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Book Cover for: The Heroine with 1001 Faces, Maria Tatar

The Heroine with 1001 Faces

Maria Tatar
Liveright BooksLiveright Books

"I read in @mariamtatar's book 'The Heroine with 1001 Faces' that the word for curiosity, with its connotations of both masculine learning and feminine transgression, comes directly from the Latin word for care." @AP10k for @lithub: https://t.co/WH8CylCPz0

Paperback, 2022

$18.95Member price:$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela, Nelson Mandela

The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela
Liveright BooksLiveright Books

#ThePrisonLettersofNelsonMandela and @yunte's "Inseparable" have been named two of the Best Books of 2018 by @nprbooks! Visit the Book Concierge for more great reading: http://apps.npr.org/best-books-2018/#/_

Hardcover, 2018

$35.00Member price:$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening, Søren Kierkegaard

Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening

Søren Kierkegaard
Liveright BooksLiveright Books

A V-Day read if there ever was, Søren Kierkegaard's THE SICKNESS UNTO DEATH arrives in stores today in a rich new translation from Bruce H. Kirmsse, condensing Kierkegaard's most essential ideas―on aesthetics, ethics, and religion―into a single volume: https://t.co/CgbXlGArb8 https://t.co/fwmSvE4gMt

Paperback, 1983

$27.95Member price:$13.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Loving and Living Alone, Amy Key

Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Loving and Living Alone

Amy Key
Liveright BooksLiveright Books

“The most hyped memoir of 2023 (or at least a close second to 'Spare')… Raw, gorgeous, pulsing… the harbinger of a real talent” —@thetimes 💙 Happy #PubDay, @msamykey! ARRANGEMENTS IN BLUE: NOTES ON LOVING AND LIVING ALONE is now wherever books are sold! https://t.co/CmTWLP0L11 https://t.co/piZjffHmna

Hardcover, 2023

$28.00Member price:$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Daodejing, Laozi

Daodejing

Laozi
Liveright BooksLiveright Books

From @brookziporyn's radical reinterpretation of Laozi's DAODEJING, in stores Jan 17th! Follow @DailyDao4 for more electrifying strangeness and explosively unsettling philosophical implications from this exceptional translation: https://t.co/hMDv2oL0Cp https://t.co/SRfTGzFJws

Hardcover, 2023

$28.00Member price:$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: After Sappho, Selby Wynn Schwartz

After Sappho

Selby Wynn Schwartz
Liveright BooksLiveright Books

Selby Wynn Schwartz's AFTER SAPPHO is @lithub's #1 Best Reviewed Book of January! "The novel’s greatest innovation may be the way its disparate subjects fashion a collective we of lesbian world-making and feminist activation." —@mbsycamore, @nytimesbooks https://t.co/d4r6LYnEed

Paperback, 2024

$17.99Member price:$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family, Kerri K. Greenidge

The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family

Kerri K. Greenidge
Liveright BooksLiveright Books

Join us tonight at @bookcritics' 2023 #NBCCAwards as we cheer on our fantastic Finalist for Biography, @GreenidgeKerri's THE GRIMKES: THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY IN AN AMERICAN FAMILY! Congrats to Kerri and all nominees on this honor! https://t.co/bnoLNt6JIP https://t.co/MmRO5jmXP6

Hardcover, 2022

$32.50Member price:$16.25 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Liveright BooksLiveright Books

Happy #PubDay @jeromecharyn, whose new novel BIG RED is "cinematic and bittersweet... evokes F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 'The Great Gatsby' in telling his saga of star-crossed charismatics through the eyes of... an outsider-insider named Rusty Redburn"—@WSJBooks https://t.co/1qDQ1Cb6fg https://t.co/72VXcsYzrL

Paperback, 2004

$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War, Howard W. French

Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War

Howard W. French
Liveright BooksLiveright Books

BORN IN BLACKNESS by @hofrench is one of @BillGates' two favorite books to read this summer! "Thoughtful, well-researched.... I mean it as a compliment when I say that 'Born in Blackness' left me wanting to know more." As will you, dear reader: https://t.co/YKMeiD57ee

Paperback, 2022

$21.99Member price:$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery, Adam Gopnik

The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery

Adam Gopnik
Liveright BooksLiveright Books

On @CBSMornings, THE REAL WORK author @adamgopnik discussed his new Liveright book "on the Mystery of Mastery" + his new audiobook w/ @SteveMartinToGo, "So Many Steves": our thanks to @pushkinpods for this clip! Get started on THE REAL WORK, avail now: https://t.co/OGf8aTkm9Z https://t.co/HADrilrN5i

Paperback, 2024

$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book