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  • The Good Slope
    Elizabeth Rau
    Moving, bold, and funny, this collection of essays by Elizabeth Rau captures the poignancy of ordinary life through the voices of everyday people--children, friends, neighbors, and even the mail carrier. In vivid and lyrical prose, she chronicles her childhood in the Midwest, her many years as a newspaper reporter, and, above all, her plunge into motherhood in middle age. At a ...
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    17,60 €

  • Udolpho
    H.S. Leigh Koonce
    Udolpho is a creative anthology devoted to all things gothic. This unique collection includes essays, short fiction, and poetry featuring an array of hallmarks of the genre. Also included is a brief outline of the elements of gothic literature and a listing of prominent gothic writers from across the last three centuries.Contributors to Issue #1 are: Matthew D. Albertson, John ...
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    12,04 €

  • Storytelling
    Roemer McPhee
    Storytelling is a book of ideas. It is a large collection of short essays that identify and analyze timeless ideas and universal insights; insights into humanity and life. Wisdom and truth of all kinds are found in modern stories, of all kinds. It is an amazing resource-available to everybody. Storytelling goes where the artists go, examining most all of the major themes and is...
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    18,67 €

  • Storytelling
    Roemer McPhee
    Storytelling is a book of ideas. It is a large collection of short essays that identify and analyze timeless ideas and universal insights; insights into humanity and life. Wisdom and truth of all kinds are found in modern stories, of all kinds. It is an amazing resource-available to everybody. Storytelling goes where the artists go, examining most all of the major themes and is...
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    16,64 €

  • Gifts
    Barbara Cole
    Author Barbara Cole, Ph.D., was once gifted a sweater from an unknown Costa Rican lawyer who had been vacationing in the house next door; the lawyer overdid the shopping and couldn’t fit the sweater in her luggage to take back home. That gift turned out to be much larger than the sweater because it led Cole to do some serious thinking about gifts she had received and given over...
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    13,79 €

  • Melange
    David Arthur Walters
    This book is for the reader who is tired of reading books or who does not have time to read them through and prefers a diverse magazine of unusual short stories he can read through at any time. The sane reader will be bemused by this melange haphazardly arranged by yours truly, the runaway author who endeavored to understand the world by writing himself to death at random. Arti...
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    16,58 €

  • The Carpenter’s Apprentice Trilogy
    Jefferson Murphy
    The Carpenter’s Apprentice Trilogy is an anthology containing all three volumes of the original The Carpenter’s Apprentice collections of poetry, song lyrics and essays. It embodies over 60 years of poems and song lyrics by author, poet and songwriter Jefferson Murphy, who over the years had to learn how to make time for his writing even as he worked as a General Contractor for...
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    17,52 €

  • The Story Is True, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded
    Bruce Jackson
    Delves into the meaning of stories, their tellers, and those who experience them. ...
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    29,14 €

  • U-N-I-Verse
    George Hopkins / Imhotep Shabazz / Shavar L. Thompson
    Mitanni Publishing is proud to present the first installment in the 'U-N-I-Verse' series. 'U-N-I-Verse' is a platform for all 'seekers' to share wisdom with the world. It is a series where writers from all religions, schools of thought and walks of life come together to discuss differences and similarities in order to shed light on and build upon common points of interest that ...
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    11,00 €

  • Sweet Wonder
    Angeline Haen
    Angeline Haen’s insightful observations whittle away the ho-hum from everyday circumstances and reveal the ah-ha. The reader will be gently nudged to pause and ponder the prose; to seek the hidden wisdom in the whimsy of wonder. Nourishment for our imagination comes in her natural curiosity to explore joy’s simplicity. The book reflects on a wide range of subjects: berry patche...
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    15,24 €

  • Maps and Legends
    Michael Chabon
    Maps and Legends is an essay collection by American author Michael Chabon that was scheduled for official release on May 1, 2008, although some copies shipped two weeks early from various online bookstores. The book is Chabon’s first book-length foray into nonfiction, with 16 essays, some previously published.[1] Several of these essays are defenses of the author’s work in genr...
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    15,59 €

  • The juridicization of the protection of childhood and youth in Brazil
    Roberta Brenner Ochulacki
    The work arises with the purpose of analyzing the legislation directed to the protection of children and adolescents, and how the State faces the theme of the young in conflict with the law. Starting for an evaluation of the application and effectiveness of the socio-educative measures through the report of the National Council of Justice. Through this perspective it was possib...
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    75,02 €

  • The Distance from Slaughter County
    Steven Moore
    As a soldier and civilian, Steven Moore has traveled from the American Midwest to Afghanistan and beyond. In those travels, he’s seen what place can mean, specifically rural places, and how it follows us, changes us. What Moore has to say about rural places speaks to anyone who has driven a lonely road at night, with nothing but darkness as a cushion between them and the emptin...
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    24,22 €

  • Until All You See Is Sky
    George Choundas
    Until All You See Is Sky is a report from the front lines of a first-generation American life: growing up as the outsider, parenting without a clue, and persevering in plague times.From the vital meaning of Stan Smiths at the Payless Shoes in his Tampa childhood to what you should have ordered at the now-closed best bakery in Manhattan, from a childhood as a first-generation Gr...
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    17,04 €

