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Series: Wild Imperfections An Anthology of Womanist Poems Hardcover Natalia Molebatsi 9781913175252 $31.50 POETRY Mar 04, 2022

Featuring the work of Black women poets from Botswana to Brazil, in this collection, we encounter ancestors who made love, just for the sake of love, and women who die with each orgasm while attempting to mark the extent of their own humanities.This is for the nuns, the singers, the clowns, the diviners and the conjurers who reject the constant attempt to clean up history. The wildly imperfect women of slick braids, shiny skin and succulent lips, building new homes from clouds for future legions.Here congregate the women, womxn and womyn who do... + Read More
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Series: Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa Paperback Jason Mykl Snyman 9781946395573 $26.95 FICTION Sep 17, 2021

Including 2022 Caine Prize winning story "Five Years Next Sunday" by Idza Luhumyo and the 2022 Nommo Award shortlisted story "Shelter" by Mzobi Haimbe This genre-spanning anthology explores the many ways that we grow, adapt, and survive in the face of our ever-changing global realities. These evocative, often prescient, stories showcase new and emerging writers from across Africa to investigate many of the pressing issues of our time: climate change, pandemics, social upheaval, surveillance, and more. In Disruption, authors from across Africa... + Read More
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Series: Relapse Toolkit Practical Strategies for Professionals Treating Relapse Paperback Claudia Black 9781949481587 $41.95 PSYCHOLOGY Dec 09, 2022

Relapse Toolkit is designed for use by counselors and therapists who work in the addiction field and address issues of relapse and relapse management. It can be used effectively within a group orientation or with an individual participant. This Toolkit contains 38 modules, each with pertinent didactic, reproducible handouts, and a “paint-by-the-numbers” format. There are several sessions that include the opportunity for a guided imagery.Session titles include Overconfidence, Control, Feelings, Relationships, Multi-addictions, Secrets, plus many... + Read More
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Series: The Trouble with Trauma Paperback Michael Scheeringa 9781949481563 $28.50 PSYCHOLOGY Mar 11, 2022

The Trouble with Trauma is the story of how the idea of psychological trauma appeals to the human mind.Trauma impacts many people psychologically, but the evidence on the long-term physical effect is incomplete. Theories that psychological trauma can permanently damage your brain, cause physical disease, and change your essential character have become staples of human thought worldwide.Dr. Scheeringa explains how those theories are widely believed whilst not being true, and at the heart of the story is an explanation of how humans choose to ign... + Read More
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Series: Love Lonely Journey Hardcover Ida Rorholm Davidsen 9781912278282 $37.50 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 18 Apr 07, 2023

In this spell-binding coming-of-age story, a young girl struggles to fit in, subconsciously mimicking her mother's lonely existence. Her interest in the computer game, Lonely Journey, becomes an obsession, but it also becomes a means to reinvent herself. In the virtual reality, she can escape and live out her dreams. Slowly reality and virtuality start to merge.
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Series: Life Bad Dreams Hardcover Janek Koza 9781912278176 $32.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jan 28, 2022

Bad Dream' is a collection of bitter stories about the desire to get away from tiresome reality. Nine characters portrayed by Janek Koza, shivering like the author's line, struggle with frustrating work, boredom, failed relationships, or the nightmare of insomnia. Trying to change their fate, they immerse themselves in dreams and reach their small moments of fulfilment, which illuminate the darkness of the gloomy polish daily life. However, making them come true leaves the charactersin stagnation and loneliness. With his naturalistic approach... + Read More
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Series: Life Zenith Hardcover Maria Medem 9781912278251 $50.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Apr 07, 2023

Under an ever-present orange sun illuminating a desert landscape, two artisans, one for glass the other for clay, meet every day for lunch and chat. Both are sleepwalkers, but experience this phenomenon in drastically different ways. The potter hates his somnambulism, considers it an uncomfortable part of his being as if he shared a body with a stranger. Whenever he becomes aware of it, he suffers, a sense of anguish and despair invades him. The glassblower, however, is not nearly as bothered by being a sleepwalker. One night, he wakes up st... + Read More
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Series: Life The Sisters Dietl Hardcover VojtA>ch Maaek 9781912278206 $59.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Apr 07, 2023

