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Looking beyond conventional opinion, Bill Zinsser gets to the deeper meanings of sixteen 'iconic'...
'A well-rendered portrait of an intense medical life devoted to equally intense research.'--Kirku...
Part slapstick, part quest for meaning, this timely novella follows the ups and downs of a stay-a...
An in-depth tout of Philadelphia's architectural history from the 1700s to the present day-for th...
An irreverent assault on Comp 101 and a roadmap for finding pleasure in language. Writers need this.
'A piercingly honest account of life with a brilliant man as he descends into dementia.'-Reeve Li...
Sixteen-year-old Mel is cast in Chekhov's Three Sisters and becomes immersed in the intrigue and ...
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'Remembrance of Things Past' is more than a novel; it is a work in which a single person's l...