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  • Discipline

    by Debra Spark ...
    How does art mirror and shape our lives? Can it transcend the boundaries of time, wealth, and circumstance? Debra Spark—whose previous work the Washington Post described as "richly imaginative" and "real world magic"—explores these themes in her new novel Discipline. With a trio of important paintings missing, the book weaves together three narratives that span almost a century. From an inhumane ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Unknown Caller

    A Novel

    by Debra Spark ...
    Series series YSF Contacts
    For as long Daniella has been married to Joel, they’ve received phone calls at odd hours, and late at night. Daniella knows the caller as Liesel, Joel’s first wife, a woman whose sudden departure devastated her husband. After years of disruptive, long-distance phone calls, Liesel rings to tell Joel she’s letting Idzia, the seventeen-year-old daughter he has never met, visit for the summer. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Curious Attractions

    Essays on Fiction Writing

    by Debra Spark ...
    Curious Attractions: Essays on Fiction Writing is a book about what makes fiction work. In nine entertaining and instructive essays, novelist and master teacher Debra Spark pursues key questions that face both aspiring and accomplished writers, including: How does a writer find inspiration? What makes a story's closing line resonate? How can a writer "get" style? Where should an author "stand" in ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Good for the Jews

    by Debra Spark ...
    Series series Michigan Literary Fiction Awards
    Good for the Jews is a smart, funny, sexy novel set in Madison, Wisconsin, during the Bush administration. Part mystery and part stranger-comes-to town story, Good for the Jews is loosely based on the biblical book of Esther. Like Esther, Debra Spark's characters deal with anti-Semitism and the way that powerful men—and the women who love them—negotiate bureaucracies.At the core of the story of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Breaking Bread

    Essays from New England on Food, Hunger, and Family

    Edited by Deborah Joy Corey, DEBRA SPARK ...
    “More local color than a steamed lobster wearing wild blueberry bracelets, along with a mess of wistful nostalgia for any reader raised in Maine or New England.” —Portland Press HeraldNearly 70 renowned New England writers gather round the table to talk food and how it sustains us—mind, body, and soulAn award-winning collection of essays by internationally recognized and beloved foodies, Breaking ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    Diaries (1977-2002)

    by David Sedaris ...
    David Sedaris tells all in a book that is, literally, a lifetime in the making.For forty years, David Sedaris has kept a diary in which he records everything that captures his attention-overheard comments, salacious gossip, soap opera plot twists, secrets confided by total strangers. These observations are the source code for his finest work, and through them he has honed his cunning, surprising ... Read more

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  • Calypso

    by David Sedaris ...
    David Sedaris returns with his most deeply personal and darkly hilarious book.If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you're getting with Calypso. You'd be wrong.When he buys a beach house on the Carolina coast, Sedaris envisions long, relaxing vacations spent playing board games and lounging in the sun with those he ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Beaten, Seared, and Sauced

    On Becoming a Chef at the Culinary Institute of America

    by Jonathan Dixon ...
    Millions of people fantasize about leaving their old lives behind, enrolling in cooking school, and training to become a chef. But for those who make the decision, the difference between the dream and reality can be gigantic—especially at the top cooking school in the country. For the first time in the Culinary Institute of America’s history, a book will give readers the firsthand experience of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Erma Bombeck Collection

    If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank

    by Erma Bombeck ...
    Three hilarious books in one from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author on marriage, motherhood, and the absurdities of suburban life.If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits? is Erma Bombeck's timelessly witty look at the hidden side of married life.Motherhood captures one of the toughest jobs on earth with humor and heart.The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank is ... Read more

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  • Talking with My Mouth Full

    My Life as a Professional Eater

    by Gail Simmons ...
    When Top Chef judge Gail Simmons first graduated from college, she felt hopelessly lost. All her friends were going to graduate school, business school, law school . . . but what was she going to do? Fortunately, a family friend gave her some invaluable advice-make a list of what you love to do, and let that be your guide. Gail wrote down four words:Eat. Write. Travel. Cook.Little did she know, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Jeff Resnick Mysteries Volume I

    by L.L. Bartlett ...
    Series series The Jeff Resnick Mysteries
    A specially priced box set of the first two Jeff Resnick Mysteries by New York Times bestseling author L.L. BartlettMURDER ON THE MINDJeff Resnick hardly knew his well-heeled half-brother. But after suffering a fractured skull in a vicious mugging, he reluctantly accepts the fact that he has a long and brutal recovery to face—and his closest of kin can provide him with the time and place to do it ... Read more

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  • Mama's Little House on the Prairie

    by Mary Margaret Kruger ...
    It was a dream come true for Connie to marry a farmer and have her little house on the prairie. Being a city girl, she could only imagine how peaceful country life would be. But no sooner than the wedding bells stopped ringing, did the alarms of fear begin to toll. Why did life suddenly seem so brutal? Was this mans anger and violent behavior because of something she did? Why did it take her so ... Read more

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