A horror detective story about two sisters, whose world is created from the surreal visions of VojtÄch MaÅ¡ek, one of the most acclaimed Czech comics authors. When one of the Dietl sisters ends up in hospital after what appears to be a brutal attack, leaving her with a mutilated face and unable to move, MaÅ¡ek leads the reader on a detective story exploring change of identity, doppelgÃ¤ngers, deformation, hallucination and altered states of mind in contrast with idyllic family life. This comics takes place in a fictional world woven from dream... + Read More
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Series: La Azotea Paperback Fernanda Trias 9781913867102 $23.95 FICTION Oct 22, 2021

En un apartamento en ruinas, en una ciudad uruguaya sin nombre, un padre y su hija se encierran y se aÃslan del mundo exterior. “El mundo es esta casa”, dice Clara. La azotea se vuelve su Ãºltimo y Ãºnico acceso a la libertad. Hay un solo testigo: el canario.A medida que los vÃnculos de Clara con el afuera se van extinguiendo -la vecina que deja de venir, el novio cuya existencia es aparente solo a travÃ©s de un embarazo-, la desesperaciÃ³n y la paranoia van tomando protagonismo. Es un abrazo que asfixia, y nosotros estamos aquÃ con ella, nu... + Read More
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Series: The Rooftop Paperback Fernanda Trias 9781913867041 $23.95 FICTION Oct 22, 2021

In a rundown apartment building, in an unnamed city in Uruguay, a father and daughter close themselves off from the world. ‘The world is this house’, says Clara, and the rooftop becomes their last recess of freedom. A pet canary is their only witness.Â As Clara’s connection to the outside is stripped away—the neighbor who stops coming by, the lover whose existence is only known by a pregnancy—desperation and paranoia take hold. It's a stifling embrace, and we are there with her, our narrator, dreading what we know the future holds.
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Series: Byobu Paperback Ida Vitale 9781913867027 $23.95 FICTION Dec 10, 2021

"a story’s existence, even if not well defined or well assigned, even if only in its formative stage, just barely latent, emits vague but urgent emanations."Byobu's every interaction trembles with possibility and faint menace. A crack in the walls of his house, marring it forever, means he must burn it down. A stoplight asks what the value of obedience is, what hopefulness it contains, and what insensible anarchy it defies. In brief episodes, aphorisms, and moments of spiritual turbulence and gentle scrutiny, reside a wealth of habits, worries,... + Read More
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Series: Havana Year Zero Paperback Karla Suarez 9781913867003 $23.95 FICTION Nov 12, 2021

It was as if we’d reached the minimum critical point of a mathematical curve. Imagine a parabola. Zero point down, at the bottom of an abyss. That’s how low we sank.The year is 1993. Cuba is at the height of the Special Period, a widespread economic crisis following the collapse of the Soviet bloc.For Julia, a mathematics lecturer who hates teaching, this is Year Zero: the lowest possible point. But a way out appears: the search for a missing document that will prove the telephone was invented in Havana, secure her reputation, and give Cuba a p... + Read More
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Series: Tsukiji Fish Market Memories: 2006-2018 Hardcover David Beall 9781634050234 $44.95 TRAVEL Apr 15, 2022

On frequent visits to what was once the world's biggest fish market, photographer David Beall became increasingly obsessed with capturing the high-energy routine of commerce and industry that commenced daily before dawn at Tsukiji in downtown Tokyo. For 13 years, he traipsed through the narrow alleys of the market, nimbly dodging the relentless delivery carts and sneaking into the auctions, ever cognizant of nearby security guards who would promptly ask him to leave if he stepped out ofline. Through it all, he kept snapping photos of what he s... + Read More
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Series: A Slice of Silence The Photography of Nathan Wirth Hardcover Nathan Wirth 9781634050227 $44.95 PHOTOGRAPHY Jul 22, 2022

This collection of monochrome photographs by Nathan Wirth includes long exposure seascapes, infrared landscapes, self portraits, architecture, and zenscapes of the Pacific Northwest intermingled with poetry and essays by Galen Garwood, Sam Green, Jane Hirshfield, Charles Johnson, Daphne Marlatt, Paul Nelson, Red Pine, David Pollard, Norman Schaeffer, Gary Snyder, Joseph Stroud, and Peter Weltner.
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Series: Those Who Helped Us Assisting Japanese Americans During the War Paperback Kiku Hughes 9781634050210 $29.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Dec 02, 2022

