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The Right Word
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Jen Bryant |
"Words, Peter learned, were powerful things. And when he put them in long, neat rows, he felt as if the world itself clicked into order."
For shy young Peter Mark Roget, books were the best compan… |
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The Importance Of Series - J.R.R. Tolkien
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Stuart P. Levine |
Describes the life and work of the renowned British fantasy writer, creator of the world of hobbits and Middle Earth, and author of "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy. |
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A Long Saturday
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George Steiner,Laure Adler |
xi, 115 pages ; 23 cm |
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At the Villa of Reduced Circumstance (Von Igelfeld 3)
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Alexander McCall Smith |
Readers who fell in love with Precious Ramotswe, proprietor of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, now have new cause for celebration in the protagonist of these three light-footed comic novels by Al… |
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Finer Points of Sausage Dogs, the
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Alexander McCall Smith |
The Professor Dr. von Igelfeld Entertainment series slyly skewers academia, chronicling the comic misadventures of the endearingly awkward Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, and his long-suffer… |
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Portuguese Irregular Verbs
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Alexander McCall Smith |
The Professor Dr. von Igelfeld Entertainment series slyly skewers academia, chronicling the comic misadventures of the endearingly awkward Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, and his long-suffer… |
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Barthes
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Jonathan Culler,Jonathan D. Culler |
Roland Barthes was the leading figure of French Structuralism, the theoretical movement of the 1960s which revolutionized the study of literature and culture, as well as history and psychoanalysis. B… |
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Noah Webster
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Unger, Harlow G. |
Noah Webster was one of the towering intellects of his generation. Long before he even thought about writing a dictionary, Webster had assumed a place among the nation's founding fathers as the fathe… |
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Peter Mark Roget
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Nick Rennison |
Every day thousands of people worldwide consult Roget’s Thesaurus. How many stop to consider why that endlessly useful reference book is so called? Of those who know that it owes its name to the man … |
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The orphan game
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Barbara Cohen |
Vacationing at Long Beach Island, four cousins engage in a variety of activities, including pretending to be orphans, raising money for a trip to Atlantic City, and avoiding a whiny cousin named Mira… |
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Perelandra
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C.S. Lewis |
Dr. Ransom is ordered to Perelandra by the supreme being, and there he finds a Garden of Eden. |
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