Literary Collections
Explore our collection of literary books and timeless literary classics at our online bookstore, featuring the best in teenage literature, literary fiction, and modern literature. Discover must-read and best-selling titles, along with insightful criticism literature to enhance your reading experience.
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The Man Who Made Plants Write: Essays by Jagadish Chandra BoseAn internationally celebrated poet and critic translates Jagadish Chandra Bose's revolutionary writings on plant sentience and communication Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858-1937) was a Bengali scientist and polymath who developed a theory of plant communication more than a century ago. Bose suggested that plants had...
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The Long GameSome lessons only come from a life fully lived.In The Long Game: Short Writings on Ideas That Last, Jerry G. Banks - real estate investor, father, grandfather, and author of the best-selling memoir Eat Sh*t and Smile! - shares a collection of short reflections...
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Migratory BirdsWinner of the PEN Translation Prize"Pondering revolutionary Cuba, the Berlin Wall, and the caves of Cappadocia, these essays explore themes of memory, war, movement, and home."-The New Yorker"A thoughtful, roving meditation on migration, language, and home."--Publishers WeeklyIn her prize-winning debut, Mexican essayist Mariana Oliver...
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May the Road Rise to Meet You: A 31-Day Devotional Inspired by Irish BlessingsBlends the Beauty of Classic Irish Blessings with Biblical Wisdom- 31-day devotional that will help you deepen your faith, strengthen your heart, draw closer to God- Unique combination of Irish blessings, biblical wisdom, and practical application- Author lived and worked in Ireland and is...
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John McPhee: Encounters in Wild America (Loa #398): The Pine Barrens / Encounters with the Archdruid / The Survival of the Bark Canoe / Coming Into thA Pulitzer Prize winner takes you on unforgettable adventures to some of America's most wild places in this deluxe collection of 4 classic books of nature writing From legendary New Yorker writer John McPhee, here are four adventures in wild places. Exploring these untamed...
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Five Modern No PlaysFive No plays--one of the great art forms that has fascinated people throughout the world--from one of Japan's outstanding post-war writers. - "Mishima's is a wonderful, astonishing, and frightening creative energy." --The New York Times MagazineThe late Yukio Mishima infused new life into the...
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Daily Rituals: Women at WorkMore of Mason Currey's irresistible Daily Rituals, this time exploring the daily obstacles and rituals of women who are artists--painters, composers, sculptors, scientists, filmmakers, and performers. We see how these brilliant minds get to work, the choices they have to make: rebuffing convention, stealing...
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Burned: Stories about fire. Real and imagined.BURNED is a collection of stories, poems, essays, and artwork exploring fire-in ways both real and imagined-and its impact on our lives. Fire is humanity's greatest tool. Our ability to control it, shape it, wield it has made us the dominant species on the...
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Bite by Bite: Nourishments and JamboreesFrom the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays about food, offering a banquet of tastes, smells, memories, associations, and marvelous curiosities from natureIn Bite by Bite, poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil explores the way food...
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A Ukrainian Dictionary of WarIn 2022, poet Ostap Slyvynsky undertook the role of wartime lexicographer, carefully collecting and compiling a dictionary of witness to Russia's invasion and war against Ukraine. Among the voices represented in A Ukrainian Dictionary of War are those who were forced to leave their...
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A God of Moonlight and StardustHow far would you go to protect the woman you desired?What if she was the daughter of your enemy?Renna Strongborn is on the verge of obtaining her Ph.D. All she needs is to hide her chaotic powers in a planet that persecutes magic. But...
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Where It Hurts: Dispatches from the Emotional Frontlines of MedicineWhere It Hurts invites us to peer into the space between health and illness, life and death, through the voices of the people who work on medicine's frontlines: doctors, nurses, EMTs, therapists, and more. In raw and revealing essays, stories, and poems, they share...
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Troubled Lands: Stories of Mexico and Cuba as Translated by Langston HughesA landmark book--the first complete publication of Langston Hughes's translations of thirty-three stories by eighteen Mexican and Cuban writers In late 1934, Langston Hughes, already established as a leading voice of literary Black America, traveled to Mexico City, where he stayed for more than...
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The S@#t I've Heard at Yoga: What I Learned in Downward DogS@#t I've Heard at Yoga is a collection of humorous, unexpected, and insightful essays that reveals how yoga helped a Type A cynic transform to a Type Y(oga) optimist. Calm is the new superpower. This collection of eclectic anecdotes charts my reluctant evolution from...
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The Sealed Envelope: Toward an Intelligent UtopiaAn award-winning author argues for the necessity of cultural critics and intellectuals to American democracy This incisive collection of essays investigates the moral imagination of modernism and our intellectual and political inheritance. George Scialabba offers a series of portraits of, and arguments with, American...
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The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and AgriculturalThe essays in The Gift of Good Land are as true today as when they were first published in 1981; the problems addressed here are still true and the solutions no nearer to hand. The insistent theme of this book is the interdependence, the...
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The Confessions of Saint AugustineHarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Confessions describes Saint Augustine's conversion to Christianity and is the basis for his reputation as one of Christianity's most influential thinkers.Author: Saint AugustinePublisher: HarperCollins PublishersPublished: 01/25/2022Pages: 352Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 7.88h x...
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Selected PoemsTomas Tranströmer's poems are thick with the feel of life lived in a specific place: the dark, overpowering Swedish winters, the long thaws and brief paradisal summers in the Stockholm archipelago. He conveys a sense of what it is like to be a private...
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Rubble MasonryRubble Masonry is a collection of lyric essays that takes its title from the practice of stone masons who, rather than using materials cut to ideal measurements, work with found rocks' natural shapes. It combines the rich images and musical language of poetry with...
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Out There in the DarkKatharine Coldiron sees her life through a film projector. She watches The Sound of Music and observes that time is peculiarly preserved in a narrative film; she watches Singin' in the Rain and finds truth and falsehood layered in it like dental veneers; she...
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