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10 best books like Gidget (Frederick Kohner): Autobiography of a Face, Christmas Shopaholic, Sacred Time, George W. Bushisms: The Slate Book of Accidental Wit and Wisdom of Our 43rd President, The Little Locksmith, The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000, The Holy Barbarians, Brigadoon (Vocal Score), Fat Land, The Art of Fiction

Autobiography of a Face
AuthorLucy Grealy
ISBN0060569662
I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking different from everyone else. It was the pain from that, from feeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great tragedy of my life. The fact that I had cancer seemed minor...
Christmas Shopaholic
AuthorSophie Kinsella
ISBN1787631974
Celebrate Christmas with the ultimate Shopaholic!

The brilliant laugh-out-loud festive novel from the Number One bestselling author.

Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) adores Christmas. It's always the same – Mum and Dad hosting, carols playing, Mum pretending she made the Christmas...
Sacred Time
AuthorUrsula Hegi
ISBN0743255992
The bestselling author of Stones from the River delivers her most ambitious and dramatic novel yet -- the unforgettable story of an endearing, but also flawed, Italian American family. In December 1953 Anthony Amedeo's world is nested in his Bronx neighborhood, his parents' Studebaker, the Paradise...
George W. Bushisms: The Slate Book of Accidental Wit and Wisdom of Our 43rd President
AuthorJacob Weisberg
ISBN0743222229
They misunderestimated me."

Or did they?

Judge for yourself. Here are over 100 memorable misstatements by our syntactically challenged president, collected, annotated, and introduced by Slate magazine's Jacob Weisberg.

"I know the human being and fish can coexist...
The Little Locksmith
AuthorKatharine Butler Hathaway
ISBN1558612394
The Little Locksmith, Katharine Butler Hathaway's luminous memoir of disability, faith, and transformation, is a critically acclaimed but largely forgotten literary classic brought back into print for the first time in thirty years. The Little Locksmith begins in 1895 when a specialist straps...
The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000
AuthorGore Vidal
Like his National Book Award—winning United States, Gore Vidal’s scintillating ninth collection, The Last Empire, affirms his reputation as our most provocative critic and observer of the modern American scene. In the essays collected here, Vidal brings his keen intellect, experience, and...
The Holy Barbarians
AuthorLawrence Lipton
This is a Rory book. I'm not ashamed to admit it.
I loved that show, and I found some good titles that eventually became awesome books. So, yes. It's a Rory book... Don't question my sources. (?)

September 27, 2013

Update
Oh, yes. Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life will be released...
Brigadoon (Vocal Score)
AuthorAlan Jay Lerner
ISBN0769202225
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Fat Land
AuthorGreg Critser
ISBN0141015403
In this astonishing expose, journalist Greg Critser looks beyond the sensational headlines to reveal why nearly 60 percent of Americans are now overweight. Critser's sharp-eyed reportage and sharp-tongued analysis make for a disarmingly funny and truly alarming book. Critser investigates the...
The Art of Fiction
AuthorHenry James
ISBN1172438099



“Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance. ”
― Henry James

The short essay Criticism, the focus of my review, is part of this collection which includes...
New Poems of Emily Dickinson
AuthorEmily Dickinson
ISBN0807844160
For most of her life Emily Dickinson regularly embedded poems, disguised as prose, in her lively and thoughtful letters. Although many critics have commented on the poetic quality of Dickinson's letters, William Shurr is the first to draw fully developed poems from them. In this remarkable volume,...
Goldilocks & Three Bears: Bears Should Share!
AuthorAlvin Granowsky
ISBN0811466345
-- The non-traditional version is told through the eyes of the other characters, stimulating critical thought in young readers.
-- Flip-book format physically mimics the "two sides of the story", allowing easy comparisons.
-- Full-color artwork is executed in two distinct styles.
--...
The Legend of Bagger Vance: A Novel of Golf and the Game of Life
AuthorSteven Pressfield
ISBN0553813072
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'A marvellous, life-affirming book' Mark McCormack

'Golf and mysticism...a dazzler and a thought-provoker' Los Angeles Times

'Good stuff...a philosophical fantasy imagined on a golf course, heavy with fog, storm, fireworks and the howling winds...
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