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August Birthdays

Happy birthday to all the great authors born in August

Title	Author	Cover
The analects of Confucius	Confucius.
Little black book of stories	A S Byatt
A different kind of Christmas	Alex Haley
Tennyson's poetry; authoritative texts, juvenilia and early responses, criticism.	Alfred Tennyson Tennyson
Voices from the moon	Andre Dubus
Walks with men	Ann Beattie
Accordion crimes	Annie Proulx
Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America	Barbara Ehrenreich
Decayed	Brian Azzarello
Alias	Brian Michael Bendis
Post Office; a novel.	Charles Bukowski
Black zodiac	Charles Wright
Selected letters of Conrad Aiken	Conrad Aiken
Unveiling Claudia : a true story of serial murder	Daniel Keyes
The portable Dorothy Parker. --	Dorothy Parker
Mythology	Edith Hamilton
Giant	Edna Ferber
Pontoon : a Lake Wobegon novel	Garrison Keillor
Valley of the Far side	Gary Larson
Level up	Gene Luen Yang
Krazy Kat : the comic art of George Herriman	George Herriman
The convenient marriage	Georgette Heyer
Pierre et Jean	Guy de Maupassant
Collected essays	H P Lovecraft
Selected poems of Herman Melville	Herman Melville
Sliver : a novel	Ira Levin
Just above my head	James Baldwin
Faust : a tragedy : backgrounds and sources, the author on the drama, contemporary reactions, modern criticism	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Of dramatic poesy : and other critical essays	John Dryden
Death, sleep & the traveler. -	John Hawkes
Bones : an Alex Delaware novel	Jonathan Kellerman
This craft of verse	Jorge Luis Borges
War and peace	Leo Tolstoy
A god in ruins : a novel	Leon Uris
Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus	Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Marriage lines : notes of a student husband	Ogden Nash
Shroud for a nightingale	P D James
Batman : Streets of Gotham. [Vol. 2], Leviathan	Paul Dini
Shelley's poetry and prose : authoritative texts, criticism	Percy Bysshe Shelley
Luck of the draw	Piers Anthony
Fahrenheit 451	Ray Bradbury
Bear and his daughter : stories	Robert Stone
The girl with the dragon tattoo	Stieg Larsson
Moortown	Ted Hughes
An American tragedy	Theodore Dreiser
Confessions of an English opium-eater and other writings	Thomas De Quincey
A century of women cartoonists	Trina Robbins
The moon and the sun	Vonda N McIntyre
Pogo : the complete syndicated comic strips. Volume 1, Through the wild blue wonder	Walt Kelly
Just write : here's how	Walter Dean Myers
Rob Roy	Walter Scott
A part	Wendell Berry
William Goldman : four screenplays with essays.	William Goldman
Peeping Tom's cabin : comic verse, 1928-2008	X J Kennedy

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