At Paul Dry Books, our aim is to publish lively books "to awaken, delight, and educate"—and to spark conversation. We publish fiction, both novels and short stories, and nonfiction—biography, memoirs, history, and essays, covering subjects from Homer to Chekhov, bird watching to jazz music, New York City to shogunate Japan.
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An Arrow's Arc
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Wilder Good: Heartwood Mountain
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Ear Training: Literary Essays
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In Search of Circle Z
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Satan Talks to His Therapist
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Lost Bread
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NB by J. C.
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Plato's Symposium and Phaedrus
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Together, 2nd Edition
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With My Shadow
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Incarnation & Metamorphosis
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I Don't Smoke Enough to Quit
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Zeno's Eternity
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Surprised Again!
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My Hollywood
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Politics, Nature, and Piety
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Is Equality an Absolute Good?
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Awake with Asashoryu and Other Essays
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Books by Eva Brann
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Doublethink / Doubletalk
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Feeling Our Feelings
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Homage to Americans
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Biography/Memoir
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An Arrow's Arc
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A Russian Schoolboy
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Boston Boy
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A Dinner of Herbs
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Classics
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The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice
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Birds, Peace, Wealth
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Homeric Moments
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Essays
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American Places
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Awake with Asashoryu and Other Essays
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The Book Shopper
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Fiction
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Cries in the New Wilderness
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Curious Affairs
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The Discovery of Slowness
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His Monkey Wife
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History
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As We Saw Them
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A Dinner of Herbs
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Going to the Wars
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Hide and Seek
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Literary Criticism
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The Book Shopper
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Desert Islands
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Ear Training: Literary Essays
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The Fields of Light
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Philadelphia Architecture
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City Abandoned
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Philadelphia Architecture
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Philadelphia Builds: Essays on Architecture
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The Planning of Center City Philadelphia
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Philosophy
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The Advancement of Learning
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Doublethink / Doubletalk
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The Envisioned Life
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Fat Wednesday
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Poetry
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After: Poems
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Connoisseurs of Worms
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Davey McGravy
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I Don't Smoke Enough to Quit
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Science & Mathematics
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Animal Viruses and Humans, A Narrow Divide
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An Arrow's Arc
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The Education of T. C. MITS
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The Einstein Theory of Relativity
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Translations
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The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice
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The Chess Set in the Mirror
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Cries in the New Wilderness
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The Discovery of Slowness
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Travel
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American Places
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Desert Islands
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The Flight of Ikaros
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Mountains and a Shore
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Writing
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The Fiction Editor, the Novel, and the Novelist
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The Metalogicon
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Rittenhouse Writers
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The Secret of Fame
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Young Readers
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Beatrice Bunson’s Guide to Romeo and Juliet
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The Chess Set in the Mirror
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Davey McGravy
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