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Paperback. Zustand: Good. An award-winning, magical contemporary novel about three teenage girls whose exploration of fantasy threatens everything they know of reality.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. An explosive entry into the world of poetry from the most acclaimed debut poet ever in the Dutch language.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Winner of the State Prize for Poetry in Cyprus, these experimental linked poem-threads move across time, linking a young Cypriot to ancestors, contemporaries, and descendants through striking, disparate polyphony. In this bilingual collection of linked poems, Kefala creates a tapestry of motifs that transcend time and identity across early 20th Century Cyprus, 16th Century Scotland, a sailor on Christopher Columbus? ship La Pinta, and more. As the poem threads draw together, it is as if the protagonist, in his travels through the twentieth century, encounters Odysseus, Cervantes, Columbus, Rembrandt, and others, all moving in multidimensional synchronicity. In this way, the readers take part in the production of meaning by pulling the threads together, stitching together their own reading of the story. Through the reading of these threads, time remains fluid, creating a masterful declaration about the function of poetry: perhaps history is nothing more than the presence of innumerable human voices, some more and some less powerful, coexisting in an eternal present.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. The Law of Conservation is a poetry collection intensely attuned to landscape, both geographic and metaphorical.Borders blurred as cities cede to rural land; the body as a changing place on an equally unstable map; the subsoil of sexuality; the terrain of memory, both rich and painful; new countries traveled and new roots set down as an adult, navigating desire, loneliness, and love.In the context of gender and sexual identity, Spada?s work pays subtle, incisive attention to the inextricable relationship between transformation and conservation: transformation toward the experience of honoring and protecting our deepest and most abiding truths. At the same time, her poems also unsparingly explore the external shifts (in the speaker?s surroundings and even her memories) that make it so challenging to retain an unassailable sense of self.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Good. An exploration of what we inherit or pass on, illuminating the gray area between ubiquitous human desires and overconsumption.Irène Mathieu?s third collection, milk tongue, refers to the layer of milk that coats a baby?s tongue, which often is a challenge to distinguish from thrush, the overgrowth of naturally occurring yeast. As poet and pediatrician, Mathieu explores how we diagnose and investigate where normal consumption and overconsumption meet. How do we learn what to desire? What happens when what we want is destructive to our world? How might we reconceive of (be)longing in a way that rejects overconsumption? These poems suggest, ?what if, more than place, it?s about sound?? In milk tongue Mathieu uses haibun, long poems, and experimental forms to explore what we inherit or pass on ? privilege, oppression, anxiety, ?hypnagogic conjure,? and a warming earth ? and envisage how, through deep attention to the emotional vibrations under the surface of these phenomena, we might become ?both human and an / animal worthy of this speck of dust..…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. In this debut collection of poetry, the obscure and mundane collide, a fricassee of movement, the cosmopolitan, and intimacy. A Boy in the City uses poems as pillars to interrupt and excavate an interiority that unfolds and interrogates grim thoughts and intimacy. Yarberry weaves a sexy, glitzy journey through their city, where the speaker can ?pose? and ?compose? in a ?trans way, of course.? Clever in its playful allusions to Greek myths, William Blake, and other literary figures, A Boy in the City is a distinct work of joy and liberation that reckons with the language of gender and desire.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. A playful, elegant debut story collection, The Great American Songbook explores the profound hold that music has on our lives.

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Paperback. Zustand: Good. Fiction. In this gripping debut collection, men search for themselves, for each other, for the sources of sanity and sickness, power and grief. These stories speak frankly about desire and how we are bound--literally and figuratively--to each other. Inviting the reader to participate in narrative games and investigations, MISADVENTURE buzzes with brainy energy. Full of disorientation, urgency, gallows humor, and, ultimately, hope.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. Home is a remarkable fictional account of the September 30th Movement's impact on people's lives. This movement led to the murder of a million or more presumed Communists and the imprisonment of another tens of thousands of people. At the time, thousands of Indonesians who were abroad had their passports revoked and were exiled. History was manipulated by the Suharto government to cast a favorable light on their involvement in this tragedy. A whole generation of Indonesians were raised in a world of forced silence, where facts were suppressed and left unspoken. Although the tumultuous events of 1965 envelop Home's background, this is not a novel about ideology. Going back and forth between Jakarta and Paris in 1965 and 1998, Home is about the lives of Indonesians in exile, their families and their friends, including those left behind in Indonesia. It is not only a story of love, lust and betrayal, but also of laughter, adventure and food.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Jack Batts was a violin maker in Southern Illinois, who, until his death in 1988, made fine quality instruments for members of some major American symphony orchestras. He is believed to have made up to 150 fine violins and 5 violas. He was very generous with his time, and dedicated to his craft. He thus assisted to prepare this work in 1975, but time, and the vagaries of the publishing world did not permit its publication until now. The work tells how this master made the sound of his instruments, not simply the wooden box that produces those sounds. It includes copies of his detailed hand made records of about 20 instruments made till the date of research. The author also discusses the context of the man, and of the shop within the history of his region, the southern highlands - coal country - of Southern Illinois.…

