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With the simple use of line of Matt Groening or James Thurber, the deft and elegant use of colour of Chris Ware or Herge, the cinematographic eye of Eric Drooker and the dark humour and nostalgic sadness of Edward Gorey, Brown has attempted to create a novella that stands outside the established forms of the comic book or the graphic novel.

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One Sunday morning, Nick Blud, a successful Boston physician, receives a phone call from Adriana Kruk, the mother of a boyhood friend. Abandoned by her husband and estranged from her sons, Adriana summons Nick back to his old neighbourhood, where something unspeakable has happened.

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A fascinating glimpse into the background and development of one of our most delightful and best-loved writers, Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher, the woman who elevated food writing to a literary art.

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A collection of stories from a Nobel Prize-winning author. It features "The Upcoming Generation" and "Nastenka".

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Set in Jerusalem, now, in the past, and in the future, this collection introduces us to a range of complex characters: some extraordinary in their ordinariness; others lifted from history; still others with significant lives simply because of where they are or who they're with at a single moment.

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Long before organic produce was available at local supermarkets, Berry was farming with the purity of food in mind. Drawn from more than 30 years of work, this collection is essential reading for anyone who cares about what they eat.

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Rewritten, not revised, version of author's The arm of flesh, published in 1961.

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A team of six archaeologists from the United States, England, and Scotland stranded in Greenland pens final letters home. Each section of the book is composed of one character's first-person perspective in letter form.

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More than just the memoir of a casualty of the Beat Generation, this biography provides rare insight into the author's father, as well as his scene, friends, and times. It also provides an all-too-familiar story of familial difficulties that anyone with difficult parents can understand and appreciate.

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Inspired by kitschy Mexican "historietas" (pocket-sized comic books), Roberto presents an English-language version featuring his alter-ego, Eddy Arellano. When a "dama" named Juanita calls him down to Sonora, Eddy crosses the Rio Bravo and never looks back. Soon he's embroiled in a complex, comic drama featuring a memorable gallery of quirky characters.

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In this eye-opening memoir, Carver recalls her extraordinary youth and charts the late-80s, early-90s punk subculture that she helped shape. She recounts how her band Suckdog was born in 1987 and the wild events that followed, in this definitive account of the generation that wanted to break every rule.

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Born in Slaton, Texas, some 15 miles southeast of Lubbock, the author has lived the kind of life that qualifies as a rock 'n' roll folktale. This title offers a picture of the coming-of-age of rock 'n' roll itself while celebrating how his raw talent and outsized personality have elevated him from sideman to a rock 'n' roll icon.

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Barth stays true to form in his latest novel, written from the perspective of a character he introduced in his short story collection. As the novel unfolds, it is clear that, as ever, Barth possesses an unmatched talent in balancing his characteristic style and wit with vivid, page-turning storytelling.

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As the Troutmans journey across the United States in search of their father--and experience chaos as diverse as their personalities--they discover one another to be both far crazier and far more normal than any of them had thought.

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A masterful blend of graphic reporting, illuminating interviews, and insightful analysis, here is the first account of Afghanistan's turbulent recent history by an independent eyewitness. Showing how and why Soviet efforts to negotiate an end to the war came to nothing, Steele explains how negotiations today could put a stop to the tragedies that have afflicted Afghanistan for three decades.

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