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A Changed Man [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Francine Prose
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On an unseasonably warm spring afternoon, a young neo-Nazi named Vincent Nolan walks into the Manhattan office of World Brotherhood Watch, a human rights foundation headed by a charismatic Holocaust survivor, Meyer Maslow. Vincent announces that he wants to make a radical change in his life. But what is Maslow to make of this rough-looking stranger who claims to have read Maslow's books, who has Waffen-SS tattoos under his shirtsleeves, and who says that his mission is to save guys like him from... more info>>
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Anne Frank [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
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In June 1942, Anne Frank received a red-and-white- checked diary for her thirteenth birthday, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding in an Amsterdam attic to escape the Nazis. For two years, with ever-increasing maturity, Anne crafted a memoir that has become one of the most compelling documents of modern history. She described life in vivid, unforgettable detail, explored apparently irreconcilable views of human nature--people are good at heart but capable of unimaginable evil--a... more info>>
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Blue Angel [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Francine Prose
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It's been years since Swenson, a professor in a New England creative writing program, has published a novel. It's been even longer since any of his students have shown promise. Enter Angela Argo, a pierced, tattooed student with a rare talent for writing. Angela is just the thing Swenson needs. And, better yet, she wants his help. But, as we all know, the road to hell is paved with good intentions ... Deliciously risque, Blue Angel is a withering take on today's academic mores and a scathing ta... more info>>
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Bullyville [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Francine Prose
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My father was killed on 9/11. Everybody in town knows we lost him forever when the North Tower collapsed. What they don't know is that he was gone long before that day. What they don't know is that a scholarship to exclusive Baileywell Academy only made my life worse. What they don't know is that my mentor at Baileywell is my own personal terrorist. Everybody calls me Miracle Boy. What nobody knows is that it's a miracle I'm still here to tell you the real story about the worst year of my life. ... more info>>
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Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Francine Prose
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Francine Prose's life of Caravaggio evokes the genius of this great artist through a brilliant reading of his paintings. Caravaggio defied the aesthetic conventions of his time; his use of ordinary people, realistically portrayed--street boys, prostitutes, the poor, the aged--was a profound and revolutionary innovation that left its mark on generations of artists. His insistence on painting from nature, on rendering the emotional truth of experience, whether religious or secular, makes him an ar... more info>>
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Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Francine Prose
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Long before there were creative-writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says Francine Prose. In Reading Like a Writer, Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters. She reads the work of the very best writers--Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, Kafka, Austen, Dickens, Woolf, Chekhov--and discovers why their work has endured. She takes pleasure in the long an... more info>>
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The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Francine Prose
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In a brilliant, wry, and provocative new book, National Book Award finalist Francine Prose explores the complex relationship between the artist and his muse. In so doing, she illuminates with great sensitivity and intelligence the elusive emotional wellsprings of the creative process. There is no ideal muse, but rather as many variations on the theme as there are individual women who have had the luck, or misfortune, to find their destiny conjoined with that of a particular artist. What are we t... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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The Old Wives' Tale [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Arnold Bennett, Francine Prose
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First published in 1908, The Old Wives' Tale affirms the integrity of ordinary lives as it tells the story of the Baines sisters--shy, retiring Constance and defiant, romantic Sophia--over the course of nearly half a century. Bennett traces the sisters' lives from childhood in their father's drapery shop in provincial Bursley, England, during the mid-Victorian era, through their married lives, to the modern industrial age, when they are reunited as old women. The setting moves from the Five Town... more info>>
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Touch [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Francine Prose
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What really happened at the back of the bus? Did they, or didn't they? Did she, or didn't she? Something happened to fourteen-year-old Maisie Willard--something involving her three friends, all boys. But their stories don't match, and the rumors spin out of control. Then other people get involved ... the school, the parents, the lawyers. The incident at the back of the bus becomes the center of Maisie's life and the talk of the school, and, horribly, it becomes news. With just a few words and... more info>>
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