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On Writing Horror
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On Writing HorrorOn Writing Horror The masters of horror have united to teach you the secrets of success in the scariest genre of all! In On Writing Horror, Second Edition, Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Harlan Ellison, David Morrell, Jack Ketchum, and many others tell you everything you need to know to successfully write and publish horror novels and short stories.
 
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Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
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Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a NationAmazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation

Amazing Grace is Jonathan Kozol’s classic book on life and death in the South Bronx—the poorest urban neighborhood of the United States. He brings us into overcrowded schools, dysfunctional hospitals, and rat-infested homes where families have been ravaged by depression and anxiety, drug-related violence, and the spread of AIDS.
 
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Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America
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Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in AmericaFire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America

In this powerful and culminating work about a group of inner-city children he has known for many years, Jonathan Kozol returns to the scene of his prize-winning books Rachel and Her Children and Amazing Grace, and to the children he has vividly portrayed, to share with us their fascinating journeys and unexpected victories as they grow into adulthood.
 
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Good, the Bad and the Unready: The Remarkable Truth Behind History's Strangest Nicknames
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Good, the Bad and the Unready: The Remarkable Truth Behind History's Strangest Nicknames"The Good , the Bad and the Unready" is the perfect book for discovering how one man could be both Charles the Scourge of God and Charles the Affable. Or who exactly it was that Vlad impaled. Or how some eighteen people earned the appellation 'the Great' (and that's not including Anthony the Great Bastard and Anne the Great Whore). Or why Joan the Mad never went anywhere without her husband's corpse.
 
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Hack: Stories from a Chicago Cab (Chicago Visions and Revisions)
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Hack: Stories from a Chicago Cab (Chicago Visions and Revisions)Hack: Stories from a Chicago Cab (Chicago Visions and Revisions)

Cabdrivers and their yellow taxis are as much a part of the cityscape as the high-rise buildings and the subway. We hail them without thought after a wearying day at the office or an exuberant night on the town. And, undoubtedly, taxi drivers have stories to tell—of farcical local politics, of colorful passengers, of changing neighborhoods and clandestine shortcuts. No one knows a city’s streets—and thus its heart—better than its cabdrivers. And from behind the wheel of his taxi, Dmitry Samarov has seen more of Chicago than most Chicagoans will hope to experience in a lifetime.
 
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