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Lady Murasaki's Tale of Genji: The Manga Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Lady Murasaki Shikibu (Author), Sean Michael Wilson (Author)Step into a story of life and love in Kyoto's 10th century royal court. Tale of Genji, the world's oldest known novel, tells the story of Prince Genji and his adventures in life, love, and power within the halls of the Chrysanthemum Royal Court. Handsome, romantic, and talented in the art of seduction, Prince Genji skillfully navigates the court and all its intrigues--always in search of love and ofte...

Moomin Book Four: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip

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Report copyright infringementby Tove Jansson (Author)More delightful tales from the legendary Finnish artist Drawn & Quarterly's bestselling Moomin series, created by the legendary children's author Tove Jansson, is now in its fourth installment. The series is the winner of the Harvey Award and has been nominated for multiple Eisner Awards.Author BiographyTove Jansson (1914 - 2001) was a legendary Finnish children's book author, artist, and creator of the Moomins, who came to life in chil...

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Report copyright infringementby Jennifer Julie Miller (Author)KatherineHow do you go on when all of your wants and dreams have been destroyed? My loved ones were snatched right out of my hands, leaving me alone in a world of unknowns and terror. I'm lost in the in-between with no familiar paths to follow until the sound of a heartbeat and a whisper draws me back to the land of the living.RaZThe moment I laid eyes upon her face I knew there would be no distance I wouldn't travel to make her my...

Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Chabon (Editor), Ayelet Waldman (Editor), Dave Cole (Foreword by)To mark its 100-year anniversary, the American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman to bring together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal...

12 Bytes: How AI Will Change the Way We Live and Love

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Report copyright infringementby Jeanette Winterson (Author)Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny and provocative essays on the implications of artificial intelligence for the way we live and the way we love from New York Times bestselling author Jeanette Winterson"Talky, smart, anarchic and quite sexy," said Dwight Garner in the New York Times about Jeanette Winterson's latest novel, Frankissstein, which perfectly describes too this new collection of essays on the same subject of AI.In 12...

The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks

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Report copyright infringementby Terry Tempest Williams (Author)An ode to our national parks, timed for the centennial, by the beloved author of When Women Were BirdsLonglisted for an Andrew Carnegie Medal for ExcellenceA Washington Post Notable Book of the YearAmerica's national parks are breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why more than 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now Terry Tempest Williams, the New York Times bestselling aut...

Notes from Cyberground: Trumpland and My Old Soviet Feeling

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Report copyright infringementby Mikhail Iossel (Author)"Mikhail Iossel is an intense and thoughtful force for decency in the world." --George Saunders Iossel's writing is full of rage, enlightening observations, and oft witty humor . . . as he watches his beloved America--a beacon of hope during his Soviet youth--coming undone by Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin's influence over him." --Times of Israel "Mikhail Iossel's Notes from Cyberground is our social media De Profundis with a ...

Beyond Home Plate: Jackie Robinson on Life After Baseball

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Report copyright infringementby Michael G. Long (Editor)Jackie Robinson is one of the most revered public figures of the twentieth century. He is remembered for both his athletic prowess and his strong personal character. The world knows him as the man who crossed baseball's color line, but there is much more to his legacy. At the conclusion of his baseball career, Robinson continued in his pursuit of social progress through his work as a writer. Beyond Home Plate, an anthology of Jackie Robi...

Missing a Beat: The Rants and Regrets of Seymour Krim

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Cohen (Editor)In 1961, Beat writer Seymour Krim set Greenwich Village on its ear with a slim volume of essays that featured an unleashed voice, a brash title, and a foreword by Norman Mailer. James Baldwin called Views of a Nearsighted Cannoneer an "extraordinary volume." Saul Bellow published an excerpt in his journal The Noble Savage, and Mailer saluted Krim's jazzy prose with its "shifts and shatterings of mood." Despite such praise and critical attenti...

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Report copyright infringementby Hassan Nasr (Author), William Maynard Hutchins (Translator)Return to Dar al-Basha by the contemporary Tunisian author Hassan Nasr depicts the childhood of Murtada al-Shamikh and his return forty years later to his home in the medina or old city of Tunis. After being taken from his mother and raised in his father's home where he was physically abused and emotionally marginalized, Murtada spends a life of anxiety wandering the world. His return is prompted by a m...

Rooted in Rock: New Adirondack Writing, 1975-2000

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Report copyright infringementby Jim Gould (Editor)In the past twenty years the Adirondacks have inspired a resident population of writers who have gained regional and national prominence using the Adirondack region as their primary setting and subject matter--or at least as a significant point of departure. Rooted in Rock is the first collection of its kind in more than twenty years, since Paul Jamieson's Adirondack Reader. What makes the volume unique, though, is the number of contributors w...

