
Independence Day
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Frank Bascombe, in the aftermath of his divorce and the ruin of his career, has entered an...

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Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man
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What makes one of the most gifted, charismatic and successful literary agents in New York fall into...

Pamela Hansford Johnson: Her Life, Work and Times
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This first biography of Pamela Hansford Johnson (1912-1981) has been written with the full...

Learning What Love Means
Mathieu Lindon and Bruce Benderson
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"I loved Michel as Michel, not as a father. Never did I feel the slightest jealousy or the slightest...

The Bible and the Believer: How to Read the Bible Critically and Religiously
Marc Zvi Brettler, Peter Enns and Daniel J. Harrington
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Can the Bible be approached both as sacred scripture and as a historical and literary text? For many...
Shadow and Substance: Eucharistic Controversy and English Drama Across the Reformation Divide
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Shadow and Substance is the first book to present a sustained examination of the relationship...

Swimming in the Dark
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Set in early 1980s Poland against the violent decline of communism, a tender and passionate story of...
Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Communist Poland

Muse
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Paul Dukach is heir apparent at Purcell & Stern, one of the last independent publishing houses in...

Salinger: A Biography
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J. D. Salinger was one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. He was also one of its most...