Dashiell Hammett and the Movies
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As the father of the hardboiled detective genre, Dashiell Hammett had a huge influence on Hollywood....
Front Lines: Soldiers' Writing in the Early Modern Hispanic World
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In Front Lines, Miguel Martinez documents the literary practices of imperial Spain's common...
Stories of Your Life: And Others
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Soon to be a major motion picture starring Amy Adams. This new edition of Ted Chiang's masterful...
Nausea
James Wood, Robert Baldick and Jean-Paul Sartre
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Jean-Paul Sartre's first published novel, Nausea is both an extended essay on existentialist ideals,...
Cometh the Hour
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Cometh the Hour opens with the reading of a suicide note, which has devastating consequences for...
From the Great Blasket to America: The Last Memoir by an Islander
Michael J. Carney and Gerald Hayes
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Mike Carney, the oldest living native Blasket Islander, was born on the Great Blasket Island in...
The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
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"Wonderful...Rubin shows how you can be happier, starting right now, with small, actionable steps...
Buckfast Abbey: History, Art and Architecture
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As Buckfast Abbey prepares to celebrate its millennium in 2018, this new book chronicles the...
The Golden House
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When powerful real-estate tycoon Nero Golden immigrates to the States under mysterious...
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The Triumph of Music: The Rise of Composers, Musicians and Their Art
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A distinguished historian chronicles the rise of music and musicians in the West from lowly...