Books from Ecco Press
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The Vortex: A True Story of History's Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation
By Scott Carney, Jason MiklianOver the course of just a few hours, the Great Bhola Cyclone would kill 500,000 people and begin a chain reaction of turmoil, genocide, and war. The Vortex is the dramatic story of how that storm sparked a country to revolution.
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Talk to Me
By T C BoyleHope for the future? These are some the questions T.C. Boyle asks in his wide-ranging and hilarious new novel Talk to Me, exploring what it means to be human, to communicate with another, and to truly know another person--or animal.
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Materialism: Poems
By Jorie GrahamIn Materialism, her fifth collection, Jorie Graham undertakes a daring book-length meditation on the nature of our restless relationship with matter.
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Everybody Thought We Were Crazy: Dennis Hopper, Brooke Hayward, and 1960s Los Angeles
By Mark RozzoThe stylish, wild story of the marriage of Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward--a tale of love, art, Hollywood, and heartbreak "Those years in the sixties when I was married to Dennis were the most wonderful and awful of my life.
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The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler and English Summer: A Gothic Romance
By Raymond ChandlerThe Notebooks of Raymond Chandler and English Summer: A Gothic Romance
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Notebook of Anton Chekhov
By Anton Pavlovich ChekhovContains Chekhov's diary from 1896, the text of his notebooks from the years 1892 to 1904 that contain ideas for future works and quotations that he liked, and a collection...
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Whose Woods These are: A History of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, 1926-1992
By David Haward BainTraces the history of the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference and examines the annual event within its literary, social, and political contexts
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Home: Social Essays
By Amiri Baraka"Written between 1960 and 1965, Home documents a critical time in American history as well as a crucial stage in the development of one of the most influential writers, activists,...
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Outage: A Journey Into Electric City
By Bruce W. PoweCommencing with the 1987 stock market crash, the narrator, a writer and teacher on the verge of divorce, weaves a story of his experiences in a world rapidly changed by...
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Tuxedo Junction: Essays on American Culture
By Gerald Lyn EarlyDiscusses racial issues in contemporary American society, with an emphasis on Black writing, art, and culture and featuring reappraisals of James Baldwin and other literary figures
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Tuxedo Junction: Essays on American Culture
By Gerald Early"Discusses racial issues in contemporary American society, with an emphasis on Black writing, art, and culture and featuring reappraisals of James Baldwin and other literary figures." Amazon.com viewed 9/4/2020.
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The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories
By Anton Pavlovich ChekhovThis is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by...
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History of My Heart
By Robert PinskyHistory of My Heart
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The Biggest Modern Woman of the World: A Novel
By Susan SwanAnna Swan, an eight foot tall Nova Scotian giantess, rejects domesticity, and sets off to seek her fortune in nineteenth-century America
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Pleasures and Regrets
By Marcel ProustThis was Proust's first published work, appearing when he was only twenty-five, and it consists of stories, sketches and thematic writings on a variety of subjects. The attitudes reflect many...
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The Monument
By Mark StrandThe Monument
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Jean Genet in Tangier
By Mohamed Choukri, Muḥammad ShukrīJean Genet in Tangier
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The Path to the Nest of Spiders
By Italo CalvinoTells the story of Pin, a cobbler's apprentice in a town on the Ligurian coast during World War II. He lives with his sister, a prostitute, and spends as much...
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Hello, Molly!: A Memoir
By Sean Wilsey, Molly ShannonFilled with behind-the-scenes stories involving everyone from Whitney Houston to Adam Sandler to Monica Lewinsky, many told for the first time here, Hello, Molly! spans Molly's time on Saturday Night Live--where she starred alongside Will ...
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Talkin' Moscow Blues
By Josef ŠkvoreckýTalkin' Moscow Blues