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Bedside Companion for Travel Lovers: An Anthology of Intrepid Journeys for Every Night of the Year

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Report copyright infringementby Jane McMorland Hunter (Author)Take the trip of a lifetime through poetry, journalism, historical fact, and science fiction with this daily anthology of travel writing. Traveling's never been easier. Wherever you are, find yourself somewhere else with the newest anthology in Batsford's Bedside Companion series. Journey through different eras, continents, and points of view, with one entry for each day of the year. Whether you're in need of inspiration, you want ...

In the Shadow of King Saul: Essays on Silence and Song

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Report copyright infringementby Jerome Charyn (Author)A lyrical autobiography in essays from a celebrated author, honoring outlier artists and other heroes and villains who inspired himIn the New York Review of Books, Joyce Carol Oates expressed her admiration for an equally prolific contemporary: "Among Charyn's writerly gifts is a dazzling energy. . . . [He is] an exuberant chronicler of the mythos of American life"; the Los Angeles Times described him as "absolutely unique among American w...

Read Me, Los Angeles: Exploring L.A.'s Book Culture

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Report copyright infringementby Katie Orphan (Author)A colorful, lively, and informed celebration of all things bookish in L.A. past and present, including interviews with current L.A. writers; day trips in search of favorite fictional characters, from Marlowe to Weetzie Bat; author quotes galore; curated lists of the must-read L.A. books; a look at where writers have lived and worked in the City of Angels; and insight into the city's book festivals, bookstores, publishers, literacy nonprofit...

It All Felt Impossible: 42 Years in 42 Essays

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Report copyright infringementby Tom McAllister (Author)In this meditative and lyrical collection, Tom McAllister challenges himself to write a short essay for every year he's been alive. With each piece strictly limited to a maximum of 1,500 words, these 42 essays move fluidly through time, taking poetic leaps and ending up in places the reader does not expect. Funny, insightful, and open-hearted, It All Felt Impossible aims to tell the story of McAllister's life through brief glimpses, anecd...

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Report copyright infringementby Monica Martin (Author)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 corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important ...

The Genius and Character of Emerson: Lectures at the Concord School of Philosophy

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Report copyright infringementby Concord School of Philosophy (Created by)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 corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this...

General History, Cyclopedia and Dictionary of Freemasonry

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Macoy (Author)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 corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important e...

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Report copyright infringementby Dwight Lyman Moody (Author), Ira David Sankey (Author), George Frederick Root (Author)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 corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wo...

Secret Voices: A Year of Women's Diaries

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah Gristwood (Author)"United across centuries, these women's voices open doors to lost worlds and make them seem familiar. A modern classic." --Alison Weir A captivating collection of extracts from women's diaries, looking back over four centuries to discover how women's experience--of men and children, sex and shopping, work and the natural world--has changed down the years. And, of course, how it hasn't. In this fascinating anthology, with a selection of e...

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Report copyright infringementby Sigrid Rausing (Author)From Nobel laureates to debut novelists, international translations to investigative journalism, each issue of Granta turns the attention of the world's best writers on to one aspect of the way we live now. This spring issue will feature award-winning writer William Atkins on the proposed nuclear power station Sizewell C.Author BiographySigrid Rausing is Editor and Publisher of Granta magazine and Publisher of Granta Books. She is the aut...

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Report copyright infringementby Sigrid Rausing (Author)From Nobel laureates to debut novelists, international translations to investigative journalism, each issue of Granta turns the attention of the world's best writers on to one aspect of the way we live now. This winter issue will feature Fatima Bhutto on her dog Coco, Andrew McMillan on the Goosebumps series, as well as non-fiction by Chris Dennis and Jacob Dlamini and fiction by Debbie Urbanski and Julie Hecht.Author BiographySigrid Raus...