River of Blood: American Slavery from the People Who Lived It: Interviews & Photographs of Formerly Enslaved African Americans

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Cahan (Editor), Michael Williams (Editor), Dorothea Lange (Photographer)In the late 1930s, the federal government embarked on an unusual project. As a part of the Works Progress Administration's efforts to give jobs to unemployed Americans, government workers tracked down 3,000 men and women who had been enslaved before and during the Civil War. The workers asked them probing questions about slave life. What did they think about their slaveholders? What...

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Report copyright infringementby Estelle Freedman (Editor)Including: Susan B. Anthony Simone de Beauvoir W.E.B. Du Bois Hélène Cixous Betty Friedan Charlotte Perkins Gilman Emma Goldman Guerrilla Girls Ding Ling - Audre Lorde John Stuart Mill Christine de Pizan Adrienne Rich Margaret Sanger Huda Shaarawi - Sojourner Truth Mary Wollstonecraft Virginia Woolf The Essential Feminist Reader is the first anthology to present the full scope of feminist history. Prizewinning historian Estelle B. Freed...

How the Nagas Were Pleased by Harsha & the Shattered Thighs by Bhasa

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew Skilton (Translator)Two tragic plays that break the rules: both show the hero dying on stage, a scenario forbidden in Sanskrit dramaturgy. King Harsha's play, How the Nagas Were Pleased, composed in the seventh century, re-examines the Buddhist tale of a magician prince who makes the ultimate sacrifice to save a hostage snake (naga). The Shattered Thighs, attributed to Bhasa, the illustrious predecessor to ancient Kali-dasa, transforms a crucial episode ...

Poke a Stick at It: Unexpected True Stories

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Report copyright infringementby Connie Cronley (Author) Open this book and who knows what will pop out: the story of a gangland funeral, a status report on an ex-husband, a meditation on cats and gardens, a feuilleton about Native American fry bread, or a thoughtful musing on old women and books. Welcome to the delightfully irreverent world of Connie Cronley, essayist, radio commentator, and native Oklahoman. In this collection of true stories, Cronley pokes fun at everything--including hers...

Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio: Eerie and Fantastic Chinese Stories of the Supernatural (164 Short Stories)

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Report copyright infringementby Pu Songling (Author), Herbert A. Giles (Translator)Long considered a masterpiece of the eerie and fantastic, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio is a collection of supernatural-themed tales compiled from ancient Chinese folk stories by Songling Pu in the eighteenth century. These tales of ghosts, magic, vampirism, and other things bizarre and fantastic are an excellent Chinese companion to Lafcadio Hearn's well-known collections of Japanese ghost stories Kwaida...

Native: Dispatches from an Israeli-Palestinian Life

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Report copyright infringementby Sayed Kashua (Author)Sayed Kashua has been praised by the New York Times as "a master of subtle nuance in dealing with both Arab and Jewish society." An Israeli-Palestinian who lived in Jerusalem for most of his life, Kashua started writing in Hebrew with the hope of creating one story that both Palestinians and Israelis could relate to, rather than two that cannot coexist. He devoted his novels and his satirical weekly column published in Haaretz to exploring ...

The Book of Greek and Roman Folktales, Legends, and Myths

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Report copyright infringementby William Hansen (Editor), William Hansen (Translator), William Hansen (Introduction by)The first anthology to present the entire range of ancient Greek and Roman stories--from myths and fairy tales to jokes Captured centaurs and satyrs, incompetent seers, people who suddenly change sex, a woman who remembers too much, a man who cannot laugh--these are just some of the colorful characters who feature in the unforgettable stories that ancient Greeks and Romans tol...

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Report copyright infringementby Walt Whitman (Author), Max Cavitch (Author)'I obey my happy hour's command, which seems curiously imperative. May-be, if I don't do anything else, I shall send out the most wayward, spontaneous, fragmentary book ever printed.' One of the best kept secrets of modern autobiographical literature, Whitman's autobiography moves in brisk, episodic fashion to chronicle the life of one of the world's best loved and most influential poets. Experimental in form, lyrical ...

We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

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Report copyright infringementby Lou Sullivan (Author), Ellis Martin (Editor), Zach Ozma (Editor)2020 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNERFINALIST FOR THE PUBLISHING TRIANGLE AWARD Drawn from Lou Sullivan's meticulously kept journals, this landmark book records the life of arguably the first publicly gay trans man to medically transition.We Both Laughed In Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan narrates the inner life of a gay man moving through the shifting social, political, and medical more...

The Substance of Things Hoped For: Short Fiction by Modern Catholic Authors

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Report copyright infringementby John Breslin (Author)Fiction and faith collide in this collection of the finest modern Catholic short stories, featuring an introduction from John B. Breslin, S.J. This stunning story collection includes works by: Heinrich Böll - Morley Callaghan - Elizabeth Cullinan - Andre Dubus - Stuart Dybek - Shusaka Endo - Mary Gordon - Graham Greene - Josephine Jacobsen - John L'Heureux - Bernard MacLaverty - François Mauriac - John McGahern - Walter M. Miller, Jr. - Fla...

