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  • Other Men's Daughters

    A Novel

    by Richard Stern ...
    "A beautifully written novel that should be read by everyone who cares about the human condition." — The Philadelphia InquirerHarvard physiologist Robert Merriwether has four whip-smart children, an attractive and intelligent wife, and a successful, stimulating career. True, he and Sarah have not slept together in years, and when he decides to stay behind in Cambridge for the summer while the rest ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Golk

    A Novel

    by Richard Stern ...
    "The first really good book I have read about television." —Norman MailerIn midcentury America, one man is determined to take over the airwaves with a program as audacious as it is entertaining. Bald, bombastic, and irresistible, Golk is his name and You're On Camera is his show. To "golk" someone is to trick her, on camera, into betraying her true nature. The more combative the personality, the ... Read more

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  • A Father's Words

    A Novel

    by Richard Stern ...
    A tale of the battles between a father and son by an author whose novels are "robustly intelligent, very funny, and beguilingly humane" (Philip Roth).Cy Riemer is the patriarch of a successful and loving Chicago family. But not all is copacetic in Cy's world. The scientific newsletter he publishes is foundering financially, his ex-wife still relies on him for money and intimacy, and he can never ... Read more

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  • Europe

    Or, Up and Down with Schreiber and Baggish

    by Richard Stern ...
    Cultures and egos clash in this hilarious tale of two American men trying to start over again in EuropeFor Max Schreiber, World War II was an idyll. It is the return home to Connecticut that feels like entering a combat zone. Ridiculed by his wife and daughter, bored by his legal practice, Schreiber spends his evenings drinking and eating alone, hoping that when he goes to sleep he will dream of ... Read more

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  • Stitch

    A Novel

    by Richard Stern ...
    In one of the world's most beautiful cities, an aging sculptor serves as an inspiration and a warning to two aspiring artistsPursuing literary glory, Edward Gunther gives up his job as a copywriter, sells everything he owns, and moves with his wife and three children from Chicago to Venice. But success does not come as quickly or as painlessly as Edward had hoped. During his first month in Italy, ... Read more

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  • Unlocking Commercial Financing for Clean Energy in East Asia

    by Xiaodong Wang, Richard Stern, Dilip Limaye, Wolfgang Mostert, Yabei Zhang ...
    Series series Directions in Development - Energy and Mining
    This report draws lessons to date from recent international experience in applying public financing instruments to unlock commercial financing to scale-up clean energy in East Asia. It addresses the following issues: when to use public financing instruments; which instrument to select; and how to design and implement them most effectively. ... Read more

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  • Natural Shocks

    A Novel

    by Richard Stern ...
    A high-flying journalist comes to ground in this brilliant and bittersweet novel about coming to terms with the traumas of lifeFred Wursup has an enviable existence. Paid to travel around the world "harvesting the annual crop of stars and villains," he has a beautiful geophysicist girlfriend and a friendly relationship with his ex-wife, Susannah, whose living room he can see into from the roof of ... Read more

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  • Acoustic Wave Sensors

    Theory, Design and Physico-Chemical Applications

    by Robert M. White, S. J. Martin, Antonio J. Ricco, E. T. Zellers, G. C. Frye, H. Wohltjen, Moises Levy, Richard Stern, D. S. Ballantine Jr. ...
    Series series Applications of Modern Acoustics
    Written by an interdisciplinary group of experts from both industry and academia, Acoustic Wave Sensors provides an in-depth look at the current state of acoustic wave devices and the scope of their use in chemical, biochemical, and physical measurements, as well as in engineering applications. Because of the inherent interdisciplinary applications of these devices, this book will be useful for ... Read more

    $148.49 USD

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    Edited by David Remnick, Henry Finder ...
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  • The Early Stories

    1953-1975

    by John Updike ...
    Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionA harvest and not a winnowing, this volume collects 103 stories, almost all of the short fiction that John Updike wrote between 1953 and 1975. “How rarely it can be said of any of our great American writers that they have been equally gifted in both long and short forms,” reads the citation composed for John Updike upon his winning the 2006 Rea Award for ... Read more

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  • Donald Barthelme: Collected Stories (LOA #343)

    by Donald Barthelme ...
    The definitive collection of a twentieth-century master of the short story, whose unforgettable inventions revolutionized the formThe short stories of Donald Barthelme, revered by the likes of Thomas Pynchon and George Saunders, are gems of invention and pathos that have dazzled and delighted readers since the 1960s. Here, for the first time, these essential stories are preserved as they were ... Read more

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  • Fifty Contemporary Writers

    by Bradford Morrow ...
    Series Book 50 - Conjunctions
    From a PEN Award winner for Literary Editing: "Arguably the most distinguished journal of prose and poetry in America." — ElleConjunctions' milestone fiftieth issue gathers together the many voices, forms, and styles that have defined the legendary literary journal since it was launched by Bradford Morrow in 1981. Established masters like William H. Gass, John Ashbery, Richard Powers, Edwidge ... Read more

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