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Acting

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Joan Kessler
The Unconscious Actor®: Out of Control, In Full Command®
On Acting
I Am C-3PO
Making It So: A Memoir

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1 book

Audio

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Joan Kessler
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - Makers, Mysteries and Magic

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7 books

Autobiograpy

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Joan Kessler
My Autobiography
Self-Portrait
The Salad Days
Call Me Anna
Myself When Young

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13 books

Biography

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Vivien Leigh
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Juana the Mad

A Passion for Life: The Biography of Elizabeth Taylor
Audrey: Her Real Story
Garbo: Her Story

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100 books

Classics

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Madame Bovary
Pride and Prejudice
The ingenious hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha
Macbeth
The Picture of Dorian Grey

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Contemporary Fiction

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Joan Kessler
Convenience Store Woman
Earthlings
Joan Is Okay
Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
Twice Cursed

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4 books

Cookery

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Joan Kessler
The Thin Man: Murder Over Cocktails
French Women Don't Get Fat
Doctor Who: The Official Cookbook
Alchemy of Herbs

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2 books

Ebook

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Joan Kessler
The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse
The Velveteen Rabbit

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87 books

Fantasy

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Joan Kessler
Prudence
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Marine Biology

The Dire King
Jackaby
Beastly Bones

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32 books

Film

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Joan Kessler
The Making of The African Queen Or How I went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall and Huston and almost lost my mind
Wishful Drinking
We'll Always Have Casablanca: The Life, Legend, and Afterlife of Hollywood's Most Beloved Movie
The Thin Man: Murder Over Cocktails
Great Hollywood Movies

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11 books

Gothic

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Joan Kessler
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Frankenstein
Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror
Dracula
Jane Eyre

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3 books

Graphic Novel

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Joan Kessler
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Vol. 1: Squirrel Power
Coraline
The Sandman: Book One

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44 books

Historical Fiction

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Joan Kessler
The ape who guards the balance
A River in the Sky
Guardian of the horizon
The Hippopotamus Pool
The Falcon at the Portal

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17 books

History

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Joan Kessler
Eliza Hamilton: The Extraordinary Life and Times of the Wife of Alexander Hamilton
Amelia Peabody's Egypt
Hedy Lamarr's Double Life
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Juana the Mad

Cleopatra: A Life

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19 books

Horror

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Joan Kessler
The Ghost of Slappy
Dracula
Frankenstein
The Vampire Lestat
Memnoch the Devil

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1 book

Inspiration

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Joan Kessler
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

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155 books

Kids Mg

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Joan Kessler
A Wrinkle in Time
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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22 books

Memoir

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Wishful Drinking
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Sister Mother Husband Dog

The Making of The African Queen Or How I went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall and Huston and almost lost my mind
I Am C-3PO
Believe Me

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135 books

Mystery

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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
A Red Herring Without Mustard
Speaking from Among the Bones
I Am Half-Sick of Shadows

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98 books

Non Fiction

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Joan Kessler
Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity
The Elements of Style
The deluxe transitive vampire
The New Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed
The Right to Write

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11 books

Once Was Not Enough

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Joan Kessler
A Wrinkle in Time
The Squirrelly Nut Gig
The Power of Awareness
A Shakespeare Glossary
From The Dust Returned

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3 books

Owned

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Joan Kessler
Fool
Lady Tan's Circle of Women
Fool

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26 books

Paranormal

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Prudence
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Marine Biology

The Dire King
Jackaby
Beastly Bones

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34 books

Philosophy

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The Tao of Pooh
The Tao of Pooh and The Te of Piglet
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Stillness Speaks

Zen in the Art of Archery
As a Man Thinketh

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9 books

Plays

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Joan Kessler
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Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays

Best Plays of Chekhov
The Uninvited
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald: The Original Screenplay

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7 books

Poetry

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Leaves of Grass
Selected Poems
A Coney Island of the Mind
The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

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10 books

Psychology

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Joan Kessler
Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal
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New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis

The psychopathology of everyday life
The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
For your own good

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13 books

Reference

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Joan Kessler
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The Complete Guide to Writing Fantasy

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Her Ladyship's Guide to the Queen's English

The Disheveled Dictionary: A Curious Caper Through Our Sumptuous Lexicon
Great Hollywood Movies
The Elements of Style

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11 books

Romance

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Marine Biology

Pride and Prejudice
The Loving Spirit
Olivia And Jai
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13 books

Science

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Joan Kessler
The Tao Of Physics: An Exploration Of The Parallels Between Modern Physics And Eastern Mysticism
The Universe and the Teacup: The Mathematics of Truth and Beauty
Brief History of Time
An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain
The Universe in a Nutshell

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37 books

Sci Fi Fantasy

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Joan Kessler
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
2001: A Space Odyssey
Fahrenheit 451
The Martian Chronicles

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21 books

Short Stories

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Joan Kessler
Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
Murder For Christmas - 26 Tales Of Yuletide Malice
Don't Look Now and Other Stories
The Doll
The Train now Departing

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3 books

Steampunk

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Joan Kessler
Prudence
Storming
Soulless

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40 books

Supernatural

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Joan Kessler
The Vampire Lestat
Ghostly Echoes
The Picture of Dorian Grey
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Interview with the Vampire

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76 books

Supporting My Local Library

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Joan Kessler
Rebecca
The Case of the Missing Marquess
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Power of Myth
Don't Look Now and Other Stories

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10 books

Theatre

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Joan Kessler
On Acting
The Unconscious Actor®: Out of Control, In Full Command®
Macbeth
3 Short Plays
Three Plays

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24 books

Writing

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Joan Kessler
The Right to Write
Novel Metamorphosis: Uncommon Ways to Revise Novels with Creative Writing Tips, Tools, and Strategies
Politics and the English Language
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The Complete Guide to Writing Fantasy

The Disheveled Dictionary: A Curious Caper Through Our Sumptuous Lexicon

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10 books

Ya

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Joan Kessler
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Library of Souls
Hollow City
A Study in Charlotte
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