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  • Morte d'Urban

    de J.F. Powers ...
    Winner of The 1963 National Book Award for Fiction.The hero of J.F. Powers’s comic masterpiece is Father Urban, a man of the cloth who is also a man of the world. Charming, with an expansive vision of the spiritual life and a high tolerance for moral ambiguity, Urban enjoys a national reputation as a speaker on the religious circuit and has big plans for the future. But then the provincial head of ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Wheat That Springeth Green

    de J.F. Powers ...
    Wheat That Springeth Green, J. F. Powers’s beautifully realized final work, is a comic foray into the commercialized wilderness of modern American life. Its hero, Joe Hackett, is a high school track star who sets out to be a saint. But seminary life and priestly apprenticeship soon damp his ardor, and by the time he has been given a parish of his own he has traded in his hair shirt for the ... Leer más

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  • The Stories of J.F. Powers

    de J.F. Powers ...
    Hailed by Frank O’Connor as one of “the greatest living storytellers,” J. F. Powers, who died in 1999, stands with Eudora Welty, Flannery O’Connor, and Raymond Carver among the authors who have given the short story an unmistakably American cast. In three slim collections of perfectly crafted stories, published over a period of some thirty years and brought together here in a single volume for the ... Leer más

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  • Suitable Accommodations

    An Autobiographical Story of Family Life: The Letters of J. F. Powers, 1942–1963

    de J. F. Powers ...
    A wry, moving collection of letters from the late J. F. Powers, "a comic writer of genius" (Mary Gordon)Best known for his 1963 National Book Award–winning novel, Morte D'Urban, and as a master of the short story, J. F. Powers drew praise from Evelyn Waugh, Flannery O'Connor, Saul Bellow, and Philip Roth, among others. Though Powers's fiction dwelt chiefly on the lives of Catholic priests, he long ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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  • Turning Pages

    The Adventures and Misadventures of a Publisher

    de John Sargent ...
    Take a peek behind the curtain of some of the biggest publishing moments in the past several decades with forty-year industry veteran John Sargent.Turning Pages: The Adventures and Misadventures of a Publisher is the well-told story of forty years in the publishing business. For twenty-four of those years, John Sargent ran one of America’s largest publishing companies. Rather than a straight ... Leer más

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  • A Loyal Spy

    A Thriller

    de Simon Conway ...
    Winner of the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award, a Contemporary Spy Thriller for Fans of Brad Thor and John Le Carré.The last time Jonah saw Nor ed-Din, he was lying face-down in a pool of icy water in the Khyber Pass. He thought he had killed him, but now the trail of betrayal has come full circle.Friends since childhood, Jonah and Nor ed-Din had been groomed for the intelligence service, with Jonah ... Leer más

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  • Summer Will Show

    de Sylvia Townsend Warner ...
    Sophia Willoughby, a young Englishwoman from an aristocratic family and a person of strong opinions and even stronger will, has packed her cheating husband off to Paris. He can have his tawdry mistress. She intends to devote herself to the serious business of raising her two children in proper Tory fashion.Then tragedy strikes: the children die, and Sophia, in despair, finds her way to Paris, ... Leer más

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  • Immortalised to Death

    The Dunston Burnett Trilogy

    de Lyn Squire ...
    Series Libro 1 - The Dunston Burnett Trilogy
    Death strikes England's foremost novelist, his latest tale only half told. Was he murdered because someone feared a ruinous revelation? Or was it revenge for some past misdeed? Set in the Kent countryside and London slums of 1870, Immortalised to Death embeds an ingenious solution to Charles Dickens's unfinished The Mystery of Edwin Drood within the evolving and ultimately tragic consequences of a ... Leer más

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  • Death and the Sisters

    de Heather Redmond ...
    Series Libro 1 - A Mary Shelley Mystery
    Before there was Frankenstein, a young Mary Shelley, her stepsister Jane “Claire” Clairmont, and poet Percy Bysshe Shelley are drawn into a shocking murder investigation in this deliciously captivating new historical mystery revolving around the real-life trio who would later scandalize 19th century England even as they transformed the literary world.London, 1814: Mary Godwin and her stepsister ... Leer más

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  • Year of No Garbage

    Recycling Lies, Plastic Problems, and One Woman's Trashy Journey to Zero Waste

    de Eve O. Schaub ...
    "Eve’s brave and honest experiment reveals the shocking impact of the throwaway society we’ve become and at the same time showing small ways we can all do better.” —Rebecca Prince-Ruiz, founder of Plastic Free JulyYear of No Garbage is Super Size Me meets the environmental movement.In this book Eve O. Schaub, humorist and stunt memoirist extraordinaire, tackles her most difficult challenge to date ... Leer más

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  • Those People Behind Us

    A Novel

    de Mary Camarillo ...
    It’s the summer of 2017 in Wellington Beach, California, a suburban coastal town increasingly divided by politics, protests, and escalating housing prices—divisions that change the lives of five neighbors.Each character confronts death, betrayal, financial decline, and loneliness as they search for home and community in a neighborhood where no one can agree who belongs.Real estate agent Lisa ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Business of Being a Writer

    de Jane Friedman ...
    Series series Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
    "Destined to become a staple reference book for writers and those interested in publishing careers." — Publishers WeeklyWriters talk about their work in many ways: as an art, as a calling, as a lifestyle. Too often missing from these conversations is the fact that writing is also a business. Those who want to make a full- or part-time job out of writing are going to have a more positive and ... Leer más

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