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David Guterson's first novel, Snow Falling
on Cedars, was a true ensemble piece, in which even a high-stakes murder trial
seemed like a judgment passed on the community at large. In his eloquent second novel,
however, the author swings dramatically...Read more
Reap the harvest of agricultural history with
this charming jigsaw puzzle. Antique seed package labels and postcards are strewn about a
black background with a smattering of miscellaneous insects, flowers, and seeds. F.X.
Schmid produces high-quality...Read more
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These 1957 recordings were the first of Miles Davis's collaborations with arranger Gil
Evans for Columbia, renewing a relationship that had begun with the Birth of
the Cool sessions in 1949. It was perhaps the most important relationship ever
forged...Read more
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Steve Martin has always been one of the most intelligent of comedians (you won't find Adam
Sandler writing a play about
Einstein and Picasso anytime soon), but this intelligence is manifested in
gymnastically absurdist flights of fancy, rather than...Read more
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The perfect gift set for the Wallace and Gromit fan. All three of animator Nick Park's
first adventures featuring the dotty inventor and his loyal but laconic dog--The Wrong
Trousers, A Close Shave, and A Grand Day Out--come wrapped together
and...Read more
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In 1949, 26-year old Hank Williams struck a deal with the makers of Hadacol to sponsor his
first syndicated radio series. Without it and these two-CD transcriptions of music and
between-song prattle, we might never have heard what he was like in his...Read more
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A decade after he first explored the small-town precincts of Lake Wobegon, Minnesota,
Garrison Keillor makes a comical return to his roots. Not that Wobegon Boy takes
place entirely within Mist County. The narrator, John Tollefson, made an early exit...Read more
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"The love impulse in man," says a psychiatrist in Bringing Up Baby,
"frequently reveals itself in terms of conflict." That's for sure. For a primer
on the rules and regulations of the classic screwball comedy, which throws love and
conflict into...Read more
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Marcel Proust's Remembrance
of Things Past is one of those books that people intend to read, but
instead sits undisturbed on bookshelves and bedside tables across the nation, gathering
dust with equally daunting classics such as Moby Dick,
Ulysses,...Read more
From 500 Great
Books by Women; review by Suzanne Leslie Simmons Cold Sassy Tree, a novel full of warm humor and honesty, is told by Willy Tweedy, a
fourteen-year-old boy living in a small, turn-of-the-century Georgia town. Will's hero is
his Grandpa Rucker, who runs the town's general store, carrying all the...Read more
Includes cardboard storage box, 24 note cards (4 each of 6 designs), and 24 envelopes
Cards feature details from 6 Tiffany leaded-glass windows: Wistaria, View of Oyster Bay,
Magnolias and Irises (two views), Grapevine, and Autumn Landscape
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Screenwriter William Goldman's novel The Princess Bride earned its own loyal
audience on the strength of its narrative voice and its gently satirical, hyperbolic spin
on swashbuckled adventure that seemed almost purely literary; for all its...Read more
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According to Arthur Golden's absorbing first novel, the word "geisha" does not
mean "prostitute," as Westerners ignorantly assume--it means "artisan"
or "artist." To capture the geisha experience in the art of...Read more
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The jet on the cover of Gerry Arling and Richard Cameron's first domestic release is no
accident: they're internationalists all the way, importing whatever kinds of pop fit into
their ideal of the perfect plastic dance. All In is packed full of...Read more
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Bill Bryson has made a living out of traveling and then writing about it. In The Lost
Continent he re-created the road trips of his childhood; in Neither Here nor There
he retraced the route he followed as a young backpacker traversing Europe. When...Read more
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Dionne Warwick's vocals were never more strong, more vulnerable than when she sang the
songs of Burt Bacharach and Hal David--and, oh, yeah, "Who Can I Turn To" and
the theme from "Valley of the Dolls," the two non-Bacharach/David songs
included...Read more