Basketball-loving Sumiko Tanaka, then 11, narrates this graphic novel about the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans. Through her eyes, we watch as her family is forced from their home and subjected to indiscriminate racism as they are shipped off to the concentration camp called Minidoka in Idaho. But Sumiko and her 17-year-old sister Yuri also see acts of charity and solidarity from their non-Japanese neighbors and friends in the Seattle area that make them hopeful for the future. As the young girls struggle with the horrors of be... + Read More
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Series: From Cairo to Beirut In the Footsteps of an 1839 Expedition through the Holy Land Paperback Sunil Shinde 9781634050241 $34.50 TRAVEL Mar 04, 2022

"From Cairo to Beirut" is an illustrated travel memoir of the author's journey to retrace a 200-year-old route of Scottish artist David Roberts. Shinde traveled a route through Cairo, Sinai, Petra, Palestine, Israel, and Lebanon -- ancient lands steeped in natural beauty, culture, architecture, and history -- to sketch and discover a region far removed from the newspaper headlines. Many times, Shinde stood within a 10-foot radius of where Roberts stood, and sketched what he sketched. The book includes 250 original sketches by the author and 25 ... + Read More
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Series: The Durian Chronicles Reflections on the US and Southeast Asia in the Trump Era Paperback Sally Tyler 9781634050258 $25.50 POLITICAL SCIENCE Oct 14, 2022

The curious durian fruit, both delicious and stinky, is the embodiment of dissonance. Author Sally Tyler uses the fruit's dual nature as a metaphor for exploring the dissonance inherent in recent policy and political trends in the U.S. and Southeast Asia. Such dissonance is on display when hopeful social movements bring young and old into the streets by the tens of thousands at the same time a call to restore order paves the way for dictators like Duterte, the tacit ratification of yet another Thai coup, and the election of Trump. The book's es... + Read More
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Series: Kaibyo: The Supernatural Cats of Japan Paperback Zack Davisson 9781634059183 $34.50 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jan 14, 2022

An in-depth exploration of the sometimes charming, sometimes gruesome feline creatures and ghosts of Japan. Davisson illuminates the vast realm of kaibyÅ, or supernatural cats, with historical and modern cultural context. Lushly illustrated in full color with dozens of ukiyo-e prints and drawings. A must-have book for the Japanophile and cat-lover alike! This second edition includes a gatefold reproduction of Takashi Murakami’s 10-meter “Japan Supernatural” painting featuring a supernatural cat and an updated introduction from Davisson.
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Series: The Road Cyclist's Companion (Revised PB edition) Paperback Peter Drinkell 9781908714992 $22.50 TRAVEL Age (years) from 18 Sep 17, 2021

Navigate the quirks and rituals of cycling with this essential guide to the etiquette, equipment and technique of group riding. All sports have their quirks and rituals, but cycling has more than most. As the inexorable rise of the bicycle continues, many casual cyclists are moving into a more serious brand of cycling – riding in road races, groups or cycle clubs. And stumbling straight into a minefield of form and etiquette that those who have grown up in the clubs are well acquainted with. From how to choose the right bike frame to the rule... + Read More
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Series: Open Media Series First Class The U.S. Postal Service, Democracy, and the Corporate Threat Paperback Christopher W. Shaw 9780872868779 $25.50 POLITICAL SCIENCE Nov 19, 2021

Investigating the essential role that the postal system plays in American democracy and how the corporate sector has attempted to destroy it."With First Class: The U.S. Postal Service, Democracy, and the Corporate Threat, Christopher Shaw makes a brilliant case for polishing the USPS up and letting it shine in the 21st century."—John Nichols, national affairs correspondent for The Nation and author of Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers: Accountability for Those Who Caused the Crisis"First Class is essential reading for all postal wor... + Read More
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Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Series Revolutionary Letters: 50th Anniversary Edition Pocket Poets Series No. 27 Hardcover Diane di Prima 9780872868793 $28.50 POETRY Oct 08, 2021

Expanded 50th anniversary edition of the City Lights classic of eco-feminist-Zen Beat poetry, featuring fifteen new poems. Simultaneously released with Diane di Prima's Spring and Autumn Annals on the one-year anniversary of her passing.By turns a handbook of countercultural living, a manual for street protest, and a feminist broadside against the repressive state apparatus, Revolutionary Letters is a modern classic, as relevant today as it was at its inception, 50 years ago.During the tumult of 1968, Beat poet Diane di Prima began writing her ... + Read More
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Series: Spring and Autumn Annals A Celebration of the Seasons for Freddie Paperback Diane di Prima 9780872868809 $26.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 15, 2021

