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Making an Elephant
Writing from Within
Written by Graham Swift
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: June 23, 2009
Price: $26.95
In his first-ever work of nonfiction, the Booker Prize–winning author of such acclaimed novels as Waterland and Last Orders gives us a highly personal book: a singular and open-spirited account of a writer’s life.
As generous in its scope as it is acute in its observations, Making an Elephant brings together a... Read more >
Writing from Within
Written by Graham Swift
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: June 23, 2009
Price: $26.95
In his first-ever work of nonfiction, the Booker Prize–winning author of such acclaimed novels as Waterland and Last Orders gives us a highly personal book: a singular and open-spirited account of a writer’s life.
As generous in its scope as it is acute in its observations, Making an Elephant brings together a... Read more >
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Shoot the Widow
Adventures of a Biographer in Search of Her Subject
Written by Meryle Secrest
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: May 20, 2009
Price: $25.95
The first rule of biography, wrote Justin Kaplan: “Shoot the widow.”
In her new book, Meryle Secrest, acclaimed biographer (“Knowing, sympathetic and entertainingly droll”—The New York Times), writes about her comic triumphs and misadventures as a biographer in search of her nine celebrated subjects, about how the hunt for a “life” is... Read more >
Adventures of a Biographer in Search of Her Subject
Written by Meryle Secrest
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: May 20, 2009
Price: $25.95
The first rule of biography, wrote Justin Kaplan: “Shoot the widow.”
In her new book, Meryle Secrest, acclaimed biographer (“Knowing, sympathetic and entertainingly droll”—The New York Times), writes about her comic triumphs and misadventures as a biographer in search of her nine celebrated subjects, about how the hunt for a “life” is... Read more >
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Beowulf on the Beach
What to Love and What to Skip in Literature's 50 Greatest Hits
Written by Jack Murnighan
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: May 19, 2009
Price: $15.00
Feel bad about not reading or not enjoying the so-called great books? Don’t sweat it, it’s not your fault. Did anyone tell you that Anna Karenina is a beach read, that Dickens is hilarious, that the Iliad’s battle scenes rival Hollywood’s for gore, or that Joyce is at his best when... Read more >
What to Love and What to Skip in Literature's 50 Greatest Hits
Written by Jack Murnighan
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: May 19, 2009
Price: $15.00
Feel bad about not reading or not enjoying the so-called great books? Don’t sweat it, it’s not your fault. Did anyone tell you that Anna Karenina is a beach read, that Dickens is hilarious, that the Iliad’s battle scenes rival Hollywood’s for gore, or that Joyce is at his best when... Read more >
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Beowulf on the Beach
Written by Jack Murnighan
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 19, 2009
Price: $15.00
Feel bad about not reading or not enjoying the so-called great books? Don’t sweat it, it’s not your fault. Did anyone tell you that Anna Karenina is a beach read, that Dickens is hilarious, that the Iliad’s battle scenes rival Hollywood’s for gore, or that Joyce is at his best when... Read more >
Written by Jack Murnighan
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 19, 2009
Price: $15.00
Feel bad about not reading or not enjoying the so-called great books? Don’t sweat it, it’s not your fault. Did anyone tell you that Anna Karenina is a beach read, that Dickens is hilarious, that the Iliad’s battle scenes rival Hollywood’s for gore, or that Joyce is at his best when... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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The Sackett Companion
Written by Louis L'Amour
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2009
Price: $16.00
Little did Louis L'Amour realize back in 1960 when he published The Daybreakers, a novel about two brothers who came west after the Civil War, that he had begun creating what would become perhaps North America's most widely followed literary family: the Sacketts. The stories of ten generations of Sackett men... Read more >
Written by Louis L'Amour
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2009
Price: $16.00
Little did Louis L'Amour realize back in 1960 when he published The Daybreakers, a novel about two brothers who came west after the Civil War, that he had begun creating what would become perhaps North America's most widely followed literary family: the Sacketts. The stories of ten generations of Sackett men... Read more >
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13 Ways of Looking at the Novel
Written by Jane Smiley
Format: eBook, 608 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $15.95
Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling novelist Jane Smiley celebrates the novel–and takes us on an exhilarating tour through one hundred of them–in this seductive and immensely rewarding literary tribute.
In her inimitable style–exuberant, candid, opinionated–Smiley explores the power of the novel, looking at its history and variety, its cultural impact, and just... Read more >
Written by Jane Smiley
Format: eBook, 608 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $15.95
Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling novelist Jane Smiley celebrates the novel–and takes us on an exhilarating tour through one hundred of them–in this seductive and immensely rewarding literary tribute.
