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Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for 27 years after its publication in Paris in 1934. Only a historic court ruling that changed American cesorship standards permitted the publication of this first volume of Miller's famed mixture of memoir and fiction, which chronicles with unapologetic gusto the bawdy adventures of a young expatriate writer, his friends, and the...
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2 Entertain
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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A contemporary take on the classic Arthur Conan Doyle stories, Sherlock is a thrilling, funny, fast-paced adventure series set in present-day London. The iconic details from Conan Doyle's original books remain: they live at the same address, have the same names, and, somewhere out there, Moriarty is waiting for them. And so across three thrilling, scary, action-packed, and highly modern adventures, Sherlock and Watson navigate a maze of cryptic clues...
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"Universally acclaimed from the time it was first published in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has been admired for decades as a stylistic masterpiece. Academy Award-winning actress Diane Keaton (Annie Hall, The Family Stone) performs these classic essays, including the title piece, which will transport the listener back to a unique time and place: the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco during the neighborhood's heyday as a countercultural...
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Publisher
Page Street Publishing Co
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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After nearly a decade of maintaining a strictly gluten-free diet, Jennifer Bigler proves that cutting out wheat doesn't mean giving up all your favorite foods. Instead, she shows you how to transform homey classics like Family-Style Lasagna and Hearty Homestyle Chicken Pot Pie into gluten-free masterpieces and demystifies gluten-free baking with Perfect Popovers, Everything-but-the-Gluten Bagels and Red Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting. Home...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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"The best history book at the year"-Felipe Fernandez-Armesto. Times Literary Supplement (UK).
"A masterpiece of twenty-first-century European Literature."--Jordi Gracia, El Pais.
In February 1981, Spain, still emerging from Franco's shadow, was in the process of electing a new prime minister. On the day of the vote in Parliament, while the session was being filmed by TV cameras, a band of right-wing soldiers burst in with automatic weapons, ordering...
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2017.
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English
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Presents the story of a father and son's transformative shared journey in reading in the wake of the father's late-in-life enrollment in his son's undergraduate seminar, where the two engaged in debates over how to interpret Homer's classic masterpiece.
"When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate seminar on the Odyssey that his son Daniel teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly...
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