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The Intent OnCollected Poems 1962-2006Written by Kenneth IrbyPrice: $40.00HardcoverKenneth Irby has practiced his craft at the center of the American poetry scene for decades, yet is little known to the mainstream. An associate of the legendary Black Mountain poets as well as of the celebrated seventies L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E group of literary experimenters, he was a close colleague of writers such...
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Meditations on Nature, Meditations on SilenceEdited by Roderick MacIverPrice: $16.95Trade PaperbackMeditations on Nature, Meditations on Silence is a collection of hundreds of quotes on the beauty and mystery of the natural world by writers and thinkers, including Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, Edward Abbey, Rainer Maria Rilke, Henry David Thoreau, Louise Dickinson Rich, and Lewis Thomas.
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Slow SculptureVolume XII: The Complete Stories of Theodore SturgeonWritten by Theodore SturgeonPrice: $35.00HardcoverTheodore Sturgeon was a model for his friend Kurt Vonnegut’s legendary character Kilgore Trout, and his work was an acknowledged influence on important younger writers from Harlan Ellison and Robert Silverberg to Stephen King and Octavia Butler. His work has long been deeply appreciated for its sardonic sensibility, dazzling wordplay, conceptual...
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Heavenly Tree, Northern EarthWritten by Gerrit LansingPrice: $35.00HardcoverThis is the inaugural volume of a new series of literary hardcovers from North Atlantic Books. This series will collect the important work of writers who have served as major influences upon and contributors to the cultural and psychic milieu from which North Atlantic evolved.
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Forbidden BreadWritten by Erica Johnson DebeljakPrice: $15.95Trade PaperbackForbidden Bread is an unusual love story that covers great territory, both geographically and emotionally. The author leaves behind a successful career as an American financial analyst to pursue Ales Debeljak, a womanizing Slovenian poet who catches her attention at a cocktail party. The story begins in New York City, but...
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The Feline PlagueWritten by Maja Novak, Translated by Maja Visenjak-LimonPrice: $15.95Trade PaperbackA deftly written novel brimming with magical realist touches, The Feline Plague tells the story of Ira, a Slovenian child who discovers early the cruelty of the adult world—particularly the mistreatment of animals. Ira struggles to reconcile her life with a world in which people are small-minded, the chances for happiness...
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Blackbird, FarewellWritten by Robert GreerPrice: $17.95eBookShandell “Blackbird” Bird has everything going for him, or so he thinks. Recently selected number two overall in the NBA draft, the 6'8", 250-pound superstar has a gleaming new ride and a salary and athletic shoe contract that make him an instant millionaire. What he doesn’t have is the ability to...
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The Mongoose DeceptionWritten by Robert GreerPrice: $17.95eBookWhen Cornelius McPherson, a former highway maintenance man, finds himself trapped in a tunnel he helped create decades earlier, he’s horrified to discover the well-preserved, frozen arm of a fellow worker. McPherson remembers a secret the man whispered to him—that he knew who assassinated John F. Kennedy. When McPherson also turns...
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An Obese White Gentleman in No Apparent DistressWritten by Riki Moss and Terry DobsonPrice: $18.95Trade PaperbackBased on the life of unconventional aikido master Terry Dobson, this novel by his partner Riki Moss is the story of two souls meeting at a mutually calamitous turning point in their lives. Fatherless and pushed by his tyrannical mother to the edge of violence, Dobson turns to aikido to save...
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Bringing Tony HomeWritten by Tissa AbeysekaraPrice: $14.95Trade PaperbackSet in the 1940s and 1960s, Bringing Tony Home is a masterful modern example of a timeless genre, the bildungsroman. In the title novella, a boy returns to his old home to find Tony, his beloved dog who was abandoned when economic circumstances forced the family to leave. “Bringing Tony Home”...
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Blackbird, FarewellWritten by Robert GreerPrice: $25.95HardcoverShandell “Blackbird” Bird has everything going for him, or so he thinks. Recently selected number two overall in the NBA draft, the 6'8", 250-pound superstar has a gleaming new ride and a salary and athletic shoe contract that make him an instant millionaire. What he doesn’t have is the ability to...
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The Hierophant of 100th StreetWritten by Cullen DornPrice: $16.95Trade Paperback***WINNER – IPPY Bronze Book Award – Best Regional Fiction (2009)
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The OdysseyWritten by Homer, Translated by Charles SteinPrice: $22.95Trade PaperbackMost translations of The Odyssey are in the kind of standard verse form believed typical of high-serious composition in the ancient world. Yet some scholars believe the epic was originally composed in a less formal, phrase-by-phrase prosody. Charles Stein employs the latter approach in this dramatic, and in some ways truer...
