The Mystics of Mile End By Sigal Samuel

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Title	:	The Mystics of Mile End
Author	:	Sigal Samuel
ISBN	:	1554812534
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	304

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Four distinct voices weave together the tale of a dysfunctional Montreal family obsessed with climbing the Kabbalah s Tree of Life This literary debut by Jewish Daily Forward editor Sigal Samuel is reminiscent of Nicole Krauss s The History of Love and Myla Goldberg s Bee Season

The Meyer family lives in Mile End, home to a mashup of hipsters and Hasidic Jews, where down

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Collected Poems By Jack Kerouac

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Title	:	Collected Poems
Author	:	Jack Kerouac
ISBN	:	159853193X
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	816

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Poetry was at the center of Jack Kerouac s sense of mission as a writer This landmark edition brings together for the first time all Kerouac s major poetic works Mexico City Blues, The Scripture of the Golden Eternity, Book of Blues, Pomes All Sizes, Old Angel Midnight, Book of Haikus along with a rich assortment of his uncollected poems, six published here for the first Poetry was at the center of Jack Kerouac s sense of mission as a writer This landmark edition ...

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Henna House By Nomi Eve

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Title	:	Henna House
Author	:	Nomi Eve
ISBN	:	1476740305
Format	:	ebook
Number of Pages	:	320

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An evocative and stirring novel about a young woman living in the fascinating and rarely portrayed community of Yemenite Jews of the mid twentieth century, from the acclaimed author of The Family Orchard.In the tradition of Anita Diamant s The Red Tent, Henna House is the enthralling story of a woman, her family, their community, and the rituals that bind them.Nomi Eve s v An evocative and stirring novel about a young woman living in the fascinating and rarely portrayed community of Yemenite Jews of the m...

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The Folks By Ruth Suckow

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Title	:	The Folks
Author	:	Ruth Suckow
ISBN	:
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	727

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To those who saw promise in Ruth Suckow s earlier novels this book will justify their confidence in her ability to write major American fiction New York Herald Tribune Books, 1934 A book that, than most others of our time, is deeply bedded in the American scene, that could only have been written by an American, and in our time Saturday Review of Literature, 1934 To those who saw promise in Ruth Suckow s earlier novels this book will justify their confidence in her ability to write major America...

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Short Friday and Other Stories including 'Yentl the Yeshiva Boy' By Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Title	:	Short Friday and Other Stories including 'Yentl the Yeshiva Boy'
Author	:	Isaac Bashevis Singer
ISBN	:
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	202

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A collection of short stories by a miraculous writer who can chill the spine, gorge the senses, and enlighten the heart as he describes a people and a way of life....

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The Power and the Glory By Graham Greene

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Title	:	The Power and the Glory
Author	:	Graham Greene
ISBN	:	0142437301
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	222

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In a poor, remote section of Southern Mexico, the paramilitary group, the Red Shirts have taken control God has been outlawed, and the priests have been systematically hunted down and killed Now, the last priest is on the run Too human for heroism, too humble for martyrdom, the nameless little worldly whiskey priest is nevertheless impelled toward his squalid Calvary In a poor, remote section of Southern Mexico, the paramilitary group, the Red Shirts have taken control God has been outlawed, and...

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Couples By John Updike

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Title	:	Couples
Author	:	John Updike
ISBN	:	044991190X
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	570

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Couples is the book that has been assailed for its complete frankness praised as an artful, seductive, savagely graphic portrait of love, marriage adultery in America But be it damned or hailed, Couples drew back the curtain forever on sex in suburbia in the late 20th century A classic, it s one of those books that will be read remembered for a long tim Couples is the book that has been assailed for its complete frankness praised as an artful, seductive, savagely graphic portrait of lo...

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The Complete Claudine By Colette

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Title	:	The Complete Claudine
Author	:	Colette
ISBN	:	0374528039
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	656

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Colette, prodded by her first husband, Willy, began her writing career with Claudine at School, which catapulted the young author into instant, sensational success Among the most autobiographical of Colette s works, these four novels are dominated by the child woman Claudine, whose strength, humor, and zest for living make her seem almost a symbol for the life force.Janet Colette, prodded by her first husband, Willy, began her writing career with Claudine at School, which catapulted the young author into ...

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Novels & Stories 1963-73 By Kurt Vonnegut

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Title	:	Novels & Stories 1963-73
Author	:	Kurt Vonnegut
ISBN	:	1598530984
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	851

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Like Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut 1922 2007 was a Midwestern everyman steeped in the rhythms of American speech whose anger at the way things are was matched only by his love for the best that we can be His cunningly relaxed delivery was so original, so finely calibrated, and so profound an articulation of the Sixties spirit that many critics overlooked the moral seriousn Like Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut 1922 2007 was a Midwestern everyman steeped in the rhythms of American speech whose ang...

