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  • On Writing (and Writers): A Miscellany of Advice and Opinions by Lewis, C. S.
    C. S. Lewis

    On Writing (and Writers): A Miscellany of Advice and Opinions

    A definitive collection of wisdom on every style of writing and a celebration of the transformative power of the written word from one of the most influential writers and thinkers of the modern age, C. S. Lewis, the beloved author of the Chronicles of...
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  • New Hampshire by Frost, Robert
    Robert Frost

    New Hampshire

    Robert Frost (1874-1963) was the most celebrated poet in America for most of the twentieth century. Although chiefly associated with the life and landscapes of New England, his work embodies penetrating and often dark explorations of universal themes. New Hampshire features Frost's meditations on...
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  • The Darcy Myth: Jane Austen, Literary Heartthrobs, and the Monsters They Taught Us to Love by Feder, Rachel
    Rachel Feder

    The Darcy Myth: Jane Austen, Literary Heartthrobs, and the Monsters They Taught Us to Love

    What if we've been reading Jane Austen and romantic classics all wrong? A funny, brainy, eye-opening take on how our contemporary love stories are actually pretty terrifying.Covering cultural touchstones ranging from Twilight to Taylor Swift and from Lord Byron to The Bachelor, The Darcy...
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  • The World According to Joan Didion by McDonnell, Evelyn
    Evelyn McDonnell

    The World According to Joan Didion

    A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023 by The Millions"A wonderfully fitting tribute to Joan Didion: one that avoids simple platitudes, approaching the great writer with a fierce, probing intelligence, flawless language, and the impulse, which drove Didion's finest work, to understand the dreams of...
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  • The World According to Joan Didion by McDonnell, Evelyn
    Evelyn McDonnell

    The World According to Joan Didion

    A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023 by The Millions"A wonderfully fitting tribute to Joan Didion: one that avoids simple platitudes, approaching the great writer with a fierce, probing intelligence, flawless language, and the impulse, which drove Didion's finest work, to understand the dreams of...
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  • A Marriage Made in Heaven, or Too Tired for an Affair by Bombeck, Erma
    Erma Bombeck

    A Marriage Made in Heaven, or Too Tired for an Affair

    "I now pronounce you husband and wife." There are few phrases as sobering, with the possible exceptions of "We have lift-off" and "This country is at war." Yet, as they have done for centuries, millions of courageous men and women continue to walk down...
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  • Madeleine L'Engle

    Miracle on 10th Street: And Other Christmas Writings

    The bestselling author of A Wrinkle in Time reflects on themes such as advent, epiphany, faith, and wonder in this Christmas holiday classic.For more than fifty years, Madeleine L'Engle has delighted and inspired readers with her warm, eloquent prose and inspirational poetry. She continues...
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  • Mahabharata: The Epic and the Nation by Devy, G. N.
    G. N. Devy

    Mahabharata: The Epic and the Nation

    In India, kingdoms and dynasties have come and gone, religious sects have formed and dissolved, schools of philosophy have come together and subsequently been replaced by others, yet the Mahabharata has never ceased to excite the Indian imagination.The sheer volume of commentaries on the...
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  • The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning by Nelson, Maggie
    Maggie Nelson

    The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning

    Author: Maggie NelsonISBN-10: 1665274905ISBN-13: 9781665274906Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/21/2017Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.20lbs
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  • You Can't Joke about That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We're All in This Together by Timpf, Kat
    Kat Timpf

    You Can't Joke about That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We're All in This Together

    What happens when we can't joke about some of the most important stuff in life?In a 2019 study, 40% of people reported censoring themselves out of fear that voicing their views would alienate them from the people they care about most. Those people should...
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  • How Dead Languages Work by George, Coulter H.
    Coulter H. George

    How Dead Languages Work

    This volume celebrates six such languages--Ancient Greek, Latin, Old English, Sanskrit, Old Irish, and Biblical Hebrew--by first introducing listeners to their most distinctive features, then showing how these linguistic traits play out in short excerpts from actual ancient texts. It explores, for instance, how...
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  • Conduct Books and the History of the Ideal Woman by Kenlon, Tabitha
    Tabitha Kenlon

