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Susan Sontag
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

"Sontag's celebrated essays on cancer and AIDS available in one volume. Sontag destigmatizes both illnesses by removing the metaphorical thinking that has made these among the most feared diseases of…

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Yiyun Li
Things in Nature Merely Grow

"Yiyun Li's remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance as she considers the loss of her son James"--

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Katja Kulin
Geliebte Orlando

Als Virginia Woolf im Dezember 1922 die Schriftstellerin Vita Sackville-West kennenlernt, ist sie vierzig Jahre alt und steht noch ganz am Anfang ihres literarischen Erfolgs. Nach zwei Suizidversuchen leb…

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Honor Cargill-Martin,
Shakespeare's Heroines

Make way for the best-loved women characters from Shakespeare's best-loved plays as they take centre stage. Discover Lady Macbeth's cunning methods of persuasion to kill the king, why the queen of the fai…

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Sarah Ogilvie
The Dictionary People

A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - The New York Times Book ReviewEditors' Choice - A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, word by word.&q…

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Jane Harrington
Women of the Fairy Tale Resistance

"Women of the Fairy Tale Resistance uncovers the histories of the seven 17th century female writers who created the very first fairy tales, along with a retelling of 15 of their original gender-bendi…

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Jonathan Smolin
The Politics of Melodrama

"Ihsan Abdel Kouddous (1919-1990) is the most popular and prolific writer of Arabic fiction in the twentieth century. The Politics of Melodrama is the first book to take on this giant of Arabic ficti…

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Christina Rivera
My Oceans

Christina Rivera braids lyrical prose with research into endangered marine life. She explores the kinship of bodies of water and beings, ranging from her own experiences of motherhood to mantas, turtles, …

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Harron Walker
Aggregated Discontent

"After a brief fling with corporate stability in her twenty-something cis era, Harron Walker has transitioned into a terminally single freelancer and part-time shopgirl. She's in the throes of her se…

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Ron Chernow
Mark Twain

The complex and fascinating life of Mark Twain, as told by a Pulitzer prizewinning biographer Born in 1835, the man who would become America's first, and most influential, literary celebrity spent his ch…

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T E Franklinos, Rino Modonutti,
Sicco Polenton, Lives of the Famous Latin Authors

Offering an anthology of the first history of Latin literature, Sicco Polenton's Scriptorum illustrium Latinae linguae libri XVIII is a collection of biographies that spans the period from ancient Rome to…

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Jessica Lightfoot,
Strabo

"This book provides a short and accessible introduction to Strabo's life, times and cultural context. It outlines the importance of geography and geographical writing in the Augustan period and its d…

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Jarod K Anderson
Something in the Woods Loves You

"Bats can hear shapes, plants can eat light, and bees can dance maps. When his life took him to a painfully dark place, Jarod K. Anderson found comfort and redemption in these facts and the massive s…

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Gail Crowther
Dorothy Parker in Hollywood

An expansive and illuminating study of legendary writer Dorothy Parker's life and legacy in Hollywood from the author of the "fascinating" (Town & Country ) Three Martini Afternoons at the R…

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Samuel Carr
Favourite Flower Poems

A rich collection of poetry that celebrates the beauty and symbolism of the humble flower. These verses celebrate the arrival of spring with the emergence of the snowdrops, to the summer colour of asters,…

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Jonathan Smolin
The Politics of Melodrama

"Ihsan Abdel Kouddous (1919-1990) is the most popular and prolific writer of Arabic fiction in the twentieth century. The Politics of Melodrama is the first book to take on this giant of Arabic ficti…

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The Reconstruction Diary of Frances Anne Rollin

"In 1867, Frances Anne Rollin, a Black writer and teacher from South Carolina, traveled to Boston to seek a publisher for her biography of famed Black abolitionist, writer, and Civil War veteran Mart…

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Nigel Farndale
The Times Lives Behind the Music

A must-read collection for all music fans.Delve into the tumultuous world of music stardom with this collection of obituaries from The Times.

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Catherine Reef
The Brontë Sisters

The Brontë sisters are among the most beloved writers of all time, best known for their classic nineteenth-century novels Jane Eyre (Charlotte), Wuthering Heights (Emily), and Agnes Grey (Anne). In this s…

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Kate Beaton
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

A New York Times Notable Book; a Barack Obama's end of year favorite of 2022; and the winner of Canada Reads Kate Beaton's Ducks stunned the world with its unflinching honesty and candid vulnerability, ce…

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