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Subjoyride: Selected Poems (Green Integer)
Subjoyride: Selected Poems (Green Integer)
by Elsa Von Freytag-loringhoven
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The Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, born Else Hildegard Ploetz, worked first as a model, posing for artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, and others. She also produced her own Dadaist art, using found materials and her own body and dress... (read more)

Available July 2013
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The Unknown University
The Unknown University
by Roberto Bolano
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Perhaps surprisingly to some of his fiction fans, Roberto Bolaño touted poetry as the superior art form, able to approach an infinity in which “you become infinitely small without disappearing.” When asked, “What makes you believe you&#... (read more)

Available June 2013
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Great Short Stories by African-American Writers
Great Short Stories by African-American Writers
by Bob Blaisdell
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Offering diverse perspectives on the black experience, this anthology spotlights the works of the most influential African-American writers. Twenty-nine outstanding stories include Paul Laurence Dunbar's "The Scapegoat," Ralph Ellison'... (read more)

Available July 2013
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A Place in the Country
A Place in the Country
by W. G. Sebald
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"When W.G. Sebald’s The Emigrants was published (beautifully translated into English) I found his writing spellbinding from the first sentence, and the spell went on, unbroken, as I read each of his books when it was published in English. When I... (read more)

Available February 11, 2014
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Wordsworth's Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Editions)
Wordsworth's Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Editions)
by William Wordsworth
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This Norton Critical Edition presents a generous selection of William Wordworth’s poetry (including the thirteen-book Prelude of 1805) and prose works along with supporting materials for in-depth study. Together, the Norton Critical Editions of... (read more)

Available October 2013
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Selected Essays (Dover Thrift Editions)
Selected Essays (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Michel De Montaigne
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Careful selection of 8 masterly essays by noted French writer and thinker: "Of Friendship," "Of Books," "Of Cruelty," "Of Repentance," "Of Three Commerces," "Of Solitude," "Of the Inequality Among Us" and "That It Is Folly to Measure Truth and Error by... (read more)

Available May 2013
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The Way the World Works: Essays
The Way the World Works: Essays
by Nicholson Baker
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New York Times bestselling author Nicholson Baker has assembled a “provocative and entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) collection of his most original and brilliant pieces from the last fifteen years. Hailed as “one of the most... (read more)

Available August 20, 2013
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Once Upon a Time There Was a Traveller: Asham Award-Winning Stories
Once Upon a Time There Was a Traveller: Asham Award-Winning Stories
by Asham Award
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A collection of original and dazzling short stories from the Asham Award—a prize for stories by women, including specially commissioned stories from Ali Smith and Sara Wheeler Here are stories of people who journey far and those... (read more)

Available November 2013
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Occasional Desire: Essays
Occasional Desire: Essays
by David Lazar
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In his new collection of essays, Occasional Desire, David Lazar meditates on random violence and vanished phone booths, on the excessive relationship to jewelry that links Kobe Bryant and Elizabeth Taylor, on Hitchcock, Francis Bacon, and M. F. K. Fisher.... (read more)

Available September 2013
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The Selected Poetry of Gabriel Zaid
The Selected Poetry of Gabriel Zaid
by Gabriel Zaid
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"Gabriel Zaid . . . is a jewel of Latin American letters, which is no small thing to be. Read him—you'll see."—Paul Berman The first appearance in English of the poetry of Gabriel Zaid, this book comprises forty-two poems (in both English and... (read more)

Available October 2013
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The Caine Prize for African Writing 2013
The Caine Prize for African Writing 2013
by Caine Prize Caine Prize
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The Caine Prize for African Writing is Africa's leading literary prize. It has helped launch the careers of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Segun Afolabi, Leila Aboulela, Brian Chikwava, Binyavanga Wainaina, and many others. The 2013 collection includes the... (read more)

Available August 2013
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Pepper Seed
Pepper Seed
by Malika Booker
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Drawing on dramatic monologue, historical narratives, poetry of witness, and an integral intimate-domestic voice, this compilation portrays a visceral emotive patchwork of everyday dramas in the fabric of ordinary life. Written by a poet whose sense of... (read more)

Available May 2013
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Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov
Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov
by Robert Chandler
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For fans of fairy tales and the literary supernatural: a unique collection of Russian short stories from the last 200 years In these folk tales, young women go on long and perilous quests, wicked stepmothers turn children into geese, and tsars ask... (read more)

Available June 25, 2013
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Fifteen Iraqi Poets
Fifteen Iraqi Poets
by Dunya Mikhail
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Fifteen Iraqi Poets compiles fifteen poems, each written by a different, prominent twentieth-century Iraqi poet. Selected, with commentary, by award-winning Iraqi-American poet, Dunya Mikhail, this little anthology is the perfect introduction to a... (read more)

Available November 2013
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The Blue Coat
The Blue Coat
by Elizabeth Smither
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Whimsical and tender, this poetry collection examines the commonplace and the quirky for resonance, contemplation, and verve. From an out-of-season daffodil and a chipped Limoges plate to a lipstick stain on a poem and a bee being released,... (read more)

Available July 2013
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Liquidities: Vancouver Poems Then and Now
Liquidities: Vancouver Poems Then and Now
by Daphne Marlatt
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In her "re-vision" of Vancouver Poems, originally published in 1972, Daphne Marlatt's additional lyrics trace countless transformations of a West Coast port city. In Vancouver's fast-moving, realty-driven reality, global business is conducted over... (read more)

Available June 2013
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Granta 124: Travel: Travel
Granta 124: Travel: Travel
by John Freeman
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Hari Kunzru travels to Chernobyl, Detroit, and Japan to investigate the phenomenon of “disaster tourism.” Dinaw Mengustu gets at the heart of a resort town in western Africa. Pola Oloixarac resurrects the Viennese royals as they move their... (read more)

Available July 2013
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Sisters in Crime: Early Crime and Mystery Stories by Women
Sisters in Crime: Early Crime and Mystery Stories by Women
by Mike Ashley
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The companion volume to The Darker Sex and The Dreaming Sex, this absorbing anthology of early women's crime fiction belongs on the bookshelf of any serious crime fan Many of the leading writers of crime fiction are women—Agatha Christie... (read more)

Available October 2013
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Selected Letters of A. M. A. Blanchet, Bishop of Walla Walla and Nesqualy (1846-1879)
Selected Letters of A. M. A. Blanchet, Bishop of Walla Walla and Nesqualy (1846-1879)
by Roberta Stringham Brown
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In 1846, French Canadian-born A. M. A. Blanchet was named the first Catholic bishop of Walla Walla in the area soon to become Washington Territory. He arrived at Fort Walla Walla in late September 1847, part of the largest movement over the Oregon Trail... (read more)

Available June 2013
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The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 1: 1886 - 1921
The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 1: 1886 - 1921
by Robert Frost
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One of the acknowledged giants of twentieth-century American literature, Robert Frost was a public figure much celebrated in his day. Although his poetry reached a wide audience, the private Frost--pensive, mercurial, and often very funny--remains less... (read more)

Available February 2014
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