The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle Washington Irving  
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Ichabod Crane faces the terror of the Headless Horseman, and Rip Van Winkle rises from a 20-year sleep to find a world vastly changed in these two delightful classics of American literature. Complete and unabridged, newly reset in easy-to-read type, with 6 new full-page illustrations.

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Lemons: A Country Garden Cookbook Christopher Idone  
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Beautifully designed and exquisitely photographed, this unique series showcases sensational recipes that exhibit the wonderful versatility of fruits and vegetables, fresh from the garden or greengrocer's basket.

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Letters from the Earth Mark Twain, Bernard Augustine De Voto  
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An American classic, with more than 320,000 copies sold— some of Twain's most pungent and hilarious writings.

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Letters to a Young Poet Rainer Maria Rilke  
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Written between 1903 and 1908 to a student who had sent Rilke his poems for evaluation, these ten letters—among the most famous and beloved of this century—reveal the deeply felt ideas about life and art that shaped the great poet's work. Two-color interior.

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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong James W. Loewen  
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A tenth anniversary commemorative hardcover edition of James w. Loewen's classic retelling of American history.

Since its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has gone on to win an American Book Award, the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, and to sell over half a million copies in its various editions.

What started out as a survey of the twelve leading American history textbooks has ended up being what the San Francisco Chronicle calls "an extremely convincing plea for truth in education." In Lies My Teacher Told Me, James W. Loewen brings history alive in all its complexity and ambiguity. Beginning with pre-Columbian history and ranging over characters and events as diverse as Reconstruction, Helen Keller, the first Thanksgiving, and the Mai Lai massacre, Loewen offers an eye-opening critique of existing textbooks, and a wonderful retelling of American history as it should —and could —be taught to American students.

This 10th anniversary edition features a handsome new cover and a new introduction by the author.

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Life Is Elsewhere Milan Kundera  
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The author intially intended to call this noel, The Lyrical Age. The lyrical age, according to Kundera, is youth, and this novel, above all, is an epic of adolescence; an ironic epic that tenderlyerodes scarosanct values: childhood, motherhood, revolution, and even poetry. Jaromil is in fact a poet. His mother made hima poet and accompanies him (figuratively) to his love bed and (literally) to his deathbed. A ridiculous and touching character, horrifying and totally innocent ("innocence with its bloody smile"!), Jaromil is at the same time a true poet. He's no creep, he's Rimbaud. Rimbaud entrapped by the communist revolution, entrapped in a somber farce.

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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Laurence Sterne, Ian Campbell Ross  
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Famously described as "the greatest shaggy dog story in the language", this novel is a celebration of the infinite possibilities of the art of fiction and a wry demonstration of its limitations. It includes an introductory essay by Christopher Ricks and is based on the Florida Edition.

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Life, The Universe And Everything: The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy 3 Douglas Adams  
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Life, the Universe and Everything: The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Part Three In consequence of a number of stunning catastrophes, Arthur Dent is surprised to find himself living in a hideously miserable cave on prehistoric Earth. However, just as he thinks that things cannot get possibly worse, they suddenly do. He discovers that the Galaxy is not only mind-boggingly big and bewildering but also that most of the things that happen in it are staggeringly unfair. VOLUME THREE IN THE TRILOGY OF FIVE

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Like Water for Chocolate Laura Esquivel  
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Despite the fact that she has fallen in love with a young man, Tita, the youngest of three daughters born to a tyrannical ranch must obey tradition and remain single and at home to care for her mother. A first novel. National ad/promo. Tour.

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The Literary Companion to Sex Fiona Pitt-Kethley  
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This anthology contains passages or poems that are erotic, comic or instructive, from the Bible to the present day which were chosen for their realism, humour or sheer oddity. The material is arranged according to period, not by sexual activity, although most of the main fetishes are represented.

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A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953 Anais Nin, Henry Miller  
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The impassioned relationship between Anais Nin and Henry Miller is further explored in this exchange of letters, written over a period of twenty-some years. Here is one of the richest and most intimate correspondences in literary history.

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