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  • Holidays on Iceby David Sedaris

    Little, Brown and Company 2009; US$ 8.99

    David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published story. Along with such favorites as the diaries of a Macy's elf and the annals of two very competitive families, are Sedaris's tales of tardy trick-or-treaters ("Us and Them"); the difficulties of explaining the Easter Bunny to the French ("Jesus Shaves"); what to do when you've been locked out in a snowstorm ("Let It Snow"); the puzzling Christmas traditions of other nations ("Six to Eight Black Men"); what Halloween at the medical examiner's looks like ("The Monster Mash"); and a barnyard secret Santa scheme gone awry ("Cow and Turkey"). No matter what your favorite holiday, you won't want to miss celebrating it with the author... more...

  • Following the Equatorby Mark Twain

    The Floating Press 1897; US$ 4.99

    Following the Equator is an account by Mark Twain of his travels through the British Empire in 1895. He chose his route for opportunities to lecture on the English language and recoup his finances, impoverished due to a failed investment. He recounts and criticizes the racism, imperialism and missionary zeal he encountered on his travels - and all with his particular brand of wit. more...

  • What the Dog Sawby Malcolm Gladwell

    Little, Brown and Company 2009; US$ 9.99

    What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers? What does hair dye tell us about the history of the 20 th century? In the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell has written three books that have radically changed how we understand our world and ourselves: The Tipping Point ; Blink ; and Outliers. Now, in What the Dog Saw , he brings together, for the first time, the best of his writing from The New Yorker over the same period. Here is the bittersweet tale of the inventor of the birth control pill, and the dazzling inventions of the pasta sauce pioneer Howard Moscowitz. Gladwell sits... more...

  • Works of Leo Tolstoyby MobileReference

    MobileReference.com 2007; US$ 5.99

    Works of Leo Tolstoy (50+ works): Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection and more. Table of Contents. Novels:. Anna Karenina. Boyhood. Childhood. The Cossacks, A Tale of 1852. The Death of Ivan Ilych. Hadji Murad. Master and Man. The Kreutzer Sonata. Resurrection; or, The Awakening. War and Peace. Youth. Dramatic Plays:. Fruits of Culture. Redemption, also known as The Man who was Dead, or, Reparation, or The Living Corpse. The Power of Darkness. Autobiographical writings:. A Confession. First Recollections. A History of Yesterday. Stories:. Albert. The Candle. Family Happiness. Father Sergius. The Godfather. Katia. A Lost Opportunity. Polikushka: The Lot of a Wicked Court Servant. The Porcelain Doll. Strider: the Story of a Horse. Two... more...

  • Works of Alexandre Dumasby MobileReference

    MobileReference.com 2007; US$ 5.99

    Works of Alexandre Dumas: The Three Musketeers, Louise de la Valliere The Vicomte de Bragelonne, Man in the Iron Mask, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Black Tulip, Chicot the Jester & more. Table of Contents. The D''Artagnan Romances | Over Novels | Celebrated Crimes. The D''Artagnan Romances:. The Three Musketeers. Twenty Years After. The Vicomte de Bragelonne in three parts:. Ten Years Later. Louise de la Valliere. The Man in the Iron Mask. The Black Tulip. Chicot the Jester (La Dame de Monsoreau). The Companions of Jehu. The Count of Monte Cristo. The Forty-Five Guardsmen. The Queen''s Necklace. Celebrated Crimes:. Ali Pacha. The Borgias. The Cenci. The Countess De Saint Geran. Derues. Joan of Naples. Karl-Ludwig Sand.... more...

  • Essaysby Michel de Montaigne; Charles Cotton; William Carew Hazlitt

    The Floating Press 1877; US$ 5.99

    Considered the inventor of the essay itself, Michel de Montaigne published Essays (Essais, literally "Attempts") in 1850. Known for his skill at merging serious intellectual debate with personal anecdotes, his vast work collects together some of the most influential essays the world has ever seen, shaping the thoughts Blaise Pascal, René Descartes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stefan Zweig, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Isaac Asimov among others... more...

  • 2013by Daniel Pinchbeck; Richard Grossinger

    North Atlantic Books 2011; US$ 16.95

    For the Earth to move to the next vibration, says Richard Grossinger, consciousness must change in profound ways, and these involve core elements of humanity: evil, grief, bliss, and compassion. 2013 locates these elements in often unlikely places and seeks their nature and capacity for change. With playfulness and precision, 2013 tackles the questions of creation and existence in their twenty-first-century incarnation. In these intellectual field notes, the author’s absorbing style combines memoir with scientific deconstruction, metaphysical ontology, and experimental prose that recalls the Black Mountain school to draw transcendental insight from the ephemeral space-time we call daily life. Moving with equal ease between matters... more...

  • Beyond Bin Ladenby James A. Iii Baker; Karen Hughes; Richard N. Haass; Bing West; Jon Meacham

    Random House Publishing Group 2011; US$ 1.99

    Osama bin Laden was the most wanted man in American history—an enemy who brought the United States what President George W. Bush called “a day of fire,” and ushered in a new era of terrorism. It took a decade of blood and sacrifice, of determination and frustration, but finally, in a nighttime raid at the end of a dirt road in Pakistan, the hunt for Bin Laden ended with a gunshot. It was a dramatic climax to a long and painful chapter. But now what? The terrorist threat that has defined American policy since the attacks of 9/11 did not die with Bin Laden in his walled compound near Islamabad. Radicals still wish us harm, and we must fight on. In this provocative collection of essays edited and introduced by Pulitzer Prize... more...

  • God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkianby Neil Gaiman; Kurt Vonnegut

    Seven Stories Press 2011; US$ 11.95

    From Slapstick's "Turkey Farm" to Slaughterhouse-Five's eternity in a Tralfamadorean zoo cage with Montana Wildhack, the question of the afterlife never left Kurt Vonnegut's mind. In God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian, Vonnegut skips back and forth between life and the Afterlife as if the difference between them were rather slight. In thirty odd "interviews," Vonnegut trips down "the blue tunnel to the pearly gates" in the guise of a roving reporter for public radio, conducting interviews: with Salvatore Biagini, a retired construction worker who died of a heart attack while rescuing his schnauzer from a pit bull, with John Brown, still smoldering 140 years after his death by hanging, with William Shakespeare, who rubs Vonnegut the wrong way, and... more...

  • Best Sex Writing 2012by Rachel Kramer Bussel; Susie Bright

    Cleis Press 2012; US$ 15.95

    In Best Sex Writing 2012, editor Rachel Kramer Bussel and judge Susie Bright collect the year’s most challenging and provocative nonfiction articles on this endlessly evocative subject. The essays here comprise a detailed, direct survey of the contemporary American sexual landscape. Major commentators examine the many roles sex plays in our lives in these literate and lively essays. From an "X-Rated Jew," a sex blogger's custody battle and teen sex laws to SlutWalks, female pleasure workshops, porn star celebrities, gays in the military, and "guys who like fat chicks," Best Sex Writing 2012 goes behind the headlines to explore the intricacies of sex and aging, sex and the law, and many other hot topics. With a foreword and selections... more...