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On this week’s Front Table, explore the latest edition to the Stormlight Archives, the connection between three suicides and a surreal landscape where reality is as fluid as a river. Discover a short intro into authoritarian regimes and the philosophical concept of oneness. Dive into a celebration of bibiophilia and a critique of bibliomania and the connection with inner stillness and joy found at a monastery. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com. 

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In this week’s Front Table, explore the multi-faceted and sometimes contradictory nature of the world's most famous scientist, Paul McCartney's legacy beyond Beatlemania, and the emperors who ruled the Roman Empire over three centuries. Rediscover Giroux's call for radical social change in society and education and a newly translated philosophical novel about the nature of consciousness. Dive into a family saga in 20th century Lebanon and the vast variety of colors in loss and rejuvenation. Find these titles and more at semcoop.com. 

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On this week’s Front Table, reflect on the contradiction between “wokeness” and the benefits derived from inequality and dive into the literary history of trolling. Learn how political instability has fueled global capitalism and walk through meditations of the spiritual life of Thoreau. Explore the shifting borders of Ukraine through poetry, journey to Mycenae and follow a retired professors’ caffeine fueled journey to finish his life’s work. Find these titles and more at...

On this week’s Front Table, take a surprising journey into the world of two great Modernist poets and the interests that connected them, study what made George Batailleone one of the most provocative and controversial writers of his time, and explore the question: "How do you cope when your spouse and your family of origin clash?" with a witty and tender novel. Then, regard our culture's need for excess and consumption not with guilt but with grace and empathy, take a closer look at Evangelical Christians and why they are perhaps the most polarizing--and least understood--people living in America today, and enjoy a thrilling and eccentric novel about what it means to make art as a woman, and about the powerful forces of voyeurism, power, obsession, and online performance. Find these titles and more at...