Backpack Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing
By: X.J. Kennedy
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
The smallest and most economical member of the Kennedy/Gioia family, Backpack Literature is a brief…
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1. Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
By: Clayton Eshleman , Aimé Césaire , Annette Smith , Annette Smith
4.10
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
Aime Cesaire's masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural … read more
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"A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle."-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
"Écoutez le monde blanc horriblement las de son effort immense ses articulations rebelles craquer sous les étoiles dures ses raideurs d'acier bleu transperçant la chair mystique écoute ses victoires p…"-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
"And if all I know how to do is speak, it is for you that I shall speak. My lips shall speak for miseries that have no mouth, my voice shall be the liberty of those who languish in the dungeon of desp…"-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
". . . car il n'est point vrai que l'oeuvre de l'homme est finie que nous n'avons rien à faire au monde que nous parasitons le monde qu'il suffit que nous nous mettions au pas du monde mais l'oeuvre d…"-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
2. The Egyptian Book of the Dead
By: Anonymous , E.A. Wallis Budge
3.86
Format: 445 pages, Hardcover
s/t: The Papyrus of Ani in the British Museum; the Egyptian Text with Interlinear Transliteration &… read more
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3. Uzumaki
By: Junji Ito , Yuji Oniki
3.95
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Kurozu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the… read more
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4. Wild Seed (Patternmaster, #1)
By: Octavia E. Butler
3.92
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
Doro is an entity who changes bodies like clothes, killing his hosts by reflex or design. He fears … read more
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6. The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Volume B: 1820-1865
By: Nina Baym
2.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
Under Nina Baym's direction, the editors have considered afresh each selection and all the apparatu… read more
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8. True Irish Ghost Stories
By: St. John D. Seymour , None
3.85
Format: 208 pages,
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteer… read more
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9. Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark
By: Cassandra Peterson
4.36
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
The woman behind the icon known as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, the undisputed Queen of Halloween,… read more
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"My favorite band's lyrics spoke to me more powerfully than any parent or teacher ever could. They helped me figure out who I was, what I was feeling, and possibly, where I was headed."-Cassandra Peterson, Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark
"Suddenly one day I sprouted boobs. Not *just* boobs. Enormous boobs. When puberty finally struck, I developed faster than a Polaroid. In my mind at least, I remember going to bed flat as a board one …"-Cassandra Peterson, Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark
"I was someone who had spent most of her life hanging around with gay men, and now here I was, ashamed of my feelings for a woman. I felt like such a hypocrite. I eventually gave up my ridiculous prec…"-Cassandra Peterson, Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark
10. Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
By: Kristen Radtke
4.01
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Imagine Wanting Only This--a timely and moving meditation on isolation… read more
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"Perhaps we see loneliness in others simply to feel less lonely ourselves."-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
"Or the times I've watched the people I love so unsatisfied, clawing toward connection that surpasses what I'm able to give them."-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
"To arm ourselves is the most extreme form of separation I can imagine. To move through life without weapons is another way to remain open to the world, and at its mercy."-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
"But loneliness isn’t necessarily tied to whether you have a partner or a best friend or an aspirational active social life in which you’re laughing all the time. It’s a variance that rests in the spa…"-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
11. Heirs of Falcon Point
By: Traci Hunter Abramson
4.39
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
In the early days of World War II, the Lang family lost everything. Eighty years later, it’s time t… read more
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12. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Vol. 1
By: Beth Brower
4.31
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
“I’ve arrived in London without incident. There are few triumphs in my recent life, but I count thi… read more
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13. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 3
By: Beth Brower
4.67
Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition
"It has been a day ordained by the fates, for how else could one explain the wholly cursed chain of… read more
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14. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Volume 2
By: Beth Brower
4.63
Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition
“I was sitting at my desk reading, with a cup of tea, my windows flung open, when I heard The Tenan… read more
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15. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4
By: Beth Brower
4.75
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
"It all began very innocently. Truly." The Year is 1883 and Emma M. Lion has returned to her Lon… read more
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16. The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
By: Esmé Weijun Wang
4.14
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with … read more
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"In the language of cancer, people describe a thing that “invades"-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
"The psychiatric hierarchy decrees who can and cannot be high-functioning and “gifted."-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
"Someday, we'll be able to trace all mental illnesses to autoimmune disorders. But we're not there yet."-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
"The line between insanity and mysticism is thin; the line between reality and unreality is thin. Liminality as a spiritual concept is all about the porousness of boundaries."-Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
17. Sold on a Monday
By: Kristina McMorris
3.97
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
2 CHILDREN FOR SALE The scrawled sign, peddling young siblings on a farmhouse porch, captures th… read more
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18. The Fall of Gondolin (Middle-Earth Universe)
By: J.R.R. Tolkien
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the Tale of The Fall of Gondolin are two of the greatest powers in the world. There is Morgoth o… read more
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"Glory dwelt in that city of Gondolin of the Seven Names, and its ruin was the most dread of all the sacks of cities upon the face of Earth."-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fall of Gondolin (Middle-Earth Universe)
"There long he sojourned alone and roamed about the shore or fared over the rocks at the ebb, marvelling at the pools and the great weeds, the dripping caverns and the strange sea-fowl that he saw and…"-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fall of Gondolin (Middle-Earth Universe)
"If I chose to send thee, Tour son of Hour, them believe not that thy one sword is not worth the sending. For the valour of the Edain the Elves shall ever remember as the ages lengthen, marveling that…"-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fall of Gondolin (Middle-Earth Universe)
19. Fever
By: Mary Beth Keane
3.73
Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition
A bold, mesmerizing novel about the woman known as “Typhoid Mary,” the first known healthy carrier … read more
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20. Backpack Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing
By: X.J. Kennedy
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
The smallest and most economical member of the Kennedy/Gioia family, Backpack Literature is a brief… read more
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