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Moby-Dick (the Norton Library)
$10.82 Read morePart of the Norton Library series
The Norton Library edition of Moby-Dick features the text of the first U.S. edition. An introduction by Jeffrey Insko celebrates the novel as a love letter to langu
- Series: Norton Library (Paperback)
- Author: Melville, Herman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: July 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0393870790
- Language: English
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The Book of Women’s Friendship
$35.00 Add to cartAs Marilynne Robinson writes in her 1980 novel, Housekeeping, “Having a sister or friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house.” Bringing together work by more than 100 writers, The Book of Wome
- Author: Cooke, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1324111135
- Language: English
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From Ear to Ear: A Pianist’s Love Affair with Song
$29.99 Add to cartWhile other kids were enjoying the head-bashing pleasures of tackle football, a freshly bar mitzvahed Steven Blier was inhaling operas and getting his first taste of accompanying professional singers.
- Author: Blier, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1324005483
- Language: English
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Cord Swell: Poems
$26.99 Add to cartHow can we memorialize our dead? How can that memorialization rend the veil between the dead and the living? In her debut volume, brittny ray crowell sifts through decades of obituaries, journals, and
- Author: Crowell, Brittny Ray
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1324111151
- Language: English
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The Eastern Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918
$23.99 Add to cartWriting in the 1920s, Winston Churchill argued that the First World War on the Eastern Front was “incomparably the greatest war in history. In its scale, in its slaughter, in the exertions of the comb
- Author: Lloyd, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1324116811
- Language: English
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The Collected Poems
$25.99 Add to cartThe early poems, long unavailable in any edition, sound themes that have always engaged Kunitz: life’s meaning, the relation of time to eternity, kinship with nature, and loss, most poignantly that of… [more below]
- Author: Kunitz, Stanley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 17 2002
- ISBN10: 0393322947
- Language: English
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The Innocents of Florence: The Renaissance Discovery of Childhood
$29.99 Add to cartThe story begins with the abandonment of the newborn Agata Smeralda on February 5, 1445, in Florence’s Hospital of the Innocents, the first–but certainly not the last–child to be left at its doors.
- Author: Luzzi, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1324065788
- Language: English
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Hindsight: Poems
$26.99 Add to cartHindsight arises from a tormented time in our country’s history. Some poems contemplate the shocks of the COVID-19 assault. Others consider our nation, which is torn to pieces politically. The poems
- Author: Warren, Rosanna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1324116951
- Language: English
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The Sun Also Rises: A Norton Critical Edition
$11.85 Read moreThis Norton Critical Edition includes:
The text of Ernest Hemingway’s best-known novel.
Introduction and explanatory footnotes by Michael Thurston.
A rich selection of background and contextual mater… [more below]
- Series: Norton Critical Editions
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: January 28 2022
- ISBN10: 0393656004
- Language: English
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The Great Gatsby: A Norton Critical Edition
$11.90 Read moreThis Norton Critical Edition includes:
- The 1925 first American edition text of the novel.
- A full introduction, a note on the text, and explanatory annotations by David J. Alworth.
- An unusually rich
- Series: Norton Critical Editions #0
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: September 08 2021
- ISBN10: 0393656594
- Language: English
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Medea
$7.98 Read moreAbout Sheila Murnaghan’s translation
“A terrific new translation–Murnaghan’s Medea is both terrifying and sympathetic, an emotionally complex portrayal that leaves the reader no simple answers.”
–K
- Series: Norton Library (Paperback) #0
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0393870847
- Language: English
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The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It
$18.99 Add to cartImagine an American president who imprisoned critics, spread a culture of white supremacy, and tried to upend the law so that he could commit crimes with impunity.
In this propulsive and eminently read
- Author: Brettschneider, Corey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110880
- Language: English
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Inventing Human Rights: A History
$16.95 Add to cartHow were human rights invented, and how does their tumultuous history influence their perception and our ability to protect them today? From Professor Lynn Hunt comes this extraordinary cultural and i… [more below]
- Author: Hunt, Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0393331997
- Language: English
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How Poems Get Made
$20.99 Add to cartWhy does a great lyric poem ask to be reread, even after we know it by heart? In How Poems Get Made, acclaimed poet and critic James Longenbach answers this question by discussing a wide range of exem… [more below]
- Author: Longenbach, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: August 28 2018
- ISBN10: 0393355209
- Language: English
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One Boat
$16.99 Add to cartAfter losing her father, Teresa returns to a small town on the Greek coast–the same place she visited when grieving her mother nine years ago. Soon, she encounters some of the people she met last tim
- Author: Buckley, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324131071
- Language: English
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The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Creation
$35.00 Add to cartNo writer has surpassed the epic achievement of J.R.R. Tolkien, who spent decades refining his Middle-earth?a world that has felt so real to so many readers that it is almost impossible to imagine tha
- Author: Drout, Michael DC
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1324093889
- Language: English
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The Seventh Floor
$18.99 Add to cartA Russian arrives in Singapore with a secret to sell. When the Russian is killed and Sam Joseph, the CIA officer dispatched for the meet, goes missing, operational chief Artemis Procter is made a scap
- Author: McCloskey, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1324116927
- Language: English
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Do Aliens Speak Physics?: And Other Questions about Science and the Nature of Reality
$29.99 Add to cartWhen the long-awaited day dawns and the aliens finally arrive on Earth, they might eat us and destroy the planet–or, just maybe, they might share the secrets of the Universe with us. When that time c
- Author: Whiteson, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324064641
- Language: English
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A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agn?s Varda
$18.99 Add to cartOver the course of her sixty-five-year career, the longest of any female filmmaker, Agn?s Varda (1928-2019) wrote and directed some of the most acclaimed films of her era, from her tour de force Cl?o
- Author: Rickey, Carrie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110457
- Language: English
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Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation
$18.99 Add to cartSylvia Plath is an object of enduring cultural fascination–the troubled patron saint of confessional poetry, a writer whose genius is buried under the weight of her status as the quintessential liter
- Author: Van Duyne, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110368
- Language: English
