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Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
Flannery O'Connor
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Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.
Joyce Carol Oates
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There are so many good new books coming out all the time and I get interested in them and then people recommend older books that sound good. I find that the used book store may have copies, but some copies there may cost too much because they are rare. Many libraries have an interloan that can be useful for finding older books.
To help with finding really old books we have the Gutenberg Project which is fun to look through. It is a feast.
The Gutenberg Project collection
http://www.gutenberg.org/...
Mark Twain’s letters and speeches are there as are memoirs by interesting people.
What about new books in old series? The series may have started back twenty years and yet a new book is just being published in that world.
For example, princesspat mentioned at jotter’s that Robert Jordan’s series The Wheel of Time started in 1990 and yet the series has a new book out. It is one that is co-authored by Brandon Sanderson since sadly Jordan died before completing the series.
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Towers of Midnight (Wheel of Time Series #13) by Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson
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Other new books that people have been waiting for:
Autobiography of Mark Twain: The Complete and Authoritative Edition, Volume 1 by Mark Twain, Sharon K. Goetz, Leslie Diane Myrick, Harriet Elinor Smith, Victor Fischer
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Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America by Matt Taibbi
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Travels in Siberia by Ian Frazier
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Hmmm...this is a prequel to the YA series and it sounds interesting:
The Ring of Solomon (Bartimaeus Series) by Jonathan Stroud
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All Clear by Connie Willis (sequel to Blackout)
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A hat tip to rosamundi for finding this one.
Wings of Fire by Jonathan Strahan (Editor), Robert Silverberg, C. J. Cherryh, Orson Scott Card, Roger Zelazny
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Synopsis
Dragons: Fearsome fire-breathing foes, scaled adversaries, legendary lizards, ancient hoarders of priceless treasures, serpentine sages with the ages' wisdom, and winged weapons of war... Wings of Fire brings you all these dragons, and more, seen clearly through the eyes of many of today's most popular authors, including Peter Beagle, Holly Black, Orson Scott Card, Charles De Lint, Diana Wynne Jones, Mercedes Lackey, Ursula K Le Guin, Dean R Koontz, George R. R. Martin, Anne McCaffrey, Elizabeth Moon, Garth Nix, and many others.
Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea
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Available for Pre-Order
This item will be available on Jan 04, 2011.
Spellweaver: A Novel of the Nine Kingdoms by Lynn Kurland
#5 in the series which I have really enjoyed though sadly I do not like her romance novels. (sorry)
Coming soon from our DKos authors
Available for Pre-Order
This item will be available on Dec 28, 2010.
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The Storm Before Atlanta by Karen Schwabach (our Sensible Shoes)
Synopsis
At a time when most people have grown weary of the war between the states, two young children are desperate to find their way to the battlefields. Jeremy DeGroot wants nothing more than to join a troop as a drummer boy. For Dulcie, a runaway slave, freedom means she must head directly toward the fighting in the hopes that she'll become "contraband," that is, property of the Union troops. Both Jeremy and Dulcie find a place with the 107th New York Volunteer Regiment and even start to forge a friendship. But all that is threatened when they keep crossing paths with the mysterious Charlie, a young Confederate soldier, who may look like the enemy but feels more like a friend.
Young readers who like their fiction filled with exciting historical details, rich characters, and action-packed adventures will be drawn to The Storm Before Atlanta.
Kelly McCullough has a new one coming soon.
Chronicles of Aral Kingslayer, beginning with Broken Blade in 2011.
Shadan7’s book is coming in January also.
What new books are you waiting for or reading? What old books are so great that you recommend them?
Books that begin with N
Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One by Patrick Rothfuss
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Native Son by Richard Wright
Natural Flights of the Human Mind by Clare Morrall
Nautical Chart by Arturo Perez-Peverte
Nazi Hunter by Alan Levy
Nazi Officer’s Wife by Edith Beer
Nella Last’s War ...Nella Last (war diary age 49) ed. by Richard Broad and Suzie Fleming
Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat
Neverending Story by Michael Ende
New Cardiff by Charles Webb
New Fable of the Ant and the Grasshopper by John Ciardi
Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-first Century by John Brockman
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Night by Elie Wiesel
Night Country by Loren Eiseley
Night Fall by Nelson DeMille
Night Train to Rigel by Timothy Zahn
Nine Kingdoms series by Lynn Kurland
Star of the Morning
The Mage’s Daughter
Princess of the Sword
A Tapestry of Spells
Nineteen Eighty-four by George Orwell
Nobody’s Perfect by Donald Westlake
No god but God by Reza Aslan
No Good Deed by Manda Scott
No Heroes by Chris Offut
No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency and sequels by Alexander McCall Smith
Tears of a Giraffe
Morality for Beautiful Girls
Kalahari Typing School for Men
Full Cupboard of Life
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
Blue Shoes and Happiness
Good Husband of Zebra Drive
Tea Time for the Traditionally Built
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Northwest Passage by Kenneth Rogers
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete by Leonardo da Vinci
Notes on Nursing What It Is, and What It Is Not by Florence Nightingale
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Books that begin with O
October Light by John Gardner
Octopus by Frank Norris
Od Magic by Patricia McKillip
and
Ombra in Shadow
The Odyssey by Homer
Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles
Off the Road by Jack Hitt
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Oklahoma! written by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
The Oldest Code of Laws in the World
The code of laws promulgated by Hammurabi, King of Babylon
B.C. 2285-2242 by Hammurabi
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Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Oliver! written by Lionel Bart, based on Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Oliver Wiswell by Kenneth Rogers
Once and Future King by T. H. White
Once Around the Track by Sharyn McCrumb
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson (#2)
On Fortune’s Wheel by Cynthia Voigt
On the Beach by Nevil Shute
On the Road with Charles Kuralt by Charles Kuralt
On Thundering Wings by Ermalou Roller (hpchicago is her son)
DKos review: http://www.dailykos.com/...
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
The Open Window by Saki (H. H. Munro)
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O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
Oracle Glass by Judith Merkel Riley
Oracle Night by Paul Auster
Othello by William Shakespeare
Our Choice by Al Gore
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
Our Town by Thornton Wilder
Outback Stars by Sandra McDonald
Outlander (1991) and sequels by Diana Gabaldon
Dragonfly in Amber (1992)
Voyager (1994)
Drums of Autumn (1997)
The Fiery Cross (2001)
A Breath of Snow and Ashes (2005)
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
Letters from Africa 1914-1931
Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
Owls in the Family by Farley Mowat
Oz books by L. Frank Baum
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904)
Ozma of Oz (1907)
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (1908)
The Road to Oz (1909)
The Emerald City of Oz (1910)
The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1913)
Little Wizard Stories of Oz (1913, collection of 6 short stories)
Tik-Tok of Oz (1914)
The Scarecrow of Oz (1915)
Rinkitink in Oz (1916)
The Lost Princess of Oz (1917)
The Tin Woodman of Oz (1918)
The Magic of Oz (1919, posthumously published)
Glinda of Oz (1920, posthumously published)
Diaries of the week
Write On! To the character, it's not a POV.
by SensibleShoes
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Book review:
The Spirit Level (Income Inequality Kos)
by Azazello
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Thursday Classical Music OPUS 20: Wagner's Tristan und Isolde Hotlist
by Dumbo
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BOOKMARK THIS! FIRST ANNUAL KOS KATALOGUE!!
by KelleyRN2
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Art Sale?
by rserven
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Community Care: Click only if you want to help Aji
by navajo
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NOTE: plf515 has book talk on Wednesday mornings early. Watch for extra editions on Sundays!
sarahnity’s list of DKos authors
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