In her inimitable style–exuberant, candid, opinionated–Smiley explores the power of the novel, looking at its history and variety, its cultural impact, and just... Read more >
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Bibliotherapy
The Girl's Guide to Books for Every Phase of Our Lives
Written by Beverly West and Nancy Peske
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $14.95
Because women read books differently than guys do...
Every woman knows ... books are more than a way to kill time on the bus — they're therapy that fits in our bag. Whether we're wallowing in a sullen perennial adolescence or our biological clock is ringing and we can't find the snooze... Read more >
The Girl's Guide to Books for Every Phase of Our Lives
Written by Beverly West and Nancy Peske
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $14.95
Because women read books differently than guys do...
Every woman knows ... books are more than a way to kill time on the bus — they're therapy that fits in our bag. Whether we're wallowing in a sullen perennial adolescence or our biological clock is ringing and we can't find the snooze... Read more >
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Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading
Finding and Losing Myself in Books
Written by Maureen Corrigan
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
As book reviewer for NPR’s Fresh Air and contributor to many publications, Maureen Corrigan literally reads for a living. For as long as she can remember, books have been at the center of her life, a never-failing source of astonishment, hard truths, new horizons, and welcome companionship. Now Corrigan has added... Read more >
Finding and Losing Myself in Books
Written by Maureen Corrigan
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
As book reviewer for NPR’s Fresh Air and contributor to many publications, Maureen Corrigan literally reads for a living. For as long as she can remember, books have been at the center of her life, a never-failing source of astonishment, hard truths, new horizons, and welcome companionship. Now Corrigan has added... Read more >
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A Passion for Books
A Book Lover's Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Lore, and Lists on Collecting , Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books
Edited by Harold Rabinowitz and Rob Kaplan
Foreword by Ray Bradbury
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $16.95
"When I have a little money, I buy books. And if any is left, I buy food and clothing."
--Desiderius Erasmus
Those who share Erasmus's love of those curious bundles of paper bound together between hard or soft covers know exactly how he felt. These are the people who can spend hours browsing... Read more >
A Book Lover's Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Lore, and Lists on Collecting , Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books
Edited by Harold Rabinowitz and Rob Kaplan
Foreword by Ray Bradbury
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $16.95
"When I have a little money, I buy books. And if any is left, I buy food and clothing."
--Desiderius Erasmus
Those who share Erasmus's love of those curious bundles of paper bound together between hard or soft covers know exactly how he felt. These are the people who can spend hours browsing... Read more >
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Power, Politics, and Culture
Written by Edward W. Said
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $16.00
Edward Said has long been considered one of the world’s most compelling public intellectuals, taking on a remarkable array of topics with his many publications. But no single book has encompassed the vast scope of his stimulating erudition quite like Power, Politics, and Culture, a collection of interviews from the last... Read more >
Written by Edward W. Said
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $16.00
Edward Said has long been considered one of the world’s most compelling public intellectuals, taking on a remarkable array of topics with his many publications. But no single book has encompassed the vast scope of his stimulating erudition quite like Power, Politics, and Culture, a collection of interviews from the last... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Recovering Your Story
Proust, Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, Morrison
Written by Arnold Weinstein
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $26.95
“Great art discovers for us who we are,” writes eminent literature professor and critic Arnold Weinstein in this magisterial new book about how we can better uncover and understand our own stories by reading five major modern writers. Professor Weinstein, author of the highly acclaimed A Scream Goes Through the House... Read more >
Proust, Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, Morrison
Written by Arnold Weinstein
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $26.95
“Great art discovers for us who we are,” writes eminent literature professor and critic Arnold Weinstein in this magisterial new book about how we can better uncover and understand our own stories by reading five major modern writers. Professor Weinstein, author of the highly acclaimed A Scream Goes Through the House... Read more >
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hardcover.
