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Reflections of a Wine Merchant: On a Lifetime in the Vineyards and Cellars of France and Italy
$19.99 Add to cartA leading importer of limited-production wines of character and quality takes us on an intimate tour through family-owned vineyards in France and Italy and reflects upon the last three decades of cont
- Author: Rosenthal, Neal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: May 12 2009
- ISBN10: 0374531781
- Language: English
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The Tongue Set Free
$21.99 Add to cartWinner of the 1981 Nobel Prize, this first volume of the author’s autobiography provides a searching portrait of his personal background and creative development.
Elias Canetti was one of the major- Author: Canetti, Elias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: October 01 1983
- ISBN10: 0374518025
- Language: English
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Was It for This: Poems
$17.00 Add to cartA hybrid new collection from the author of Three Poems–about London, terror, new motherhood, the Grenfell Tower fire, and how we live now.
Hannah Sullivan’s first collection, Three Poems, won the T.- Author: Sullivan, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0374612862
- Language: English
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The Barbary Wars: American Independence in the Atlantic World
$19.99 Add to cartFrank Lambert details America’s nineteenth-century conflicts in the Middle East in The Barbary Wars.
The history of America’s conflict with the piratical states of the Mediterranean runs through the pr- Author: Lambert, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 09 2007
- ISBN10: 0809028115
- Language: English
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My Poems Won’t Change the World
$27.00 Add to cartAt last, an ample English-language selection of one of contemporary poetry’s most vibrant voices
Any hall she has ever read her poetry in is invariably filled to the gills. Women like her, girls like- Author: Cavalli, Patrizia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 09 2014
- ISBN10: 0374534799
- Language: English
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Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems, 1986-2006
$21.00 Add to cartQuiver of Arrows is a generous gathering from Carl Phillips’s work that showcases the twenty-year evolution of one of America’s most distinctive–and one of poetry’s most essential–contemporary voice
- Author: Phillips, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: May 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0374530785
- Language: English
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Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin
$29.00 Add to cartJohn Hope Franklin lived through America’s most defining twentieth-century transformation, the dismantling of legally protected racial segregation. A renowned scholar, he has explored that transformat
- Author: Franklin, John Hope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 31 2006
- ISBN10: 0374530475
- Language: English
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Equal Justice Under Law: An Autobiography
$22.00 Add to cartThis wise and affecting memoir is the inside story of the great efforts leading up to the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 and the fight to implement it–and its implica
- Author: Motley, Constance Baker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 09 2003
- ISBN10: 0374526184
- Language: English
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The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles’ Philoctetes
$13.00 Add to cartThe Cure at Troy is Seamus Heaney’s version of Sophocles’ Philoctetes. Written in the fifth century BC, this play concerns the predicament of the outcast hero, Philoctetes, whom the Greeks marooned on
- Author: Heaney, Seamus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: December 04 1991
- ISBN10: 0374522898
- Language: English
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Mystics and Zen Masters
$17.00 Add to cartThomas Merton was recognized as one of those rare Western minds that are entirely at home with the Zen experience. In this collection, he discusses diverse religious concepts-early monasticism, Russia
- Author: Merton, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 29 1999
- ISBN10: 0374520011
- Language: English
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Chairs Are Where the People Go
$19.00 Add to cartShould neighborhoods change? Is wearing a suit a good way to quit smoking? Why do people think that if you do one thing, you’re against something else? Is monogamy a trick? Why isn’t making the city m
- Author: Glouberman, Misha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 05 2011
- ISBN10: 0865479453
- Language: English
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Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary Music
$44.99 Add to cartA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 title
In the late 1960s, with popular culture hurtling forward on the sounds of rock music, some brave musicians looked back instead, trying to recover the los- Author: Young, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: May 10 2011
- ISBN10: 0865478562
- Language: English
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Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen
$26.99 Add to cartA fully updated edition of David J. Skal’s Hollywood Gothic, “The ultimate book on Dracula” (Newsweek).
The primal image of the black-caped vampire Dracula has become an indelible fixture of the moder- Author: Skal, David J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 18 2004
- ISBN10: 0571211585
- Language: English
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The Dolphin: Two Versions, 1972-1973
$18.00 Add to cartThe Dolphin: Two Versions, 1972-1973 is an expanded edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning provocative poetry collection that crossed the line between art and life.
I have sat and listened to too many
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- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 10 2019
- ISBN10: 0374538271
- Language: English
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Walking Out on the Boys
$21.00 Add to cartIn May 1991, Frances K. Conley, the first female tenured professor of neurosurgery in the country, made headline news when she resigned from Stanford University to protest the medical school’s unabash
- Author: Conley, Frances K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: March 26 2007
- ISBN10: 0374525951
- Language: English
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Derek Walcott Collected Poems 1948-1984
$34.99 Add to cartThis remarkable collection, which won the 1986 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry, includes most of the poems from each of Derek Walcott’s seven prior books of verse and all of his long autobiogr
- Author: Walcott, Derek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 515
- Publish Date: January 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0374520259
- Language: English
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Listening with the Third Ear: The Inner Experience of a Psychoanalyst
$35.00 Add to cart- Author: Reik, Theodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 532
- Publish Date: April 25 2003
- ISBN10: 0374518009
- Language: English
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Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet
$30.99 Add to cartDelmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet is based on interviews, letters, and an extraordinary collection of unpublished papers that had never before been examined.
Delmore Schwartz was only tw- Author: Atlas, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 452
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0374539146
- Language: English
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The Collected Poems of Delmore Schwartz
$50.00 Read moreThe first complete collection of the poetry of Delmore Schwartz, “the most underrated poet of the twentieth century” (John Berryman).
When Delmore Schwartz published his first short story, “In Dreams- Author: Schwartz, Delmore
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0374604304
- Language: English
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Retromania
$32.99 Add to cartOne of The Telegraph‘s Best Music Books 2011
We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. Band re-formations and reunion tours, expanded reissues of classic albums and outtake- Author: Reynolds, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: July 19 2011
- ISBN10: 0865479941
- Language: English
