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Passive Aggressive Notes: Painfully Polite and Hilariously Hostile Writings

Book Description Part voyeuristic entertainment, part group therapy, Passive Aggressive Notes offers a fascinating look at the all-too-familiar frustrations of embattled office drones, apartment...

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Before Night Falls: A Memoir

This shocking personal and political memoir from one of the most visionary writers to emerge from Castro's Cuba recounts Arenas' stunning odyssey--from his poverty-stricken childhood through his...

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F My Life

Today, my boss fired me via text message. I don’t have a text messaging plan. I paid 25 cents to get fired.Your girlfriend dumped you, your car broke down, your boss passed you up for the big...

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The Showings of Julian of Norwich (Norton Critical Editions)

Julian of Norwich is among the most intriguing religious visionaries in Christian history. Carefully edited for the undergraduate reader, this Norton Critical Edition includes an informed...

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American Feminism: Key Source Documents, 1848-1920 (History of Feminism)

This collection publishes key documents in the history of American feminism that until now have only been available in extract form or in archives. The coverage spans a period beginning with the...

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Prefaces to Shakespeare: Macbeth (Granville Barker's Prefaces to Shakespeare)

One of twelve volumes for the student of Shakespeare, whether in the theatre class or the literature class, for the actors, and for the directors. Manufacturer: Heinemann Drama Author: Harley...

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Excalibur

A collection of more than twenty-five stories of myth and magic includes the works of such notable authors as Marion Zimmer Bradley, Charles de Lint, Diana Gabaldon, Mercedes Lackey, and Eric...

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Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology (Mentor)

Today man's mind is under attack by all the leading schools of philosophy. We are told that we cannot trust our senses, that logic is arbitrary, that concepts have no basis in reality. Ayn Rand...

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2000 Years of Mayan Literature

Mayan literature is among the oldest in the world, spanning an astonishing two millennia from deep pre-Columbian antiquity to the present day. Here, for the first time, is a fully illustrated survey,...

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How to Read a Book (A Touchstone book)

How to Read a Book, originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a living classic. It is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader. And now...

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Out of Africa (Modern Library)

In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives: of the beauty...

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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Modern Library Series)

Thirty years after its publication, The Death and Life of Great American Cities was described by The New York Times as "perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town...

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'Tis: A Memoir

Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, Angela's Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound humanity. A tale of redemption, in which...

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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir

From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950sBill Bryson was born in the middle of the...

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Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried (Bloom's Guides)

This collection of stories from Vietnam War writer Tim O'Briens paints a thorough picture of the soldiers' life during the war. The book also gives a brief biographical sketch to provide insight on...

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The Heart Has Its Reasons: Young Adult Literature with Gay/Lesbian/Queer Content, 1969-2004 (Scarecrow Studies in Young Adult Literature)

Society does not make it easy for young people, regardless of their sexual orientation, to find accurate, nonjudgmental information about homosexuality. It makes it even more difficult for young...

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