Lyrical and unforgettable, part elegy and part memoir, we present a previously unpublished masterpiece from the Beat Generation icon. Simultaneously released with an expanded edition of di Prima's classic Revolutionary Letters on the one-year anniversary of her passing.In the autumn of 1964, Diane di Prima was a young poet living in New York when her dearest friend, dancer, choreographer, and Warhol Factory member, Freddie Herko, leapt from the window of a Greenwich Village apartment to a sudden, dramatic, and tragic death at the age of 29. In ... + Read More
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Series: Open Media Series The Path to a Livable Future A New Politics to Fight Climate Change, Racism, and the Next Pandemic Paperback Stan Cox 9780872868786 $23.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Nov 12, 2021

An urgent call for the political transformation needed to address the common causes of climate change, COVID-19, and racism.“ . . . some big titles will address emergencies that have outlived Trump. The Path to a Livable Future by Stan Cox, explores the connections among the many crises of the past year and a half.”—Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times2020 was a year defined by crisis. For decades, scientists have been sounding the alarm about the urgency of addressing climate change, but it took COVID-19 to demonstrate clearly that the future of h... + Read More
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Series: A Quilt for David Paperback Steven Reigns 9780872868816 $25.50 POETRY Sep 18, 2021

The hidden history of a vulnerable gay man whose life and death were turned into tabloid fodder.In the early 1990s, eight people living in a small conservative Florida town alleged that Dr. David Acer, their dentist, infected them with HIV. David's gayness, along with his sickly appearance from his own AIDS-related illness, made him the perfect scapegoat and victim of mob mentality. In these early years of the AIDS epidemic, when transmission was little understood, and homophobia rampant, people like David were villainized. Accuser Kimberly Ber... + Read More
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Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Series Blood on the Fog Pocket Poets Series No. 62 Paperback Tongo Eisen-Martin 9780872868755 $23.95 POETRY Oct 01, 2021

2021 Golden Poppy Award Winner for Poetry - Chosen by the California Independent Booksellers Alliance2022 California Book Award FinalistPolitically astute, filled with wisdom and great humanity, this is poetry meant to conjure a healing and provoke a confrontation, an invitation to a journey through Black America."Words are not the revolution itself, Eisen-Martin seems to say, and yet this book disturbed me more than any other I read this year. It reminds me that poetry can rewire our thinking—can actually change our minds—by using nothing like... + Read More
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Series: Ring Paperback André Alexis 9781552454305 $22.95 FICTION Sep 28, 2021

A fresh take on the romance novel from the Giller Prize-winning author of Fifteen Dogs. "Love comes from uncertainty! In fact, love is uncertainty's greatest gift!" This is the message at the heart of Ring, Andre Alexis's last installment of the Quincunx, a sequence of five novels that each borrow from a very different genre. Ring is, of course, the romance. Ring is the story of Gwenhwy far Lloyd, a woman of Welsh and Kenyan heritage who, on falling in love with Tancred Palmieri, is given a ring and three books by her mother, Helen. A... + Read More
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Series: Made-Up A True Story of Beauty Culture under Late Capitalism Paperback Daphne B 9781552454299 $21.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 14, 2021

A nuanced, feminist, and deeply personal take on beauty culture and YouTube consumerism, in the tradition of Maggie Nelson’s BluetsAs Daphné B obsessively watches YouTube makeup tutorials and haunts Sephora’s website, she’s increasingly troubled by the ways in which this obsession contradicts her anti-capitalist, intersectional feminist politics. In a looks-obsessed, selfie-covered present where influencers make the world go round, she brings us a breath of fresh air: an anti-capitalist look at a supremely capitalist industry, an intersect... + Read More
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Series: Masses on Radar Paperback David O’Meara 9781552454268 $21.95 POETRY Sep 21, 2021

WINNER OF THE ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN AWARD 2022WINNER OF THE OTTAWA BOOK AWARD 2022Words like radio waves, bouncing off the spectres of mortality, middle age, and the mundane.Arriving at middle age was a decisive experience for David O’Meara, standing equidistant to the past and future with its accompanying doubts and anticipations, inviting re-evaluation of past goals, confronting personal loss, and the death of his father and friends. These are the masses on radar, indistinct but detectable existential presences encroaching, and in the center of t... + Read More
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Series: Insignificance Paperback James Clammer 9781552454343 $21.95 FICTION Sep 07, 2021