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A Scream Goes Through the House
What Literature Teaches Us About Life
Written by Arnold Weinstein
Format: eBook, 480 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
“For too long we have been encouraged to see culture as an affair of intellect, and reading as a solitary exercise. But the truth is different: literature and art are pathways of feeling, and our encounter with them is social, inscribing us in a larger community... Through art we discover that... Read more >
What Literature Teaches Us About Life
Written by Arnold Weinstein
Format: eBook, 480 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
“For too long we have been encouraged to see culture as an affair of intellect, and reading as a solitary exercise. But the truth is different: literature and art are pathways of feeling, and our encounter with them is social, inscribing us in a larger community... Through art we discover that... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Teaching Stories
An Anthology on the Power of Learning and Literature
Written by Robert Coles
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
In this remarkable anthology, some of the world’s greatest writers provide a master class on the transformative power of learning and literature. Culled from a course developed by Pulitzer Prize—winning author Robert Coles for the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Teaching Stories is an invaluable collection in which novelists, essayists, and... Read more >
An Anthology on the Power of Learning and Literature
Written by Robert Coles
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
In this remarkable anthology, some of the world’s greatest writers provide a master class on the transformative power of learning and literature. Culled from a course developed by Pulitzer Prize—winning author Robert Coles for the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Teaching Stories is an invaluable collection in which novelists, essayists, and... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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The Triumph of the Thriller
How Cops, Crooks, and Cannibals Captured Popular Fiction
Written by Patrick Anderson
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 6, 2007
Price: $24.95
There’s been a revolution in American popular fiction. The writers who dominated the bestseller lists a generation ago with blockbuster novels about movie stars and exotic foreign lands have been replaced by a new generation writing a new kind of bestseller, one that hooks readers with crime, suspense, and ever-increasing violence... Read more >
How Cops, Crooks, and Cannibals Captured Popular Fiction
Written by Patrick Anderson
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 6, 2007
Price: $24.95
There’s been a revolution in American popular fiction. The writers who dominated the bestseller lists a generation ago with blockbuster novels about movie stars and exotic foreign lands have been replaced by a new generation writing a new kind of bestseller, one that hooks readers with crime, suspense, and ever-increasing violence... Read more >
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hardcover.
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The Triumph of the Thriller
How Cops, Crooks, and Cannibals Captured Popular Fiction
Written by Patrick Anderson
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: February 6, 2007
Price: $24.95
There’s been a revolution in American popular fiction. The writers who dominated the bestseller lists a generation ago with blockbuster novels about movie stars and exotic foreign lands have been replaced by a new generation writing a new kind of bestseller, one that hooks readers with crime, suspense, and ever-increasing violence... Read more >
How Cops, Crooks, and Cannibals Captured Popular Fiction
Written by Patrick Anderson
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: February 6, 2007
Price: $24.95
There’s been a revolution in American popular fiction. The writers who dominated the bestseller lists a generation ago with blockbuster novels about movie stars and exotic foreign lands have been replaced by a new generation writing a new kind of bestseller, one that hooks readers with crime, suspense, and ever-increasing violence... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading
Finding and Losing Myself in Books
Written by Maureen Corrigan
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 2, 2007
Price: $14.95
“It’s not that I don’t like people,” writes Maureen Corrigan in her introduction to Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading. “It’s just that there always comes a moment when I’m in the company of others—even my nearest and dearest—when I’d rather be reading a book.” In this delightful memoir, Corrigan reveals which... Read more >
Finding and Losing Myself in Books
Written by Maureen Corrigan
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 2, 2007
Price: $14.95
“It’s not that I don’t like people,” writes Maureen Corrigan in her introduction to Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading. “It’s just that there always comes a moment when I’m in the company of others—even my nearest and dearest—when I’d rather be reading a book.” In this delightful memoir, Corrigan reveals which... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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13 Ways of Looking at the Novel
Written by Jane Smiley
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $15.95
Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling novelist Jane Smiley celebrates the novel–and takes us on an exhilarating tour through one hundred of them–in this seductive and immensely rewarding literary tribute.
In her inimitable style–exuberant, candid, opinionated–Smiley explores the power of the novel, looking at its history and variety, its cultural impact, and just... Read more >
Written by Jane Smiley
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $15.95
Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling novelist Jane Smiley celebrates the novel–and takes us on an exhilarating tour through one hundred of them–in this seductive and immensely rewarding literary tribute.
