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Life Mask (Emma Donoghue)
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‘That is a great idea,’ he said.
“If you gets nervous lift this ‘ere stick, or ‘oller for me. I’ll be ‘andy!”
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Long jump record: 29’4”
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Jerusalem, Jerusalem (James Carroll) Spain in Our Hearts (Adam Hochschild)
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Bats at the Ballgame (Brian Lies)
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Bats at the Ballgame (Brian Lies)
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“Five minutes latex Leonard appeared underneath my bedroom window.” “She did not think of it driving on Sunset Boulevard, which was always awake, the billboard advertisements for new films bright as movie screens, the twenty-foot feces of famous people staring vacantly in her direction.” “To bum a bam during the time just prior to harvesting, to endanger the lives of the animals in that bam …”
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Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes) Ordeal by Hunger (George R. Stewart)
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Tolkien on a printing of The Fellowship of the Ring: “the printing is very good, as it ought to be from an almost faultless copy; except that the impertinent compositors have taken it upon themselves to correct, as they suppose, my spelling and grammar: altering throughout dwarves to dwarfs, elvish to elfish, further to farther, and worst of all elven to elfin.”
http://www.tolkiensociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/LOTR-The-Tale-of-a-Text.pdf
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Ubik (Philip K. Dick)
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About Time (Bruce Koscielniak, 2004)
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The Fit or Fat Target Diet (Covert Bailey, 1984)
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The Witch Family (Eleanor Estes, 1960)
Spain in Our Hearts (Adam Hochschild)
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The Castle of Crossed Destinies (Italo Calvino)
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Beware, Princess Elizabeth (Carolyn Meyer)
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Mr. Splitfoot (Samantha Hunt)
The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
CliffsNotes on Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.10018/abstract
http://harvardlawreview.org/2014/03/perma-scoping-and-addressing-the-problem-of-link-and-reference-rot-in-legal-citations/
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• develop a process • take small bites • improve your tools • make it easy to update • keep good notes • accept that it’s hard • ask for help
when nothing ever goes out of print maintaining
backlist ebooks
Teresa Elsey • @teresaelsey [email protected]
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
