The Works of Gwerful Mechain: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition
By: Gwerful Mechain
3.95
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Gwerful Mechain is the only Welsh female poet from the late middle ages whose poems have survived a…
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1. The Exeter Book Riddles
By: Anonymous , Kevin Crossley-Holland
4.53
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is a translation of the 96 Anglo-Saxon poems from the 11th-century "Exeter Book". Ranging from… read more
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- classics
2. Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays
By: Christa Wolf , Jan van Heurck
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
In this volume, the distinguished East German writer Christa Wolf retells the story of the fall of … read more
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- classics
3. The Gilda Stories
By: Jewelle L. Gómez , Jewelle Gomez
3.60
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
The winner of two Lambda Literary Awards (fiction and science fiction) The Gilda Storiesis a very A… read more
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4. A Month in the Country
By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd
3.76
Format: None pages,
In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more
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- classics
5. As You Like It
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine
3.59
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
As You Like Itis a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or … read more
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- classics
6. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
By: Unknown , None , Burton Raffel
4.50
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Written by an anonymous 14th-century poet, this epic poem is recognized as an equal of Chaucer's ma… read more
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7. The History of the Kings of Britain
By: Lewis Thorpe , Geoffrey of Monmouth
4.19
Format: 208 pages,
Completed in 1136, The History of the Kings of Britaintraces the story of the realm from its suppos… read more
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8. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
By: Angela Carter
3.92
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the B… read more
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"Her hair falls down like tears"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"ordered me a sky from a florist"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"My spite was sharp as broken glass"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"My father lost me to the Beast at cards"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
9. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane
3.64
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more
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"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
10. The Tempest
By: William Shakespeare
4.27
Format: 127 pages,
In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more
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11. Sophocles II: Ajax/Women of Trachis/Electra/Philoctetes (Complete Greek Tragedies 4)
By: Richmond Lattimore , Sophocles , John Moore , David Grene , None
4.10
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Sophocles' innovative plays transformed Greek myths into dramas featuring complex human characters,… read more
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12. Medea
By: Euripides , Rex Warner
3.42
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medeacenters on the myth of Jason, leader… read more
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13. Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre
By: Max Brooks
3.91
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier’s eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Gr… read more
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"Adversity introduces us to ourselves."-Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre
"I trust my nose, ears, eyes. But my brain…"-Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre
"They're not good or evil. They're just hungry."-Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre
"People are the problem. Nature is your friend."-Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre
14. Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
By: Suzanne Simard
4.22
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their conne… read more
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"Plants are attuned to one another's strengths and weaknesses, elegantly giving and taking to attain exquisite balance. There is grace in complexity, in actions cohering, in sum totals."-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"Such a marvel, the tenacity of the buds to surge with life every spring, to greet the lengthening days and warming weather with exuberance, no matter what hardships were brought by winter."-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"This Mother Tree was the central hub that the saplings and seedlings nested around, with threads of different fungal species, of different colors and weights, linking them, layer upon layer, in a str…"-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"I was lucky to become one of the first in the new generation of women in the logging industry, but what I found was not what I had grown up to understand. Instead I discovered vast landscapes cleared…"-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
15. Woman, Eating
By: Claire Kohda
3.46
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A young, mixed-race vampire must find a way to balance her deep-seated desire to live amongst human… read more
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"People---aging and mortal---are like flowers, seasonal, wilting and finite; while I'm like a tree."-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating
"I become aware of the duck blood circulating around my system; I can almost feel it, moving down my arms, reaching my fingertips, looping back up, searching for wings on my back."-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating
"there always seems to be something that suffers of dies as a result of any form of food consumption, and once all suffering is whittled out of a human's diet, they can't survive themselves."-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating
"The beginning of love, maybe, but not quite that either. The feeling that comes from being brought to almost-life by a person, of having tasted their blood, of feeling the rhythm of contractions, the…"-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating
16. Open Throat
By: Henry Hoke
4.01
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more
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17. Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works
By: Sappho
4.32
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Sappho, the earliest and most famous Greek woman poet, sang her songs around 600 BCE on the island … read more
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- poetry
- classics
18. The Mill House Murders (House Murders, #2)
By: Yukito Ayatsuji
3.62
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
Ever since a horrific car accident, Fujinuma Kiichi has lived a reclusive existence in the remote M… read more
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- classics
"A cold death mask worn by a living man."-Yukito Ayatsuji, The Mill House Murders (House Murders, #2)
"It sounded like the beating heart of the house."-Yukito Ayatsuji, The Mill House Murders (House Murders, #2)
"In the gloomy darkness, I revealed my accursed face."-Yukito Ayatsuji, The Mill House Murders (House Murders, #2)
"He cursed the storm that had upset his peaceful life."-Yukito Ayatsuji, The Mill House Murders (House Murders, #2)
19. The Village of Eight Graves (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #3)
By: Seishi Yokomizo
3.83
Format: 349 pages, Paperback
The third title in Japan’s most popular murder mystery series — after The Honjin Murders and The In… read more
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- classics
"The only person who had not touched the pickles was me! I never did like pickles..."-Seishi Yokomizo, The Village of Eight Graves (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #3)
20. Rest and Be Thankful
By: Emma Glass
3.52
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Laura is a nurse in a paediatric unit. On long, quiet shifts, she and her colleagues, clad in their… read more
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"Toxicity drips out of him and I'll pour more into him."-Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful
"We are tethered. We share the same headache. We share the same wake. We stand in stillness. We stand in agony."-Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful
"I don't need half-love, half-life, half is not enough. I can be whole with nothing. I came from nothing. I came from nowhere."-Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful
"I will miss the lick you give your lips before you speak but I won't miss the words that follow and fall out of that wry wet mouth."-Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful
21. The Works of Gwerful Mechain: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition
By: Gwerful Mechain
3.95
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Gwerful Mechain is the only Welsh female poet from the late middle ages whose poems have survived a… read more
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