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Cow boyhood: the adventures of wilder good #7
What happens when Wilder realizes that granddads and dogs don’t last forever?
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Promise land
The herculean struggle to restore stability in Puerto Rico and a grave warning for America“I could not put down David Skeel’s new book. It is at once an engrossing and personal narrative, an illuminating analysis of inventive legal and political strategies, a sobering examination of responses to ...
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Plato's symposium and phaedrus
"Joe Sachs is a national treasure. His brilliant translations from the Greek, spanning works from Homer to Aristotle, have long enriched scholars and students alike. He crowns those achievements with this exquisite rendering of two of Plato’s most beautiful dialogues, with an introduction that ev...
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Only the longest threads
String theorist explores six breakthrough discoveries in physics from the point of view of an imaginary participant to the events.
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In search of circle z
"Dry’s keen visual sensibility propels her graceful and intriguing chronicle . . . She introduces James Perry Wilson, a master diorama landscape painter, and analyzes the power of those mesmerizing museum displays and her own wondrously soothing memoryscapes. Dry has channeled the 'magical presen...
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Piece by piece
A selection of essays on literature (and life) from the award-winning poet Rachel Hadas.
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Doublethink / doubletalk
Over a thousand aphorisms by the philosopher Eva Brann, a National Humanities Medal recipient
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The homeless
“Although he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature four times, Stefan Żeromski’s work is not as widely known outside Poland as it should be. Thus this elegant translation is most welcome . . . A beautiful, prescient story.” —Celia Jeffries, author of Blue Desert"This novel was written m...
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Stone tablets
New Delhi, 1956: Hungarian diplomat Istvan Terey is caught between love, politics, and the commands of his religion.
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Passport to paris and los angeles poems
“Passport to Paris is one of the great neglected memoirs of the 20th-century arts. The cosmopolitan composer Vernon Duke, born Vladimir Dukelsky, succeeded not only in living a mesmerizing life but also in telling his story with incomparable novelistic flair. A sampling of Duke’s California poetr...
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Poetry as enchantment
“Gioia joins W. H. Auden, Randall Jarrell, and D. H. Lawrence in embracing criticism that is insightfully intellectual and surprisingly personal . . . Always a canny discussant of contemporary poetics, Gioia again provides vital guidance for evaluating poetry that will appeal to tenured professor...
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Strange relation
"A piercingly honest account of life with a brilliant man as he descends into dementia."—Reeve Lindbergh
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Dottoressa
With sparkling wit, an American doctor practicing in Rome reveals the many differences between American and Italian medicine.
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Ransom for a knight
A courageous young girl travels across medieval England to rescue her father and brother.
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Sacred sites of center city
Describes the history and architecture of religious places in Center City Philadelphia. Includes five walking tours.
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Hot, sour, salty, sweet
“Seasoned with a dash of [Su’s] meticulously crafted poetry and even a recipe, this collection celebrates words, culture, food, and the human act of making that binds them all together. A literary gourmand’s delight.”—Kirkus Reviews“Su’s soulful reflections call attention to the complex connectio...
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His monkey wife
An offbeat classic about a strange and hilarious love triangle.
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Pursuits of happiness
Thirty-eight illuminating essays, reviews, and lectures by a legendary teacher in the Great Books program at St. John’s College
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Zeno's eternity
A moving twelfth collection from New Formalist poet Mark Jarman.
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On frost and eliot
Named a 2025 Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association's Choice ReviewsRobert Frost and T.S. Eliot have received ample attention as major American poets of the last century. But they have usually been considered apart from one another, the homely all-American Frost assumed to...
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A war of shadows
Moss recounts his rousing adventures as a British agent in Crete, Macedonia, and the Siamese jungle during World War II.
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The iliad
This vibrant new translation is faithful to the original yet easy to read, a wonderful introduction to Homer.
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Tattered banners
A Russian cavalry officer’s account of growing up and going off to war during the final reign of the Romanovs.
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Round and round together
Round and Round Together creates a new Civil Rights symbol—the Smithsonian Carousel.
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The verb 'to bird'
"An entertaining and witty meditation on birding."—Library Journal
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The last of all possible worlds and the temptation to do good
Reintroduces the only works of fiction from the famous management "guru" and social philosopher Peter Drucker
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Birds, peace, wealth
New translations of three plays by Aristophanes: Peace, Birds, and Wealth, with Introductions and Annotations
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Zift
Tightly-structured, hard-boiled fiction with stylistic turns from 40s noir movies, set in Communist era Bulgaria.
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Alias o. henry
"[A]n exuberant biographical novel . . . Riffing cleverly on O. Henry’s most cherished stories, Yagoda presents a vivid, witty, and delectable tale of crime and creativity."—Booklist“Alias O. Henry is a delight—a buoyant fictional conjecture about the writer’s hidden life, full of surprise cameos...