For fans of Ducks, Newburyport and Rivka Galchen’s Atmospheric Disturbances, a day-in-the-life of a plumber whose troubles are all coming to a head. In an addictive, interior-monologue lyric novel, we meet Joseph. Back on the job after a long leave, he’s not at all sure he’ll make it through the day. Bad thoughts keep creeping in. He believes that his son, suffering from a condition in which he believes someone close to him has been replaced by an imposter, has tried to kill his wife. And that he’ll try again. And that his wife is planning to l... + Read More
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Series: The Breaks An Essay Paperback Julietta Singh 9781552454350 $20.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 07, 2021

A profound meditation on race, inheritance, and queer mothering at the end of the world. SEMINARY CO-OP'S BEST BOOKS OF 2021 In a letter to her six-year-old daughter, Julietta Singh ventures toward a tender vision of the future, lifting up children’s radical embrace of possibility as a model for how we might live. If we wish to survive looming political and ecological disasters, Singh urges, we must break from the conventions we have inherited and orient ourselves toward revolutionary paths that might yet set us free. "The Breaks is amazing—I r... + Read More
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Series: Rebound Sports, Community, and the Inclusive City Paperback Perry King 9781552454251 $21.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Oct 19, 2021

HERITAGE TORONTO 2022 BOOK AWARD NOMINEE From basketball hoops to cricket bats, the role community sports play in our cities and how crucial they are to diversity and inclusion. “The virus exposed how we live and work. It also revealed how we play, and what we lose when we have to stop.” For every kid who makes it to the NBA, thousands more seek out the pleasure and camaraderie of pick-up basketball in their local community centre or neighbourhood park. It’s a story that plays out in sport after sport – team and individual, youth and adult, men... + Read More
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Series: Ink Earl Paperback Susan Holbrook 9781552454275 $21.95 POETRY Sep 28, 2021

Shortlisted for the ReLit 2022 Poetry Award ink earl takes the popular subgenre of erasure poetry to its illogical conclusion. Starting with ad copy that extols the iconic Pink Pearl eraser, Holbrook erases and erases, revealing more and more. Rubbing out different words from this decidedly non-literary, noncanonical source text, she was left with the promise of “100 essays” and set about to find them. Among her discoveries are queer love poems, art projects, political commentary, lunch, songs, and entire extended families. The absurdity of the... + Read More
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Series: Spatial Species Borealis Paperback Aisha Sabatini Sloan 9781566896191 $22.50 ART Nov 12, 2021

Art about glaciers, queer relationships, political anxiety, and the meaning of Blackness in open space—Borealis is a shapeshifting logbook of Aisha Sabatini Sloan’s experiences moving through the Alaskan outdoors. In Borealis, Aisha Sabatini Sloan observes shorelines, mountains, bald eagles, and Black fellow travelers while feeling menaced by the specter of nature writing. She considers the meaning of open spaces versus enclosed ones and maps out the web of queer relationships that connect her to this quaint Alaskan town. Triangulating the la... + Read More
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Series: Search History Paperback Eugene Lim 9781566896177 $25.50 FICTION Oct 15, 2021

Search History oscillates between a wild cyberdog chase and lunch-date monologues as Eugene Lim deconstructs grieving and storytelling with uncanny juxtapositions and subversive satire. Frank Exit is dead—or is he? While eavesdropping on two women discussing a dog-sitting gig over lunch, a bereft friend comes to a shocking realization: Frank has been reincarnated as a dog! This epiphany launches a series of adventures—interlaced with digressions about AI-generated fiction, virtual reality, Asian American identity in the arts, and lost parents—... + Read More
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Series: Madder A Memoir in Weeds Paperback Marco Wilkinson 9781566896184 $25.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 22, 2021

Madder, matter, mater—a weed, a state of mind, a material, a meaning, a mother. Essayist and horticulturist Marco Wilkinson searches for the roots of his own selfhood among family myths and memories.“My life, these weeds.” Marco Wilkinson uses his deep knowledge of undervalued plants, mainly weeds—invisible yet ubiquitous, unwanted yet abundant, out-of-place yet flourishing—as both structure and metaphor in these intimate vignettes.Madder combines poetic meditations on nature, immigration, queer sensuality, and willful forgetting with recollect... + Read More
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Series: In the Camps China's High-Tech Penal Colony Paperback Darren Byler 9781735913629 $23.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Oct 22, 2021

