Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Moss Roberts

A bit inaccurately named. Many legends and anecdotes, generally with magic or ghosts or other uncanny business, quite a few without. Many moral tales, many tales of Taoist masters, tales of fools or tricksters.

Robert Reich is an economist and Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkley. He served as Secretary of Labor in the Cabinet of President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997 and was a member of President-elect Barack Obama's economic transition advisory board. Dr. Reich presents himself as a voice of reason in these highly ( Read more... )

Inception meets Passenger.


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An Indian-flavored portal fantasy by a literary author.


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Post-Apocalyptic shenanigans in Dinétah.


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A comet miner chases an alien spaceship on an epic interstellar journey across millennia.


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Revision by Kit Reed

A how-to-write book.

Some encouragement to revise. Some techniques to use, from the first draft through the sorts of questions, style, dialog, story structure. Chiefly aimed at the very beginning author, I think.

The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition by Theodore Roszak

Half way between primary source and secondary source -- written in the 1960s, but by a professor.

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This is the bio of DeForest Kelly. An interesting read, not only for fans of the Original Series, but for fans of old Hollywood.

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The American Presidents Series is a collection of brief (usually around 150 pages) essay-style biographies of each of the Presidents of the United States, published by Times Books. This month's release of the volume on the life of William Howard Taft by GWU law professor Jeffrey Rosen completes the chain from Washington to Bush 43 and marks a ( Read more... )