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The Bounty: Poems
$15.00 Add to cartThe Bounty was the first book of poems Derek Walcott published after winning the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Opening with the title poem, a memorable elegy to the poet’s mother, the book features a- Author: Walcott, Derek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 12 2004
- ISBN10: 0374525374
- Language: English
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Mexican Americans, American Mexicans: From Conquistadors to Chicanos
$23.99 Add to cartIn the years since the first edition of this important study was published, the changes in the Mexican American community in the United States have been great indeed. This extensively revised edition-… [more below]
- Series: American Century
- Author: Meier, Matt S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0809015595
- Language: English
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The Origins of American Slavery: Freedom and Bondage in the English Colonies
$16.00 Add to cartThe Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics.
The Origins of American Slavery is a short analysis that shows the comp
- Series: Hill and Wang Critical Issues
- Author: Wood, Betty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 04 1998
- ISBN10: 0809016087
- Language: English
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Cassavetes on Cassavetes
$36.99 Add to cartSince his death in 1989, John Cassavettes has become increasingly renowned as a cinematic hero–a renegade loner who fought the Hollywood system, steering his own creative course in a career spanning
- Author: Cassavetes, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0571201571
- Language: English
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Fat Pig
$16.00 Add to cartCow. Slob. Pig. How many insults can you hear before you have to stand up and defend the woman you love? Tom faces just that question when he falls for Helen, a bright, funny, sexy young woman who hap
- Author: Labute, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 29 2004
- ISBN10: 057121150X
- Language: English
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Spinning Into Butter: A Play
$16.00 Add to cartSet on a college campus in Vermont, Spinning into Butter is a new play by a major young American playwright that explores the dangers of both racism and political correctness in America today in a man
- Author: Gilman, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 07 2000
- ISBN10: 0571199844
- Language: English
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The Spirit Level: Poems
$15.00 Add to cartThe Spirit Level was the first book of poems Heaney published after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. Reviewing this book in The New York Times Book Review, Richard Tillinghast noted that
- Author: Seamus, Heaney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 10 1997
- ISBN10: 0374525110
- Language: English
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Stuff Happens
$18.00 Add to cart“Stuff happens . . . And it’s untidy, and freedom’s untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.”
Such was Donald Rumsfeld’s response on April 11, 2003, follo- Author: Hare, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 01 2005
- ISBN10: 057122606X
- Language: English
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Inferno of Dante
$32.00 Add to cartThis widely praised version of Dante’s masterpiece, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award of the Academy of American Poets, is more idiomatic and ap
- Author: Dante
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0374525315
- Language: English
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Reflections of a Wine Merchant: On a Lifetime in the Vineyards and Cellars of France and Italy
$19.99 Add to cartA leading importer of limited-production wines of character and quality takes us on an intimate tour through family-owned vineyards in France and Italy and reflects upon the last three decades of cont
- Author: Rosenthal, Neal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: May 12 2009
- ISBN10: 0374531781
- Language: English
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The Barbary Wars: American Independence in the Atlantic World
$19.99 Add to cartFrank Lambert details America’s nineteenth-century conflicts in the Middle East in The Barbary Wars.
The history of America’s conflict with the piratical states of the Mediterranean runs through the pr- Author: Lambert, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 09 2007
- ISBN10: 0809028115
- Language: English
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Listening with the Third Ear: The Inner Experience of a Psychoanalyst
$35.00 Add to cart- Author: Reik, Theodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 532
- Publish Date: April 25 2003
- ISBN10: 0374518009
- Language: English
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Memento & Following
$18.00 Add to cartThe screenplay for the cult film that took audiences by storm
Memento is a remarkably layered, psychological-puzzle film that explores the narrative possibilities of noir, turning its detective into a- Author: Nolan, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0571210473
- Language: English
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Mysticism for Beginners: Poems
$15.00 Add to cartPowerful New work by a modern master.
You must listen, listen, listen.
Tired springs breathe under water.
At four in the morningthe last, lonely bolt of lightning
scribbles something quickly in the sky.
I- Author: Zagajewski, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: April 15 1999
- ISBN10: 0374526877
- Language: English
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Losers Take All
$23.99 Add to cartAt Jack Logan’s sports-crazy New Jersey high school, the new rule is that all kids must play on a team. So Jack and a ragtag group of anti-athletic friends decide to get even. They are going to start
- Author: Klass, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 20 2016
- ISBN10: 1250090598
- Language: English
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The Man Who Would Be King
$25.99 Add to cartThe Man Who Would Be King is the riveting story that inspired Kipling’s classic tale and a John Huston movie
In the year 1838, a young adventurer, surrounded by his native troops and mounted on an ele- Author: Ben, MacIntyre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 04 2005
- ISBN10: 0374529574
- Language: English
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Killing the Black Dog: A Memoir of Depression
$15.00 Add to cartIn 1988, shortly after moving from Sydney back to his birthplace in the rural New South Wales hamlet of Bunyah, Les Murray was struck with depression. In the months that followed, the “Black Dog” (as
- Author: Murray, Les
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0374181063
- Language: English
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Dogs and Demons: Tales from the Dark Side of Modern Japan
$30.99 Add to cartA surprising assessment of the failures and successes of modern Japan.
In Dogs and Demons, Alex Kerr chronicles the many facets of Japan’s recent, and chronic, crises — from the failure of its banks- Author: Kerr, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 10 2002
- ISBN10: 0809039435
- Language: English
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Feminine Gospels
$15.00 Add to cartA new collection of poems ranging over the experience of women–historical and imagined, real-life and larger than life–from the award-winning author of The World’s Wife.
From the sadness of Elizabet- Author: Duffy, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 65
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0571211305
- Language: English
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Blinking with Fists: Poems
$16.00 Add to cartThe hit poetry collection from the creative force behind The Smashing Pumpkins
Having risen to fame during the grunge era in the early nineties, Billy Corgan is among the most respected figures of th- Author: Corgan, Billy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0571211704
- Language: English
