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Meditations (06 Edition)
by Aurelius  Publisher Comments Written in Greek without any intention of publication, this book offers spiritual reflections and exercises developed by the author, as the leader who struggled to understand himself and make sense of the universe. It covers topics such as: the question...
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Quote Poet Unquote: Contemporary Quotations on Poets and Poetry
by Dennis Odriscoll Publisher Comments "One of the best-read men in the Western world"is how Poetry Reviewdescribes Irish poet-critic Dennis O'Driscoll. Quote Poet Unquote, his compilation of contemporary quotations on all things poetry-related, proves that judgment spot on. The book grew out...
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Oh Baby
by Kim Chinquee Publisher Comments The book is a wonderful debut collection of prose poems and flash fictions, short short stories of beautiful precisions and understated passions. While the bricks with which Chinquee constructs her fictions - failed or failing relationships, childhood...
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Quiet, Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian
by Scott Douglas Publisher Comments For most of us, librarians are the quiet people behind the desk, who, apart from the occasional “shush,” vanish into the background. But in Quiet, Please, McSweeney’s contributor Scott Douglas puts the quirky caretakers of our...
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Bryson's Dictionary for Writers and Editors
by Bill Bryson Publisher Comments From one of America's most beloved and bestselling authors, a wonderfully useful and readable guide to the problems of the English language most commonly encountered by editors and writers. What is the difference between “immanent” and “...
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Colosseum: Poems
by Katie Ford Publisher Comments The visceral new work by Katie Ford, whose poems “possess the veiled brilliance of stained glass windows seen at night” (The New York Times Book Review) If you respect the dead and recall where they died by this time tomorrow there will...
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The Ghost Soldiers: Poems
by James Tate 
Powells.com Staff Pick Intriguing. The most intense of Tate's writings, with political and environmental themes. Such wonderful, imaginative writing. Recommended by Adrienne, Powells.com...
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No-Man's Lands: One Man's Odyssey through The Odyssey
by Scott Huler Publisher Comments When NPR contributor Scott Huler made one more attempt to get through James Joyce's Ulysses, he had no idea it would launch an obsession with the book's inspiration: the ancient Greek epic The Odyssey and the lonely homebound journey of its Everyman hero,...
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The Modern Element: Essays on Contemporary Poetry
by Adam Kirsch Publisher Comments A collection of bold, insightful, and controversial essays by "a poetry critic of the very first order" (New York Times). Over the last ten years, through essays in The New Republic, The New Yorker, and other magazines, Adam Kirsch—"one of the most...
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Guinness World Records (Guinness Book of Records)
by Guinness Publisher Comments A double back-spin on a motorcycle...ane elephant with a wooden leg...an apple the size of your head...it's just another year at the Guinness World Records! It’s another year of amazing record breakers from Guinness World Records™ 2008. Now...
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Classics for Pleasure
by Michael Dirda Publisher Comments In these delightful essays, Pulitzer Prize-winner Dirda introduces nearly 90 of the worlds most entertaining books. Writing with affection as well as authority, Dirda covers masterpieces of fantasy and science fiction, horror and adventure, as well as...
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Awake (Lynx House Book)
by Dorianne Laux Publisher Comments First published in 1990, Awake marked the stunning debut of poet Dorianne Laux. This much sought-after collection, introduced by Philip Levine, is now back in print in a handsome new edition. The recipient of two Best American Poetry prizes, an Editor's...
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Strong Is Your Hold
by Galway Kinnell Publisher Comments Pulitzer Prize winner Galway Kinnell's first new collection of poetry in more than a decade, with a bound-in CD of poems read by the author Here is the eleventh book of poems by Galway Kinnell, whom the New York Times has called "one of the true master...
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Literary Genius: 25 Classic Writers Who Define English & American Literature
by Joseph Epstein Publisher Comments What constitutes literary genius? This collection of essays focuses on twenty-five English-language writers whose original and enduring works enrich our lives. Renowned portraitist Barry Moser provides a handsome engraving of each writer, together with...
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By Hook or by Crook: A Journey in Search of English
by David Crystal Synopsis In this delightful excursion through the English language, Crystal combines personal reflections, historical allusions, and a traveler's observations to create a mesmerizing and entertaining narrative account with the language and its speakers....
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Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages
by Ammon Shea Publisher Comments An obsessive word lover's account of reading the Oxford English Dictionary cover to cover. "I'm reading the OED so you don't have to. If you are interested in vocabulary that is both spectacularly useful and beautifully useless, read on..." So reports...
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Selected Poems (Fsg Classics)
by James Schuyler Publisher Comments In Selected Poems, we experience the full range of James Schuyler’s achievement, confirming that he was among the late twentieth century’s truly vital and distinctive poetic voices. One of the most significant writers of the New York School...
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The Golden Calf
by Henry Baum Synopsis Ray Tompkins is the kind of person you never get to know. He's the security guard, the factory worker, the man working the midnight shift. Nobody really understands Ray - not his coworkers, not his family, and certainly not the women in his life. There...
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A Kite's Eye View: India: Between Earth and Sky
by Nicolas (pht) Chorier Synopsis Breathtaking images of India taken ingeniously by attaching a camera on a kite. Nicolas Chorier, one of the finest exponents of kite photography has spent the last 10 years traveling and photographing the length and breadth of India. Kite photography is...
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An Alphabetical Life: Living It Up in the World of Books
by Wendy Werris Publisher Comments Traces the author's thirty-six-year journey of self-discovery and literary enlightenment, a time marked by her temporary job at a 1970s Hollywood bookstore; an array of colleagues, lovers, and prestigious authors; and her relationship with her Jackie...
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