing instructor, including reading lists, grammar guides, and general guidelines for his students....
Publisher
Running Wild Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Other People's Children - Jacob Adelman retired from a high-powered career to his greatest philanthropic effort: the conservation of the great Smoky Mountains. A flyer requesting botany samples introduces him to Lisa, an elementary school BMX rider, who delivers rare plants for his gardens. The joy he finds in mentoring Lisa and her crew is threatened by the sudden arrival of his two grandchildren. The older child's violent eruptions and destructive...
Publisher
Running Wild Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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This phenomenal anthology of novellas will keep you at the edge of your seat from a post-apocalyptic zombie story to the single female at the edge of the world to a world where all you have to do is step over a barrier to end your life, each is told with humor, darkness, and a good dash of fantastic writing.
14) The bell jar
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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The Bell Jar is a classic of American literature, with over two million copies sold in this country. This extraordinary work chronicles the crackup of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful -- but slowly going under, and maybe for the last time. Step by careful step, Sylvia Plath takes us with Esther through a painful month in New York as a contest-winning junior editor on a magazine, her increasingly strained relationships...
Publisher
Running Wild Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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The Ballerina Swan Lake Mobile Homes Country Club Motel: Wanda, a single woman in her early fifties, is the owner of the motel at the base of a water-starved mountain. She' s hardened by circumstance, morally honest, outspoken, and stuck in her life. When she rescues a stray pit bull, and then a defiant teenage girl, Wanda' s life will never be the same.Beyond the Door of Darkness: NYPD officer, Larry Petals, couldn' t cope with being a cop anymore...
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English
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Milt Dale, man of the forest, halted at the edge of a timbered ridge, to listen and to watch. Beneath him lay a narrow valley, open and grassy, from which rose a faint murmur of running water. Its music was pierced by the wild staccato yelp of a hunting coyote. From overhead in the giant fir came a twittering and rustling of grouse settling for the night; and from across the valley drifted the last low calls of wild turkeys going to roost. To Dale's...
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt / Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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The Best American Short Stories is the longest running and best-selling series of short fiction in the country. For the centennial celebration of this beloved annual series, master of the form Lorrie Moore selects forty stories from the more than two thousand that were published in previous editions. Series editor Heidi Pitlor recounts behind-the-scenes anecdotes and examines, decade by decade, the trends captured over a hundred years. Together, the...
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Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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From Harry Turtledove, bestselling author of the Worldwar series and The Guns of the South, a collection of nine stories and three essays that illuminate his broad storytelling range Harry Turtledove earned the title "master of alternate history" from Publishers Weekly for his thought-provoking novels that turn historical facts into gripping tales of possibility. But his writing talent goes much further. We Install offers a showcase of styles, from...
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