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Edwin Paine and Charles Rowland are no different than most boys. They love adventure, games, and spending time outdoors. Theyre curious about girls, curious about life, and particularly curious when it comes to mysteries. You see, Edwin Paine and ...

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From the pages of THE SANDMAN, Neil Gaiman's intrepid dead schoolboys head back to the horror that is St. Hilarions School; the place where they both were murdered. Edwin Paine and Charles Roland have a lot in common - they re both English sc...

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Emotionally compelling and formally innovative, Life-Like is Toby Litt's most ambitious collection of short stories to date, bringing to fruition themes begun in his previous books, Adventures in Capitalism, Exhibitionism, and I Play the Drum...

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Toby Litt is best known for his hip-lit fiction, which, in its sharing of characters and themes across numerous stories and novels, has always taken an unusual, hybrid form. In Mutants, he applies his restless creativity to nonfiction. The book br...

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Toby Litt is one of that rare breed of fiction writers who never writes the same book twice: every time out, he takes an unexpected new tack and his readers happily follow. Told in the form of the pithy, even lyrical advice a young soldier leaves ...

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Beginning with an 'expert' introduction to the perils of ill-educated discourse, Swift seeks to offer a remedy for conversational disasters. His aim: to ensure one is always equipped with the correct response no matter the situation, and the means...

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Computers are changing. Soon, the days of silicon-based logic-gate computing will seem like a quaint and distant memory from a charmingly clunky past. Likewise, robots--once designed by mere mortals--will be soon be devised solely by the ultimate ...

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Toby Litt's father wanted him to find about their ancestor: William Litt, a champion Cumberland Wrestler. Would Toby like what he found out about himself along the way? As a novelist, as a son, and as a father in turn? Would he have to get in the ...

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The hugely intelligent, fun and compassionate Elliott also happens to be wheelchair-bound in a strict Catholic orphanage. Enter the blind, mute and headstrong Jim, who presents to Elliott the possibility of figurative forms of escape and defiance....

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A Writer''s Diary is a novel that blends fact and fiction, invention and memoir with joyful creativity and remarkable literary ambition. In it, Toby Litt takes on some of the biggest questions of life and death, not to mention literary as well as ...

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