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Sparkling essays on a variety of subjects-literature, art, popular culture, autobiography-by a renowned young American novelist.
In her brilliant and daring novels The Blindfold and The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, Siri Hustvedt has won critical acclaim and a rapidly expanding international audience. But she is also a wide-ranging essayist and critic, frequently reexamining in her fascinating nonfiction many of the central leitmotifs of her fiction.
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Chief Terry Myell died and became a god. Now he's back to life, careening around space and time at the behest of a voice that told him to save all of mankind. Helping and hindering this quest are his elderly wife, his young wife, grandchildren who haven't been born yet, romantic rivals he hasn't even met, a descendant from two thousand years in the future, and an alien nemesis who calls itself the Flying Doctor. Life in the military has never been...
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Way down yonder, at the mouth of the Mississippi River sits a land like no other on this continent. A land occupied by man but belonging to a force greater than he. A force who fights daily to prove that no man's barriers or diversions will stop it from plowing its own path. Louisiana's Plaquemines Parish (County) is the Mississippi River. It was the great 'father of waters' who built it and it is the 'Ominous Lady' who over the years has fought to...
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Every state, town, and holler has its stereotypes: New Yorkers are rude. Minnesotans are polite to a fault. Southerners are sweet as tea to your face but will murder you with a "Bless your heart" behind your back. And the residents of tiny Bugtussle, Kentucky . . . tussle bugs or something. We don't know.
But what if there's more to these places--many of which most of us have only heard of and never actually visited--than meets the eye? And what...
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Welcome to the year 2185 where aging has been conquered and people can live forever thanks to the miracle of Gerasone! Take a dose every day and never age again. This story showcases Gramps Ford, At 182 the head of the large Ford family who are all crammed into one apartment and subject to the constant badgering and irrational demands of the oldest Ford. He controls what will happen when he dies and so controls them. Every one of the many members...
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Join Southern comedian duo Trae Crowder and Corey Ryan Forrester in this hilarious and irreverent travel guide as they wander about ponderin' the peculiarities beyond their small-town front porches.
Trae and Corey will take you from the smallest of small towns to major US metropolises (or is it metropoli? We haven't a fartin' clue!). They'll even cross the pond to sip tea in some
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Does God exist? Does Science prove God's existence or provide more reasons to doubt? Doug Holloway (David de Vos), a family man on the verge of financial and marital ruin, embarks on a journey to find his birth father, Dr. Eugene Holland (Victor Lundin). Dr. Holland is on a mission of his own - to prove the Holy Grail of physics - the Theory of Everything - that may prove the existence of God.
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These two stories by Kurt Vonnegut were written almost a decade apart but they are definitely connected. The Big Trip Up Yonder, published in Galaxy Science Fiction January 1954 is a comical yet scary description of what over population was going to do to society after aging was conquered and a simple daily dose of "anti-gerosone" would keep you forever the same age. Would Gramps EVER take 'That Big Trip Up Yonder', or would his hordes of descendants...
12) Booster Shot
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A Booster Shot to secure the benefits of my other books…More and more stories about people for people… because everyday life is usually stranger than fiction… do you ever wonder what lies yonder ?A new collection of extremely varied styles and stories for the discerning reader seeking a challenging reading…Love and war and nature and history all come into one in Booster Shot…Booster Shot is also an audiobook narrated by David GEORGE.
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Moving toward her Sixty-fifth birthday, Tessie Blount contemplates the next stage of her life. The death of her last girlfriend has her floundering as she deliberates between wanting to go on living or taking flight as all her friends have done and 'go up yonder.'Not married and with no purpose, she questions the validity of living further until love is offered to her most unexpectedly.But will she accept it?
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Sometimes, the road to forgiveness is away over-yonder.Alex MacDonald will use charm, hard work, or whatever else it takes to get his skittish Clydesdales working again so he can prove to his cantankerous father that he has what it takes to run the family business. When he goes in search of the best horse whisperer available, he finds Breanna Ellers, the sweetest little Scottish lass this side of Inverness. There's only one problem. For reasons unknown...
15) Eerie Arias
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Eerie Arias is a gathering of facts and fiction sired by some events that could have, should have or would have happened… mishaps perhaps… in any case for the better of for worse…Eerie Arias comes as a concert collection of echoes ricocheting from beyond… stories where facts meet fiction… words on the wind… that worm their way inwards… stories where fact buds bloom into fiction… people's life tracks venture on the jagged edge of yonder…We...
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REWRITE THE BARD'S WORDS FOR IRREVERENT FUN AND LITERARY LAUGHS
Do you want to have some fun with Shakespeare?
Rip the quill from the Bard's immortal hands and pen hilarious versions of the most-beloved scenes from:
Hamlet
To STRIP, or not to STRIP, that is the question.
Romeo and Juliet
What FART through yonder window breaks?
Macbeth
Is this a JOINT which I see before me?
Much Ado About Nothing
If thou dost BOFF, my VIBRATOR shall incite thee
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Who knew poetry could be a matter of life and death? After months of grinding to level up their elemental magic, Nate and Wes can't wait to finally embark on their first mission with a real guild. Yet when they discover the key to an ancient ruin, they end up trapped inside a dungeon inexplicably based on Edgar Allan Poe's poem The Conqueror Worm.Now, their only hope of escape is to outwit and outblast a challenging procession of trials…or die trying.This...
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There were no mission limits for a pilot in the Pacific during World War II; unlike in Europe, you flew until it was time to go home. So it was for James "Jug" Curran, all the way from New Guinea to the Philippines with the 348th Fighter Group, the first P-47 Thunderbolt outfit in the Pacific.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Curran volunteered to try flying in the blue yonder and trained as an Army fighter pilot. He got his wish to fly the P-47...
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Littles volume 6
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Dinky enters a Midget Models contest to win a model airplane. He wins with his entry of the smallest writing of the company name Midget Models and receives notice that he must go to the corporate headquarters in the city to pick up his prize. Dinky boards his rubber band driven plane and soars off to the city to claim his prize, with Tom hot on his tale to save him from certain disaster. Tom arrives just before Dinky is captured by the Big People...
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The first book in a brand new series… Modern Living Legend, a modern-day twist on the tales of myths and legends of yonder years.
Suedette Greenwood unexpectedly became Lady of Greenwood Manor fresh out of university three years ago. Up until recently, Suede had nestled into her responsibilities without fault, opened a tea shop in the village and signed a publishing deal, writing and illustrating children's books. Life wasn't quite how Suede had...
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