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Help Me Die Well: A Queer Prisoner's Poetry Anthology, Vol. 3 - Paperback
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by A B O Comix (Editor), Oliver Mills (Editor)Our third annual poetry anthology features original work from over two dozen queer and trans incarcerated poets. Proceeds from this anthology support the poets' continued survival, subsidizing everything from commissary packages to legal fees to medical copays. From anthology editor Ollie Mills: "HELP ME DIE WELL is a plea to loved ones, to circumstance - really, to everything - to make one's life worth living." A.B.O. Comix is a collective of cre...
Hijab Butch Blues: A Memoir - Paperback
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by Lamya H (Author)A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from stories in the Quran in this "raw and relatable memoir that challenges societal norms and expectations" (Linah Mohammad, NPR). "A masterful, must-read contribution to conversations on power, justice, healing, and devotion from a singular voice I now trust with my whole heart."--Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed AN AUDACIOUS BOOK CLUB PICK - WINNER: The B...
Charles Goodyear, Connecticut Yankee And Rubber Pioneer: A Biography - Paperback
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by P. W. Barker (Author)""Charles Goodyear, Connecticut Yankee And Rubber Pioneer: A Biography"" is a comprehensive account of the life and work of Charles Goodyear, a pioneering figure in the rubber industry. Written by P.W. Barker, the book chronicles Goodyear's early life and career, including his experiments with rubber and his development of the vulcanization process. The book also explores Goodyear's personal life, including his family relationships and his struggles with financial diff...
The Story of the Airship - Paperback
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by Hugh Allen (Author)Originally published by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. as a promotional, The Story of the Airship chronicles the history and development of these great "silver cruisers of the sky." Filled with photos and authoritative text, the book springs from an era when dirigibles, balloons andblimps competed against airplanes for public attention. Sadly, incidents such as those that befell the USS Macon, USS Akron and Hindenburg caused the public to lose faith in these craft. Pub...
Lafayette In America In 1824 And 1825 V2: Or Journal Of A Voyage To The United States (1829) - Paperback
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by Auguste Levasseur (Author)""Lafayette In America In 1824 And 1825 V2: Or Journal Of A Voyage To The United States (1829)"" is a historical account written by Auguste Levasseur about the French general Marquis de Lafayette's visit to the United States in 1824 and 1825. The book is the second volume of Levasseur's journal and it provides a detailed description of Lafayette's travels and experiences during his time in America. Levasseur was a close friend of Lafayette and accompanied him on h...
Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson - Paperback
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by Emily Dickinson (Author), Ellen Louise Hart (Editor), Martha Nell Smith (Editor)Emily Dickinson's uncensored and breathtaking letters, poems, and letter-poems to her sister-in-law, Susan Huntington DickinsonFor the first time, selections from Emily Dickinson's thirty-six year correspondence with her childhood friend, neighbor, and sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson, are compiled in a single volume. Open Me Carefully invites a dramatic new understanding of Emily Dickinson's life and ...
Chickens, Gin, and a Maine Friendship: The Correspondence of E. B. White and Edmund Ware Smith - Hardcover
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by E. B. White (Author), Edmund Ware Smith (Author), Martha White (Introduction by)During the 1950s and '60s, writers E.B. White and Edmund Ware Smith carried on a long correspondence by letter, despite living only a few miles apart on the coast of Maine. Often the letters were written from one or the other while they were traveling, but missing their homes and friends. The letters represent a witty and charming correspondence between two literary giants, their stories of Maine, the beauty of...
Caligula and Three Other Plays: A New Translation by Ryan Bloom - Paperback
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by Albert Camus (Author)Four thought-provoking masterworks for the theater by the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Stranger and The Plague, in a restorative new translation by Ryan Bloom that brings together, for the first time in English, Camus's final versions of the plays, along with deleted scenes and alternate lines of dialogue. Though known for his novels that plumb the depths of absurdism, it was the theater stage that Camus called "one of the only places in the world I'm happy." Af...
