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Peter De Rosa
On Easter Monday of 1916, a thousand Irish men and women, armed with pikes and rifles, took over... The Irish Rising of 1916 "A WORK OF GREAT DRAMATIC POWER climaxing in the final hundred pages where he writes a full, searing narrative of the ... [... more]
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Hans-Ulrich Treichel
Hans-Ulrich Treichel has a work of fiction so stunningly evoked the guilt and shame that resounds in postwar Germany. In this debut novel of astonishing originality, we bear witness to a family ravaged with regret at the loss of their child. As a ... [... more]
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Friedrich Engels
The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels "A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of Communism." So begins one of history's most important documents, a work of such magnitude that it has forever changed not only the scope of ... [... more]
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Sandra Steingraber
A Scientist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment With this eloquent and impassioned book, biologist and poet Sandra Steingraber shoulders the legacy of Rachel Carson, producing a work about people and land, cancer and the ... [... more]
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David L. Lewis
The Souls of Black Folk When first published in 1903, W.E.B. Du Bois's struck like a thunderclap, quickly establishing itself as a work that wholly redefined the history of the black experience in America, introducing the now famous "problem of ... [... more]
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Richard Burton
Full of mischief and valor, ribaldry and romance, The Arabian Nights is a work that has enthralled readers for centuries. The text presented here is that of the 1932 Modern Library edition for which Bennett A. Cerf chose the "most famous and ... [... more]
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Han Shaogong
From the daring imagination of one of China's greatest living novelists comes a work of startling power and originality-the story of a young man "displaced" to a small village in rural China during the 1960s. Told in the format of a dictionary, [... more]
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Pickups 2009 Wall Calendar
 Pickups Wall Calendar: The great American pickup truck is one of the most basic and beloved forms of transportation. There is no stronger bond than that which exists between the owner of a pickup and his or her truck. And, as the classics pictured in [... more]
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Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace
A work by turns hilarious and grim, Evelina tells the story of a young woman's education in the ways of the world, vividly rendering life in eighteenth-century England. Raised by a pastor after her mother died and her father abandoned her, ... [... more]
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Lionel Trilling
The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Published in 1950, one ... [... more]
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David Jones
"This writing has to do with some things I saw, felt, and was part of": with quiet modesty, David Jones begins a work that is among the most powerful imaginative efforts to grapple with the carnage of the First World War, a book celebrated by .. [... more]
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