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Report copyright infringementby Imogen Corrigan (Introduction by), J. K. Jackson (Editor)The mysterious tale of a great leader, martyred for her cause, and often regarded as a woman beyond her time. Patron saint, visionary, defender of a nation, political symbol, feminist icon, martyr - Joan of Arc is all these things and more. A saviour of France who would be burned at the stake, her gripping story has inspired countless works of literature, art and music. And yet myths will forever shroud t...

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Report copyright infringementby Mairi Stirling Hill (Introduction by), J. K. Jackson (Editor)The classic medieval tale that brings romance, chivalry and adventure to the modern reader. Alongside Gawain and the Green Knight and Beowulf, Tristan and Isolde's tale of doomed love is a classic medieval story whose themes of love, betrayal, honour and courage have weathered the test of time. Modern movies, theatre and Wagnerian opera productions tell many variations of the Irish maiden who, instruc...

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Report copyright infringementby Luke Hankins (Editor), Nathan Poole (Editor), Karen Tucker (Editor)Best Spiritual Literature is the new name of The Orison Anthology, under the same editorship and publisher, and it continues the same mission to collect the finest spiritually engaged writing that appeared in periodicals in the preceding year. In addition to reprinted material, each year the anthology also includes new, previously unpublished works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by the winne...

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Report copyright infringementby Mises (Author), Erik Butler (Introduction by)A compilation of 16 rigorous, eccentric essays commissioned by the German founder of psychophysics The original 1824 German publication of Stapelia Mixta united a bevy of eccentric proposals, meditations and displays of consciously excessive learning that strove for an unusual clarity of absurdity, which was the hallmark of the pseudonymous author Dr. Mises. Aiming for a broader reading audience, it was titled after ...

The Ribbon in Her Journal: Memories from Phyllis Hoffman Depiano

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Report copyright infringementby Brian Hart Hoffman (Author)A Ribbon in Her Journal is a loving tribute to Phyllis Hoffman DePiano, the late founder and CEO of Hoffman Media, publisher of cooking and lifestyle magazines.This beautiful book contains blog posts selected by Phyllis's friends and family along with photography and words of encouragement. She shared stories of family, faith and inspiration in her Ribbon in My Journal blog posts that many will find inspirational in their daily lives....

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Report copyright infringementby Jaydra Johnson (Author)Winner, 2025 Firecracker Awards Winner in Creative Nonfiction, given by the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses Raised in a rural Oregon town plagued by poverty, the artist and writer Jaydra Johnson excelled in school and chased upward mobility, desperate to escape the adversity that she saw as her inheritance--and the certainty that she grew up as trash. Johnson's powerful memoir, Low--selected by acclaimed writer Maggie Nelson a...

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Report copyright infringementby Susan M. Mertens (Editor)An intimately candid memoir about the ambitions, struggles, and achievements of one of Canada's most prolific and important modernist artists. Why do I paint? I paint because I must.But why must I? As Picasso would answer, why must a bird sing? I want a kind of dangerous art, risking the daemonic--a form emerging out of chaos like a rare monster surfacing from the deep, throwing offspumes, breathing the air. Jack Leonard Shadbolt (1909-...

Una Historia Particular / A Unique Story

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Report copyright infringementby Manuel Vicent (Author)Un relato autobiográfico que es también la historia del siglo XX a través de la mirada inteligente, evocadora y vitalista de Manuel Vicent «Su literatura se asemeja más al fuelle de un acordeón, que pliega y despliega el tiempo para crear, con finísimas variaciones, una misma melodía: la memoria fermentada. Arte tejido en el telar de los recuerdos [...]. Son 200 páginas de emoción . -Paco Cerdà, Babelia «La vida, como el violín, solo t...

Creative Nonfiction: The Final Issue: The Best of Thirty Years of Creative Nonfiction

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Report copyright infringementby Lee Gutkind (Editor), Leslie Rubinkowski (Editor)The very best writing from one of America's most groundbreaking literary magazines.When Creative Nonfiction debuted in 1994, the literary genre it championed was largely the target of skepticism or downright ridicule. But at a time when few editors were interested in the personal essay, the magazine doggedly explored new ideas and fresh modes of expression, and over the next three decades, its contributors pionee...

Other Influences: An Untold History of Feminist Avant-Garde Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Marcella Durand (Editor), Jennifer Firestone (Editor)A compelling collection of original essays on influence that restore a feminist avant-garde that includes women of color, queer, and trans women. Other Influences frames a new literary history in which feminist, avant-garde, and poetry practices intersect, foregrounding critically neglected but artistically powerful lineages in twentieth- and twenty-first-century North American poetry. In this collection, Mar...

