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Georges Simenon,
Maigret at Picratt's (Inspector Maigret)

When a striptease dancer is brutally murdered, Inspector Maigret must haunt Montmartre's sleazy nightlife to find the killer.At the tiny basement club Picratt's, the striptease dancer Arlette is the star …

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Georges Simenon,
Maigret's Mistake (Inspector Maigret)

When a young woman is murdered, her recent exit from grim poverty may be the key to cracking the case-but Maigret, to his disquiet, struggles to spot the right suspect. In an apartment in the exclusive Ét…

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Emily Sullivan
A Murder in Marylebone

After over a decade away, widowed mother of two Minnie Harper has left sunny Greece and returned to her native England at the turn of the 20th century---just as a cloud of suspicion falls over her younger…

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Georges Simenon,
Maigret and the Old Lady (Inspector Maigret)

A maid dies after sipping a poisoned drink on a country estate. Was the woman of the house the true target, as she claims, or will Maigret uncover another story?In the tranquil coastal village of Étretat,…

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Emily Sullivan
A Death on Corfu

Living in Greece at the turn of the twentieth century, widow Minnie Harper struggles to find her place in a swiftly changing world. But when a local woman is murdered, her resolve is put to the test in a …

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Georges Simenon,
Cécile Is Dead (Inspector Maigret)

"I've read a lot of Simenon, who's a favorite writer of mine." -Sigrid NunezIn a run-down Paris suburb, housebound widow Juliette Boynet is strangled. For Inspector Maigret, this murder hits hom…

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Georges Simenon,
Maigret (Inspector Maigret)

A gripping novel that sees Maigret brought out of his peaceful retirement. When Maigret's police officer nephew is framed for a gangland murder, the former chief inspector must swap his countryside retire…

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Georges Simenon,
Inspector Cadaver (Inspector Maigret)

"Open any of his novels-from the outset, the magic operates: from the first paragraph you are caught in the jaws of a trap that will not release you until the full-stop at the end of the last page, a…

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Joseph Mitchell,
The Bottom of the Harbor

A classic of literary reporting from one of The New Yorker's most iconic writers reveals the vibrant world of old New York and the ordinary people who made it great, now with illustrations by renowned art…

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Approaches to Teaching the Works of Toni Morrison

Essays on teaching Morrison as novelist and public intellectualToni Morrison's novels have been frequently taught and frequently honored, earning the Nobel Prize and other awards. They are also frequently…

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Dasa Drndic
Trieste

"Splendid and absorbing . . . [Drndic] is writing to witness, and to make the pain stick . . . These dense and satisfying pages capture the crowdedness of memory." - New York Times Book ReviewHa…

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Decolonizing Knowledge

Interdisciplinary scholars rethink strategies for moving contemporary decolonization politics forward by revisiting the writings of the mid-20th century anti-colonial movements' leading intellectuals.

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Approaches to Teaching the Works of George Orwell

The author who famously warned of the surveillance state and its consequencesThough students may be familiar with the themes of Orwell's works, from colonialism and class to dystopian fascism, they often …

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Approaches to Teaching the Works of George Orwell

The author who famously warned of the surveillance state and its consequencesThough students may be familiar with the themes of Orwell's works, from colonialism and class to dystopian fascism, they often …

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Emily van Duyne
Loving Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath is an object of enduring cultural fascination-the troubled patron saint of confessional poetry, a writer whose genius is buried under the weight of her status as the quintessential literary s…

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Georges Simenon,
Maigret and the Man on the Bench (Inspector Maigret)

The vicious stabbing of a dull and respectable man makes for a knotty investigation when his audacious secret life comes to light. A middle-aged man is knifed in an alleyway, dying instantly. In this work…

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Dianne Freeman
An Art Lover's Guide to Paris and Murder

Filled with Victorian-era intrigue for readers of Rhys Bowen, Deanna Raybourn, Tasha Alexander, and Julia Seales, Dianne Freeman's Agatha Award-winning series takes a delightful jaunt to the City of Light…

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Georges Simenon,
The Judge's House (Inspector Maigret)

"The most extraordinary fictive shaper in our time." -George SteinerExiled to a sleepy town in western France, Maigret is relieved when he has to handle a challenging case. There's been a murder…

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Georges Simenon,
Signed, Picpus (Inspector Maigret)

"I want to know what goes on in people's minds. I suppose that's why I love Georges Simenon so much. He was such a master of the small domestic situation." -Ruth Rendell Tomorrow, at five in the…

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Georges Simenon,
Maigret in New York (Inspector Maigret)

"Georges Simenon was the twentieth century's Balzac. But while Balzac spares us nothing of what he's learned, Simenon's genius is the art of reduction. He can teach you how to run a restaurant in a f…

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