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  • A Place Without Twilight

    by Peter Feibleman ...
    In the New Orleans of the '30s and '40s, things—and people—are supposed to be black and white. Cille and her light-skinned brothers are neither. They are "the color that looks not-quite white next to a white man, and not-quite colored next to a colored man. It was a non-color in a place where you had to be something." The daughter of a dreamy alcoholic father who introduces Cille to "Mr. Keats and ... Read more

    $5.58 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Cakewalk

    by Peter Feibleman, Carly Simon ...
    Narrated by Elaine Stritch, Samantha Bennett, Bruce Davison, Claudette Nevins, Raphael Sbarge ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 37 min

    Broadway legend Elaine Stritch stars as author Lillian Hellman in Peter Feibleman’s beguiling account of Hellman’s tumultuous relationship across several decades with a man 25 years her junior, played by Oscar nominee Bruce Davison.Accompanied by the original music of Carly Simon. Includes a conversation with Hellman scholar Deborah Martinson, author of Lillian Hellman: A Life with Foxes and ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Aesthetics II

    by Peter M. Burkholder, James K. Feibleman, Carol A. Kates, Bernard P. Dauenhauer, Alan B. Brinkley, James Leroy Smith, Sandra B. Rosenthal ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)

    $64.99 CAD

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  • An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art

    by Richard Eldridge ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy
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  • Meaning, Truth, and Reference in Historical Representation

    by Frank R. Ankersmit ...
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  • Confessions of a Heretic

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    by Roger Scruton ...
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    Series series Thinking in Action
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