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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...

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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...

Dirty Old Women: erotica by women of experience - Paperback

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by Lynx Canon (Author)Erotica by women of experience: Older women: Wise enough to tell the truth about sex - what they want, what they've done, what makes them hot. Each month at Oakland's Octopus Literary Salon, self-identified older women read stories and poems that thrill and sizzle: a nun is tormented by sacrilegious fantasies; a married woman wreaks sexual revenge on a fantasy lover; two women struggle to reconnect as they pack up a dead woman's things. This anthology features steamy, ne...

El Pais de las Pieles (Spanish) Edition - Paperback

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by Julio Verne (Author)El pa s de las pieles es una novela del escritor franc s Julio Verne, despu s de un largo recorrido, todo parece marchar bien para la expedici n cuando aumenta la actividad volc nica y tiene lugar un fuerte terremoto... Number of Pages: 358 Dimensions: 0.74 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: June 25, 2017

Los Viajes de Gulliver (Spanish Edition) - Paperback

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by Jonathan Swift (Author)El capitan Lemuel Gulliver que es llevado por el mar a mundos fantasticos en donde: es un gigante entre enanos, un enano entre gigantes y un ser humano avergonzado de su condicion en una tierra poblada por caballos sabios que son mas humanos que los propios hombres y desconfian, con razon, de estos. La obra se considera un clasico de la literatura universal y ha inspirado numerosas adaptaciones y versiones. El libro se volvio famoso tan pronto como fue publicado" Num...

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...

Frost: Poems: Edited by John Hollander - Hardcover

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by Robert Frost (Author), John Hollander (Editor)One of Time magazine's 100 best English-language novels and the most famous of all twentieth-century political allegories. "A wise, compassionate, and illuminating fable for our times." --The New York Times This story of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master, only to submit to a tyranny erected by their own kind, is a universal drama. Taking as his starting point the betrayed promise of the Russian Revolutio...

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by William Shakespeare (Author)Love and Deception--Hortensio and Gremio are competing suitors for the hand of the beautiful Bianca. However Bianca's father will not let her wed until after her older sister Katherina has wed. Unfortunately Katherina is known as an ill-tempered shrew and as a result has no prospects. Hortensio and Gremio agree to work together to find someone to marry Katherina so that they will be free to compete for Bianca. But nothing proceeds as expected. Number of Pages: 1...

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by Oliver Goldsmith (Author), James Watt (Editor)The Citizen of the World is a highly readable yet deceptively sophisticated text, using the popular eighteenth-century device of the imaginary observer. Its main narrator, the Chinese philosopher Lien Chi Altangi, draws on traditional ideas of Confucian wisdom as he tries (and sometimes fails) to come to terms with the commercial modernity and spectacle of imperial London. Goldsmith explores a moment of economic and social transformation in Bri...

The Persephone Myth in Young Adult Fiction: From Girl to Woman - Hardcover

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by Cristina Salcedo Gonz?lez (Author)Investigating the widespread but understudied presence of the Persephone myth within 21st-century young adult literature, Cristina Salcedo Gonz?lez analyses six young adult novels which incorporate a reworking of this ancient Greek myth.Through the identification of mythic themes ('mythemes') and patterns within these novels, Gonz?lez shows that these works evoke the female life cycle and develop current perceptions of the female maturational experience. A...

The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon: Poems - Paperback

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by Willie Perdomo (Author)A suite of poems about a percussionist in 1970 Spanish Harlem music circles, from the author of The Crazy Bunch A National Book Critics Circle 2014 Finalist for Poetry Through dream song and elegy, alternate takes and tempos, prizewinning poet Willie Perdomo's third collection crackles with vitality and dynamism as it imagines the life of a percussionist, rebuilding the landscape of his apprenticeship, love, diaspora, and death. At the beginning of his infernal jour...

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by Virginia Woolf (Author), Lauren Groff (Introduction by)Virginia Woolf's classic plea for a world in which women are free to use their gifts is as powerful and resonant as ever. In this influential extended essay, Virginia Woolf outlined what women need in order to fully make use of their abilities. Using powerful images and memorable thought experiments--such as a fictional sister of William Shakespeare, who is as talented as her brother but limited in ways he was not--Woolf analyzes the m...

El sabueso de los Baskerville para estudiantes de español: The hound of the Baskervilles for Spanish learners - Paperback

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by J. a. Bravo (Author), Read It! (Editor), Arthur Conan Doyle (Author)El sabueso de los Baskerville es la tercera de las cuatro novelas negras escritas por Sir Arthur Conan Doyle que protagonizadas por el detective Sherlock Holmes. Fue publicada originalmente por entregas en The Strand Magazine de agosto 1901-abril 1902, esta ambientada en los páramos de Dartmoor, Devon y cuenta la historia de un intento de asesinato inspirado en la leyenda de un perro temible, diabólico de origen sobrenatur...

