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Only Happiness Here: In Search of Elizabeth von Arnim'When I discovered Elizabeth von Arnim, I found, for the first time, a writer who wrote about being happy.' Elizabeth von Arnim is one of the early twentieth century's most famous - and almost forgotten - authors. She was ahead of her time in...
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Grace in the Dirt: Poems, Songs, and Other Reflections on LifeFrom Cory Kruse, author of the critically acclaimed A Dream of Darkness, comes an incisive collection that will delight, inspire, devastate, and uplift you.Told in spare, accessible entries, Grace in the Dirt is a lyrical memoir that delves into life's ever-changing seasons, leveraging the...
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Childhood DaysAuthor: Satyajit RayPublisher: India PenguinPublished: 04/20/2020Pages: 216Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9780140250794About the AuthorSatyajit Ray (1921-92) was one of the greatest film-makers of his time, known for iconic works like Pather Panchali, Charulata, Aranyer Din Ratri and Ghare Baire. He was awarded an Oscar for lifetime...
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Cold WindBeth Rivers is still in Alaska. The unidentified man who kidnapped her in her home of St. Louis hasn't been found yet, so she's not ready to go back. But as October comes to a close, Benedict is feeling more and more like her...
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Instead of a LetterA riveting memoir about betrayed love, loss, and finding redemption and purpose in creative work. Diana Athill's childhood in the Norfolk countryside was idyllic. At the age of fifteen, she fell in love with a young undergraduate. They became engaged and traveled to Oxford....
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Oh William!NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout explores the mysteries of marriage and the secrets we keep, as a former couple reckons with where they've come from--and what they've left behind. BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST - ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS...
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The Story I Am: Mad about the Writing LifeThis is a gorgeous book, one that will inspire anyone to make the next sentence.--Jericho Brown, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 2020 Roger Rosenblatt has always been "mad about the writing life." In this new collection, he shares the stories and insights...
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The Writer's Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their LivesNEW & NOTEWORTHY THE NEW YORK TIMES With a Foreword by Susan Orlean, twenty-three of today's living literary legends, including Donna Tartt, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Andrew Sean Greer, Laila Lalami, and Michael Chabon, reveal the books that made them think, brought them joy, and...
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Upendranath AshkAuthor: Daisy RockwellPublisher: KathaPublished: 08/01/2019Pages: 242Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55dISBN: 9788189020026This title is not returnable
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A Portrait in Poems: The Storied Life of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. ToklasThe stories, paintings and early twentieth-century Paris of Gertrude Stein and her partner, Alice B. Toklas, come to life in this charming and innovative picture book biography, told in clever second-person free verse. Here's an insider's tour of the fascinating lives of Gertrude Stein...
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La Hermana MenorSilvina Ocampo is one of the most exquisite, talented figures of literature in Spanish. The meaning behind much of her work is a mystery; similarly, very little is known about her private life. In this book, Mariana Enriquez looks intensely at the life of...
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Henry Thoreau and John Muir Among the Native AmericansNo two persons in the United States have written with as much passion and power about the bond between human beings and the natural world as Thoreau of WALDEN and Muir of MOUNTAINS OF CALIFORNIA. For both, Native Americans best exemplified the innate need...
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The Slow FarmIn this coming-of-age memoir, Tarn Wilson explores the gifts and burdens of a counterculture childhood. In the early 1970s, Wilson's hippie parents packed the family into a converted school bus with "Suck Nixon" painted on the side and aimed for the Canadian wilderness. They...
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Selected Correspondence of Kenneth PatchenSelected Correspondence of Kenneth PatchenAuthor: Kenneth PatchenPublisher: Bottom Dog PressPublished: 04/01/2012Pages: 336Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.43lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88dISBN: 9781933964553About the AuthorPatchen, Kenneth: - Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972) was a rebel poet, playwright, fiction and fable writer, artist, and performer of poetry-jazz, working in...
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The Italian LettersThe Italian Letters lies in the sensuous curvature of ancient, 20th and 21st century Italy. The sequel to The Cairo Codex follows the adventures of anthropologist Justine Jenner after she is expelled from Egypt in the wake of discovering the diary of the Virgin...
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The Story of Mary MacLaneThe Story of Mary MacLane shocked the literary world when it was published in April 1902. It sold 100,000 copies in its first month, an astonishing number then and now. Within a few years it had been translated into 36 languages, and writers such...
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Humiliated and Insulted: New TranslationFirst published in 1861, Humiliated and Insulted plunges the reader into a world of moral degradation, childhood trauma, unrequited love and irreconcil-able relationships. At the centre of the story are a young struggling author, an orphaned teenager and a depraved aristocrat, who not only...
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TIFF: A Life of Timothy FindleyTimothy Findley (1930-2002) was one of Canada's foremost writers--an award-winning novelist, playwright, and short-story writer who began his career as an actor in London, England. Findley was instrumental in the development of Canadian literature and publishing in the 1970s and 80s.During those years, he...
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H. P. Lovecraft: He Who Wrote in the Darkness: A Graphic NovelFor all readers and admirers of this genius of supernatural fiction, the hauntingly strange and surprising story of the life of H. P. Lovecraft, vividly presented in graphic novel form for the very first time. Creator of the myth of Cthulhu, Arkham, and the...
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Where the Bird Sings BestThe magnum opus from Alejandro Jodorowsky--director of The Holy Mountain, star of Jodorowsky's Dune, spiritual guru behind Psychomagic and The Way of Tarot, innovator behind classic comics The Incal and Metabarons, and legend of Latin American literature. There has never been an artist like...
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