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The illumination
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Kevin Brockmeier |
"What if our pain was the most beautiful thing about us? At 8:17 on a Friday night, the Illumination begins. Every wound begins to shine, every bruise to glow and shimmer. And in the aftermath of a f… |
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The brief history of the dead
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Kevin Brockmeier |
A virus kills everyone on Earth but a woman wildlife researcher in Antarctica. Many of the dead find themselves enjoying a second life in "The City" but only as long as the last woman on Earth rememb… |
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A few seconds of radiant filmstrip
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Kevin Brockmeier |
"At age twelve, [the American novelist] Kevin Brockmeier is ready to become a different person: not the boy he has always been--the one who cries too easily and laughs too easily, who lives in an oth… |
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City of names
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Kevin Brockmeier |
After receiving a strange book at school, ten-year-old Howie Quackenbush discovers that he can transport himself to various places around his town and also learns something vitally important about hi… |
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Things that fall from the sky
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Kevin Brockmeier |
A collection of eleven short stories by award-winning American author Kevin Brockmeier. |
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The view from the seventh layer
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Kevin Brockmeier |
Kevin Brockmeier--award -winning author of The Brief History of the Dead--has been widely praised for the richness of his imagination, the lyrical grace and playfulness of his language, and the empat… |
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Grooves
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Kevin Brockmeier |
After a seventh-grader discovers that the grooves in his Thigpen-brand blue jeans are encoded with a cry for help, he sets out to save the factory workers from greedy entrepreneur Howard Thigpen. |
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