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Report copyright infringementby Leslie Jamison (Author) Number of Pages: 336 Dimensions: 1 x 8.6 x 5.3 IN Publication Date: November 05, 2024

The Modersohn-Becker/Rilke Correspondence

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Report copyright infringementby Jill Lloyd (Editor), Ulrich Baer (Translator)The painter Paula Modersohn-Becker and the poet Rainer Maria Rilke first met in 1900 at the Worpswede artists' colony--a focal point of the kind of artistic innovations that were set to transform twentieth-century European culture. Modersohn-Becker and Rilke went on to enjoy an intense friendship over a period that saw both of them having to confront personal and financial challenges as they pursued their artistic vo...

Honolulu Stories Today: An Anthology of Modern Fiction from Hawai'i

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Report copyright infringementby Gavan Daws (Editor), Bennett Hymer (Editor), Jane Gillespie (Editor) Number of Pages: 376 Dimensions: 0.6 x 7.9 x 5 IN Publication Date: September 23, 2024

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Report copyright infringementby Jorge Luis Borges (Author), Alicia Jurado (Author)«Afirmar que el universo es limitado es una herejía; afirmar que es ilimitado, también; afirmar que no es ni lo uno ni lo otro es asimismo herético. El budismo ocupa un lugar central en el conjunto de la obra de Borges. La percepción del cosmos como un laberinto o una paradoja, la negación del Yo, el cuestionamiento a la concepción occidental del tiempo y la singular noción de que el mundo es una ficción y la...

The Picture Not Taken: On Life and Photography

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Report copyright infringementby Benjamin Swett (Author)An ecologically minded collection of essays in the vein of Rebecca Solnit and Susan Sontag, covering everything from the equipment of photography to the difficulties of perception itself. In The Picture Not Taken, the photographer and writer Benjamin Swett considers the intersections between photography, memory, the natural world, and the course of life in essays on subjects that include family snapshots, images of racial violence, the sh...

Dreaming in the Fault Zone: A Poetics of Healing

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Report copyright infringementby Eleni Stecopoulos (Author)FINALIST FOR THE 2025 PEGASUS AWARD FOR POETRY CRITICISMA virtuosic inquiry into the forms and uses of healing, from ancient and modern medicine to contemporary literature, ecology, and protest.In the era of the "chronic acute" long predating COVID-19, Eleni Stecopoulos set out to investigate the imagination, aesthetics, and ideology of healing--its mysteries and mystifications, its many channels and codes. Fusing lyric inquiry with cu...

Mother Archive: A Dominican Family Memoir

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Report copyright infringementby Erika Morillo (Author)2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature Shortlist, Nonfiction 2024 NBCC Award Finalist, Autobiography A family murder kept secret, the mysterious disappearance of her father, the systematic erasing of family photographs, a turbulent relationship with her mother, layers of trauma and abuse. In Mother Archive, Erika Morillo reconciles these demons of her past by searching for and seeking out the roots of her family. Intertwining memor...

El País de Las Mil Caras: Escritos Sobre El Perú / A Country of a Thousand Faces: Writings about Peru

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Report copyright infringementby Mario Vargas Llosa (Author)«El Perú es para mí una especie de enfermedad incurable y mi relación con él es intensa, áspera, llena de la violencia que caracteriza a la pasión . Las más de cinco décadas durante las que se ha desarrollado la labor periodística de Mario Vargas Llosa están jalonadas de textos imprescindibles sobre la cultura, la política, la historia y la realidad social de Perú cuya lectura en este volumen revela al lector la profunda vinculación...

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Report copyright infringementby Kerry Neville (Author)Momma May Be Mad: A Memoir is an inventive and striking memoir about motherhood, madness, and the grace of second and third chances. Kerry Neville shares the story of how she was caught in the perfect storm of bipolar disorder, anorexia, and alcoholism when her children were young and her marriage failing and how she found her way back to joy and hope. Electric shock therapy, hospitalizations, and even an exorcism were desperate, if failed...

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Report copyright infringementby Jose Henrique Bortoluci (Author), Rahul Bery (Translator)A genre-bending and thought-provoking examination of capitalism and cancer - and recent Brazilian history - based on the author's interviews with his truck driver father.In What Is Mine, sociologist José Henrique Bortoluci uses interviews with his father, Didi, to retrace the recent history of Brazil and of his family. From the mid-1960s to the mid-2010s, Didi's work as a truck driver took him away from h...

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Report copyright infringementby Nancy Campbell (Editor)A treasure trove of nature tales from storytellers across the globe, bringing a little magic and wonder to every winter night. As the evenings draw in - a time of reckoning, rest and restoration - immerse yourself in this new seasonal anthology. Nature Tales for Winter Nights puts winter - rural, wild and urban - under the microscope and reveals its wonder. From the late days of autumn, through deepest cold, and towards the bright hope...

