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David Michael Slater

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David Michael Slater is an acclaimed author of over 40 books of fiction and nonfiction for children, teens, and adults.

Average rating: 3.86 · 1,226 ratings · 371 reviews · 66 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Boy & the Book

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3.54 avg rating — 382 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions
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The Book of Nonsense (Forbi...

3.70 avg rating — 201 ratings — published 2008 — 10 editions
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The Vanishing

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Bigfoot (Mysterious Monster...

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The Bored Book

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3.69 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions
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We're Doing It Wrong: 25 Id...

3.76 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions
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Bear With Me

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Fun & Games

3.93 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions
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Seven Ate Nine

3.89 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions
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The Book of Knowledge (Forb...

4.28 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions
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The Book of Nonsense The Book of Secrets The Book of Knowledge The Book of Maps The Book of All Things The Book of Names The Book of Letters
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The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
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Winner of this year's Hugo, The Tainted Cup is an absorbing mystery set in a fascinating world in which the Empire consists of lands formed in concentric rings until they reach the Sea Wall, which precariously protects all the races of augmented peop ...more
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Flesh by David Szalay
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David Szalay has been hailed as one of the best writers on contemporary masculinity, and his latest novel has been highly acclaimed. Can't say I understand either, having read Flesh, which is the rags-to-riches story of a young Hungarian man who drif ...more
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The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
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The Housemaid is an entertaining and original take on the Sexy-Housemaid-Destroys-A-Marriage story with a great twist. Unfortunately, it has a very weak ending. Fortunately, the epilogue surprises by setting up a series you didn't see coming, with a ...more
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Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
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You, like me, probably have a general feeling that FB is a net negative for the world, but, like me, you probably don't know the half of it.
Sarah Wynn-Williams, a Kiwi working on human rights issues at the UN, fell in love with the promise of Faceboo
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The New Age of Sexism by Laura Bates
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Maybe, like me, you're generally aware that there are horrible ways women are being abused with technology. But you likely don't know the half of it.
In The New Age of Sexism, Laura Bates will incense you to the point of despair because seriously dys
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers should be required reading for every American who is clueless about how hard life is for people in so much of the world. Katherine Boo spent three years in Annawadi, a makeshift slum of ragged huts on a garbage dump adja ...more
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The Art Thief by Michael Finkel
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A plainly written but fascinating account of how Stéphane Breitwieser, with the help of his girlfriend, stole upwards of 2 billion dollars-worth of art all over Europe during the late nineties--in broad daylight and with, if any tool was necessary, a ...more
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The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
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The Safekeep, set in 1961, is about Isabel, a repressed thirty-year-old Dutch woman whose brother installed her as the caretaker of the family home, which has become both her prison and her only joy. Much to her chagrin, he leaves his latest girlfrie ...more
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Strange Pictures by Uketsu
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Strange Pictures is a unique novel in the way its interconnected mysteries all hinge on the fascinating interpretation of various drawings, each of which requires a different type of expertise. But... the writing is very poor (or the translation is p ...more
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Trust and Safety by Laura Blackett
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The protagonist of Trust & Safety is Rosie, a woman seeking an authentic way to live. She feels increasingly trapped in her marriage to her generationally wealthy, tech start-up husband, Jordan, and convinces him that moving from Brooklyn to a disast ...more
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