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I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
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Category: General Fiction | Series: P.S. | Reading Level: very good
Being released soon as a TV series starring Mark Ruffalo. On the afternoon of October 12, 1990, my twin brother, Thomas, entered the Three Rivers, Connecticut, public library, retreated to one of the rear study carrels, and prayed to God the sacrifice he was about to commit would be deemed acceptable. ...Show more
Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende
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Category: General Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue--the daughter of an African mother she never knew and a white sailor who brought her into bondage--ZaritE, known as TEtE, survives a childhood of brutality and fear, finding solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and in her exhilarating initiatio ...Show more
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
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Category: Cooking/Entertaining | Series: P. S. Ser.
The New York Times bestselling memoir from Anthony Bourdain, the host of Parts Unknown. Kitchen Confidential reveals what Bourdain calls "twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine." Last summer, The New Yorker published Chef Bourdain's shocking, "Don't Eat Before Reading This." B ...Show more
LOVE BEGINS IN WINTER by VAN BOOY SIMON
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Category: General Fiction | Series: P.S.
On the verge of giving up anchored to dreams that never came true and to people who have long since disappeared from their lives Van Booy's characters walk the streets of these stark and beautiful stories until chance meetings with strangers force them to face responsibility for lives they thought had c ...Show more
Labor Day Tie-In by Joyce Maynard
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Category: General Fiction | Series: P.S. | Reading Level: very good
As the end of summer approaches and a long, hot Labor Day weekend looms, the life of lonely thirteen-year-old Henry Wheeler is irrevocably changed when he and his emotionally fragile mother show kindness to a stranger with a terrible secret. Now a major motion picture starring Kate Winslet and Josh Brol ...Show more
Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son by Michael Chabon
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Category: Parenting | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
A Best Book Of The Year "Time - St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Kansas City Star San Francisco Chronicle - NPR - Seattle Times" A shy manifesto, an impractical handbook, the true story of a fabulist, an entire life in parts and pieces, "Manhood for Amateurs" is the first sustained work of personal writing f ...Show more
Mozart's Last Aria by Matt Rees
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Category: Crime/Thriller/Espionage | Series: P.S.
The news arrives in a letter to his sister, Nannerl, in December 1791. But the message carries more than word of Nannerl's brother's demise. Two months earlier, Mozart confided to his wife that his life was rapidly drawing to a close . . . and that he knew he had been poisoned. In Vienna to pay her fin ...Show more
Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd
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Category: General Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
One May evening in London, Adam Kindred, a young climatologist in town for a job interview, is feeling good about the future as he sits down for a meal at a little Italian bistro. He strikes up a conversation with a solitary diner at the next table, who leaves soon afterward. With horrifying speed, thi ...Show more
Paris at the End of the World: The City of Light During the Great War, 1914-1918 by John Baxter
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Category: World History/Politics | Series: P. S. Ser.
A preeminent writer on Paris, John Baxter brilliantly brings to life one of the most dramatic and fascinating periods in the city's history. From 1914 through 1918 the terrifying sounds of World War I could be heard from inside the French capital. For four years, Paris lived under constant threat of de ...Show more
Profiles in Courage by KENNEDY JOHN F
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Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: P. S. Ser.
The Pulitzer Prize winning classic by President John F. Kennedy, with an introduction by Caroline Kennedy and a foreword by Robert F. Kennedy. Written in 1955 by the then junior senator from the state of Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage serves as a clarion call to every American. I ...Show more
Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
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Category: Writing | Series: P. S. Ser.
This book presents an inside look at how the professionals read and write. Long before there were creative writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says the author. In "Reading Like a Writer", Prose invites you ...Show more
Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
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Category: General Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
This internationally beloved modern classic, first published in 1978, will be reissued with a tie-in cover to coincide with the groundbreaking three-part PBS miniseries scheduled to air January 10, 11, and 12, 1994--a joint presentation of the prestigious American Playhouse and KQED San Francisco.