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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Alphabet Soup: A Memoir in Letters"At once experimental literature and alchemical apparatus -- designed to take all the flavours of one man's life experiences and transform them into something that nourishes." -- ANDREA THOMPSON, author of A Selected History of Soul SpeakA tasty yet experimental recipe of creative memoir...
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What the House KnowsAuthor: Diane LockwardPublisher: Terrapin BooksPublished: 03/01/2025Pages: 210Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48dISBN: 9781947896789
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Walloon Writers Review Ninth EditionAuthor: Jennifer HuderPublisher: Walloon Writers ReviewPublished: 02/14/2025Pages: 196Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.53dISBN: 9798218554651
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The Secret Societies of All Ages and CountriesThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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The Phoenix, As An Essay: Being An Attempt To Prove From History And Astronomical Calculations (1781)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...
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The Mind Electric: A Neurologist on the Strangeness and Wonder of Our BrainsIn this collection of medical tales "reminiscent of Oliver Sacks and the best of medical writing" (Abraham Verghese, author of The Covenant of Water), a neurologist reckons with the stories we tell about our brains, and the stories our brains tell us. A girl...
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The Kybalion (Collector's Edition) (Laminated Hardback with Jacket)Collector's Edition Laminated Hardback with Jacket Unlock the secrets of the universe with a book that promises to reveal the hidden laws governing all of existence. Through the lens of Hermetic wisdom, it guides readers into understanding the profound principles of mentalism, vibration, and...
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The History of Rome: Books 1-10 (Collector's Edition) (Laminated Hardback with Jacket)Collector's Edition Laminated Hardback with Jacket In The History of Rome: Books 1-10, Titus Livy chronicles Rome's evolution from its legendary founding to the early Republic. He begins with the myth of Aeneas's arrival in Italy and the city's establishment by Romulus in 753...
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The Effects of Knut Hamsun on a Fresno Boy: Recollections and Short EssaysThese small essays are not unlike Dutch paintings of the sixteenth century. They are clear and precisely rendered, and are either thematically domestic scenes or pedestrian in their observations of the ordinary. There is a delirious joy in Soto's writings, and heartbreak. This collection...
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Tell Me about Your Bad Guys: Fathering in Anxious TimesMichael Dowdy perceives the world as a poet, one with an anxiety disorder. As a result he has rarely experienced fathering or his relationship with his daughter, A, as a linear narrative. Rather, his impressions of fathering coalesce in encounters with the conditions of...
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Talk of the Devil: The Collected Writings of Ian FlemingA fascinating collection of rarely seen journalism and other writings by Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond series.Ian Fleming was best known for bringing to life the legendary character of James Bond, one of the most beloved and enduring icons of our time,...
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Somos Tejanas!: Chicana Identity and Culture in TexasAn expansive volume on Tejana identity and Tejanidad told through personal narratives, poetry, and essays. Being Tejanx is different than just being from Texas. Being Tejanx means you are a border subject. Being Tejanx means living in and from a certain history of oppression,...
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Snapshots: An Album of Essay and ImageIf pictures are worth a thousand words, what kinds of words might they inspire? What stories would they tell and would they be joyful or sad, elegant or savage? Snapshots features 36 such meditations from a diverse group of writers, each of whom draws...
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Propertius' Cynthia: The Book as BelovedAuthor: T. E. FranklinosPublisher: Oxford University PressPublished: 02/28/2025Pages: 256Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.22lbsSize: 9.36h x 6.47w x 0.94dISBN: 9780198940234This title is not returnable
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Principles of Light and ColorPrinciples of Light and Color is a comprehensive guide to the fundamental principles of light and color, written by Edwin D. Babbitt. The book covers the physics of light, color perception, and the principles of color mixing and harmony. It also explores the practical...
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Poems in Prose: A Showcase AnthologyThe oxymoronic notion of poems in prose was popularized in France by Charles Baudelaire and subsequently mined by countless authors and many movements, from Rimbaud to Ren?e Vivien, from the Parnassians to the Decadents. Collecting together one hundred seventy different pieces from sixty-one authors,...
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Paper Bullets: (Psychological Warfare during WW2)"Parisians awoke one spring morning in 1940 to find the streets littered with green leaves. But they weren't ordinary leaves. Actually they were Nazi leaflets bearing this message: 'If you fight England's battle, your soldiers will fall like autumn leaves.'" T]he Parisians were badly...
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On Writing History from Herodotus to HerodianWhat is history and how should it be written? An important new anthology containing the seminal texts on the writing of history in the ancient world Honorable Mention for the 13th Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study The...
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Notre-Dame de ParisNotre-Dame de Paris est un roman historique ?crit par Victor Hugo en 1831. Situ? ? Paris au XVe si?cle, il raconte l'histoire tragique de Quasimodo, le sonneur de cloches difforme de la cath?drale Notre-Dame, et de son amour impossible pour la belle gitane Esmeralda....
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Naked Pictures of Famous PeopleIn these nineteen whip-smart essays, Jon Stewart takes on politics, religion, and celebrity with a seethingly irreverent wit, a brilliant sense of timing, and a palate for the absurd.The former Daily Show host Jon Stewart brings his unique talent to the page in Naked...
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