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These letters between the pioneering environmentalist and her beloved friend reveal a caring woman behind the scientist.
This very special collection of letters from Rachel Carson to her Maine summer neighbor Dorothy Freeman offers an intimate, spellbinding look at Carson's private life and thoughts.
An intimate collection of letters from the woman who sparked the modern environmental movement.
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Go deeper inside the hit TV show “The Boys” and its characters with psychologists, media experts, filmmakers, and more-including the original comic series' cocreator and the actors behind Soldier Boy and Stormfront.
Supes “Ain't Always Heroes” offers a fresh look at “The Boys”, delving into the show's unflinching depiction of celebrity, politics, social media, corporate greed, racism, sexism, and more:
-The true difference between Homelander...
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"The centuries-long attack on Black history represents a strike against our very worth, brilliance, and value. We're ready to fight back. And when we fight, we win." -Colin Kaepernick
Since its founding as a discipline, Black Studies has been under relentless attack by social and political forces seeking to discredit and neutralize it. Our History Has Always Been Contraband was born out of an urgent need to respond to the latest threat: efforts to...
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Since its founding as a discipline, Black Studies has been under relentless attack by social and political forces seeking to discredit and neutralize it. Our History Has Always Been Contraband was born out of an urgent need to respond to the latest threat: efforts to remove content from an AP African American Studies course being piloted in high schools across the United States. Edited by Colin Kaepernick, Robin D. G. Kelley, and Keeanga-Yamahtta...
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The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror series returns with a splendidly startling fourth volume!
From paranormal plots to stories of the supernatural, tales of the unfamiliar have always fascinated us humans. To keep the tradition alive, fantasy aficionado Paula Guran has gathered the most delightfully disturbing work from some of today's finest writers of the fantastique!
No two mysterious shadows are alike, and the same can be said for the books...
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The Bible has a way of shocking us. If Americans could still blush, we might blush at the words, "Rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love" (Proverbs 5:18-19).
But, of course, sin always tries to trash God's gifts. So we can't just celebrate sex for what God made it to be; we have to fight what sin turned it into. The contributors to this...
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Read along with Disney! Summer had finally arrived in Arendelle! Everyone in the kingdom was excited after a very cold winter season. But no one was as excited as Olaf! This was the kind of day he had always dreamed about. Follow along with word-for-word narration and join Olaf on his perfect summer day!
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A collection of essays discussing the famed Italian film director, writer, and intellectual.
More than thirty years after the tragic death of Pier Paolo Pasolini, this volume is, intended to acknowledge the significance of his living memory. His artistic and cultural production continues to be a fundamental reference point in any discourse on the state of the arts, and on contemporary political events, in Italy and abroad.
This collection of essays...
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When Tiana kisses Prince Naveen, who has been enchanted into a frog, she turns into a frog too! As they explore the bayou, they find good friends and maybe even love. But will they find a way to become human again, so Tiana can open the restaurant she's always dreamed of? This storybook includes beautiful, full color art in the style of the beloved film, The Princess and the Frog.
10) Rave-n-Rant
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Serenity finds out the hard way what happens at all night raves...doesn't always stay there.Escaping work, Serenity parties all night at a rave. But the rave turns into a rant when an intimate conversation reveals some frank truths. And when she realizes her friends may not actually even like her--things really come to a head. It's all about love in this all-new adventure.
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How to Be Confidence Instantly!
Are you somebody who simply lacks confidence and have no self-esteem, always worrying about what other people think of you, or how you're coming across to others?
Confidence is the power to getting anything and accomplishing everything you want. Without it, you will find yourself in a lonely, dark depressive place that hinders you in life and whatever you do will be much more difficult than it should.
You'll always...
12) Tis the Season
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"'Tis the Seasons-Poems for your Holiday Spirit" brings together poems by over thirty unique writers that celebrate the many facets of the holiday season.
From the stuffing on Thanksgiving to the Christmas Carols we hold near and dear to our hearts, this collection is sure to put you in the mindset to give thanks, bake some cookies, light a fire in the hearth, and curl up with the words of our brilliantly talented and always moving authors.
13) Moscow Noir
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The more you watch Moscow, the more it looks like a huge chameleon that keeps changing its face-and it isn't always pretty. Following Akashic Books' international success with London Noir, Delhi Noir, Paris Noir, and others, the Noir series explores this fabled and troubled city's darkest recesses. Features brand-new stories by: Alexander Anuchkin, Igor Zotov, Gleb Shulpyakov, Vladimir Tuchkov, Anna Starobinets, Vyacheslav Kuritsyn, Sergei Samsonov,...
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Ranging from fifth-century north Africa to twelfth-century Latin Europe, the three texts translated in this book reveal the religious and social importance of beards and baldness in the Middle Ages, as well as the personal anxieties associated with them-but always with a healthy dose of humor. These playful and learned works-In Praise of Baldness, On Bald Men, and A Defense of Beards-enrich our understanding of the history and culture of the Middle...
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In this first crowdsourced book about Indiana, ordinary Hoosiers from all corners of the state share the eclectic, wonderful, and sometimes wacky stories that are undeniably Indiana. These true tales highlight the variety of Hoosier life-fond recollections of hometowns, legendary anecdotes of the past, Indiana's unpredictable weather, favorite foods (there's more than corn!), and chance encounters with unforgettable and infamous people. And, of course,...
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A man fresh from prison meets a new group of friends...
A painter grapples with a dark and troubling power...
The Great Lakes are rising, and bringing more than just water...
The team behind the Dark Waters Podcast brings you a collection of noir, horror, and thrilling tales that remind readers
to always look beneath the surface.
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Jacob Close, Kyle Tam, Brian Gatti, Ashley Erwin, Nils Gilbertson, Victor De Anda, James...
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This collection of essays describes the genesis of ten classic works of American literature. Using biographical, cultural, and manuscript evidence, the contributors tell the "stories of stories," plotting the often curious and always interesting ways in which notable American books took shape in a writer's mind.
The genetic approach taken in these essays derives from a curiosity, and sometimes a feeling of awe, about how a work of literature came...
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Current talk about the "new normal" and "going back to normal" has some questioning what normal means. What does normal look like? Is anyone or anything ever truly normal? Is normal something we should strive for? And if so, why do we revere the exceptional? Do we always need to return to the status quo, or can we learn and grow, taking the good parts of our past as we move forward into a new future? In these pages, you'll read poetry, nonfiction,...
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Lily and Blue Kangaroo — a friendship forever! Another heartwarming story featuring Lily and her much-loved toy, Blue Kangaroo, from award-winning, renowned illustrator, Emma Chichester Clark. Lily and Blue Kangaroo are inseparable. Wherever Lily goes, Blue Kangaroo goes too. But Lily is not always fair and blames Blue Kangaroo when she is naughty. One day Lily is very bad indeed and Blue Kangaroo is taken away until he learns how to behave... but...
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Advances critical conversations in Native American literary studies by situating its subject in global, transnational, and modernizing contexts.
Since the rise of the Native American Renaissance in literature and culture during the American civil rights period, a rich critical discourse has been developed to provide a range of interpretive frameworks for the study, recovery, and teaching of Native American literary and cultural production. For the...