    Conduct Books and the History of the Ideal Woman

    The longest-running war is the battle over how women should behave. Conduct Books and the History of the Ideal Woman examines seven centuries of advice literature, analyzing the print origins of gendered expectations that continue to inform our thinking about women's roles and abilities....
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  • The Young H. G. Wells: Changing the World by Tomalin, Claire
    Claire Tomalin

    The Young H. G. Wells: Changing the World

    From acclaimed literary biographer Claire Tomalin, a complex and fascinating exploration of the early life of the influential writer and public figure H. G. Wells How did the first forty years of H. G. Wells's life shape the father of science fiction? From his...
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  • The Saga of the Volsungs Lib/E: With the Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok by Crawford, Jackson
    Jackson Crawford

    The Saga of the Volsungs Lib/E: With the Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok

    From the translator of the bestselling Poetic Edda comes a gripping new rendering of two of the greatest sagas of Old Norse literature. Together the two sagas recount the story of seven generations of a single legendary heroic family and comprise our best source...
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  • Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Hopkins, Gerard Manley
    Gerard Manley Hopkins

    Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

    Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Narrated by Denis Daly During his lifetime, Hopkins, who was ordained as a Jesuit priest, was best known as a scholar and a teacher of languages. In his youth he composed poetry prolifically, but detroyed all his juvenile work...
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  • The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science by Tresch, John
    John Tresch

    The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science

    Decade after decade, Edgar Allan Poe remains one of the most popular American writers. He is beloved around the world for his pioneering detective fiction, tales of horror, and haunting, atmospheric verse. But what if there was another side to the man who wrote...
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  • The Writer's Crusade: Kurt Vonnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse-Five by Roston, Tom
    Tom Roston

    The Writer's Crusade: Kurt Vonnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse-Five

    The story of Kurt Vonnegut and Slaughterhouse-Five, an enduring masterpiece on trauma and memoryKurt Vonnegut was twenty years old when he enlisted in the United States Army. Less than two years later, he was captured by the Germans in the single deadliest US engagement...
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  • Tolkien's Ordinary Virtues: Exploring the Spiritual Themes of the Lord of the Rings by Smith, Mark Eddy
    Mark Eddy Smith

    Tolkien's Ordinary Virtues: Exploring the Spiritual Themes of the Lord of the Rings

    "As I get older and learn more of what sort of person I am, and continue sojourning to the rich soil of the Shire and the high tower of Minas Tirith, I discover that many of my notions of what is good and right...
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  • The Literary Ladies' Guide to the Writing Life: Inspiration and Advice from Celebrated Women Authors Who Paved the Way by Atlas, Nava
    Nava Atlas

    Literary Ladies' Guide to the Writing Life, Revised and Updated: Inspiration and Advice from Celebrated Women Authors Who Paved the Way

    Literary Ladies Guide to the Writing Life serves as a beacon of inspiration to writers Author and artist Nava Atlas presents a treasury of intimate glimpses into the unfolding creative writing process across fifteen brilliant careers in women's literature and relates their stories to...
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  • Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne by Rundell, Katherine
    Katherine Rundell

    Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

    From standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death.Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing.In his...
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  • Dolls! Dolls! Dolls! Lib/E: Deep Inside Valley of the Dolls, the Most Beloved Bad Book and Movie of All Time by Rebello, Stephen
    Stephen Rebello

    Dolls! Dolls! Dolls! Lib/E: Deep Inside Valley of the Dolls, the Most Beloved Bad Book and Movie of All Time

    Since its publication in 1966, Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls has reigned as one of the most influential and beloved pieces of commercial fiction. Selling over thirty-one million copies worldwide, it revolutionized overnight the way books got sold, thanks to the tireless and...
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  • Shakespeare Was a Woman & Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature by Winkler, Elizabeth
    Elizabeth Winkler

    Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature

    A thrillingly provocative investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy...and who the Bard might really be.The theory that Shakespeare may not have written the works that bear his name is the...
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  • Hollywood Heroes: How Your Favorite Movies Reveal God by Turek, Frank
    Frank Turek

    Hollywood Heroes: How Your Favorite Movies Reveal God

    Seven fictional stories―Captain America, Iron Man, Harry Potter, Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, Batman, and Wonder Woman―point us to the ultimate hero, Jesus Christ. Think about it. What if Batman knew your name and wanted to be friends with you? What if...
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  • A Subversive Gospel: Flannery O'Connor and the Reimagining of Beauty, Goodness, and Truth by Bruner, Michael Mears
    Michael Mears Bruner

