Bringing Tony Home
Written by Tissa Abeysekara
Price: $14.95
North Atlantic Books
Set 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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Art Psalms
Written by Alex Grey
Price: $20.00
North Atlantic Books
The capacity of art—both visual and verbal—to stimulate creativity and personal growth is the theme of this challenging collection from an internationally known artist. In Art Psalms, Renaissance man Alex Grey combines poems, artwork, and thoughtful declarations that fuse imagination, creativity, and spirituality. Replicating the style and tone of a holy...
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Blackbird, Farewell
Written by Robert Greer
Price: $25.95
Frog Books
Shandell “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 Street
Written by Cullen Dorn
Price: $16.95
Frog Books
The Hierophant of 100th Street is a rarity: a metaphysical novel set in a violent world of gangs, prisons, and the army. Drawing on the author’s experience of growing up in East Harlem in the 1960s, the story follows 17-year-old Adam Kadman and his 9-year-old brother John through their respective initiations...
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The Book from the Sky
Written by Robert Kelly
Price: $15.95
North Atlantic Books
“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 Presidents
Written by Charles Barasch
Price: $12.95
North Atlantic Books
The 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 Orleans
Written by Edward Sanders
Price: $14.95
North Atlantic Books
The 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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The Odyssey
Translated by Charles Stein
Price: $22.95
North Atlantic Books
Most 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 Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger
Written by Cecil Brown, Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Price: $15.95
Frog Books
“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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Soul Shift
Finding Where the Dead Go
Written by Mark Ireland
Price: $16.95
Frog Books
Businessman Mark Ireland’s father was Richard Ireland, a deeply spiritual minister and renowned psychic and medium who counted Mae West among his famous clients. While he loved his father, Mark followed a more conventional path in pursuit of mainstream success—until the wrenching death of his youngest son. This unexpected tragedy plunges...
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Sweetpea's Secret
Written by Renay Jackson
Price: $14.95
Frog Books
Renay 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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Belonging
New Poetry by Iranians Around the World
Edited by Niloufar Talebi
Price: $18.95
North Atlantic Books
Recent 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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Guarding Hanna
Written by Miha Mazzini
Price: $15.95
North Atlantic Books
Abandoned 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 Perspective
Written by Robert Greer
Price: $14.95
Frog Books
When 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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War Lessons
How I Fought to Be a Hero and Learned That War Is Terror
Written by John Merson
Price: $15.95
Frog Books
Military memoirs abound, but few prove to be trustworthy accounts free of spin, bravura, or military glitter. John Merson’s War Lessons takes a rare reflective approach to this pressing issue of our time. In vivid, unadorned prose, he interweaves his own experiences in war with thoughtful assessments of how to prevent...
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The Souvenir
A Daughter Discovers Her Father's War
Written by Louise Steinman
Price: $15.95
North Atlantic Books
Louise Steinman’s American childhood in the fifties was bound by one unequivocal condition: “Never mention the war to your father.” That silence sustained itself until the fateful day Steinman opened an old ammunition box left behind after her parents’ death. In it she discovered nearly 500 letters her father had written...
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Sorcerer's Apprentice
My Life with Carlos Castenada
Written by Amy Wallace
Price: $18.95
Frog Books
Sorcerer’s Apprentice opens with Amy Wallace’s first meeting with Carlos Castaneda, the infamous anthropologist-turned-shaman, whose books described meetings with Yaqui Indian spiritual teacher don Juan. Castaneda’s rise was meteoric in the late 1960s as he wrote massive bestsellers, inspired many to experiment with psychedelics, and was dubbed “the Godfather of the...
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Alamut
Written by Vladimir Bartol
Price: $16.95
North Atlantic Books
Alamut 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 Deception
Written by Robert Greer
Price: $25.95
Frog Books
When 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 Oracle
Volume XI: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon
Written by Theodore Sturgeon, Annotations by Paul Williams, Foreword by Harlan Ellison
Price: $35.00
North Atlantic Books
This 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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The New Jerusalem
A Millennium Poetic/Prophetic Travel Diario 1959-1962
Written by Robert Eisenman
Price: $25.00
North Atlantic Books
This poetic diary documents Robert Eisenman’s life-changing backpacking journey through Europe, the Middle East, and Asia in the early 1960s. Eisenman’s search for meaning took him to San Francisco and its Beat culture, to Paris, to Lebanon, Israel, and far beyond. The author's keen eye catches it all: pre-hippie hotels, midnight...
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The Knee of Listening
The Divine Ordeal of the Avataric Incarnation of Conscious Light
Written by Adi Da Samraj
Price: $24.95
North Atlantic Books
First published in 1972, The Knee of Listening is the spiritual autobiography of the Ruchira Avatar, Adi Da Samraj. Containing simple narrative, ecstatic poetry, complex argument, and discourse, Adi Da’s autobiography reveals the miraculous story of his unique incarnation and revelation in the west for “the sake of liberating all beings.”...
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Old Bears
The Class of 1956 Reaches its Fiftieth Renunion, Reflecting on the Happy Days and the Unhappy Days
Written by Dave Newhouse, Foreword by Darryl Brock
Price: $18.95
North Atlantic Books
Feeling a bit guilty about his own high-school experience, author Dave Newhouse searched out classmates from his graduating class, the class of 1956 at Menlo-Atherton High School, to find out what happened to them since high school. The stories run the gamut–some are tragic (three people have died since being interviewed)...
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Resurrecting Langston Blue
Written by Robert Greer
Price: $13.95
Frog Books
The casualties of war take many forms. When Amerasian ER doctor Carmen Nguyen suspects that her father, Langston Blue, who disappeared during the Vietnam War, may be alive, she hires cheroot-smoking, African-American bail bondsman and Vietnam vet CJ Floyd to help her find him. CJ’s discoveries aren’t pretty: Carmen’s father was...
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If I Never Get Back
A Novel
Written by Darryl Brock
Price: $15.95
Frog Books
Contemporary reporter Sam Fowler, stuck in a dull job and a failing marriage, abruptly finds himself transported back to the summer of 1869. After a wrenching period of adjustment, he comes to feel rejuvenated by his involvement with the nation's first pro baseball players. He also finds his senses quickening and...
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