We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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Shirley Jackson's masterpiece: the deliciously dark and funny story of Merricat, tomboy teenager,...
Peacerunner: The True Story of How an Ex-Congressman Helped End the Centuries of War in Ireland
Penn Rhodeen and President Bill Clinton
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Peacerunner is the must-read account of how ex-congressman Bruce Morrison rose from crushing defeat...
Charlie Chaplin: Interviews
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In late 1914, Charlie Chaplin's name first began appearing on marquees. By the end of the following...
Hippie Food: How Back-to-the-Landers, Longhairs, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat
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An enlightening narrative history—an entertaining fusion of Tom Wolfe and Michael Pollan—that...
food history
Medusa by Paradise Lost
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Most people will know Medusa as the Gorgon from Greek mythology; she is the infamous beast with...
metal
Murphy Plays:6: Cherry Orchard; She Stoops to Folly; The Drunkard; The Last Days of a Reluctant Tyrant
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Murphy Plays: 6 brings together four plays by the author inspired by other great works of...
When I'm Sixty-Four: The Plot Against Pensions and the Plan to Save Them
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A crisis is looming for baby boomers and anyone else who hopes to retire in the coming years. In...
Transcendence and the Concrete: Selected Writings
Jean Wahl, Alan Schrift and Ian Alexander Moore
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Jean Wahl (1888-1974), once considered by the likes of Georges Bataille, Gilles Deleuze, Emmanuel...
Tea: A Very British Beverage
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The ubiquitous cup of tea is as much a part of British life as indifferent weather, the BBC or the...
The Vineyard at the End of the World: Maverick Winemakers and the Rebirth of Malbec
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As wine connoisseurs know, Argentine wine was once famously bad. The grapes were overwatered,...
