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  Book of Longing

  Anonimo

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  “Book of Longing has exceptional range. It is clear yet steamy, cosmic yet private, both playful and profound.”—New York Times 
  Leonard Cohen wrote the poems in Book of Longing—his first book of poetry in more than twenty years after 1984's Book of Mercy—during his five-year stay at a Zen monastery on Southern California's Mount Baldy, and in Los Angeles, Montreal, and Mumbai. This dazzling collection is enhanced by the author's playful and provocative drawings, which interact in exciting, unexpected ways on the page with poetry that is timeless, meditative, and often darkly humorous. 
  An international sensation, Book of Longing contains all the elements that have brought Cohen's artistry with language worldwide recognition.

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  The Transformative Power of Tattoo

  Julianne Ingles

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  A smashing collection of fiction, nonfiction and poetry by a diverse group of writers who delve into tattoos in terms of class, body image, history, empowerment and transformations. It's an investigation into why people get tattoos and how they transform a person's life.
  Our 19 contributors are debut and award-winning. Their work includes memoir, transgressive fiction, horror, magical realism, sci-fi, literary fiction, poetry and personal essays. We're delighted to share with you their take on the tattoo.

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  The Orchid Folios

  Mok Zining

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  “When you take an orchid out of its pot, you must first loosen the roots’ hold on the soil. Late last evening as I unravelled the braids of the shattered phalaenopsis, I saw how the ends were white and shrivelled from neglect. You have to do it gently—it’s like combing hair. I remember Mum’s fingers running through mine, and mine through hers, until the final months when all of it started to fall.” 
   
   
  A pot shatters. An arrangement falls apart. A florist finds herself amidst the scattered leaves of history. At once a poetry collection and a documentary novella, The Orchid Folios reimagines the orchid as a living, breathing document of history: a history that enmeshes the personal, colonial, linguistic, and biotechnological with the Vanda Miss Joaquim, the symbol of Singapore’s postcolonial hybridity. While the Orchid has shaped the fantastical narratives that govern our multiracial City in a Garden, it continues to shape-shift and bloom on its own terms, challenging us to imagine a decolonised Singapore. This is the organism at the heart of The Orchid Folios—by turns stark and unruly, documenting and challenging the narratives that are the roots of our national consciousness.

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  Lifescapes - A Biographer's...

  Nelson Thomas

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  "A lyrical, radiant memoir." —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review 
  Ann Wroe, obituaries editor for The Economist, reflects on the art and impossibility of capturing life on the page. Through her experiences and through people she has known, studied, or merely glimpsed in windows, she movingly explores what makes a life and how that life lingers after in this breathtaking combination of poetry, memoir, and observation. 
  'What is life?' asked the poet Shelley, and he could not come up with an answer. Scientists, too, for all their understanding of how life manifests, thrives and evolves, have still not answered that fundamental question. Yet biographers and obituarists continue to corral lives in a few columns, or a few hundred pages, aware all the time how fleeting and elusive their subject is. 
  In this dazzlingly original blend of poetry, biography, observation, and memoir, Wroe explores the experience of trying to capture the essence of a person. Animated by her rare imagination, eye for the telling detail, and the wit, beauty and clarity of her writing, Lifescapes is a luminous, deeply personal answer to Shelley's question.

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  The Canterbury Tales

  Geoffrey Chaucer

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  What do stories reveal about who we truly are?
  
  Written in the late fourteenth century, The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer is one of the greatest works in English literature. Framed as a storytelling contest among pilgrims traveling to Canterbury, the book presents a vivid cross-section of medieval society—knights, clerics, merchants, wives, and rogues—each revealed through their tales.
  
  Blending humor, satire, romance, and moral reflection, Chaucer's stories explore timeless themes of love, power, faith, greed, and human weakness. His sharp observation of character and society gives the work a freshness that still resonates with modern readers.
  
  This eBook presents the classic text in a clear, readable format, making it accessible to both new readers and longtime admirers of medieval literature.
  
  Inside this eBook, you'll explore:
  
  A diverse collection of stories told by unforgettable characters
  
  A rich portrait of medieval English life
  
  Satire, comedy, and moral insight woven together
  
  A foundational work in the history of English literature
  
  Studied worldwide and admired for centuries, The Canterbury Tales remains essential reading for anyone interested in classic poetry, storytelling traditions, or the roots of English literature.
  
  Travel with the pilgrims and hear the stories that shaped a literary tradition. Buy now and experience one of the greatest classics ever written.

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  Mishkât Al-Anwar (The Niche For...

  Al- Ghazzali, WHT Gairdner

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  The classic work of Sufi mystical thinking from 1100CE, available in audiobook for the first time. It is also known as A Niche of Lamps. In the middle ages, Sufi scholars reconciled rationality and faith, both of which were ascendant in the empires of the time. This is one of the great philosophical and theological works from that period, and shows another side to Islam than the doctrinaire version that is more commonly spoken of. Al-Ghazali is often called "the proof of Islam" (hujjat al-islam), because he tried to bridge inquiry, legislation and mystical practice. One could call al-Ghazali the prototype Muslim intellectual.This translation was done in 1823 by WHT Gairdner, who also includes a commentary upon the ideas that Al-Ghazzali presents.The Niche of Lights, written near the end of his life, is about the need for balance between the authority of the divine and reason, seeing both as essential to real spiritual development.

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