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Silverbelly: the adventures of wilder good #6
While bow hunting on his grandpa’s land Wilder meets a trespasser with an assault rifle and a bad attitude.
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The flight of ikaros
"One of the great and lasting books about Greece."--Patrick Leigh Fermor
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Scholarship boy
Far from his large tight-knit family, Larry Palmer navigates life as a black student at Exeter Academy in the 1950s.
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How to constitute a world
Helpful essays on Kant and the Pre-Socratics from the philosopher Eva Brann, a National Humanities Medal recipient.
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Mitchell & ruff
"A highly infectious, Studs Terkel-like chronicle about the unorthodox development of two distinguished musicians."—Publishers Weekly
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With my shadow
“There is an air of earnestness and sincerity about [Domin’s] poems—they don’t perform linguistic tricks . . . They are highly specific, idiosyncratic, and beautifully ordinary. Reading her, one is filled with a sense of natural wonder . . . Kafatou, who knew Domin, has sympathetically rendered a...
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Black rock brothers: the adventures of wilder good #5
Thirteen-year-old Wilder and two friends go on a ten-day hike in Colorado. No grown-ups allowed!
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The battle between the frogs and the mice
Striking illustrations and clever rhyme bring to life an ancient Greek fable about the foolishness of war
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Memoirs of a midget
"One of the strangest and most enchanting works of fiction ever written."—from the foreword by Alison Lurie
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The planning of center city philadelphia: from william penn to the present
Walking guide and history of planning in Philadelphia, America's first capital. For tourists/architecture buffs.
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The elk hunt: the adventures of wilder good #1
Through the mentoring of an old man, a boy develops strength and courage during an elk hunting trip in Colorado.
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The advancement of learning
The first major philosophical book written in English
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Davey mcgravy
Davey, his father, and brothers live in the "land of rain." He misses Mother, but delights in nature and rhyme.
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The trivium
This book involves understanding the nature and function of language.
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Never curse the rain: the adventures of wilder good #9
"Does praying for rain work?" Thirteen-year-old Wilder Good asks his grandfather, Papa, that question on a spring break visit to his ranch in West Texas. The ranch is mired in another drought and when Wilder’s cousin from New York, Frankie, accidentally starts a wildfire, chaos erupts. Wilder a...
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One is one
A courageous journey through violent times brings Stephen de Beauville to a life of serious artistry
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A russian schoolboy
Recalling the "magic world" of youth, Aksakov portrays the delights and tumults of Russian country life.
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Jane of hearts and other stories
Powerful short stories from the best-selling author of Triangle and The Music Lesson
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My hollywood and other poems
A tender collection of original and translated poetry from the editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books exploring the lives and longing of Russian immigrants in L.A.
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Heidegger's being and time and the possibility of political philosophy
Mark Blitz’s study asks if Being and Time, likely the 20th century’s most influential book of philosophy, embodies an ethics.
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Incarnation & metamorphosis
Essays on writers from Pablo Neruda to Sylvia Plath allow poet and essayist David Mason to explore the many changes we experience during a lifetime.
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Pomegranate years
An American artist’s poignant memoir of three years in Crete as she cares for her renowned and dying Greek-born husband.
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The magic lantern of marcel proust
"A moving and inspiring book."—Publishers Weekly
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Lincoln's quest for union
"This is a remarkable book with extraordinary insights about the inner life of Abraham Lincoln. It will be read and studied for years to come." -- Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Sidetracked
“Dralyuk’s translation is characteristically masterful."—University BookmanA bittersweet tale of war, survival, and the moviesWith great wit and warmth, Alexander Voloshin’s Sidetracked provides unique insight into one of the major human dramas of the twentieth century: the escape of some two mil...
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The writer who stayed
Sixty essays on writing, getting older, staying alert to the world, and passing along writing tips to others
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Hide and seek
Xan Fielding's lively account of his two-year game of hide-and-seek with the Germans occupying Crete during World War II.
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Satan talks to his therapist
"If the LOLSOB emoji could write verse that both sings and stings, the result would be Satan Talks to His Therapist."—Allison Joseph, author of Confessions of a Barefaced Woman“Balmain treads that fine line between comedy and tragedy in poems graced by telling details, surprising turns, and a kee...
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Fat wednesday
How does what we see depend on what we say? Verdi on Wittgenstein explores this question.
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Ill met by moonlight
Ill Met By Moonlight describes the stunning kidnapping of an enemy general—a brilliantly written, exciting, and compelling WWII story.
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The envisioned life
A celebration of Eva Brann, prolific author and beloved teacher at St. John's College.
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Politics, nature, and piety
"The writings in this volume are the fruit of a lifetime devoted to the study of ‘ancients’ and ‘moderns,’ both poetic and philosophic. Full of insights into foundational texts ranging from Aristotle’s Poetics to the Declaration of Independence, they are marked by an admirable clarity of thought ...
