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Mark Salzman

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Mark Salzman is the author of Iron & Silk, an account of his two years in China; Lost in Place, a memoir; and the novels The Laughing Sutra, The Soloist, and Lying Awake. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the filmmaker Jessica Yu, and their daughter, Ava.



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True Notebooks
True Notebooks
Written by Mark Salzman
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780375727610
Our Price: $14.95
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True Notebooks
A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall
Written by Mark Salzman

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: August 31, 2004
Price: $14.95

In 1997 Mark Salzman, bestselling author Iron and Silk and Lying Awake, paid a reluctant visit to a writing class at L.A.’s Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for violent teenage offenders, many of them charged with murder. What he found so moved and astonished him that he began to teach there... Read more >
Iron and Silk
Iron and Silk
Written by Mark Salzman
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780394755113
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Iron and Silk

Written by Mark Salzman

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: October 12, 1987
Price: $13.95

Salzman captures post-cultural revolution China through his adventures as a young American English teacher in China and his shifu-tudi (master-student) relationship with China's foremost martial arts teacher. Read more >
The Soloist
The Soloist
Written by Mark Salzman
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780679759263
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The Soloist

Written by Mark Salzman

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: February 7, 1995
Price: $14.00

As a child, Renne showed promise of becoming one of the world's greatest cellists. Now, years later, his life suddenly is altered by two events: he becomes a juror in a murder trial for the brutal killing of a Buddhist monk, and he takes on as a pupil a Korean boy... Read more >
Lying Awake
Lying Awake
Written by Mark Salzman
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780375706066
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Lying Awake
A Novel
Written by Mark Salzman

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2001
Price: $14.00

Mark Salzman's Lying Awake is a finely wrought gem that plumbs the depths of one woman's soul, and in so doing raises salient questions about the power-and price-of faith.

Sister John's cloistered life of peace and prayer has been electrified by ever more frequent visions of God's radiance, leading her toward a... Read more >
Also available as an eBook and a hardcover.
Lost In Place
Lost In Place
Written by Mark Salzman
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780679767787
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Lost In Place
Growing Up Absurd in Suburbia
Written by Mark Salzman

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: May 28, 1996
Price: $14.00

From the author of Iron & Silk comes a charming and frequently uproarious account of an American adolescence in the age of Bruce Lee, Ozzy Osborne, and Kung Fu. As Salzman recalls coming of age with one foot in Connecticut and the other in China (he wanted to become a wandering... Read more >
The Laughing Sutra
The Laughing Sutra
Written by Mark Salzman
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780679735465
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The Laughing Sutra

Written by Mark Salzman

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: January 15, 1992
Price: $13.95

Iron & Silk, Mark Salzman's bestselling account of his adventures as an English teacher and martial arts student in China, introduced a writer of enormous charm and keen insight into the cultural chasm between East and West. Now Salzman returns to China in his first novel, which follows the adventures of... Read more >
Lying Awake
Lying Awake
Written by Mark Salzman
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780375406324
Our Price: $22.00
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Lying Awake

Written by Mark Salzman

Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: September 19, 2000
Price: $22.00

In a Carmelite monastery outside present-day Los Angeles, life goes on in a manner virtually un-changed for centuries. Sister John of the Cross has spent years there in the service of God. And there, she alone experiences visions of such dazzling power and insight that she is looked upon as a... Read more >
Also available as an eBook and a trade paperback.
True Notebooks
True Notebooks
Written by Mark Salzman
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307429841
Our Price: $14.95
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True Notebooks
A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall
Written by Mark Salzman

Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95

When Mark Salzman is invited to visit a writing class at Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for Los Angeles’s most violent teenage offenders, he scrambles for a polite reason to decline. He goes—expecting the worst—and is so astonished by what he finds that he becomes a teacher there himself. True Notebooks... Read more >
True Notebooks
True Notebooks
Written by Mark Salzman, Read by Paul Boehmer
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
ISBN: 9780736698856
Our Price: $17.95

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True Notebooks

Written by Mark Salzman
Read by Paul Boehmer


Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 3, 2003
Price: $17.95

When Mark Salzman is invited to visit a writing class at Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for Los Angeles’s most violent teenage offenders, he scrambles for a polite reason to decline. He goes—expecting the worst—and is so astonished by what he finds that he becomes a teacher there himself. True Notebooks... Read more >
Also available as an abridged audiobook download, eBook and a trade paperback.
True Notebooks
True Notebooks
Written by Mark Salzman, Read by Mark Salzman
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
ISBN: 9780739307144
Our Price: $14.95

For more information about downloading this audiobook
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True Notebooks

Written by Mark Salzman
Read by Mark Salzman


Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 16, 2003
Price: $14.95

When Mark Salzman is invited to visit a writing class at Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for Los Angeles’s most violent teenage offenders, he scrambles for a polite reason to decline. He goes—expecting the worst—and is so astonished by what he finds that he becomes a teacher there himself. True Notebooks... Read more >
Also available as an unabridged audiobook download, eBook and a trade paperback.
Lying Awake
Lying Awake
Written by Mark Salzman
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9781400077755
Our Price: $13.00
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Lying Awake
A Novel
Written by Mark Salzman

Format: eBook
On Sale: December 16, 2003
Price: $13.00

In a Carmelite monastery outside present-day Los Angeles, life goes on in a manner virtually un-changed for centuries. Sister John of the Cross has spent years there in the service of God. And there, she alone experiences visions of such dazzling power and insight that she is looked upon as a... Read more >
Also available as a hardcover and a trade paperback.
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