  • I Can’t Write Without My Eyebrows
    Teddy McMahon Pruett
    I Can’t Write Without My Eyebrows is a collection of mini-memoirs and short essays that range from thought provoking, deep, and poignant to laugh-out-loud funny and stream-of-consciousness ramblings. Warmth and authenticity emanate from each page as author Teddy McMahon Pruett shares her many experiences in vivid, descriptive, and down-to-earth language, leaving readers with th...
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    16,68 €

  • I Can’t Write Without My Eyebrows
    Teddy McMahon Pruett
    I Can’t Write Without My Eyebrows is a collection of mini-memoirs and short essays that range from thought provoking, deep, and poignant to laugh-out-loud funny and stream-of-consciousness ramblings. Warmth and authenticity emanate from each page as author Teddy McMahon Pruett shares her many experiences in vivid, descriptive, and down-to-earth language, leaving readers with th...
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    24,55 €

  • A Southern Season
    Michael K. Brantley
    Tomato sandwiches. Tobacco barns. Cooking collards. A shopping list left on a desk for 40 years at a deceased grandparent’s house. Traditions that die as families age. What it means to 'be country.' Pig pickins’. Splitting firewood. Minor league baseball. Redneck snow days. Places that you can’t go back again-sometimes good, sometimes not.All of these nostalgic and not-so-nosta...
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    25,25 €

  • Feminists Reclaim Mentorship
    Feminists revisit their mixed experiences of mentoring and being mentored to reclaim mentorship as a project for new generations. ...
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    121,82 €

  • Feminists Reclaim Mentorship
    Feminists revisit their mixed experiences of mentoring and being mentored to reclaim mentorship as a project for new generations. ...
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    22,06 €

  • A Near-Death Researcher’s Notebook
    Kenneth Ring
    Beginning with a hilarious account of the foibles and follies of a body that has expired before the author has, renowned NDE researcher, Kenneth Ring, in this collection of essays takes the reader on an exhilarating ride on the train whose destination is death -- yet the journey is anything but morbid or depressing. On the contrary, in these genial, entertaining, and often witt...
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    16,04 €

  • A Tooth in My Popsicle
    David Haldane
    Ever felt like chucking it all and moving to an island paradise? Award-winning journalist David Haldane and his Filipino wife, Ivy, met on an international dating site. Ten years later, with David laid off from his dream job at the LA Times and frustrated by mounting costs in America, they made the bold decision to move to the Philippine island of Mindanao, where Ivy grew up.Th...
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    25,27 €

  • Remembering the Alchemists & other essays
    Richard Hoffman
    Remembering the Alchemists is an intense, passionate, and moving collection of personal essays that never loses sight of the moral issues it raises. At times thoughtful and wise and at other times a cri de cœur, it is held together by the experienced voice of an essayist at the top of his game. Richard Hoffman speaks softly, even reverently, in the presence of art and the natur...
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    20,09 €

  • Assorted Articles
    Dr. I.
    This book is the collection of fiive original Research articles written and presented in various forums by Dr. I. Johnson Stephen from 2017 to 2021. All five articles are written with utmost care to project various aspects of the research arena.  ...
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    12,18 €

  • Backwater Mystic Blues
    Lloyd Ratzlaff
    'Between the voids at the deepest and farthest reaches of our science, there is this eternal now...'In this second suite of intimate essays, Lloyd Ratzlaff summons the secret hiding spots, makeshift rafts, and uncomplicated childhood joys that lay the foundations for adult philosophy. In tune with the vivid simplicities of the sensuous world and the honour of unassuming people,...
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    12,14 €

  • Contemporary Fictions
    Judie Newman
    What does it mean to be contemporary? To write contemporary fiction? In this major collection of twenty-five essays Newman interrogates the value of the concept of 'the contemporary' as a cultural and literary category, exploring novels and short fiction by American and postcolonial writers, including Marilynne Robinson, John Updike, Saul Bellow, Grace Paley, Nadine Gordimer, J...
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    26,63 €

  • Brute Meaning
    David Trotter
    The essays collected in this volume trace the evolution over a period of thirty years of a critical approach resembling what would now be described as the ’new materialism’. These essays insist that literature and film are never more vital than in their enactment of the ’brute meaning’ Maurice Merleau-Ponty once found in the work of Paul Cézanne: the crude sense we make, as cre...
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    26,69 €

  • Storytellers’ True Stories About Love Vol 2
    This edition continues the highly successful Volume 1 with a collection of thirty wonderfully written stories that capture love in its many forms-love of romantic partners, parents, children, friends, animals, and passionate interests.These stories will surprise, entertain, and inspire. Storytellers describe how they took monumental risks, changed their lives, and found love in...
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    10,32 €

  • Storytellers’ True Stories About Love Vol 2
    This edition continues the highly successful Volume 1 with a collection of thirty wonderfully written stories that capture love in its many forms-love of romantic partners, parents, children, friends, animals, and passionate interests.These stories will surprise, entertain, and inspire. Storytellers describe how they took monumental risks, changed their lives, and found love in...
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    14,88 €

  • The Human Condition
    matt addis
    In this collection of essays, written over the course of 5 years, Matt draws from a multitude of sources and his own wide reading to analyze exactly what makes us human. ...
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    17,72 €

  • The Cutleaf Reader
    The CUTLEAF READER collects short stories, essays, and poetry by some of the best established writers of our time, as well as exciting work from emerging authors. Perfect for college and graduate classrooms and for readers who prefer print editions, this collection exemplifies the best work of contemporary writers, giving readers a chance to sample a broad variety of approaches...
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    15,72 €


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