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Countless Sleepless Nights: A Collection of Coming-Out Stories and Experiences

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Report copyright infringementby Carina Maggar (Compiled by)'I'm sorry I can't say this to your face, but words fail me every time I try, even though I know you would be fine (and knowing you, you might have already guessed).' A moving, inspiring and thought-provoking collection of coming-out stories from around the world. From the good, the sad, the surprising and the funny, no two stories are the same, yet all are written by people who share the courage to be vulnerable, take huge risks to ...

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Report copyright infringementby Katherine Mansfield (Author), Coralie Bickford-Smith The groundbreaking New Zealand writer's most beloved short stories, now in a Little Clothbound Classic designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith A Penguin Classic Hardcover Katherine Mansfield's perceptive and resonant writing helped to define the modern short story, observing apparently trivial incidents to create quietly devastating revelations of inner lives. Graceful, delicate and burning with emotion, Mansfield...

Food and Culture in the Works of Ford Madox Ford, Gertrude Stein, and Virginia Woolf: Culinary Civilization

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Report copyright infringementby Nanette Oʼbrien (Author)Writing about food has long been a part of autobiographical expression that combines culinary record-keeping and histories, drawing on the personal and the cultural. Concentrating on the transatlantic work of Ford Madox Ford, Gertrude Stein, and Virginia Woolf, this book illuminates modernist uses of the terms 'civilization' and 'barbarism', showing how these concepts are shaped by the rules of preparing and eating food in literature and...

Recuerdos de Montañas Lejanas / Memories of Distant Mountains

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Report copyright infringementby Orhan Pamuk (Author)Orhan Pamuk, premio Nobel de Literatura, nos muestra, a través de sus propios dibujos y reflexiones, los recuerdos e impresiones de toda una vida. «Orhan Pamuk ofrece aquí, sin duda, lo más personal, lo más íntimo de su obra . -Jean-Claude Perrier, Livres Hebdo «Tengo que escribir sobre el placer que siento al escribir por encima de un dibujo. Esto es lo que hay que decir: entre los 7 y los 22 años pensé que iba a ser pintor. A los 22, murió...

All We Have Is the Story: Selected Interviews 1973-2022

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Report copyright infringementby James Kelman (Author)Novelist, playwright, essayist, and master of the short story. Artist and engaged working-class intellectual; husband, father, and grandfather as well as committed revolutionary activist.From his first publication (a short story collection An Old Pub Near the Angel on a tiny American press) through his latest novel (God's Teeth and other Phenomena) and work with Noam Chomsky (Between Thought and Expression Lies a Lifetime--both published on...

What Happened After Lambton: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

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Report copyright infringementby Melissa Anne (Author)Darcy and Elizabeth meet at Pemberley months after the disastrous proposal in Kent. A frank conversation and several apologies lead to the couple getting engaged much sooner than in canon. After Kent, Darcy had confessed all to his cousin Colonel Fitzwilliam, including Wickham's presence in the militia in Meryton. Fitzwilliam keeps an eye on Wickham and prevents the elopement, meaning that Elizabeth's stay in Derbyshire is not interrupted. ...

Sing a Black Girl's Song: The Unpublished Work of Ntozake Shange - Hardcover

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by Ntozake Shange (Author), Imani Perry (Editor), Tarana Burke (Foreword by)GMA's 15 Spectacular New Books to Read in September Ms. Magazine's September 2023 Reads for the Rest of Us The Millions "Most Anticipated" Books of 2023 LitHub's Most Anticipated Books of 2023 Never-before-seen unpublished works by award-winning American literary icon Ntozake Shange, featuring essays, plays, and poems from the archives of the seminal Black feminist writer who stands alongside giants like Toni Morriso...

Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women

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Report copyright infringementby Sandra Guzman (Author)"Full of heart and wisdom, Daughters of Latin America sheds a brilliant light on Latine and Caribbean women writers across time, space, languages, and genres."--World Literature TodaySpanning time, styles, and traditions, a dazzling literary anthology of essential works from 140 Latine writers, scholars, and activists from across the world--from warrior poet Audre Lorde to novelist Edwidge Danticat and performer and author Elizabeth Aceved...

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Report copyright infringementby Sheila Heti (Author)Named a Recommended Read of the Year by The New Yorker and a New York Times Critics Top Book of the YearOne of The Los Angeles Times's 15 Best Books of the YearOne of The New Statesman's 20 Best Books of the YearAn Electric Literature and Literary Hub Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour.Sheila Heti collected 500,000 words from a decade's worth of journals, put the se...

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Bittman (Author), Silvia Killingsworth (Author)"Excellent....Taken as a whole, the volume moves beyond food's sensory pleasures to investigate it as a cultural vessel, a symbol of inequality, and more. It's a standout addition to the series." --Publisher's Weekly (starred review)A collection of the year's top food writing, selected by prolific food writer and author of How to Cook Everything Mark Bittman."In almost any culture, at any time, you can find fo...

