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Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives: Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense by Sarah Weinman Publisher Comments 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 charactersand their creatorsbetter than Sarah Weinman. One... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The 20th Century in Poetry by Michael Hulse Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Against Venice by Regis Debray Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Road to Nowhere and Other New Stories from the Southwest by D. Seth Horton Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Open Door: One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of Poetry Magazine by Don Share Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Loving Venice by Petr Kral Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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My 1980s & Other Essays by Wayne Koestenbaum Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters by Robert Pinsky Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $25.95 New - Hardcover
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The Way the World Works: Essays by Nicholson Baker Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Underground Line Series Boxset: Twelve Stories from Twelve Authors by Authors Various Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $90.00 New - Hardcover
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The Caine Prize for African Writing 2013 by New Internationalist (cor) Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Correspondence of Henry D. Thoreau: Volume 1: 1834 - 1848 (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau) by Henry David Thoreau Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $114.50 New - Hardcover
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The Edge of the Precipice: Why Read Literature in the Digital Age? by Paul (edt) Socken Publisher Comments "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) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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Pepper Seed by Malika Booker Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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Granta, Volume 124: Travel by John (edt) Freeman Synopsis 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) Your price: $16.99 New - Trade Paper
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Between Day and Night: New and Selected Poems, 1946-2010 Miguel Gonzalez-Gerth by Miguel Gonzalez-gerth Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $22.95 New - Trade Paper
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Suitable Accommodations: An Autobiographical Story of Family Life: The Letters of J. F. Powers, 1942-1963 by J. F. Powers Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years by Jim Kacian Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $23.95 New - Hardcover
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High-Octane Heroes: Erotic Romance for Women by Delilah Devlin Publisher Comments Men Inand Outof Uniform One glance and your heart will meltthese 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) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Class and the College Classroom: Essays on Teaching by Robert C. Rosen Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $47.95 New - Trade Paper
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