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The Moth Presents: A Point of Beauty: True Stories of Holding on and Letting Go - Hardcover

$26.88

by The Moth (Editor), Mike Birbiglia (Foreword by)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An inspiring and entertaining collection of unforgettable true stories about finding unexpected beauty in life's transitions--from Lin-Manuel Miranda, Elizabeth Gilbert, Quiara Alegría Hudes, and many more. "The Moth taught me how to be vulnerable, how to take my time, and how to listen to someone else's story and share in their moments of triumph, laughter, or, yes, sometimes embarrassment with an open heart."--Mike Birbiglia, from the Foreword An international rescue mission for Paddington Bear. A family matriarch running numbers in Detroit. An epic Lucha Libre showdown in Mexico City. A beach vacation spent l...

All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess - Hardcover

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by Becca Rothfeld (Author)A glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in favor of excess, abandon, and disproportion, in essays ranging from such topics as mindfulness, decluttering, David Cronenberg, and consent.In her debut essay collection, "brilliant and stylish" (The Washington Post) critic Becca Rothfeld takes on one of the most sacred cows of our time: the demand that we apply the virtues of equality and democracy to culture and aesthetics. The result is a culture that is flattened and sanitized, purged of ugliness, excess, and provocation. Our embrace of minimalism has left us spiritually impoverished. We see it in our homes, where we bring in Marie Kondo to rid them of the...

The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins - Paperback

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by Sonny Rollins (Author), Sam V. H. Reese (Editor), Sam V. H. Reese (Introduction by)An illuminating selection of writings on a wide variety of topics--everything from technique, music theory, and daily routine to spirituality and systemic racism--from the personal journals of Sonny Rollins, master of the tenor saxophone and "jazz's greatest living improviser" (The New York Times). Sonny Rollins is one of the towering masters of American music, a virtuoso of the saxophone, and an unequaled improviser whose live performances are legendary and who has reshaped modern jazz time and time again over the course of a career lasting more than sixty years. A turning point in that legendary career...

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by Tanvier Peart (Author)The end of my marriage was the beginning of my happily ever after.What happens when you hear your husband putting dents in your mattress with another woman?Leave and never look back!Easier said than done when you're a stay-at-home mom, share two kids with the no-good cheater, and have a savings account that laughs in your face on the daily.I want out and agree to an outrageous separation agreement to avoid a showdown in court with a man standing on his wallet, waiting for me to fall. The mission is next to impossible, but I would rather attempt a full split on a hibachi grill after a Brazilian wax than stay in a marriage I should've ended years ago.Morgan, my best...

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by Tao Editorial (Editor), Fiódor Dostoyevski (Author)Memorias del subsuelo, es una novela del autor ruso Fi dor Mij ilovich Dostoyevski. Fue publicada en 1864 y es considerada una de las obras clave en la literatura rusa. Fue escrita en un momento en el que el autor padec a grandes trastornos emocionales producto del fallecimiento de su esposa Mar a Dm trievna Is yeva (15 de abril de 1864), y de la posterior muerte de su hermano Mija l, muy querido para l. A estos problemas personales, se agregaban adem s la clausura de sus revistas por parte de las autoridades y su adicci n al juego, que le acarrear an graves problemas financieros. Number of Pages: 52 Dimensions: 0.11 x 9 x 6 IN

The Crisis Reader: Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the N.A.A.C.P.'s Crisis Magazine - Paperback

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by Sondra Kathryn Wilson (Author)After its start in 1910, The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races magazine became the major outlet for works by African American writers and intellectuals. In 1920, Langston Hughes's poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" was published in The Crisis and W. E. B. Du Bois, the magazine's editor, wrote about the coming "renaissance of American Negro literature," beginning what is now known as the Harlem Renaissance. The Crisis Reader is a collection of poems, short stories, plays, and essays from this great literary period and includes, in addition to four previously unpublished poems by James Weldon Johnson, work by Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Jessie Fauset,...

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by David G. Pace (Author)Twelve stories that span the Mormon Corridor-a geographical as well as, now, globally psychic space inhabited by America's most "successful" indigenous religion.At times rendered through life's daily grind (politics, marriage, acquiring an STD... and too many parking tickets), other times through the supernatural and fabulist (angels and personified names of the dead ripped from the real-life Utah mountain vault filled with genealogical records), these are Latter-day Saints who see things "Mormonly" (with apologies to "New Englandly" Emily Dickinson) both driven and riven by their frenetic and sacralized sense of community, their orthodoxy, their doubts and their ...

Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008 - Paperback

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by John Leonard (Author), E. L. Doctorow (Introduction by)John Leonard was a lion of American letters. A passionate, erudite, and wide-ranging critic, he helped shape the landscape of modern literature. Reading for My Life is a monumental collection of Leonard's most significant writings--spanning five decades--from his earliest columns for the Harvard Crimson to his final essays for the New York Review of Books. Definitive reviews of Doris Lessing, Joan Didion, Toni Morrison, Don DeLillo, Vladimir Nabokov, and Philip Roth, among others, display Leonard's encyclopedic knowledge of literature and make this book a landmark achievement from one of America's most beloved and influential criti...

Liberty And Death At The Alamo - Paperback

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by Dennis Clark (Author)null Number of Pages: 586 Dimensions: 1.59 x 9 x 6 IN

Liberty And Death At The Alamo - Hardcover

$63.98

by Dennis Clark (Author)null Number of Pages: 586 Dimensions: 1.75 x 9 x 6 IN

The Flying Superhero Clothes Horse: 2018 - Paperback

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by Ballyfermot Writers Group (Author)Ballyfermot is a community bustling with creativity since its inauguration by magic wand and monster puff of smoke back in 1948. That's exactly seventy years ago in 2018. To mark this glorious occasion, Ballyfermot Writers' Group, with very special guests, has published this bespoke selection of songs, stories, art and flying superhero clothes horses with all profits being donated to The Simon Community. Come and have a read if you think you're bionic enough Number of Pages: 232 Dimensions: 0.49 x 7.99 x 5 IN

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by R. P. Carruthers (Author)In 1719 a battalion of Spanish soldiers landed on the west coast of Scotland. They were all that survived of the Spanish Armada's last failed invasion of Britain. Thoroughly researched, R P Carruthers has produced a riveting historical novel that fully captures the harsh and turbulent era when Scottish Jacobites in alliance with Spain rose against the English Crown. The Tide Also Takes is a story of adventure, war, intrigue, love and betrayal. It brings to vivid life the destruction of Eilean Donan Castle, the battle of Glenshiel, and, at the novel's very heart, the extraordinary and unexpected love affair between a Spanish officer and the wife of a local laird...

The Battle of the Frogs and the Mice: A Homeric Fable - Paperback

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by George Martin (Author), Fred Gwynne (Illustrator)You will never see war the same way after reading this extraordinary retelling of an ancient Greek fable about a tragically unnecessary battle between mice and frogs. With haunting illustrations, this miniature masterpiece ranks with Animal Farm as one of the greatest parables of human foibles. Originally published in 1962, The Battle of the Frogs and the Mice tells in words and pictures a classic tale of the foolhardiness of war. When Crum-snatcher, a Mouse, cautiously mounts the back of Puff-jaw, King of the Frogs, to explore the Frogs' pond, the Mouse meets with a disaster which soon brings the two nations into mortal conflict. The co...

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by J. B. Rhine (Author)"Extra-Sensory Perception" by J.B. Rhine stands as the pioneering work that brought the enigmatic concept of ESP to the forefront of scientific inquiry. In this groundbreaking study, Rhine, renowned for organizing the Duke ESP laboratory, meticulously crafted standardized terminology and methodologies to systematically explore the realm of extrasensory abilities. Shifting away from speculative notions of ghosts and spirits, Rhine approached the investigation with scientific rigor, posing questions about measurement, reproducibility, and experimental parameters.Rhine's empirical approach revealed that certain individuals consistently demonstrated telepathic and clair...

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by Ali Smith (Author)Ali Smith melds the tale and the essay into a magical hybrid form, a song of praise to the power of stories in our lives In February 2012, the novelist Ali Smith delivered the Weidenfeld lectures on European comparative literature at St. Anne's College, Oxford. Her lectures took the shape of this set of discursive stories. Refusing to be tied down to either fiction or the essay form, Artful is narrated by a character who is haunted--literally--by a former lover, the writer of a series of lectures about art and literature. A hypnotic dialogue unfolds, a duet between and a meditation on art and storytelling, a book about love, grief, memory, and revitalization. Smith's ...

Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings by Yoko Ono - Hardcover

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by Yoko Ono (Author), John Lennon (Introduction by)Back in print for the first time in nearly thirty years, here is Yoko Ono's whimsical, delightful, subversive, startling book of instructions for art and for life. "Burn this book after you've read it." -- Yoko "A dream you dream alone may be a dream, but a dream two people dream together is a reality." "This is the greatest book I've ever burned." -- John Number of Pages: 320 Dimensions: 1.2 x 5.6 x 5.5 IN Illustrated: Yes

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by Gaius Valerius Catullus (Author), Stephen Mitchell (Translator)A vivid and musical rendering of the poetry of Catullus, whose passionate verses have captivated readers for centuries In the fourteenth century, a manuscript surfaced in Verona that had been lost for more than a thousand years: the poems of Catullus (c. 84-c. 54 BCE), considered by many to be one of the greatest poets who ever lived. These poems, with their beauty, wit, tenderness, and heartbreak, are still as alive and moving today as they were two thousand years ago. They are dense, subtle, witty, ardent, fearless, deeply uncensored, nasty (sometimes), petty (sometimes), and always beautiful. It's especially his love p...

Travel Narratives, Travel Fictions - Hardcover

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by Daniel Cooper Alarcón (Author)By examining non-fiction travel narratives and travel fictions in relationship to each other, Daniel Cooper Alarc?n highlights the sophisticated ways that both types of writing have anticipated ideas central to critical studies of travel, tourism, and migration.Author BiographyDaniel Cooper Alarcón is associate professor of English at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Number of Pages: 166 Dimensions: 0.5 x 9 x 6 IN

Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012 - Hardcover

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by Geoffrey Hill (Author), Kenneth Haynes (Editor)Broken Hierarchies collects twenty books of poems by Geoffrey Hill, written over sixty years, and presents them in their definitive form. Four of these books (Ludo, Expostulations on the Volcano, Liber Illustrium Virorum, and Al Tempo de' Tremuoti) have never before appeared in print, and three of them (Hymns to Our Lady of Chartres, Pindarics, and Clavics) have been greatly revised and expanded.Author BiographyGeoffrey Hill, the son of a police constable, was born in Worcestershire in 1932. He was educated at Bromsgrove County High School and at Keble College, Oxford. After teaching for more than thirty years in England, first at Leeds an...

Pieces of Me - A Collection of Essays - Paperback

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by Valerie J. Runyan (Author)"PIECES OF ME" Is my collection of Personal Narratives, some Fiction and a few Poems, because writers write all kinds of things- Enjoy! Number of Pages: 120 Dimensions: 0.28 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN

Jung and the Epic of Transformation - Volume 1: Wolfram von Eschenbach's

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by Paul Bishop (Author)What have the Middle Ages got to do with us? For Jung, it seems, quite a lot; after all, he tells us: "I must catch up with a piece of the Middle Ages - within myself," adding: "We have only finished the Middle Ages - of others." In Wolfram von Eschenbach's "Parzival" and the Grail as Transformation, Paul Bishop considers the significance for Jung of a masterpiece of medieval German literature, and a major work in the tradition of the legendary Holy Grail. Wolfram's Parzival epic depicts a three-fold quest: for the hero's identity, for vr?ude ("joy"), and for the mysterious Grail. In the course of this quest, Parzival himself is transformed from a fool into the lord...

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Cinderella's Pi: Auspicious Loving Equations - Hardcover

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by Edward H. Madden (Author)Synopsis: It is a collection of individual pieces of art strung together to form an illustrated narrative of Divine concepts! Autobiography: I am on a spiritual journey gathering and collecting light as I journey through darkness! Number of Pages: 182 Dimensions: 0.63 x 11 x 8.5 IN

Cinderella's Pi: Auspicious Loving Equations - Paperback

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by Rita Carter (Author)The journal component of Unpack Your Heart: 7 Steps to Rewriting Your Love Story by Rita Carter is designed to offer readers a flexible and personalized space to record their thoughts, reflections, and insights as they navigate the seven-step process. This unstructured journal section encourages creativity, free expression, and deeper introspection, allowing readers to fully engage with their journey toward rewriting your love story.Key features include: -Willingness and Prayer -Accountability and Communication-Forgiveness-Trust, Intimacy and Vulnerability-Building on a Solid Foundation-Setting Boundaries-Rediscover and AdventureScripture Guide: The scriptures can s...

