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August Birthdays

Happy birthday to all the great authors born in August

Title	Author	Cover
The analects of Confucius	Confucius.
The biographer's tale	A S Byatt
Roots	Alex Haley
Selected poems	Alfred Tennyson Tennyson
The times are never so bad : a novella & eight short stories	Andre Dubus
Falling in place : a novel	Ann Beattie
Postcards	Annie Proulx
For her own good : 150 years of the experts' advice to women	Barbara Ehrenreich
Before Watchmen : Comedian/Rorschach	Brian Azzarello
Secret wars. Battleworld. Ultimate end	Brian Michael Bendis
The pleasures of the damned : poems, 1951-1993	Charles Bukowski
Bye-and-bye : selected late poems	Charles Wright
Flowers for Algernon	Daniel Keyes
Complete stories	Dorothy Parker
The Greek way	Edith Hamilton
Giant	Edna Ferber
Liberty : a Lake Wobegon novel	Garrison Keillor
The far side gallery 2	Gary Larson
Level up	Gene Luen Yang
Krazy Kat : the comic art of George Herriman	George Herriman
Charity girl	Georgette Heyer
Bel-Ami	Guy de Maupassant
The Lovecraft anthology. Volume II : a graphic collection of H.P. Lovecraft's short stories	H P Lovecraft
The confidence-man: his masquerade; an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, reviews, criticism [and] an annotated bibliography.	Herman Melville
Rosemary's baby	Ira Levin
If Beale Street could talk : a novel	James Baldwin
Faust, a tragedy. Part 1	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Of dramatic poesy : and other critical essays	John Dryden
Mystery : an Alex Delaware novel	Jonathan Kellerman
Seven nights	Jorge Luis Borges
Anna Karenina	Leo Tolstoy
Exodus	Leon Uris
The Dragon Griaule	Lucius Shepard
Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus : the 1818 text	Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I wouldn't have missed it : selected poems of Ogden Nash	Ogden Nash
The lighthouse	P D James
Batman : Streets of Gotham. [Vol. 2], Leviathan	Paul Dini
The poetical works of Shelley.	Percy Bysshe Shelley
Luck of the draw	Piers Anthony
The Martian chronicles	Ray Bradbury
A flag for sunrise : a novel	Robert Stone
The girl who kicked the hornet's nest	Stieg Larsson
Alcestis	Ted Hughes
Sister Carrie	Theodore Dreiser
Confessions of an English opium-eater and other writings	Thomas De Quincey
From girls to grrrlz : a history of [women's] comics from teens to zines	Trina Robbins
Pogo : the complete syndicated comic strips. Volume 1, Through the wild blue wonder	Walt Kelly
Malcolm X : by any means necessary : a biography	Walter Dean Myers
Ivanhoe	Walter Scott
A place on earth : a novel	Wendell Berry
Marathon man	William Goldman
Peeping Tom's cabin : comic verse, 1928-2008	X J Kennedy

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