How China used a network of surveillance to intern over a million people and produce a system of control previously unknown in human history Novel forms of state violence and colonization have been unfolding for years in China’s vast northwestern region, where more than a million and a half Uyghurs and others have vanished into internment camps and associated factories. Based on hours of interviews with camp survivors and workers, thousands of government documents, and over a decade of research, Darren Byler, one of the leading experts on Uyg... + Read More
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Series: Miseducation How Climate Change Is Taught in America Paperback Katie Worth 9781735913643 $23.95 EDUCATION Nov 26, 2021

Why are so many American children learning so much misinformation about climate change? Investigative reporter Katie Worth reviewed scores of textbooks, built a 50-state database, and traveled to a dozen communities to talk to children and teachers about what is being taught, and found a red-blue divide in climate education. More than one-third of young adults believe that climate change is not man-made, and science instructors are being contradicted by history teachers who tell children not to worry about it. Who has tried to influence what ... + Read More
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Series: 19 and 20 Notes for a New Insurrection (Updated 20th Anniversary Edition) Paperback Colectivo Situaciones 9781942173489 $29.95 HISTORY Dec 03, 2021

In an uprising heard around the world, people in Argentina took to the streets on December 19th & 20th, 2001, shouting “¡Qué se vayan todos!” These words (All of them out!), and the thousands of people banging pots and pans, opened a period of intense social unrest and political creativity that led to the collapse of government after government. Neighborhoods organized themselves into hundreds of popular assemblies across the country, the unemployed workers movement acquired a new visibility, workers took over factories and businesses. Deeply i... + Read More
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Series: Notes on Becoming a Comrade Paperback Jaskiran Dhillon 9781942173465 $23.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 16, 2021

As the devastating effects of capitalist-driven climate crisis grow, Indigenous-led pipeline struggles, landback campaigns, movements against militarism and policing, and the fight to end the patriarchal, colonial violence against Indigenous women, girls, and two-spirit people have become more urgent than ever. In Notes on Becoming a Comrade, Jaskiran Dhillon explores ways to practice politicized allyship and the necessity for non-Indigenous comrades to stand in direct support of Indigenous people—from Turtle Island to Palestine. But what does ... + Read More
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Series: Family, Welfare, and the State Between Progressivism and the New Deal, Second Edition Paperback Mariarosa Dalla Costa 9781942173533 $23.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 17, 2021

“Dalla Costa shows that with the New Deal, the state began to plan the ‘social factory’—that is, the home, the family, the school, and above all women’s labor, on which the productivity and pacification of industrial relations was made to rest.”—Silvia Federici In a groundbreaking study, Family, Welfare, and the State offers a comprehensive reading of the welfare system through the dynamics of women's resistance and class struggle. Mariarosa Dalla Costa, a key figure in the International Wages for Housework campaigns, highlights how the New De... + Read More
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Series: America Bilingual Edition Paperback Fernando Valverde 9781556596223 $26.95 POETRY Nov 26, 2021

Bilingual Edition: "Valverde’s sharp meditation on the state of mind of a nation reeling from its historical contradictions and moral failings is startling...ForchÃ©’s consummate translation and instructive introduction provide a map to help readers navigate this powerful book."—BooklistIn Fernando Valverde’s AmÃ©rica, “sorrow is ancient.” Mournfully lyrical, politically sharp, with a sweeping view of American roots, dysfunctions, and ideals—as if from above, and yet also from within—this is a book that deconstructs the legacy of empire. From t... + Read More
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Series: The Tradition: Civic Dialogue Edition Paperback Jericho Brown 9781556596421 $26.95 POETRY May 06, 2022

In this special edition of Jericho Brown’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Tradition,you are invited to participate in an urgent dialogue—sparked by poetry—about what it means to be human. Including a discussion guide and an interview with the author, The Tradition: Civic Dialogue Editionis meant to catalyze and inspire deep and engaging community conversations. In 2021, the Free Library of Philadelphia selected The Traditionfor their annual city-wide reading program, choosing a book of poetry for the first time ever. The vision was for neighbor to ... + Read More
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Series: Jim Harrison: Complete Poems Limited Edition Boxed Set Bath book Jim Harrison 9781556596414 $118.95 POETRY Feb 04, 2022

