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Favorite Folktales from Around the World Jane Yolen A one volume collection of 160 tales from over 40 cultures and traditions, containing both classics and lesser known...

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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World A Novel Haruki Murakami In a virtuoso performance, Murakami negotiates parallel narratives: one about a split-brain data processor who's caught in the middle of an information war and must avoid both Semiotecs and subterranean monsters; and the other about a dream...

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First World, Ha, Ha, Ha! The Zapatista Challenge Elaine Katzenberger The Zapatista Army emerged from the jungle on New Year's Day, 1994, and provoked a national crisis in Mexico. At a demonstration in Mexico City, over 100,000 people marched together and shouted, First World, HA HA HA!-a defiant declaration of...

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Pictures of the Gone World Pocket Poets Number 1 Lawrence Ferlinghetti Published to celebrate forty years of City Lights publishing, which began with the letterpress printing of this book in 1955. It was Lawrence Ferlinghetti's first book, and it has been reprinted twenty-one times, having never been out of print. The...

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The New World Border Prophecies, Poems, and Loqueras for the End of the Century Guillermo Gómez-Peña If writing about music is like dancing about architecture, then a book about performance art is surely like a sonata about sculpture. In the case of The New World Border, however, there is little lost in translation; the force and originality of...

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The Toughest Indian in the World Sherman Alexie A beloved American writer whose books are championed by critics and readers alike, Sherman Alexie has been hailed by Time as "one of the better new novelists, Indian or otherwise." Now his acclaimed new collection, The Toughest Indian in the World...

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The World's Embrace Abdellatif Laâbi Selected Poems Compelling poems from one of the most prolific and critically acclaimed of contemporary North African writers. Imprisoned for many years by the Moroccan authorities, Laabi's poetry is haunted by memories of torture and prisons and bears witness to...

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Pictures of the Gone World CD & Bonus DVD Lawrence Ferlinghetti This two-disc set features Ferlinghetti meditating on a time gone by in his past. His paper-thin wispy voice further reinforces the antiquity of the content, but accompanies him musically with great subtlety and sensitivity.

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A Model World and Other Stories Michael Chabon By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and...

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A Crack in the Edge of the World America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 Simon Winchester Unleashed by ancient geologic forces, a magnitude 8.25 earthquake rocked San Francisco in the early hours of April 18, 1906. Less than a minute later, the city lay in ruins.

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Brave New World Aldous Huxley Aldous Huxley's tour de force, Brave New World is a darkly satiric vision of a "utopian" future—where humans are genetically bred and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a ruling order. A powerful work of speculative fiction that...

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Broken World Joseph Lease "Poems as cool as they are passionate, as soft-spoken as they are indignant, and as fiercely Romantic as they are formally contained. . . . An exquisite collection!" – Marjorie Perloff

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The Post-Birthday World A Novel Lionel Shriver American children's book illustrator Irina McGovern enjoys a secure, settled life in London with her smart, loyal, disciplined partner, Lawrence—until the night she finds herself inexplicably drawn to kissing another man, a passionate, extravagant...

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A Little History of the World E. H. Gombrich In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited by a publishing acquaintance to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks...

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World Ball Notebook Sesshu Foster A genre-breaking adventure: narrative prose poems filled with awe, yearning, acerbic wit, and crystalline observations.

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