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves - Hardcover
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by Glory Edim (Author)NOMINATED FOR AN NAACP IMAGE AWARD - An inspiring collection of essays by black women writers, curated by the founder of the popular book club Well-Read Black Girl, on the importance of recognizing ourselves in literature. "Yes, Well-Read Black Girl is as good as it sounds. . . . Glory Edim] gathers an all-star cast of contributors--among them Lynn Nottage, Jesmyn Ward, and Gabourey Sidibe."--O: The Oprah Magazine Remember that moment when you first encountered a chara...
Periodismo Para La Historia / Journalism for the History Books - Paperback
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by Julio Scherer Garc?a (Author)«El ?nico sustantivo para definir a Julio es el de reportero. Como reportero vive, como reportero trabaja tiempo completo, como reportero hace y pierde amigos... Pocos reporteros son, en M?xico, tan reporteros como este Julio Scherer de coraz?n abierto a la curiosidad. ?sa es su gran virtud, su cualidad sobresaliente, que tantos quisieran tranquilizarlo, aquietarlo, detenerlo: "Ya, don Julio, por favor, no pregunte m?s, no averig?e, no insista, no quiera ...
The Exercises Of Saint Gertrude: Virgin And Abbess, Of The Order Of St. Benedict (1863) - Paperback
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by Saint Gertrude (Author), Dom Gueranger (Foreword by)The Exercises of Saint Gertrude: Virgin and Abbess, of the Order of St. Benedict is a religious text written by Saint Gertrude. The book was originally published in 1863 and is a collection of prayers, meditations, and spiritual exercises designed to help readers deepen their faith and connection with God. Saint Gertrude, who lived in the 13th century, was a Benedictine nun known for her devotion to God and her mystical experiences. The b...
If This Isn't Nice, What Is? (Even More) Expanded Third Edition: The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live by - Paperback
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by Kurt Vonnegut (Author), Dan Wakefield (Selected by)A collection of 15 graduation speeches and treasured wisdom from the New York Times-bestselling literary icon and author of Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle, and Breakfast of Champions "Like [that of] his literary ancestor Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut's crankiness is good-humored and sharp-witted."--A.O. Scott, The New York Times Book Review Master storyteller and satirist Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most in-demand commencement speakers of ...
Kjv, Sovereign Collection Bible, Personal Size, Leathersoft, Purple, Thumb Indexed, Red Letter Edition, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, King James Version - Imitation Leather
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by Thomas Nelson (Author)This beautiful Bible edition honors the legacy of the King James Version Bible in a convenient portable size with essential study tools and traditional red-letter text for the Words of Christ. This edition is published in large KJV Comfort Print type, which was designed exclusively for Thomas Nelson to be the most readable at any size.The Sovereign Collection continues Thomas Nelson's long history and stewardship publishing Bibles. King James Sovereign Collection edit...
Radical Poetics: Essays on Literature & Culture - Paperback
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by Khadijah Queen (Author)Literature has the power to help build a shelter in language for a way of being that holds integrity and love as its root. In the tradition of Audre Lorde, Angela Davis, and many other Black writers and theorists, poet and professor Khadijah Queen observes questions of life and literature, human feeling and behavior, and explores language-based solutions to common cultural conflicts that are often rooted in harmful assumptions. Instead of operating from a base of un...
2 Trans 2 Furious: An Extremely Serious Journal of Transgender Street Racing Studies - Paperback
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by Tuck Woodstock (Editor), Niko Stratis (Editor)Lambda Literary Award winner for Best LBTQ+ Anthology More than forty trans writers and artists have joined forces to explore the deeper meanings of the Fast & Furious franchise (and also gender). There's really no way to know why this exists, but it does, and you can own it! Suitable for F&F fans and newcomers alike. Includes: - A new short story by Manhunt author Gretchen Felker-Martin - A demolition derby driver's perspective on 2 Fa...