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Report copyright infringementby Adam Thorpe (Author)Silbury Hill, the largest pre-historic mound in Europe, like Stonehenge, has inspired and perplexed people for generations. Adam Thorpe, author of the highly influential book Ulverton, reflects on what Silbury Hill has meant to him throughout his life.Author BiographyAdam Thorpe was born in Paris in 1956 and brought up in India, Cameroon and Southern England. His first novel, Ulverton was published to great critical acclaim and is considered...

Opening the Field: Irish Women, Texts and Contexts

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Report copyright infringementby Patricia Boyle Haberstroh (Editor)One of the defining moments in late twentieth-century Irish literature was the publication of The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing (1991), which immediately created a controversy. This extensive collection, covering more than a thousand years, was marked by the virtual absence of female writers. To fill this gap, Cork University Press published The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing: Irish Women's Writing and Traditions i...

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Meaney (Author)Britain's most prestigious literary magazine brings you the very best new fiction, memoir, reportage, poetry, photography and art from around the world.It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game. Any schoolchild can smell the rat in the adage.Everybody knows a game is not worth watching unless the players are trying to win -- unless someone is willing to risk the high tackle, smash the serve, steal the base, or throw the ...

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Meaney (Editor)This issue of Granta magazine, on the subject of Dead Friends, features writing from leading novelists and story-writers on intimate connections they have lost.This issue of Granta, Dead Friends, brings vital figures from the past momentarily back into focus. Features include Fernanda Eberstadt on Andy Warhol, Aatish Taseer on V.S. Naipul, Tao Lin on Giancarlo DiTrapano, Michel Houellebecq on Benoit Duteurtre, William Atkins on a new metho...

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Report copyright infringementby Suzanne Barbezat (Author) 'I don't know how to write love letters. But I wanted to tell you that my whole being opened for you. Since I fell in love with you everything is transformed and is full of beauty . . . love is like an aroma, like a current, like rain' Since her death Frida Kahlo has become an iconic cultural figure, renowned for her expressive, highly personal paintings. Her art drew on her often tumultuous private life and while painting was her main...

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Report copyright infringementby Herve Guibert (Photographer), Christine Pichini (Translator)A new edition of one of only two photobooks that Guibert published in his life, reissued here for the first timeThis photobook by Hervé Guibert, The Only Face, is not a novel in the traditional sense but is nonetheless filled with characters, settings and mystery. It starts with bodies--their faces either eclipsed or out of frame--before unleashing a bravura sequence of portraits: friends, lovers, fami...

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Report copyright infringementby Marianne Brooker (Author)What makes a good death? A good daughter? In 2009, with her forties and a harsh wave of austerity on the horizon, Marianne Brooker's mother was diagnosed with primary progressive multiple sclerosis. She made a workshop of herself and her surroundings, combining creativity and activism in inventive ways. But over time, her ability to work, to move and to live without pain diminished drastically. Determined to die in her own home, on her ...

Gilberto Freyre e os estudos latino-americanos

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Report copyright infringementby Joshua Lund (Editor)'Por que ler Freyre hoje em día? As respostas a esta pergunta sao necessariamente múltiplas e contraditórias. Urnas delas concluem que seria melhor fazer essa leitura de Freyre a nossa última. Outras apontam novas dir oes para levar adiante sua obra. O nosso objetivo ao organizar este volume foi instigar novos ensaios que nao representassem simplesmente julgamentos sobre a obra de Freyre, mas, antes, interpreta(6es significativas.'Extraído d...

Back Where I Came from: On Culture, Identity, and Home

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Report copyright infringementby Taslim Jaffer (Editor), Omar Mouallem (Editor)Explore the multifaceted layers of identity, culture, and belonging in this poignant collection of personal essays.In Back Where I Came From, twenty-six writers share their journeys back to their motherlands, offering a vulnerable and insightful exploration of what "home" truly means. Set against diverse landscapes--from mountainous terrains to bustling cities--these narratives weave socio-political commentary with ...

Life and Letters of Janet Erskine Stuart, Superior General of the Society of the Sacred Heart

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Report copyright infringementby Maud Monahan (Author)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 corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important e...

