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1965: Eighteen-year-old Anthony, heir to a banking fortune, meets kohl-eyed and sultry teen adventuress Amanda at a party...
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The author traveled to Santa Fe to meet a blameless mnage à trois: talented sculptor Veryl Goodnight, her...
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Though closing in on 60, Aldo Bianchi has the body and energy of a man a generation younger....
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It's high-school hell, where jocks and geeks alike guzzle "diet vanilla cherry lime kiwi coke," scan car radios...
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A brand-new teenager in 1974, humorist Schneider spent eight weeks at kosher Camp Kin-a-Hurra (a seemingly Native-American term...
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With characteristic aplomb, British architectural historian Tinniswood adjusts his gaze to focus on the aristocratic Verneys, who had...
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On a whaling ship in 1962, Nathan (Nate) West died when he was knocked over and fell on...
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Investigating a campfire in the woods behind his Vermont home, 43-year-old Hewitt Pearce finds spaced-out Jessica Kress, clearly...
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Get ready to be bombarded by superlatives as the world's leading supervillain, Doctor Impossible, introduces himself. He's "the...
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Müller's tale, originally published in Switzerland, loses nothing in translation, proving that precocious preschoolers are alike worldwide. In...
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Kerley offers beautiful images of harmony and love from around the world. "All it takes is one hand,"...
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Though not entirely sappy, this inoffensive collection of bedtime rhymes doesn't exactly charm, either. A series of animal...
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Chatty and knowledgeable about today's etiquette, a little girl named Harriet with red "curly burly" locks demonstrates good...
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Taking his cue from "Dover Beach," Matthew Arnold's musing on isolation and anxiety in a world without faith,...
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Eight-year-old Bulu tells of the two wild children, Kamala and Amala, who were brought to her Indian orphanage...
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Prelutsky's poem, which originally appeared in The Random House Book of Poetry for Children (1983), propels French artist...
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A young narrator afflicted by an older relative with a fondness for playing head games finally exacts sweet...
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Chickens roost thickly on library and bookstore shelves these days, but Pauline Poulet stands out—both for plucky courage...
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Sacre bleu! With Monsieur Monmouton the farmer and his faithful dog Cabot again in hot pursuit, the barnyard...
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Divided from a close friend by death, from her twin sons by the impenetrable fog of adolescence, the...
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