A West Point grad, Rhodes scholar, and Army Ranger recounts his unparalleled education in the art of war and reckons with the hard wisdom that on

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A is for author ... Dink writes to his favorite author, mystery writer Wallis Wallace, and invites him to visit Green Lawn. To Dink's amazement,

A collection of short stories includes the title story, in which a famous writer, who just learned he may have a brain tumor, must decide how to

Presents humerous stories from the author's childhood which includes summer vacations in Norway and an English boarding school.

Author describes some of the dogs that have had special places in his life, including his first dog, Snowball, in the Phillippines; Dirk, who pro

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On a train trip from Manchester to London in 1990, a young single mother named Joanne Rowling conceived the idea of a children's book about a boy

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