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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250206299Author Paul AusterFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 135mm * 30mm

A strange and delightful memento of one of the most lasting literary voices of all time, The Daily Henry James is a little book from a great mind. First published with James's approval in 1911 as the ultimate token of fandom a limited edition...

Dr. Michio Kaku, one of the most influential living scientists and a New York Times best-selling author, selects the year's top science and nature writing from writers who balance research with humanity and, in the process, uncover riveting stories of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781500327453Author James Fenimore CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 618Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

The Tenth Edition introduces diverse, compelling, relevant texts-from Civil War songs and stories to The Turn of the Screw to The Great Gatsby to poems by Juan Felipe Herrera and Claudia Rankine to a science fiction cluster featuring Octavia Butler and N...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486819266Author Theodore WeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

"Perhaps it is no coincidence that the nineteenth century-the century when, it has been said, sexuality as such (and various taxonomized sexual identities) were invented-is the period when American short stories were invented, and when they were the...

Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) prowled the streets of New Orleans from 1877 to 1888 before moving on to a new life and global fame as a chronicler of Japan. Hearn's influence on our perceptions of New Orleans, however, has unjustly remained unknown. In ten...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816531233Author Eric MagraneFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams)...

Among The Village Voices 25 Favorite Books of 2006 Winner of the 2007 AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show in the Trade Illustrated Book Design category. Sometime after Andy Warhol's heyday but before Soho became a tourist trap, a group of poets, punk...

Created for adventure addicts *A carefully curated collection of adventure classics *A Lyons American classic *Fresh, new series design There has never been a more exciting collection of stories that celebrate the indomitable spirit of the...

From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde comes an uplifting and poignant novel about friendship, trust, and facing your fears. No longer tolerating her husband's borderline abuse, Faith escapes to her parents' California beach house...

The third book in Charles Bowden's "accidental trilogy" that began with Blood Orchid and Blues for Cannibals, Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing attempts to resolve the overarching question: "How can a person live a moral life in a culture of death?"...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785279744Author Charles L. CrowFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 153g

Written in the 1840s and published here for the first time, Julia Ward Howe's novel about a hermaphrodite is unlike anything of its time-or, in truth, of our own. Narrated by Laurence, who is raised and lives as a man and is loved by men and women alike,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781014175861Author Samuel Barclay ChartersFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams)...

California is still the world's biggest hideout. The only thing more western is the Pacific Ocean, where, if the Big One happens, California might find a home at the bottom. One of those hiding out is Peter Bowman, a former army brat, and lecturer at...

Until now, the study of American Indian literature has tended to concentrate on contemporary writing. Although the field has grown rapidly, early works-especially poetry-remain mostly unknown and inaccessible. Changing Is Not Vanishing simultaneously...

Praise for Michael McClure: "Michael McClure shares a place with the great William Blake, with the visionary Shelley, with the passionate D.H. Lawrence."--Robert Creeley "McClure's poetry is a blob of protoplasmic energy."--Allen Ginsberg "Without...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905881932Author Sigrid RausingFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 209mm *...

The raucous, exuberant, often wildly funny account of a journey through America and Mexico, Jack Kerouac's On the Road instantly defined a generation on its publication in 1957: it was, in the words of a New York Times reviewer, "the clearest and most...

"A dark, troubling vision of life in the desert, defined broadly; of mountain lions and drug kingpins, Mexican hopes and Indian feuds."-Los Angeles Times"In these powerful epic tales of the Sonora Desert, Bowden peoples the harsh land on both sides of...

Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western thought. His books were widely read by specialists and the general public, and his influence had been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781731277114Author Kevin Scott CollierFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...

The Tenth Edition introduces diverse, compelling, relevant texts-from Civil War songs and stories to The Turn of the Screw to The Great Gatsby to poems by Juan Felipe Herrera and Claudia Rankine to a science fiction cluster featuring Octavia Butler and N...

Noni the Pony stands under one tree, and watches her two friends dance by the sea. She gives three speckled hens a ride up the hill... Come on another adventure with Noni in this delightful rhyming story. Alison Lester's books are favourites with...

Following the assassination of a British Colonel in a guerrilla ambush by communist terrorists during the Malayan Emergency in 1954, Jason Rance, an English company commander in a Gurkha battalion and jungle expert, is tasked with tracking down the...

New York is a city of writers. And when the city was attacked on 9/11, its writers began to do what writers do, they began to look and feel and think and write, began to struggle to process an event unimaginable before, and even after, it happened. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931082419Author Ezra PoundFormat HardbackPage Count 1363Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 865gDimensions(mm)...

"Opera, Sex and Other Vital Matters" gathers both classic and never-before-published essays from one of the leading stylists in contemporary American letters, and one of our more revered public intellectuals, Paul Robinson. Diverse and elegant, the...

The fourth volume in PAJ's Performance Ideas series, The Sun on the Tongue unfolds in an expanding universe of philosophical reflections on love, art, war, nature, and human existence. Etel Adnan, the internationally renowned Arab American writer and...

What Moves at the Margin collects three decades of Toni Morrison's writings about her work, her life, literature, and American society. The works included in this volume range from 1971, when Morrison (b. 1931) was a new editor at Random House and a...

From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde comes an unforgettable story of courage and finding forgiveness in an unforgiving wilderness. Seventeen-year-old Ethan Underwood is totally unprepared to search for his father in the Blythe...

The first and only anthology dedicated to Douglass's three journeys to Britain, covering oratory, print and visual culture The only monograph and anthology to focus on Frederick Douglass's relationship with Britain through unexplored oratory and print...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486440989Author Paul NegriFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 164gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393932423Author Nella LarsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060959487Author John FanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 445g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783414408662Author Chancellor WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint Parker PublishingPublisher Parker PublishingWeight(grams) 925gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544817340Author Hilton AlsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 290g

Collected here for the first time, these writings demonstrate the range and precision of Philip Rieff's sociology of culture. Rieff addresses the rise of psychoanalytic and other spiritual disciplines that have reshaped contemporary culture.Book...