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Flash!: Writing the Very Short Story, Paperback - John Dufresne

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On Dreams (the Standard), Paperback - Sigmund Freud

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The Homeric Hymns: A Verse Translation, Paperback - Thelma Sargent

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Hard Love Province: Poems, Paperback - Marilyn Chin

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The Republic of Poetry: Poems, Paperback - Martin Espada

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A Mind of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives, Paperback - Cordelia Fine

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The brain's power is confirmed and touted every day in new studies and research. And yet we tend to take our brains for granted, without suspecting...

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The Will to Change: Poems 1968-1970, Paperback - Adrienne Rich

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The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance: Poems, 1987-1992, Paperback - Audre Lorde

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An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991, Paperback - Adrienne Rich

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A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far: Poems 1978-1981, Paperback - Adrienne Rich

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Reducere. This is a reissue in a new format of a book of verse by Adrienne Rich, whose Collected Early Poems 1950-1970 was chosen as one of the Top Twenty ti...

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Young Men in Spats, Paperback - P. G. Wodehouse

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Once, Paperback - Meghan O'Rourke

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Reducere. The incandescent poems in Once, the second collection by an astonishing and formidable poet, explore loss, violence, and recovery. Facing a mother'...

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H. M. S. Surprise, Paperback - Patrick O'Brian

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The Surgeon's Mate, Paperback - Patrick O'Brian

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Letters from Maine: Poems, Paperback - May Sarton

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The Letter of Marque, Paperback - Patrick O'Brian

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Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics, Paperback - Richard H. Thaler

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22 and 50 Poems by e. e. cummings, Paperback - E. E. Cummings

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The Wine-Dark Sea, Paperback - Patrick O'Brian

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Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure, Paperback - Frank Arthur Worsley

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Wilderness, Paperback - Sandra Lim

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Reducere. From "Aubade"From the last stars to sunrise the world is dark and enduring and emptiness has its place Then, to wake each day to the world's unwave...

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Call Me Ishmael Tonight: A Book of Ghazals, Paperback - Agha Shahid Ali

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Reducere. The beloved Kashmiri-American poet Agha Shahid Ali presents his own American ghazals. Calling on a line or phrase from fellow poets, Ali salutes th...

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The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir: Poems, Paperback - Richard Hugo

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Grace Notes, Poems, Paperback - Rita Dove

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The Rotation Diet, Paperback - Martin Katahn

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The Five Stages of Grief: Poems, Paperback - Linda Pastan

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Reducere. "It is above all her integrity that has made Linda Pastan such a rewarding poet. Nothing is here for effect. There is no self-pity, but in this new...

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Some Lessons in Metaphysics, Paperback - Jose Ortega y. Gasset

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Ortega's entry into the writing world came by way of newspaper essays that are still read by generations seeking revelations and interpretations of...

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This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm, Paperback - Ted Genoways

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Halflife, Paperback - Meghan O'Rourke

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Coming Into Eighty: Poems, Paperback - May Sarton

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Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives, Paperback - Brad Watson

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Reducere. In prose so perfectly pitched as to suggest some celestial harmony, he writes about every kind of domestic discord: unruly or distant children, ali...

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Lucifer at the Starlite: Poems, Paperback - Kim Addonizio

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Reducere. from "Lucifer at the Starlite" Here's my bright idea for life on earth: better management. The CEO has lost touch with the details. I'm worth as mu...

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Everything Else in the World, Paperback - Stephen Dunn

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Reducere. In his fourteenth collection, Stephen Dunn, one of our indispensable poets (Miami Herald), continues to probe brilliantly the unsaid and the elusiv...

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Our Dead Behind Us: Poems, Paperback - Audre Lorde

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Reducere. As Marilyn Hacker has written, "Black, lesbian, mother, cancer survivor, urban woman: none of Lorde's selves has ever silenced the others; the coun...

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In a Time of Violence: Poems, Paperback - Eavan Boland

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Reducere. This, her seventh book, continues to mine what she has termed "the meeting place between womanhood and history."

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Queen of a Rainy Country: Poems, Paperback - Linda Pastan

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Reducere. Linda Pastan writes, "the art that mattered / was the life led fully / stanza by swollen stanza." That life is portrayed here, from the poet's earl...

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Confession (Revised), Paperback - Leo Tolstoy

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Traveling Light, Paperback - Linda Pastan

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Reducere. Linda Pastan's thirteenth collection of poetry chronicles her journey through life's pleasures and problems, its unexpected detours. The concerns o...

