Desert Solitaire
Autobiographical work by American writer Edward Abbey, originally published in 1968
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Comedy science fiction franchise created by Douglas Adams
Hatchet
1986 Newbery Honor-winning young-adult wilderness survival novel written by American writer Gary Paulsen.
In the Night Kitchen
Children’s picture book written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak, first published in 1970. The book depicts a young boy’s dream journey through a surreal baker’s kitchen where he assists in the creation of a cake to be ready by the morning
The Collected Stories
Brought together in a collection that includes works from Going Places.
Gold Coast
“Lean, mean, darkly funny.” —Boston Globe “A zingy thriller by the master of hard-boiled suspense.” —Dallas Morning News “Elmore Leonard may be the greatest crime novelist in the world,” declares the Seattle Times, and truer words have never been written. Just follow the Grand Master of mystery and suspense to Florida’s Gold Coast and you’ll …
How to Do Things with Words
British philosopher of language and leading proponent of ordinary language philosophy, perhaps best known for developing the theory of speech acts.Austin pointed out that we use language to do things as well as to assert things, and that the utterance of a statement like “I promise to do so-and-so” is best understood as doing something — making a promise — rather than making an assertion about anything
The William Tyndale Old Testament
Before the King James Version of the Bible, there was William Tyndale’s ‘heretical’ text. It was the first direct translation of the Old Testament from Hebrew into English and was thus a great threat to church power when it was published in the early 16th Century. As much as it was a triumph of personal …
Counting by 7s
First-person narrative of a precocious orphan dealing with the death of her parents