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The Other Felix has been named to the Chicago Public Library's "Best of the Best" list, recommended as being "one of the very best published for kids in 2011." Jump to Fiction for Younger Readers to see the other books in its category.
Many thanks to CPL and its wonderful librarians for their support. Here's to better funding and longer hours in 2012!
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The Other Felix   3.20 avg rating — 15 ratings
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2011
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The Price of Liberty 2.69 avg rating — 16 ratings
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2010
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My Fellow Americans 3.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
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2007
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One Nation, Under God 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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2008
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Reference Books Bulletin by Mary Ellen Quinn, Keir Graff (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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| A wonderfully assured debut. Gus Carpenter is a great character with a history that keeps feeding the story in interesting ways. And while the mystery itself is well plotted and fully satisfying, what really kept me turning pages, I think, was the ri...more | |
"If you are destined to become a writer, you can't help it. If you can help it, you aren't destined to become a writer. The frustrations and disappointments, not even to mention the unspeakable loneliness, are too unbearable for anyone who doesn't have a deep sense of being unable to avoid writing."
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| Still have the same mixed feelings as I did about the first one--but I read it, didn't I? Whatever Larsson's limitations as a stylist, and despite my discomfort with the way the alleged feminist cred is only earned through a lot of careful descriptio...more | |
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“Don't get me started on the term literary fiction. I think the idea is that there are some books who know how to order from a wine list and some who don't. I like wine, but I prefer the company of beer drinkers any day.”
― Keir Graff
― Keir Graff
“So here I am with this double life, one where my grammatically incorrect writing is a nice success with tens of thousands of readers, and another one where my carefully written books are read by a dozen people.”
― Christian A. Dumais
― Christian A. Dumais
“We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.”
― Gary Shteyngart
― Gary Shteyngart
“If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.”
― Leo Tolstoy
― Leo Tolstoy
“Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.”
― Thomas McGuane
― Thomas McGuane
