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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If You're a Girl, Revised and Expanded EditionThe trailblazing book that influenced a generation of writers, and proves that mature reflection needn't be lacking in attitude. In the beginning when everything was very sexual we talked about our fantasies. She thought about having a guy for some of it. She thought...
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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common ReaderPerfectly balanced between humor and erudition, Ex Libris establishes Anne Fadiman as one of our finest contemporary essayists. Anne Fadiman is--by her own admission--the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds...
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Down the RiverDown the River is a collection of essays both timeless and timely. It is an exploration of the abiding beauty of some of the last great stretches of American wilderness on voyages down rivers where the body and mind float free, and the grandeur...
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Devil in a ComaOne morning in March 2021 with the second wave of infections ripping through Ireland where he was newly resident, Mark Lanegan woke up breathless, fatigued beyond belief, his body burdened with a gigantic dose of Covid-19. Admitted to Kerry Hospital and initially given little...
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Christmas word search.: Easy Large Print Puzzle Book for Adults, Kids & Everyone for the 25 Days of Christmas.You or someone on your Christmas gift list will enjoy hours of relaxing, brain-challenging fun suitable for the whole family with this collection of quality word search puzzle games from Fun Puzzlers Books!In this 8.5 x 11 large-print book, you will find: -fun and...
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Christmas word search.: Easy Large Print Puzzle Book for Adults, Kids & Everyone for the 25 Days of Christmas.You or someone on your Christmas gift list will enjoy hours of relaxing, brain-challenging fun suitable for the whole family with this collection of quality word search puzzle games from Fun Puzzlers Books!In this 8.5 x 11 large-print book, you will find: -fun and...
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Chinese Short Stories For Beginners: 20 Captivating Short Stories to Learn Chinese & Grow Your Vocabulary the Fun Way!So, you've decided to learn Chinese. Now what?One of the toughest languages to learn, it's never been easy to find reading material in Chinese... However, we've created a book that will change all of that.Language learning isn't just about lessons or practice - it's...
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Basho: The Complete Haiku of Matsuo BashoThis is the essential English edition of the complete poems of the eminent Japanese master of the haiku, Matsuo Bashō. Matsuo Bashō (1644-1694) is arguably the greatest figure in the history of Japanese literature and the master of the haiku. Bashō The Complete Haiku...
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Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on CreativityDiscover the inimitable genius of Ray Bradbury as he explores the art of writing, the power of creativity, and the timeless appeal of storytelling in this collection of essays that are part masterclass, part memoir, featuring a new introduction by Dan Chaon. In Zen...
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We Are Nature Defending Itself: An Anthology of Women on Bodies, Borders, and PlaceIn the words of series editor Steven L. Davis, We Are Nature Defending Itself: An Anthology of Women on Bodies, Borders, and Place is "a revelation, a multicultural blend of well-known and emerging writers who come together to give nature a voice in our...
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Walden: Introduction by Verlyn KlinkenbourgBy virtue of its casual, off-handedly brilliant wisdom and the easy splendor of its nature writing, Thoreau's account of his adventure in self-reliance on the shores of a pond in Massachusetts is one of the signposts by which the modern mind has located itself...
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Vietnamese Stories for Language Learners: Traditional Folktales in Vietnamese and English (Free Online Audio)A great story can lead a reader on a cultural and linguistic journey--especially if it's in two languages! Vietnamese Stories for Language Learners introduces 40 traditional Vietnamese folktales with bilingual Vietnamese and English versions presented on facing pages. Each story is followed by cultural...
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Unexploded Ordnance: What She Felt. What They Feared. How They Survived. What They Saw.WINNER OF THE 2023 RESTLESS BOOKS PRIZE FOR NEW IMMIGRANT WRITINGIn imaginative prose that interrogates the past with a poet's curiosity and a scientist's pen, Unexploded Ordnance seeks to answer how we are shaped by the stories we inherit. After moving from Germany to...
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Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, PerformativityA pioneer in queer theory and literary studies, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick brings together for the first time in Touching Feeling her most powerful explorations of emotion and expression. In essays that show how her groundbreaking work in queer theory has developed into a deep...
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This Unruly Witness: June Jordan's LegacyA collection of bold and tender writing on June Jordan's multidimensional legacy as a poet, healer, and activist. This Unruly Witness was curated for people who see love as a life force, who seek a community that can sustain us, who know that "we...
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The Roman Empire the Empire of the Edomite"Strong evidence that the Roman Empire is of Edomite origin ... left our minds in bewilderment ... is one to be studied." -Church of England Quarterly Review William Beeston in his 1858 book "The Roman Empire the Empire of the Edomite" contends that the...
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The Rockford AnthologyScrew Capital of the World. Forest City. Home of the Rockford Peaches of A League of Their Own fame. Rockford, Illinois, has many identities, most oriented toward the past. These days, the fastener industry has mostly rusted away, the trees are less plentiful than...
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The Meursault InvestigationBest Translated Novel of the Decade - Lit Hub A New York Times Notable Book of 2015 -- Michiko Kakutani, The Top Books of 2015, New York Times -- TIME Magazine Top Ten Books of 2015 -- Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year...
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The Kebra Nagast: The Queen of Sheba and Her Only Son MenyelekWhat did Jamaican reggae singer Bob Marley and Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia have in common? A love for the Kebra Negast, holy book of Ethiopian Christians and Jamaican Rastafarians. Contemporary scholars date the Kebra Negast to the 14th century, but it retells...
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The Best of Reader's Digest: Humor, Heart-Warming Stories, and Dramatic TalesMore than two dozen timeless favorites from the Reader's Digest archives. From everyday heroes to larger-than-life characters, small moments to historic events, the unforgettable stories in Reader's Digest come alive as never before in this keepsake book. Our editors have combed the archives for...
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