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Daniel Handler
Two friends, one dying and one lonely; an adolescent’s first homosexual stirrings for his sister’s boyfriend, and a high school crush that falls painfully short of a movie projected on…
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Daniel Handler, Lemony Snicket
A bold, candid, vulnerable, and entertaining memoir of a literary life by the writer otherwise known as Lemony Snicket.
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Charles Baudelaire
On the 200th anniversary of Baudelaire’s birth comes this stunning landmark translation of the book that launched modern poetry.
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In a series of intersecting narratives that explore variations of that ineffable feeling of love, Handler–who also writes as Lemony Snicket–crafts a moving and shifting story exploring the frustrating glory…
Fascinating, profane … One of the most original and realistic depictions of the sex lives of young people to come around in a long time (LA Times), from bestselling, award-winning…
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A sexy, skewering dark comedy about two unions–one forged of love and the other of greed–and about the forces that can drive couples together, into dependence, and then into sinister…
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When Joseph goes to stay with his girlfriend Cynthia’s family for the summer, he plans running the crafts shack at camp by day, and romping in Cyn’s bed by night…
Flannery Culp, a world-weary high school senior, is primed to take on the few remaining obstacles that stand between her and the rest of her life. If only things hadn’t…
Bernard DeVoto
Dorothy Parker’s stern eye mixed with the sass of Mark Twain, and a jigger of Christopher Hitchens thrown in for good, boozy measure. –The Atlantic
Bestselling artist Maira Kalman, and bestselling author Daniel Handler (a.k.a Lemony Snicket) together offer a fresh, fun, creative look at childhood, nostalgia, home, and the act of seeing.
Sixteen-year-old Min Green writes a letter to Ed Slaterton in which she breaks up with him, documenting their relationship and how items in the accompanying box, from bottle caps to…
Want to dress like the Pope? Well, why not? After all, the Pope is one of the most important people in the world, and gets invited to state dinners and…
A satire of teenage life follows cynical soon-to-graduate Flannery Culp on a raucous journey through high school in the 1990s, covering SATs, college applications, friends, boyfriends, tabloid journalism, and TV…
Maira Kalman’s illustrations can be found on the PDF on Disc 6. The disc is MAC and PC compatible.
Maira Kalman,Daniel Handler
Can a photograph capture the sensation of a warm spring breeze or the smell of freshly fallen snow? From the rainy streets of Paris to a sun-dappled pool in Beverly…
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Hurry Up and Wait.
On the 200th anniversary of Baudelaire’s birth comes this stunning landmark translation of the book that launched modern poetry
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Richard Handler,Daniel Segal
With a new introduction by the authors, this paperback edition of Jane Austen and the Fiction of Culture takes the complete body of work of a major novelist as the…
Teresa A. Daniel
This book examines the important role of HR practitioners acting as toxin handlers within their organizations and the dangers they face when dealing with toxic workplace emotions caused by difficult…
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826 Valencia has supported San Francisco students through free writing, tutoring, and publishing programs for fifteen years. While growing in spurts and striving for the perfect mixtape, we asked our…
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