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Sorrow's Kitchen: The Life and Folklore of Zora Neale HurstonThis nonfiction middle grade biography explores the life and work of one of the greatest African American woman writers, Zora Neale Hurston. Zora Neale Hurston was a prominent figure of the Harlem Renaissance whose stories, plays, essays, and articles recorded black folklore and portrayed...
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Donde No Hago Pie / Where There Is No StandingCrónica del duro proceso que sigue a la denuncia de un abuso familiar y que implica enfrentar los prejuicios de la sociedad y los obstáculos de la justicia. «Contemporáneo en su estilo breve y fragmentario -donde se cruzan diario, imágenes, géneros y lenguajes diversos-,...
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Prophet for Our TimesPeter Deunov (Beinsa Dounov), who lived in Bulgaria from 1864 to 1944, was a great and inspired teacher of the Perennial Wisdom - the essential thread of truth running through all the major world religions. He was an extraordinary man who at once embodied...
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Writing a WrongWriter for Hire Veronica Blackstone's latest client is found dead and police suspect a burglary gone wrong, but Veronica isn't convinced in this intriguingly plotted mystery. As a writer for hire, Veronica Blackstone puts her keyboard to use to help others. That includes writing...
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The Art of Eric CarleCarle is one of the most beloved illustrators of children's books. This retrospective is more than just an appreciation of his art, however. The book also contains an insightful autobiography illustrated with personal photographs, an anecdotal essay by his longtime editor, a photographic essay...
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My Fairy-Tale LifeHans Christian Andersen had every right to think of his life as a fairy tale. He came from the lowest strata of society in the then little provincial town of Odense, went to Copenhagen at the age of 14, made his own way there...
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Tolkien: TreasuresThis beautifully illustrated book showcases the highlights of the Tolkien archives held at the Bodleian Library. From J. R. R. Tolkien's childhood in the Midlands and his experience of the First World War to his studies at school and university, from his exquisite illustrations...
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Perdurabo, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Life of Aleister CrowleyA rigorously researched biography of the founder of modern magick, as well as a study of the occult, sexuality, Eastern religion, and more The name "Aleister Crowley" instantly conjures visions of diabolic ceremonies and orgiastic indulgences--and while the sardonic Crowley would perhaps be the...
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Who Was Lewis Carroll?Meet the man who created Alice, the Mad Hatter, and Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum Lewis Carroll is the pen name of Charles L. Dodgson, a mathematician and church deacon, who taught at Oxford University. He was inspired to write his best known works,...
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Oscar WildeWinner of both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize, Oscar Wilde is the definitive biography of the tortured poet and playwright and the last book by renowned biographer and literary critic Richard Ellmann. Ellmann dedicated two decades to the research...
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Paulo Coelho: A Warrior's LifePaulo Coelho: A Warrior's Life is the definitive, authorized biography of one of the world's most popular and widely read authors--and the story of how his enormously popular novel The Alchemist came to be. Fernando Morais, the preeminent biographer in Brazil and a groundbreaking...
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Saramago. Sus Nombres: Un Álbum Biográfico / Saramago. His Names2022: AÑO SARAMAGOTras la publicación de su novela inédita, La viuda, Saramago en sus palabras y fotografías: el mejor reconocimiento al premio Nobel en su centenario. «A veces digo que yo no invento nada, que lo que hago es enseñar, como quien va por...
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Finding Querencia: Essays from In-BetweenWinner, 2022 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award (Autobiography/Memoir category) With its roots in the Spanish verb querer--"to want, to love"--the term querencia has been called untranslatable but has come to mean a place of safety and belonging, that which we yearn for when we yearn...
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Madder: A Memoir in WeedsMadder, matter, mater--a weed, a state of mind, a material, a meaning, a mother. Essayist and horticulturist Marco Wilkinson searches for the roots of his own selfhood among family myths and memories. "My life, these weeds." Marco Wilkinson uses his deep knowledge of undervalued...
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Pop Song: Adventures in Art & IntimacyA warm and expansive portrait of a woman's mind that feels at once singular and universal, this collection of essays interweaves commentary on modern life, feminism, art, and sex with the author's own experiences of obsession, heartbreak, and vulnerability (BuzzFeed). Like a song that...
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Ithell Colquhoun: Genius of the Fern Loved GullyThe first in-depth biographical study of the British surrealist and occultist Ithell Colquhoun, This book offers the first in-depth biographical study of the British surrealist and occultist Ithell Colquhoun, situating her art within the magical contexts that shaped her imaginative life and work. After...
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Eugenia Price's South: A Guide to the People and Places of Her Beloved RegionDo you want to experience the charm of Georgia's St. Simons Island? Do you long to see the little chapel at Frederica? Would you like to stand amid the ruins of Dungeness on Cumberland Island? Now you can. Come explore the historical places and...
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Family of Earth: A Southern Mountain ChildhoodDiscovered as a typewritten manuscript only after her death in 2006, Family of Earth allows us to see into the young mind of author and Appalachian native Wilma Dykeman (1920-2006), who would become one of the American South's most prolific and storied writers. Focusing...
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DetourLivvy Flynn is a big deal-she's a New York Times-bestselling author whose YA fiction has sold all over the world. She's rich, she's famous, she's gorgeous, and she's full of herself. When she's invited to an A-list writer's conference, she decides to accept so...
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Quack This Way: David Foster Wallace & Bryan A. Garner Talk Language and WritingDavid Foster Wallace was at the center of late-20th-century American literature, Bryan A. Garner at that of legal scholarship and lexicography. It was language that drew them together. The wide-ranging interview reproduced here memorializes 67 minutes of their second and final evening together, in...
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