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  BY TRACY KIDDER

  The Soul of a New Machine

  House

  Among Schoolchildren

  Old Friends

  Home Town

  Mountains Beyond Mountains

  My Detachment

  Strength in What Remains

  A Truck Full of Money

  WITH RICHARD TODD

  Good Prose

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  TRACY KIDDER graduated from Harvard and studied at the University of Iowa. He has won a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, a Robert F. Kennedy Award, and many other literary prizes. The author of Strength in What Remains, My Detachment, Mountains Beyond Mountains, Home Town, Old Friends, Among Schoolchildren, House, and The Soul of a New Machine, Kidder lives in Massachusetts and Maine.

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