Pictures of the Floating World: An Introduction to Japanese Prints
By: Sarah E. Thompson
4.55
Format: 191 pages, Slipcase
In Edo-period Japan, woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e ("pictures of the floating world") captured …
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1. Hiroshige: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
By: Hiroshige Utagawa , Melanie Trede , Lorenz Bichler
4.61
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Hiroshige's Masterful ukiyo-e woodblock prints of Tokyo in the mid-19th century Literally meaning … read more
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2. Sherlock Holmes: Adventure of the Creeping Man
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
4.39
Format: None pages, Audio CD
It's elementary that any Conan Doyle fan will want this splendid set of Sherlock Holmes mysteries-t… read more
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3. Faust: First Part
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Peter Salm
4.21
Format: None pages, Paperback
Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legenda… read more
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4. The Collectors (His Dark Materials, #0.6)
By: Philip Pullman , Bill Nighy
3.64
Format: 192 pages, Audible Audio
"But the thing is," said Horley, "they didn't know each other at all. Never heard of each other. It… read more
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5. The Ambassadors
By: Henry James , Harry Levin
3.76
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Graham Greene and E.M. Forster marvelled at it, but F.R. Leavis considered it to be 'not only not o… read more
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6. Hiroshima
By: John Hersey
3.50
Format: 36 pages,
On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book… read more
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7. Death of a Salesman
By: Arthur Miller
3.57
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
'For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you t… read more
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8. For Whom the Bell Tolls
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.76
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Sp… read more
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9. Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
By: Philip K. Dick
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Jason Tavener woke up one morning to find himself completely unknown. The night before he had been … read more
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10. Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief (Arsène Lupin, #1)
By: Maurice Leblanc , Michael Sims , Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
3.81
Format: 279 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780143104865. The suave adventures o… read more
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11. Japan Journeys: Famous Woodblock Prints of Cultural Sights in Japan
By: Andreas Marks
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Presenting classic Japanese woodblock prints, Japan Journeysoffers a unique perspective on the coun… read more
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12. Ukiyo-e: The Art of the Japanese Print
By: None
3.67
Format: 542 pages, Hardcover
The art of Japanese woodblock printing, known as ukiyo-e("pictures of the floating world"), reflect… read more
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13. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
By: Katherine Rundell
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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14. Time Is a Mother
By: Ocean Vuong
3.94
Format: 114 pages, Hardcover
In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more
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15. Roman Stories
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.80
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is … read more
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16. The Fraud
By: Zadie Smith
3.30
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more
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"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
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17. Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921
By: Antony Beevor
3.90
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
An epic new account of the conflict that reshaped Eastern Europe and set the stage for the rest of … read more
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18. Werner's Nomenclature of Colours: Adapted to Zoology, Botany, Chemistry, Mineralogy, Anatomy, and the Arts
By: Patrick Syme
4.20
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Read & Co. presents this new edition of Werner's Nomenclature of Colours. First published in 1814, … read more
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19. Pictures of the Floating World: An Introduction to Japanese Prints
By: Sarah E. Thompson
4.55
Format: 191 pages, Slipcase
In Edo-period Japan, woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e ("pictures of the floating world") captured … read more
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