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Playing in the Dark
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 24, 2007
Price: $11.99
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved and Jazz now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that promises to change the way we read American literature even as it opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race.
Toni Morrison's brilliant discussions of the "Africanist" presence... Read more >
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 24, 2007
Price: $11.99
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved and Jazz now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that promises to change the way we read American literature even as it opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race.
Toni Morrison's brilliant discussions of the "Africanist" presence... Read more >
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The Journals of Sylvia Plath
Written by Sylvia Plath
Foreword by Ted Hughes
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: May 11, 1998
Price: $16.95
Sylvia Plath began keeping a diary as a young child. By the time she was at Smith College, when this book begins, she had settled into a nearly daily routine with her journal, which was also a sourcebook for her writing. Plath once called her journal her “Sargasso,” her repository of... Read more >
Written by Sylvia Plath
Foreword by Ted Hughes
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: May 11, 1998
Price: $16.95
Sylvia Plath began keeping a diary as a young child. By the time she was at Smith College, when this book begins, she had settled into a nearly daily routine with her journal, which was also a sourcebook for her writing. Plath once called her journal her “Sargasso,” her repository of... Read more >
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The Corpse Walker
Real Life Stories: China From the Bottom Up
Written by Liao Yiwu
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $16.95
The Corpse Walker introduces us to regular men and women at the bottom of Chinese society, most of whom have been battered by life but have managed to retain their dignity: a professional mourner, a human trafficker, a public toilet manager, a leper, a grave robber, and a Falung Gong practitioner... Read more >
Real Life Stories: China From the Bottom Up
Written by Liao Yiwu
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $16.95
The Corpse Walker introduces us to regular men and women at the bottom of Chinese society, most of whom have been battered by life but have managed to retain their dignity: a professional mourner, a human trafficker, a public toilet manager, a leper, a grave robber, and a Falung Gong practitioner... Read more >
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Mencken Chrestomathy
Written by H.L. Mencken
Format: eBook, 656 pages
On Sale: March 7, 2012
Price: $16.99
Edited and annotated by H.L.M., this is a selection from his out-of-print writings. They come mostly from books—the six of the PREJUDICES series, A BOOK OF BURLESQUES, IN DEFENSE OF WOMEN, NOTES ON DEMOCRACY, MAKING A PRESIDENT, A BOOK OF CALUMNY, TREATISE ON RIGHT AND WRONG—but there are also magazine and... Read more >
Written by H.L. Mencken
Format: eBook, 656 pages
On Sale: March 7, 2012
Price: $16.99
Edited and annotated by H.L.M., this is a selection from his out-of-print writings. They come mostly from books—the six of the PREJUDICES series, A BOOK OF BURLESQUES, IN DEFENSE OF WOMEN, NOTES ON DEMOCRACY, MAKING A PRESIDENT, A BOOK OF CALUMNY, TREATISE ON RIGHT AND WRONG—but there are also magazine and... Read more >
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The Analects of Confucius
A Philosophical Translation
Written by Roger T. Ames
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 24, 2010
Price: $11.99
"To quietly persevere in storing up what is learned, to continue studying without respite, to instruct others without growing weary--is this not me?"
--Confucius
Confucius is recognized as China's first and greatest teacher, and his ideas have been the fertile soil in which the Chinese cultural tradition has flourished. Now, here is a... Read more >
A Philosophical Translation
Written by Roger T. Ames
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 24, 2010
Price: $11.99
"To quietly persevere in storing up what is learned, to continue studying without respite, to instruct others without growing weary--is this not me?"
--Confucius
Confucius is recognized as China's first and greatest teacher, and his ideas have been the fertile soil in which the Chinese cultural tradition has flourished. Now, here is a... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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The Art of Haiku
Its History through Poems and Paintings by Japanese Masters
Written by Stephen Addiss
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: August 28, 2012
Price: $24.95
In the past hundred years, haiku has gone far beyond its Japanese origins to become a worldwide phenomenon—with the classic poetic form growing and evolving as it has adapted to the needs of the whole range of languages and cultures that have embraced it. This proliferation of the joy of haiku... Read more >
Its History through Poems and Paintings by Japanese Masters
Written by Stephen Addiss
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: August 28, 2012
Price: $24.95
In the past hundred years, haiku has gone far beyond its Japanese origins to become a worldwide phenomenon—with the classic poetic form growing and evolving as it has adapted to the needs of the whole range of languages and cultures that have embraced it. This proliferation of the joy of haiku... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings
Written by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Edited by Clayborne Carson
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 20, 2013
Price: $12.99
A collection of the most well-known and treasured writings and speeches of Dr. King, available for the first time as an ebook
The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr. is the ultimate collection of Dr. King's most inspirational and transformative speeches and sermons, accessibly available for the first time as an ebook. Here... Read more >
"I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings
Written by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Edited by Clayborne Carson
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 20, 2013
Price: $12.99
A collection of the most well-known and treasured writings and speeches of Dr. King, available for the first time as an ebook
The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr. is the ultimate collection of Dr. King's most inspirational and transformative speeches and sermons, accessibly available for the first time as an ebook. Here... Read more >
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The Outsider Test for Faith
How to Know Which Religion Is True
Written by John W. Loftus
Format: Trade Paperback, 300 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $18.00
At a time when the vast diversity of human belief systems is accessible to all, the outsider test for faith offers a rational means for fostering mutual understanding. Depending on how one defines religion, there are at least thousands of religions in the world. Given such religious diversity, how can any... Read more >
How to Know Which Religion Is True
Written by John W. Loftus
Format: Trade Paperback, 300 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $18.00
At a time when the vast diversity of human belief systems is accessible to all, the outsider test for faith offers a rational means for fostering mutual understanding. Depending on how one defines religion, there are at least thousands of religions in the world. Given such religious diversity, how can any... Read more >
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eBook.
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The Ecstasy of Influence
Nonfictions, Etc.
Written by Jonathan Lethem
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $16.95
Nonfictions, Etc.
Written by Jonathan Lethem
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $16.95
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
A New York Times Notable Book
A Best Book of the Year —Austin American-Statesman
Includes a new, previously uncollected piece: "My Internet"
In The Ecstasy of Influence, the incomparable Jonathan Lethem has compiled a career-spanning collection of occasional pieces—essays, memoir, liner notes, fiction, and criticism—which also doubles as a novelist’s...
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For the Time Being
Written by Annie Dillard
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: February 8, 2000
Price: $14.95
National Bestseller
"Beautifully written and delightfully strange--. As earthy as it is sublime, For the Time Being is, in the truest sense, an eye- opener."--Daily News
From Annie Dillard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and one of the most compelling writers of our time, comes For the Time Being... Read more >
Written by Annie Dillard
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: February 8, 2000
Price: $14.95
National Bestseller
"Beautifully written and delightfully strange--. As earthy as it is sublime, For the Time Being is, in the truest sense, an eye- opener."--Daily News
From Annie Dillard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and one of the most compelling writers of our time, comes For the Time Being... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