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Music and the idea of a world
"In this deeply felt and well-researched meditation, Kalkavage finds the special bond that exists between the world and the power of music." —Booklist“Many people write about the meaning of music, but few can do it as well as Peter Kalkavage does in this marvelous, winsome, and often hauntingly b...
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The parnas
"One of the most extraordinary stories yet to reach us from the bitter ashes of Nazism"—New York Times Book Review
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Avail
“In Erin O’Luanaigh’s Avail, rhyme and prose rub elbows, elegy and illness conspire, golden-age Hollywood films and childhood mortality are allies . . . Her poems celebrate the synthesis of real and plasticized moments, memories and concrete locales with a filmic vitality.”—PN ReviewIn this breat...
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The tables of the law
"Beautiful…one of the best short novels [Mann] has written."—New York Times
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Iron filings or scribblings
As iron filings configure themselves around a magnet, so in these essays Eva Brann displays her oppositional, or polar, thinking.
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The stronghold
Sixty years after its first publication, a rare travel classic is restored to print.
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After
"Among the finest poets of his generation.”—Richard Wilbur, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry"Like Frost before him, Brock has the power to make earthbound words take flight.”—Boris Dralyuk, author of My Hollywood and Other PoemsThe title of Geoffrey Brock's third poetry collection...
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The six-cornered snowflake
Scientific, philosophical, and literary ingenuity come together in this witty musing on the nature of snowflakes.
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Observations of an accidental farmer—and a mindful reader
In forty short and charming chapters, a former "great books" teacher from New York City adapts to his new role on a small Southern farm by observing the natural world and drawing connections to his reading life."Erudite and engaging."—BooklistIn late middle-age, Harry Kavros and his wife, Peri, p...
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Awake with asashoryu and other essays
A young woman struggles to grow up without losing herself in this charming collection of personal essays.
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Eugene nadelman
“Move over, Onegin—we’ve a new Eugene for the ages. In Michael Weingrad’s wildly charming and profound telling, young Eugene Nadelman’s adolescence in 1980s Philadelphia unfolds in iambic tetrameter, with each crush and clash and heartache feeling as epic as they do for the young and the hopeful....
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Is equality an absolute good?
Philosopher Eva Brann wonders what concrete good we get from the claim of equality set forth in the Declaration of Independence.
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Dark-land
"A granular, meditative, and beautiful portrait of a fascinating life."—Booklist"Put this beautiful book on your shelf between Frank Conroy's Stop-Time and Tobias Wolff's This Boy's Life."—William Giraldi, author of The Hero's Body"Of all the memoirs and autobiographies I’ve ever read—literary or...
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Just enough to start over
“A deeply moving novel with so much soul on display that one can only rejoice.”—Jay Parini, author of The Last Station and Borges and Me"A gorgeous novel, Just Enough to Start Over is a feat of imagination."—Foreword Reviews, starred review"A gorgeously written novel, all at once profound, relata...
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Surprised again!—the covid crisis and the new market bubble
An essential guide to understanding the unprecedented economic instability of 2020 and what it may mean for the future.
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Ear training
“These pieces reflect Pritchard’s abiding joy in literature, especially poetry … Included here are insightful appreciations of Anthony Trollope, Anthony Powell, and a sublime reading of Philip Larkin. His essay on Elizabeth Bishop will have poetry lovers reaching for volumes of her work. Pritchar...
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Rug man
Winner, Athenaeum of Philadelphia 2023 Literary AwardFor fans of Richard Russo and Stewart O’Nan comes a frank and funny debut novel about the workaday world of an unassuming carpet installerFrank “Ace” Renzetti has been installing carpet for over forty years, working the upscale neighborhoods of...
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The discovery of slowness
"Vivid and constantly surprising excels at conveying the feel of discovery."Washington Post
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Dailiness
In these essays poet Mark Jarman explains why he believes consciousness is a gift and poetry a gift of consciousness.
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In the basement at the va
"Clear-eyed and deeply human, In the Basement at the VA shows that medicine is as much about communication as it is about treatment—and that small choices can carry life-changing weight."—Danielle Ofri, MD, editor of Bellevue Literary Review, author of What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the P...
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Luminous bodies
"Captivating."—Christian Science Monitor“Marie Curie’s professional achievements aren’t slighted in Jersild’s first novel, Luminous Bodies, but what fascinates her are the Nobel-Prize-winning scientist’s personal struggles in a patriarchal world . . . Choosing to narrate Curie’s experiences in an...
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Frieze frame
"Frieze Frame is a lucidly brilliant, learned read that wears its learning lightly, inviting the reader into a coterie of artists and intellectuals, traced and uncovered with a poet's touch."—Times Literary Supplement"Highly entertaining."—The Spectator“[A] compact, original book. . . . Whether t...
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