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Report copyright infringementby Sohla El-Waylly (Author), Silvia Killingsworth (Author)A collection of the year's top food writing, selected by guest editor Sohla El-Waylly and series editor Silvia Killingsworth. Culinary creator, writer and community advocate, Sohla El-Waylly selects the best twenty articles published in 2021 that celebrate the many innovative, comforting, mouthwatering, and culturally rich culinary offerings of our country. Number of Pages: 256 Dim...

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Report copyright infringementby Yogi Ramacharaka (Author)Advanced Course in Yogi Philosophyis a continuation of the classic, Fourteen Lessons in Yogi Philosophy. It should be read after one has read the Fourteen Lessons since many concepts are introduced in the first book. Both books were written 120 years ago yet they remain the best introduction to yogi philosophy for a Western audience.The Advanced Course delves deeper into Indian philosophy and explores some of humanity's perennial questi...

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Report copyright infringementby Claudia Tate (Editor)"Black women writers and critics are acting on the old adage that one must speak for oneself if one wishes to be heard." --Claudia Tate, from the introduction Long out-of-print, Black Women Writers At Work is a vital contribution to Black literature in the 20th century. Through candid interviews with Maya Angelou, Toni Cade Bambara, Gwendolyn Brooks. Alexis Deveaux, Nikki Giovanni, Kristin Hunter, Gayl Jones, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Til...

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Report copyright infringementby Sam Heaps (Author)A literary meditation on sex. Sam Heaps is a millennial Anaïs Nin, exploring their most intimate power struggles with a raw and artful voice.Each partner is a new mask through which the narrator discovers themselves, creating a song through each personal essay of desire and regret- a pop melody with blues undertones. Heaps lets readers become the ultimate voyeurs, displaying nakedly what we secretly feel in our most intimate moments. Proximity...

A Ming Confucian's World: Selections from Miscellaneous Records from the Bean Garden

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Report copyright infringementby Lu Rong (Author), Mark Halperin (Translator)A forgotten century marks the years between the Ming dynasty's (1368-1644) turbulent founding and its sixteenth-century age of exploration and economic transformation. In this period of social stability, retired scholar-official Lu Rong chronicled his observations of Chinese society in Miscellaneous Records from the Bean Garden (Shuyuan zaji). Openly expressing his admirations and frustrations, Lu provides a window in...

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Report copyright infringementby Dick Gregory (Author), Christian Gregory (Introduction by)A soulful, generation-defining non-fiction collection of thought-provoking, agitating, and liberating works from Dick Gregory, the activist and author of sixteen books, including the classic bestseller Nigger: An Autobiography and the 2017 NAACP Image Award Winner, Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies.A true renaissance man, Richard Claxton "Dick" Gregory was one of the pioneering ...

Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays

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Report copyright infringementby Phoebe Robinson (Author)THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER, NOW IN PAPERBACK "Another hilarious essay collection from Phoebe Robinson."--The New York Times Book Review"Strikes the perfect balance of brutally honest and laugh-out-loud funny. I didn't want it to end."--Mindy Kaling, New York Times bestselling author of Why Not Me? With sharp, timely insight, pitch-perfect pop culture references, and her always unforgettable voice, New York Times bestselling author, comedian...

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Report copyright infringementby Kei Miller (Author)By acclaimed Forward Prize winner, novelist, and poet, Kei Miller's linked collection of essays blends memoir and literary commentary to explore the silences that exist in our conversations about race, sex, and gender. In a deeply moving, critical and lyrical collection of interconnected essays, award-winning writer Kei Miller explores the silences in which so many important things are kept. Miller examines the experience of discrimination th...

A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast

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Report copyright infringementby Dorthe Nors (Author)A celebrated Danish writer explores the unsung histories and geographies of her beloved slice of the world. Me, my notebook and my love of the wild and desolate. I wanted to do the opposite of what was expected of me. It's a recurring pattern in my life. An instinct. Dorthe Nors's first nonfiction book chronicles a year she spent traveling along the North Sea coast--from Skagen at the northern tip of Denmark to the Frisian Islands in the Wa...

Letters to Eugène: Correspondence 1977-1987

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Report copyright infringementby Herve Guibert (Author), Eugene Savitzkaya (Author), Christine Pichini (Translator)Hervé Guibert's incandescent correspondence with Belgian poet Eugène Savitzkaya. In 1977, Hervé Guibert discovered the first novel written by Eugène Savitzkaya, Mentir, and sent him his La mort propagande, which had just been published. In the following years, they exchanged the books they had written, read each other, appreciated each other. They saw each other rarely, however: o...

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Report copyright infringementby Ross Gay (Author)From New York Times bestselling author Ross Gay comes an intimate and electrifying collection of essays about the joy that comes from connection. "Brilliant. Inciting Joy is a book that will break your heart." --Ada Limón, US poet laureate "A gift that's meant to be shared." --The Washington Post "It's impossible to read [these essays] without feeling a shift in your awareness of joy and its unexpected possibilities." ―The Boston Globe In ...

