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Writers at the Movies: 26 Contemporary Authors Celebrate 26 Memorable Movies
Häftad, 2000
255 kr
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Unleashed
Poems by Writers'' Dogs
E-bok, 2007
79 kr
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Now in paperback, an irresistible gift for dog lovers: poems from the dogs'' point of view, written by the well known writers and poets who love them. List of contributors: Edward Albee, Jennifer Allen, Danny Anderson, Lynda Barry, Rick Bass, Charles Baxter, Robert Benson, Roy Blount, Jr., Ron …
Love and Hydrogen
New and Selected Stories
Av Jim Shepard
E-bok, 2007
158 kr
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I’ve been a problem baby, a lousy son, a distant brother, an off-putting neighbor, a piss-poor student, a worrisome seatmate, an unreliable employee, a bewildering lover, a frustrating confidante and a crappy husband. Among the things I do pretty well at this point I’d have to list darts, …
Project X
A Novel
Av Jim Shepard
E-bok, 2007
158 kr
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n the wilderness of junior high, Edwin Hanratty is at the bottom of the food chain. His teachers find him a nuisance. His fellow students consider him prey. And although his parents are not oblivious to his troubles, they can''t quite bring themselves to fathom the ruthless forces that demoralize …
Like You'd Understand, Anyway
Stories
Av Jim Shepard
E-bok, 2008
173 kr
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Following his widely acclaimed Project X and Love and Hydrogen —“Here is the effect of these two books,” wrote the Chicago Tribune: “A reader finishes them buzzing with awe”—Jim Shepard now gives us his first entirely new collection in more than a decade. Like You’d Understand, Anyway reaches from …
You Think That's Bad
Av Jim Shepard
E-bok, 2011
173 kr
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Following Like You’d Understand, Anyway —awarded the Story Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award—Jim Shepard returns with an even more wildly diverse collection of astonishingly observant stories. Like an expert curator, he populates the vastness of human experience—from its bizarre …
Phase Six
A novel
Av Jim Shepard
Häftad, 2022
149 kr
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This "novel of contagion and collapse is also the story of love’s unlikely survival in the most hostile conditions” (Karen Russell, bestselling author of Swamplandia! )—from the National Book Award-nominated author of The Book of Aron. In a tiny settlement on the west coast of Greenland, …
Phase Six
A novel
Av Jim Shepard
Häftad, 2021
348 kr
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This "novel of contagion and collapse is also the story of love’s unlikely survival in the most hostile conditions” (Karen Russell, bestselling author of Swamplandia! )—from the National Book Award-nominated author of The Book of Aron. In a tiny settlement on the west coast of Greenland, …
Queen of Bad Influences
Stories
Av Jim Shepard
Inbunden, 2026
312 kr
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Twelve compressed masterworks from this great American writer of catastrophe fiction, in which lives are upended as much by broken hearts as by collapsing dams, hideously mismanaged wars, gargantuan wildfires, and apocalyptic storms “Jim Shepard is a fantastic writer—compassionate, funny, and …
Nosferatu
A Novel
Av Jim Shepard
Häftad, 2005
296 kr
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From this prodigiously talented writer comes a stunningly original fictional life of the German director F. W. Murnau (1888–1931). Murnau ranks as a founding father of the cinema, not least for his legendary horror film, Nosferatu. Here he is revealed as a hermetic genius who turns against himself, …
Resilience Required
Surviving an Alcoholic Snake-pit to Building a Life of Purpose, Triumph, and Achievement
Av Jim Shepard
Häftad, 2026
263 kr
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Resilience Required
Surviving an Alcoholic Snake-pit to Building a Life of Purpose, Triumph, and Achievement
Av Jim Shepard
Inbunden, 2026
402 kr
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Book of Aron
A novel
Av Jim Shepard
E-bok, 2015
95 kr
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The acclaimed National Book Award finalist—“one of the United States’ finest writers,” according to Joshua Ferris, “full of wit, humanity, and fearless curiosity”—now gives us a novel that will join the short list of classics about children caught up in the Holocaust. Aron, the narrator, is an …
Ajax Is All About Attack
Av Jim Shepard
E-bok, 2015
16 kr
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A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection Velibor Vasovic is not political. He is a soccer player; has played for Partizan Belgrade and his national team. Scored Partizan’s only goal against Real Madrid in the European Cup. He is the rock supporting any defense. But in 1966, he starts playing …
Nosferatu
A Novel
Av Jim Shepard
E-bok, 2015
246 kr
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A New York Times Notable Book:The richly imagined fictional life of one of cinema''s founding fathers from National Book Award finalist Jim ShepardIn 1907, while waiting for a train that would take him from his quiet rural hometown to university in cosmopolitan Berlin, Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe met …
Kiss of the Wolf
A Novel
Av Jim Shepard
E-bok, 2015
166 kr
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A New York Times Notable Book:A lethal accident turns life into a waking nightmare for a mother and her son in this gripping novel of secrecy and dreadAbandoned by her husband, Joanie Mucherino and her eleven-year-old son, Todd, struggle to cope while dealing with their comically tactless and …
Paper Doll
A Novel
Av Jim Shepard
E-bok, 2015
246 kr
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During the air war over Germany, the crew of a B-17 Flying Fortress tries to achieve some competence as a unit before their most catastrophic mission yetThey call their plane "Paper Doll," the joke being its suggestion of flimsiness, inconsequence, and perishability, and none of them, from the …
Lights Out in the Reptile House
A Novel
Av Jim Shepard
E-bok, 2015
213 kr
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A shy and apolitical herpetologist-in-training finds the weight of history bearing down on him as the effects of repression ramp up in his countryIn an unspecified country that combines elements of Chile under its military regime, South Africa under apartheid, and Italy under fascism, …
Flights
A Novel
Av Jim Shepard
E-bok, 2015
17 kr
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A thirteen-year-old hatches a plan of escape, solace, and utter independence through a dream of flight that''s both literal and figurative in this engrossing novel by National Book Award finalist Jim ShepardAs beset by the world as any thirteen-year-old—and maybe a little more so—Biddy Siebert does …
World to Come
Stories
Av Jim Shepard
E-bok, 2017
88 kr
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"Without a doubt the most ambitious story writer in America," according to The Daily Beast, Jim Shepard now delivers a new collection that spans borders and centuries with unrivaled mastery. These ten stories ring with voices belonging to--among others--English Arctic explorers in one of history''s …
Phase Six
Av Jim Shepard
Häftad, 2022
132 kr
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"Jim Shepard is a fiction writer of peculiar but tantalizing gifts." The New York TimesIn a tiny settlement on the west coast of Greenland, 11-year-old Aleq and his best friend, frequent trespassers at a mining site exposed to mountains of long-buried and thawing permafrost, carry what they pick up …
Phase Six
Av Jim Shepard
E-bok, 2021
45 kr
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"Jim Shepard is a fiction writer of peculiar but tantalizing gifts." The New York Times In a tiny settlement on the west coast of Greenland, 11-year-old Aleq and his best friend, frequent trespassers at a mining site exposed to mountains of long-buried and thawing permafrost, carry what they pick …
You Think That's Bad
Stories
Av Jim Shepard
Ljudbok, 2011
270 kr
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Culling the vastness of experience—from its bizarre fringes and breathtaking pinnacles to the mediocre and desperately below average—like an expert curator, Jim Shepard populates this collection with characters at once wildly diverse and wholly fascinating. A “black world” operative can’t tell his …
