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    <![CDATA[My Life at First Try]]>
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    <![CDATA[This semi-autobiographical debut novel chronicles the life of Alex, born in Siberia in 1950, and his dreams of becoming a writer and of meeting Annie, his distant American cousin. As a child, Alex observes a group of foreign tourists do something that non-drunk Soviet adults seldom do: they laugh. Alex yearns to become one of them;a free and happy foreigner. Those aspirations quickly fade as Alex begins to encounter the absurdities and constraints of living in a society where conformity is institutionalized. Hilarious and sometimes sobering, the book&#8217;s short chapters chronicle making it through the army, mastering the English language, sex, and meeting the girl of his dreams. In 1980, Alex and his young family finally get the chance to move to America. There he realizes that he is finally a foreigner; not the happy foreigner of his dream, but an alien. Ultimately, Alex finds his own place in the world, despite the fact that having the right - to vote for an elephant or an ass&amp;#8221 - does not necessarily guarantee self-fulfillment.]]>
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    <![CDATA[You Have Time for This: Contemporary American Short-Short Stories]]>
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    <![CDATA[Love, death, fantasy, and foreign lands, told with brevity and style by the best writers in the short-short fiction genre. <strong>You Have Time for This</strong> satiates your craving for fine literature without making a dent in your schedule. This collection takes the modern reader on fifty-three literary rides, each one only five hundred words or less. Mark Budman and Tom Hazuka, two of the top names in the genre, have compiled an anthology of mini-worlds as diverse as the authors who created them.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Best American Flash Fiction of the 21st Century]]>
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    <![CDATA[Flash Fiction anthology of contemporary American authors published in 2008. Introduction in Chinese; the rest is in English.  Each story is followed by a brief &quot;About the Author&quot; and &quot;About the Story&quot; description.  Includes stories on these themes: Death, Hate, Love, Fantasy, Foreign Crimes, and War &amp; Crime.  Authors include: Katharine Weber, Bruce Holland Rovers, Aimee Bender, Pedro Ponce and Jessica Treat.]]>
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