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. The River of Goodness is a lyrical, global exploration of the ways we can create a more just and sustainable world for all, from the author of The River Always Wins and I Am a Teacher Every day, posits Marquis, every single human has to make a choice: accept the world the way it is or work to make it better. Each of us can pursue the work of goodness in many ways. The River of Goodness, the second volume in Marquis?s River Trilogy, provides real-world examples of people who have taken on the work of goodness, whether through thankless tasks or in dangerous and challenging circumstances. This follow-up to Marquis?s beloved first volume, The River Always Wins, argues that making the world better is rooted in the hard daily work of creating change that lasts.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. The work of a masterful novelist and translator collide in this visionary and hilarious debut from acclaimed French writer Brice Matthieussent. Revenge of the Translator follows Trad, who is translating a mysterious author's book, Translator's Revenge, from English to French. The book opens as a series of footnotes from Trad as he justifies changes he makes. As the novel progresses, Trad begins to take over the writing, methodically breaking down the work of the original writer and changing the course of the text. The lines between reality and fiction start to blur as Trad's world overlaps with the characters in Translator's Revenge, who seem to grow more and more independent of Trad's increasingly deranged struggle to control the plot. Revenge of the Translator is a brilliant, rule-defying exploration of literature, the act of writing and translating, and the often complicated relationship between authors and their translators.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. In his inimitable, recursive, meditative style that reads like a comedic zen koan but contains universes, a Korean cult writer recounts his time spent at an artist's and writers residency in small-town Texas. In an attempt to understand what a true Texan should know, the author reflects on his outsider experiences in this most unique of places.…

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Above Us the Milky Way is a story about war, immigration, and the remarkable human capacity to create beauty out of horror. As a young family attempts to reconstruct their lives in a new and peaceful country, they are daily drawn back to the first land through remembrance and longing, by news of the continued suffering and loss of loved ones, and by the war dead, who have immigrated and reside with them, haunting their days and illuminating the small joys and wonders offered them by the new land. The novel's structure is built around the alphabet, twenty-six pieces written in the first person that sketch a through-line of memory for the lives of the five daughters, mother, and father. Ghost stories and fairytales are woven with old family photographs and medieval-style watercolor illuminations to create an origin story of loss and remembrance.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Ischia is a portrait of an unnamed narrator and her friends: wandering through the margins of different cities, especially Buenos Aires, they search for purpose in an increasingly uncertain world. An intricate, gutsy, and raw novel, Ischia is populated with outsiders who navigate the vicissitudes of life in Argentina and the world. Ischia, the female narrator, is the youngest in a family of seven brothers and relates her experiences as she waits for a ride to the airport. Told through dizzying would-have, could-have conditionals, Ischia overlaps and blurs the past, present, and future of three young characters defined by lack of certainty or expectation. These three lives unfold between disenchantment and humor, and the narration transports readers into a world of memories, desires, and dreams. The novel advances lyrically through themes both solemn and lighthearted, shaping the contours of imagined, hilarious, and surreal experiences.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. A brilliant, feminist twist on the Book of Genesis from Carmen Boullosa. What if everything they?ve told us about the Garden of Eden was wrong? Faced with what appears to be an apocryphal manuscript containing ten books and ninety-one parts, Eve decides to tell her version of the story of Genesis: she was not created from Adam?s rib, nor was she expelled for taking the apple from the serpent; the story of Abel and Cain isn't true, neither are those of the Flood and the Tower of Babel.In brilliant prose, Carmen Boullosa offers a take on the Book of Genesis that dismantles patriarchy and rebuilds our understanding of the world?from the origin of gastronomy, to the domestication of animals, to the cultivation of land and pleasure?all through the feminine gaze. Based on this exploration, at times both joyful and painful, The Book of Eve takes a tour through the stories we?ve been told since childhood, which have helped to foster (and cement) the absurd idea that woman is the companion, complement, and even accessory to man, opening the door to criminal violence against women. Boullosa refutes this entrenched, dangerous perspective in her foundational and brazen feminist novel.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. In his inimitable, recursive, meditative style that reads like a comedic zen koan but contains universes, a Korean cult writer recounts his time spent at an artist's and writers residency in small-town Texas. In an attempt to understand what a true Texan should know, the author reflects on his outsider experiences in this most unique of places. …

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. An award-winning novel that explores what it means to read and be a reader ultimately acting as a love letter to the power of literature.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. An award-winning novel that explores what it means to read and be a reader ultimately acting as a love letter to the power of literature.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. An ambitious epic novel showcases the brutal elements of human nature and mother nature alike in Iceland's most desolate region.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. An ambitious epic novel showcases the brutal elements of human nature and mother nature alike in Iceland's most desolate region.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Tra. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Zustand: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Klougart mixes prose, lyric essay, drama, poetry, and images to meditate on death and loss through breathtaking, moving, apocalyptic writing.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Klougart mixes prose, lyric essay, drama, poetry, and images to meditate on death and loss through breathtaking, moving, apocalyptic writing.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.