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A Serious Man
$16.00 Add to cartIt 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
- Author: Coen, Ethan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: October 13 2009
- ISBN10: 0571255329
- Language: English
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The Brothers Vonnegut: Science and Fiction in the House of Magic
$23.99 Add to cartWorlds 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- Author: Strand, Ginger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0374536538
- Language: English
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Paradise of the Pacific: Approaching Hawaii
$23.99 Add to cartThe 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- Author: Moore, Susanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 02 2016
- ISBN10: 0374536171
- Language: English
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Passage to Ararat
$23.99 Add to cartIn 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
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Arlen, Michael J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: May 16 2006
- ISBN10: 0374530122
- Language: English
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The Letters of Seamus Heaney
$45.00 Read moreThe 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- Author: Heaney, Seamus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0374185298
- Language: English
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Salvage: Readings from the Wreck
$27.00 Add to cartOne 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- Author: Brand, Dionne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0374614849
- Language: English
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The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai
$30.00 Add to cartThe 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- Series: Copenhagen Trilogy, 2
- Author: Amichai, Yehuda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 0374536589
- Language: English
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Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi
$28.00 Add to cartA 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
- Author: Herrera, Hayden
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0374535981
- Language: English
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Gulf Music: Poems
$15.00 Add to cartDollars, dolors. Callings and contrivances. King Zulu. Comus.
Henry formed a group named Professor Longhair and his
Sephardic ju-ju and verses. Voodoo mojo, Special Forces.
Shuffling Hungarians. After s- Author: Pinsky, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 94
- Publish Date: September 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0374531471
- Language: English
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Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War
$20.00 Add to cart“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
- Author: Lemann, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 21 2007
- ISBN10: 0374530696
- Language: English
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Robert Lowell Collected Poems
$55.00 Read moreFrank 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
- Author: Lowell, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1216
- Publish Date: April 03 2007
- ISBN10: 0374530327
- Language: English
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In My Father’s Court
$19.00 Add to cartLike 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
- Author: Singer, Isaac Bashevis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0374505926
- 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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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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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
