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Product Description: Shortly after his mother dies of breast cancer when he is ten years old, Michael Blumenthal discovers that she was not his biological mother, and that his aunt and uncle, immigrant chicken farmers living in Vineland, New Jersey, are really his parents...read more
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9780060186296 | Harpercollins, March 1, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: An account of identity and family secrets follows the author, who, forced to endure the same fate as his father, embarks on an odyssey of belonging that affects his entire adult life, and struggles to prevent the problems of the past from affecting his own son's future.
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9781943665266 | Vandalia Pr, September 1, 2016, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Shortly after his mother dies of breast cancer when he is ten years old, Michael Blumenthal discovers that she was not his biological mother, and that his aunt and uncle, immigrant chicken farmers living in Vineland, New Jersey, are really his parents.
9780060933920 | Reprint edition (Perennial, February 1, 2003), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A richly textured and moving account of identity and dark family secrets follows the author, who, forced to endure the same fate as his father, embarks on an odyssey of belonging that affects his entire adult existence, and struggles to prevent the problems of the past from affecting his own son's future.
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9780396051657, titled "Surprise! Surprise!, a Collection of Mystery Stories" | Dodd Mead, June 1, 1965, cover price $6.95 | also contains Surprise! Surprise!, a Collection of Mystery Stories
Product Description: Etan Yogev had had no experience in bedâand hardly any outside of itâand it was not without a strong feeling of awkwardness and insecurity that he had first allowed Daphna Flinker to guide his somewhat ambivalent member into her own body, and his lips against her lips...read more
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9780988692244 | Etruscan Pr, August 19, 2014, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Etan Yogev had had no experience in bedâand hardly any outside of itâand it was not without a strong feeling of awkwardness and insecurity that he had first allowed Daphna Flinker to guide his somewhat ambivalent member into her own body, and his lips against her lips.
Product Description: Whatâs wrong with the contemporary American medical system? What does it mean when a stateâs democratic presidential primary casts 40% of its votes for a felon incarcerated in another state? Whatâs so bad about teaching by PowerPoint? What is truly the dirtiest word in America? These are just a few of the engaging and controversial issues that Michael Blumenthal, poet, novelist, essayist, and law professor, tackles in this collection of poignant essays commissioned by West Virginia Public Radio...read more
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9781938228773 | Vandalia Pr, March 1, 2014, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Whatâs wrong with the contemporary American medical system?
Product Description: ÂThe finest collection of poetry Iâve read in a very long time.âÂRon HansenFrom my birth motherI took my melancholy dispositionand from my fatherthe ability to get through lifewith a bullet in one arm.Âfrom "Genetics"No Hurry is a book of poems for the aging in body but youthful in spirit, for those interested in continuing to ask most meaningful questions as they head Âdownhillâ: What does it mean to be alive? What shall we make of this journey from birth to death? How can we find meaning and joy amid our mortality and suffering...read more
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9780983294474 | Etruscan Pr, October 16, 2012, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: ÂThe finest collection of poetry Iâve read in a very long time.
Product Description: Kantor shares with his fellow Central and Eastern European poets the destiny of being, unavoidably, a political poet of sorts. The past, as he admits in his long, historically-infused poem, Ancestors, hangs from me. And yet his politics ...read more
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9781929355648 | Italian edition edition (Pleasure Boat Studio, May 1, 2010), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Kantor shares with his fellow Central and Eastern European poets the destiny of being, unavoidably, a political poet of sorts.
Product Description: Through Michael Blumenthal’s eyes we gain a renewed, childlike wonder at everything from plants, trees, and relationships to the most fundamental word in our vocabulary: AND. Blumenthal uses the conjunction to unify this collection and create a chanting, sonorous rhythm to his work...read more
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9781934414217 | Boa Editions, May 1, 2009, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Through Michael Blumenthal’s eyes we gain a renewed, childlike wonder at everything from plants, trees, and relationships to the most fundamental word in our vocabulary: AND.
