What is the meaning of life? It is a question that has intrigued the great philosophers--and has been hilariously lampooned by Monty Python. Indeed, the whole idea strikes many of us as vaguely pompous, a little absurd. Is there one...
Life
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Author:Baggini, JulianSummary: -
Author:Lane, PatrickSummary:Following the success of his award-winning memoir "There is a Season" (2004) and his bestselling novel "Red Dog, Red Dog" (2008), Patrick Lane felt his celebrated poetry career might be at an end and published his "Collected Poems" in...
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Author:Phillips, ElizabethSummary:Winner, Lesbian Poetry at the 2008 GCLS Literary Awards (Golden Crown Literary Awards) and nominated for LGBT Poetry at the Lambda Literary Awards
Shortlisted for the 2007 Anne Szumigalsi Award for Poetry and the 2007 Saskatoon...
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Author:Souaid, Carolyn MarieSummary:Shortlisted for the 2016 ReLit Award
A razor-sharp eye for detail roams and redeems imperfections
both personal and collective.The world in Carolyn Marie Souaid’s latest collection is both an act of the imagination...
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Author:Bell, AldenSummary:Temple can't remember a time before the zombies, but she does remember the tragedy that sent her on her personal journey toward redemption. Wandering the blighted land, she must decide where to make a home and find the salvation she...
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Author:Aurelius, MarcusSummary:A new translation, the first in thirty-five years, of one of the most influential and admired books of the ages, the reflections of Marcus Aurelius, Stoic philosopher and emperor of Rome 161-180 A.D., few books have meant as much to as...
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Author:Wiesel, ElieSummary:A plane headed from New York to Tel Aviv is forced to crash land at a small airport, and five survivors are given shelter in a nearby home. Once they are locked in, their enigmatic host tells them he is their judge, and they must reveal...
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Author:Galloway, StevenSummary:The Confabulist is a clever and suspenseful narrative that weaves together the rise and fall of world-famous Harry Houdini with the surprising story of Martin Strauss, an unknown man whose fate seems forever tied to the magician's in a...
- Author:Gay, RossSummary:
The winner of the NBCC Award for Poetry offers up a spirited collection of short lyric essays, written daily over a tumultuous year, reminding us of the purpose and pleasure of praising, extolling, and celebrating ordinary wonders. Ross...
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Author:Hesse, HermannSummary:Harry Haller is a sad and lonely figure, a reclusive intellectual for whom life holds no joy. He struggles to reconcile the wild primeval wolf and the rational man within himself without surrendering to the bourgeois values he despises...
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Author:Apostolides, MarianneSummary:Because fear can transform into confidence, recklessness, the kind of power you can't imagine until you're inside it. And then, once you've felt it, you can't feel alive when it's gone. Sophrosyne. You understood this feeling. I know...
- Author:Shubin, NeilSummary:
The author of the best-selling Your Inner Fish, now gives us a lively and accessible account of the great transformations in the history of life, that enable us to further understand whether our presence on this planet is an accident or...
- Author:Lamott, AnneSummary:
From the bestselling author of Stitches and Help, Thanks, Wow comes her long-awaited collection of new and selected essays on hope, joy, and grace. Anne Lamott writes about faith, family, and community in essays that are both wise and...
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Author:Bearhead, Wilson, Bearhead, CharleneSummary:Paul (Siha Tooskin) spends some time with his mother and they discuss the nature of life with respect to animals, the environment, and the Creator in the Nakota Indigenous tradition. There are also themes of endurance and resilience...
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Author:De Koninck, Thomas DeSummary:Le premier défi de la démocratie est de donner le "goût de l’avenir" (Alexis de Tocqueville), de générer l'enthousiasme qui poussera les jeunes d'esprit à progresser d'eux-mêmes vers de nouvelles...
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Author:Thibault, VincentSummary:Il nous arrive à tous de connaître des moments difficiles : des périodes de stress intense, de douloureuses remises en question, des accumulations de petits tracas ou même de véritables épisodes dépressifs. Les aléas sont une...
- Author:Heti, SheilaSummary:
Here we are, just living in the first draft of creation, which was made by some great artist, who is now getting ready to tear it apart. In this first draft, a woman named Mira leaves home for school. There, she meets Annie, whose...
- Author:Geoffrion, DanièleSummary:
Les pensées de ce recueil nous réservent de découvrir une recherche personnelle, lucide et sans compromission. L’auteur nous invite à partager sa réflexion sur le sens de la vie et la complexité des rapports humains, à explorer l’espace...
- Author:Geoffrion, DanièleSummary:
Qui ici dit Aphorisme en appelle à la pensée en équilibre, sagesse et réflexion, avec un goût évident d’espérer en l’humanité, parfois malgré elle.
Sur les murs familiers de ma vie au jour le jour sont épinglés comme des...
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