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Look Back in AngerJimmy Porter, frustrated and bitter in his drab flat, lives with his middle-class wife, Alison. Also sharing the flat is Cliff who keeps things tenuously together. Alison's friend Helen arrives and persuades her to leave Jimmy only to fall for him herself. When Alison...
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Before Night Falls: A MemoirAny attempt to reckon with Cuba's torturous twentieth century will have to take into account Arenas's monumental work ... an essential human testimony, joyful and enraged, a triumph of conscience. -- Garth Greenwell The acclaimed memoir of queer Cuban author Reinaldo Arenas chronicling his...
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Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of WrathJohn Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath during an astonishing burst of activity between June and October of 1938. Throughout the time he was creating his greatest work, Steinbeck faithfully kept a journal revealing his arduous journey toward its completion.The journal, like the novel...
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A Year with Aslan: Daily Reflections from the Chronicles of Narnia"Lewis combines a novelist's insights into motives with a profound religious understanding." --New York Times Book ReviewIn the tradition of A Year with C.S. Lewis, get your daily dose of inspiration from this one-of-a-kind devotional collecting 365 readings from the beloved Chronicles of Narnia....
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Gold: The Final Science Fiction CollectionGold is the final and crowning achievement of the fifty-year career of science fiction's transcendent genius, the world-famous author who defined the field of science fiction for its practitioners, its millions of readers, and the world at large.The first section contains stories that range...
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Thoreau's Axe: Distraction and Discipline in American CultureHow nineteenth-century "disciplines of attention" anticipated the contemporary concern with mindfulness and being "spiritual but not religious" Today, we're driven to distraction, our attention overwhelmed by the many demands upon it--most of which emanate from our beeping and blinking digital devices. This may seem...
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Perfect Copies: Reproduction and the Contemporary ComicAnalyzing the way that recent works of graphic narrative use the comics form to engage with the "problem" of reproduction, Shiamin Kwa's Perfect Copies reminds us that the mode of production and the manner in which we perceive comics are often quite similar to...
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Children and Childhoods in L.M. Montgomery: Continuing ConversationsFrom Jane Austen to contemporary fanfiction and adaptations, literary portrayals of the child and imaginings of childhood are particularly telling indicators of cultural values and when they shift. Inspired by the responsive reading practices of L.M. Montgomery herself, those demonstrated by her characters, and...
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A Prayer for a Nonreligious AutisticA PRAYER FOR A NONRELIGIOUS AUTISTIC is a family history book for those who (in various ways) choose their own, a Jewish conversion story, disability advocacy, a literary supply of special interests as palate cleansers, and a behindthescenes feature on the effects of misdiagnosis,...
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A Weak Woman in a Strong Battle: Women and Public Execution in Early Modern EnglandA study of the depictions of women's executions in Renaissance England A Weak Woman in a Strong Battle: Women and Public Execution in Early Modern England provides critical insights on representations of women on the scaffold, focusing on how female victims and those writing...
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The Lineup: Ten Books That Changed BaseballFocusing on the ten most influential baseball books of all time, this volume explores how these landmark works changed the game itself and made waves in American society at large. Satchel Paige's Pitchin' Man informed the dialog surrounding integration. Ring Lardner's You Know Me...
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Once Upon a Time in the Academic Library: Storytelling Skills for LibrariansIt could be argued that to tell stories is to be human. Storytelling evolved alongside us to provide entertainment via literature, plays, and visual arts. It helps shape society through parables, moral tales, and religion. Storytelling plays a role in business, law, medicine, and...
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Rainer Maria Rilke's Little Book of Selected Quotes: on Love, Life, and Poetry"For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation." Rainer Maria Rilke Selected Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke now...
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Narrative in the AnthropoceneIn Narrative in the Anthropocene, Erin James poses two complementary questions: What can narrative teach us about our current geological epoch, defined and marked by the irrevocable activity of humans on the Earth's geology and ecosystems? and What can our current geological epoch teach...
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Wild Intelligence: Poets' Libraries and the Politics of Knowledge in Postwar AmericaInformation science was a burgeoning field in the early years of the Cold War, and while public and academic libraries acted as significant sites for the information boom, it is unsurprising that McCarthyism and censorship would shape what they granted readers access to and...
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Junot Díaz: On the Half-Life of LoveIn Junot Díaz: On the Half-Life of Love, José David Saldívar offers a critical examination of one of the leading American writers of his generation. He explores Díaz's imaginative work and the diasporic and immigrant world he inhabits, showing how his influences converged in...
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Open at the Close: Literary Essays on Harry PotterContributions by Lauren R. Carmacci, Keridiana Chez, Kate Glassman, John Granger, Marie Schilling Grogan, Beatrice Groves, Tolonda Henderson, Nusaiba Imady, Cecilia Konchar Farr, Juliana Valadão Lopes, Amy Mars, Christina Phillips-Mattson, Patrick McCauley, Jennifer M. Reeher, Jonathan A. Rose, and Emily Strand Despite their decades-long,...
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From the Valley of Bronze Camels: A Primer, Some Lectures, & a Boondoggle on PoetryJane Miller loves poetry. In these provocative and deeply insightful essays, she unpacks the work of giants like Adrienne Rich, Paul Celan, Marina Tsvetaeva, Osip Mandelstam, and Federico García Lorca alongside painters such as Caravaggio and Paul Klee, as well as ancient Chinese music...
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Unpacking the Personal Library: The Public and Private Life of BooksUnpacking the Personal Library: The Public and Private Life of Books is an edited collection of essays that ponders the cultural meaning and significance of private book collections in relation to public libraries. Contributors explore libraries at particular moments in their history across a...
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Unmaking Sex: The Gender Outlaws of Nineteenth-Century FranceDuring the nineteenth century, words like 'intersex' and 'trans' had not yet been invented to describe individuals whose bodies, or senses of self, conflicted with binary sex. But that does not mean that such people did not exist. In nineteenth-century France, case studies filled...
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