Fiction

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When Julia Child died in 2004 her devoted and ardent fans mourned her as if they had just lost a beloved friend.

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Nuns in outer space? Churches in virtual reality? Priests as robots? Sometimes the most unlikely pairings lead to the most interesting literary achievements.

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The ravages of war can be horrendous, both physically as well as emotionally, and nowhere is this more evident than in this true-to-life story about three close friends and their love for the men w

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Millions of girls love horses, whether they have a chance to ride or can only read about it. They make up the target audience for The Pony Whisperer series.

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Sometimes all those kisses from all those people who think you are just so cute can get annoying.

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Who among us has not felt pale and insignificant in comparison to a friend who seems to shine and sparkle in everything she does and with all that she is?

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Several years ago, Kevin Noel Olson wrote one of the most imaginative young adult books I’d ever read, Eerey Tocsin in the Cryptoid Zoo.

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Watching an author try something risky and pull it off is one of reading’s greatest pleasures.

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Robin Mckinley’s books are always amazing, and this one is no exception.

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There is a pang that occurs quite naturally when you hear that a friend or family member is about to watch a really great movie for the very first time.

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There are any number of handbooks for surviving a zombie apocalypse. These days, with the popularity of the variously undead, it’s practically become a genre in and of itself.

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First impressions can be deceiving. The first chapter of Murray Tillman’s Meet Me on the Paisley Roof is the ultimate turn-off.

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Degrees of Elevation: Short Stories of Contemporary Appalachia brings together 17 gifted writers whose voices are as unique and striking as the region about which they write.

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Edmund White, who will turn 70 in 2010, is the grand old man of American gay literature.

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The writing in this book is so lean it becomes a literary illusion as it packs so much story in those economic words.

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It’s Valentine’s Day and time for Tucker, the pooch, to learn about love from his owner.

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Chances are if you’re reading this you’re not what one might consider a comics reader . . . “typical” or otherwise.

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In years gone by, many a teenager/adult has had the pants scared clean off him/her by publisher Jim Warren’s magazine-sized horror comics, Creepy and Eerie.

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Alex is upset because he now has to share his room with his four-year-old brother, Ethan. Sure, he loves his new baby sister, but he wants privacy and his own room back. So what does Alex do?

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Although it bears all the trappings of a taut legal thriller, Dead Center, by Joanna Higgins is, at heart, a riveting existential meditation on living with uncertainty.

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This is the latest book by the “shuffling old man” of poetry, Charles Simic. And it is terrific.

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In approaching a work of literature in a world ever more dominated by lovestruck vampires, teenage werewolves, young New York nannies/interns/journalists, and other tales of passion, fashion, and r

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Twelve-year-old Claire Boucher loves to ice skate.

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“Most. Embarrassing. Moment.

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“The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
—Thomas Hobbes, English political philosopher (1588-–1679), The Leviathan

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