The James Baldwin Collection - Hardcover

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by James Baldwin (Author), Toni Morrison (Editor), Darryl Pinckney (Editor)For the first time in a collector's boxed set, the definitive three-volume Library of America James Baldwin edition gathering all his essential writings, including the collected essays and complete fiction. With the novel Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953), a distillation of his own experiences as a preacher's son in 1930s Harlem, and the essay collection Notes of a Native Son (1955), James Baldwin established himself a...

The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos - Hardcover

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by Jaime Green (Author)*An NPR Science Friday Book Club Pick**A "Next Big Idea Book Club" Must Read**A Gizmodo New Release Pick for April**A BookRiot Science Book to Add to Your TBR**A Wired Book to Read for Spring**A TODAY Show Summer Book**A Washington Post Book to Read This Summer**One of the Chicago Tribune's 52 Books for Summer 2023*"A dazzling feat of imagination and synthesis."--Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of An Immense WorldA spellbinding exploration of alien life and t...

One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter: Essays - Paperback

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by Scaachi Koul (Author)One of NPR's Best Books of the Year A DEBUT COLLECTION OF FIERCE, FUNNY ESSAYS ABOUT GROWING UP THE DAUGHTER OF INDIAN IMMIGRANTS IN WESTERN CULTURE, ADDRESSING SEXISM, STEREOTYPES, AND THE UNIVERSAL MISERIES OF LIFE In One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter, Scaachi Koul deploys her razor-sharp humor to share all the fears, outrages, and mortifying moments of her life. She learned from an early age what made her miserable, and for Scaachi anything can ...

This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage: A Reese's Book Club Pick - Paperback

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by Ann Patchett (Author)A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick "I had been so engaged by Ann Patchett's multifaceted story, so lured in by her confiding voice, that I forgot I was on the job. [...] As the best personal essays often do, Patchett's is a two-way mirror, reflecting both the author and her readers." -- New York Times Book ReviewBlending literature and memoir, New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder, Run, and Bel Canto, examines her deepest commitmen...

Happy to Help: Adventures of a People Pleaser - Hardcover

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by Amy Wilson (Author)A Brit&Co Most Anticipated Books of 2025 Amy Wilson, co-host of the award-winning podcast What Fresh Hell, takes a funny and insightful look at how women are conditioned to be "happy to help"--and what happens when things don't go that way. Amy Wilson has always been an ultimate helper. As a big sister, Girl Scout, faithful reader of teen magazines, personal assistant, sitcom sidekick, and, finally, mother of three, Amy believed it was her destiny to be a people plea...

The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry - Paperback

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by Wendell Berry (Author), Norman Wirzba (Editor)"Here is a human being speaking with calm and sanity out of the wilderness. We would do well to hear him." --The Washington Post Book World The Art of the Commonplace gathers twenty essays by Wendell Berry that offer an agrarian alternative to our dominant urban culture. Grouped around five themes--an agrarian critique of culture, agrarian fundamentals, agrarian economics, agrarian religion, and geobiography--these essays promote a clearly defi...

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by Plato (Author), W. H. D. Rouse (Translator), Matthew S. Santirocco (Introduction by)"Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato."--Emerson The Republic and other great dialogues by the immortal Greek philosopher Plato are masterpieces that form part of the most important single body of writing in the history of philosophy. Beauty, love, immortality, knowledge, and justice are discussed in these dialogues, which magnificently express the glowing spirit of Platonic philosophy. Translated by ...

On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint - Paperback

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by Maggie Nelson (Author)Named a Most Anticipated/Best Book of the Month by: NPR * USA Today * Time * Washington Post * Vulture * Women's Wear Daily * Bustle * LitHub * The Millions * Vogue * Nylon * Shondaland * Chicago Review of Books * The Guardian * Los Angeles Times * Kirkus * Publishers Weekly So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to our aut...

The Werewolf in the Ancient World - Hardcover

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by Daniel Ogden (Author)In a moonlit graveyard somewhere in southern Italy, a soldier removes his clothes in readiness to transform himself into a wolf. He depends upon the clothes to recover his human shape, and so he magically turns them to stone, but his secret is revealed when, back in human form, he is seen to carry a wound identical to that recently dealt to a marauding wolf. In Arcadia a man named Damarchus accidentally tastes the flesh of a human sacrifice and is transformed into a wo...

Cacophony of Bone: The Circle of a Year - Paperback

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by Kerri Ní Dochartaigh (Author)"Raw, visionary, lucid, and mystical, Cacophony of Bone speaks of the connection between all things, and the magic that can be found in everyday life."--Katherine May, bestselling author of Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious AgeTwo days after the winter solstice, Kerri ní Dochartaigh and her partner moved to a remote cottage in the heart of Ireland. They were looking for a home, somewhere to settle into a stable life. Then the pandemic arrived, and the...