    A Subversive Gospel: Flannery O'Connor and the Reimagining of Beauty, Goodness, and Truth

    Conference on Christianity and Literature (CCL) 2020 Book of the Year - Literary Criticism. The good news of Jesus Christ is a subversive gospel, and following Jesus is a subversive act. These notions were embodied in the literary work of American author Flannery O'Connor,...
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  • Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World by Damrosch, Leo
    Leo Damrosch

    Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World

    Jonathan Swift is best remembered today as the author of Gulliver's Travels, the satiric fantasy that quickly became a classic and has remained in print for nearly three centuries. Yet Swift also wrote many other influential works, was a major political and religious figure...
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  • The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Fadiman, Anne
    Anne Fadiman

    The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

    Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors would ever...
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  • Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul by Dionne, Evette
    Evette Dionne

    Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul

    A poignant and ruthlessly honest journey through cultural expectations of size, race, and gender--and toward a brighter future--from National Book Award nominee Evette DionneMy body has not betrayed me; it has continued rebounding against all odds. It is a body that others map their...
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  • American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Th by Cheever, Susan
    Susan Cheever

    American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Th

    Author: Susan CheeverISBN-10: 8200144739ISBN-13: 9798200144730Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/15/2007Format: CDWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 5.80h x 5.60w x 0.60d
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  • Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul by Dionne, Evette
    Evette Dionne

    Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul

    A poignant and ruthlessly honest journey through cultural expectations of size, race, and gender--and toward a brighter future--from National Book Award nominee Evette DionneMy body has not betrayed me; it has continued rebounding against all odds. It is a body that others map their...
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  • The Literary Ladies' Guide to the Writing Life: Inspiration and Advice from Celebrated Women Authors Who Paved the Way by Atlas, Nava
    Nava Atlas

    Literary Ladies' Guide to the Writing Life, Revised and Updated: Inspiration and Advice from Celebrated Women Authors Who Paved the Way

    Literary Ladies Guide to the Writing Life serves as a beacon of inspiration to writers Author and artist Nava Atlas presents a treasury of intimate glimpses into the unfolding creative writing process across fifteen brilliant careers in women's literature and relates their stories to...
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  • A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe by Kundera, Milan
    Milan Kundera

    A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe

    A short collection of brilliant early essays that offers a fascinating context for the Milan Kundera's subsequent career and holds a mirror to much recent European history. It is also remarkably prescient with regard to Russia's current aggression in Ukraine and its threat to...
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  • A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe by Kundera, Milan
    Milan Kundera

    A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe

    A short collection of brilliant early essays that offers a fascinating context for the Milan Kundera's subsequent career and holds a mirror to much recent European history. It is also remarkably prescient with regard to Russia's current aggression in Ukraine and its threat to...
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  • How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One by Fish, Stanley
    Stanley Fish

    How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One

    New York Times Bestseller"Both deeper and more democratic than The Elements of Style" --Adam Haslett, Financial Times"A guided tour through some of the most beautiful, arresting sentences in the English language." --SlateIn this entertaining and erudite gem, world-class professor and New York Times columnist...
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  • The Book on the Bookshelf by Petroski, Henry
    Henry Petroski

    The Book on the Bookshelf

    From the author of the highly praised The Pencil and The Evolution of Useful Things comes another captivating history of the seemingly mundane: the book and its storage.Most of us take for granted that our books are vertical on our shelves with the spines...
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  • The Book on the Bookshelf by Petroski, Henry
    Henry Petroski

    The Book on the Bookshelf

    From the author of the highly praised The Pencil and The Evolution of Useful Things comes another captivating history of the seemingly mundane: the book and its storage.Most of us take for granted that our books are vertical on our shelves with the spines...
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  • Illuminations: Essays and Reflections by Benjamin, Walter
    Walter Benjamin

    Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

    Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and Brecht's...
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  • Reef Road by Royce, Deborah Goodrich
    Deborah Goodrich Royce

    Reef Road

    When a severed hand washes ashore in the wealthy enclave of Palm Beach, Florida, the lives of two women--a lonely writer obsessed with the unsolved murder of her mother's best friend and a panicked wife whose husband has disappeared with their children--collide as the...
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  • Inspired by Andrea Dworkin: Essays on Lust, Aggression, Porn, & the Female Gaze That I Might Not Have Written If Not for Her by Bright, Susie
    Susie Bright

