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This provocative new work examines the years between the Nazi book fires and the publication of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 (1953), a period when book burning captured the popular imagination. It explores how embedded the myths of book burning have become in our cultural history, and illustrates t...

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C.Bradford Welles (Translator

Library of History, Volume VIII: Books 16.66–17

Remains of a universal chronicle. Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily (ca. 80–20 BC), wrote forty books of world history, called Library of History, in three parts: mythical history of peoples, non-Greek and Greek, to the Trojan War; history to Alexander’s death (323 BC); ...

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So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading

“Will make many readers smile with recognition.”— The New Yorker “Readaholics, meet your new best friend.”— People “This book is bliss.”— The Boston Globe Sometimes subtle, sometimes striking, the interplay between our lives and our books is the subject of this unique m...

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Siculus Diodorus

Library of History, Volume V: Books 12.41–13

Remains of a universal chronicle. Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily (ca. 80–20 BC), wrote forty books of world history, called Library of History, in three parts: mythical history of peoples, non-Greek and Greek, to the Trojan War; history to Alexander’s death (323 BC); ...

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Elizabeth Hardwick

The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick (New York Review Books Classics)

The first-ever collection of essays from across Elizabeth Hardwick's illustrious writing career, including works not seen in print for decades. A New York Times Notable Book of 2017 Elizabeth Hardwick wrote during the golden age of the American literary essay. For Hardwick, the essay was an ima...

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Diodorus Siculus

Library of History, Volume XI: Books 21–32

Remains of a universal chronicle. Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily (ca. 80–20 BC), wrote forty books of world history, called Library of History, in three parts: mythical history of peoples, non-Greek and Greek, to the Trojan War; history to Alexander’s death (323 BC); ...

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Tun-huang (New York Review Books Classics)

More than a thousand years ago, an extraordinary trove of early Buddhist sutras and other scriptures was secreted away in caves near the Silk Road city of Tun-huang. But who hid this magnificent treasure and why? In Tun-huang , the great modern Japanese novelist Yasushi Inoue tells the story of Ch...

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Blood Lines (Blood Books)

The Blood Books are now available in "Blood Ties" TV tie-in editions. View our TV tie-in feature page here here. An evil being has been sealed away for centuries in a sarcophagus never meant to be opened, waiting patiently for his chance to rise again. Now, brought to the Egyptology Department of To...

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The Poison Eaters: Fighting Danger and Fraud in our Food and Drugs (ALA Notable Children's Books. Older Readers)

Washington Post Best Children's Book Formaldehyde, borax, salicylic acid. Today, these chemicals are used in embalming fluids, cleaning supplies, and acne medications. But in 1900, they were routinely added to food that Americans ate from cans and jars. In 1900, products often weren't safe beca...

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Diodorus Siculus

Library of History, Volume VI: Books 14–15.19

Remains of a universal chronicle. Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily (ca. 80–20 BC), wrote forty books of world history, called Library of History, in three parts: mythical history of peoples, non-Greek and Greek, to the Trojan War; history to Alexander’s death (323 BC); ...

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The 101 Apocrypha: The Complete Volume - The Books of Enoch, Jasher, Jubilees and Deuterocanonical - Illustrated

"And they took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and to defile themselves with them, and they taught them charms and enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and made them acquainted with plants. And they became pregnant, and they bare great gian...

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Charles Preston

Quote Acrostic Favorites: Features 50 Rewarding Puzzles (Puzzle Books for Fun)

50 Quotation Puzzles from the Tribune Content Agency edited by Charles Preston "Offering hours and hours of puzzle-solving fun, the Quote Acrostic Favorites series is especially and unreservedly recommended for every puzzle enthusiast's personal collection."― Midwest Book Review If You Like C...

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The Power of Faith: Understanding the Books of Ruth and Esther

From the preface of The Power of Faith Two Women: Ruth and Esther One faced destitution, The other destruction. One was a stranger in the promised land. One was in a strange land as a daughter of promise. One went from famine to feast, The other from feast to fasting to feast. Both women were...

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Blood Price (Blood Books)

The Blood Books are now available in "Blood Ties" TV tie-in editions. Vicki Nelson, formerly of Toronto’s homicide unit and now a private detective, witnesses the first of many vicious attacks that are now plaguing the city of Toronto. As death follows unspeakable death, Vicki is forced to rene...

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Diodorus Siculus

Library of History, Volume I: Books 1–2.34

Remains of a universal chronicle. Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily (ca. 80–20 BC), wrote forty books of world history, called Library of History, in three parts: mythical history of peoples, non-Greek and Greek, to the Trojan War; history to Alexander’s death (323 BC); ...

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Living Up The Street (Laurel-Leaf Books)

In a prose that is so beautiful it is poetry, we see the world of growing up and going somewhere through the dust and heat of Fresno's industrial side and beyond: It is a boy's coming of age in the barrio, parochial school, attending church, public summer school, and trying to fall ou...

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The Book of Jubilees Complete Edition: Lost Apocrypha Bible with Sacred Calendar, Commentary, and Study Tools (Large Print) (Lost Books of the Bible)

The Lost Book That Rewrites Genesis — Unlock God’s Original Calendar and Hidden Laws of Creation Hidden for centuries and rediscovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls, The Book of Jubilees , known as The Little Genesis , reveals the divine chronology of creation, law, and covenant that shaped ancie...

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Diodorus Siculus

Library of History, Volume IV: Books 9–12.40

Remains of a universal chronicle. Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily (ca. 80–20 BC), wrote forty books of world history, called Library of History, in three parts: mythical history of peoples, non-Greek and Greek, to the Trojan War; history to Alexander’s death (323 BC); ...

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Diodorus Siculus

Library of History, Volume III: Books 4.59–8

Remains of a universal chronicle. Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily (ca. 80–20 BC), wrote forty books of world history, called Library of History, in three parts: mythical history of peoples, non-Greek and Greek, to the Trojan War; history to Alexander’s death (323 BC); ...

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We All Got History: The Memory Books of Amos Webber (Statue of Liberty - Ellis Island Centennial Series (Sle))

Lost for over a hundred years until their rediscovery by Nick Salvatore, Amos Webber’s “Thermometer Books” recorded six decades of the daily experiences of a black freeman in nineteenth-century Philadelphia and Worcester, Massachusetts. These diaries form the basis for Salvatore’s vital port...

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