El Mundo Zurdo 9: Selected Works from the 2022 Meeting of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldua

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Report copyright infringementby Adrianna M. Santos (Editor), Sonya M. Alemán (Editor) El Mundo Zurdo 9 is a collection of diverse essays and poetry that offer scholarly and creative responses inspired by the life and work of Gloria Anzaldúa, selected from the 2022 meeting of The Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa.Contributors include: Sylvia Mendoza Aviña, Javier Alejandro Camargo-Castillo, Araceli Esparza, Kimberly J. Davis, Mateo Rosales Fertig, Anel I. Flores, L Heidenreich, G. Sue K...

If You Ask Me: Essential Advice from Eleanor Roosevelt

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Report copyright infringementby Eleanor Roosevelt (Author), Mary Jo Binker (Editor)Experience the "heartwarming, smart, and at times even humorous" (Woman's World) wisdom of Eleanor Roosevelt in this annotated collection of the candid advice columns that she wrote for more than twenty years. In 1941, Eleanor Roosevelt embarked on a new career as an advice columnist. She had already transformed the role of first lady with her regular press conferences, her activism on behalf of women, minoriti...

Found in Translation: Itinerant French Epics in Medieval Scandinavia

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Report copyright infringementby Marianne Kalinke (Translator)This volume contains English translations of three Old Norse-Icelandic renderings of French chansons de geste (Elis saga ok Rosamundu, Bevers saga, and Flovents saga), and of one Icelandic chivalric romance (Baerings saga). The French epics translated into Old Norse-Icelandic were composed under the influence of courtly romance and were anonymous narratives subject to revision and recreation. These translations resulted in a new Ice...

Keeping Quiet: Sixteen Essays on Silence

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Report copyright infringementby Adriana Paramo (Author)Keeping Quiet is a combination of the anthropologist's keen eye and the language of a storyteller. In Keeping Quiet, Páramo has collected essays addressing what it is like to live in a world of silence or the absence thereof. This collection covers a wide range of angles and experiences, from an exploration of IBM's anechoic chamber--the world's quietest place-- to stories of incest, marriage, sexual harassment, social justice, and first-...

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Report copyright infringementby Samuel Ace (Author)Samuel Ace's I want to start by saying is a constellation of memory, personal and place-based histories, dailiness, repetition, art-making, and desire. Ace's insistent titular phrase acts as drone and anchor--invocation and prayer--propelling the peripatetic narrator from Cleveland to New York to Tucson, western Massachusetts to Atlanta and back again, line by line. Part essay, part memoir, and part collage, Ace explores the difficulties of r...

Old Truths and New Clichés: Essays by Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Report copyright infringementby Isaac Bashevis Singer (Author), David Stromberg (Editor)From the Nobel Prize-winning writer, a new collection of literary and personal essays Old Truths and New Clichés collects nineteen essays--most of them previously unpublished in English--by Isaac Bashevis Singer on topics that were central to his artistic vision throughout an astonishing and prolific literary career spanning more than six decades. Expanding on themes reflected in his best-known work--inclu...

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Report copyright infringementby Hans Ulrich Obrist (Author)Collected interviews with the artist known for his monumental and site-specific environmental installation, held during his final years of lifeThis volume gathers a series of conversations between Christo (1935-2020) and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, occurring between December 2012 and May 2020. They track the progress of The London Mastaba (2016-18), Christo's first major public outdoor work in the UK, which coincided with an exhibitio...

The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Concise Edition, Volume a - Fourth Edition: The Medieval Period - The Renaissance and the Early Sevente

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Report copyright infringementby Joseph Black (Editor), Leonard Conolly (Editor), Kate Flint (Editor)This is a new edition of the Concise A volume of an anthology that has been called "the new standard." Back JacketGuided by the latest scholarship, The Broadview Anthology of British Literature is acclaimed for its breadth and its deep attention to literature's historical and cultural contexts. The Broadview is structured to meet the needs of today's students, with an unparalleled selection of ...

How Lovely the Ruins: Inspirational Poems and Words for Difficult Times

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Report copyright infringementby Annie Chagnot (Editor), Emi Ikkanda (Editor), Elizabeth Alexander (Foreword by)This wide-ranging collection of inspirational poetry and prose offers readers solace, perspective, and the courage to persevere. In times of personal hardship or collective anxiety, words have the power to provide comfort, meaning, and hope. The past year has seen a resurgence of poetry and inspiring quotes--posted on social media, appearing on bestseller lists, shared from friend to...

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Report copyright infringementby 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 ...

City Bird and Other Poems: City Lights Spotlight Series No 24

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Report copyright infringementby Patrick James Dunagan (Author)An underground denizen of San Francisco soars above it in a state-of-the-art long poem."These poems about San Francisco challenge the media narrative of a city in decline, paying tribute to its joys. Dunagan weaves in allusions to artists, including Joan Brown and Jay DeFeo, poets Bill Berkson and Lew Welch, and local landmarks O'Farrell Street and St. Anne of the Sunset."--Publishers WeeklyOver a decade ago, Patrick James Dunagan ...