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Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens Publisher Comments "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) Your price: $14.99 Google eBooks - Electronic 
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Exit Laughing by Victoria Zackheim Publisher Comments 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) List Price $15.95 Your price: $14.16 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Reckless by Tracy Brown Publisher Comments 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) List Price $11.99 Your price: $10.64 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Tails of Love by Lori Foster Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $7.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Great Short Stories by American Women by Candace Ward Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $2.50 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Philadelphia Metals by Wendy Ruthroff Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $12.00 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader by Henry Louis Gates Publisher Comments 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) List Price $29.99 Your price: $26.62 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Between Mothers & Daughters: Stories across a Generation by Susan Koppelman Publisher Comments 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) List Price $10.85 Your price: $9.63 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Farther Away: Essays by Jonathan Franzen Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Biting the Error by Gail Scott Publisher Comments 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) List Price $16.95 Your price: $15.04 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Publisher Comments A pioneer in queer theory and literary studies, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick brings together for the first time in Touching Feeling her most powerful explorations of emotion and expression. In essays that show how her groundbreaking work in queer theory has... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $20.30 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Clare and Francis by Marcus Bussey Publisher Comments 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) List Price $6.99 Your price: $6.73 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Academic Discourse and Critical Consciousness by Patricia Bizzell Publisher Comments 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) List Price $19.96 Your price: $17.71 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Eunoia by Christian Bök Publisher Comments In a five-chapter, Griffin Poetry Prize-winning book of experimental verse, each chapter uses only one vowel, with the vowel taking on its own personality, in a volume with such lines as "Awkward grammar appalls a craftsman. A Dada bard as daft as Tzara... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $12.38 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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I Write Therefore I Am: A Collection of Writings by Douglas Haig Simpson by Douglas Haig Simpson Publisher Comments 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) List Price $9.99 Your price: $8.87 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Here by Wislawa Szymborska Publisher Comments 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) List Price $22.00 Your price: $20.35 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Coquette: The History Of Eliza Wharton by Webster Foster Hannah Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $1.99 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Poetry Daily: 366 Poems from the World's Most Popular Poetry Website by Diane Boller Publisher Comments 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) List Price $17.99 Your price: $15.97 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Italian Stories by Robert Anderson Hall Publisher Comments 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) List Price $12.95 Your price: $11.49 Google eBooks - Electronic
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A Fictional History of the United States: With Huge Chunks Missing by T. Cooper Synopsis 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) List Price $15.00 Your price: $13.31 Google eBooks - Electronic
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