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To Siberia: A Novel מאת Per Petterson I was fourteen and a half when the Germans came. On that 9th April we woke to the roar of aeroplanes swooping so low over the roofs of the town that we could see the black iron crosses painted on the underside of their wings when we leaned out of the windows and looked up. <...

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Skirmish: Poems מאת Dobby Gibson New poetry by Dobby Gibson, author of Polar, which “teems with a language so alive and so imaginative that one cannot help but read on with wonder and rapture” (The Bloomsbury Review) We have to escape while we can.I’m trying to remember you—quick,now you tr...

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The Time of the Doves (La Plaza del Diamante) מאת Merce Rodoreda The Time of the Doves, the powerfully written story of a naïve shop-tender during the Spanish Civil War and beyond, is a rare and moving portrait of a simple soul confronting and surviving a convulsive period in history. The book has been widely translated, and was made into a film....

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The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History מאת Lewis Buzbee In The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop, a Book Sense selection, Lewis Buzbee celebrates the unique experience of the bookstore—the smell and touch of books, the joy of getting lost in the deep canyons of shelves, and the silent community of readers. He shares his passion for books,...

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Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction מאת Charles Baxter Graywolf reissues one of its most successful essay collections with two new essays and a new foreword by Charles Baxter As much a rumination on the state of literature as a technical manual for aspiring writers, Burning Down the House has been enjoyed by read...

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The House of Widows: A Novel מאת Askold Melnyczuk A novel of intrigue that is played across decades, continents, and generations by the celebrated, New York Times Notable author of Ambassador of the Dead   Late one night, a week after Father’s suicide, I finished sweeping the bulk of my inheritance ...

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Elegy: Poems מאת Mary Jo Bang The winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, and a 2008 New York Times Notable Book Look at her—It’s as ifThe windows of night have been sewn to her eyes.                                          ...

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The Water Cure: A Novel מאת Percival Everett I am guilty not because of my actions, to which I freely admit, but for my accession, admission, confession that I executed these actions with not only deliberation and premeditation but with zeal and paroxysm and purpose . . . The true answer to your question is shorter than the lie....

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Edward Hopper: Poems A Bilingual Edition מאת Ernest Farres An arresting sequence of poems based on the life and paintings of Edward Hopper, in an award-winning translation from the Catalan Ernest Farrés, an editor at the Barcelona-based newspaper La Vanguardia, is the author ...

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American Sublime מאת Elizabeth Alexander A brilliant new collection by Elizabeth Alexander, whose "poems bristle with the irresistible quality of a world seen fresh" (Rita Dove, The Washington Post)Too many people have seen too muchand lived to tell, or not tell, or tellwith their silent, patterned bodie...

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The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia, and Depression מאת Darian Leader  Fifty years ago, the terms mourning and melancholia were part of the psychological lexicon. Today, in a world of rapid diagnoses, quick cures, and big pharmaceutical dollars, the catch-all concept of depression has evolved to take their place. In The New Black, Darian Leader argue...

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The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards: Stories מאת Robert Boswell An enthralling and wise new collection from the author of Century's Son and one of America's most respected writersI was twenty-nine years old and wanted to change before I hit thirty. Clete and I developed a plan for me . . . a plan that would work all that summer and beyon...

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Best Thought, Worst Thought: On Art, Sex, Work and Death מאת Don Paterson “Contentious, rude, hilarious, moving, and truthful. A book you’ll dip into for the rest of your life.” —Ian Rankin The male genitals are worn externally as evolution is in the process of expelling them from the body. Another million years and they’ll be s...

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Unrest: Poems מאת Joanna Rawson The second collection by the award-winning poet Joanna Rawson, whose “intense language recalls the hothouse prose of Cormac McCarthy” (Kirkus Reviews) The sky threatens to answer a prayer but then won't. It is not exactly our own minds we go out of.   ...

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Ron Carlson Writes a Story מאת Ron Carlson Ron Carlson has been praised as “a master of the short story” (Booklist). In this essay collection, he offers a full range of notes and gives rare insight into a veteran writer’s process by inviting the reader to watch over his shoulder as he creates the short s...

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The Venus Hottentot: Poems מאת Elizabeth Alexander Elizabeth Alexander's highly praised first collection is available once againI didn't want to write a poem that said "blacknessis," because we know better than anyonethat we are not one or ten or ten thousand thingsNot one poem -from "Today's News"Originally publis...

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Spacecraft Voyager 1: New and Selected Poems מאת Alice Oswald Swirling like eddies in a river come the poems of Alice Oswald, who has quickly become one of the premier British poets writing today. Spacecraft Voyager 1 collects poetry from across her career —new poems, selections from her first and more recent books, and the entirety of her master...

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Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture מאת Dana Gioia In 1991, Dana Gioia's provocative essay "Can Poetry Matter?" was published in the Atlantic Monthly, and received more public response than any other piece in the magazine's history. In his book, Gioia more fully addressed the question: Is there a place for poetry to be part of modern America...