Recessional: The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch

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Report copyright infringementby David Mamet (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!"Savagery appeased can only grow. Once you give in to it, it must escalate, like a fire searching for air."The man who won the Pulitzer Prize for GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS, who wrote the classic films THE VERDICT and WAG THE DOG sounds his alarm about the Visigoths at our gates.In RECESSIONAL he calls out, skewers, mocks, and, most importantly, dissects the virus of conformity which is now an existential threat to the Wes...

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Report copyright infringementby Thea Lenarduzzi (Author)Where, or what, is home? What has it meant, historically and personally, to be 'Italian' or 'English', or both in a culture that prefers us to choose? What does it mean to have roots? Or to have left a piece of oneself somewhere long since abandoned? In Dandelions, Thea Lenarduzzi pieces together her family history through four generations' worth of migration between Italy and England, and the stories scattered like seeds along the way....

$Somewhere We Are Human \ Donde Somos Humanos: Historias Genuinas Sobre Migración, Sobrevivencia Y Renaceres$

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Report copyright infringementby Reyna Grande (Author), Sonia Guiñansaca (Author), Aurora Lauzardo Ugarte (Translator)Una colección de 35 ensayos y poemas audaces, importantes e innovadores de inmigrantes, refugiados y soñadores, incluidos escritores, artistas y activistas galardonados, que iluminan la experiencia de vivir sin documentos. Durante este tiempo de inestabilidad política e incertidumbre, esta colección de ensayos, poesía y arte tiene como objetivo cambiar el imaginario colectivo d...

Poe Knows: A Miscellany of Macabre Musings

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Report copyright infringementby Edgar Allan Poe (Author)An illustrated wit-and-wisdom-style packaging of quotes and excerpts from the fiction and nonfiction of Edgar Allan Poe, organized by theme and presented in a lighter-than-Poe context. This book will collect several hundred quotes and aphorisms from Poe's poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Quotes will be organized in thematic chapter groupings, and each chapter will be prefaced with several introductory paragraphs that discuss Poe's preoc...

Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations

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Report copyright infringementby Kurt Vonnegut (Author)One of the great American iconoclasts holds forth on politics, war, books and writers, and his personal life in a series of conversations, including his last published interview. During his long career Kurt Vonnegut won international praise for his novels, plays, and essays. In this new anthology of conversations with Vonnegut--which collects interviews from throughout his career--we learn much about what drove Vonnegut to write and how he...

Wellington's American General: The Oldest Serving Soldier in the British Army

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Report copyright infringementby Nicholas Fogg (Author)Based on the journals of a New Yorker who would become one of Wellington's senior generals, the story of a remarkable military career from The American War of Independence to the Peninsula, Tobago and Canada. An American General in Wellington's Army? At the age of 14, Frederick Robinson fought for the Loyalists in the War of Independence. With their defeat, his family took refuge in England. After serving against the French in the West I...

Rookie Mistakes: A Grown-Up's Field Guide for Getting Your Act Together

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Report copyright infringementby Kelly Bandas (Author)In her highly anticipated nonfiction debut, comedian Kelly Bandas uses her trademark humor to recount stories of growing up and becoming a semifunctional adult in a dysfunctional world.Raised in a devoutly Catholic home, Kelly Bandas spent her entire childhood trying hard not to tick off "the man" or the Lord. And for the most part, she crushed it. But as she got older and began to navigate what it looked like to truly live in a world where...

African Americans of Wilmington's East Side

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Report copyright infringementby Hara Wright-Smith (Author)Wilmington's East Side is the oldest residential community in the city. The first Swedish colony settled there in the 1600s, and over time, Jewish, Polish, and African American people followed. By the mid-1950s, the East Side emerged as a predominantly Black, achievement-oriented community--a place where working-class families, Black-owned businesses, and Black doctors, lawyers, teachers, musicians, and community leaders lived, worship...

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Report copyright infringementby David Rae Morris (Author), Willie Morris (Author), Kaylie Jones (Foreword by)Winner of the 2023 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Photography Love, Daddy: Letters from My Father examines the complexities of father-and-son relationships through letters and photographs. Willie Morris wrote scores of letters to his only son, David Rae Morris, from the mid-1970s until Willie's death in 1999. From David Rae's perspective, his father was often emoti...

Queen of the Hillbillies: The Writings of May Kennedy McCord

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Report copyright infringementby Patti McCord (Editor), Kristene Sutliff (Editor)May Kennedy McCord, lovingly nicknamed "First Lady of the Ozarks" and "Queen of the Hillbillies," spent half a century sharing the history, songs, and stories of her native Ozarks through newspaper columns, radio programs, and music festivals. Though her work made her one of the twentieth century's preeminent folklorists, McCord was first and foremost an entertainer--at one time nearly as renowned as the hills she...

