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My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
$18.00 Add to cartEight years ago, Christian Wiman, a well-known poet and the editor of Poetry magazine, wrote a now-famous essay about having faith in the face of death. My Bright Abyss, composed in the difficult year
- Author: Wiman, Christian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0374534373
- Language: English
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What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
$19.00 Add to cartIn What Money Can’t Buy, renowned political philosopher Michael J. Sandel rethinks the role that markets and money should play in our society.
Should we pay children to read books or to get good grade- Author: Sandel, Michael J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 02 2013
- ISBN10: 0374533652
- Language: English
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The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
$24.00 Add to cartBest Book of June 2015 (The Christian Science Monitor)
Book of the Year by the Conference on Christianity and Literature C. S. Lewis is the 20th century’s most widely read Christian writer and J.R.R.- Author: Zaleski, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0374536252
- Language: English
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Another Man in the Street
$27.00 Add to cartCaryl Phillips, who “pits himself against any kind of received wisdom” (London Review of Books), gives us a hypnotic, heartbreaking novel lit by the bright and changing lights of 1960s London.
In Lond- Author: Phillips, Caryl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 374613559
- Language: English
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Far District: Poems
$17.00 Read more“A marvelous book of generous, giving poems.” –Yusef Komunyakaa, author of Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth
Far District, the transporting debut by the author of House of Lords and Commons, charts the sp- Author: Hutchinson, Ishion
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0374604827
- Language: English
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Roman Year: A Memoir
$30.00 Add to cartThe author of Call Me by Your Name returns with a deeply romantic memoir of his time in Rome while on the cusp of adulthood.
In Roman Year, André Aciman captures the period of his adolescence that be- Author: Aciman, Andr?
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0374613389
- Language: English
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November 1916: A Novel: The Red Wheel II
$40.00 Read moreIn time for the centenary of the beginning of the Russian Revolution, a new edition of the Russian Nobelist’s major work
The month of November 1916 in Russia was outwardly quiet–the proverbial calm b- Series: Red Wheel (Paperback)
- Author: Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1040
- Publish Date: August 19 2014
- ISBN10: 0374534705
- Language: English
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Rising from the Plains
$19.00 Add to cartRising from the Plains is John McPhee’s third book on geology and geologists. Following Basin and Range and In Suspect Terrain, it continues to present a cross section of North America along the forti
- Series: Annals of the Former World #3
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0374520658
- Language: English
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All the Odes: A Bilingual Edition
$38.00 Add to cartA career-spanning volume charting the Nobel laureate’s work in the ode form
Pablo Neruda was a master of the ode, which he conceived as an homage to just about everything that surrounded him, from an- Author: Neruda, Pablo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: July 18 2017
- ISBN10: 0374534926
- Language: English
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V13: Chronicle of a Trial
$29.00 Add to cartA moving, hard-hitting account of the Paris attacks trial by France’s leading nonfiction writer.
Nearly every day for ten months, from September 2021 to June 2022, life on the ?le de la Cit? in centra- Author: Carr?re, Emmanuel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0374615705
- Language: English
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Ignorance and Bliss: On Wanting Not to Know
$27.00 Add to cart“Mark Lilla is always a challenging, fascinating mind – alert to all the power, paradox, and dangers of ignorance.” –Rory Stewart, author of Politics On the Edge and co-host of The Rest Is Politics
A- Author: Lilla, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0374174350
- Language: English
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Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel
$33.00 Add to cartA Washington Post most anticipated fall book
“How can we live differently?” a young woman urgently dema
A legendary editor’s reckoning with the twentieth-century novel and the urgent messages it sends.- Author: Frank, Edwin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0374270961
- Language: English
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The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World . . .: Essays
$32.00 Add to cart“[David Graeber’s work] undercuts a lot of conventional thinking… Pointing out the many options that there are for developing more enlightened, more free societies, not just the ones encoded in our
- Author: Graeber, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0374610223
- Language: English
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Lazarus Man
$29.00 Add to cartIn this electrifying novel, Richard Price, the author of Clockers and a writer on The Wire, gives us razor-sharp anatomy of an ever-changing Harlem.
East Harlem, 2008. In an instant, a five-story tene- Author: Price, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0374168156
- Language: English
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Acts: Poems
$27.00 Read moreA book of poems that reckons with love in all its forms, by the priest and poet Spencer Reece–his first collection in ten years.
. . . My old love,
my love who gave me language that I love,
when ther- Author: Reece, Spencer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 0374100837
- Language: English
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A Divine Language: Learning Algebra, Geometry, and Calculus at the Edge of Old Age
$29.00 Read moreA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
“Wilkinson has accomplished something more moving and original, braiding his stumbling attempts to get better at math with his deepening awareness that ther- Author: Wilkinson, Alec
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1250168570
- Language: English
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The Curve of Binding Energy: A Journey Into the Awesome and Alarming World of Theodore B. Taylor
$19.00 Read moreTheodore Taylor was one of the most brilliant engineers of the nuclear age, but in his later years he became concerned with the possibility of an individual being able to construct a weapon of mass de
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0374515980
- Language: English
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Getting What You Came for: The Smart Student’s Guide to Earning a Master’s or a Ph.D.
$23.00 Read moreIs graduate school right for you?
This classic guide helps students answer these vital questions and much more. It wi
Should you get a master’s or a Ph.D.?
How can you choose the best possible school?- Author: Peters, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 11 1997
- ISBN10: 0374524777
- Language: English
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A Susan Sontag Reader
$30.99 Add to cartSusan Sontag occupies a special place in Modern American letters. She has become our most important critic, while her brilliant novels and short fiction are, at long last, getting the recognition they
- Author: Sontag, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 01 1982
- ISBN10: 0374535477
- Language: English
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The Art of Prayer: An Orthodox Anthology
$22.00 Add to cartA spiritual anthology drawn from the Greek and Russian traditions, concerned in particular with the most frequently used and best loved of all Orthodox prayers–the Jesus Prayer. Texts are taken chief
- Author: Chariton, Igumen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 31 1997
- ISBN10: 0571191657
- Language: English
