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Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life
"This is not an autobiography. God forbid! Autobiography is fueled by ego and I could make a long list of persons whose belly buttons I'd rather be contemplating than my own.... I'd like to think Tibetan Peach Pie isn't a memoir either, although it…
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Wild Ducks Flying Backward: The Short Writings of Tom Robbins
Epigraphs:Your true guide drinks from an undammed stream. --RumiNever enter a house that does not have furniture music. -- Eric Satie
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Villa Incognito
Epigraph:You never know to whom you're talking. -- Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny OperaPS 3568.O233 V55 2003
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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Epigraphs:The lust of the goat is the bounty of God.The nakedness of women is the work of God.Excess of sorrow laughs. Excess of joy weeps.-- William BlakeI told Dale, "When I go, just skin me and put me on top of Trigger." And Dale said, "Now don't…
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Another Roadside Attraction
Epigraphs:"And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written."-- John 21:25"Incidentally, Reggie Fox, who runs…
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
I want God, I want poetry,
I want danger, I want freedom,
I want goodness, I want sin.
--Aldous Huxley
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Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
It has been demonstrated that some amphibians are able to use celestial bodies for orientation.
--The Encyclopedia Britannica
No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world.
--Isaac Bashevis…
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Skinny Legs And All
Epigraphs: The Messiah will only come when he is no longer needed. --Franz Kafka It's the end of the world as we know it (And I feel fine.) --R.E.M.
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Still Life With Woodpecker
Epigraphs: You don't need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Don't even listen, simply wait. Don't even wait. Be still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you. To be unmasked, it has no choice. It will roll…
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Jitterbug Perfume
Epigraphs:
The distinctive human problem from time immemorial has been the need to spiritualize human life, to lift it onto a special immortal plane, beyond the cycles of life and death that characterize all other organisms.
--Ernest…
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Conversations with Tom Robbins
Special Collections and Archives copy of this title is inscribed by Tom Robbins.
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Woman and the New Race
Preface by Havelock Ellis.
Slip of paper at half-title page is printed with an address and instructions for writing Margaret Sanger personally.
Slip of paper at half-title page is printed with an address and instructions for writing Margaret Sanger personally.
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Inscriptions of previous owners on fly leaf of The Invention of Lithography by Alois Senefelder, 1911.
Flyleaf inscription reads: "Presented to the Art Club of Richmond, 521 West Grace Street, 1917 ; Inherited from the Art Club of Richmond, Virginia by the atelier of Nora Houston and Ade?le Clark [...] 1918 ; Presented to Maurice Bonds by Ade?le Clark…
Cartooning for Suffrage
Challenging conventional stereotypes of the political cartoonist, dozens of American women made cartoons advocating women's suffrage in the early twentieth century. Their compelling and imaginative cartoons, strengthened by newly established art…
Soldier Attention: A Private Word with You
World War I pamphlet warning soldiers of the effect of sexually transmitted diseases.
From the William E. Blake Collection.
From the William E. Blake Collection.
What the Employers of America Can Do for the Disabled Soldiers & Sailors.
Issued by the Federal Board for Vocational Education, Washington, D.C.; Series: Monograph ; no. 3.; Vocational Rehabilitation Series ; no. 3 "The great American Congress felt the pulse of the Nation. It has charged the Federal Board for Vocational…