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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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