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Submergence (2017)

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Clinging to life in a cell in Africa, James is brutally interrogated by jihadis. Worlds away,...

Music and Ideas in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Claude V. Palisca and Thomas J. Mathiesen

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This essential summation of Palisca's life work was nearly finished by his death in 2001, and it was...

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Journey To The End Of The Night

Louis-Ferdinand Celine | 2012 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry

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"Hard to choose between this and his ‘Death on The Installment Plan’. But Céline’s quasi-autobiography wins. Despite the nihilistic cynicism of which he is often justifiably accused, underneath it all, his characters bristle with life and hope. "

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The Dumb House: (Scottish Classics)

John Burnside

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As a child, Luke's mother often tells him the story of the Dumb House, an experiment on newborn...

One Crimson Thread

Micheal O'Siadhail

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For twenty years Micheal O'Siadhail's beloved wife, Brid, suffered from Parkinson's disease. These...

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Pale Horse, Pale Rider

Katherine Anne Porter | 2014 | Essays

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"Porter accomplishes an extraordinary amount in a few pages. She addresses the horrors of war from a woman’s perspective; she touches on the difficult a terrain a working woman must navigate in a man’s world; she creates a desirable male, describing his physical allure from a female point of view: quite rare in most fiction. But most astonishing, in chronicling Miranda’s near death experience and her reluctant return to life, she describes the indescribable and deals with the most profound human issues: life, death, identity, in shatteringly beautiful prose."

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