Anneli Rufus, Author . Marlowe & Co. $14.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-56924-513-2
In this compendium of everyone who was anyone who ever spent a moment alone, readers bump fleetingly into Kurt Cobain, French Resistance fighters, the Lone Ranger ("Tonto notwithstanding"), Michelangelo, Alexander Pope, John Lennon, cowboys,
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Anneli Rufus, Author . Marlowe $14.95 (267p) ISBN 978-1-56924-381-7
After telling the disturbing story of a girl who was made a laughingstock by her dorm mates, then, one day, dropped dead in the library, Rufus writes: "When you torment others while they are alive, the last thing you imagine is that they might...
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Anneli Rufus, Author . Penguin $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-58542-667-6
Rufus (Party of One
) investigates why in a time when “no population anywhere has ever been so free... somehow we all feel
stuck,” sorting various feelings of paralysis into six major categories: we are stuck in the past, stuck in the...
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Anneli Rufus, Author Da Capo Press $13.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-56924-687-0
The veneration of relics, especially the bones, body parts and body fluids of saints, has a long and rather grisly history in Christianity. In addition, the legends that accompany the deaths of the saints provide fodder for worshippers to seek out...
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Anneli Rufus. Penguin/Tarcher, $25.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-399-16421-7
Rufus (Stuck) provides a practical, if heartbreaking, roadmap for those who loathe themselves, offering advice on how to break the cycle while explaining the myriad reasons why the cycle begins in the first place. The book is especially gripping in...
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