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by Jean-Patrick Manchette  Publisher Comments Martin Terrier is a hired killer who wants out of the game-so he can settle down and marry his childhood sweetheart. After all, that's why he took up this profession! But the Organization won't let him go: they have other plans. Once again, the gunman... (read more)  List Price $11.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Rebecca Brown 
Powells.com Staff Pick Continuing with the intimate first person narrator who whispers taut, iambic sentences in our ears, Rebecca Brown's latest work is The End of Youth. With wit and care, the thirteen linked stories show us that coming of age moments happen at any age... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Dovid Bergelson Publisher Comments Tales of Jewish life in Berlin In this collection of short stories, Dovid Bergelson captures life in Berlin at the precarious moment between world wars — in particular the experiences of its Jewish community and the uneasy existence of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Luis Cernuda Publisher Comments The Prose and Poems of Luis Cernuda.... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Wynne Publisher Comments Peopled with prostitutes, circus performers, sociopaths, and god-fearing families, these stories have a hallucinatory edge, making the everyday seem like another world. John Wynne is the author of Crime Wave, a novel, and The Sightings, a chapbook. His... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $3.23 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lawren Ferlinghetti Publisher Comments Published to celebrate forty years of City Lights publishing, which began with the letterpress printing of this book in 1955. It was Lawrence Ferlinghetti's first book, and it has been reprinted twenty-one times, having never been out of print. The... (read more) Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jessica Hagedorn Publisher Comments Fiction and poetry that draw from the beats of Latin soul and free jazz, rich evocations of the author's ancestral roots. Hagedorn muses about love and sex, mysticism and drugs, and probes with wry humor and sharp social satire the heart — and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Parenti
Publisher Comments Essays on how history's victors distort and suppress the documentary record in order to perpetuate their power and privilege, and how historians are influenced by the professional and class environment in which they work. "Michael Parenti, always... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Leslie Dick Publisher Comments Set in the London and New York underground culture's of the 70s and 80s, Kicking tracks the adventures of a group of close friends through the ambiguous pleasures and dangers of those years. Connie West's attachment to Mikey Stour begins one Sunday... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by James Brook Publisher Comments Reclaiming San Francisco is an anthology of fresh appraisals of the contrarian spirit of the city-a spirit "resistant to authority or control."The official story of San Francisco is one of progress, development, and growth. But there are other... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Allen Ginsberg Publisher Comments Planet News collecting seven years' Poesy scribed to 1967 begins with electronic politics disassociation & messianic rhapsody TV Baby in New York, continues picaresque around the globe, elan perceptions notated at Mediterranean, Galilee & Ganges... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Rodrigo Rey Rosa Publisher Comments From one of Guatemala's finest young writers, these twenty-six stories-at once brutal and intensely lyrical-are peopled with sorcerers, ghosts, and assassins. Springing from myth and beliefs indigenous to Central America and North America, where their... (read more) List Price $5.95 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bertolt Brecht
Publisher Comments Bertolt Brecht's "Stories of Mr. Keuner" is a collection of fables, aphorisms, and comments on politics, everyday life, and exile. From 1930 til his death in 1956, Brecht penned these ironic portraits of his times as he was "changing countries more often... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $3.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Juan Goytisolo
Publisher Comments Surreal fiction from Juan Goytisolo, Spain's greatest living writer. A resurrected Karl and Jenny Marx sitting on their sofa in Hampstead watching a television documentary about the landing of Albanian refugees on a private Italian beach, flourishing... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jaime Gil De Biedma Publisher Comments The poetry of Jaime Gil de Biedma, the most original and influential Spanish poet since the civil war, is finally, after years of censorship under Generalissimo Franco, reaching a huge audience in Spain. His poems capture the mood of post-civil war Spain... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jack Kerouac Publisher Comments The original manuscript of this book, written between 1954 and 1965, has been in the safekeeping of City Lights all the years since Kerouac's death in 1969. Reaching beyond the scope of his Mexico City Blues, here are pomes about Mexico and Tangier... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ralph Rumney Publisher Comments Ralph Rumney has been in constant flight from the wreckage of postwar Europe. Crossing paths with every avant-garde of the past fifty years, he was one of the founding members of the Situationist International. Rumney's traveling companions-Guy Debord... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Perry Higman Publisher Comments The nearly seventy poems in this bilingual anthology are concerned with many kinds of love: erotic love, sublime love, filial love, maternal love, and love between brother and sister. They also explore feelings of friendship, solidarity, and the... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jonathan Cohen Publisher Comments Diverging from the vituperative debates between the "Freud bashers" and the orthodox Freudians, this in-depth investigation of psychoanalysis exposes Freud's specious background assumptions in biology, sociology, anthropology, linguistics, and moral and... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Elizabeth Stromme Publisher Comments This noir-style novel vividly brings to life an embattled community of mostly have-nots who attempt to survive city corruption, police harassment, and the daily grind with humor and sheer grit.... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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