The Masters: Conversations with Dylan, Lennon, Jagger, Townshend, Garcia, Bono, and Springsteen

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Report copyright infringementby Jann S. Wenner (Author)From New York Times bestselling author and Rolling Stone founder comes "a visit to the Mount Olympus of rock" in this remarkable collection of new and collected interviews with some of the greatest rock stars and cultural icons of our time (Kirkus Reviews). During fifty years of publishing the "Bible of Rock and Roll," Jann Wenner conducted a series of interviews that are now regarded among the most important historical documents of rock....

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Report copyright infringementby Vivian Gornick (Author), Robert Atwan (Author)In her introduction to this year's The Best American Essays, guest editor Vivian Gornick states that her selections "contribute materially to the long and honorable history of the personal essay by way of the value they place on lived experience." Provocative, daring, and honest at a time when many writers are deliberately silencing themselves in the face of authoritarian and populist censorship movements, the twent...

Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair

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Report copyright infringementby Christian Wiman (Author)Christian Wiman braids poetry, memoir, and criticism to create an inspired, career-defining work. Few contemporary writers ask the questions about faith, morality, and God that Christian Wiman does, and even fewer--perhaps none--do so with his urgency and eloquence. Wiman, an award-winning poet and the author of My Bright Abyss, lays the motion of his mind on the page in this genre-defying work, an indivisible blend of poetry, criticism,...

Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business

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Report copyright infringementby Roxane Gay (Author)From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, "a strikingly fresh cultural critic" (Washington Post) comes an exhilarating collection of her essays on culture, politics, and everything in between. Since the publication of the groundbreaking Bad Feminist and Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle big issues embroiling society--state-sponsored violence and mass shootings, women's rights post-Dobbs, online disinformation, and the limits of...

The Magic Border: Poetry and Fragments from My Soft Machine

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Report copyright infringementby Arlo Parks (Author)From Arlo Parks, Grammy Award-nominated recording artist and "voice of a generation"--a stunning debut book of poetry and a world-building companion to her sophomore album My Soft Machine."Poetry was my place, my little clearing in the forest, where I could quietly put everything I was holding. I'm not sure what gave me the courage to open up that space to you but here I am, doing it. I am proud to show you this personal lens that life shimme...

Furies: Stories of the Wicked, Wild and Untamed

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Report copyright infringementby Margaret Atwood (Author), Ali Smith (With), Emma Donoghue (With)'Wonderful . . . all killer, no filler' Red Magazine'Dazzling stories, as inventive as they are inspiring' Daily Mirror'Where power and feminist rage meet' Stylist______________________________A fun and fearless anthology of feminist tales, by fifteen bestselling, award-winning writers: Margaret Atwood, Susie Boyt, Eleanor Crewes, Emma Donoghue, Stella Duffy, Linda Grant, Claire Kohda, CN Lester, K...

The New York Tapes: Alan Solomon's Interviews for Television, 1965-66

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Report copyright infringementby Alan Solomon (Interviewer), Matthew Simms (Editor)Previously unpublished interviews with some of America's leading postwar artists--including Frankenthaler, Johns, Oldenburg, Rauschenberg, Stella and Warhol--originally conducted for TV in the mid-'60s by famed curator Alan SolomonThis substantial volume publishes for the first time a series of interviews conducted with seminal East Coast artists and their associates, including Kenneth Noland, Jim Dine, Roy Lich...

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Report copyright infringementby Martín Caparrós (Author)*Premio Ortega y Gasset de Periodismo a la Trayectoria profesional 2023* 40 años de periodismo narrativo condensados en una obra magistral; Lacrónica reafirma a Caparrós como una de las voces imprescindibles de la literatura en nuestro idioma. «El mejor cronista actual de América Latina: un soberbio entrevistador, un viajero dotado de cultura enciclopédica y de una fina ironía. --Roberto Herrscher, La Vanguardia Lacrónica sería un «gran...

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Report copyright infringementby M. C. Benner Dixon (Author), Sharon Fagan McDermott (Author)Millions of Suns is an open invitation for all writers to create something new. Each chapter features a pair of essays-in-dialogue between two working artists, Sharon Fagan McDermott and M. C. Benner Dixon, which addresses a specific writing element such as metaphor, inspiration, place, surprise, or imagery. These hybrid essays reveal how two very different writers approach the building blocks of their...

On Purpose: Ten Lessons on the Meaning of Life

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Report copyright infringementby Ben Hutchinson (Author)Ten essays on how reading and meaningfully engaging with literature can help us live better, more purposeful lives.How do we live fully?How do we live successfully?Adrift in an anchorless world, we often worry about where we are heading. What meaning can we hope to find in our modern, secular life? The answer, Ben Hutchinson explains, can be found by looking to writers and thinkers to help us live more purposefully, more mindfully - more ...

Palestina En Pedazos / Palestine in Pieces

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Report copyright infringementby Lina Meruane (Author)Un gran cuaderno de reflexiones en el que la autora funde lecturas y recuerdos sobre la tierra que sus ancestros se vieron obligados a abandonar en busca de una nueva vida. «Una escritora deliberada e inmensamente dotada que entiende cómo el trauma político se conserva para siempre en el cuerpo . --Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, The New York Times Palestina en pedazos amplía y profundiza la reflexión que Lina Meruane inició en 2012, tras un ...

