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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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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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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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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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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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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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Count Palmiro Vicarion's Grand Grimoire of Bawdy Ballads and Limericks by Count Palmiro Vicarion Publisher Comments Poetry, Olympia Press style!First published in '55 and '56, respectively, and compiled by the great Palmiro Vicarion (Christopher Logue), these two books were required reading in pubs, boudoirs and anywhere rugby was played.Complete, with an index of... (read more) Your price: $1.00 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Dear Mrs. Kennedy: The World Shares Its Grief, Letters November 1963 by Jay Mulvaney Publisher Comments A collection of condolence letters received by Jacqueline Kennedy after her husband's assassination is culled from the Kennedy Library's archives and reflects the emotional climate of the world at a pivotal moment in history.... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Adjacencies: Minority Writing in Canada by Domenic A. Beneventi Publisher Comments Canada has often been described as a patchwork of cultural and linguistic communities that continually intersect with one another in interesting and provocative ways. This collection of essays provides a forum in which ethnicity and literature are... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price: $8.88 Google eBooks - 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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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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The Pale Cast of Thought: Hesitation and Decision in the Renaissance Epic by James Lawrence Shulman Publisher Comments 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) List Price $35.00 Your price: $31.06 Google eBooks - Electronic
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On the Pleasure of Hating by William Hazlitt Publisher Comments 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) List Price $4.99 Your price: $4.43 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by R. M. Liuzza Publisher Comments The classic story of Beowulf, hero and dragon-slayer, appears here in a new translation accompanied by genealogical charts, historical summaries, and a glossary of proper names. These and other documents sketching some of the cultural forces behind the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $14.39 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Treason: Poems by Hedi Kaddour by Hédi Kaddour Publisher Comments Hédi Kaddour’s poetry arises from observation, from situations both ordinary and emblematic—of contemporary life, of human stubbornness, human invention, or human cruelty.With Treason, the award-winning poet and translator Marilyn Hacker presents an... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $23.08 Google eBooks - Electronic
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John Donne: The Critical Heritage by A. J. Smith Publisher Comments The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses on a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves. This title available... (read more) Your price: $440.00 Google eBooks - Electronic
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