Wave of Blood - Paperback
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by Ariana Reines (Author)Wrestling with the mind of war, at times shocking in its self-analysis, WAVE OF BLOOD is a furious, strange and sincere essay, an eclipse notebook, a family chronicle, all told in the poetry of witness. I don't understand the intensity I've hidden here but I know I despaired Of finding a physical place to keep My tears. Now what. Seas that go turquoise When you stop looking at them . . .
Number of Pages: 200
Dimensions: 0.7 x 8.7 x 5.5 IN
Publication Date: January 03,...
Wolf ACT - Paperback
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by Aj Romriell (Author)As a child, AJ Romriell strove to obey his Mormon leaders' every rule. If he was faithful enough, he was taught, God would remove temptations. But at nineteen, returning home early from his mission after admitting his attraction to men, he was forced to make a decision: either stay the course or work to accept himself fully and risk losing family, community, and the Church he'd devoted his life to. His decision to pursue radical acceptance would turn out to be just one ...
A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953 - Paperback
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by Anaïs Nin (Author), Henry Miller (Author)A "lyrical, impassioned" document of the intimate relationship between the two authors that was first disclosed in Henry and June (Booklist).This exchange of letters between the two controversial writers--Anaïs Nin, renowned for her candid and personal diaries, and Henry Miller, author of Tropic of Cancer--paints a portrait of more than two decades in their complex relationship as it moves through periods of passion, friendship, estrangement, and re...
Letters to a Young Poet: The Norton Centenary Edition - Hardcover
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by Rainer Maria Rilke (Author), M. D. Herter Norton (Translator), Julia Reidhead (Afterword by)This slim volume of letters from the poet and mystic, Rainer Maria Rilke, to a nineteen-year-old cadet and aspiring poet named Franz Xaver Kappus, has touched millions of readers since it was first published in English in 1934. The translator, Mary Dows Herter Norton--a polymath extraordinaire with expertise in music, literature, and science, and who, along with her husband, William Warder Norton, f...
The Comics Journal #310 - Paperback
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by Gerald Scarfe , Gary Groth (Editor), Austin English (Editor)Multimedia artist and satirist Gerald Scarfe, best known worldwide for his Pink Floyd iconography and designs for Disney's Hercules, talks to Gary Groth about his film, TV, and comics career, spanning 60+ years. Zach Rabiroff does a journalistic deep dive into Bill Jemas's tenure as Vice President of Marvel from 2000-2004, the creation of the Marvel Ultimates Universe, and much more. Also: visual artists Aidan Koch (Earth Comics, ...
Liberty And Death At The Alamo - Paperback
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by Dennis Clark (Author)
Number of Pages: 586
Dimensions: 1.59 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: June 01, 2024
Liberty And Death At The Alamo - Hardcover
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by Dennis Clark (Author)
Number of Pages: 586
Dimensions: 1.75 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: June 01, 2024
Upstream: Selected Essays - Hardcover
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by Mary Oliver (Author)One of O, The Oprah Magazine's Ten Best Books of the Year The New York Times bestselling collection of essays from beloved poet, Mary Oliver. "There's hardly a page in my copy of Upstream that isn't folded down or underlined and scribbled on, so charged is Oliver's language . . ." --Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air "Uniting essays from Oliver's previous books and elsewhere, this gem of a collection offers a compelling synthesis of the poet's thoughts on the natural, sp...
The Iliad & the Odyssey (Deluxe Hardbound Edition) - Hardcover
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by Homer (Author) Embark on a literary odyssey through ancient Greece with Homer's timeless epics, The Iliad and The Odyssey. In The Iliad, witness the ravages of the Trojan War as gods and mortals clash in a tale of honor, heroism, and the consequences of unchecked pride. Then, journey alongside Odysseus in The Odyssey as he battles mythical creatures, evades vengeful gods, ad strives to return home, navigating treacherous seas and testing the limits of human resilience. These masterpieces o...