La Traducción del Mundo: Las Conferencias Weidenfeld 2022 / Interpreting the World: The Weidenfeld Lectures 2022

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Report copyright infringementby Juan Gabriel Vásquez (Author)Cuatro textos magistrales sobre el poder de la ficción para comprender el mundo que habitamos - «Uno de los escritores más grandes del mundo . -Andrea Bajani, La Repubblica «Un escritor superdotado [...]. Uno de los escritores mayores del mundo hispánico . -Thierry Clermont, Le Figaro «El deber y la tarea de un escritor son los de un traductor , escribe Marcel Proust en El tiempo recobrado. Pero no se trata de traducir un texto: P...

Endureth! A Journal for the Woman Who Knows -Joy Comes

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Report copyright infringementby Emily Claudette Freeman (Author)Endureth! - part of the Enduring Woman Journal Collection is the first journal to be released in a series of planned journal collections. Endureth! is a celebration of and a warm hug for women who have bottled jars and jars of tears, hopes and dreams as they endured and reached for the life they knew and know is their destiny. Number of Pages: 192 Dimensions: 0.41 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date...

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Report copyright infringementby Jorge Luis Borges (Author), Eliot Weinberger (Editor), Esther Allen (Translator)Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism The first comprehensive selection in any language of the non-fiction--much of it appearing here in English for the first time--of "one of literature's most fertile and original minds" (San Francisco Chronicle) A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with flaps and deckle-edged paper It will come as a surprise to many readers th...

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Report copyright infringementby Jazmina Barrera (Author), Christina Macsweeney (Translator)"This book is a light at the end of the tunnel." --The Paris ReviewFar from home, in the confines of a dim New York apartment where the oppressive skyscrapers further isolate her, Jazmina Barrera offers a tour of her lighthouses--those structures whose message is "first and foremost, that human beings are here."Starting with Robert Louis Stevenson's grandfather, an engineer charged with illuminating the...

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Report copyright infringementby E. B. White (Author), Roger Angell (Introduction by)Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E. B. White's stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America's foremost literary figures. The New York Times has named Here is New York one of the ten best books ever written about the metropolis, and The New Yorker calls it "the wittiest essay, and one of the most perceptive, ever done on the city.Author BiographyThorough...

NIV, Journal the Word Bible for Women, Cloth Over Board, Navy, Red Letter Edition, Comfort Print: 500+ Prompts to Encourage Journaling and Reflection

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Report copyright infringementby Zondervan (Author)Take a reflective journey through the Bible Do you seek stillness and inspiration in your quiet time? The NIV Journal the Word(R) Bible for Women guides you through God's precious Word with reflections and thought-provoking questions placed beside Scripture. Explore God's Word for you and express your heart in the wide margins of this journaling Bible with room for responses, journaling, and artistic expression.Expertly designed specifically t...

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Report copyright infringementby -. Ione (Author), Sarah Shin (Introduction by), Sammy Lee (Illustrator)IONE has been dedicated to facilitating dreams for over fifty years, building upon ancient and modern dream practices to awaken the deep seeds of creativity located within them. Sharing this intimate part of our being, she believes, can be the start of new ways of being with each other. From dream workshops to her annual Dream Festivals, IONE has encouraged the creation of communities of dre...

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Report copyright infringementby Marcus Aurelius (Author), Donald Robertson (Introduction by), Tom Butler-Bowdon (Editor)A deluxe special edition of the ancient classic written by the Roman Emperor known as "The Philosopher" Meditations is a series of personal journals written by Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome from 169 to 180 AD. The last of the "Five Good Emperors," he was the most powerful and influential man in the Western world at the time. Marcus was one of the leaders of Stoicism, a ph...

Indonesian Stories for Language Learners: Traditional Stories in Indonesian and English (Online Audio Included)

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Report copyright infringementby Katherine Davidsen (Author), Yusep Cuandani (Author), Tante K. Atelier (Illustrator)This diverse anthology of traditional tales from across the Indonesian archipelago includes short stories, origin myths, historical legends, poetry, diary entries, news reports and dialogues. Each of the 20 stories is presented in parallel English and Indonesian versions on facing pages, making this a great resource for intermediate language learners. Although written in the Ind...

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Report copyright infringementby John Ruskin (Author), Francis O'Gorman (Editor)John Ruskin was one of the most influential men of his day, and Praeterita, his autobiography, offers fascinating insights into many of the topics in which he was pre-eminent: art, architecture, J. M. W. Turner, nature, politics, and travel. This is the first major new edition since 1908, including passages excised from the original printed editions. The Introduction sets the autobiography in the context of Ruskin'...

Avoided No More: On Writing Through Struggle, Shame, and Self-Doubt

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Report copyright infringementby Kimberly Marsh (Curated by), Kim Marsh (Editor)14 Writers - 14 Stories - 14 TruthsThe stories contained within this anthology were almost never written. Each contributing author dug deep to discover the one thing they'd avoided writing about and made the brave decision to speak their truth. But they didn't stop there. Every essay in this collection also includes a companion piece, a "behind-the-scenes" look at what it took to move through the struggle, shame, s...