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Exit Laughing
Exit Laughing is more than a collection of twenty-four personal stories, written by some of our country's finest authors, on the subject of death and humor. It's a reminder that all of us approach death in very different ways. Whether we face our death... (read more)
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The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader
Educator, writer, critic, intellectual, film-maker-Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has been widely praised as being one of America's most prominent and prolific scholars. In what will be an essential volume, The Henry Louis Gates Reader collects three decades of... (read more)
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Arguably
"All first-rate criticism first defines what we are confronting," the late, great jazz critic Whitney Balliett once wrote. By that measure, the essays of Christopher Hitchens are in the first tier. For nearly four decades, Hitchens has been telling us... (read more)
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Reckless
Desire raises the stakes--and the danger. . . Desperate Housewife by Cydney Rax Carmen Foster thinks she has it all--a perfect house, kids, and marriage. Until she stumbles upon racy texts from her husband, Forrest, to his baby mama, Toni--who... (read more)
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Tails of Love
Ten all-new stories that celebrate our animal friends, by bestselling and award-winning authors. From Seeing Eye dogs to the cat who cuddles in your lap, animals are there for us in more ways than we can count. Helping us get through the day with a wag... (read more)
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Great Short Stories by American Women
Choice collection of 13 stories includes "Life in the Iron Mills" by Rebecca Harding Davis, Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat," plus superb fiction by Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, many others.... (read more)
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The Philadelphia Metals
An award-winning book of poetry in England, the creative, witty, and dear story of the Metal family, Noemi and Orwen and little Li, told with playful British humor. Now available in its first US edition (2012).... (read more)
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Between Mothers & Daughters
In this poignant multicultural collection of short stories by American women writers, mothers and daughters describe their conflicts and consolations, their trusts and mistrusts, their loves and hates. Including stories written between the 1840s and the... (read more)
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Farther Away
Jonathan Franzen's Freedom was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the twenty-first century. In The New York Times Book Review, Sam Tanenhaus proclaimed it a masterpiece of American... (read more)
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Biting the Error
What is the best way to tell a story? In this anthology, the first-ever collection of essays by innovative, cutting-edge writers on the theme of narration, forty of the continent's top experimental writers describe their engagement with language... (read more)
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Clare and Francis
There is an irresistible calling in us that we often mistake for human love. Yet in the heart of a mystic-and I believe we are all mystics in waiting-there is an intense longing for union with the beloved. And this longing calls through our bodies-deep... (read more)
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Academic Discourse and Critical Consciousness
Academic Discourse and Critical Consciousnes traces the attempts of one writing teacher to understand theoretically - and to respond pedagogically - to what happens when students from diverse backgrounds learn to use language in college. Critical of even... (read more)
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I Write Therefore I Am
Selections from the writings of a very original author assembled under the headings of: I. Recollections II. Economics III. Creation, God and Religion IV. The Natural World V. Essays and Encounters VI. Dreaming.... (read more)
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Here
A new book of poems by Wislawa Szymborska is a rare and exciting event. When Here was published in Poland, reviewers marveled,“How is it that she keeps getting better?” Thesetwenty-seven poems,as renderedby prize-winning translatorsClare Cavanagh and... (read more)
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The Coquette
Books for All Kinds of Readers. ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Our 7 different sizes of EasyRead are optimized by increasing the font size and spacing between the words and the... (read more)
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Poetry Daily
A year's worth of poems by some of today's most popular contributors are selected from the archives of the popular Web site and are arranged appropriately for the specific date or season. Original.... (read more)
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Italian Stories
Elevengreat stories in original Italian with vivid, accurate English translations on facing pages, teaching and practice aids, Italian-English vocabulary, more. Chronologically arranged stories by Boccaccio, Machiavelli, d'Annunzio, Pirandello and... (read more)
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A Fictional History of the United States
This is a 'people's history' with tongue in cheek, delightfully funny, imaginative, but with a subtle undertone of seriousness. I enjoyed it immensely. --HOWARD ZINN,... (read more)
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The Pale Cast of Thought
This book focuses on specific moments of deliberated decision in the epic poems of Ariosto, Tasso, Spenser, and Milton. By exploring the difference between Aristotle's notion of proairesis and structuralist literary critics' use of the term, the author... (read more)
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On the Pleasure of Hating
Appearing as part of his Table-Talk series, a conversational series written on topics concerning every day issues, William Hazlitt wrote "On the Pleasure of Hating" in 1823 during a bitter period of his life, amidst rising controversy over his previous... (read more)
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