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Love Lane

An Alzheimer's Journey

by Ned P Hudson, Hannah H Laatsch ...

Love Lane is a deeply moving nonfiction memoir about love, devotion, and resilience in the face of Alzheimer's disease. Written by retired New York Times journalist Ned Hudson, the book chronicles his 65-year marriage to his wife Jean-from their youthful romance in the 1940s to the profound intimacy of her final years living with dementia.Set largely in Cape Cod, the story follows Ned and Jean as ... Read more

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Love Lane is a deeply moving nonfiction memoir about love, devotion, and resilience in the face of Alzheimer's disease. Written by retired New York Times journalist Ned Hudson, the book chronicles his 65-year marriage to his wife Jean-from their youthful romance in the 1940s to the profound intimacy of her final years living with dementia.Set largely in Cape Cod, the story follows Ned and Jean as
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Writing Fiction

A Guide to Narrative Craft

by Janet Burroway, Elizabeth Stuckey-French, Ned Stuckey-French ...

Series series Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
This updated edition of the classic, comprehensive guide to creative writing features new topics and writing prompts, contemporary examples, and more.A creative writer's shelf should hold at least three essential books: a dictionary, a style guide, and Janet Burroway's Writing Fiction. This best-selling classic is the most widely used creative writing text in America, and for decades it has helped ... Read more

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This updated edition of the classic, comprehensive guide to creative writing features new topics and writing prompts, contemporary examples, and more.A creative writer's shelf should hold at least three essential books: a dictionary, a style guide, and Janet Burroway's Writing Fiction. This best-selling classic is the most widely used creative writing text in America, and for decades it has helped
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Venomous Lumpsucker

by Ned Beauman ...

A dark and witty story of environmental collapse and runaway capitalism from the Booker-listed author of The Teleportation Accident.The near future. Tens of thousands of species are going extinct every year. And a whole industry has sprung up around their extinctions, to help us preserve the remnants, or perhaps just assuage our guilt. For instance, the biobanks: secure archives of DNA samples, ... Read more

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A dark and witty story of environmental collapse and runaway capitalism from the Booker-listed author of The Teleportation Accident.The near future. Tens of thousands of species are going extinct every year. And a whole industry has sprung up around their extinctions, to help us preserve the remnants, or perhaps just assuage our guilt. For instance, the biobanks: secure archives of DNA samples,
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It's Kind of a Funny Story

by Ned Vizzini ...

Like many ambitious New York City teenagers, Craig Gilner sees entry into Manhattan's Executive Pre-Professional High School as the ticket to his future. Determined to succeed at life—which means getting into the right high school to get into the right college to get the right job—Craig studies night and day to ace the entrance exam, and does. That's when things start to get crazy.At his new ... Read more

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Like many ambitious New York City teenagers, Craig Gilner sees entry into Manhattan's Executive Pre-Professional High School as the ticket to his future. Determined to succeed at life—which means getting into the right high school to get into the right college to get the right job—Craig studies night and day to ace the entrance exam, and does. That's when things start to get crazy.At his new
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Drawing on (angling) Experience

-a collision of art, science, fishing and life-

by Ned Pankhurst ...

The chance find in a Bristol bookstore in 1981 of an Edwardian illustrated fishing diary started trainee zoology researcher Ned Pankhurst on a gentle obsession to record his fly-fishing escapades in a series of illustrated diaries. The obsession has endured for over forty years and follows his path through life, career as a fish biologist, amateur artist and fly angler across continents and oceans ... Read more

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The chance find in a Bristol bookstore in 1981 of an Edwardian illustrated fishing diary started trainee zoology researcher Ned Pankhurst on a gentle obsession to record his fly-fishing escapades in a series of illustrated diaries. The obsession has endured for over forty years and follows his path through life, career as a fish biologist, amateur artist and fly angler across continents and oceans
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The World That Made New Orleans

From Spanish Silver to Congo Square

by Ned Sublette ...

Named one of the Top 10 Books of 2008 by The Times-Picayune.Winner of the 2009 Humanities Book of the Year award from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.Awarded the New Orleans Gulf South Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award for 2008.New Orleans is the most elusive of American cities. The product of the centuries-long struggle among three mighty empires--France, Spain, and ... Read more

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Named one of the Top 10 Books of 2008 by The Times-Picayune.Winner of the 2009 Humanities Book of the Year award from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.Awarded the New Orleans Gulf South Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award for 2008.New Orleans is the most elusive of American cities. The product of the centuries-long struggle among three mighty empires--France, Spain, and
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Enhancement

Short Stories

by Ned Stephenson ...

