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Voroshilovgrad

Easy Rider meets Pedro Páramo in this darkly funny, fast-paced road novel that barrels through eastern Ukraine's ravaged industrial landscape.

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Experience in groups

Poems that reimagine poetry’s ancient dream of collective life from within the nightmare and necessities of our present.

Fifteen dogs

An utterly convincing and moving look at the beauty and perils of consciousness.

Strangers in a strange land

Manning examines the formation of nineteenth-century intelligentsia print publics in the former Soviet republic of Georgia both anthropologically and historically. At once somehow part of “Europe,” at least aspirationally, and yet rarely recognized by others as such, Georgia attempted to forge Eu...

Moonbath

An award-winning, lyrically written, beautifully haunting saga of a Haitian family's fight against a curse spanning four generations.

The 6 principles for exemplary teaching of english learners: integrating technology into instruction and assessment

Part of the bestselling 6 Principles for Exemplary Teaching of English Learners series, this book offers research-based, classroom-ready guidance for integrating technology to support effective and equitable English language teaching. The 6 Principles for Exemplary Teaching of English Learners: I...

The memory of babel

“The Mirror Visitor stands on the same shelf as Harry Potter.”—Elle Magazine In this gripping third volume of the Christelle Dabos’s best-selling saga, Ophelia, the mirror-traveling heroine, finds herself on the ark of Babel guarding a secret that may provide a key both to the past and the future...

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No knowledge is complete until it passes through my body

A revelatory collection of poems by Asiya Wadud that document the forces that shape the human body in movement and explore the continuum and conditions of how knowledge is enacted.

Current, climate

Selected poetry of environmental and social justice activist Rita Wong. In her intertwining of poetry and political activism, she explores the meeting places of land, life, and language. Nicholas Bradley’s introduction highlights the role of the author in a time of crisis and places Wong’s poetry...

Revenge of the translator

Revenge of the Translator is acclaimed French writer Brice Matthieussent's brilliant, hilarious, rule-defying exploration of the creative acts of writing and translating, and the often complicated relationship between authors, their translators, and readers.

Pocket piketty

Thomas Piketty created a classic bestseller of economics: dense, huge, and expensive. Here's the cheat sheet.

Body & glass

This poet's formal experiments once again bring into relief the beauties and absurdities from the dead past as they live on in our present age.

Small fry

A frank, smart and captivating memoir by the daughter of Apple founder Steve Jobs.

Learn to draw manga men

The male form is the focus here—twisting, leaping and tumbling in dramatic action sequences!Master manga and anime artist Kyachi shows you the secrets professional Japanese artists use to create dynamic motion on the page. A series of detailed tutorials show you how to draw the male form in every...

The magic of blood

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Quiet desperation, savage delight

When the pandemic struck, nature writer David Gessner looked to Thoreau for guidance. Here are the lessons he took away.

Alexandrian summer

Love, lust, and the convulsions of history surge through this dazzling novel about the vanished cosmopolitan world of Alexandria.

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The animal gazer

Hypnotic tale of a masterful sculptor increasingly obsessed with zoo animals as he and Europe teetered on brink of WW1.

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Nomadic cultures in the mega-structure of the eurasian world

Two major dividing lines have formed the megastructure of Eurasia, determining the historical epochs of the continent’s peoples. The first, vertical (longitudinal) line has separated East and West since the Paleolithic Age. The East was dominated by Mongol peoples speaking Sino -Tibetan, Manchu-T...

Manual of zen buddhism

Here are the famous sutras, or sermons, of the Buddha; the gathas, or hymns; the intriguing philosophical puzzles known as koan; and the dharanis, or invocations to expel evil spirits. Included also are the recorded conversations of the great Buddhist monks — intimate dialogues on subjects of mom...

The madonna of notre dame

This police novel illuminates the shadowy corners of Notre Dame Cathedral, shedding light on good and evil with wry humor.

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Hull

HULL explores emotional impacts of history and racism on the Black queer body.

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Wolf

An anti true crime novel about patricide, adolescent desire, and Southern working class life.

The enlightenment of the greengage tree

LONGLISTED for the 2021 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZELONGLISTED for the 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD for Translated LiteratureFINALIST for the 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE From the pen of one of Iran’s rising literary stars, The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree is a family story about the unbreakable c...

Free to obey

What if the rules of modern capitalism were written during the Third Reich? Reinhard Höhn (1904-2000) was a commander of the SS, one of Nazi Germany’s most brilliant legal minds, and an archetype of the fervid technocrats and intellectuals that built the Third Reich. Following Germany’s defeat, a...

Drawing cute manga chibi

This guide introduces aspiring manga artists to drawing chibi characters—wide-eyed caricatures beloved for their cartoonish exaggeration.Drawing Cute Manga Chibi walks you through the steps needed to draw these adorable characters, while sidebars offer expert tips, pointers on the pitfalls to avo...

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The human reimagined

The articles featured in The Human Reimagined examine the ways in which literary and artistic representations of the body, selfhood, subjectivity, and consciousness illuminate late- and post-Soviet ideas about the changing relationships among the individual, the environment, technology, and socie...

Sunbathing on tyrone power's grave

**Gold Medal in Poetry from the Independent Publisher Books Awards** In Kim Dower’s fourth collection, Sunbathing on Tyrone Power’s Grave, death has never felt so alive! Alluring titles to haunting last lines, the poems in Dower’s fourth collection soothe, terrify, and always surprise, revealing...

A history of modern japan

"Lucid and lyrical…a vivid history of Japan's turbocharged (and painful) modernization." —The Daily TelegraphIn A History of Modern Japan, cultural historian Christopher Harding delves into the untold stories of Japan's recent history—from a pop star's nuclear power protest song in 2011, to Japan...

Fairview

An astounding new play about race and power in America, explored through the lens of a family drama.

Hatred of translation

A book of essays on dynamic, transgressive 20th century figures and the necessity and perils of translating their work.

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Strike your heart

This coming of age novel by the acclaimed Belgian author is “a disarmingly simple yet deeply complex study of a mother-daughter relationship” (The Washington Post).One of the Washington Post’s 50 Notable Works of fiction in 2018Marie is the prettiest girl in her provincial high school, and dating...

The last weynfeldt

A refined page-turner about the international art market that probes the darker recesses of the heart.

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