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  • Alice Invents a Little Game and Alice Always Wins

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    In this first play from the award-winning memoirist and poet Nick Flynn, four strangers meet during a blackout on a New York City sidewalk. Gideon finds himself locked out of his apartment, stranded o

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    • Author: Flynn, Nick
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 78
    • Publish Date: July 08 2008
    • ISBN10: 0865479852
    • Language: English
  • The Hypochondriacs

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    Charlotte Bront found in her illnesses, real and imagined, an escape from familial and social duties, and the perfect conditions for writing. The German jurist Daniel Paul Schreber believed his body

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    • Author: Dillon, Brian
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 290
    • Publish Date: February 15 2011
    • ISBN10: 0865479461
    • Language: English
  • Detroit: A Play

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    In a “first ring” suburb outside a midsize American city, Ben and Mary fire up the grill to welcome the new neighbors who’ve moved into the long-empty house next door. The fledgling friendship soon ve

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    • Author: D’Amour, Lisa
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: September 13 2011
    • ISBN10: 0865478651
    • Language: English
  • Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients

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    “Smart, funny, clear, unflinching: Ben Goldacre is my hero.” –Mary Roach, author of Stiff, Spook, and Bonk

    We like to imagine that medicine is based on evidence and the results of fair testing and cli

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    • Author: Goldacre, Ben
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 480
    • Publish Date: April 01 2014
    • ISBN10: 0865478066
    • Language: English
  • A Serious Man

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    It is 1967 and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him since she has fallen in love with one of his more p

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    • Author: Coen, Ethan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 132
    • Publish Date: October 13 2009
    • ISBN10: 0571255329
    • Language: English
  • The Brothers Vonnegut: Science and Fiction in the House of Magic

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    Worlds collide in this true story of weather control in the Cold War era and the making of Kurt Vonnegut

    In the mid-1950s, Kurt Vonnegut takes a job in the PR department at General Electric in Schenect

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    • Author: Strand, Ginger
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: November 22 2016
    • ISBN10: 0374536538
    • Language: English
  • Paradise of the Pacific: Approaching Hawaii

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    The dramatic history of America’s tropical paradise

    The history of Hawaii may be said to be the story of arrivals–from the eruption of volcanoes on the ocean floor 18,000 feet below, the first hardy

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    • Author: Moore, Susanna
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: August 02 2016
    • ISBN10: 0374536171
    • Language: English
  • Passage to Ararat

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    In Passage to Ararat, which received the National Book Award in 1976, Michael J. Arlen goes beyond the portrait of his father, the famous Anglo-Armenian novelist of the 1920s, that he created in Exile

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    • Series: FSG Classics
    • Author: Arlen, Michael J.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 310
    • Publish Date: May 16 2006
    • ISBN10: 0374530122
    • Language: English
  • Checkered Flag Cheater

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    Trace Bonham is living large as the teen driver for a pro Super Stock racing team. He’s on billboards and on the road instead of stuck in school. And he’s blowing away the competition wherever he race

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    • Series: Motor Novels (Hardcover) #3
    • Author: Weaver, Will
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: April 27 2010
    • ISBN10: 0374350620
    • Language: English
  • The Letters of Seamus Heaney

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    The letters provide us with an intimate, multilayered understanding of this extraordinary poet’s life and mind.

    Every now and again I need to get down here, to get into the Diogenes tub, as it were, o

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    • Author: Heaney, Seamus
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 848
    • Publish Date: September 10 2024
    • ISBN10: 0374185298
    • Language: English
  • Salvage: Readings from the Wreck

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    One of Literary Hub‘s most anticipated books of 2024

    Dionne Brand explores English and American literature, and the colonial aesthetic that shaped her sense of self and the world, of what was possible

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    • Author: Brand, Dionne
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: October 01 2024
    • ISBN10: 0374614849
    • Language: English
  • Memento & Following

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    The screenplay for the cult film that took audiences by storm

    Memento is a remarkably layered, psychological-puzzle film that explores the narrative possibilities of noir, turning its detective into a

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    • Author: Nolan, Christopher
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: June 15 2001
    • ISBN10: 0571210473
    • Language: English
  • Warrior Scarlet

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    In Bronze Age Britain, young Drem must overcome his disability-a withered arm-if he is to prove his manhood and become a warrior.

    • Author: Sutcliff, Rosemary
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 40
    • Publish Date: December 31 1994
    • ISBN10: 0374482446
    • Language: English
  • The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai

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    The largest English-language collection to date from Israel’s finest poet

    Few poets have demonstrated as persuasively as Yehuda Amichai why poetry matters. One of the major poets of the twentieth cent

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    • Series: Copenhagen Trilogy, 2
    • Author: Amichai, Yehuda
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 576
    • Publish Date: April 04 2017
    • ISBN10: 0374536589
    • Language: English
  • Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi

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    A master of what he called “the sculpturing of space,” Isamu Noguchi was a vital figure for modern public art. Born to an American mother and a Japanese father, Noguchi never felt like he belonged any

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    • Author: Herrera, Hayden
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 592
    • Publish Date: April 05 2016
    • ISBN10: 0374535981
    • Language: English
  • Gulf Music: Poems

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    Dollars, dolors. Callings and contrivances. King Zulu. Comus.
    Sephardic ju-ju and verses. Voodoo mojo, Special Forces.

    Henry formed a group named Professor Longhair and his
    Shuffling Hungarians. After s

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    • Author: Pinsky, Robert
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 94
    • Publish Date: September 30 2008
    • ISBN10: 0374531471
    • Language: English
  • Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War

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    “An arresting piece of popular history.” –Sean Wilentz, The New York Times Book Review

    Nicholas Lemann opens this extraordinary book with a riveting account of the horrific events of Easter 1873 in C

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    • Author: Lemann, Nicholas
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: August 21 2007
    • ISBN10: 0374530696
    • Language: English
  • Robert Lowell Collected Poems

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    Frank Bidart and David Gewanter have compiled the definitive edition of Robert Lowell’s work, from his first, impossible-to-find collection, Land of Unlikeness; to the early triumph of Lord Weary’s Ca

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    • Author: Lowell, Robert
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 1216
    • Publish Date: April 03 2007
    • ISBN10: 0374530327
    • Language: English
  • Mysticism for Beginners: Poems

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    Powerful New work by a modern master.

    You must listen, listen, listen.
    Tired springs breathe under water.
    At four in the morningthe last, lonely bolt of lightning
    scribbles something quickly in the sky.
    I

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    • Author: Zagajewski, Adam
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: April 15 1999
    • ISBN10: 0374526877
    • Language: English
  • In My Father’s Court

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    Like Isaac Bashevis Singer’s fiction, this poignant memoir of his childhood in the household and rabbinical court of his father is full of spirits and demons, washerwomen and rabbis, beggars and rich

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    • Author: Singer, Isaac Bashevis
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: October 01 1991
    • ISBN10: 0374505926
    • Language: English
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