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A memoir of leaving the evangelical church and the search for radical new ways to build community. Jeanna Kadlec knew what it meant to be faithful--in her marriage to a pastor's son, in the comfortable life ahead of her, in her God--but there was no...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905881611Author John FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 145mm...

Letters of hope, passion and courage, written in the wake of Trump's election, from some of our best-loved writers, including Junot Diaz, Karen Joy Fowler, Mona Eltahawy, Claire Messud, Celeste Ng, Hari Kunzru and Jane Smiley. RADICAL HOPE is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781889503Author Natalia I PetrovskaiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

A literary tour of Christian monasteries of the medieval Middle East The Book of Monasteries takes readers on an engaging tour of the monastic centers of the medieval Middle East, illustrated with a rich variety of poetry and prose. Starting with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781761340154Author Erin RileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Viking AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House Australia

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668016978Author Ray BradburyFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 717gDimensions(mm) 249mm * 155mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328465801Author Rebecca SolnitFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Houghton Mifflin

Anais Nin made her reputation through publication of her edited diaries and the carefully constructed persona they presented. It was not until decades later, when the diaries were published in their unexpurgated form, that the world began to learn the...

Defiant, humorous, empathetic and insightful, 'Not Quite Right For Us' pierces through the hierarchical mechanics of class, race, gender. A celebration of outsiderness and an ode to otherness, 'Not Quite Right For Us' is a singular collection of stories,...

Sources show Qu Yuan (?340-278 BCE) was the first person in China to become famous for his poetry, so famous in fact that the Chinese celebrate his life with a national holiday called Poet's Day, or the Dragon Boat Festival. His work, which forms the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739774776Author Onyeka NwelueFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Abibiman Publishing UKPublisher Abibiman Publishing UK

Widely acknowledged as the father of the Japanese short story, Ryunosuke Akutagawa remains one of the most influential Japanese writers of all time. Rashomon and Other Stories, a collection of his most celebrated work, resonates as strongly today as when...

In 1984, a time when the publishing landscape was becoming increasingly corporate, Nigel Newton decided to start a new independent literary publishing company. The following year, over early mornings and late nights, he and publisher David Reynolds came...

With a sprightly dose of insightful inspiration, a sprinkling of practical advice, and a bounty of exuberant stories by great writers, O's Little Book of Happiness features some of the best work ever to have appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine. Inside...

"Short stories have to accomplish a nearly impossible magic trick: to introduce a world often much stranger than our own and make you care about it in a matter of pages," writes R. F. Kuang in her introduction. "The most important part of this magic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614275107Author Norbert WienerFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Martino Fine BooksPublisher Martino Fine BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 234mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679433217Author Arthur RimbaudFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 165mm * 113mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945586002Author Nancy SwisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Thomas Noble BooksPublisher Thomas Noble BooksWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde comes an emotional novel of how one man's life changes forever when he rediscovers his ability to feel the pain of others. Something has been asleep in forty-year-old cattle rancher Aiden...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955055703Author Rolf EkeusFormat HardbackPage Count 305Imprint Lynne Rienner PublishersPublisher Lynne Rienner PublishersWeight(grams) 316g

Seven essays that make the compelling case for coming to your own informed conclusions in an age of extremes. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, drawn from contemporary articles or classic storytelling from the...

These essays trace a distinguished writer's engagement with her time, her arguments with herself and others. "I am a poet who knows the social power of poetry, a United States citizen who knows herself irrevocably tangled in her society's hopes,...

A masterpiece of Arabic love poetry in a new and complete English translationThe Translator of Desires, a collection of sixty-one love poems, is the lyric masterwork of Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi (1165-1240 CE), one of the most influential writers of classical...

A new, definitive English translation of the celebrated story collection regarded as a landmark of Norwegian literature and culture The extraordinary folktales collected by Peter Christen Asbjornsen and Jorgen Moe began appearing in Norway in 1841...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946206476Author Jennifer AulieFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Wynstones PressPublisher Wynstones Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061670923Author Professor of English Terry CastleFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers...

A luminous translation of Arabic tales of enchantment and wonder Translated into English for the very first time, A Hundred and One Nights is a marvelous example of the rich tradition of popular Arabic storytelling. Like the celebrated Thousand and One...

The Buddhist monk Ashva*ghosha composed Life of the Buddha in the first or second century CE probably in Ayodhya. This is the earliest surviving text of the Sanskrit literary genre called kavya and probably provided models for Kali*dasa's more famous...

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries, textual notes on the plays and poems and an extensive Introduction. Since the late...

'It promises to be one of the literary highlights of 2021 - publication of the diaries of Patricia Highsmith, one of the most conflicted, fascinating novelists of the 20th century' Edward Helmore, Guardian'My secrets-the secrets that everyone has-are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956104618Author Chris AgeeFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint IRISH PAGESPublisher IRISH PAGES

First published in 1930, the essays in this manifesto constitute one of the outstanding cultural documents in the history of the South. In it, twelve southerners-Donald Davidson, John Gould Fletcher, Henry Blue Kline, Lyle H. Lanier, Stark Young, Allen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608683253Author Joseph CampbellFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library

The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth deploys its forty-seven original essays to present a stimulating account of Wordsworth's life and achievement and to map new directions in criticism. In addition to twenty-two essays wholly on Wordsworth's...

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay was a remarkable woman a gifted writer and an activist central to the making of the modern Indian nation. India's representative to the Global South for many years after independence, Kamaladevi figured prominently in discussions...

Astra Magazine is the new literary magazine of the moment, a must-read for anyone interested in the most vital contemporary literature from around the world. Astra Magazine connects readers and writers from New York to Mexico City, Lagos to Berlin,...

TOO FAMOUS collects pieces Michael Wolff has written as a columnist for New York, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, GQ and The Hollywood Reporter, and adds several new ones. Written over a 20-year period, the book spans that moment in popular culture when...

From Longman's Cultural Editions series, Wollstonecraft, edited by Anne K. Mellor and Noelle Chao, for the first time pairs Wollstonecraft's feminist tract, the first in English letters, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, with her unfinished novel,The...

The perfect gift for fans of classic novels, crafting and puns. 'There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my glue gun.' This crafting celebration of...