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The Financier (Trilogy of desire, #1) By Theodore Dreiser

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Title	:	The Financier (Trilogy of desire, #1)
Author	:	Theodore Dreiser
ISBN	:	0452008255
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	460

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A master of literary naturalism, Dreiser is known for his great intensity and keen journalistic eye as he examines real life subjects This powerful novel explores the dynamics of the financial world during the Civil War and after the stock market panic caused by the Great Chicago Fire The first in a trilogy of desire, The Financier tells the story of the ruthlessly d A master of literary naturalism, Dreiser is known for his great intensity and keen journalistic eye as he examines real lif...

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Love Is a Dog from Hell By Charles Bukowski

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Title	:	Love Is a Dog from Hell
Author	:	Charles Bukowski
ISBN	:	0876853629
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	312

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Poems rising from and returning to Bukowski s personal experiences reflect people, objects, places, and events of the external world, and reflects on them, on their way out and back....

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Woven Stone By Simon J. Ortiz

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Title	:	Woven Stone
Author	:	Simon J. Ortiz
ISBN	:	0816513309
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	367

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What I do as a writer, teacher, and storyteller is to demystify language, says Simon Ortiz Widely regarded as one of the country s most important Native American poets, Ortiz has led a thirty year career marked by a fascination with language and by a love of his people.This omnibus of three previous works offers old and new readers an appreciation of the fruits of his d What I do as a writer, teacher, and storyteller is to demystify language, says Simon Ortiz Widely regarded as one of the countr...

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Novels, 1926-1929 By William Faulkner

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Title	:	Novels, 1926-1929
Author	:	William Faulkner
ISBN	:	1931082898
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	1180

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The Library of America edition of the novels of William Faulkner culminates with this volume presenting his first four, each newly edited, and, in many cases, restored with passages that were altered or in the case of Mosquitoes expurgated by the original publishers This is Faulkner as he was meant to be read.

In these four novels we can track Faulkner s extraordinary ev

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Everything Asian By Sung J. Woo

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Title	:	Everything Asian
Author	:	Sung J. Woo
ISBN	:	0312538855
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	336

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You re twelve years old A month has passed since your Korean Air flight landed at lovely Newark Airport Your fifteen year old sister is miserable Your mother isn t exactly happy, either You re seeing your father for the first time in five years, and although he s nice enough, he might be, well how can you put this delicately a loser.You can t speak English, but th

You re twelve years old A month has passed since your Korean Air flight landed at lovely Newark Airport Your fift...

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Jan Rap en z'n maat By Yvonne Keuls

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Title	:	Jan Rap en z'n maat
Author	:	Yvonne Keuls
ISBN	:
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	243

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Yvonne Keuls schreef een fascinerend verslag van haar ervaringen in een opvangcentrum voor jongeren Geen vriendelijk verhaal, geen mooi verhaal, maar een hard, realistisch verslag van mislukkingen en af en toe succes, van falende instanties politie, GGD, kindertehuizen en zo eerlijk is ze wel van fouten die het team zelf maakte Niets is verzonnen de enige verander Yvonne Keuls schreef een fascinerend verslag van haar ervaringen in een opvangcentrum voor jongeren Geen vriendelijk verhaal, geen mo...

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Under the Volcano By Malcolm Lowry

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Title	:	Under the Volcano
Author	:	Malcolm Lowry
ISBN	:	0061120154
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	402

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Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico His debilitating malaise is drinking, an activity that has overshadowed his life On the most fateful day of the consul s life the Day of the Dead, 1938 his wife, Yvonne, arrives in Quauhnahuac, inspired by a vision of life together away from Mexico and the circumstances that have driven their relat Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico His debilitating malaise is drinking, an activity th...

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Rahel Varnhagen By Hannah Arendt

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Title	:	Rahel Varnhagen
Author	:	Hannah Arendt
ISBN	:	080186335X
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	388

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She was, Hannah Arendt wrote, my closest friend, though she has been dead for some hundred years Born in Berlin in 1771 as the daughter of a Jewish merchant, Rahel Varnhagen would come to host one of the most prominent salons of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Arendt discovered her writings some time in the mid 1920s, and soon began to reimagine Rahe She was, Hannah Arendt wrote, my closest friend, though she has been dead for some hundred years Born in Berlin in 1771 as the daughter of...

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