La Celestina: Tragicomedia De Calisto Y Melibea: Texto De Veintiún Actos Según La Edición De Valencia, 1514, Comparado Con El Primit - Paperback

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by Fernando De Rojas (Author)Esta edición única de La Celestina incluye comparaciones de tres versiones diferentes, convirtiéndola en una obra esencial para el estudio de la literatura española. La trama sigue a los amantes Calisto y Melibea mientras navegan por el amor, la lujuria y la muerte en un estilo que marcará el comienzo del teatro moderno en España.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corpo...

The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy - Paperback

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by Lothrop Stoddard (Author)The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy, a classical and rare book that has been considered essential throughout human history, so that this work is never forgotten, we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable. Number of Pages: 194 Dimensions: 0.45 x 9 x 6 IN

The Manuscript Hunter: Brasseur de Bourbourg's Travels Through Central America and Mexico, 1854-1859 Volume 84 - Paperback

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by Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg (Author), Katia Sainson (Editor), Katia Sainson (Translator) In two decades of traveling throughout Mexico, Central America, and Europe, French priest Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg (1814-1874) amassed hundreds of indigenous manuscripts and printed books, including grammars and vocabularies that brought to light languages and cultures little known at the time. Although his efforts yielded many of the foundational texts of Mesoamerican studies--the pre-Columbian Codex Troana, the only known copies of the Popol Vuh and the indigenous dance drama Rabinal-Achi, and Diego De Landa's Relación de la cosas de Yucatán--Brasseur earned disdain among s...

The Dawn of the Warrior Age: War Tales from Medieval Japan - Hardcover

$208.00

by Royall Tyler (Author)The war between the Heike and Genji clans in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries is among the most compelling and significant moments in Japan's history, immortalized in The Tale of the Heike. Beyond the events recorded in this canonical text, the conflicts of the surrounding years are crucial to medieval Japanese culture and history. In 1156, power began to slip away from the court nobility in Kyoto. A shogunate was later founded in Kamakura, and in 1221, it won a decisive victory over the court. The three war tales translated in this book tell the story of these critical decades, vividly recording stages in the passage from rule by the imperial court in Kyoto to...

Tenacity - Deconstructing G.R.I.T. Collection - Paperback

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by Jennifer Bardot (Compiled by)This collection of stories will inspire readers to face life's challenges boldly.Each chapter captures a dynamic woman's authentic story of how she applied TENACITY -personally or professionally - to achieve internal and external success. It reveals how TENACITY builds courage and persistence, develops agility, and assures the ability to remain fiercely determined regardless of challenges placed in the path.. You'll recognize three primary concepts of Tenacity...Courage: Owning that you are enough. Accepting your intuition and wisdom. Knowing your uniqueness allows you to live wildly, bravely, and with grace. Fearlessness: Having sheer determination. Bein...

The Complete Winchester Letters - Paperback

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by Lionel Johnson (Author), Ruth Derham (Author), Sarah Green (Author)Lionel Johnson, Decadent poet and critic, was one of the leading voices of the British 1890s. When he died suddenly at the age of 35, his old school friend Frank Russell-brother to Bertrand Russell and by then a radical member of the House of Lords-published a series of Johnson's early letters as Some Winchester Letters of Lionel Johnson (1919). Carefully edited and anonymized, Russell claimed that these letters showed 'the true Lionel', rather than the 'later genius', to be a 'loving, suffering man, burning with zeal to help and comfort his fellow-sufferers in the world'. But why were the correspondents anonymized? Wha...

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by Jane Austen (Author), Janet Todd (Editor), Antje Blank (Editor)The accident of death makes Persuasion Jane Austen's final novel. It deserves its position by its innovative treatment of passion and rhetorical style and its development of those themes of memory and time, public and private history, inner and outer lives, language and literature, emotion and restraint that have marked all Austen's work. Where the other works move towards a new symbolic and physical home for the heroine, Persuasion begins with her ejection and ends with her understanding that home is not a place at all but an ambiance and an acceptance of change. This volume, first published in 2006, provides comprehensive...