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Report copyright infringementby Werth (Author)Historians agree: the diary of Léon Werth (1878-1955) is one of the most precious--and readable--pieces of testimony ever written about life in France under Nazi occupation and the Vichy regime. Werth was a free-spirited and unclassifiable writer. He is the author of eleven novels, art and dance criticism, acerbic political reporting, and memorable personal essays. He was Jewish, and left Paris in June 1940 to hide out in his wife's country house ...

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Shelley (Author), Johanna Smith (Author)Combining critical essays, contextual documents, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms with the original 1831 text, Frankenstein is supported by additional resources which help you think critically about the iconic text. Number of Pages: 608 Dimensions: 0.9 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: November 20, 2015 A...

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Report copyright infringementby Emile Zola (Author), Valerie Pearson Minogue (Editor)"I really don't understand how people can blame a priest so much, when he strays from the path." Serge Mouret, is an obsessively devout priest, aspiring to perfect purity and sanctity. A serious illness leaves him with amnesia, and no longer knowing he is a priest, he falls in love with his nurse Albine. Together they roam an Eden-like garden called the "Paradou," seeking a forbidden tree, beneath whose bough...

Messing about in Quotes: A Little Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations

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Report copyright infringementby Gyles Brandreth (Editor)Become a dazzling wit or enjoy a good laugh with this entertaining collection of humorous quotations, carefully handpicked and edited by writer and broadcaster Gyles Brandreth. From Art to Bores, Tennis to Wine, this little dictionary contains over 2,700 of the best quotations, from witty one-liners and funny phrases to pithy comments and unintended humour. "If you live to be one hundred you've got it made. Very few people die past that ...

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Report copyright infringementby Michel de Montaigne (Author), M. A. Screech (Translator), M. A. Screech (Introduction by)A collection of classic essays from one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance "Screech's fine version ... must surely serve as the definitive English Montaigne" --A.C. Grayling, Financial Times"A superb edition" --Nicholas Wollaston, ObserverFrench philosopher Michel de Montaigne was single-handedly responsible for popularizing the essay as a literary form. Thi...

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Report copyright infringementby Michel de Montaigne (Author)For the true bibliophile and design-savvy book lover, Penguin's celebrated Great Ideas series features classic works by some of history's most innovative thinkers. "Let us leave aside those long comparisons between the solitary life and the active one; and as for that fine adage used as a cloak by greed and ambition, 'That we are not born for ourselves alone but for the common weal, ' let us venture to refer to those who have joined ...

High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never

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Report copyright infringementby Barbara Kingsolver (Author)"Clever. . . magical. . . beautifully crafted. Kingsolver spins you around the philosophic world a dozen times." -- Milwaukee Sentinel"Kingsolver's essays should be savored like quiet afternoons with a friend." --New York Times Book ReviewIn this brilliant essay collection, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Kingsolver turns to her favored literary terrain to explore themes of family, community, and the natural world. With the eyes...

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Report copyright infringementby E. B. White (Author)Originally edited by Dorothy Lobrano Guth, and revised and updated by Martha White. With a foreword by John Updike.These letters are, of course, beautifully written but above all personal, precise, and honest. They evoke E.B. White's life in New York and in Maine at every stage of his life. They are full of memorable characters: White's family, the New Yorker staff and contributors, literary types and show business people, farmers from Maine...

Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

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Report copyright infringementby Edgar Allan Poe (Author)One of the most original American writers, Edgar Allan Poe shaped the development of both the detectvie story and the science-fiction story. Some of his poems--"The Raven," "The Bells," "Annabel Lee"--remain among the most popular in American literature. Poe's tales of the macabre still thrill readers of all ages. Here are familiar favorites like "The Purloined Letter," "The Fall of the House of Usher," and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue...

A Black Philadelphia Reader: African American Writings about the City of Brotherly Love

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Report copyright infringementby Louis J. Parascandola (Editor)The relationship between the City of Brotherly Love and its Black residents has been complicated from the city's founding through the present day. A Black Philadelphia Reader traces this complex history in the words of Black writers who were native to, lived in, or had significant connections to the city. Featuring the works of famous authors--including W. E. B. Du Bois, Harriet Jacobs, Sonia Sanchez and John Edgar Wideman--alongsi...

Chinese Stories for Language Learners: A Treasury of Proverbs and Folktales in Bilingual Chinese and English (Online Audio Recordings Included)

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Report copyright infringementby Vivian Ling (Author), Peng Wang (Author), Yang XI (Illustrator)The highly anticipated next book in Tuttle's Stories for Language Learners series is here! This book presents 22 classic Chinese proverbs and the traditional tales behind them. The stories are bilingual, with the Chinese and English versions presented on facing pages. Each includes an explanation of how the proverb is used today, cultural notes, vocabulary and discussion questions. Audio recordings ...