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Portlanders

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Portlanders is a collection of stories about the residents of the largest city in the state of Oregon. The people are presented with sympathy and understand and, on occasion, with disappointment. The stories are not autobiographical but, rather, are my impressions of the particular grit and temper of the residents. ... Read more

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Portlanders is a collection of stories about the residents of the largest city in the state of Oregon. The people are presented with sympathy and understand and, on occasion, with disappointment. The stories are not autobiographical but, rather, are my impressions of the particular grit and temper of the residents.
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Northwest Savage

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Northwest Savage is a collection of personal essays about growing up in the Pacific Northwest. The essays are about boys and baseball, family and independence, hardship and misfortune; in other words, about all sorts of ruptures and communion that comprise a single life. ... Read more

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Northwest Savage is a collection of personal essays about growing up in the Pacific Northwest. The essays are about boys and baseball, family and independence, hardship and misfortune; in other words, about all sorts of ruptures and communion that comprise a single life.
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True Distance

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True Distance is a collection of essays by a long distance runner about his impressions of running on tracks and roads and hills and beaches in the Pacific Northwest and numerous other places. ... Read more

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True Distance is a collection of essays by a long distance runner about his impressions of running on tracks and roads and hills and beaches in the Pacific Northwest and numerous other places.
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Hours Dreadful and Things Strange

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Hours Dreadful and Things Strange is a personal account of the making of an American soldier. It describes in vivid detail what it was like for a recruit to go through Basic Combat Training at Fort Polk, Louisiana during the era of the Vietnam War. ... Read more

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Hours Dreadful and Things Strange is a personal account of the making of an American soldier. It describes in vivid detail what it was like for a recruit to go through Basic Combat Training at Fort Polk, Louisiana during the era of the Vietnam War.
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Let Me Finish

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Essays from the award-winning New Yorker writer and author of This Old Man: "Witty, worldly, deeply elegiac, and…heartbreaking."— The Boston GlobeFor more than fifty years, as both editor of and contributor for The New Yorker, Roger Angell has honed a reputation as a master of the autobiographic essay—sharp-witted, plucky, and at once nostalgic and unsentimental.In Let Me Finish, Angell reflects. ... Read more

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Essays from the award-winning New Yorker writer and author of This Old Man: "Witty, worldly, deeply elegiac, and…heartbreaking."— The Boston GlobeFor more than fifty years, as both editor of and contributor for The New Yorker, Roger Angell has honed a reputation as a master of the autobiographic essay—sharp-witted, plucky, and at once nostalgic and unsentimental.In Let Me Finish, Angell reflects.
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Americana

Dispatches from the New Frontier

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Harley-Davidson bikers • Grand Canyon river rats • Mormon archaeologists • Spelling bee prodigies • For more than fifteen years, the bestselling, award-winning author of Blood and Thunder and Ghost Soldiers has traveled widely across the continent exploring the America that lurks just behind the scrim of our mainstream culture.This sparkling mosaic of our country, in all its wild and poignant ... Read more

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Harley-Davidson bikers • Grand Canyon river rats • Mormon archaeologists • Spelling bee prodigies • For more than fifteen years, the bestselling, award-winning author of Blood and Thunder and Ghost Soldiers has traveled widely across the continent exploring the America that lurks just behind the scrim of our mainstream culture.This sparkling mosaic of our country, in all its wild and poignant
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Chicago

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This lyrical tale of a young man's first foray into adulthood offers "a moving ode to the city of Chicago and the singular nature of its people" ( Booklist, starred review)On the last day of summer, a young college grad moves to Chicago and rents a small apartment on the north side of the city, by the lake. This is the story of the five seasons he lives there in the late 1970s, during which he ... Read more

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This lyrical tale of a young man's first foray into adulthood offers "a moving ode to the city of Chicago and the singular nature of its people" ( Booklist, starred review)On the last day of summer, a young college grad moves to Chicago and rents a small apartment on the north side of the city, by the lake. This is the story of the five seasons he lives there in the late 1970s, during which he
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Americana

