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Monika Schroder
[Hardcover 2010]
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If the gods wanted Akash to have an education, he is told, they would give him one. But Akash has spent his entire twelve years poor and hungry. So he decides to take control of his own life and try for a scholarship to the city school where he can... more
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Jamaica Kincaid
[Paperback 1986]
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Annie John is growing up on the magical island of Antigua. It should be a sojourn in paradise for her but adolescence takes the brilliant, headstrong girl into open rebellions and secret discoveries, and finally to a crisis of emotions that wrenches her away from her island home. "Annie John... more
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Natalie Babbitt
[Paperback 1987]
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Having been critically acclaimed when it was first published, "Tuck Everlasting" has become a much-loved, well-studied modern-day classic. This anniversary edition features an in-depth interview conducted by Betsy Hearne in which Babbitt takes a look at the book 25 years later. Doomed to--or blessed with--eternal life after drinking from a... more
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William Steig
[Paperback 2008]
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Originally published in 1984 with black-and-white drawings, these classic word puzzles by the Caldecott Medalist are given new life in this full-color edition that includes an answer key for the first time. Illustrations. Consumable. To figure out William Steig's word puzzles you need merely read the letters, numbers, and symbols... more
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David Gilmour
[Hardcover, 1st Edition]
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In this sparkling, provocative history of the English in South Asia during Queen Victoria's reign, Gilmour shows that between 1837 and 1901, fewer than 100,000 Britons at any one time managed an empire of 300 million people spread over the vast area that now includes India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Burma.... more
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James Fenton
[Paperback 2003]
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James Fenton's An Introduction to English Poetry offers a master class for both the reader and writer of poetry. Simply and elegantly written and discussing the work of poets as wide ranging as W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Tennyson, Kipling, Milton and Blake, it covers all varieties of poetic practice... more
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Karen Houppert
[Paperback 1999]
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A provocative look at the way our culture dealswith menstruation. The Curse examines the culture of concealment that surrounds menstruation and the devastating impact such secrecy has on women's physical and psychological health. Karen Houppert combines reporting on the potential safety problems of sanitary products--such as dioxin-laced tampons--with an analysis... more
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Peter Matthiessen ,
Robert L Bateman
[Paperback 2001]
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Sacred to many cultures and considered a bellwether by environmentalists, cranes have an important place in this world, here a leading naturalist and writer travels the globe in search of this prized--and vanishing--bird. illustrations. A leading naturalist and writer travels the globe in search of a prized-and vanishing-bird Cranes are... more
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Robert Lowell ,
Frank Bidart ,
David Gewanter
[Paperback 2007]
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For the first time, the collected poems of America's preeminent postwar poet Edmund Wilson wrote of Robert Lowell that he was the "only recent American poet--if you don't count Eliot--who writes successfully in the language and cadence and rhyme of the resounding English tradition." Frank Bidart and David Gewanter have... more
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Michael D Gordin
[Paperback 2010]
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A "NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW" EDITORS' CHOICE On August 29, 1949, the first Soviet test bomb, dubbed "First Lightning," exploded in the deserts of Kazakhstan. This surprising international event marked the beginning of an arms race that would ultimately lead to nuclear proliferation beyond the two superpowers of the... more
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James Mc Manus
[Paperback 2003]
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Sent to Las Vegas by "Harper's" to cover the World Series of Poker in 2000, the award-winning novelist offers a deliciously suspenseful account of the tournament and the murder of tournament host Ted Binion, done in by a stripper and her boyfriend. In the spring of 2000," Harper's Magazine" sent... more
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Carol Carter
[Paperback 1990]
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This practical guide to getting from the first semester of college to a first job teaches students not only how to explore career options, but how to broaden their horizons and build skills necessary for success in college and beyond. Carter explains how to network, write a perfect resume, prepare... more
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Andrew Delbanco
[Paperback 1997]
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In an age of uncertainty over what constitutes our common heritage, Andrew Delbanco reconsiders our greatest writers and how they enlarged our sense of American possibilities and the expressive range of our language. In superb chapters on Melville, Thoreau, Wharton, Richard Wright, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lincoln, and others, he shows... more
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Tom Wolfe
[Paperback 1999]
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Atlanta conglomerate king, Charles Croker, has expansionist ambitions and an outsize ego. He also has a young and demanding second wife and a half-empty office tower running up debts. When a football star from Atlanta's grimmest slum is accused of rape, the city's racial balance is shattered. TOM WOLFE -... more
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Elias Canetti
[Paperback 1983]
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James Fenton
[Paperback 2006]
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"Listen to what they did." "Don't listen to what they said." "What was written in blood" "Has been set up in lead." --from "Blood and Lead" The leading poet of his generation, James Fenton has over the course of his career built a body of work breathtaking in its range... more
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John Mc Phee
[Paperback 1991]
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Coming into the Country is an unforgettable account of Alaska and Alaskans. It is a rich tapestry of vivid characters, observed landscapes, and descriptive narrative, in three principal segments that deal, respectively, with a total wilderness, with urban Alaska, and with life in the remoteness of the bush. Readers of... more
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John Mc Phee
[Paperback 1990]
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While John McPhee was working on his previous book, Rising from the Plains , he happened to walk by the engineering building at the University of Wyoming, where words etched in limestone said: "Strive on--the control of Nature is won, not given." In the morning sunlight, that central phrase--"the control... more
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Shirley Hazzard
[Paperback 2004]
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A finalist for the National Book Award, this is an extraordinary love story set in the immediate aftermath of World War II. A man and woman seek to recover self-reliance, balance, and tenderness, and struggle to reclaim their humanity. More than twenty years after the classic" The Transit of Venus,"... more
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Noah Feldman
[Paperback 2004]
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A brave and timely examination of America's great dilemma in the Muslim world Published just as the United States went to war in Iraq, "After Jihad "put Noah Feldman "into the center of an unruly brawl now raging in policy circles over what to do with the Arab world" ("The... more