The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear - Paperback

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by Paul Rogat Loeb (Author)More relevant than ever, this seminal collection of essays encourages us to believe in the power of ordinary citizens to change the world In today's turbulent world it's hard not to feel like we're going backwards; after decades of striving, justice and equality still seem like far off goals. What keeps us going when times get tough? How have the leaders and unsung heroes of world-changing political movements persevered in the face of cynicism, fear, and seemingly ...

The Poet, the Lion, Talking Pictures, El Farolito, a Wedding in St. Roch, the Big Box Store, the Warp in the Mirror, Spring, Midnights, Fire & All - Paperback

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by C. D. Wright (Author)Wright shrinks back from nothing.--The Village VoiceWright belongs to a school of exactly one.--The New York Times Book ReviewWright has found a way to wed fragments of an iconic America to a luminously strange idiom, eerie as a tin whistle.--The New YorkerC.D. Wright is one of America's oddest, best, and most appealing poets.--Publishers WeeklyA companion to her astonishing collection of prose Cooling Time, C.D. Wright argues for poetry as a way of being and seeing, a...

Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression - Paperback

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by Studs Terkel (Author)From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Good War: A masterpiece of modern journalism and "a huge anthem in praise of the American spirit" (Saturday Review). In this "invaluable record" of one of the most dramatic periods in modern American history, Studs Terkel recaptures the Great Depression of the 1930s in all its complexity. Featuring a mosaic of memories from politicians, businessmen, artists, striking workers, and Okies, from those who were just kids to tho...

Byron's Travels: Poems, Letters, and Journals - Hardcover

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by George Gordon 1788- Byron (Author), Fiona Stafford (Introduction by)A new hardcover selection of Lord Byron's letters, poems, and journals, tracing his dramatic, scandalous, heroic life and his wide-ranging travels--and timed to the two-hundredth anniversary of his tragic early death George Gordon, Lord Byron, was one of the leading figures of British Romanticism. The Byronic hero he gave his name to--the charming, dashing, rebellious outsider--remains a powerful literary archetype. Byron ...

NKJV, Pew Bible, Hardcover, Blue, Red Letter Edition - Hardcover

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by Thomas Nelson (Author)The Thomas Nelson NKJV Pew Bible has long been a trusted and durable Bible for use in churches and various worship settings. This edition is published in large NKJV Comfort Print type, which was designed exclusively for Thomas Nelson to be the most readable at any size.Make sure the Bible they find at their seat is something truly special. With the popular New King James Version set in Thomas Nelson's beautiful, new custom NKJV font, the NKJV Pew Bible is the perfect ...

A Vindication of the Rights of Men/A Vindication of the Rights of Woman/An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution - Paperback

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by Mary Wollstonecraft (Author), Janet Todd (Editor)This volume brings together extracts of the major political writings of Mary Wollstonecraft in the order in which they appeared in the revolutionary 1790s. It traces her passionate and indignant response to the excitement of the early days of the French Revolution and then her uneasiness at its later bloody phase. It reveals her developing understanding of women's involvement in the political and social life of the nation and her growing awa...

Daoist Master Changchun's Journey to the West: To the Court of Chinggis Qan and Back - Hardcover

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by Li Zhichang (Author), Ruth W. Dunnell (Editor), Ruth W. Dunnell (Translator)The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging across three millennia and the entire Sinitic world. In the early years of the Mongol empire, the Quanzhen Daoist master Qiu Chuji (1148-1227, religious name Changchun) made an arduous three-year round-trip journey from north China to the Hindu Kush in 1221-23 in response t...

Los hijos de S?nchez: Tomo I - Paperback

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by Oscar Lewis (Author)Los hijos de S?nchez es un libro escrito por el antrop?logo estadounidense Oscar Lewis, publicado en 1961. El libro es el resultado de una investigaci?n etnogr?fica llevada a cabo por Lewis en la d?cada de 1950 en el barrio de Bella Vista, en la Ciudad de M?xico, donde viv?a una familia mexicana de bajos recursos llamada los S?nchez.En Los hijos de S?nchez, Oscar Lewis narra las vidas de: Jes?s S?nchez, el padre, de cincuenta a?os de edad, y sus cuatro hijos: Manuel, de...

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by Esteban Borrero Echeverr?a (Author)Esteban Borrero Echeverr?a es el el principal exponente de la narrativa corta cubana. Sus relatos moralizantes y filos?ficos, donde el simbolismoes parte importante, son el reflejo de las dudas y la inestabilidad social de su ?poca.Uno de sus primeros relatos relato que da cuenta de las frustraciones de la naci?n caribe?a ante la emergencia colonizadora de Estados Unidos en 1902, cuando proclamada la Rep?blica de Cuba. Se trata del El ciervo encantado (19...