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The Darkness
Vampire Huntress Legends
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L. A. Banks
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After the battle at Masada, the Neteru team returns to San Diego believing forty-thousand demons had been eradicated and that Lilith's spawn has been killed....
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The Shadows
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L. A. Banks
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In the newest Vampire Huntress novel from national bestselling author, L. A. Banks, more than vampires are coming out to play. . . The Dark Realms are taking...
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The Thirteenth
A Vampire Huntress Legend
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L. A. Banks
St. Martin's Griffin
The final story in the now cult favorite Vampire Huntress series. The entire Neteru Guardian team is on the run, having now been labeled as America's...
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Union Street & Blow Your House Down
Pat Barker
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Union Street, Pat Barker's first novel, concerns seven neighboring women near a factory in northeast England. Life for these women is trying: some of them are...
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Double Vision
A Novel
Pat Barker
Picador
In the aftermath of covering 9/11, English war reporter Stephen Sharkey and photographer Ben Frobisher leave New York and part company. Stephen returns to the...
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The Dead Father
Donald Barthelme; Introduction by Donald Antrim
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
The Dead Father is a gargantuan half-dead, half-alive, part mechanical, wise, vain, powerful being who still has hopes for himself--even while he is being...
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Mythologies
Roland Barthes; Translated by Annette Lavers
Hill and Wang
"[Mythologies] illustrates the beautiful generosity of Barthes's progressive interest in the meaning (his word is signification) of practically everything...
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Image-Music-Text
Roland Barthes; Translated by Stephen Heath
Hill and Wang
These essays, as selected and translated by Stephen Heath, are among the finest writings Barthes ever published on film and photography, and on the phenomena...
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Empire of Signs
Roland Barthes; Translated by Richard Howard
Hill and Wang
With this book, Barthes offers a broad-ranging meditation on the culture, society, art, literature, language, and iconography--in short, both the sign-oriented...
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Elements of Semiology
Roland Barthes; Translated by Annette Lavers and Colin Smith
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"In his Course in General Linguistics, first published in 1916, Saussure postulated the existence of a general science of signs, or Semiology, of which...
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An Essay
Roland Barthes; Translated by Richard Miller; Preface by Richard Howard
Hill and Wang
Preface by Richard Howard. Translated by Richard Miller. This is Barthes's scrupulous literary analysis of Balzac's short story "Sarrasine."
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The Pleasure of the Text
Roland Barthes; Translated by Richard Miller
Hill and Wang
What is it that we do when we enjoy a text? What is the pleasure of reading? The French critic and theorist Roland Barthes’s answers to these questions...
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The Rustle of Language
Roland Barthes
Hill and Wang
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Mourning Diary
Roland Barthes; Translated from the French and with an afterword by Richard Howard
Hill and Wang
"This book's unvarnished quality is the source of its wrecking cumulative power. Barthes's ironic intellect, apparent everywhere in his many books, is wrapped here around his sore and nakedly beating heart."—
Dwight Garner,
The New York Times
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A Lover's Discourse
Fragments
Roland Barthes; Translated from the French by Richard Howard; Foreword by Wayne Koestenbaum
Hill and Wang
"Barthes's most popular and unusual performance as a writer is
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a writing out of the discourse of love. This language—primarily the complaints and reflections of the lover when alone, not exchanges of a lover with his or her partner—is unfashionable. Thought it is spoken by millions of people, diffused in our popular romances and television programs as well as in serious literature, there is no institution that explores, maintains, modifies, judges, repeats, and otherwise assumes responsibility for this discourse . . . Writing out the figures of a neglected discourse, Barthes surprises us in
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Jonathan Culler
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Camera Lucida
Reflections on Photography
Roland Barthes; Translated from the French by Richard Howard; Foreword by Geoff Dyer
Hill and Wang
"This is a great book—flawed, impossible, infuriating, and moving . . . but he has accomplished in this extraordinary book something finer than mere polemic. En route to his last painful discovery, Barthes takes the reader on an exquisitely rendered, lyrical journey into the heart of his own life and the medium he came to love, a medium that flirts constantly with the 'intractable reality' of the human condition."
—Douglas Davis,
Newsweek
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Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes; Translated from the French by Richard Howard; Foreword by Adam Phillips
Hill and Wang
"Highly original, extremely fertile and inventive, [Barthes] really does represent, in a peculiarly qualified way, a new kind of writing, and he continually discovers new ways or writing about writing . . . It is a remarkable book."—
Frank Kermode,
The New York Times Book Review
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Brookland
A Novel
Emily Barton
Picador
"A marvelously engrossing historical novel . . . [Emily Barton] has armed [her] imagination with facts and tone that realistically evoke 18th century New York in an utterly convincing and involving way . . . In
Brookland
, [she] has taken an elegant way with questions of thought-provoking substance and has made a very fine and satisfying novel. And, if there is heartbreak at its end, those hearts are broken over things that mattered then—and still."—
Tim Rutten,
Los Angeles Times
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Nylon Road
A Graphic Memoir of Coming of Age in Iran
Parsua Bashi
St. Martin's Griffin
"What [
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] really reveals is how little the two cultures really know about each other, let alone being able to understand and sympathize with each other. It’s an eye-opening book, particularly in the treatment of women in Iran . . . But while portraying these events from her past, Bashi also speaks up about ways in which Europeans or Americans are insensitive or unfair . . . The book is worth reading, if for no other reason than that there’s very little like this, and it takes guts to describe a difficult life with such honesty and candor. If everyone had access to more books like
Nylon Road
, then perhaps we would have an easier time taking somebody else’s perspective into account."—
Jonathan Liu,
Wired
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The Possessed
Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
Elif Batuman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
“The seven essays here are expansive, wide-ranging, almost impossible to categorize, merging criticism and personal experience, scholarship and life. Although bounded by the author’s devotion to Russian literature,
The Possessed
is really a kind of autobiography in reading, in which the characters are Tolstoy, Isaac Babel and Pushkin.”
—David Ulin,
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The Wizard of Oz
Tor Classics
L. Frank Baum
Tor Classics
Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each...
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The Business of Memory
The Art of Remembering in an Age of Forgetting
Graywolf Forum
#3
Edited by Charles Baxter
Graywolf Press Paper
In the current information age, "memory" is as likely to be an attribute of a computer as a human being. In Graywolf Forum Three: The Business of Memory,...
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The Art of Subtext
Beyond Plot
Art of...
Charles Baxter
Graywolf Press Paper
"Think of subtext in fiction as water; its characters, swimmers on the surface. Like water, subtext is everywhere, ubiquitous and buoyant, darker in its depths, the stuff of immersion. The beauty of Baxter's inaugural entry in Graywolf's . . . 'Art of' series, which draws on examples in literature to instruct on the writing craft, is that it doesn't assume to try and capture the whole of subtext . . . Instead, it focuses on very specific qualities composing it: the art of staging in a story, the importance of inflection in dialog, the ambiguity of motivation. To make the often translucent substance more visible, Baxter highlights excerpts from a wide range of fiction, from the contemporaneous and familiar to the foreign and esoteric . . . Baxter's book will help readers read more creatively and writers to float their stories . . . Highly recommended for all academic libraries."—
Maria Kochis,
Library Journal
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Burning Down the House
Essays on Fiction
Charles Baxter
Graywolf Press Paper
"[The book] is a pleasure to read, and it performs an important function—by mucking around in the problems that plague contemporary fiction,
Burning Down
the House may spur both readers and writers first to a recognition of guilty complicity and then to constructive thought."—
The New York Times Book Review
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