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Black Glasses Like Clark Kent: A GI's Secret from Postwar Japan מאת Terese Svoboda After her Uncle's suicide, Terese Svoboda investigates his stunning claim that MPs may have executed their own men during the occupation of Japan after World war II [Our captain] commended us for being good soldiers and doing our job well and having a minimum of problems. T...

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Stories from the rest of the world Scott Walker

Stories from the rest of the world מאת Scott Walker

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The Accordionist's Son: A Novel (Lannan Translation) מאת Bernardo Atxaga A celebrated international author, listed among the “21 top writers for the 21st century” (The Observer, U.K.)   As David Imaz, on the threshold of adulthood, divides his time between his uncle Juan’s ranch and his life in the village, where he ...

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The Bride of E: Poems מאת Mary Jo Bang Poems by the author of Elegy, Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry The goblet mouth on the table speaks To your thirst, saying, Longing, your longing, is infinite.                       -from "H Is H...

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Another World Instead: The Early Poems of William Stafford, 1937-1947 מאת William Stafford The unpublished early poems of William Stafford now added to "a body of work that represents some of the finest poetry written during the second half of [the twentieth] century." (Library Journal)   If I could remember all at once—but I have forgotten.But...

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Pieces for the Left Hand: Stories מאת J. Robert Lennon Finally available in the United States, a singular story collection that Time Out declared ?unsettlingly brilliant?   Astudent?s suicide note is not what it seems. A high school football rivalry turns absurd?and deadly. A much-loved cat seems to have been a...

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Daily Horoscope מאת Dana Gioia

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Moon Crossing Bridge מאת Tess Gallagher Tess Gallagher's stunning new poems of remembrance, mourning, and recovery following the death of her husband, Raymond Carver....

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Confessions of a Former Child: A Therapist's Memoir מאת Daniel Tomasulo A hilarious and perceptive examination of the mysteries of childhood and the perils of parenthood From August 1956 through April 1961 I controlled the traffic and streetlights in New York City and northern New Jersey. It was a daunting task for a five-y...

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The End: A novel מאת Salvatore Scibona A brilliant debut novel about a single day in 1953 as lived by six people at an ohio carnival A small, incongruous man receives an excruciating piece of news. His son has died in a POW camp in Korea. It is August 15, 1953, the day of a tumultuous street carnival ...

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The Scattered Papers of Penelope: New and Selected Poems (The Lannan Translation) מאת Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke A career-spanning collection by one of greece’s most loved and lyrical contemporary poets, Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke   I wasn’t weaving, I wasn’t knitting I was writing something erasing and being erased ...

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Lawnboy מאת Paul Lisicky "Lawnboy is, quite simply, the real thing, a novel of mystery and great beauty." —Michael CunninghamThey all thought I was good-natured, upright and responsible, generous, affectionate, and kind, and of course I could be those things, but there was much more to me than that, ...

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Praise Song for the Day: A Poem for Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration מאת Elizabeth Alexander On January 20, 2009, Elizabeth Alexander served as the fourth ever inaugural poet and a central participant in one of the most closely watched inaugurations in American history. Selected by Barack Obama, Alexander composed and delivered her original poem "Praise Song for the Day" to an aud...

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Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric מאת Claudia Rankine In this powerful sequence of TV images and essay, Claudia Rankine explores the personal and political unrest of our volatile new centuryI forget things too. It makes me sad. Or it makesme the saddest. The sadness is not really aboutGeorge W. or our American optimism; thesadne...

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Wild Kingdom: Poems מאת Vijay Seshadri Wild Kingdom marks the debut of an audacious new voice in American poetry. Vijay Seshadri's poems inhabit the crossroads of history and wilderness, the imaginative realm where fir and alder trees share a common life with reggae bands, refugees, office buildings, and speeding traffic....

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The Half-Known World: On Writing Fiction מאת Robert Boswell A rigorous examination of the workings of fiction by the novelist Robert Boswell, “one of America’s finest writers” (Tom Perrotta)  Robert Boswell has been writing, reading, and teaching literature for more than twenty years. In this sparkling collection of essays, ...

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Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry מאת Stephen Burt Essays and critical writings on contemporary poetry by Stephen Burt, “the finest critic of his generation” (Lucie Brock-Broido)   Stephen Burt’s Close Calls with Nonsense provokes readers into the elliptical worlds of Rae Armantrout, Paul Muldoon, C. D. Wrig...

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One Vacant Chair: A Novel (Graywolf Press) מאת Joe Coomer It’s where you sit down that determines everything in life. Sarah’s aunt Edna paints portraits of chairs. Not people in chairs, just chairs. The old house is filled with her paintings, and the chairs themselves surround her work—a silent yet vigilant audience. At...

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The Looking House: Poems מאת Fred Marchant “To my mind, what distinguishes Marchant’s work is his willingness to take a hard look at human suffering while maintaining his unflinching, delicate tone.” —The Journal            house that floatson a muddy river in spring-time flood,h...