    Inspired by Andrea Dworkin: Essays on Lust, Aggression, Porn, & the Female Gaze That I Might Not Have Written If Not for Her

    After Andrea Dworkin, the famous feminist philosopher and activist, passed away, her chief critic, Susie Bright, who many perceived as Dworkin's opposite, published a stirring obituary and series of essays in which she described the ways that Dworkin was a catalyst for the sex-positive...
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  • Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen by Skal, David J.
    David J. Skal

    Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen

    The primal image of the black-caped vampire Dracula has become an indelible fixture of the modern imagination. It's recognition factor rivals, in its own perverse way, the familiarity of Santa Claus. Most of us can recite without prompting the salient characteristics of the vampire:...
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  • Hollywood Heroes: How Your Favorite Movies Reveal God by Turek, Frank
    Frank Turek

    Hollywood Heroes: How Your Favorite Movies Reveal God

    Seven fictional stories―Captain America, Iron Man, Harry Potter, Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, Batman, and Wonder Woman―point us to the ultimate hero, Jesus Christ. Think about it. What if Batman knew your name and wanted to be friends with you? What if...
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  • A Little History of Poetry by Carey, John
    John Carey

    A Little History of Poetry

    A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literatureWhat is poetry? If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language...
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  • The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Ghosh, Amitav
    Amitav Ghosh

    The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

    Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines...
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  • Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read by Woolf, Virginia
    Virginia Woolf

    Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read

    Who better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf?In the early years of its existence, the Times Literary Supplement published some of the finest writers in English: T. S. Eliot, Henry James and E. M. Forster among...
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  • My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing by Phillips, Carl
    Carl Phillips

    My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing

    An invaluable companion for writers at every stage of their journey to make the writing life a more complex and cooperative venture.In this intimate and eloquent meditation, the award-winning poet Carl Phillips shares lessons he has learned about what he calls an "apprenticeship to...
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  • How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One by Fish, Stanley
    Stanley Fish

    How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One

    New York Times Bestseller"Both deeper and more democratic than The Elements of Style" --Adam Haslett, Financial Times"A guided tour through some of the most beautiful, arresting sentences in the English language." --SlateIn this entertaining and erudite gem, world-class professor and New York Times columnist...
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  • Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne by Rundell, Katherine
    Katherine Rundell

    Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

    From standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death.Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing.In his...
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  • Our Book of Awesome: A Celebration of the Small Joys That Bring Us Together by Pasricha, Neil
    Neil Pasricha

    Our Book of Awesome: A Celebration of the Small Joys That Bring Us Together

    Author: Neil PasrichaISBN-10: 1797157078ISBN-13: 9781797157078Publisher: Simon & Schuster AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/06/2022Format: CDWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 5.80h x 6.10w x 0.60d
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  • The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror from Fodder to Oscar by Harris, Mark H.
    Robin R. Means Coleman

    The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar

    A definitive and surprising exploration of the history of Black horror films, after the rising success of Get Out, Candyman, and Lovecraft Country from creators behind the acclaimed documentary, Horror Noire.The Black Guy Dies First explores the Black journey in modern horror cinema, from...
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  • Women of Myth: From Deer Woman and Mami Wata to Amaterasu and Athena, Your Guide to the Amazing and Diverse Women from World Mytholog by McMenemy, Genn
    Jenny Williamson

    Women of Myth: From Deer Woman and Mami Wata to Amaterasu and Athena, Your Guide to the Amazing and Diverse Women from World Mytholog

    Uncover the fascinating and complex women from mythology and folklore with this collection of stories profiling powerful goddesses, mighty queens, and legendary creatures.Get inspired with 50 fascinating stories of powerful female figures from mythologies around the world. From heroines and deities to leaders and...
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  • Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker by McBride, Jason
    Jason McBride

    Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker

    The first full-scale authorized biography of the pioneering experimental novelist Kathy Acker, one of the most original and controversial figures in 20th-century American literature.Kathy Acker (1947-1997) was a rare and almost inconceivable thing: a celebrity experimental writer. Twenty-five years after her death, she remains...
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