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Fear and Clothing: Unbuckling American Style

by Cintra Wilson

Published: 2015-09-08

Hardcover: 336 pages

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As the former New York Times Critical Shopper, and voted one of Fashionista's 50 Most Influential People in New York Fashion, Cintra Wilson knows something about clothes. And in Fear and Clothing, she imparts her no-holds-barred, totally outrageous, astute, and hilarious wisdom to the read...

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The Double Life of Liliane

by Lily Tuck

Published: 2015-09-15

Hardcover: 256 pages

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?Tuck is a genius.”?Los Angeles Book ReviewLily Tuck has had a wonderful and accomplished career as a National Book Award winning novelist, story writer, essayist and biographer. She is one of our most distinguished contributors to American literature. With The Double Life of Liliane, T...

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Providential

by Colin Channer

Published: 2015-09-01

Paperback: 96 pages

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"Jamaican-born Channer draws on the rich cultural heritage of the Caribbean and his own unique experience for this energetic, linguistically inventive first collection of poetry....Channer's lyrics pop and reel in sheer musicality....A dextrous, ambitious collection that delivers enough ac...

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The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett

by Nathan Ward

Published: 2015-09-15

Hardcover: 240 pages

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Before he became a household name in America as perhaps our greatest hard-boiled crime writer, before his attachment to Lillian Hellman and blacklisting during the McCarthy era, and his subsequent downward spiral, Dashiell Hammett led a life of action. Born in 1894 into a poor Maryland fam...

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Finale: A Novel of the Reagan Years

by Thomas Mallon

Published: 2015-09-15

Hardcover: 480 pages

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Adding to a fiction chronicle that has already spanned American history from the Lincoln assassination to the Watergate scandal, Thomas Mallon now brings to life the tumultuous administration of the most consequential and enigmatic president in modern times.   Finale captures the crusadin...

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Arms: The Culture and Credo of the Gun

by A. J. Somerset

Published: 2015-09-15

Paperback: 352 pages

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After a fifteen-year hiatus from the world of guns, journalist, sports shooter, and former soldier A.J. Somerset no longer fit in with other firearm enthusiasts. Theirs was a culture much different than the one he remembered: a culture more radical, less tolerant, and more immovable in its...

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Empty Hands, A Memoir: One Woman's Journey to Save Children Orphaned by AIDS in South Africa (Sacred Activism)

by Sister Abega Ntleko

Published: 2015-09-01

Paperback: 176 pages

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Empty Hands is the inspiring memoir of Zulu nurse and healthcare activist Sister Abegail Ntleko. Growing up poor in a rural village with a father who didn't believe in educating girls, against seemingly insurmountable odds Sister Abegail earned her nursing degree and began work as a commun...

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That Glimpse of Truth: The 100 Finest Short Stories Ever Written

by David Miller

Published: 2014-10-23

Hardcover: 0 pages

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Profound, lyrical, shocking, wise: the short story is capable of almost anything. This collection of 100 of the finest stories ever written ranges from the essential to the unexpected, the traditional to the surreal. Wide in scope, both beautiful and vast, this is the perfect companion for any fiction...

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Memories of Amnesia

by Lawrence Shainberg

Published: 1988-09

Hardcover: 219 pages

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In this novel a top neurosurgeon is operating one morning when his own brain begins to behave erratically - so erratically that he laughs uncontrollably and changes his mind from one moment to the next. This sends him on an examination of the conflict between the brain and what it calls "I".

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The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion

by Kei Miller

Published: 2014-06-01

Paperback: 80 pages

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In this collection, acclaimed Jamaican poet Kei Miller dramatizes what happens when one system of knowledge, one method of understanding place and territory, comes up against another. We watch as the cartographer, used to the scientific methods of assuming control over a place by mapping i...