A Dictionary of Symbols: Revised and Expanded Edition - Paperback
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by Juan Eduardo Cirlot (Author), Jack Sage (Translator), Valerie Miles (Translator)A classic encyclopedia of symbols by Catalan polymath Joan Cirlot that illuminates the symbolic underpinnings of myth, modern psychology, literature, and art. Juan Eduardo Cirlot's A Dictionary of Symbols is a feat of scholarship, an act of the imagination, and a tool for contemplation, as well as a work of literature, a reference book that is as indispensable as it is brilliant and learned. Cirlot was a compos...
The Creed of the Conquering Chief an Experiment in Psychology - Paperback
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by Albert Lewis Pelton (Author)The Creed of the Conquering Chief is a book written by Albert Lewis Pelton that explores the principles of psychology and their application in achieving success. The book is an experiment in understanding the human mind and its potential for greatness.Pelton presents his ideas through the story of a fictional character called the Conquering Chief, who embodies the principles of success and achievement. The Conquering Chief's creed is a set of beliefs and practic...
The Odyssey - Paperback
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by Homer (Author), Anthony Verity (Translator), William Allan (Author)Twenty years after setting out to fight in the Trojan War, Odysseus is yet to return home to Ithaca. His household is in disarray: a horde of over 100 disorderly and arrogant suitors are vying to claim Odysseus' wife Penelope, and his young son Telemachus is powerless to stop them. Meanwhile, Odysseus is driven beyond the limits of the known world, encountering countless divine and earthly challenges. But Odysseus is "of ma...
A Measure of Belonging: Twenty-One Writers of Color on the New American South - Paperback
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by Cinelle Barnes (Editor)A New York Times Books New & Noteworthy book - A Most-Anticipated Book from BookPage, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and Paperback Paris - Glowing reviews and features in Garden & Gun, CNN Philippines, Chapter16, Kirkus Reviews, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and more This fierce collection celebrates the incredible diversity in the contemporary South by featuring essays by twenty-one of the finest young writers of color living and working in the region today...
Powerful Is The Light - Paperback
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by Hazel Deane (Illustrator)""Powerful Is The Light"" is a book written by Hazel Deane that explores the concept of spirituality and the power of light in our lives. The book delves into the idea that we all have a spiritual essence that is connected to a higher power, and that this connection can help us to find purpose and meaning in our lives. Through personal anecdotes and spiritual teachings, Deane offers insights into how we can tap into this power and use it to overcome challenges, fin...
Letter to the Father/Brief an Den Vater: Bilingual Edition - Paperback
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by Franz Kafka (Author), Ernst Kaiser (Translator), Eithne Wilkins (Translator)A son's poignant letter to his father--from the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial, and one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. - "One of the great confessions of literature." --The New York Times Book Review Franz Kafka wrote this letter to his father, Hermann Kafka, in November 1919. Max Brod, Kafka's literary executor, relates that Kafka actually gave the letter to his mother to hand ...
Baby Record Book: Newborn Journal for Boys and Girls to Cherish Memories and Milestones (Ideal Gift for Expecting Parents and Baby Showe - Hardcover
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by Wonder House Books (Author) A baby's arrival is a moment of joy, a day of fondness. Nurture each moment with this wonderful record book for parents-to-be! Cherish all of your precious moments, as you put together fond memories from your pregnancy to Baby's birth, their first kick and the maiden step, in this baby record book. With adorable animals and a ton of space for cute pictures, this book will be your companion through the beautiful journey of parenthood. Author Biography Wonder Hous...
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories - Paperback
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by Marina Keegan (Author), Anne Fadiman (Introduction by)The instant New York Times bestseller and publishing phenomenon: Marina Keegan's posthumous collection of award-winning essays and stories "sparkles with talent, humanity, and youth" (O, The Oprah Magazine).Marina Keegan's star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude from Yale in May 2012. She had a play that was to be produced at the New York Fringe Festival and a job waiting for her at The New Yorker. Tragically, five days ...
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