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Fiction
Fiction is the telling of stories which are not real. More specifically, fiction is an imaginative form of narrative, one of the four basic rhetorical modes. Although the word fiction is derived from the Latin fingo, fingere, finxi, fictum, "to form, create", works of fiction need not be entirely imaginary and may include real people, places, and events. Fiction may be either written or oral. Although not all fiction is necessarily artistic, fiction is largely perceived as a form of art or entertainment. The ability to create fiction and other artistic works is considered to be a fundamental a
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Beaver vs. Beaver, a legal comedy (Family Court, #1)
by Portia Porter (Goodreads Author)
by Portia Porter (Goodreads Author)
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date: Apr 10, 2016
With only one pair of courtroom-worthy shoes and desperate for work, a young lawyer from the North hangs her shingle in Ducklingburg, South Duck. She
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Giveaway dates: Jul 19 - Oct 08, 2016
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Latency Paradox of Barret Trufflehard
by Ultra Kwon (Goodreads Author)
by Ultra Kwon (Goodreads Author)
Release
date: Feb 27, 2016
Publishers Weekly calls Latency Paradox of Barret Trufflehard "a fun read" that is "wonderfully imaginative, clever, and funny."
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Giveaway dates: Aug 13 - Oct 19, 2016
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After Always
by Dawn Reno Langley (Goodreads Author)
by Dawn Reno Langley (Goodreads Author)
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date: Aug 20, 2016
Win a SiGNED copy of YA novel AFTER ALWAYS by award-winning author Dawn Reno Langley.
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Gayle Forman
Author of If I Stay
Gayle Forman is an award-winning internationally bestselling author. Her books include Just One Day, Just One Year, I Was Here, Where She Went and If I Stay, which was made into a major motion picture starring Chloe Grace Moretz. Her newest novel, Leave Me i, is her first one starring adults. (She refuses to say it's an adult novel because she knows plenty of adults read YA and vice-versa). She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.
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You should never read just for "enjoyment." Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends' insane behavior, or better yet, your own. Pick "hard books." Ones you have to concentrate on while reading. And for god's sake, don't let me ever hear you say, "I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth." Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of "literature"? That means fiction, too, stupid.
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― John Waters, Role Models
― John Waters, Role Models
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outre results, it would make
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― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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Wish, I Never (Wish Chronicles #1 )
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