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The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 1: 1886 - 1921 by Robert Frost Publisher Comments 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 Your price: $43.95 New - Hardcover
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Short Stories in Chinese: New Penguin Parallel Text by John Balcom Publisher Comments A dual-language edition of Chinese stories-featuring many stories appearing in English for the first time. Here is the perfect introduction to contemporary fiction from the world's most spoken language. These eight short stories, with parallel... (read more) Available June 25, 2013 Your price: $20.00 New - Trade Paper
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Anything for a Dollar by Todd Gregory Synopsis What would you do to make a buck? They are the objects of desiredancing on the bar or on boxes at circuit parties, performing for either the video camera or their own webcams, or coming to you for a night of passion at a price. But they arent gods.... (read more) Available October 2013 Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke by C. J. Dennis Publisher Comments First published in 1915 and one of the most famous works of Australian literature, this verse novel tells the story of rascally Bill and a young woman named Doreen. The book chronicles their courtship and marriage, and Bill's transformation from a... (read more) Available December 2013 Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Paulo Bruscky: Poiesis Bruscky by Alexandra Garcia Publisher Comments Poiesis Bruscky surveys the five-decade career of Brazilian conceptual artist Paulo Bruscky (born 1949). In the 1960s, and throughout the ensuing decades of Brazil's military rule, Bruscky used mail art, collage, artist's books, visual poetry and... (read more) Available May 2013 Your price: $55.00 New - Hardcover
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My Unwritten Books by George Steiner Publisher Comments Steiner did not write the books because intimacies and indiscretions were too threatening. Because the topic brought too much pain. Because its emotional or intellectual challenge proved beyond his capacities. The actual themes range widely and defy... (read more) Available February 2014 Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Place of Scraps by Jordan Abel Publisher Comments The Place of Scraps explores the relationship between First Nations cultures and ethnography. Marius Barbeauan early-twentieth-century ethnographer who studied First Nations cultures, including Jordan Abel's ancestral Nisga'a Nationbelieved... (read more) Available September 2013 Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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Nasty Boys: Rough Trade Erotica by Shane Allison Synopsis He looks like trouble and we like it! Gaybie-award winning author Shane Allison is back with the hottest erotica ever, Nasty Boys. These guys are bad news but sooooo good in bed. Thugs, brats, juvies- studs with chips on their shoulders and packin' heat.... (read more) Available November 2013 Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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USA Noir: Best of the Akashic Noir Series (Akashic Noir) by Johnny Temple Publisher Comments "Hold the eggnog: What you need is a draft of 'edgy fatalism and sexy recklessness,' of flashy crime, gallows humor, and 'desperate deals with a variety of devils,' served up every year since 2004 by the editors of Akashic Books' brilliant noir... (read more) Available November 2013 Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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Xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths by Kate Bernheimer Publisher Comments Fifty leading writers retell myths from around the world in this dazzling follow-up to the bestselling My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me Icarus flies once more. Aztec jaguar gods again stalk the earth. An American soldier designs a new kind of... (read more) Available September 24, 2013 Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Best American Essays 2013 (Best American) by Robert Atwan Publisher Comments Selected and introduced by Cheryl Strayed, the New York Times best-selling author of Wild and the writer of the celebrated column “Dear Sugar,” this collection is a treasure trove of fine writing and thought... (read more) Available October 8, 2013 Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Daylight Saving: A Selection of Poems by Robert Gray Publisher Comments Robert Gray has been hailed as “one of the contemporary masters of poetry in English” (Les Murray). This selection of Gray’s finest poems demonstrates his extraordinary capacity to see the world in luminous detail, rendering it with... (read more) Available August 2013 Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Knife Throwing Through Self-Hypnosis by Robin Richardson About the Author Robin Richardson is the author of Grunt of the Minotaur. She holds an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence, and her work has appeared in numerous journals, including Arc, Berkeley Poetry Review, Cortland Review, Malahat Review, and Tin House. Her work has... (read more) Available September 2013 Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Christmas Wedding Quilt: Let It Snow\You Better Watch Out\Nine Ladies Dancing by Emilie Richards Publisher Comments A FAMILY'S GIFT When they were young, cousins Ella, Rachel and Jo were always together at their family's lake house. As they grew up, though, they grew apart...until now, as the three must band together to grant a beloved aunt's dying wish: to... (read more) Available November 2013 Your price: $7.99 New - Mass Market
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Amiri Baraka and Edward Dorn: The Collected Letters (Recencies: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century Americ) by Claudia Moreno Pisano Publisher Comments The letters of Amiri Baraka and Edward Dorn offer a vivid picture of American lives connecting around poetry during a tumultuous time of change and immense creativity.... (read more) Available December 2013 Your price: $74.95 New - Hardcover
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Anonymous Publisher Comments Legends from the Ancient North: Five classics of Norse literature that inspired J. R. R. Tolkien's epic vision in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Legendary fantasy writer J. R. R. Tolkien spent much of his life studying, translating, and teaching... (read more) Available October 29, 2013 Your price: $14.00 New - Trade Paper
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Haiti Noir 2: The Classics (Akashic Noir) by Edwidge Danticat Publisher Comments Praise for the original Haiti Noir: "Danticat has succeeded in assembling a group portrait of Haitian culture and resilience that is cause for celebration."Publishers Weekly "This anthology will give American readers a complex and nuanced portrait... (read more) Available January 2014 Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives: Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense by Sarah Weinman Publisher Comments Fourteen chilling tales from the pioneering women who created the domestic suspense genre Murderous wives, deranged husbands, deceitful children, and vengeful friends. Few know these charactersand their creatorsbetter than Sarah Weinman. One... (read more) Available August 27, 2013 Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Here by Raymond Ramcharitar Publisher Comments A poetic approach to revising and re-creating Caribbean mythology on an epic scale, this book-length autobiographical poem in five parts addresses the large themes of the Caribbean experience: history, migration, myth, and domestic love. The different... (read more) Available May 2013 Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Waste Land (Liveright Classics) by T. S. Eliot Publisher Comments “One of the most moving and original poems of our time" (Conrad Aiken), The Waste Land is arguably the most important poem of the twentieth century. First published by Boni & Liveright in 1922, this landmark reissue of the first edition, now... (read more) Available September 2013 Your price: $15.95 New - Hardcover
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