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High tide in Tucson : essays from now or never
Barbara Kingsolver
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"There is no one quite like Barbara Kingsolver in contemporary literature," raves the Washington Post Book World, and it is right. She has been nominated three times for the ABBY award, and her critically acclaimed writings consistently enjoy spectacular commercial success as they entertain and touch her legions of loyal fans. In High Tide in Tucson, ...
1995; 273 p.; isbn:0060172916 More Information |
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A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
by Dave Eggers
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"Well, this was when Bill was sighing a lot. He had decided that after our parents died he just didn't want any more fighting between what was left of us. He was twenty-four, Beth was twenty-three, I was twenty-one, Toph was eight, and all of us were so tried already, from that winter. So when something world come up, any little thing, some bill to ...
2000; ; isbn:0684863472 More Information |
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This boy's life : a memoir
Tobias Wolff
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In this unforgettable memoir of boyhood in the 1950s, we meet the young Toby Wolff, by turns tough and vulnerable, crafty and bumbling, and ultimately winning. Separated by divorce from his father and brother, Toby and his mother are constantly on the move. Between themselves they develop an almost telepathic trust that sees them through their wanderings ...
1989; 288 p.; isbn:0060972777 More Information |
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Whose life is it anyway? : a full-length play
by Brian Clark
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Equus
Peter Shaffer
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In Equus , which took critics and public alike by storm and has gone on to become a modern classic, Peter Shaffer depicts the story of a deranged youth who blinds six horses with a spike. Through a psychiatrist's analysis of the events, Shaffer creates a chilling portrait of how materialism and convenience have killed our capacity for worship and passion ...
1973; 108 p.; isbn:0140260706 More Information |
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James Joyce's A portrait of the artist as a young man
edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom
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1988; 183 p.; isbn:1555460208 More Information |
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Four plays
by Aristophanes ; translations by William Arrowsmith, Richmond Lattimore, and Douglass Parker
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1984; 619 p.; isbn:0452007178 More Information |
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Lysistrata
by Aristophanes ; translated by Douglass Parker
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Following her annotated translation of the bawdy 5th century BCE play, classicist Ruden (PhD, Harvard U.) provides commentaries on Athenian democracy and women, Greek warfare and comedy, and debunks some feminist conceptions of the play. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
1964; 128 p.; isbn:0451624955 More Information |
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Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance : an inquiry into values
by Robert M. Pirsig
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While cycling through the western states, a disillusioned American questions the meaning of existence after confronting the ghost of his former, uninstitutionalized self
1974; 412 p.; isbn:0688052304 More Information |
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Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Azar Nafisi
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This is the story of Azar Nafisi's dream and of the nightmare that made it come true. For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature. They were all former students whom she had taught at university. They were unaccustomed to being ...
2003; 347 p.; isbn:0375504907 More Information |
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The stones cry out : a Cambodian childhood, 1975-1980
Molyda Szymusiak ; translated by Linda Coverdale ; foreword by Jane Hamilton-Merritt
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In 1975, Molyda Szymusiak (her adoptive name), the daughter of a high Cambodian official, was twelve years old and leading a relatively peaceful life in Phnom Penh. Suddenly, on April 17, Khme Rouge radicals seized the capital and drove all its inhabitants into the countryside. The chaos that followed has been widely publicized, most notably in the ...
1999; 245 p.; isbn:025321291X More Information |
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Everything we had : an oral history of the Vietnam War
by thirty-three American soldiers who fought it ; [edited by] Al Santoli
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1981; 265 p.; isbn:088103391X More Information |
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