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Edges: O Israel, O Palestine

by Leora Skolkin-Smith

Published: 2005-05-30

Paperback: 200 pages

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"Edges" was selected by Grace Paley for "Glad Day Books", a new publishing house founded by Ms. Paley and Robert Nichols. "Edges" takes the reader to an Israel before high walls formed a border, when, instead, metal wires hung "like hosiery lines" across the land. Liana Barish is fourte...

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An Edible History of Humanity

by Tom Standage

Published: 2009-05-19

Hardcover: 288 pages

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The bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses brilliantly charts how foods have transformed human culture through the ages. Throughout history, food has acted as a catalyst of social change, political organization, geopolitical competition, industrial development, military ...

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The Edible Woman, Surfacing, Lady Oracle

by Margaret Atwood

Published: 1987

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The Edible Woman

by Margaret Atwood

Published: 1998-03-16

Paperback: 336 pages

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The novel that put the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale on the literary map; a groundbreaking work of fiction. Ever since her engagement, the strangest thing has been happening to Marian McAlpin: she can't eat. First meat. Then eggs, vegetables, cake, pumpkin s...

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Edith Wharton

by Hermione Lee

Published: 2007-04-10

Hardcover: 880 pages

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The definitive biography of one of America's greatest writers, from the author of the acclaimed masterpiece Virginia Woolf. Delving into heretofore untapped sources, Hermione Lee does away with the image of the snobbish bluestocking and gives us a new Edith Wharton--tough, startlingly mo...

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Edith's Story : The True Story of a Young Girl's Courage and Survival During World War II

by EDITH VELMANS

Published: 2001-01-02

Paperback: 256 pages

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In 1940, while the Germans occupied Holland, fourteen-year-old Edith van Hessen was filling her diary with the intimate, carefree details of a typical teenager's life — thoughts about boys, school, her family, her friends, her future. By 1942, as Edith was contemplating her first kis...

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Edmund Bertram's Diary

by Amanda Grange

Published: 2008-08-05

Paperback: 292 pages

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The retelling of Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park from the point of view of Edmund Bertram?by the author of Mr. Knightley's Diary and Captain Wentworth? Diary. At ten years of age, Fanny Price came to live with Edmund Bertram and his family at Mansfield Park. Far from the brat Edmund exp...

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Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems (American Poets Project)

by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Published: 2003-01-27

Hardcover: 231 pages

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A lively selection by J. D. McClatchy, the distinguished poet, critic, and editor, casts Millay's career in a new light. Here are familiar favorites alongside neglected gems: translations, a verse play, songs from her opera libretto The King's Henchman, and the complete sonnet sequence Fat...

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An Educated Death (Thea Kozak)

by Kate Flora

Published: 1999-05-15

Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages

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When a young girl drowns at a private New England high school, tough businesswoman Thea Kozak faces what may be her most tragic mystery yet. The death rocks the world of privileged academia, and Thea is called in to counsel the students and faculty and to reevaluate the school's questionable safety procedures....

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Educating Alice: Adventures of a Curious Woman

by Alice Steinbach

Published: 2005-04-12

Paperback: 320 pages

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This funny and tender book combines three of Alice Steinbach’s greatest passions: learning, traveling, and writing. After chronicling her European journey of self-discovery in Without Reservations, this Pulitzer Prize—winning columnist for the Baltimore Sun quit her job and lef...