Enhancement is a collection of short stories that consider what life would be like if humans drew energy directly from sunlight. Why have we not altered our bodies so we can photosynthesise?How much of our life would change if we could do so? Perhaps we would eat less, rest more, reduce our damage to the environment, maybe live far into our hundreds.An Australian university student starts the ... Read more

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Enhancement is a collection of short stories that consider what life would be like if humans drew energy directly from sunlight. Why have we not altered our bodies so we can photosynthesise?How much of our life would change if we could do so? Perhaps we would eat less, rest more, reduce our damage to the environment, maybe live far into our hundreds.An Australian university student starts the
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Beastmaking

A fingers-first approach to becoming a better climber

by Ned Feehally ...

'When it comes to training for climbing, you are your own experiment.' Beastmaking by Ned Feehally is a book about training for climbing. It is designed to provide normal people – like you and me – with the tools we need to get the most out of our climbing. It is written by one of the world's top climbers and a co-founder of Beastmaker. It features sections on finger strength, fingerboarding, ... Read more

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'When it comes to training for climbing, you are your own experiment.' Beastmaking by Ned Feehally is a book about training for climbing. It is designed to provide normal people – like you and me – with the tools we need to get the most out of our climbing. It is written by one of the world's top climbers and a co-founder of Beastmaker. It features sections on finger strength, fingerboarding,
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Be More Chill

by Ned Vizzini ...

Jeremy Heere is your average high school dork. Day after day, he stares at beautiful Christine, the girl he can never have, and dryly notes the small humiliations that come his way. Until the day he learns about the "squip." A pill-sized supercomputer that you swallow, the squip is guaranteed to bring you whatever you most desire in life. By instructing him on everything from what to wear, to how ... Read more

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Jeremy Heere is your average high school dork. Day after day, he stares at beautiful Christine, the girl he can never have, and dryly notes the small humiliations that come his way. Until the day he learns about the "squip." A pill-sized supercomputer that you swallow, the squip is guaranteed to bring you whatever you most desire in life. By instructing him on everything from what to wear, to how
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The Self-Driven Child

The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives

by William Stixrud PhD, Ned Johnson ...

**“Instead of trusting kids with choices . . . many parents insist on micromanaging everything from homework to friendships. For these parents, Stixrud and Johnson have a simple message: Stop.” —NPR“This humane, thoughtful book turns the latest brain science into valuable practical advice for parents.” —Paul Tough, New York Times bestselling author of How Children Succeed**A few years ago, Bill ... Read more

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**“Instead of trusting kids with choices . . . many parents insist on micromanaging everything from homework to friendships. For these parents, Stixrud and Johnson have a simple message: Stop.” —NPR“This humane, thoughtful book turns the latest brain science into valuable practical advice for parents.” —Paul Tough, New York Times bestselling author of How Children Succeed**A few years ago, Bill
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The American Slave Coast

A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry

by Ned Sublette, Constance Sublette ...

A wide-ranging, powerful, alternative vision of the history of the United States and how the slave-breeding industry shaped itThe American Slave Coast tells the horrific story of how the slavery business in the United States made the reproductive labor of "breeding women" essential to the expansion of the nation. The book shows how slaves' children, and their children's children, were human ... Read more

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A wide-ranging, powerful, alternative vision of the history of the United States and how the slave-breeding industry shaped itThe American Slave Coast tells the horrific story of how the slavery business in the United States made the reproductive labor of "breeding women" essential to the expansion of the nation. The book shows how slaves' children, and their children's children, were human
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1923

The Mystery of Lot 212 and a Tour de France Obsession

by Ned Boulting ...

WINNER OF THE SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2024 CYCLING BOOK OF THE YEARA WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023: SPORTNOMINATED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023'An absorbing mix of historical sleuthing and travel writing' -The Telegraph'[a] fascinating and often touching book… Wonderful' -The TimesWhen cycling commentator Ned Boulting bought a ... ... Read more

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WINNER OF THE SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2024 CYCLING BOOK OF THE YEARA WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023: SPORTNOMINATED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023'An absorbing mix of historical sleuthing and travel writing' -The Telegraph'[a] fascinating and often touching book… Wonderful' -The TimesWhen cycling commentator Ned Boulting bought a ...
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