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Alzheimer's from the Inside Out

Alzheimer's from the Inside Out

Author: Richard Taylor

Richard Taylor has lived for five years with a diagnosis of dementia probably of the Alzheimer's type. A former psychologist, he is now a champion for individuals with early-stage and early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Ric ...
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The Bardo of Waking Life

The Bardo of Waking Life

Author: Richard Grossinger

An avant-garde set of improvisational essays, Richard Grossinger's The Bardo of Waking Life is a meditation on the Tibetan Buddhist bardo realm which, in popular culture, is viewed as the bridge between lives, the state ...
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The Book of Regrets

The Book of Regrets

Author: Juliet Solomon

Do you have major regrets in life? Or just some minor faux pas you could kick yourself for committing? Or is it something you didn't do in life that you regret? This fascinating book lets you into the secrets of a wide r ...
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Prague

Prague

A Traveler's Literary Companion

Author: Wilson

Travel to one of the most beautiful cities in the world in the company of its finest writers. Walk the mysterious nighttime streets of Prague with Franz Kafka and Jaroslav Hasek, eavesdrop on intimate conversations in re ...
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We are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for

We are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for

Light in a Time of Darkness

Author: Alice Walker

'It is the worst of times. It is the best of times. Try as I might I cannot find a more appropriate opening for this volume' Terrorist attacks, natural disasters such as the Asian tsunami and the flooding of New Orleans, ...
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What is Found There

What is Found There

Notebooks on Poetry and Politics

Author: Adrienne Rich

The "impulse to enter, with other humans, through language, into the order and disorder of the world, is poetic at its root as surely as it is political at its root, " writes Adrienne Rich at the beginning of her powerfu ...
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Why Not Catch-21?

Why Not Catch-21?

The Stories Behind the Titles

Author: Gary Dexter

Why Not Catch 21? is an expansion on Gary Dexter's long-running Sunday Telegraph column. Each of its 50 chapters focuses on the origins of one of the great titles of world literature, presenting a bite-sized piece of lit ...
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Awake!

Awake!

A Reader for the Sleepless

Author: Steven Lee Beeber

Although millions of books have served to help the sleepless relax, Awake! will make sleeplessness fun. Fiction (including previously unpublished stories by Aimee Bender and Arthur Bradford) essays (from Yale neurobiolog ...
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The Art of the Dramatist

The Art of the Dramatist

Author: J.B. Priestley

In these passionate and witty essays on the theatre, J B Priestley distils his experience as a playwright, producer, director and - just once - actor. Relishing the past, analysing the present, and predicting the future, ...
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Bad Dogs Have More Fun

Bad Dogs Have More Fun

Selected Writings on Animals, Family and Life by John Grogan for the Philadelphia Inquirer

Author: John Grogan

Originally published by the Philadelphia Inquirer, this unforgettable collection of 70 newspaper columns by bestselling author John Grogan have the same sense of humour, wit, poignancy and insight that Grogan exhibited i ...
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Bad Girls

Bad Girls

25 Writers Misbehave

Author: Ellen Sussman

Presents an anthology of real-life stories from women writers who celebrate and meditate upon their acts of defiance. Suitable for readers who are tired of paying their bills dutifully, driving safely, eating organically ...
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Batman Unauthorized

Batman Unauthorized

Vigilantes, Jokers, and Heroes in Gotham City

Author: Dennis O'Neill

Compiled by a veteran writer of the comic series, this collection of essays explores Batman's motivations and actions, as well as those of his foes. Batman is a creature of the night, more about vengeance than justice, m ...
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Behind the Lines

Behind the Lines

Pieces on Writing and Pictures

Author: Michael Hofmann

Behind the Lines is a gathering of reviews and critical writings from one of our foremost poets. Hofmann's preoccupations as a reader are manifold, whether looking east to the writers of the other Europe or westwards to ...
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Blacklines

Blacklines

Contemporary Critical Writing by Indigenous Australians

Author: Michele Grossman

Written by established and emerging Indigenous intellectuals from a variety of positions, perspectives and places, these essays generate new ways of seeing and understanding Indigenous Australian history, culture, identi ...
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Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide

Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide

Discover Your Next Great Read

Author: Nick Rennison

Deciding what to read next when you've just finished an unputdownable novel can be a daunting task. The Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide features hundreds of authors and thousands of titles, with navigation features to lead ...
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Boarding the Enterprise

Boarding the Enterprise

Transporters, Tribbles and the Vulcan Death Grip in Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek

Author: David Gerrold & Robert J. Sawyer

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Trekkies and Trekkers alike will get starry-eyed over this eclectic mix of essays on the groundbreaking original Star Trek series. Star Trek writers D. C. Fontana and David Gerrold, scie ...
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The Best Creative Nonfiction: v. 1

The Best Creative Nonfiction: v. 1

Author: Lee Gutkind

Lee Gutkind, proclaimed the "Godfather behind creative nonfiction" by Vanity Fair, along with the staff of his landmark journal Creative Nonfiction, has culled alternative publications, 'zines, blogs, podcasts, literary ...
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The Book That Changed My Life

The Book That Changed My Life

71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them

Author: Roxanne J. Coady & Joy Johannessen

Now in paperback, a delightful collection of essays on the transformative power of reading In The Book That Changed My Life, our most admired writers, doctors, professors, religious leaders, politicians, chefs, and CEO s ...
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Crime Wave

Crime Wave

Collected Nonfiction

Author: Dashiell Hammett

Though he is celebrated for his fiction, Dashiell Hammett was also an investigative journalist whose nonfiction is anthologized for the first time in this collection. All the pieces that ran in Hammett's syndicated newsp ...
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Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siecle

Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siecle

Author: Sally Ledger & Scott McCracken

Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siecle scrutinises ways in which current conflicts of 'race', class, and gender have their origins in the cultural politics of the last fin de siecle, whose influence stretched from the 18 ...
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