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  • Witness 2017-2020

    by Hilton Obenzinger ...
    WITNESS 2017-2020 chronicles four years of troubles, shootings, wildfires,racial reckoning, planetary murder, plague, monumental lies, crazy delusions,#MeToo, an uprising for justice, and more. But a failed far-right insurrection had to be the capstone of these terrible times, and the nation is not done yet. What was once nfamiliar and stran ge ("flatten the curve") has become common, even banal, ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Palestine

    Melville, Twain, and the Holy Land Mania

    by Hilton Obenzinger ...
    In the nineteenth century, American tourists, scholars, evangelists, writers, and artists flocked to Palestine as part of a "Holy Land mania." Many saw America as a New Israel, a modern nation chosen to do God's work on Earth, and produced a rich variety of inspirational art and literature about their travels in the original promised land, which was then part of Ottoman-controlled Palestine. In ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • Bigger than Ben-Hur

    The Book, Its Adaptations, and Their Audiences

    by Neil Sinyard, Eran Shalev, Jefferson J. A. Gatrall, Hilton Obenzinger, Howard Miller, Thomas J. Slater, Richard Walsh, Ina Rae Hark, David Mayer, Jon Solomon ...
    Series series Television and Popular Culture
    First published in 1880, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ became a best-seller. The popular novel spawned an 1899 stage adaptation, reaching audiences of over 10 million, and two highly successful film adaptations. For over a century, it has become a ubiquitous pop cultural presence, representing a deeply powerful story and monumental experience for some and a defining work of bad taste and false ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Omerta

    Selected Poems by Les Gottesman

    by Les Gottesman, Genny Lim, Jesse Gottesman ...
    Omerta: Selected Poems by Les Gottesman gathers a selection of his poems from 2006 to 2019 as well as earlier works from the 1960s and 70s. Les Gottesman's poems straddle the New York School and San Francisco Beat literary scenes with his own uniquely comic, surrealist sensibility. He resumed his career as poet and editor in the early 2000s, after he devoted decades as an educator and radical ... Read more

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    by Aisha Sabatini Sloan ...
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  • A Man Without a Country

    by Kurt Vonnegut ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “For all those who have lived with Vonnegut in their imaginations . . . this is what he is like in person.”–USA TodayIn a volume that is penetrating, introspective, incisive, and laugh-out-loud funny, one of the great men of letters of this age–or any age–holds forth on life, art, sex, politics, and the state of America’s soul. From his coming of age in America, to his ... Read more

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  • The Best American Essays 2023

    by Vivian Gornick, Robert Atwan ...
    Series series Best American
    In her introduction to this year’s The Best American Essays, guest editor Vivian Gornick states that her selections “contribute materially to the long and honorable history of the personal essay by way of the value they place on lived experience.” Provocative, daring, and honest at a time when many writers are deliberately silencing themselves in the face of authoritarian and populist censorship ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Darwin's Bastards

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    by William Gibson, Douglas Coupland, Yann Martel, Timothy Taylor ...
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  • The Good Atheist

    Living a Purpose-Filled Life Without God

    by Dan Barker ...
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  • The Hard Crowd

    Essays 2000-2020

    by Rachel Kushner ...
    Series series A Must-Read Collection of Essays
    Now includes a new essay, “Naked Childhood,” about Kushner’s family, their converted school bus, and the Summers of Love in Oregon and San Francisco!“The Hard Crowd is wild, wide-ranging, and unsparingly intelligent throughout.” —Taylor Antrim, VogueFrom a writer celebrated for her “chops, ambition, and killer instinct” (John Powers, Fresh Air), a career-spanning collection of spectacular essays ... Read more

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  • Uncle John's Bathroom Reader The World's Gone Crazy

    432 All-New Pages of the Strangest, Most Outrageous Stuff You'll Ever Read

    by Bathroom Readers' Institute ...
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    Uncle John's latest compendium of the most bizarre and entertaining information imaginable: a Worldwide Weird-opedia!Good news: It's not you, the world really is going crazy! And Uncle John is barely sane enough to guide you through it all in this whirlwind tour of all things strange and weird. Yes, loyal Throne Room readers, these 432 all-new pages of pure crazy will shock and confound you . . . ... Read more

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    One powerful truth is undeniable: if Christ had never been born, nearly every facet of human life would be worse. Discover what the world would have been like without Jesus, and how some of the world’s greatest accomplishments exist only because he lived.We live in a cynical age in which only one prejudice is tolerated: anti-Christian bigotry. Yet despite the near constant and attacks against the ... Read more

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