In her inimitable style–exuberant, candid, opinionated–Smiley explores the power of the novel, looking at its history and variety, its cultural impact, and just... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Recovering Your Story
Proust, Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, Morrison
Written by Arnold Weinstein
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: March 14, 2006
Price: $26.95
“Great art discovers for us who we are,” writes eminent literature professor and critic Arnold Weinstein in this magisterial new book about how we can better uncover and understand our own stories by reading five major modern writers. Professor Weinstein, author of the highly acclaimed A Scream Goes Through the House... Read more >
Proust, Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, Morrison
Written by Arnold Weinstein
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: March 14, 2006
Price: $26.95
“Great art discovers for us who we are,” writes eminent literature professor and critic Arnold Weinstein in this magisterial new book about how we can better uncover and understand our own stories by reading five major modern writers. Professor Weinstein, author of the highly acclaimed A Scream Goes Through the House... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Teaching Stories
An Anthology on the Power of Learning and Literature
Written by Robert Coles
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: August 31, 2004
Price: $14.95
In this remarkable anthology, some of the world’s greatest writers provide a master class on the transformative power of learning and literature. Culled from a course developed by Pulitzer Prize—winning author Robert Coles for the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Teaching Stories is an invaluable collection in which novelists, essayists, and... Read more >
An Anthology on the Power of Learning and Literature
Written by Robert Coles
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: August 31, 2004
Price: $14.95
In this remarkable anthology, some of the world’s greatest writers provide a master class on the transformative power of learning and literature. Culled from a course developed by Pulitzer Prize—winning author Robert Coles for the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Teaching Stories is an invaluable collection in which novelists, essayists, and... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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A Scream Goes Through the House
What Literature Teaches Us About Life
Written by Arnold Weinstein
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: August 10, 2004
Price: $14.95
“For too long we have been encouraged to see culture as an affair of intellect, and reading as a solitary exercise. But the truth is different: literature and art are pathways of feeling, and our encounter with them is social, inscribing us in a larger community... Through art we discover that... Read more >
What Literature Teaches Us About Life
Written by Arnold Weinstein
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: August 10, 2004
Price: $14.95
“For too long we have been encouraged to see culture as an affair of intellect, and reading as a solitary exercise. But the truth is different: literature and art are pathways of feeling, and our encounter with them is social, inscribing us in a larger community... Through art we discover that... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Latin American Writers at Work
Written by Paris Review
Introduction by Derek Wolcott
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: March 18, 2003
Price: $13.95
The fourth book in the Modern Library’s Paris Review Writers at Work series, Latin American Writers at Work is a thundering collection of interviews with some of the most important and acclaimed Latin American writers of our time. These fascinating conversations were compiled from the annals of The Paris Review and... Read more >
Written by Paris Review
Introduction by Derek Wolcott
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: March 18, 2003
Price: $13.95
The fourth book in the Modern Library’s Paris Review Writers at Work series, Latin American Writers at Work is a thundering collection of interviews with some of the most important and acclaimed Latin American writers of our time. These fascinating conversations were compiled from the annals of The Paris Review and... Read more >
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A Love of Reading
Reviews of Contemporary Fiction
Written by Robert Adams
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2002
Price: $16.95
Every year, Robert Adams prepares a series of five reviews of contemporary novels, to be delivered alone on a theatre stage to sold-out audiences in Toronto and Montreal. In A Love of Reading Adams has now gathered 18 of his most brilliant reviews, from Jack Maggs by Peter Carey and The... Read more >
Reviews of Contemporary Fiction
Written by Robert Adams
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2002
Price: $16.95
Every year, Robert Adams prepares a series of five reviews of contemporary novels, to be delivered alone on a theatre stage to sold-out audiences in Toronto and Montreal. In A Love of Reading Adams has now gathered 18 of his most brilliant reviews, from Jack Maggs by Peter Carey and The... Read more >
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Power, Politics, and Culture
Written by Edward W. Said
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: August 27, 2002
Price: $16.00
Edward Said has long been considered one of the world’s most compelling public intellectuals, taking on a remarkable array of topics with his many publications. But no single book has encompassed the vast scope of his stimulating erudition quite like Power, Politics, and Culture, a collection of interviews from the last... Read more >
Written by Edward W. Said
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: August 27, 2002
Price: $16.00
Edward Said has long been considered one of the world’s most compelling public intellectuals, taking on a remarkable array of topics with his many publications. But no single book has encompassed the vast scope of his stimulating erudition quite like Power, Politics, and Culture, a collection of interviews from the last... Read more >
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eBook.
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Libraries and the Assault on Paper
Written by Nicholson Baker
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 13, 2002
Price: $14.00
Since the 1950s, our country’s greatest libraries have, as a matter of common practice, dismantled their collections of original bound newspapers and so-called brittle books, replacing them with microfilmed copies. The marketing of the brittle-paper crisis and the real motives behind it are the subject of this passionately argued book, in... Read more >
Libraries and the Assault on Paper
Written by Nicholson Baker
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 13, 2002
Price: $14.00
Since the 1950s, our country’s greatest libraries have, as a matter of common practice, dismantled their collections of original bound newspapers and so-called brittle books, replacing them with microfilmed copies. The marketing of the brittle-paper crisis and the real motives behind it are the subject of this passionately argued book, in... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Libraries and the Assault on Paper
Written by Nicholson Baker
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2002
Price: $14.00
The ostensible purpose of a library is to preserve the printed word. But for fifty years our country’s libraries–including the Library of Congress–have been doing just the opposite, destroying hundreds of thousands of historic newspapers and replacing them with microfilm copies that are difficult to read, lack all the color and... Read more >
Libraries and the Assault on Paper
Written by Nicholson Baker
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2002
Price: $14.00
The ostensible purpose of a library is to preserve the printed word. But for fifty years our country’s libraries–including the Library of Congress–have been doing just the opposite, destroying hundreds of thousands of historic newspapers and replacing them with microfilm copies that are difficult to read, lack all the color and... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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