Collected Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

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Report copyright infringementby Francis Beaumont (Author), John Fletcher (Author)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 corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, t...

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Report copyright infringementby Wayne Miller (Editor)Issue 30 includes: Fiction by Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy contributor Helena Bell, Vincent Czyz, Maureen Langloss, and Lucas Southworth. Nonfiction by NEA and Camargo Foundation Fellow Don Bogen, death row inmate and essayist Lyle May, Bill Marsh, and Lesley Wheeler. Poetry by NEA Fellows Hadara Bar-Nadav, Bruce Bond, and Jenny Browne; PEN Discovery Award winner Andrea Cohen; Gregory O'Donogue International Prize winner Sha...

Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah Smarsh (Author)"A must-read for today's politics" (San Francisco Chronicle), the brilliant and provocative essays that established National Book Award finalist Sarah Smarsh as one of the most important commentators on America's class problem are collected in one searing and insightful volume. In Bone of the Bone, Sarah Smarsh brings her graceful storytelling and incisive critique to the challenges that define our times--class division, political fissures,...

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Report copyright infringementby Maria Gabriela Llansol (Author), Audrey Young (Translator), João Barrento (Introduction by)A remarkable collection of diary entries from cross-genre Portuguese author Maria Gabriela Llansol, which span dozens of diaries and 33 years."She dedicated herself to this work regularly, at the same time, in the same place, and in almost the same position..." (The Book of Communities).Over the course of her life, Maria Gabriela Llansol wrote many thousands of pages. She...

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Report copyright infringementby 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 artis...

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Report copyright infringementby Tedi López Mills (Author), Robin Myers (Translator)From one of Mexico's premier poets, the award-winning Tedi López Mills, a hybrid, genre-defying book of essays following the unusual and surprising complexities of everyday life. Through thirteen essays, Tedi López Mills explores the minutiae that at first glance go unnoticed. In "Improper Nouns," she explores the history and destiny of an uncomfortable name, asking whether the way we name what surrounds us aff...

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Report copyright infringementby Nan Fairbrother (Author)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 corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is importan...

Deep & Wild: On Mountains, Opossums & Finding Your Way in West Virginia

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Report copyright infringementby Laura Jackson (Author)Winner of the 2023 Autumn House Nonfiction Prize, the essays in Laura Jackson's debut, Deep & Wild, chronicle the beauty and awe of Appalachia through the eyes of a lifelong West Virginian.Jackson employs her knowledge of and curiosity for the region to describe life in West Virginia as it actually is while dismantling stereotypes portrayed in popular media with humor and tenderness. Jackson works to describe what is special about her ...

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Report copyright infringementby Gaylord Brewer (Author)In Before the Storm Takes It Away, Gaylord Brewer steps away from poetry in these short explorations in nonfiction-alternately dark, wry, contemplative, and explosive, what begins as a seasonal experiment in genre becomes, when March 2020 brings a suddenly altered world, a whole different beast.Baking a cake for Armageddon? Choosing the proper superpower? Finding solace in the imposed isolation of a world plague? In Before the Storm Takes...

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Report copyright infringementby Werner Kofler (Author), Lauren K. Wolfe (Translator)Installed behind his desk with notebook, ashtray, whiskey, and "several typewriters of various calibers," Werner Kofler embarks on a tour not through space but through literature, and through his abortive attempts at producing a work he can call his own. "Art must destroy reality," he trumpets, yet, in the spirit of his "beloved Beckett," each failed attempt at the writing desk only drives the effort endlessly...

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Report copyright infringementby Urs Allemann (Author), Patrick Greaney (Translator)According to his contract, the old man has five months to sit on his bench and reminisce about his childhood, but all that comes out are curious stories--about leprous dominos, amorous concrete towers, chaste call girls, and more. In other words: the old man twaddles on and on. A virtuoso novel that reveals what language can do when it serves no purpose but its own proliferation, Swiss provocateur Urs Alleman's...