Bravey: Chasing Dreams, Befriending Pain, and Other Big Ideas

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Report copyright infringementby Alexi Pappas (Author), Maya Rudolph (Foreword by)The Olympic runner, actress, filmmaker and writer Alexi Pappas shares what she's learned about confidence, self-reliance, mental health, embracing pain, and achieving your dreams. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY REAL SIMPLE - "Heartbreaking and hilarious."--Mindy Kaling - "A beautiful read."--Ruth Reichl - "Essential guidance to anyone dreaming big dreams."--Shalane Flanagan - "I couldn't put it down."...

Going to the Tigers: Essays and Exhortations

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Cohen (Author)In this funny and perceptive collection, novelist and essayist Robert Cohen shares his thoughts on the writing process and then puts these prescriptions into practice--from how to rant effectively as an essayist and novelist ("The Piano has been Drinking"), how to achieve your own style, naming characters (and creating them), how one manages one's own identity with being "a writer" in time and space, to the use of reference and allusion in ...

The World as We Knew It: Dispatches from a Changing Climate

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Report copyright infringementby Amy Brady (Editor), Tajja Isen (Editor)Nineteen leading literary writers from around the globe offer timely, haunting first-person reflections on how climate change has altered their lives--including essays by Lydia Millet, Alexandra Kleeman, Kim Stanley Robinson, Omar El Akkad, Lidia Yuknavitch, Melissa Febos, and more In this riveting anthology, leading literary writers reflect on how climate change has altered their lives, revealing the personal and haunting...

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Report copyright infringementby Lars Horn (Author)Lars Horn's Voice of the Fish, the latest Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize winner, is an interwoven essay collection that explores the trans experience through themes of water, fish, and mythology, set against the backdrop of travels in Russia and a debilitating back injury that left Horn temporarily unable to speak. In Horn's adept hands, the collection takes shape as a unified book: short vignettes about fish, reliquaries, and antiquities ser...

Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings by Randall Kenan

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Report copyright infringementby Randall Kenan (Author), Tayari Jones (Introduction by)Virtuosic in his use of literary forms, nurtured and unbounded by his identities as a Black man, a gay man, an intellectual, and a Southerner, Randall Kenan was known for his groundbreaking fiction. Less visible were his extraordinary nonfiction essays, published as introductions to anthologies and in small journals, revealing countless facets of Kenan's life and work.Flying under the radar, these writings w...

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Report copyright infringementby Celia Paul (Author)With original artworks throughout, an extraordinary fusion of memoir and artistic biography from the acclaimed artist and author of Self-Portrait. Dearest Gwen, I know this letter to you is an artifice. I know you are dead and that I'm alive and that no usual communication is possible between us but, as my mother used to say, "Time is a strange substance" and who knows really, with our time-bound comprehension of the world, whether there migh...

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas H. Huxley (Author)The Evolution of Theology: An Anthropological Study Number of Pages: 70 Dimensions: 0.15 x 9.69 x 7.44 IN Publication Date: June 30, 2015

El Mito de Sísifo / The Myth of Sisyphus

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Report copyright infringementby Albert Camus (Author)«No hay sino un problema filosófico realmente serio: el suicidio. El mito de Sísifo es el ensayo fundacional de la filosofía del absurdo, una obra mayúscula que dio a conocer el gran talento de Albert Camus. Publicada en 1942, el mismo año que El extranjero, fue una de las primeras obras que revelaron al público la inteligencia y la sensibilidad del autor. El título del ensayo hace referencia a un personaje de la mitología griega que enfad...

Pharaoh's Land and Beyond: Ancient Egypt and Its Neighbors

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Report copyright infringementby Pearce Paul Creasman (Editor), Richard H. Wilkinson (Editor)The concept of pharaonic Egypt as a unified, homogeneous, and isolated cultural entity is misleading. Ancient Egypt was a rich tapestry of social, religious, technological, and economic interconnections among numerous cultures from disparate lands. In fifteen chapters divided into five thematic groups, Pharaoh's Land and Beyond uniquely examines Egypt's relationship with its wider world. The first sect...

Guston in Time: Remembering Philip Guston

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Report copyright infringementby Ross Feld (Author)In this warm and vibrant work of memoir and criticism, a young writer forges a friendship with Philip Guston, one of the most influential and controversial painters of the twentieth century. The late work of Philip Guston has had a profound influence on painters today, but as Guston's star has risen, it has been forgotten how scandalous these paintings, with their cartoonish imagery and almost fumbling application of paint, were initially deem...

The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos

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Report copyright infringementby Jaime Green (Author)An LA Times Book Prize FinalistA Washington Post Best Book of the YearA TODAY Show Summer Book An NPR Science Friday Book Club PickA "Next Big Idea Book Club" Must ReadOne of the Chicago Tribune's 52 Books for Summer 2023An Esquire Best Book of 2023A Gizmodo New Release Pick for AprilA BookRiot Science Book to Add to Your TBRA Wired Book to Read for Spring"A dazzling feat of imagination and synthesis."--Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize winner and aut...