Allegories

  • The Pilgrim’s Progress

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    A new edition of one of the greatest allegorical stories ever written. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read

    A masterpiece of the English Puritan tradition,

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    • Series: Penguin Classics
    • Author: Bunyan, John
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: January 27, 2009
    • ISBN10: 0141439718
    • Language: English
  • The Castle: Introduction by Irving Howe

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    From the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial, and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century: Arriving in a village to take up the position of land surveyor for the mysterious lord of [more below]

  • The King Who Refused to Die: The Anunnaki and the Search for Immortality

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    Zecharia Sitchin’s secret allegorical novel that brings to life the key concepts of his bestselling book The 12th Planet

    – Reimagines the Epic of Gilgamesh in the context of Sitchin’s discoveries

    – De

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    • Author: Sitchin, Zecharia
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: September 29 2013
    • ISBN10: 1591431778
    • Language: English
  • Kingdom’s Quest

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    He was called to fulfill a mighty quest, filled with fierce battles.
    A quest to bring hope to the kingdom…

    Having narrowly escaped death at the hands of the evil Shadow Warriors, Sir Gavin is given a … [more below]

    • Series: Kingdom #5
    • Author: Black, Chuck
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: May 15 2007
    • ISBN10: 1590527496
    • Language: English
  • Because I Love You

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    A long time ago a wise man named Shaddai built a wonderful village for children to live in. He talked to them and sang for them and told them stories. He gave them everything they needed. And with his

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    • Author: Lucado, Max
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 32
    • Publish Date: February 03 1999
    • ISBN10: 0891079920
    • Language: English
  • Midaq Alley

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    Widely acclaimed as Naguib Mahfouz’s best novel, Midaq Alley brings to life one of the hustling, teeming back alleys of Cairo in the 1940s. From Zaita the cripple-maker to Kirsha the hedonistic cafe o… [more below]

    • Author: Mahfouz, Naguib
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: December 01 1991
    • ISBN10: 0385264763
    • Language: English
  • Beauty Salon

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    Mario Bellatin’s complex dreamscape, offered here in a brand-new translation, presents a timely allegorical portrait of the body and society in decay, victim to inscrutable pandemic.

    In a large, unnam

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    • Author: Bellatin, Mario
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: October 19 2021
    • ISBN10: 1646050738
    • Language: English
  • Kingdom’s Hope

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    A Riveting Medieval Parallel to the Bible

    Good and evil clash. Leinad and Cedric are determined to not only survive, but claim hope and victory In Kingdom’s Dawn, Leinad and Tess, along with all the

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    • Series: Kingdom #02
    • Author: Black, Chuck
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: May 01 2006
    • ISBN10: 1590526805
    • Language: English
  • Kingdom’s Edge

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    A Riveting Medieval Parallel to the Bible

    Good and evil clash. Leinad and Cedric are determined to not only survive, but claim hope and victory In Kingdom’s Dawn, Leinad and Tess, along with all the

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    • Series: Kingdom #03
    • Author: Black, Chuck
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: May 01 2006
    • ISBN10: 1590526813
    • Language: English
  • Kingdom’s Call

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    A sworn enemy of the Prince vows to eliminate his Followers.
    Until the Prince saves his life…

    For generations the Noble Knights have been in service to the King. Following a strict code of conduct, th… [more below]

    • Series: Kingdom #4
    • Author: Black, Chuck
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: May 15 2007
    • ISBN10: 159052750X
    • Language: English
  • Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust

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    The animals in the clearing were content until the Terrible Things came, capturing all creatures with feathers.

    Little Rabbit wondered what was wrong with feathers, but his fellow animals silenced hi

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    • Series: Edward E. Elson Classic
    • Author: Bunting, Eve
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 32
    • Publish Date: December 01 1996
    • ISBN10: 0827603258
    • Language: English
  • Kingdom’s Reign

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    An evil army masses against the Knights of the Prince, and they are outnumbered.
    Only the King can save them…

    While the Knights of the Prince train in the Kingdom Across the Sea, the Dark Knight, Luci… [more below]

    • Series: Kingdom #06
    • Author: Black, Chuck
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: May 15 2007
    • ISBN10: 1590526821
    • Language: English
  • Alice in Quantumland: An Allegory of Quantum Physics

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    In this cleverly conceived book, physicist Robert Gilmore makes complex concepts in quantum mechanics accessible. Alice lands in Quantum land–a whole new Wonderland, smaller than an atom, where each … [more below]

    • Author: Gilmore, Robert
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 184
    • Publish Date: July 21 1995
    • ISBN10: 0387914951
    • Language: English
  • Things That Are: Essays

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    From the cosmic to the quotidian, this collection of essays by Amy Leach asks us to reconsider our kinship with the wild world.

    The debut collection of a writer whose accolades precede her: a Whiting A

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    • Author: Leach, Amy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: June 17 2014
    • ISBN10: 1571313516
    • Language: English
  • The Guide

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    For the centennial of his birth, R. K. Narayan’s most celebrated novel

    Formerly India’s most corrupt tourist guide, Raju–just released from prison–seeks refuge in an abandoned temple. Mistaken for a

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    • Series: Penguin Classics
    • Author: Narayan, R. K.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: September 01 2006
    • ISBN10: 0143039644
    • Language: English
  • How to Make an American Quilt

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    “Remarkable . . . It is a tribute to an art form that allowed women self-expression even when society did not. Above all, though, it is an affirmation of the strength and power of individual lives, an[more below]

    • Author: Otto, Whitney
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: April 12 1994
    • ISBN10: 0345388968
    • Language: English
  • Oblomov

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    Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is a member of Russia’s dying aristocracy – a man so lazy that he has given up his job in the Civil Service, neglected his books, insulted his friends and found himself in debt. To… [more below]

    • Series: Penguin Classics
    • Author: Goncharov, Ivan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 496
    • Publish Date: September 01 2005
    • ISBN10: 0140449876
    • Language: English
  • The Master and Margarita: Introduction by Simon Franklin

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    The underground masterpiece of twentieth-century Russian fiction, Mikhail Bulgakov’s THE MASTER AND MARGARITA was written during Stalin’s regime and could not be published until many years after its a

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  • Cloudstreet

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    From award-winning author Tim Winton comes an epic novel that regularly tops the list of best-loved novels in Australia.

    After two separate catastrophes, two very different families leave the country

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    • Author: Winton, Tim
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 480
    • Publish Date: November 26 2013
    • ISBN10: 1250035511
    • Language: English
  • The Castle

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    Kafka’s last novel, The Castle is set in a remote village covered almost permanently in snow and dominated by a castle and its staff of dictatorial, sexually predatory bureaucrats. The novel breaks ne… [more below]

    • Series: Oxford World’s Classics
    • Author: Kafka, Franz
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: July 26 2009
    • ISBN10: 0199238286
    • Language: English
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