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  • Trickster Travels

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    An engrossing study of Leo Africanus and his famous book, which introduced Africa to European readers

    Al-Hasan al-Wazzan–born in Granada to a Muslim family that in 1492 went to Morocco, where he trave

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    • Author: Davis, Natalie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 464
    • Publish Date: March 06 2007
    • ISBN10: 0809094355
    • Language: English
  • The Best of Simple: Stories

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    Langston Hughes’s stories about Jesse B. Semple–first composed for a weekly column in the Chicago Defender and then collected in Simple Speaks His Mind, Simple Takes a Wife, and Simple Stakes a Claim

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    • Series: American Century
    • Author: Hughes, Langston
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: September 28 1990
    • ISBN10: 0374521336
    • Language: English
  • Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House Authorized Graphic Biography

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    Drawing on the unique historical sites, archives, expertise, and unquestioned authority of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, New York Times bestselling authors Sid Jacobson and Ernie Col? have create

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    • Author: Jacobson, Sid
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: September 14 2010
    • ISBN10: 0809026856
    • Language: English
  • The Cartoon Introduction to Economics, Volume I: Microeconomics

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    The award-winning illustrator Grady Klein has paired up with the world’s only stand-up economist, Yoram Bauman, PhD, to take the dismal out of the dismal science. From the optimizing individual to gam

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    • Series: Cartoon Introduction to Economics
    • Author: Klein, Grady
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: January 19 2010
    • ISBN10: 0809094819
    • Language: English
  • The Big Sea: An Autobiography

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    Introduction by Arnold Rampersad.

    Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In The Big Sea he recounts those memorable years in the two great playgrounds of the decade–Harlem and

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    • Series: American Century
    • Author: Hughes, Langston
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: August 01 1993
    • ISBN10: 0809015498
    • Language: English
  • Murdering McKinley

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    When President William McKinley was murdered at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, on September 6, 1901, Americans were bereaved and frightened. Rumor ran rampant: A wild-eyed foreign a

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    • Author: Rauchway, Eric
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: September 18 2004
    • ISBN10: 0809016389
    • Language: English
  • The Cartoon Introduction to Philosophy

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    The most entertaining and engaging philosophy class you’ll ever take

    In The Cartoon Introduction to Philosophy, Michael F. Patton and Kevin Cannon introduce us to the grand tradition of examined livin

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    • Author: Patton, Michael F.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: April 21 2015
    • ISBN10: 0809033623
    • Language: English
  • Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia

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    Short-listed for the Phi Beta Kappa Ralph Waldo Emerson Book Award

    In Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll offers a fresh, provocative account of Appalachia, and why it matters. He begins with the earliest Europe

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    • Author: Stoll, Steven
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 432
    • Publish Date: November 20 2018
    • ISBN10: 0809080192
    • Language: English
  • All But My Life: A Memoir

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    All But My Life is the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein’s six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty.

    From her comfortable home in Bielitz (present-day Bielsko) in Poland to her miraculous

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    • Author: Klein, Gerda Weissmann
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: November 19 2019
    • ISBN10: 0809016532
    • Language: English
  • Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

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    Camera Lucida, Roland Barthes’s personal, wide-ranging, and contemplative volume–and the last book he published–finds the author applying his influential perceptiveness and associative insight to th

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    • Author: Barthes, Roland
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: October 12 2010
    • ISBN10: 0374532338
    • Language: English
  • Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England

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    The book that launched environmental history, William Cronon’s Changes in the Land, now revised and updated.

    Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize

    In this landmark work of environmental history, Willia

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    • Author: Cronon, William
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: September 01 2003
    • ISBN10: 0809016346
    • Language: English
  • A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments

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    A Lover’s Discourse, at its 1978 publication, was revolutionary: Roland Barthes made unprecedented use of the tools of structuralism to explore the whimsical phenomenon of love. Rich with references r

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    • Author: Barthes, Roland
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: October 12 2010
    • ISBN10: 0374532311
    • Language: English
  • Mythologies: The Complete Edition, in a New Translation

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    “No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis,” Roland Barthes wrote in his preface to Mythologies. There is no more proper instrument of analysis of our contemporary myths than thi

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    • Author: Barthes, Roland
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: March 12, 2013
    • ISBN10: 0809071940
    • Language: English
  • The Night Trilogy: Night/Dawn/Day

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    The new translation of the bestselling memoir Night in one volume with its companion novels, Dawn and Day

    Night is one of the masterpieces of Holocaust literature. First published in 1958, it is the

    • Author: Wiesel, Elie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: April 15, 2008
    • ISBN10: 0809073641
    • Language: English
  • Night: Memorial Edition

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    A memorial edition of Elie Wiesel’s seminal memoir of surviving the Nazi death camps, with tributes by President Obama and Samantha Power

    When Elie Wiesel died in July 2016, the White House issued a m

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    • Author: Wiesel, Elie
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: September 12 2017
    • ISBN10: 0374221995
    • Language: English
  • Day

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    “Not since Albert Camus has there been such an eloquent spokesman for man.” –The New York Times Book Review

    The publication of Day restores Elie Wiesel’s original title to the novel initially publish

    • Author: Wiesel, Elie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: March 21, 2006
    • ISBN10: 0809023091
    • Language: English
  • Dawn

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    Elie Wiesel’s Dawn is an eloquent meditation on the compromises, justifications, and sacrifices that human beings make when they murder other human beings.

    “The author . . . has built knowledge into

    • Author: Wiesel, Elie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: March 21, 2006
    • ISBN10: 0809037726
    • Language: English
  • Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb

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    Trinity, the debut graphic book by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm, depicts the dramatic history of the race to build and the decision to drop the first atomic bomb in World War Two–with a focus on the brillian

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    • Author: Fetter-Vorm, Jonathan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: May 28 2013
    • ISBN10: 0809093553
    • Language: English
  • Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation

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    A Graphic Adaptation

    An HBO Original Movie starring Michael B. Jordan (Black Panther), Sofia Boutella (Star Trek: Beyond), and Michael Shannon (The Shape of Water).

    An Eisner Award Nominee

    “Monday burn

    • Series: Ray Bradbury Graphic Novels
    • Author: Bradbury, Ray
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: July 21, 2009
    • ISBN10: 080905101X
    • Language: English
  • The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation

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    Our leaders swear to uphold it, our military to defend it. It is the blueprint for the shape and function of government itself and what defines Americans as Americans. But how many of us truly know ou

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    • Author: Hennessey, Jonathan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: October 14 2008
    • ISBN10: 0809094703
    • Language: English
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