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**“DeLillo’s swift, ironic, and witty cross-country American nightmare doesn't have a dull or an unoriginal line.”—Rolling StoneThe first novel by Don DeLillo, author of the National Book Award–winning White Noise**At twenty-eight, David Bell is living the American Dream. He has fought his way to the top, becoming a top television executive who has captivated America’s imagination through the ... Read more

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**“DeLillo’s swift, ironic, and witty cross-country American nightmare doesn't have a dull or an unoriginal line.”—Rolling StoneThe first novel by Don DeLillo, author of the National Book Award–winning White Noise**At twenty-eight, David Bell is living the American Dream. He has fought his way to the top, becoming a top television executive who has captivated America’s imagination through the
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On the Ridge Between Life and Death

A Climbing Life Reexamined

by David Roberts ...

What compels mountain climbers to take the risks that they do? Is it the thrill in the physical accomplishment, in managing to defy the odds, or both -- and why do they continue to do what they do in the face of such great danger? In On the Ridge Between Life and Death, David Roberts confronts these questions head-on as he recounts the exhilarating highs and desperate lows of his climbing career. ... Read more

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What compels mountain climbers to take the risks that they do? Is it the thrill in the physical accomplishment, in managing to defy the odds, or both -- and why do they continue to do what they do in the face of such great danger? In On the Ridge Between Life and Death, David Roberts confronts these questions head-on as he recounts the exhilarating highs and desperate lows of his climbing career.
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Life Is a Wheel

Memoirs of a Bike-Riding Obituarist

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Life Is a Wheel chronicles the cross-country bicycle trip Bruce Weber made at the age of fifty-seven, an “entertaining travel story filled with insightful thoughts about life, family, and aging” (The Associated Press).During the summer and fall of 2011, Bruce Weber, an obituary writer for The New York Times, bicycled across the country, alone, and wrote about it as it unfolded. Life Is a Wheel is ... Read more

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Life Is a Wheel chronicles the cross-country bicycle trip Bruce Weber made at the age of fifty-seven, an “entertaining travel story filled with insightful thoughts about life, family, and aging” (The Associated Press).During the summer and fall of 2011, Bruce Weber, an obituary writer for The New York Times, bicycled across the country, alone, and wrote about it as it unfolded. Life Is a Wheel is
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The Only Game in Town

Sportswriting from The New Yorker

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For more than eighty years, The New Yorker has been home to some of the toughest, wisest, funniest, and most moving sportswriting around. The Only Game in Town is a classic collection from a magazine with a deep bench, including such authors as Roger Angell, John Updike, Don DeLillo, and John McPhee. Hall of Famer Ring Lardner is here, bemoaning the lowering of standards for baseball achievement ... Read more

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For more than eighty years, The New Yorker has been home to some of the toughest, wisest, funniest, and most moving sportswriting around. The Only Game in Town is a classic collection from a magazine with a deep bench, including such authors as Roger Angell, John Updike, Don DeLillo, and John McPhee. Hall of Famer Ring Lardner is here, bemoaning the lowering of standards for baseball achievement
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The Purple Decades

A Reader

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The essential collection of Tom Wolfe’s writing on a turning-point era in modern American culture.The Purple Decades brings together the author's selections from his list of critically acclaimed publications, including the complete text of Mau-Mauing and the Flak Catchers, his account of the wild games the poverty program encouraged minority groups to play.It was in the 1960s and 1970s—those ... Read more

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The essential collection of Tom Wolfe’s writing on a turning-point era in modern American culture.The Purple Decades brings together the author's selections from his list of critically acclaimed publications, including the complete text of Mau-Mauing and the Flak Catchers, his account of the wild games the poverty program encouraged minority groups to play.It was in the 1960s and 1970s—those
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