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From Library Journal Postscript:  Life in Letters

Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience By Usher, Shaun 2014-05 - Chronicle Books (CA) 9781452134253 Check Our Catalog This spectacular collection of more than 125 letters offers a never-before-seen glimpse of the events and people of history the brightest and best, the most notorious, and the endearingly everyday. Entries include a transcript of the letter; a short contextual introduction; and, in 100 cases, a captivating facsimile of the letter itself. The artfulness of Shaun Usher's eclectic arrangement creates …More

Love, Nina: A Nanny Writes Home By Stibbe, Nina 2014-04 - Little Brown and Company 9780316243391 Check Our Catalog "Breezy, sophisticated, hilarious, rude and aching with sweetness: LOVE, NINA might be the most charming book I've ever read." --Maria Semple, author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette …More

Dear Committee Members By Schumacher, Julie 2014-08 - Doubleday Books 9780385538138 Check Our Catalog Awards: Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award (2015) Finally a novel that puts the "pissed" back into "epistolary." Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature at Payne University, a small and not very distinguished liberal arts college in the midwest. His department is facing draconian cuts and squalid quarters, while one floor above them the Economics Department is getting lavishly remodeled offices. His …More

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society By Shaffer, Mary Ann Author Barrows, Annie 2008-07 - Dial Press 9780385340991 Check Our Catalog Awards: Indies Choice Book Awards (2009) London, 1946: writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a stranger, a founding member of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. And so begins a remarkable tale of Guernsey during the German occupation, and about a society as extraordinary as its name. …More

Attachments By Rowell, Rainbow 2012-03 - Plume Books 9780452297548 Check Our Catalog Beth and Jennifer's company monitors their office e-mail. Lincoln is supposed to turn people in for misusing company e-mail, but he can't bring himself to crack down on Beth and Jennifer. By the time Lincoln realizes he's falling for Beth, it's too late for him to ever introduce himself. …More

Martin Harbottle's Appreciation of Time By Utton, Dominic 2014-03 - ONEWorld Publications 9781780743721 Check Our Catalog Dan's got a new job. But he's moved out of town in order to start a family and had to start commuting into London every day, leaving his young wife Beth and newborn daughter at home. After 14 months of the trains either making him late for work or late getting home, he's had enough. Tracking down the email address of the MD of the train company, he starts to write him letters. Emails that take as …More