Rhyme's Rooms: The Architecture of Poetry
By: Brad Leithauser
4.06
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the widely acclaimed poet, novelist, critic, and scholar, a lucid and edifying exploration of …
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1. Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
3.95
Format: 624 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Nearly a generation has passed since the first pioneers landed, but the transformation of Mars to a… read more
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"Take this moment right here, and ask yourself, What is now lacking?"-Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)
"Guerilla climatology. What do you call that, climatage? Attack meteorology?"-Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)
"That's libertarians for you — anarchists who want police protection from their slaves."-Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)
"Revolution suspends habit as well as law. But just as nature abhors a vacuum, people abhor anarchy."-Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)
2. Pale Fire
By: Vladimir Nabokov
3.98
Format: 574 pages,
The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amus… read more
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3. Shakespeare: The Biography
By: Peter Ackroyd
2.00
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Drawing on an exceptional combination of skills as literary biographer, novelist, and chronicler of… read more
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4. The Last Thing He Wanted
By: Joan Didion
4.72
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
In her first novel in twelve years, the legendary author of Play It As It Laysand Slouching Toward … read more
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5. Swan: Poems and Prose Poems
By: Mary Oliver
3.31
Format: 180 pages, Hardcover
"Joy is not made to be a crumb," writes Mary Oliver, and certainly joy abounds in her new book of p… read more
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6. Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
By: Francine Prose
3.17
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
In her entertaining and edifying New York Timesbestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites … read more
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7. Why I Wake Early
By: Mary Oliver
3.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
The forty-seven new works in this volume include poems on crickets, toads, trout lilies, black snak… read more
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8. The Way of Zen
By: Alan W. Watts
4.17
Format: 236 pages, Paperback
The Way of Zen begins as a succinct guide through the histories of Buddhism and Taoism leading up t… read more
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"I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware."-Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen
"For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere."-Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen
"[T]he joy of travel is not nearly so much in getting where one wants to go as in the unsought surprises which occur on the journey."-Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen
"A te elibera de convenție nu înseamnă a o refuza cu dispreț, ci a nu fi amăgit de ea. Înseamnă a fi capabil să o folosești ca pe un instrument, nu a fi folosit de ea."-Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen
9. The Waste Land and Other Poems
By: T.S. Eliot
3.62
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Few readers need any introduction to the work of the most influential poet of the twentieth century… read more
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10. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
11. An American Sunrise
By: Joy Harjo
4.28
Format: 116 pages, Hardcover
National Bestseller A stunning new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the Un… read more
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"Gather strength, pull it in Be right where you are."-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise
"The songs of the guardians of silence are the most powerful—"-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise
"History will always find you, and wrap you In its thousand arms."-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise
" We will keep going despite dark Or a madman in a white house dream. "-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise
12. Musical Tables: Poems
By: Billy Collins
3.79
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A collection of more than 125 small poems, all of them new, each a thought or observation compresse… read more
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13. Vicarious
By: Rhett C. Bruno
3.88
Format: 442 pages, Kindle Edition
The real world is only where you breathe… In High Earth, entertainment is everything. Virtual Wo… read more
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14. How to Fly in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons
By: Barbara Kingsolver
3.86
Format: 111 pages, Hardcover
In this intimate collection, the beloved author of The Poisonwood Bible and more than a dozen other… read more
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"Tiptoe past the dogs of the apocalypse asleep in the shade of your future. Pay at the window. You’ll be surprised: you can pass off hope like a bad check. You still have time, that’s the thing. To ma…"-Barbara Kingsolver, How to Fly in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons
15. What to Read and Why
By: Francine Prose
3.45
Format: 336 pages, ebook
In this brilliant collection, the follow-up to her New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer … read more
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16. A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
By: Anthony Bale
3.76
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A captivating journey of the expansive world of medieval travel, from London to Constantinople to t… read more
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"Jerusalem is a city of unfinished projects."-Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
"travel opens the mind in unpredictable ways"-Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
"Travel forms communities, but not always harmoniously."-Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
"Holy ground can look startlingly ordinary, especially when one’s standing on it."-Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
17. Gold (New York Review Books Classics)
By: Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
4.38
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
A vibrant selection of poems by the great Persian mystic with groundbreaking translations by an Ame… read more
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18. The Besieged City
By: Clarice Lispector
3.71
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Seven decades after its original publication, Clarice Lispector’s third novel―the story of a girl a… read more
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"But without anyone's having forced her to choose the sacrifice, was she losing right then her youth through the symbol of youth? and life through the shape of life, her single hand pointing."-Clarice Lispector, The Besieged City
"The girl and a horse represented the two races of builders that had initiated the tradition of the future metropolis, both could figure on its coat of arms. The measly function of the girl in her tim…"-Clarice Lispector, The Besieged City
"The struggle to reach reality—that’s the main objective of this creature who tries, in every way, to cling to whatever exists by means of a total vision of things. I meant to make clear too the way v…"-Clarice Lispector, The Besieged City
"Upon the rubble horses would reappear announcing the rebirth of the old reality, their backs without riders. Because thus it had always been. Until a few men would tie them to wagons, once again erec…"-Clarice Lispector, The Besieged City
19. Around the World in 80 Books
By: David Damrosch
3.63
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, through classic and modern literary works … read more
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20. Rhyme's Rooms: The Architecture of Poetry
By: Brad Leithauser
4.06
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the widely acclaimed poet, novelist, critic, and scholar, a lucid and edifying exploration of … read more
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21. Latitude
By: Natasha Rao
4.39
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Chosen as the winner of the 2021 APR/Honickman First Book Prize by Guggenheim Fellow Ada Limón, Nat… read more
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