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Losers Take All
$23.99 Add to cartAt Jack Logan’s sports-crazy New Jersey high school, the new rule is that all kids must play on a team. So Jack and a ragtag group of anti-athletic friends decide to get even. They are going to start
- Author: Klass, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 20 2016
- ISBN10: 1250090598
- Language: English
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Missing Persons: Or, My Grandmother’s Secrets
$27.00 Read moreBlending memoir with social history, Clair Wills movingly explores the holes in the fabric of modern Ireland, and in her own family story.
“Clair Wills shines a brilliant, unsparing light into the dark- Author: Wills, Clair
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 374611866
- Language: English
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Rapture
$20.00 Add to cartWinner of the T. S. Eliot Prize, “essential reading for the broken-hearted of all ages” (The Guardian)
The effortless virtuosity, drama, and humanity of Carol Ann Duffy’s verse have made her much admi- Author: Duffy, Carol Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 12 2013
- ISBN10: 0865478864
- Language: English
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The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013
$33.00 Add to cartA collection spanning the whole of Derek Walcott’s celebrated, inimitable, essential career
“He gives us more than himself or ‘a world’; he gives us a sense of infinity embodied in the language.” Alon- Author: Walcott, Derek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 0374537577
- Language: English
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The Man Who Would Be King
$25.99 Add to cartThe Man Who Would Be King is the riveting story that inspired Kipling’s classic tale and a John Huston movie
In the year 1838, a young adventurer, surrounded by his native troops and mounted on an ele- Author: Ben, MacIntyre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 04 2005
- ISBN10: 0374529574
- Language: English
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First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power
$38.99 Add to cart“We were sure that we would win, that we should score the first great triumph in a mighty world-movement.”–Theodore Roosevelt, 1904
Americans like to think they have no imperial past. In fact, the Uni
- Author: Zimmermann, Warren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 562
- Publish Date: January 15 2004
- ISBN10: 0374528934
- Language: English
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Killing the Black Dog: A Memoir of Depression
$15.00 Add to cartIn 1988, shortly after moving from Sydney back to his birthplace in the rural New South Wales hamlet of Bunyah, Les Murray was struck with depression. In the months that followed, the “Black Dog” (as
- Author: Murray, Les
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0374181063
- Language: English
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Dogs and Demons: Tales from the Dark Side of Modern Japan
$30.99 Add to cartA surprising assessment of the failures and successes of modern Japan.
In Dogs and Demons, Alex Kerr chronicles the many facets of Japan’s recent, and chronic, crises — from the failure of its banks- Author: Kerr, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 10 2002
- ISBN10: 0809039435
- Language: English
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Feminine Gospels
$15.00 Add to cartA new collection of poems ranging over the experience of women–historical and imagined, real-life and larger than life–from the award-winning author of The World’s Wife.
From the sadness of Elizabet- Author: Duffy, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 65
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0571211305
- Language: English
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Unreconciled: Poems 1991-2013; A Bilingual Edition
$23.99 Add to cartSelected poems from the critically acclaimed author of Submission and The Elementary Particles
A shimmering selection of poems chosen from four collections of one of France’s most exciting authors, Un- Author: Houellebecq, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: July 16 2019
- ISBN10: 0374538077
- Language: English
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Metaphysical Dog
$19.00 Add to cartNational Book Critics Circle Award Winner
A vital, searching new collection from one of finest American poets at work today In
Winner of the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry
A National Book Award Finalist- Author: Bidart, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 06 2014
- ISBN10: 0374534624
- Language: English
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Touch
$15.00 Add to cartHenri Cole’s last three books have shown a continuously mounting talent. In his new book, Touch, written with an almost invisible but ever-present art, he continues to render his human topics–a mothe
- Author: Cole, Henri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 0374533474
- Language: English
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Pierce the Skin: Selected Poems, 1982-2007
$17.00 Add to cartA GENEROUS SELECTION FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST LIVING POETS
Henri Cole has been described as a fiercely somber, yet exuberant poet by Harold Bloom, who identifies him as the central poet of his generat- Author: Cole, Henri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0374532664
- Language: English
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Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society’s Betrayal of the Child
$23.99 Add to cartOriginally published in 1984, Thou Shalt Not Be Aware explodes Freud’s notions of “infantile sexuality” and helps to bring to the world’s attention the brutal reality of child abuse, changing forever
- Author: Miller, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0374525439
- Language: English
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The Living Bread
$17.00 Add to cartThe whole problem of our time is the problem of love. How are we going to recover the ability to love ourselves and to love one another?
We cannot be at peace with others because we are not at peace w- Author: Merton, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 157
- Publish Date: March 01 1980
- ISBN10: 0374515204
- Language: English
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Silent Life
$19.00 Add to cartThomas Merton wrote The Silent Life a decade after he took orders. In his Prologue, Merton describes the book as “a meditation on the monastic life by one who, without any merit of his own, is privile
- Author: Merton, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 09 2003
- ISBN10: 0374512817
- Language: English
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The Conquest of Morocco: A History
$29.00 Add to cartThe Conquest of Morocco tells the story of France’s last great colonial adventure. At the turn of the twentieth century, Morocco was a nation yet to emerge from the Middle Ages, ruled by local warlord
- Author: Porch, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: May 26 2005
- ISBN10: 0374128804
- Language: English
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The Morning of the Poem
$16.00 Add to cart“The flowers, trees, birds, clouds, and effects of light that Schuyler describes with such 駘an, even if only glimpsed from the window of his apartment, could easily be transposed to the poetry writt… [more below]
- Author: Schuyler, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 01 1981
- ISBN10: 0374516227
- Language: English
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The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency
$30.00 Add to cartA New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year (2021)
Called “a masterpiece” by The New York Times, the acclaimed trilogy from Tove Ditlevsen, a pioneer in the field of
An NPR Best Books of the Year (2021)- Series: The Copenhagen Trilogy
- Author: Ditlevsen, Tove
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 0374602395
- Language: English
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Blinking with Fists: Poems
$16.00 Add to cartThe hit poetry collection from the creative force behind The Smashing Pumpkins
Having risen to fame during the grunge era in the early nineties, Billy Corgan is among the most respected figures of th- Author: Corgan, Billy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0571211704
- Language: English