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The Book from the SkyWritten by Robert KellyPrice: $15.95Trade Paperback“I’m on my way back. I was one of the first they took away.” So begins Robert Kelly’s remarkable science fiction novel about a literally divided self. “I” is Billy, the book’s protagonist, a boy who is captured by a group of aliens who take him to a cave and meticulously...
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Dreams of the PresidentsFrom George Washington to George W. BushWritten by Charles BaraschPrice: $12.95Trade PaperbackThe stuff of dreams—hopes, fears, and longings—represents universal subjects to which everyone can relate. Dreams take on a new cultural currency in this collection of dream-poems, one for each American president. Exploring power, as well as its limits and possibilities, linguistics instructor Charles Barasch plays no favorites, making light of the...
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Poems for New OrleansWritten by Edward SandersPrice: $14.95Trade PaperbackThe indomitable spirit of the people of New Orleans is the focus of this powerful suite of poems by counterculture icon Ed Sanders. The book begins with a series of vivid evocations of key events and personalities in the city’s history, then brings this colorful legacy into the present with the...
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BelongingNew Poetry by Iranians Around the WorldEdited by Niloufar TalebiPrice: $18.95Trade PaperbackRecent political developments, including the shadow of a new war, have obscured the fact that Iran has a long and splendid artistic tradition ranging from the visual arts to literature. Western readers may have some awareness of the Iranian novel thanks to a few breakout successes like Reading Lolita in Tehran...
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The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass NiggerWritten by Cecil Brown, Introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Price: $15.95Trade Paperback“If you're black you don't need to get at anything. You're already there. You can live right out of your insides.” So says the antihero of this legendary novel that reimagines the Bible’s prodigal son as a young black man in post-Civil Rights-era America. George Washington—one of his many aliases—is a...
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Sweetpea's SecretWritten by Renay JacksonPrice: $14.95Trade PaperbackRenay Jackson’s previous books in this series introduced the curious character of Sweetpea, who’s not exactly what he seems. By day he’s Horace Boudreaux, mortgage broker and sometime playboy who likes nothing better than getting down with his girlfriend Harriette. Other times, he’s one of Oaktown’s more successful hitmen. He doesn’t...
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Guarding HannaWritten by Miha MazziniPrice: $15.95Trade PaperbackAbandoned at birth because he has the face of a “prize boar,” the unnamed narrator of Guarding Hanna knows only a local Berlin gang as family. Patriarch Maestro acts as surrogate father, employing him to collect debts and perform thuggish tasks. Except for brief moments interacting with the gang, “the beast”...
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The Fourth PerspectiveWritten by Robert GreerPrice: $14.95Trade PaperbackWhen bail bondsman and bounty hunter CJ Floyd opens an antique store, the last thing he expects is to be fingered for murder. But that’s exactly what happens after an immigrant student tries to sell him a rare book. The book contains a hidden photograph as legendary—and valuable—as the Maltese Falcon...
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Angels Beneath the SurfaceA Selection of Contemporary Slovene FictionEdited by Mitja Cander and Tom Priestly, Introduction by Ales StegerPrice: $15.95Trade PaperbackWith a per capita publishing rate of more that three times that of the United States, Slovenia has a long and storied literary history, from the legendary 9th-century Freising Manuscripts to postmodern masterpieces by Igor Bratoz. Continuing that tradition, Angels Beneath the Surface, the first collection of Slovene fiction to...
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AlamutWritten by Vladimir BartolPrice: $16.95Trade PaperbackAlamut takes place in 11th Century Persia, in the fortress of Alamut, where self-proclaimed prophet Hasan ibn Sabbah is setting up his mad but brilliant plan to rule the region with a handful elite fighters who are to become his "living daggers." By creating a virtual paradise at Alamut, filled with...
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The Mongoose DeceptionWritten by Robert GreerPrice: $25.95HardcoverWhen Cornelius McPherson, a former highway maintenance man, finds himself trapped in a tunnel he helped create decades earlier, he’s horrified to discover the well-preserved, frozen arm of a fellow worker. McPherson remembers a secret the man whispered to him—that he knew who assassinated John F. Kennedy. When McPherson also turns...
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The Nail and the OracleVolume XI: The Complete Stories of Theodore SturgeonWritten by Theodore Sturgeon, Annotations by Paul Williams, Foreword by Harlan EllisonPrice: $35.00HardcoverThis book contains ten major stories by the master of science fiction, fantasy, and horror written during the 1960s. The controversial “If All Men We re Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?” shows the author’s technique of “ask the next question” used in a way that shatters social conventions...
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