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Book Cover for: When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi

When Breath Becomes Air

Paul Kalanithi
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When Breath Becomes Air – a young neurosurgeon examines the meaning of life as he faces his own death https://t.co/ITuUGqzlbH

Hardcover, 2016

$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm - Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, Brothers Grimm

The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm - Illustrated by Arthur Rackham

Brothers Grimm
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On the great Arthur Rackham's 155th birthday, his rare and revolutionary century-old illustrations for the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm https://t.co/njiUAlR4Un

Hardcover, 2013

$61.99$36.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
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Book Cover for: Leisure: The Basis of Culture, Josef Pieper

Leisure: The Basis of Culture

Josef Pieper
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The perfect holiday read: Leisure, the Basis of Culture – an obscure German philosopher's magnificent 1948 manifesto for reclaiming our human dignity in a culture of workaholism https://t.co/j2T2cvnAQZ

Paperback, 2009

$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Moomin: Volume 2: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip, Tove Jansson

Moomin: Volume 2: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip

Tove Jansson
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"I long to read more in the book of you." On beloved Moomins creator Tove Jansson's birthday, his almost unbearably beautiful love letters to the love of her life (who inspired her wisest Moomin character) https://t.co/VpUTsB61fQ

Hardcover, 2007

$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Treasure Island, Robert Stevenson Louis

Treasure Island

Robert Stevenson Louis
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"Treasure Island" author Robert Louis Stevenson on what makes life worth living https://t.co/uxBK4XK4xG

Paperback, 2023

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: de Profundis, Oscar Wilde

de Profundis

Oscar Wilde
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Patti Smith reads Oscar Wilde's stirring letter on suffering and transcendence, penned while imprisoned for loving whom he loved https://t.co/oBAl9xzhwz

Paperback, 2000

$13.00$6.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: A Responsibility to Awe, Rebecca Elson

A Responsibility to Awe

Rebecca Elson
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"For this we go out dark nights, searching For the dimmest stars, For signs of unseen things..." Astronomer Rebecca Elson died OTD in 1999, not yet forty, leaving behind 56 scientific papers and some stunning poems. Patti Smith reads one of her best: https://t.co/DNEijLWUb4

Paperback, 2018

$20.99$10.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley
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"Brave New World" author Aldous Huxley, born on this day in 1894, on love, knowledge vs. understanding, and the cure for our existential helplessness https://t.co/dEHmgqkfjy

Paperback, 2006

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Love Letters: The Love Letters of Kahlil Gibran to May Ziadah, Kahlil Gibran

Love Letters: The Love Letters of Kahlil Gibran to May Ziadah

Kahlil Gibran
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Kahlil Gibran's stunning love letters to his muse and patron, Mary Haskell, born on this day in 1873 https://t.co/hR09UZrwSD

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Book Cover for: Parable of the Talents, Octavia E. Butler

Parable of the Talents

Octavia E. Butler
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“Love quiets fear. And a sweet and powerful positive obsession blunts pain, diverts rage, and engages each of us in the greatest, the most intense of our chosen struggles.” Timeless truth from Octavia Butler, who would have been 75 today: https://www.themarginalian.org/2020/10/31/octavia-butler-parable-of-the-talents-self/

Paperback, 2019

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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