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• Includes discussion questions: pages 219-220.
• Odd-job queen Starshine Hart is about to go on somebody else’s perfect date. Her lovers include one of the last underground members of the Weathermen and the dilettante heir to a lawn chair magnate. Both men have staked their romantic future on her. Her only respite is her impending dinner with the nonthreateatening but unattractive tour guide, Larry Bloom.But Larry, too, has a stake in her future. He has written a book about their impending dinner in which he fantasizes about Starshine’s life on the day he wins her heart.
• Hamline Bush Library: Donated by Jacob M. Appel, author.

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• Authors — Fiction.
• Tour guides (Persons) — New York (State) — New York — Fiction.
• New York (N.Y.) — Fiction.
• Authors. fast (OCoLC)fst00821688
• Tour guides (Persons) fast (OCoLC)fst01153125
• New York (State) — New York. fast (OCoLC)fst01204333
• Fiction. fast (OCoLC)fst01423787

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• Arnold Brinkmann is a timid, ultra-liberal botanist living in New York. He loves his plants, not his country. But when he accidentally insults the whole of America at a baseball game, he is drawn into an absurdist nightmare of press, preachers and pushy patriots. And it’s only going to get worse if he won’t apologize… — Page [4] of cover.

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• Political culture — United States — Fiction.
• Patriotism — Fiction.
• United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155
• Satire. gsafd
• Humorous fiction. gsafd
• Fiction. fast (OCoLC)fst01423787

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• Hue and cry — La tristesse des hérissons — Strings — Limerence — Einstein’s beach house — The rod of Asclepius — Sharing the hostage — Paracosmos.
• A couple adopts a depressed hedgehog a stranger shows up, claiming to be the father of a girl’s imaginary friend a woman kidnaps her ex-husband’s turtle a family is evicted from their home, but was it ever really theirs? Heartbreaking and hilarious, the eight stories of Einstein’s Beach House examine how we deceive ourselves and others, all to arrive at something far more real. –Back cover.
• Winner of the 2013 Pressgang Prize.

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• Short stories. fast (OCoLC)fst01726740
• Short stories. lcgft

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• Poetic images of cresting waves, mermaids, sunken ships, and other aspects of the sea.

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• Includes index.
• A collection of nineteen skits and plays based on traditional fables and stories containing universal truths.

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• Originally published in hardcover: New York : Shaye Areheart Books, 2006.
• Returning to her hometown after an eight-year absence and a short stay at a psychiatric hospital to investigate the murders of two girls, reporter Camille Preaker is reunited with her neurotic mother and enigmatic, thirteen-year-old half-sister as she works to uncover the truth about the killings.

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• Women journalists — Fiction.
• Girls — Crimes against — Fiction.
• Missouri — Fiction.
• Girls — Crimes against. fast (OCoLC)fst00942877
• Women journalists. fast (OCoLC)fst01178072
• Missouri. fast (OCoLC)fst01204724
• Suspense fiction. gsafd
• Fiction. fast (OCoLC)fst01423787

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• A collection of forty-eight limericks.

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• This is a Borzoi book.
• Six short stories with subjects ranging from a dejected teenager who discovers that the universe is communicating with him through talismanic objects left behind in a seagull’s nest to two vampires in a sun-drenched lemon grove who try helplessly to slake their thirst for blood.
• Vampires in the lemon grove — Reeling for the Empire — Seagull army descends on Strong Beach, 1979 — Proving up — Barn at the end of our term — Dougbert Shackleton’s rules for Antarctic tailgating — New veterans — Graveless doll of Eric Mutis.

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• Short stories, American.

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• Shannon Ravenel book.
• The popular author talks about three of her most personal relationships–with her parents, with her husband, and with a young Haitian boy known as Piti.

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• Alvarez, Julia — Friends and associates.
• Alvarez, Julia — Travel — Haiti.
• Authors, Dominican — 21st century — Biography.
• Haitians — Dominican Republic — Biography.

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