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Floating Dragon
Peter Straub
Kruger’s Alp
Christopher Hope
White Biting Dog
Judith Thompson
The Engineer of Human Souls
Josef Skvorecky
The Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and Laurier
Sandra Gwyn
Celestial Navigation
Paulette Jiles
Startide Rising
David Brin
Virginia Woolf: A Writer’s Life
Lyndall Gordon
Empire of the Sun
J.G. Ballard
The Citadel of the Autarch
Gene Wolfe
The Mists of Avalon
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Startide Rising
David Brin
The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka
Ernst Pawel
Cities and the Wealth of Nations
Jane Jacobs
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera, Michael Henry Heim
The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History
Robert Darnton
The Maximus Poems
Charles Olson
Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-59
Joseph Frank
Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry
Robert Hass
Love Medicine
Louise Erdrich
Weapons and Hope
Freeman Dyson
The Dead and the Living
Sharon Olds
Startide Rising
David Brin
The Anubis Gates
Tim Powers
Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901–1915
Louis R. Harlan
The Social Transformation of American Medicine
Paul Starr
American Primitive
Mary Oliver
The Dragon Waiting
John M. Ford
Lost in the Devil’s Desert
Gloria Skurzynski
Nothing’s Fair in Fifth Grade
Barthe DeClements
A Little Fear
Patricia Wrightson
The Double Life of Pocahontas
Jean Fritz
Jonah and the Great Fish
Warwick Hutton
Nothing’s Fair in Fifth Grade
Barthe DeClements
E.T. The Extra Terrestrial Storybook
William Kotzwinkle
The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot
Alice Provensen
The Changeover
Margaret Mahy
Everett Anderson’s Goodbye
Lucille Clifton
My Mama Needs Me
Pat Cummings
The Queen of the Pharisees’ Children
Barbara Willard
A Parish of Rich Women
James Buchan
The Bay Psalm Book Murder
Will Harriss
The Callender Papers
Cynthia Voigt
Mrs. White
Margaret Tracy
Hiawatha’s Childhood
Errol Le Cain
During the Reign of the Queen of Persia
Joan Chase
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera
Dear Mr. Henshaw
Beverly Cleary
Sent for You Yesterday
John Edgar Wideman
Sign of the Beaver
Elizabeth George Speare
Creative Kind of Killer
Jack Early
Sugartown
Loren D. Estleman