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Master and Commander, Paperback - Patrick O'Brian

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I Was the Jukebox, Paperback - Sandra Beasley

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Reducere. The winner of the 2009 Barnard Women Poets Prize--"These poems are fresh, crisp, and muscular. They are decisive and fearless. Every object, icon, ...

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The Killing Zone: My Life in the Vietnam War, Paperback - Frederick Downs

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Imagine the Angels of Bread: Poems, Paperback - Martin Espada

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Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech, Paperback - Sara Wachter-Boettcher

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DescriptionBuying groceries, tracking our health, finding a date: whatever we want to do, odds are that we can now do it online. But few of us real...

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Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World, Paperback - Michael Lewis

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Epigenetics: How Environment Shapes Our Genes, Paperback - Richard C. Francis

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Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations, Paperback - John J. L. Mood

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Combining passion and sensitivity, the poems on love presented here are often not only sensual but sexual as well. Others pursue perennial themes i...

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The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road, Paperback - Finn Murphy

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The Coral Sea, Paperback - Patti Smith

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Before the National Book Award-winning Just Kids, Patti Smith addressed the life and passing of her intimate friend, photographer Robert Mapplethor...

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Counting Backwards: A Doctor's Notes on Anesthesia, Paperback - Henry Jay Przybylo

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For many of the 40 million Americans who undergo it each year, anesthesia is the source of great fear and fascination. In Counting Backwards, pedia...

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Winter Numbers: Poems, Paperback - Marilyn Hacker

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Siro, Paperback - David Ignatius

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The Dirty Side of the Storm: Poems, Paperback - Martha Serpas

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Where a Nickel Costs a Dime, Paperback - Willie Perdomo

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Little Sprouts and the DAO of Parenting: Ancient Chinese Philosophy and the Art of Raising Mindful, Resilient, and Compassionate Kids - Erin Cline

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Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy, Paperback - Dani Anguiano

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The Last Chicken in America: A Novel in Stories, Paperback - Ellen Litman

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Contributor(s): Author: Ellen LitmanIn twelve "pristine, entrancing" (Booklist) linked stories, Ellen Litman introduces an unforgettable cast of Ru...

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The Origin of Philosophy, Paperback - Jose Ortega y. Gasset

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The Origin of Philosophy, Paperback

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The School on 103rd Street, Paperback - Roland S. Jefferson

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When Dr. Elwin Carter is confronted in his Watts clinic by two boys terrified by the brutal murder of their friend, his investigations lead him far...

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Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century, Paperback - Lauren Slater

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Einstein's Cosmos: How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time, Paperback - Michio Kaku

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Experience on Demand: What Virtual Reality Is, How It Works, and What It Can Do, Paperback - Jeremy Bailenson

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The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us, Paperback - Nicholas Carr

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Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life, Paperback - David R. Montgomery

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Reducere. For centuries agricultural practices have eroded the soil farming depends on, stripping it of organic matter vital to its productivity, and now thr...

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Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, Paperback - Sigmund Freud

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Reducere. The question he addresses here is, What are the emotional bonds that hold collective entities, such as an army and a church, together? It is a frui...

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The Ionian Mission, Paperback - Patrick O'Brian

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Reducere. Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, veterans now of many battles, return in this novel to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates. But Jack is n...

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Anthill, Paperback - Edward O. Wilson

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Reducere. Winner of the 2010 Heartland Prize, Anthill follows the thrilling adventures of a modern-day Huck Finn, enthralled with the "strange, beautiful, an...

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Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things That Matter, Paperback - Diana Athill

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Reducere. What will you remember if you live to be 100?Diana Athill charmed readers with her prize-winning memoir Somewhere Towards the End, which transforme...

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My People's Waltz, Paperback - Dale Ray Phillips

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Contributor(s): Author: Dale Ray PhillipsRichard is like a traveler or pilgrim, moving from Haw River, North Carolina, to Arkansas to the Texas Gul...

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Little Tales of Misogyny, Paperback - Patricia Highsmith

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Patricia HighsmithThe great revival of interest in Patricia Highsmith continues with the publication of this legendary, cul...

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The Horned Man, Paperback - James Lasdun

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DescriptionThe Horned Man opens with a man losing his place in a book, then deepens into a dark and terrifying tale of a man losing his place in th...

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