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L-shaped Room (Imprint Books)
by Lynne Reid Banks
Jane is unmarried and pregnant when she is turned out by her father. She lights on a room at the top of a squalid house. She cares nothing for it, or her neighbours. But it is these neighbours that draw her back into life - Toby, a Jewish writer, John, a jazz player, and even her landlady.
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
by Alan Sillitoe
A rousing and uproarious novel of the life, loves and misadventures of a working-class rogue, Saturday Night/Sunday Morning marked the arrival of one of the most cherished authors in the twenty-first century. At twenty-two years of age, Arthur Seaton is a hard-drinking lathe operator in a bicycle factory. Sharp, rowdy and attractive, he is a lover of life in the raw, and his enormous vitality comes pouring... (more)
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The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989
by Samuel Beckett
Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett is one of the most profoundly original writers of our century. A tremendously influential poet and dramatist, Beckett spoke of his prose fiction as the "important writing, " the medium in which his ideas were most powerfully distilled. Here, for the first time, his short prose is gathered in a definitive, complete volume by leading Beckett scholar S.E.
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The Dead
by James Joyce
A New Year's Eve gathering in Dublin is the setting of this elegant, accessible masterpiece that ends with a signature epiphany by the protagonist, who offers a perspective on the lives, dreams, and feelings of the party's guests. This beautifully packaged series of classic novellas includes the works of masterful writers. Inexpensive and collectible, they are the first single-volume publications of these... (more)
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Hainish Cycle: Book 5
The Dispossessed
An Ambiguous Utopia
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. he will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family and possibly his life. Shevek must make the unprecedented journey to the utopian mother planet, Anarres, to challenge the... (more)
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Bar Balto
by Faïza Guène
Joel, aka 'The Rink' (because his bald patch is shiny enough to skate on), the unpopular owner of the only bar in town has been murdered. There are so many suspects, it's not so much a question of who did kill him as who didn't. There's Magalie, the temperamental teenager obsessed with Paris Hilton; her troublemaker boyfriend, Tani; Tani's mother, Madame Levi; her unemployed, daytime-TV addicted husband; Yeznig,... (more)
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Exile
by Jakob Ejersbo
Samantha has lived in Tanzania since she was three years old. Her parents run an exclusive travel lodge and are too absorbed by their own affairs to pay much attention to their daughter. The mother sips expat gin and tonics under the midday sun; the father, a former S.A.S. officer turned mercenary, busies himself with dead end coup d'etats and clandestine love affairs with local women. Samantha learns quickly that... (more)
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The Case Worker
by George Konrád
The daily routine of a man in charge of children at a state welfare organizat and the demands that are made upon him are depicted in this novel set in present day Hungary.
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Margaret Bourke-White: Photographer
by Margaret Bourke-White
Margaret Bourke-White and Lewis W. Hine were both imaginative, disciplined, and successful photographers in an era when the medium was finely positioned as an art form. Both these volumes also give visual evidence of their recording of time and place through personal courage. Bourke-White is famous for her daring vantage points, confirmed by the shot of her perched on one of the aluminum eagles high atop the... (more)
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The Works of Ibsen
by Henrik Ibsen
Eleven plays including Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, A Doll's House etc.
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Grant Wood: A Study in American Art and Culture
by James M. Dennis
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Anna Édes
by Dezső Kosztolányi
Kosztolanyi, Anna Edes. Cruelty and emptiness of Bourgeois life permeate this novel.
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THOMAS HART BENTON EXHIBITION OCTOBER 14 - DECEMBER 15, 2000
by Andrew Austin Thompson (Notes and Research)
Hold kµft og vµer smuk: 12 novellerVita Andersen
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Hold kµft og vµer smuk: 12 noveller
by Vita Andersen
Text: Danish
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Drawings of George Bellows
by George Bellow
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Die Kinder aus Nr. 67, Band 1
by Lisa Tetzner
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Walker Evans & Company
by Peter Galassi
Walker Evans' radical photography of the 1930s demonstrated that unembellished photographic fact could serve as a highly poetic language. These works expanded the potential of the art of photography and at the same time defined a lasting iconography that recognized advertising, movies, and car culture as central images of modern American identity. Walker Evans & Company focuses on Evans as a central figure... (more)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?Edward Albee
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?
by Edward Albee
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Frida Kahlo And Diego Rivera (Pegasus Library)
by Isabel Alcantara, Sandra Egnolff
This best-selling book, now available in an attractive flexi format, reveals the story of two creative geniuses whose important contributions to twentieth-century art were equaled by the public’s fascination with their tumultuous romance. This captivating book delves into the forces that shaped Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera’s lives and art, and made them important painters in their own right. Elegant... (more)
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Flight of the Goose
A Story of the Far North
by Lesley Thomas
"Flight of the Goose: A Story of the Far North" is award-winning literary fiction set in the Alaskan Arctic of 1971, at the birth of the environmental and Native rights movements.This is a classic journey of the hero/heroine, a coming-of-age love story woven with deep ecology, wilderness adventure and ancient myth. The author grew up in a traditional arctic village in a multi-cultural family.... (more)