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  • Genesis

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    A probing look at one of the most incendiary subjects of our time–the relationship between the United States and Israel

    There has been more than half a century of raging conflict between Jews and Arab

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    • Author: Judis, John B.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 448
    • Publish Date: February 17 2015
    • ISBN10: 0374535124
    • Language: English
  • Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962

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    The much-anticipated definitive account of China’s Great Famine

    An estimated thirty-six million Chinese men, women, and children starved to death during China’s Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s an

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    • Author: Jisheng, Yang
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 656
    • Publish Date: November 19 2013
    • ISBN10: 0374533997
    • Language: English
  • Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England

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    A riveting history of the daring politicians who challenged the disastrous policies of the British government on the eve of World War II

    On May 7, 1940, the House of Commons began perhaps the most cru

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    • Author: Olson, Lynne
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 464
    • Publish Date: April 29 2008
    • ISBN10: 0374531331
    • Language: English
  • The Georgics of Virgil (Bilingual Edition)

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    John Dryden called Virgil’s Georgics, written between 37 and 30 B.C.E., “the best poem by the best poet.” The poem, newly translated by the poet and translator David Ferry, is one of the great songs,

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    • Author: Ferry, David
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: May 02 2006
    • ISBN10: 0374530319
    • Language: English
  • Collected Poems in English

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    The poems of the legendary Nobel Laureate, in one volume at last

    One of the greatest and grandest advocates of the literary vocation, Joseph Brodsky truly lived his life as a poet, and for it earned

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    • Author: Brodsky, Joseph
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 560
    • Publish Date: April 01 2002
    • ISBN10: 0374528381
    • Language: English
  • Being John Malkovich

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    What do you get when a down-on-his-heels puppeteer working as a file clerk on the seventh-and-a-half floor of a Manhattan office building discovers a secret portal into the brain of John Malkovich? Hi

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    • Series: Faber and Faber Screenplays
    • Author: Kaufman, Charlie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: October 20 2000
    • ISBN10: 0571205860
    • Language: English
  • The Man with Night Sweats: Poems

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    The Man with Night Sweats is a haunting depiction of a world ravaged by illness that is part elegy for those who have been lost and part evocation of the changes that await those who survive. It is al

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    • Series: FSG Classics
    • Author: Gunn, Thom
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: April 17 2007
    • ISBN10: 0374530688
    • Language: English
  • The Crofter and the Laird

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    When John McPhee returned to the island of his ancestors–Colonsay, twenty-five miles west of the Scottish mainland–a hundred and thirty-eight people were living there. About eighty of these, crofter

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    • Author: McPhee, John
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: September 01 1992
    • ISBN10: 0374514658
    • Language: English
  • Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems

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    A powerful, inventive collection from one of America’s most critically acclaimed poets.

    Carl Phillips’s new poetry collection, Pale Colors in a Tall Field, is a meditation on the intimacies of thought

    • Author: Phillips, Carl
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: March 23, 2021
    • ISBN10: 0374539359
    • Language: English
  • Oranges

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    A classic of reportage, Oranges was first conceived as a short magazine article about oranges and orange juice, but the author kept encountering so much irresistible information that he eventually fou

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    • Author: McPhee, John
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: January 01 1975
    • ISBN10: 0374512973
    • Language: English
  • Unborn: The Life and Teachings of Zen Master Bankei, 1622-1693

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    In 1633, at age eleven, Bankei Yotaku was banished from his family’s home because of his consuming engagement with the Confucian texts that all schoolboys were required to copy and recite. Using a hut

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    • Author: Yotaku, Bankei
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 156
    • Publish Date: March 29 2005
    • ISBN10: 0865475954
    • Language: English
  • Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016

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    WINNER OF THE 2018 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY
    WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY

    The collected works of one of contemporary poetry’s most original voices

    Gathered together, the poems of Fr

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    • Author: Bidart, Frank
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 736
    • Publish Date: August 21 2018
    • ISBN10: 0374537690
    • Language: English
  • The Poetry of Petrarch

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    “David Young’s version of Petrarch will refresh our images of the West’s crucial lyric poet. We are given a Petrarch in our own vernacular, with echoes of Wyatt, Shakespeare, and many who come after.”

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    • Author: Petrarch
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: April 01 2005
    • ISBN10: 0374529612
    • Language: English
  • Selected Poems

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    Intense verbal music with a jazz feeling; invention against the grain of expectation; intelligence racing among materials with the variety of a busy street–these have been the qualities of Robert Pin

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    • Author: Pinsky, Robert
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: March 27 2012
    • ISBN10: 0374533164
    • Language: English
  • A Grace Paley Reader: Stories, Essays, and Poetry

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    One of The New Yorker‘s “Books We Loved in 2017”

    A Grace Paley Reader compiles a selection of Paley’s writing across genres, showcasing her breadth of work as well as her extraordinary insight and bri

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    • Author: Paley, Grace
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: April 03 2018
    • ISBN10: 0374537410
    • Language: English
  • The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, Its Regions, and Their Peoples

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    One of The Economist‘s Books of the Year

    A provocative, entertaining account of Italy’s diverse riches, its hopes and dreams, its past and present

    Did Garibaldi do Italy a disservice when he helped it

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    • Author: Gilmour, David
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 496
    • Publish Date: November 13 2012
    • ISBN10: 0374533601
    • Language: English
  • Sweeney Astray

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    Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney’s version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibne. Its here, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a saint and turned into a b

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    • Author: Heaney, Seamus
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: April 01 1985
    • ISBN10: 0374518947
    • Language: English
  • The Fsg Poetry Anthology

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    To honor FSG’s 75th anniversary, here is a unique anthology celebrating the riches and variety of its poetry list–past, present, and future

    Poetry has been at the heart of Farrar, Straus and Giroux’s

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    • Author: Galassi, Jonathan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 416
    • Publish Date: November 15 2022
    • ISBN10: 0374606447
    • Language: English
  • Bees

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    A winner of the Costa Book Award, “beautiful and moving poetry for the real world” (The Guardian)

    The Bees is Carol Ann Duffy’s first collection of new poems as British poet laureate, and the much ant

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    • Author: Duffy, Carol Ann
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: March 18 2014
    • ISBN10: 0865478082
    • Language: English
  • Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking

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    Scientific and philosophical concepts can change the way we solve problems by helping us to think more effectively about our behavior and our world. Surprisingly, despite their utility, many of these

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    • Author: Nisbett, Richard E.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: August 02 2016
    • ISBN10: 0374536244
    • Language: English
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