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Pocketful of Names מאת Joe Coomer “Coomer is clearly an author of serious talent.” —The Washington Post Book WorldInhabiting an island off the coast of Maine left to her by her great-uncle Arno, Hannah finds her life as a dedicated and solitary artist rudely interrupted one summer when a dog, matted with fea...

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Stupid Hope: Poems מאת Jason Shinder The final collection by the late Jason Shinder, “one of the finest of our new poets” (Gerald Stern)I close my eyes and try to rememberwhen I was unopposed, when I started to die,buoyant, fragrant, shuddering with love.                  ...

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Picking Bones from Ash: A Novel מאת Marie Mutsuki Mockett Three generations of women intersect in this evocative debut novel My mother always told me that there is only one way a woman can be truly safe in this world. And that is to be fiercely, inarguably and masterfully talented. No one knows who fathered eleven...

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The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems, 1972-2007 מאת Albert Goldbarth Now in paperback, the career-spanning retrospective by Albert Goldbarth, the only poet to have won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry twice                          Now his, the onlyoverhead turned on. Now nothing else existed:only him, and...

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Jack and Rochelle: A Holocaust Story of Love and Resistance מאת Jack Sutin “A story of heroism and of touching romance in a time of fear and danger.” —USA Today There are two voices intertwined in the narrative: those of Jack and Rochelle. Now and then they interrupt each other. This is the way they have told these stories for ...

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The Man from Kinvara: Selected Stories מאת Tess Gallagher Selected stories from a renowned poet and prose writer “who savors the elegance of simplicity and whose stories resonate and linger” (The New York Times Book Review) Tess Gallagher’s vivid and rewarding short stories bear witness to the intimate details and subtle r...

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Fugitive Visions: An Adoptee's Return to Korea מאת Jane Jeong Trenka The powerful second memoir by the author of the widely acclaimed The Language of Blood made in Korea > cheap goods > cheap labor > cheap womb > cheap adoption > cheap immigration > cheap immigrant > cheap yellow daughter > honorary white > almost but not quit...

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Hundred White Daffodils מאת Jane Kenyon In this enlightening and typically endearing collection of prose and poetry, the late author of five highly regarded books of verse reflects on her writing life, growing spirituality, passionate hobbies, and ultimately fatal struggle with leukemia. Kenyon is one of the most beloved poets on the cont...

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Recyclopedia: Trimmings, S*PeRM**K*T, and Muse & Drudge מאת Harryette Mullen Three important poetry collections brought together under one cover by Harryette Mullen, author of Sleeping with the Dictionary   if you turned down the mediaso I could write a bookthen you could look me upin your voluminous recyclopedia—fr...

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Duende: Poems מאת Tracy K. Smith Every poem is the story of itself.Pure conflict. Its own undoing.Breeze of dreams, then certain death.                      —from “History”Duende, that dark and elusive force described by Federico García Lorca, is the creative and ecstatic power an arti...

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Refresh, Refresh: Stories מאת Benjamin Percy The war in Iraq empties the small town of Tumalo, Oregon, of men—of fathers—leaving their sons to fight among themselves. But the boys’ bravado fades at home when, alone, they check e-mail again and again for word from their fathers at the front. Often from fractured homes ...

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Colosseum: Poems מאת Katie Ford The visceral new work by Katie Ford, whose poems "possess the veiled brilliance of stained glass windows seen at night." (New York Times Book Review) With gravity and resplendence, Colosseum confronts ruin in the ancient world and in the living moment, from historical...

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To Be Read in 500 Years: Poems מאת Albert Goldbarth So often (let’s be honest here) we poetswill invent dreams, for our own strategic purposes.But this one is real, and one of the fewI remember. I awoke in the future.                              —from “Mailbox”To Be Read in 500 Years is the poet Al...

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Castle: A Novel מאת J. Robert Lennon A mesmerizing novel about memory, guilt, power, and violence In the late winter of 2006, I returned to my home town and bought 612 acres of land on the far western edge of the county.? So begins, innocuously enough, J. Robert Lennon?s gripping, spooky, and brilliant new novel. Un...

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Waterlight: Selected Poems מאת Kathleen Jamie The first U.S. publication of Scottish poet Kathleen Jamie, author of The Tree House, winner of the 2004 Forward Prize for best poetry collectionIt isn’t mine to give.I can’t coax this bird to my handthat knows the depth of the riveryet sings of it on land.      ...

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The House of Rust מאת Khadija Abdalla Bajaber The first Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize winner, a story of a girl’s fantastical sea voyage to rescue her father The House of Rust is an enchanting novel about a Hadrami girl in Mombasa. When her fisherman father goes missing, Aisha takes to the sea on a magical boat made of a skeleton to rescue him. She is guided by a talking scholar’s cat (and soon crows, goats, and other animals all have their say, too). On this journey Aisha meets three terrifying sea monsters. After she survives a final confrontation with Baba wa Papa, the father of all sharks, she rescues her own father, and...

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So Much Blue מאת Percival Everett