The Silver Spoon: Memoir of a Boyhood in Japan
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Perhaps the most admired childhood memoir ever written in Japan, The Silver Spoon is a sharp...
Where Does it Hurt?: What the Junior Doctor Did Next
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The Junior Doctor is back! He's into his second year of medicine, but this time Max is out of the...
Kingdom of Gravity
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A talent at the beginning of a genuinely important road. -- George Szirtes In direct narrative...
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Pilate and Jesus
Giorgio Agamben and Adam Kotsko
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Pontius Pilate is one of the most enigmatic figures in Christian theology. The only non-Christian to...
Vittorio the Vampire (New Tales of the Vampires, #2)
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With Pandora, Anne Rice began a magnificent new series of vampire novels. Now, in the second of her...
Rodin & Eros: Embracing the Body Erotic
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The theme of the erotic is ever present in the work of Auguste Rodin, both in his sculptures and in...
About a Village Boy: A Memoir
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Chris Dunning overcame the after-effects of polio to win some of the world's biggest ocean racing...
Widening Income Inequality
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Seidel is the great controversialist of American poetry. Dubbed a "Transgressive adventurer," a...
The Idiot
Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky and F.M. Dostoevsky
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Just two weeks after completing Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky produced a second novel with a very...
The Judgement of Caesar: A Mystery of Ancient Rome
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It is 48 BC.For years now the rival Roman generals Caesar and Pompey have engaged in a contest for...