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Saki, a life of Hector Hugh Munro: with six short stories never before collected
By Saki, A. J Langguth. 1981
Born in Burma and brought up by two unlovable but genteel maiden aunts, Munro became a newspaper correspondent, amateur historian,…
satirist, and finally, master of the humorous horror story. This biography is based on his letters and an examination of his writings. c1981.Guys read: True stories (Guys Read #5)
By Jim Murphy, Jon Scieszka, Douglas Florian, Sy Montgomery, Candace Fleming, Elizabeth Partridge, Nathan Hale, Steve Sheinkin, James Sturm, T. Edward Nickens, Thanhhà Lai. 2014
Award-winning authors and journalists provide a collection of essays, biographies, travelogues, and more--all geared to males. In "Sahara Shipwreck," author…
Steve Sheinkin tells the true story of capture, enslavement in the desert, and urine consumption in order to survive. For grades 5-8. 2014Improbable fiction: the life of Mary Roberts Rinehart
By Jan Cohn. 2006
Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958) was born in Allegheny (now part of Pittsburgh). She trained as a nurse, married a physician,…
and by 1902 had three sons. To supplement the family income, she began to write. Her work included mysteries, serious fiction, plays, and regular contributions to "The Saturday Evening Post". 1980Home grown stories & home grown fried lies: words with the bark on them & other Ozark oddments
By Mitch Jayne, Diana Jayne. 2000
Mitch Jayne was a small-town radio DJ who joined 'The Dillards', a Bluegrass band that became famous as 'The Darling…
Boys' on the Andy Griffith TV show. When he began to lose his hearing, he moved back to his beloved Missouri Ozarks. In this memoir of stories and anecdotes of the quirky characters he encounters and the language they use, he is trying to preserve the memory of the old ways of thinking and talkingNew Orleans, mon amour: twenty years of writings from the city
By Andrei Codrescu. 2006
Essays from a Romanian-born National Public Radio commentator about his adopted city of New Orleans. Includes some pieces written after…
Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Describes the Big Easy and its inhabitants, food, cemeteries, eccentrics, neighborhoods, Mardi Gras, and crime. 2006Uncle Boris in the Yukon, and other shaggy dog stories: And Other Shaggy Dog Stories
By Daniel Pinkwater, Daniel M. Pinkwater, Jill Pinkwater, Daniel Manus Pinkwater. 2001
Author and NPR commentator relates anecdotes--bizarre, outlandish, and poignant--about the dogs in his life and lessons he and the dogs…
have learned. Pinkwater has faced numerous training challenges, from the Pekingese presented to him in infancy by Uncle Boris to the malamutes acquired after his marriage. For senior high and older readers. 2001. For senior high and older readers. 2001At her majesty's request: an African princess in Victorian England
By Walter Dean Myers. 1999
The life of an African princess who was about to be killed in a ritual sacrifice in 1850 when she…
was rescued by Commander Forbes, taken to England, and presented to Queen Victoria as Sarah Forbes Bonetta. The queen became Sarah's protector and godmother to her first child. For grades 5-8The tiger in the grass: stories and other inventions
By Harriet Doerr. 1995
At eighty-five the author of Consider This, Senora (DB 38030) writes "a short account of my long life." Memoir and…
fiction blend in stories of her childhood in California; her college work, both before and after her marriage of forty-two years; her children; and her time in Mexico. The title is from her eye doctor, who said, "Don't belittle peripheral vision. That's how we see the tiger in the grass." BestsellerGood bones and simple murders
By Margaret Atwood. 1994
Three dozen sketches that grin and sneer at taking life too seriously. "Good Bones" muses on the attention paid to…
the skeletal frame when it is what makes bones "bad" that is of interest. In "Gertrude Talks Back," Hamlet's mother delivers a monologue to her priggish son. And "Let Us Now Praise Stupid Women" is one of several pieces with a feminist view on the role of women in literature. Some strong languageTo begin again: stories and memoirs, 1908-1929
By M. F. K. Fisher, M. F. K Fisher, M.F.K. Fisher. 1992
Fisher has assembled a memoir of her first twenty-one years by collecting previously written pieces about her childhood and adolescence.…
Journal entries from 1927 are mixed with essays written between 1957 and 1992. The development of Fisher's sensibility as a gourmet and a writer can be traced through her reminiscences about family and friends. Prequel to Long Ago in France (DB 35012)Boulevard of broken dreams: the life, times, and legend of James Dean
By Paul Alexander. 1994
In 1955 twenty-four-year-old actor James Dean died in an automobile crash. Although he acted in only three movies, Dean is…
considered by some to be "the greatest actor that ever lived." Alexander claims that Dean had multiple homosexual relationships and attributes Dean's popularity in part to his sexual appeal to both genders. Some strong language and some explicit descriptions of sexNever the same again: a rock 'n' roll gothic
By Jesse Sublett, Jessie Sublett. 2004
The autobiography of famed punk band member and crime novelist Jesse Sublett, covering his first love's tragic murder, his music…
career, and his struggle with cancer. Adult. Some descriptions of sex. Some violence. Strong languageUn coeur trop lourd (Thriller)
By Ann Rule. 2006
Si chacun de ses ouvrages se classe premier des ventes aux Etats-Unis depuis qu'elle a raconté la traque de Ted…
Bundy dans Un tueur si proche, Ann Rule n'a pas oublié qu'elle a été flic, et la rigueur de ses investigations lui vaut un triomphe international. L'histoire qu'elle rapporte ici lui a pourtant donné du fil à retordre : elle débute comme un conte de fées, par un mariage sur une plage hawaiienne, et vire au cauchemar dans un camping de l'Oregon, à l'automne 2000. Une meurtrière dépeinte comme une figure angélique, un mort qui passe pour un monstre à abattre... Entre les partisans de l'une et de l'autre, Ann Rule démêle l'écheveau de mensonges, d'ambitions et de trahisons qui conduisit à une tragédie insensée. -- 4e de couvA la recherche de Klingsor: roman
By Jorge Volpi. 2001
Dans les années 40, Francis P. Bacon, enrôlé dans les services secrets américains, se retrouve à Nuremberg, sur les traces…
du mystérieux Klingsor, conseiller scientifique d'Hitler. L'enquête qui se déroule dans les milieux scientifiques allemands tourne peu à peu au piège, où se prennent autant le héros que le lecteur. Un roman historico-policier sur le mal et l'illusion de la vérité.