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Restoration or Ruination?

Art Restoration: The Culture, the Business and the Scandal

by James Beck, with Michael Daley


The White Goddess!

First Awakenings: The Early Poems of Laura Riding

edited by Elizabeth Friedmann and Alan J. Clark and Robert Nye

The Word 'Woman' and Other Related Writings

by Laura (Riding) Jackson, edited by Elizabeth Friedmann, edited by Alan J. Clark

Four Unposted Letters to Catherine

by Laura Riding, afterword by Elizabeth Friedmann and Alan J. Clark

In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding

by Deborah Baker


Soul Food

The Phantom Empire

by Geoffrey O'Brien


Troublemaker

Before Night Falls

by Reinaldo Arenas, translated by Dolores M. Koch

El Central

translated by Anthony Kerrigan

The Ill-fated Peregrinations of Fray Servando

translated by Andrew Hurley

Graveyard of the Angels

translated by Alfred MacAdam

Old Rosa and The Brightest Star

translated by Ann Tashi Slater, translated by Andrew Hurley

The Doorman

translated by Dolores M. Koch

Singing From The Well

translated by Andrew Hurley

The Palace of the White Skunks

translated by Andrew Hurley

Farewell to the Sea

translated by Andrew Hurley

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The Prophet

Aristide: An Autobiography

by Jean-Bertrand Aristide, with Christophe Wargny, translated by Linda M. Maloney

In the Parish of the Poor:Writings From Haiti

by Jean-Bertrand Aristide, translated and edited by Amy Wilentz


Love in a Cold Climate

'To My Best Friend': Correspondence between Tchaikovsky and Nadezhda von Meck (1876–1878)

translated by Galina von Meck, edited by Edward Garden and Nigel Gotteri, Introduction by Edward Garden

Tchaikovsky: The Final Years (1885–1893)

by David Brown


Danger: Thin Ice

Smilla's Sense of Snow

by Peter Hoeg, translated by Tiina Nunnally


The Greek Way

Shame and Necessity

by Bernard Williams


Leave it to Chance

Enlightenment and the Shadows of Chance: The Novel and the Culture of Gambling in Eighteenth-Century France

by Thomas M. Kavanagh


Old Wives’ Tales

“The oral contraceptives and abortifacients known to the Greeks and Romans were both effective and also safer than one might have expected.”

Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance

by John M. Riddle

Demography and Roman Society

by Tim G. Parkin


The Unknown Freud

Freud's Russia: National Identity in the Evolution of Psychoanalysis

by James L. Rice

Father Knows Best: The Use and Abuse of Power in Freud's Case of 'Dora'

by Robin Tolmach Lakoff and James C. Coyne

Seductive Mirage: An Exploration of the Work of Sigmund Freud

by Allen Esterson

A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein

by John Kerr


Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

Short Cuts

directed by Robert Altman, screenplay by Robert Altman and Frank Barhydt, based on the writings of Raymond Carver

Short Cuts: Selected Stories

by Raymond Carver

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