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In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing

In the Blink of an Eye is celebrated film editor Walter Murch's vivid, multifaceted, thought -- provoking essay on film editing. Starting with what might be the most basic editing question -- Why do c…

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Interior Chinatown

A deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play.

Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as the protagonist in his own life: he’s mer…

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City of Night Birds

A once-famous ballerina faces a final choice—to return to the world of Russian dance that nearly broke her, or to walk away forever—in this incandescent novel of redemption and love

On a White Night in…

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The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2)

A dense yellow miasma swirls in the streets of London as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson accompany a beautiful young woman to a sinister assignation.

For Mary Marston has received several large pearls - …

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The Bronze Horseman (The Bronze Horseman, #1)

Librarian note: alternate covers for this edition can be found here and here and here.

During the summer of 1941 the Metanov family are living a hard life in Leningrad. As the German armies advance the…

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Novelist as a Vocation

A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author’s own novels.

Haruki Murakami’s myriad fans will be delighted by this unique look into the mind of a master storyteller. In this e…

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The Faraway Nearby

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Antony and Cleopatra

A romantic tragedy about the relationship between Mark Antony and the Queen of Egypt, including notes and critical commentary.

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Poetics

'What is poetry, how many kinds of it are there, and what are their specific effects?'

Aristotle's Poetics is the most influential book on poetry ever written. A founding text of European aesthetics a…

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Hitchcock/Truffaut

Any book-length interview with Alfred Hitchcock is valuable, but considering that this volume's interlocutor is François Truffaut, the conversation is remarkable indeed. Here is a rare opportunity to …

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The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here

How do Bible passages written thousands of years ago apply to politics today? What can we learn from America's history of using the Bible in politics? How can we converse with people whose views diffe…

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Quando muori resta a me

Un viaggio con suo padre verso il paesino tra le Dolomiti da cui proviene la famiglia paterna sarebbe la scusa perfetta per capire meglio Genitore 2, ma Zerocalcare e suo padre sono incapaci di parlar…

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