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Tender Buttons: Gertrude Stein’s Vintage Verses About Objects, Illustrated by Lisa Congdon
Tender Buttons: Gertrude Stein’s Vintage Verses About Objects, Illustrated by Lisa Congdon

A book is a book is a book. Or is it?

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Viktor Frankl on the Human Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl on the Human Search for Meaning

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

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Happy Birthday, Richard Dawkins: An Atheist’s Animated Altercation with God
Happy Birthday, Richard Dawkins: An Atheist’s Animated Altercation with God

Knocking on heaven’s door of lamentable ignorance.

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Gay Talese’s Field Guide to the Social Order of New York’s Cats, Illustrated
Gay Talese’s Field Guide to the Social Order of New York’s Cats, Illustrated

A rare and wonderful 1961 taxonomy of Gotham’s feline fraternity from the godfather of literary journalism.

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