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Animal Liberation by Peter Singer
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: P. S. Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
First published in 1975, Animal Liberation created a sensation upon its release, shaking the world's philosophical and animal-protection circles to their cores. Now, forty years later, Peter Singer's landmark work still looms large as a foundational and canonical text of animal advocacy. Arguing that al ...Show more
Arthur Rimbaud Complete Works by Paul Schmidt; Arthur Rimbaud
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Category: Poetry | Series: P. S. Ser.
One of the world's most influential poets, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) is remembered as much for his volatile personality and tumultuous life as he is for his writings, almost all of which he produced before the age of twenty. Paul Schmidt's acclaimed collection brings together his complete poetry, prose ...Show more
Blue Angel by Francine Prose
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Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
The National Book Award Finalist from acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Francine Prose--now the major motion picture Submission "Screamingly funny ... Blue Angel culminates in a sexual harassment hearing that rivals the Salem witch trials." --USA TodayIt's been years since Swenson, a professor ...Show more
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept by Paulo Coelho
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Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
From Paulo Coelho, author of the international bestseller "The Alchemist," comes a poignant, richly poetic story that reflects the depth of love and life. Rarely does adolescent love reach its full potential, but what happens when two young lovers reunite after eleven years? Time has transformed Pilar i ...Show more
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
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Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
A magnificent sweeping tale from the international bestselling author of 'The House of the Spirits'. Set in Anglophile Chile and goldrush California during the middle years of the nineteenth century, this magnificent romance tells the story of English foundling Eliza Sommers who grows up in the bustling ...Show more
Displaced Persons by Ghita Schwarz
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Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
"This is an amazing novel. The writing is piercing and clear, and the humanity of the author and her characters will inhabit my thoughts for years to come." --Anne Roiphe, National Book Award-winning author ofFruitful An astonishing tale of grief and anger, memory and survival,Displaced Persons marks ...Show more
God's Secretaries by Adam Nicolson
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: P. S. Ser.
A net of complex currents flowed across Jacobean England. This was the England of Shakespeare, Jonson, and Bacon; the Gunpowder Plot; the worst outbreak of the plague England had ever seen; arcadian landscapes; murderous, toxic slums; and, above all, sometimes overwhelming religious passion. Jacobean En ...Show more
Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 by Francine Prose
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Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser. | Reading Level: good
A richly imagined and stunningly inventive literary masterpiece of love, art, and betrayal, exploring the genesis of evil, the unforeseen consequences of love, and the ultimate unreliability of storytelling itself. Paris in the 1920s shimmers with excitement, dissipation, and freedom. It is a place of ...Show more
Pain, Parties, Work - Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953 by Elizabeth Winder
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: P. S. Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
Pain, Parties, Work by Elizabeth Winder is a compelling look at a young Sylvia Plath and the life-changing month that would lay the groundwork for her seminal novel, The Bell Jar. In May of 1953, a twenty-one-year-old Plath arrived in New York City, the guest editor of Mademoiselle's annual College Issu ...Show more
Paris at the End of the World: The City of Light During the Great War, 1914-1918 by John Baxter
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Category: Travel | Series: P. S. Ser.
A preeminent writer on Paris, John Baxter brilliantly brings to life one of the most dramatic and fascinating periods in the city's history. From 1914 through 1918 the terrifying sounds of World War I could be heard from inside the French capital. For four years, Paris lived under constant threat of de ...Show more
People's History Of The United States 1492 - Present by Howard Zinn
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Category: History | Series: P. S. Ser.
“It’s a wonderful, splendid book—a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future.” —Howard Fast, author of Spartacus and The Immigrants “[It] should be required reading.” —Eric Foner, New York Times B ...Show more
Rome and a Villa by Eleanor Clark
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Category: No Category | Series: P. S. Ser.
"These essays gather up Rome and hold it before us, bristling and dense and dreamlike, with every scene drenched in the sound of fountains, of leaping and falling water." -- The New Yorker"Perhaps the finest book ever to be written about a city." -- New York TimesBringing to life the legendary city's be ...Show more