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  • Beren And Lúthien

    Painstakingly restored from J.R.R. Tolkien’s manuscripts and presented for the first time as a continuous and standalone story, the epic tale of Beren and Lúthien will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves and Men, Dwarves and Orcs and the rich landscape and creatures unique to Tolkien’s Middle-earth.The tale of Beren and Lúthien was, or became, an essential element in ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Sauron Defeated: The End Of The Third Age

    The History of the Lord of the Rings, part four

    Series Book 9 - History of Middle-earth
    The final part of The History of The Lord of the Rings, Sauron Defeated: The End Of The Third Age is J.R.R. Tolkien's enthralling account of the writing of the Book of the Century which contains many additional scenes and includes the unpublished Epilogue in its entirety.In the first section of Sauron Defeated Christopher Tolkien completes his fascinating study of The Lord of the Rings. Beginning ... Read more

    $16.49 USD

  • The War Of The Ring

    The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part Three

    Series Book 8 - History of Middle-earth
    The third part of The History of The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien's The War Of The Ring is an enthralling account of the writing of the Book of the Century, which contains many additional scenes and includes the unpublished Epilogue in its entirety.The War of the Ring takes up the story of The Lord of the Rings with the Battle of Helm’s Deep and the drowning of Isengard by the Ents, continues ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Treason Of Isengard

    The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part 2

    Series Book 7 - History of Middle-earth
    The second part of The History of The Lord of the Rings, an enthralling account of the writing of the Book of the Century which contains many additional scenes and includes the unpublished Epilogue in its entirety.The Treason of Isengard continues the account of the creation of The Lord of the Rings started in the earlier volume, The Return of the Shadow.It races the great expansion of the tale ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Return Of The Shadow

    The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part One

    Series Book 6 - History of Middle-earth
    The first part of The History of The Lord of the Rings, The Return Of The Shadow is J.R.R. Tolkien's enthralling account of the writing of the Book of the Century which contains many additional scenes and includes the unpublished Epilogue in its entirety.The Return of the Shadow is the story of the first part of the history of the creation of The Lord of the Rings, a fascinating study of Tolkien’s ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Book Of Lost Tales, Part Two

    Part Two

    Series Book 2 - History of Middle-earth
    The Book of Lost Tales: Part Two is the second of a two-volume set that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic tale of war, The Silmarillion.The Book of Lost Tales was the first major work of imagination by J.R.R. Tolkien, begun in 1916, when he was twenty-five years old, and left incomplete several years later. It stands at the beginning of the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Book Of Lost Tales, Part One

    Part One

    Series Book 1 - History of Middle-earth
    The Book of Lost Tales: Part One is the first of a two-volume set that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic tale of war, The Silmarillion.The Book of Lost Tales was the first major work of imagination by J.R.R. Tolkien, begun in 1916-17 when he was twenty-five years old and left incomplete several years later. It stands at the beginning of the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Fall Of Arthur

    New York Times bestseller “An incomplete but highly compelling retelling . . . An action-packed, doom-haunted saga, full of vivid natural description.”—New York Times Book ReviewThe Fall of Arthur recounts in verse the last campaign of King Arthur, who, even as he stands at the threshold of Mirkwood, is summoned back to Britain by news of the treachery of Mordred. Already weakened in spirit by ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Wheel of Time Companion

    The People, Places, and History of the Bestselling Series

    Series series Wheel of Time
    The Wheel of Time is now an original series on Prime Video, starring Rosamund Pike as Moiraine!Since its debut in 1990, The Wheel of Time® by Robert Jordan has captivated millions of readers around the globe with its scope, originality, and compelling characters. The definitive encyclopedia of the series, the companion sheds light on some of the most intriguing aspects of the world, including ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • The Old Man and the Sea

    The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953, and the year after, the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Ernest Hemingway in 1954. It was the last major work of fiction written by Hemingway that was published during his lifetime. One of his most famous works, this short novel is already a modern classic. It is the superbly told, tragic story of Santiago, an ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lost Bookshop

    by Evie Woods ...
    The Echo of Old Books meets The Lost Apothecary in this evocative and charming novel full of mystery and secrets.‘The thing about books,’ she said ‘is that they help you to imagine a life bigger and better than you could ever dream of.’On a quiet street in Dublin, a lost bookshop is waiting to be found…For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives.But ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Open Me Carefully

    Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson

    The 19th–century American poet’s uncensored and breathtaking letters, poems, and letter-poems to her sister-in-law and childhood friend.For the first time, selections from Emily Dickinson’s thirty-six year correspondence with her childhood friend, neighbor, and sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson, are compiled in a single volume. Open Me Carefully invites a dramatic new understanding of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • No Longer Human

    by Osamu Dazai ...
    The poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas.Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. Oba Yozo's attempts to reconcile ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Montaigne in Barn Boots

