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Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives: Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense
Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives: Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense
by Sarah Weinman
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Fourteen chilling tales from the pioneering women who created the domestic suspense genre Murderous wives, deranged husbands, deceitful children, and vengeful friends. Few know these characters—and their creators—better than Sarah Weinman. One... (read more)

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The 20th Century in Poetry
The 20th Century in Poetry
by Michael Hulse
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This impressive anthology presents over four hundred poems written during the twentieth century. Covering every major period of our cultural history—supporting their stance that no poet works in isolation from contemporary events—the editors... (read more)

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Against Venice
Against Venice
by Regis Debray
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A beautifully designed new edition of Régis Debray's mischievous, provocative attack on the city and on those who have succumbed to its charms. With energetic and gleeful vitriol, Debray unpicks Venice's superficiality, "gondolier kitsch... (read more)

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Road to Nowhere and Other New Stories from the Southwest
Road to Nowhere and Other New Stories from the Southwest
by D. Seth Horton
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The Southwest of the twenty-first century is full of surprises, and so is this collection of southwestern short stories published between 2007 and 2011. The writers represented here remind us that this is not the "Old Southwest" of gunfighters and... (read more)

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The Open Door: One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of Poetry Magazine
The Open Door: One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of Poetry Magazine
by Don Share
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When Harriet Monroe founded Poetry magazine in Chicago in 1912, she began with an image: the Open Door. “May the great poet we are looking for never find it shut, or half-shut, against his ample genius!” For a century, the most important and... (read more)

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Loving Venice
Loving Venice
by Petr Kral
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A leisurely, profound portrait of la Serenissima and a meditation on his own great love for it, by the author of In Search of the Essence of Place and Working Knowledge. No one writes as evocatively about place as Petr Král, or extracts such... (read more)

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My 1980s & Other Essays
My 1980s & Other Essays
by Wayne Koestenbaum
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Wayne Koestenbaum returns with a zesty and hyper-literate collection of personal and critical essays Wayne Koestenbaum has been described as “an impossible lovechild from a late-night, drunken three-way between Joan Didion, Roland Barthes, and... (read more)

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Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters
Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters
by Robert Pinsky
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Quick, joyful, and playfully astringent, with surprising comparisons and examples, this collection takes an unconventional approach to the art of poetry. Instead of rules, theories, or recipes, Singing School emphasizes ways to learn from great work... (read more)

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The Way the World Works: Essays
The Way the World Works: Essays
by Nicholson Baker
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From political controversy to the intimacy of his own life, from forgotten heroes of pacifism to airplane wings, telephones, paper mills, David Remnick, Joseph Pulitzer, the OED, and the manufacture of the Venetian gondola, Nicholson Baker ranges over... (read more)

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Underground Line Series Boxset: Twelve Stories from Twelve Authors
Underground Line Series Boxset: Twelve Stories from Twelve Authors
by Authors Various
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Name: Penguin Underground Lines Vital statistics: Twelve books, one for each Underground line, to celebrate the Tube's 150th anniversary Height: when all twelve are stacked up: 47.6 inches Idea for series: Penguin asked twelve people to tell their tale... (read more)

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The Caine Prize for African Writing 2013
The Caine Prize for African Writing 2013
by New Internationalist (cor)
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The Caine Prize for African Writing is Africa's leading literary prize. It has helped launch the careers of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Segun Afolabi, Leila Aboulela, Brian Chikwava, Binyavanga Wainaina, and many others. The 2013 collection includes the... (read more)

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The Correspondence of Henry D. Thoreau: Volume 1: 1834 - 1848 (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau)
The Correspondence of Henry D. Thoreau: Volume 1: 1834 - 1848 (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau)
by Henry David Thoreau
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This is the inaugural volume in the first full-scale scholarly edition of Thoreau's correspondence in more than half a century. When completed, the edition's three volumes will include every extant letter written or received by Thoreau--in all, almost... (read more)

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The Edge of the Precipice: Why Read Literature in the Digital Age?
The Edge of the Precipice: Why Read Literature in the Digital Age?
by Paul (edt) Socken
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"This is an excellent collection – the stuff we need for the notion of the 'public intellectual' to thrive: well-written pieces informed by professional knowledge yet incorporating personal experience. It doesn't pretend to be encyclopedic, but it... (read more)

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Pepper Seed
Pepper Seed
by Malika Booker
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Drawing on dramatic monologue, historical narratives, poetry of witness, and an integral intimate-domestic voice, this compilation portrays a visceral emotive patchwork of everyday dramas in the fabric of ordinary life. Written by a poet whose sense of... (read more)

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Granta, Volume 124: Travel
Granta, Volume 124: Travel
by John (edt) Freeman
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Hari Kunzru travels to Chernobyl, Detroit, and Japan to investigate the phenomenon of “disaster tourism.” Dinaw Mengustu gets at the heart of a resort town in western Africa. Pola Oloixarac resurrects the Viennese royals as they move their... (read more)

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Between Day and Night: New and Selected Poems, 1946-2010 Miguel Gonzalez-Gerth
Between Day and Night: New and Selected Poems, 1946-2010 Miguel Gonzalez-Gerth
by Miguel Gonzalez-gerth
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Miguel González-Gerth, an esteemed translator, poet, editor, and professor emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, has been publishing his original English and Spanish poetry since 1946. Born in Mexico City in 1926, González-Gerth... (read more)

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Suitable Accommodations: An Autobiographical Story of Family Life: The Letters of J. F. Powers, 1942-1963
Suitable Accommodations: An Autobiographical Story of Family Life: The Letters of J. F. Powers, 1942-1963
by J. F. Powers
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A wry, moving collection of letters from the late J. F. Powers, “a comic writer of genius” (Mary Gordon) Best known for his 1963 National Book Award-winning novel, Morte DUrban, and as a master of the short story, J. F. Powers drew praise... (read more)

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Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years
Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years
by Jim Kacian
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Haiku in English is an anthology of more than 800 brilliantly chosen poems that were originally written in English by over 200 poets from around the world. Although haiku originated as a Japanese art form, it has found a welcome home in the English... (read more)

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High-Octane Heroes: Erotic Romance for Women
High-Octane Heroes: Erotic Romance for Women
by Delilah Devlin
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Men In—and Out—of Uniform One glance and your heart will melt—these chiseled, brave men will ignite your fantasies with their courage and charisma. In High-Octane Heroes, award-winning romance writer Delilah Devlin has gathered stories of... (read more)

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Class and the College Classroom: Essays on Teaching
Class and the College Classroom: Essays on Teaching
by Robert C. Rosen
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We have long been encouraged to look to education, especially higher education, for the solution to social problems, particularly as a way out of poverty for the talented and the hard working. But in its appointed role as the path to upward mobility that... (read more)

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