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Year of Plenty: A Family's Season of GriefIn October 2020, B.J. Hollars answered a call from his father-in-law while teaching a class. "When will you be home?" Steve asked. "I have news." So began the Hollars family's year of plenty--a year of cancer; COVID; and falling short as parents, partners, and...
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Summertime"Not since Disgrace, has he written with such urgency and feeling." -The New Yorker J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. Nobel Prize-winning author J. M. Coetzee's new book follows...
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A Guest in My Own Country: A Hungarian LifeWinner of the 2007 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Biography, Autobiography & Memoir A powerful memoir of war, politics, literature, and family life by one of Europe's leading intellectuals. When George Konrad was a child of eleven, he, his sister, and...
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A Chance Meeting: American EncountersWeaving a tapestry of creativity and circumstance, this lauded chronicle of the many links and serendipitous meetings between giants of American culture--from Henry James to Gertrude Stein to Zora Neale Hurston to Marcel Duchamp--now includes a new introduction by the author."They met in ordinary...
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The Shakespeare and Company Book of InterviewsShakespeare and Company, Paris, is one of the world's most iconic and beautiful bookshops. Located on the banks of the Seine, opposite Notre-Dame, it's long been a meeting place for anglophone writers and readers. In that tradition, determined for the bookshop to remain a...
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One Soul We Divided: A Critical Edition of the Diary of Michael FieldThe first book-length selection from the extraordinary unpublished diary of the late-Victorian writer "Michael Field"--the pen name of two female coauthors and romantic partners Michael Field was known to late-Victorian readers as a superb poet and playwright--until Robert Browning let slip Field's secret identity:...
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On Gold Hill: A Personal History of Wheat, Farming, and Family, from Punjab to CaliforniaA young South Asian American woman's story of reconnecting with her identity, family, and heritage through sustainable farming In 2012, 25-year-old Jackie Moyer--the daughter of a forbidden marriage between a white American father and a Punjabi American mother--leased 10 acres of land in Gold...
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Letters to Palestine: Writers Respond to War and OccupationOperation Protective Edge, Israel's seven-week bombing campaign and ground invasion of Gaza in the summer of 2014, resulted in half a million displaced Gazans, tens of thousands of destroyed homes, and more than 2,000 deaths--and, yet, it was only the latest in a long...
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The Bower Atmosphere: A Biography of B. M. BowerB. M. (Bertha Muzzy) Bower was the first author to make a living writing popular westerns, creating more than sixty novels and hundreds of short stories that were read by millions of Americans. Bower's were among the first westerns adapted to film, and the...
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Sharing Too Much: Musings from an Unlikely LifeThe #1 New York Times bestselling author and "king of Christmas fiction" (The New York Times) delivers a charming and inspirational collection of essays. Featuring his most important life lessons, strongest advice, and plenty of heartwarming tales, Richard Paul Evans tackles a variety of...
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Gertrude and AliceGertrude Stein and Alice Babette Toklas met on Sunday 8 September 1907, in Paris. From that day on they were together, until Gertrude's death on Saturday 27 July 1946. Everyone who was anyone went to their salons at the rue de Fleurus. They became...
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Walden & Civil Disobedience (Masterpiece Library Edition)Read Thoreau's most influential works in one stunning volume! With reflections on politics, simplicity, and independent living, Thoreau's writings ask readers to question the status quo and live in accordance with their principles.Author: Henry David ThoreauPublisher: Peter Pauper PressPublished: 01/01/2024Pages: 319Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9781441341501
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Not a Tame Lion: The Spiritual Legacy of C. S. Lewis and the Chronicles of NarniaNOT A TAME LION offers a clear view of the character of C.S. Lewis.Author: Terry W. GlaspeyPublisher: Cumberland House PublishingPublished: 10/01/2005Pages: 254Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 7.06h x 5.08w x 0.76dISBN: 9781581824834This title is not returnable
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Kafka: A Very Short IntroductionFranz Kafka is among the most intriguing and influential writers of the last century. During his lifetime he worked as a civil servant and published only a handful of short stories, the best known being The Transformation. His other three novels, published after his...
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Stepping Into Mark Twain's WorldTake a riverboat ride back to 1800s America and learn how Mark Twain's world influenced his writing. This nonfiction text breathes life into the pages of history, and gives students a sense of what life was like in Mark Twain's time. Developed by Timothy...
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Joseph Addison: An Intellectual BiographyThe name Joseph Addison was once synonymous with the finest of English prose. Eminent writers from Voltaire to Lord Macaulay to John Steinbeck considered him a consummate master to be studied and emulated. According to Benjamin Franklin, Addison's writings "contributed more to the improvement...
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Joseph Addison: An Intellectual BiographyThe name Joseph Addison was once synonymous with the finest of English prose. Eminent writers from Voltaire to Lord Macaulay to John Steinbeck considered him a consummate master to be studied and emulated. According to Benjamin Franklin, Addison's writings "contributed more to the improvement...
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ScatterlingsAuthor: Resoketswe Martha ManenzhePublisher: HarperviaPublished: 12/19/2023Pages: 288Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9780063264120
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Wandering Through Life: A MemoirIn a series of vignettes full of affection, irony, and good humor, Donna Leon narrates a remarkable life she feels has rather more happened to her than been planned. From a childhood in the company of her New Jersey family, with frequent visits to...
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Shimmering Details, Volume II: A MemoirThe magnum opus of one of Europe's greatest living writers. In Shimmering Details, Volume II, Péter Nádas delves deeper into his and his parents' lives during the tumultuous years spanning the rise of Hungarian communism in 1948 to the brutal suppression of the 1956...
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