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Lindsay O'Neill
The Opened Letter: Networking in the Early Modern British World (The Early Modern Americas)
By the early eighteenth century, the rapid expansion of the British empire had created a technological problem: communication and networking became increasingly vital yet harder to maintain. As colonial possessions and populations grew and more individuals moved around the globe, Britons both at hom...
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Ibis Lezcano Kramer
Returning To Me: A Cuban-American Woman's Journey
Ibis Lezcano lived a happy and comfortable life in beautiful Havana, Cuba. The daughter of a popular politician and a beautiful socialite mother, she wanted for nothing. She married her sweetheart and had a son she named Raul, after her father. But soon Ibis’s charmed existence darkened. Caught up...
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David E. Philips
Legendary Connecticut: Traditional Tales from the Nutmeg State
From Litchfield's great church stove war to Hartford's Charter Oak to Stonington's infamous Lantern Hill, these traditional tales from the Nutmeg State span four centuries of Connecticut history. Personal legends, narratives, anecdotes, and supernatural stories—all are fascinating, humorous and ri...
$17.95
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Lia van Gemert
Women's Writing from the Low Countries 1200-1875 + 1880-2010: Two-volume Set (Amsterdam Anthologies)
This landmark bilingual Dutch-English anthology introduces women’s writing in the Low Countries, the low-lying delta of the Rhine, Scheldt, and Meuse rivers, from 1200 to 1875. The Dutch and Flemish writers featured here produced work of ardent religious passion, ranging from medieval mysticism to...
$54.95
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Haruki Murakami
First Person Singular: Stories (Random House Large Print)
NATIONAL BEST SELLER • A mind-bending new collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author. • “Some novelists hold a mirror up to the world and some, like Haruki Murakami, use the mirror as a portal to a universe hidden beyond it.” — The Wall Street J...
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Dina Nayeri
Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn't Enough
National Book Critics Circle Finalist Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize "Dina Nayeri's powerful writing confronts issues that are key to the refugee experience."—Viet Thanh Nguyen From the author of The Ungrateful Refugee —finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the K...
$23.33
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Brian Michaud
The Gatsby Kids and the Outlaw of Sherwood (The Adventures of the Gatsby Kids)
When Constance and Ernest Gatsby introduce their younger brother, George, to the humiliation of their school’s Ritual—in which the bullies shove them into a shower in the girls’ locker room—they are mysteriously hurtled back in time to medieval England. The Sheriff of Nottingham’s soldiers...
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Bishop George Hay of Scotland
No Salvation Outside of the Catholic Church
There is nothing in which the great Apostle of the Gentiles seems more to glory than in his ardent zeal for the salvation of souls, and in the sincerity of his heart in delivering to the world the sacred truths of eternity pure and uncorrupted....
$6.34
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Upton Sinclair
Oil! (Penguin Classics)
Upton Sinclair's searing indictment of fossil fuels that predicts our current warming planet while imagining a greener and more inclusive future A Penguin Classic Perhaps most well-known today as the inspiration for Paul Thomas Anderson’s film There Will Be Blood , Upton Sinclair’s novel ...
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Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha (Modern Library Classics)
The classic novel of a quest for knowledge that has delighted, inspired, and influenced generations of readers, writers, and thinkers. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s  The Great American Read Though set in a place and time far removed from the Germany of 1922, the ...
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Noam Sachs Zion
Sanctified Sex: The Two-Thousand-Year Jewish Debate on Marital Intimacy
Sanctified Sex draws on two thousand years of rabbinic debates addressing competing aspirations for loving intimacy, passionate sexual union, and sanctity in marriage. What can Judaism contribute to our struggles to nurture love relationships? What halakhic precedents are relevant, and how are ruli...
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Colin Davis Jr
Levinas: An Introduction
In recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest in the work of Emmanuel Levinas, widely recognized as one of the most important yet difficult philosophers of the twentieth century. In this much-needed introduction, Davis unpacks the concepts at the center of Levinas's thought-alterity, the ...
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Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams in the National Parks: Photographs from America's Wild Places
The most comprehensive collection of Ansel Adams's photographs of America's national parks and wilderness areas, with more than 200 photographs — many rarely seen and some never before published.  For many people, Yosemite, Yellowstone, Glacier National Park, and other iconic American wildland...
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Eddie Doherty
Wisdom's Fool: A Biography of St. Louis de Montfort
The famous journalist Eddie Doherty was a faithful Catholic and a man of ardent spirituality who found in the example and writings of St. Louis de Montfort a wealth of inspiration, insight and strength for his spiritual life. Convinced of the importance of bringing others to know this man whose life...
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Peter C. Bouteneff
Arvo Part: Out of Silence
Points of entry: Spirituality and religion - Part's spiritual reach - The role of text; Out of silence: Music lost to silence - Music found in silence - Excusus: silence in the tradition; Bright sadness: Bright sadness in the tradition - Bright sadness in the music of Arvo Part. A luminous engagemen...
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Alex Lichtenstein
Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South (Haymarket Series)
For the first time in a generation chain gangs have reappeared on the roads of the American South. Associated in the past with racial terrorism, this cruel and unusual punishment should invoke strong memories. But, in the rush to embrace ever-harsher sanctions, the American public has ignored the tr...
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Lexington Justice
Raindrops
Stefani Tanner had it all as a corporate executive, wife, and mother, only to have her world come crashing down at once. With nowhere to turn, she surrenders and returns to the place where she felt safe as a child. At her weakest and out of options, she is unexpectedly rescued by an anonymous source...
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John R. Hibbing
Predisposed
This thoughtfully updated revision of a classic text sheds new light on the potential sociological and biological differences that result in deep, seemingly unbridgeable political divisions. Renowned social scientists and experts in biopolitics, John R. Hibbing, Kevin B. Smith, and John R. Alford pr...
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Ted Mitchell
Windows of the Heart: The Correspondence of Thomas Wolfe and Margaret Roberts
The first publication of decades of correspondence between Wolfe and the teacher he deemed "the mother of my spirit" Thomas Wolfe remains one of the least understood of the major twentieth-century American writers, but his relationship with his most influential teacher sheds new light on his creat...
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Tatyana Tolstaya
White Walls: Collected Stories (New York Review Books (Paperback))
A New York Review Books Original “Tolstaya carves indelible people who roam the imagination long after the book is put down.” – Time Tatyana Tolstaya’s short stories—with their unpredictable fairy-tale plots, appealingly eccentric characters, and stylistic abundance and flair—establi...
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