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Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath (87286100127460) is not available at this time.
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Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out A Novel

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My Afterlife Guaranteed Nanos Valaoritis Full of wit and wonder, these prose poems, meditations, and narratives open onto rare and unexpected vistas of history and myth, language, and the art of writing. Nanos Valaoritis was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1921, of Greek parents. He has...

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The Death and Life of Great American Cities Jane Jacobs A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961...

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The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky Fyodor Dostoevsky This collection, unique to the Modern Library, gathers seven of Dostoevsky's key works and shows him to be equally adept at the short story as with the novel.

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Recollections of My Life as a Woman The New York Years Diane di Prima In Recollections of My Life as a Woman, Diane di Prima explores the first three decades of her extraordinary life. Born into a conservative Italian American family, di Prima grew up in Brooklyn but broke away from her roots to follow through on a...

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Life Studies, Life Stories Drawings Lawrence Ferlinghetti Close to 100 figurative drawings in black and white, and in color, mostly nudes in love or strife, some "disastered by life," some with incisive or caustic words integrated in the images. This is a retrospective of Ferlinghetti's graphic work and...

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Life As We Show It Writing On Film Brian Pera, Masha Tupitsyn Writings about the influence of film on the cultural and individual imagination

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself A New Critical Edition by Angela Y. Davis Frederick Douglass, Angela Y. Davis A new edition of the African American masterpiece featuring critical essays by Angela Y. Davis

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A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude...

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A Short History of Presidential Election Crises (And How to Prevent the Next One) Alan Hirsch An urgent primer on what can be done to combat emerging threats to the core of U.S. Democracy––presidential elections.

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To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life Hervé Guibert A novel that describes, with devastating, darkly comic clarity, its narrator's experience of being diagnosed with AIDS.

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LYING LIFE OF ADULTS TRANSLATED BY ANN GOLDSTEIN A POWERFUL NEW NOVEL set in a divided Naples by ELENA FERRANTE, the New York Times best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter.

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Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture Sudhir Hazareesingh A new interpretation of the life of the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture --Recommended by Paul

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