    An Amateur Ambles Through Philosophy

    by Michael Perry ...
    The beloved memoirist and bestselling author of Population: 485 reflects on the lessons he’s learned from his unlikely alter ego, French Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne."The journey began on a gurney," writes Michael Perry, describing the debilitating kidney stone that led him to discover the essays of Michel de Montaigne. Reading the philosopher in a manner he equates to chickens ... Read more

    $7.49 USD

  • Limbo

    A Memoir

    From childhood, acclaimed novelist A. Manette Ansay trained to become a concert pianist. But when she was nineteen, a mysterious muscle disorder forced her to give up the piano, and by twenty-one, she couldn't grip a pen or walk across a room. She entered a world of limbo, one in which no one could explain what was happening to her or predict what the future would hold.At twenty-three, beginning a ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Kissing the Mask

    Beauty, Understatement and Femininity in Japanese Noh Theater, with Some Thoughts on Muses (Especially Helga Testorf), Transgender Women, Kabuki Goddesses, Porn Queens, Poets, Housewives, Makeup Artists, Geishas, Valkyries and Venus Figurines

    “Intrepid journalist and novelist William T. Vollman’s colossal body of work stands unsurpassed for its range, moral imperative, and artistry.”—BooklistWilliam T. Vollmann, the National Book Award–winning author of Europe Central, offers a charming, evocative, and piercing examination of the ancient Japanese tradition of Noh theatre and the keys it holds to our modern understanding of beauty. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Curtain Up

    Agatha Christie: A Life in the Theatre

    by Julius Green ...
    “[Julius] Green turned detective himself and scoured archives around the world to uncover a number of unpublished, unknown works . . . This book is a treat.” —Independent (UK)From the producer of numerous Agatha Christie stage plays comes the first book to examine the world’s bestselling mystery writer’s career and work as a playwright, published to commemorate her 125th birthday.Agatha Christie ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beautiful Fighting Girl

    From Cutie Honey and Sailor Moon to Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, the worlds of Japanese anime and manga teem with prepubescent girls toting deadly weapons. Sometimes overtly sexual, always intensely cute, the beautiful fighting girl has been both hailed as a feminist icon and condemned as a symptom of the objectification of young women in Japanese society. In Beautiful Fighting Girl, Saitō ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • How to Suppress Women's Writing

    by Joanna Russ ...
    Series series Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture
    This landmark feminist critique presents a “brilliant and scathing” survey of the forces that work against women who dare to write (Nicole Rudick, New York Review of Books).Are women able to achieve anything they set their minds to? In How to Suppress Women’s Writing, award-winning novelist and scholar Joanna Russ lays bare the subtle—and not so subtle—strategies that society uses to ignore, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • These Black Bodies Are...

    Edited by Romaine Washington ...
    The beautiful cover art, "Shared Knowledge" by Charles Bibbs, frames the anthology These Black Bodies Are.... This collection provides snapshots of the human condition in melanated skin and kinky hair from established and emerging writers and artists in the Inland Empire and Los Angeles area, reaching throughout the diaspora. It is an exploration of eight movements: hopeful, mindful (mental health ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Collecting Himself

    James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself

    “Thurber is. . . a landmark in American humor. . . he is the funniest artist who ever lived.” — New RepublicJames Thurber spent most of his career at the New Yorker magazine, drawing cartoons and writing essays and stories. Collecting Himself is a one-of-a-kind compilation of James Thurber's vintage writings, featuring previously unanthologized articles, essays, interviews, reviews, cartoons, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • La Petite Menteuse

    " Je veux être défendue par une femme ", a dit Lisa en se présentantà Alice Keridreux.Un face-à-face commence. Ni l'une, ni l'autre ne savent jusqu'où il va les mener.Lisa a quinze ans.C'est une adolescente en vrac, à la spontanéité déroutante. Elle a eu des seins avant les autres filles. Des seins qui excitent les garçons. Mais Lisa change et devient sombre. Elle est souvent au bord des larmes. ... Read more

    $16.99 USD $7.99 USD

  • The Manor House

    An unputdownable and gripping dual timeline novel set in Cornwall

    by Jane Holland ...
    'Had me right from the first line!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Totally Gripping!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Loved it' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐1963. When Eleanor meets famous young poet, Lyndon Chance, he offers a way to flee her abusive father. In return, she must pretend to be Lyndon's wife. He takes her home to a Tudor manor on the Camel Estuary in Cornwall, where she finds herself in the middle of a feud between Lyndon and his twin brother, Oliver. It's ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Secret Session Speeches

    Series series Winston S. Churchill War Speeches
    This collection of addresses to the House of Commons during WWII provides unique insight into the British Prime Minister’s wartime leadership.During World War II, security was so precarious that the House of Commons was at times forced to meet in secret in order to keep its counsel from reaching the enemy. On five separate occasions between 1940 and 1942, Winston Churchill addressed the secret ... Read more

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