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The Allure of Elsewhere: A Memoir of Going Solo

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Report copyright infringementby Karen Babine (Author)"A truly fascinating and heartwarming travelogue that beautifully points us in bold directions."--Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of World of WondersOne woman's cross-country journey to explore the hold family history has on our lives, and the power of new stories to shape what lies ahead.In her mid-thirties and happily single, Karen Babine hitches up her tiny Scamp camper and sets out with her two unenthusiastic cats, Galway and Maeve, on a ...

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Report copyright infringementby Vivian Blaxell (Author)A trans essayist with a checkered past takes on the big questions of human existenceMove over Michel de Montaigne, there's a new girl in townAn ABA Indie Next Pick - A San Francisco Chronicle Women's History Month Book Pick - An Allstora Queer History 101 Book Club PickSet against a backdrop of trans life that begins with her own transition in the 1960s, Vivian Blaxell takes us on a witty and expansive sweep through history, from Australi...

I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer: Letters on Love and Marriage from the World's First Personal Advice Column

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Beth Norton (Author)A fascinating collection of questions and answers--about courtship, marriage, love, and sex--from a seventeenth-century periodical The Athenian Mercury--a one-page, two-sided periodical published in 1690s London--included the world's first personal advice column. Acclaimed historian and Pulitzer Prize-finalist Mary Beth Norton's "I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer" is a remarkable collection of questions and answers drawn from this ground...

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah Fonseca (Editor), Octavia Saenz (Editor), Sarah Schulman (Contribution by)A collection of reinvented queer pulp fiction by writers like Sarah Schulman and Lorraine Hansberry that's so edgy it draws blood. Lesbian pulp fiction thrived in the oppressive 1950s, telling subversive stories of lonely sapphic women who find connection, passion, and revenge. In The New Lesbian Pulp, editors Sarah Fonseca and Octavia Saenz revive the genre for today, layering nuan...

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Report copyright infringementby Jack Kerouac (Author), Charles Shuttleworth (Editor)A brand new volume of previously unpublished writings from the archives reflecting Jack Kerouac's Buddhist thinkingFrom a young age Kerouac was a spiritual thinker and questioner, and he always considered himself a spiritual writer. Buddhism gave more meaning to Jack's work as a writer: he was working not for personal accomplishment and glory but for human betterment. And Buddhism justified his lifestyle: with...

We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Report copyright infringementby Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Author), Ignat Solzhenitsyn (Editor)This collection brings together ten of Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's most memorable and consequential speeches, delivered in the West and in Russia between 1972 and 1997.Following his exile from the USSR in 1974, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn lived and traveled in the West for twenty years before the fall of Communism allowed him to return home to Russia. The majority of the speeches collected i...

Letters from Gaza: A Collection by the People; Unveiling Their Stories and Emotions from the Year That Has Been

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Report copyright infringementby Mahmoud Alshaer (Author), Mohammed Al-Zaqzooq (Author)Author BiographyMohammed Al-Zaqzooq (Author) MOHAMMED AL-ZAQZOOQ is a researcher born in Khan Younis. He studied Arabic language and literature at Al-Aqsa. Mohammed is an active member in literary and cultural organizations shaping Gaza's cultural landscape and the former general coordinator of the "Utopia for Knowledge" assembly. His poetry collection The Soothsayers of Khanun won the Khalili Poetry Award ...

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Report copyright infringementby Jamaica Kincaid (Author), Henry Louis Gates Jr (Introduction by)My ignorance was on my side. I wasn't afraid. I didn't know what to be afraid of. I did one thing, I did another. I did what I now call crashing about. One day I started to write. This collection of Jamaica Kincaid's nonfiction writing, including early pieces from publications such as The New Yorker, The Village Voice, and Ms., proves what her admirers have always known: from the start, she has bee...

Talk of the Devil: The Collected Writings of Ian Fleming

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Report copyright infringementby Ian Fleming (Author)A fascinating collection of rarely seen journalism and other writings by Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond series.Ian Fleming was best known for bringing to life the legendary character of James Bond, one of the most beloved and enduring icons of our time, but he was perhaps even more interesting than his creation. His career in Naval Intelligence and extensive travels around the world gave Fleming a keen eye and the authority to write o...

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Report copyright infringementby Michelle Tea (Editor)An exploration of the Witch, as radical archetype, in ancient and contemporary life. An adult woman haunted by her childhood muses on the foster system, institutions, and the medieval tale of a girl given to a witch. A genderqueer Brooklynite learns of their past life as a murdered sorceress. An uptight participant at a Northern California witch camp finds community in the kitchen. A professor uses magic to help students under attack by rig...

Dysphoria Mundi: A Diary of Planetary Transition

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Report copyright infringementby Paul B. Preciado (Author)A revolutionary book tracing the collapse of the paradigms that have organized the world for centuries In Dysphoria Mundi, Paul B. Preciado, best known for his 2013 cult classic Testo Junkie, has written a mutant text assembled from essays, philosophy, poetry, and autofiction that captures a moment of profound change and possibility. Rooted in the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic, and taking account of the societal convulsions that ha...

Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle Part 2 (Loa

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Report copyright infringementby Tyina L. Steptoe (Editor)A vivid firsthand record of the struggle for legal equality and dignity in the face of segregation and racial terror from 1919 to 1976 W.E.B. Du Bois famously identified "the problem of the color-line" as the defining issue in American life. The powerful writings gathered here reveal the many ways Americans, Black and white, fought against white supremacist efforts to police the color line, envisioning a better America in the face of di...

Alien Roots: Éliane Radigue: Blank Forms 10

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Report copyright infringementby Eliane Radigue (Artist), Charles Curtis (Editor), Lawrence Kumpf (Editor)A detailed look at the elusive work of a French pioneer of musique concrète and electroacoustic compositionThis volume is an exploration of the early electronic work of French composer Éliane Radigue (born 1932), whose radical approach to feedback, analog synthesis and composition on tape has long evaded straightforward interpretation. Combining key texts, newly translated primary document...

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Report copyright infringementby AA VV (Author)Fully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world.  IN THIS VOLUME: Buddhism, the State, and Superpowers by Pitchaya Sudbanthad - The Country of Spirits by Emma Larkin - Monarchy Under Attack by Claudio Sopranzetti - plus: soft power and the working class, the heart of rural Thailand and the separatism of the southern peninsula, the success of Boy Love, the palm oil scandal, and mu...

Campfire Stories: Cape Cod: Tales & Travel Companion

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Report copyright infringementby Ilyssa Kyu (Editor), Dave Kyu (Editor) Curated story collections explore the rich and diverse legacies of Cape Cod Contributors include Michael Cunningham, David Gessner, Elizabeth Bradfield, Mark Doty, Henry Beston, Mary Oliver, and Clare Leighton Local recommendations for outdoor exploration, select cultural activities, camping options, gateway towns, and more "How to Visit Well" and "Community Resources" sections offer tips on sustainable travel while highli...

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Report copyright infringementby Majda Gama (Author)Winner of the Wandering Aengus Book Award, In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls is Majda Gama's first full-length poetry collection.In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls vividly chronicles girlhood, womanhood, personhood, humanhood, the passage of time, the indelibility of history, and the grief and joy of being in this world and on this earth. It's a beautifully midlife book, with all the wisdom and none of the clich?s. Majda Ga...

Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future

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Report copyright infringementby Emile Suotonye Deweaver (Author)A powerful personal investigation of the insidious ways white supremacy compromises criminal justice reform, from the award-winning, formerly incarcerated activist and Soros Justice Fellow Despite reform efforts that have grown in scope and intensity over the last two decades, the machine of American mass incarceration continues to flourish. In this powerful polemic, formerly incarcerated activist, essayist, and organizer Emile ...

No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain

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Report copyright infringementby Rebecca Solnit (Author)In the spirit of her bestselling book Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit explores how our actions can shape the future and the liberatory possibilities of embracing uncertainty. Beginning with an essay about a three-hundred-year-old violin and what it can tell us about forests, abundance, and climate, and ending with on about a prisoner dreaming of seeing the ocean, No Straight Road Takes You There deftly bridges the political and the lit...

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Report copyright infringementby Heather Christle (Author)First poetry collection in a decade from acclaimed author of The Crying BookSince Heather Christle published her last poetry collection a decade ago, her nonfiction works The Crying Book and In the Rhododendrons have found her readers around the world. Paper Crown marks Christle's exuberant return to her home genre, in which she combines the imagination of her earliest poetry with the personal elements of her more recent prose. These po...

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Report copyright infringementby Ishion Hutchinson (Author)Ishion Hutchinson turns his poetic sensibility to questions of home, displacement, and memory in his beautiful and searingly brilliant prose debut. In Fugitive Tilts, the poet Ishion Hutchinson turns to prose to create an incomplete biography of love: love of poetry, discovered in childhood; love of home, with its continual disconnections and returns; and love of the works and artists--from Treasure Island, to John Coltrane, to the Jam...

Campfire Stories: The Adirondacks: Tales & Travel Companion

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Report copyright infringementby Ilyssa Kyu (Editor), Dave Kyu (Editor) Curated story collections explore the rich and diverse legacies of the Adirondacks Contributors include Robin Wall Kimmerer, Joseph Bruchac, Bill McKibben, Alan Steinberg, June Frankland Baker, Henry Abbott, William H. H. Murray, and Matt Dallos Local recommendations for outdoor exploration, select cultural activities, camping options, gateway towns, and more "How to Visit Well" and "Community Resources" sections offer tip...

Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores

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Report copyright infringementby Katie Mitchell (Author), Nikki Giovanni (Foreword by)A stunning visual homage to Black bookstores, featuring a selection of shops around the country alongside essays that celebrate the history, community, activism, and culture these spaces embody, with an original foreword by Nikki Giovanni. Black literature is perhaps the most powerful, polarizing force in the modern American zeitgeist. Today--as Black novels draw authoritarian ire, as Black memoirs shape publ...

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew Lam (Author)AUTHOR OF THE PEN OPEN BOOK AWARD WINNER, PERFUME DREAMS: REFLECTIONS ON THE VIETNAMESE DIASPORA - AUTHOR OF BIRDS OF PARADISE LOST, the widely taught and anthologized debut short story collection - Andrew Lam returns with a literary exploration of love, lust, and loss among Vietnamese immigrants in America."Universal and personal."--Maxine Hong Kingston, author of The Woman Warrior - "Will be read and studied for years to come."--No?l Alumit...

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Report copyright infringementby W. G. Sebald (Author), Jo Catling (Translator)From the renowned author of Austerlitz (named a Top 10 Book of the 21st Century by the New York Times) comes the first English translation of his extraordinary essays on the Austrian writers who shaped his life and work. Silent Catastrophes brings together the two books W.G. Sebald wrote on the Austrian writers who meant so much to him: The Description of Misfortune and Strange Homeland, published in Austria in 1985...

Run the Song: Writing about Running about Listening

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Report copyright infringementby Ben Ratliff (Author)A revelatory exploration of the relationship between music and running by one of our foremost music writersOut the front door, across the street, down the hill, and into Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. This is how Ben Ratliff's runs started most days of the week for about a decade. Sometimes listening to music, not always. Then, at the beginning of the pandemic, he began taking notes about what he listened to. He wondered if a body in motio...

Salmon Weather: Writing from the Land of No Return

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Report copyright infringementby Cmarie Fuhrman (Author)Author BiographyCMARIE FUHRMAN is the author of Camped Beneath the Dam: Poems and coeditor of Cascadia: Art, Ecology, Poetry and Native Voices: Indigenous Poetry, Craft, and Conversations. She has published or forthcoming poetry and nonfiction in multiple journals and anthologies including Orion, Terrain.org, Emergence Magazine, Alta, and others. She is associate director and director of poetry at Western Colorado University, where she te...

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Report copyright infringementby Helen Nde (Author)Combining vivid storytelling, astonishing imagination and careful research, this is the ultimate collection of African folklore, with 50 entertaining tales and commentary from noted folklorist Helen Nde, presented in a beautiful, foiled gift package. From creation myths and foundation legends to fascinating stories of human relationships and amusing animal tales, these stories provide a diverse look at the countries and cultures across the Afr...

Dad and Baby's First Year: A Newborn Journal for Memorable Moments

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Report copyright infringementby Dad Is (Author), Yael Eshet (Illustrator), Estee Lavitt (Editor)How will your baby feel reading their first-year memories from Dad's perspective?Dad and Baby's First Year is a unique, month-to-month baby journal-written by Daddy!This beautifully designed, humorous, and engaging keepsake includes monthly prompts to help dads capture their thoughts and experiences with their newborn.It captures the journey from birth to Baby's first birthday through Dad's eyes, ...

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Report copyright infringementby F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author), Michael E. Degen (Editor in Chief)Each classic in our series outlines an interpretive method to improve close reading, a process that shows students how to develop commentary beyond the plot, strategies used by top performing students on national exams. guides the students to examine key details as they read each page of the text-questions regarding key literary elements- setting, character, tone, atmosphere, point of view, plot, a...

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by Charles Bukowski (Author)Edited by Abel Debritto, the definitive collection of poems from an influential writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, and acutely observant writing has left an enduring mark on modern culture.Few writers have so brilliantly and poignantly conjured the desperation and absurdity of ordinary life as Charles Bukowski. Resonant with his powerful, perceptive voice, his visceral, hilarious, and transcendent poetry speaks to us as forcefully today as when it wa...

That's How They Get You: An Unruly Anthology of Black American Humor

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Report copyright infringementby Damon Young (Editor)From the Thurber Prize-winning author of What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker comes a pioneering collection of Black humor from some of the most acclaimed writers and performers at work today A critic explores the paradox of finding community in "the dozens" while grieving. A violent town ritual causes an all-too-familiar moral panic. An email thread between friends on why we need an updated Green Book but for public toilets. All across t...

Steve Martin Writes the Written Word: Collected Written Word Works by Steve Martin

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Report copyright infringementby Steve Martin (Author)With an exclusive new introduction and some never-before-published pieces, a collection of greatest hits from one of the most beloved comedians of our time, Steve Martin, now starring in Hulu's Only Murders in the Building. Steve Martin Writes the Written Word is a perfect introduction for new fans and a must-have for longtime fans, showcasing the longevity, range, and--above all--hilarity of the master. Filled with his singular character...