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James Agee in Context: New Literary, Visual, Cultural, and Historical EssaysIt's difficult to overestimate the impact of the many new works by James Agee uncovered and published in the last twenty years. These previously unknown primary works have, in turn, encouraged a parallel explosion of critical evaluation and reevaluation by scholars, to which James...
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Soul's TemptationDaniel Bennet has become a cultural phenomenon after penning an international best-selling novel based on his ordeal trying to bring a powerful criminal to justice. He has everything he could ever want: a beautiful wife, son, and wealth beyond his wildest dreams. But something...
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A Girl's StoryIn A Girl's Story, Annie Ernaux revisits a night fifty years earlier when she found herself submerged and controlled by another person's desire and willpower. It was the summer of 1958, the year she turned eighteen, and the man she had given herself to...
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Fyodor Dostoevsky--The Gathering Storm (1846-1847): A Life in Letters, Memoirs, and CriticismThis second book in a three-volume work on the young Fyodor Dostoevsky is a diary-portrait of his early years drawn from letters, memoirs, and criticism of the writer, as well as from the testimony and witness of family and friends, readers and reviewers, and...
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The Storytellers: Straight Talk from the World's Most Acclaimed Suspense and Thriller AuthorsHave you ever read a suspense novel so good you had to stop and think to yourself, How did the author come up with this idea? Their characters? Is some of this story real? For over five years, Mark Rubinstein, physician, psychiatrist, and mystery...
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Bright Day (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)Gregory Dawson, a middle-aged and disillusioned writer, is holed up in a Cornish hotel working on a film script he must finish. A chance encounter with an old acquaintance in the bar sends him back to the England of 1913, when he was just...
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Back Roads to Far Towns: Basho's Travel JournalBasho (1644-1694) is the most famous Haiku poet of Japan. He made his living as a teacher and writer of Haiku and is celebrated for his many travels around Japan, which he recorded in travel journals. This translation of his most mature journal, Oku-No-Hosomichi,...
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Edith Wharton in FranceFrom French scholar and author Claudine Lesage, comes Edith Wharton in France, an examination of Wharton's years (1907-1937) in France. Lesage, with her innate knowledge of French culture, uses previously unknown or untranslated sources to provide a unique look into French society and Wharton's...
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UnwrittenTwelve-year-old Gracie Freeman is living a normal life, but she is haunted by the fact that she is actually a character from a story, an unpublished fairy tale she's never read. When she was a baby, her parents learned that she was supposed to...
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Mardi Gras in MobileMardi Gras in Mobile began its carnival celebration years before the city of New Orleans was founded.In the 1700s, mystic societies formed in Mobile, such as the Societe de Saint Louis, believed to be the first in the New World. These curious organizations brought...
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Days and Nights of Love and WarDays and Nights succeeds not only because of its socio-political authenticity and lyrical style but because of its interweaving of anger and tenderness, elation and sorrow.--The Nation Days and Nights of Love and War is the personal testimony of one of Latin America's foremost...
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TypewriterA neglected Russian typewriter clicks, clacks, and rings to life with a new owner.Author: Yevgenia NaybergPublisher: Creative EditionsPublished: 02/25/2020Pages: 32Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 10.40h x 10.50w x 0.60dISBN: 9781568463445Audience: Ages 4-8Review Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2020School Library Journal 03/01/2020 pg. 94
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Twain at Sea: The Maritime Writings of Samuel Langhorne ClemensSamuel Clemens (1835-1910) repeatedly traversed the ocean during his globetrotting life. A keen observer, the man who recast himself as Mark Twain was fascinated by seafaring. This book compiles selections ranging from his first voyage in 1866--San Francisco to Hawaii--to his circumnavigation of the...
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Conversations with Vladimir NabokovConversations with Vladimir Nabokov brings together candid, revealing interviews with one of the twentieth century's master prose writers. Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) was a Russian American scientist, poet, translator, and professor of literature. Critics throughout the world celebrated him for developing the luminous and enigmatic...
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Conversations with Joe R. LansdaleJoe R. Lansdale (b. 1951), the award-winning author of such novels as Cold in July (1989) and The Bottoms (2000), as well as the popular Hap and Leonard series, has been publishing novels since 1981. Lansdale has developed a tremendous cult audience willing to...
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The Singular Mark Twain: A BiographyIn this magisterial full-scale biography of America s greatest storyteller and satirist, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Fred Kaplan refashions our image of Mark Twain and etches a vibrant portrait of a singular personality who created some of the most memorable literary...
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Who Loves You Like This?Edith Bruck tells the story of the 'Lager' with the inherent strength of a wounded animal and in confronting the unbearable sadness of it closes the account and does not surrender to the void...Unforgettable testimony.--Primo LeviWith a style both warm and spare, Edith Bruck...
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Stirring Prose: Cooking with Texas AuthorsStirring Prose: Cooking with Texas Authors is a delightfully revealing look at some of Texas's best writers. Initially conceived as a Who's Who of Texas authors, Deborah Douglas quickly realized that asking authors to write about their favorite recipes freed them from "the big...
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Motor-Flight Through FranceShedding the turn-of-the-century social confines she felt existed for women in America, Edith Wharton set out in the newly invented "motor-car" to explore the cities and countryside of France. In A Motor-Flight Through France, originally published in 1908, Wharton combines the power of her...
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Boyz N the Void: A Mixtape to My BrotherWriting to his brother, G'Ra Asim reflects on building his own identity while navigating Blackness, masculinity, and young adulthood--all through wry social commentary and music/pop culture critique How does one approach Blackness, masculinity, otherness, and the perils of young adulthood? For G'Ra Asim, punk...
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