Product Description: Fiction. Jewish Studies. This Michael Blumenthal novel was chosen by Elie Wiesel, Thomas Kenneally, and Merrill Joan Gerber as winner of Hadassah Magazine's prestigious Ribelow Prize as Best Jewish Novel of the Year in 1994. In its all-too-short lifespan, it received rave reviews from Kirkus and Publisher's Weekly and glowing tributes from such writers as Lorrie Moore, Tim O'Brien, Jhumpa Lahiri, Robert Coles, and Leslie Epstein...read more
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9781929355433 | Pleasure Boat Studio, March 1, 2008, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Fiction.
Product Description: Poetry. A reprinted edition of the celebrated 1987 Penguin edition (a collection) by the 1985 winner of the Academy of American Poets Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award. "Blumenthal's new collection moves surely through the contradictions implied by its title...read more
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9781929355235 | Pleasure Boat Studio, May 5, 2006, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Poetry.
Product Description: Poetry. Now back in print after more than 20 years, Michael Blumenthal's DAYS WE WOULD RATHER KNOW, originally published by Viking-Penguin and sold out in both of its original printings, was one of the most admired, and most influential, books of American poetry of the 1980's, and marked the auspicious continuation of one of the decade's most promising debuts...read more
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9781929355242 | Pleasure Boat Studio, January 1, 2005, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Poetry.
Product Description: The masterpiece is a hard cover, beautiful illustrated book of approximately 175 pages. The main purpose of the book is to enable every surgeon to master stage by stage the detailed procedure of the manual mini nuc and the phaco fracture technique...read more
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9789962613244 | Highlights of Ophthalmology, January 1, 2004, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: The masterpiece is a hard cover, beautiful illustrated book of approximately 175 pages.
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9781880238806 | Boa Editions, October 1, 1999, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Poems that speak to lust, love and loss.
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9781880238813 | Boa Editions, October 1, 1999, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Poems that speak to lust, love and loss.
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9780965141321 | Pleasure Boat Studio, March 1, 1998, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Book by Blumenthal, Michael
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9780944072349 | Zoland Books, September 1, 1993, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Martin Weinstock, a poetry professor at Harvard University, must come to terms with his upbringing as the adopted son of his biological aunt and uncle, who were German Jewish immigrants, and mourn his adopted mother's death
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9780671796457 | Reprint edition (Poseidon Pr, February 1, 1993), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Informative enjoyable
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9780826208323 | Univ of Missouri Pr, May 1, 1992, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Poems examine the consequences and compensations of love, grief, and virtue
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9780826208330 | Univ of Missouri Pr, May 1, 1992, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Poems examine the consequences and compensations of love, grief, and virtue
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9780671723477 | Poseidon Pr, February 1, 1992, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Gathers poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Graves, Sappho, Richard Wilbur, Sylvia Plath, Raymond Carver, William Butler Yeats, John Ciardi, Donald Hall, Maxine Kumin, Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton, William Carlos Williams, John Donne, and W.
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9780140586008 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, May 1, 1988), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Poems deal with marriage, modern relationships, language, death, nature, romanticism, love, loneliness, and art
Product Description: Laps is the winner of the 1984 Juniper Prize, the annual poetry award sponsored by the University of Massachusetts Press. The book is a sequence of poems in 32 sections written in the voice of a swimmer engaged in a half-mile swim...read more
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9780870234590 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, September 1, 1984, cover price $20.00
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9780870234606 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, September 1, 1984, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Laps is the winner of the 1984 Juniper Prize, the annual poetry award sponsored by the University of Massachusetts Press.
Product Description: Michael Blumenthal's Days We Would Rather Know, originally published by Viking-Penguin and sold out in both its original printings, was one of the most admired, and most influential, books of American poetry of the l980s, and marked the auspicious continuation of one of the decade's most promising debuts...read more
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9780140423280 | Penguin USA, April 1, 1984, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Michael Blumenthal's Days We Would Rather Know, originally published by Viking-Penguin and sold out in both its original printings, was one of the most admired, and most influential, books of American poetry of the l980s, and marked the auspicious continuation of one of the decade's most promising debuts.
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9780931956034 | Water Mark Pr, June 1, 1980, cover price $7.50 | About this edition: Book by Blumenthal, Michael
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