Books, Literature & Fiction, Essays

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David Sedaris
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
by Little, Brown and Company (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2008-06-03)

"David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art," (The Christian Science Monitor) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this remarkable new book. Trying to make coffee when the water is shut off, David considers using the water in a vase of flowers and his chain of associations takes him from the French countryside to a hilariously uncomfortable memory of buying drugs in a mobile home in rural North Carolina. In essay after essay, Sedaris proceeds from bizarre conundrums of daily life-having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a fellow passenger on a plane or armoring the windows with LP covers to protect the house from neurotic songbirds-to the most deeply resonant human truths. Culminating in a brilliant account of his venture to Tokyo in order to quit smoking, David Sedaris's sixth essay collection is a new masterpiece of comic writing from "a writer worth treasuring" (Seattle Times). ...

David Sedaris
Me Talk Pretty One Day
by Back Bay Books (Paperback)

David Foster Wallace
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
by Back Bay Books (Paperback)

Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Works of Mark Twain : No. 8)
by University of California Press (Hardcover)

David Foster Wallace
Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays
by Hachette Audio (CD)

Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of a vicious presidential race, plunging into the wars between dictionary writers, or confronting the World's Largest Lobster Cooker at the annual Maine Lobster Festival, Wallace projects a quality of thought that is uniquely his and a voice as powerful and distinct as any in American letters.

Julian Barnes
Nothing to Be Frightened Of
by Knopf (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2008-09-02)

Two years after the best-selling Arthur & George, Julian Barnes gives us a memoir on mortality that touches on faith and science and family as well as a rich array of exemplary figures who over the centuries have confronted the same questions he now poses about the most basic fact of life: its inevitable extinction.If the fear of death is “the most rational thing in the world,” how does one contend with it? An atheist at twenty, an agnostic at sixty, Barnes looks into the various arguments for and against and with God, and at the bloodline whose archivist, following his parents’ death, he has become—another realm of mystery, wherein a drawer of mementos and his own memories (not to mention those of his philosopher brother) often fail to connect. There are other ancestors, too: the writers—“most of them dead, and quite a few of them French”—who are his daily companions, supplemented by composers and theologians and scientists whose similar explorations are woven ...

This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women
by Holt Paperbacks (Paperback) (Release Date: 2007-08-21)

“A welcome change from the sloganeering, political mudslinging and products of spin doctors.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer Based on the NPR series of the same name, This I Believe features eighty Americans—from the famous to the unknown—completing the thought that the book’s title begins. Each piece compels readers to rethink not only how they have arrived at their own personal beliefs but also the extent to which they share them with others.Featuring many renowned contributors—including Isabel Allende, Colin Powell, Gloria Steinem, William F. Buckley Jr., Penn Jillette, Bill Gates, and John Updike—the collection also contains essays by a Brooklyn lawyer; a part-time hospital clerk in Rehoboth, Massachusetts; a woman who sells yellow pages advertising in Fort Worth, Texas; and a man who serves on Rhode Island’s parole board.The result is a stirring and provocative trip inside the minds and hearts of a diverse group of people whose beliefs—and the incredibly ...

Laura Joffe Numeroff
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
by Hodder Children's Books (Hardcover)

David Sedaris
Holidays on Ice: Stories
by Little, Brown and Company (Hardcover)

Thomas Paine
Essential Thomas Paine: Common Sense, The Rights of Man
by Plume (Paperback)

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