House of Light
Written by Mary Oliver
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: April 8, 1992
Price: $15.00
Winner of a 1991 Christopher Award
Winner of the 1991
Boston Globe Lawrence L. Winship Book Award
This collection of poems by Mary Oliver once again invites the reader to step across the threshold of ordinary life into a world of natural and spiritual luminosity.
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Stranger Than Fiction
True Stories
Written by Chuck Palahniuk
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $15.00
Chuck Palahniuk’s world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. In his first collection of nonfiction, Chuck Palahniuk brings us into this world, and gives us a glimpse of what inspires his fiction.At the Rock Creek Lodge Testicle Festival in Missoula, Montana, average people perform public sex acts on...
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Russian Fairy Tales
Written by Aleksandr Afanas'ev
Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
On Sale: September 12, 1976
Price: $18.95
Translated by Norbert Guterman
Illustrated with black-and-white line drawings by Alexander Alexeieff
Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
In this most comprehensive collection of classic Russian tales available in English we meet both universal fairy-tale figures—thieves and heroes, kings and peasants, beautiful damsels and terrifying witches, enchanted children and crafty animals—and...
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Evidence
Poems
Written by Mary Oliver
Format: Trade Paperback, 88 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2010
Price: $14.00
Never afraid to shed the pretense of academic poetry, never shy of letting the power of an image lie in unadorned language, Mary Oliver offers us poems of arresting beauty that reflect on the power of love and the great gifts of the natural world. Inspired by the familiar lines from...
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New and Selected Poems, Volume One
Written by Mary Oliver
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: November 15, 2005
Price: $32.50
When
New and Selected Poems, Volume One was originally published in 1992, Mary Oliver was awarded the National Book Award. In the fourteen years since its initial appearance it has become one of the best-selling volumes of poetry in the country. This collection features thirty poems published only in this volume...
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How Literature Saved My Life
Written by David Shields
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $12.99
“Reading How Literature Saved My Life is like getting to listen in on a really great, smart, provocative conversation. The book is not straightforward, it resists any single interpretation, and it seems to me to constitute nothing less than a new form.” ––Whitney Otto
In this wonderfully intelligent, stunningly honest...
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The Colonel
A Novel
Written by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
Translated by Tom Patterdale
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2012
Price: $17.95
A new novel by the master of Iranian letters that directly engages politics in Iran today Ten years in the writing, this fearless novel—so powerful it’s banned in Iran—tells the stirring story of a tortured people forced to live under successive oppressive regimes.
It begins on a pitch black...
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Reflections
Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings
Written by Walter Benjamin
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: March 12, 1986
Price: $16.95
A companion volume to
Illuminations, the first collection of Walter Benjamin's writings,
Reflections presents a further sampling of his wide-ranging work. Here Benjamin evolves a theory of language as the medium of all creation, discusses theater and surrealism, reminisces about Berlin in the 1920s, recalls conversations with Bertolt Brecht, and provides...
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Portraits and Observations
Written by Truman Capote
Format: Hardcover, 672 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $23.00
Perhaps no twentieth-century writer was so observant and graceful a chronicler of his times as Truman Capote.
Portraits and Observations is the first volume devoted solely to all the essays ever published by this most beloved of writers. Included are such masterpieces of narrative nonfiction as “The Muses Are Heard” and...
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