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The Samson Option
Sharon Geyer

A young Jewish couple trapped in an action adventure involving a splinter group of Muslims, the Israeli Secret Service, Messianic Jews and ...


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In the City of Smoking Mirrors
Albino Carrillo

Huitzilopochtli has returned. Aztec destroyer, god of sun and war. He of the hummingbird. Son of Coatlique, Our Lady of the Serpent Skin. ...


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The Searchers
Essays and Reflections on John Ford’s Classic Western
Edited by Peter Lehman, Arthur M. Eckstein

In many ways a traditional western, "The Searchers" (1956) is considered by critics as one of the greatest Hollywood films, made by the most ...


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The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume XVII
A Commentary on Mr. Pope's Principles of Morality, or Essay on Man
Edited by O M Brack Jr.

This volume is the first scholarly edition of Samuel Johnson’s translation of Jean Pierre de Crousaz’s "Commentaire sur la traduction en vers de ...


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Rules of Hunger
Poems
Lois Roma-Deeley

"Rules of Hunger" is a "soul-satisfying" debut collection of poems which creates a "mosaic of hard joy for the noble gestures and honorable ...


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Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory
(Un)Becoming the Subject
Kevin Quashie

In "Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory," Kevin Everod Quashie explores the metaphor of the “girlfriend” as a new ...


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The Soft Blare
Nick Norwood

With its astonishing evocation of the interior and exterior landscapes of our visitable world and its dazzling lyrical intensity, "The Soft ...


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The Story of a Modern Woman
Ella Hepworth Dixon
Edited by Steve Farmer

Ella Hepworth Dixon’s "The Story of a Modern Woman" originally appeared in serial form in the women’s weekly The Lady’s ...

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