A companion to the single volume, this box set is limited to 750 copies.Starred Review from Booklist: "[A] landmark collection."Jim Harrison (1937-2016) is an American literary icon, famous for his novellas Legends of the Fall and Brown Dog,and his novels Dalva, Farmer, and Sundog. At the bedrock of Harrison’s success was his lifelong, enduring love of poetry. Over a fifty year writing career, in addition to his prolific work as a fiction writer, screenwriter, and beloved food critic, he published fourteen volumes of original poetry—now presen... + Read More
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Series: Jim Harrison: Complete Poems Hardcover Jim Harrison 9781556595936 $59.95 POETRY Dec 17, 2021

Editors' Choice Selection, The New York Times Book Review ** Starred Reviews ** in Library Journal and Booklist "This robust volume is a testament to the fortitude of a great American poet’s work... [a] landmark collection."—Raul Niño, Booklist, starred review "[E]ven the readers who know him may not know that Harrison began as a poet and remained one for the rest of his life…. [Jim Harrison: Complete Poems is] a massive and bounteous body of work that would have made Harrison a significant American writer even if he had never published in a... + Read More
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Series: Passion Paperback June Jordan 9781556596353 $25.50 POETRY Sep 24, 2021

After decades out of print,Passion—one of June Jordan’s most important collections—has returned to readers. Originally entitled,passion: new poems, 1977-1980, this volume holds key works including “Poem About My Rights,” “Poem About Police Violence,” “Free Flight,” and an essay by the poet, “For the Sake of the People’s Poetry: Walt Whitman and the Rest of Us.” June Jordan was a fierce advocate for the safety and humanity of women and Black people, and for the freedom of all people—and Barack Obama made a line from this book famous: “We are t... + Read More
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Series: Lightning Falls in Love Paperback Laura Kasischke 9781556596360 $25.50 POETRY Oct 01, 2021

Starred Review in Publishers Weekly: "Magic and survival are at the center of Kasischke’s marvelous 12th poetry collection... This book is a triumph of storytelling by a master of craft." In her stunning twelfth poetry collection, Lightning Falls in Love, Laura Kasischke makes magic with a complex alchemy of nostalgia and fire, birdwing and sorrow. In new poems that search the murky lake for news of the past, she evokes unsayable trauma and gleans possibility. This is poetry that is existential in scope but grounded in the body, surreal yet s... + Read More
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Series: Where Now: New and Selected Poems Paperback Laura Kasischke 9781556596445 $29.95 POETRY Sep 17, 2021

Kasischke astonishes with her lyricism and metaphorical power.” Publishers WeeklyEvery poem is exquisitely crafted, with crisp, clean lines and imagery that dazzles.”The Washington PostFor Kasischke poetry is a kind of revenge on the existential limits that it describes”Los Angeles Review of BooksLaura Kasischke’s long-awaited selected poems presents the breadth of her probing vision that subverts the so-called normal.” A lover of fairy tales, Kasischke showcases her command of the symbolic, with a keen attention to sound in her explora... + Read More
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Series: Bestiary Dark Paperback Marianne Boruch 9781556596377 $23.95 POETRY Oct 22, 2021

Is the world finite? Through place and time and the great expanse of Australia, Marianne Boruch ponders this, aided not just by wallabies and platypus, kangaroos and wombats, but by a cheeky Archangel who wanders in and out of her poems. The pertinent wisdom of an Indigenous Elder is here too, along with the continuing presence of Pliny the Elder, the Roman naturalist and historian who in 77 CE posed the question Boruch considers. Written following Boruch’s Fulbright in Australia, and on the heels of the devastating fires that began after her d... + Read More
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Series: Latitude Paperback Natasha Rao 9780986093838 $22.50 POETRY Sep 17, 2021

Chosen as the winner of the 2021APR/Honickman First Book Prize by Guggenheim Fellow Ada LimÃ³n, Natasha Rao’s debut collectionLatitudeabounds with sensory delights, rich in colors, flavors, and sounds. These poems explore the complexities of family, cultural identity, and coming of age. By turns vulnerable and bold,Latitudeindulges in desire: “In my next life let me be a tomato/lusting and unafraid,” Rao writes, “…knowing I’ll end up in an eager mouth.”
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Series: Latitude Hardcover Natasha Rao 9780986093845 $34.50 POETRY Sep 17, 2021

Chosen as the winner of the 2021APR/Honickman First Book Prize by Guggenheim Fellow Ada LimÃ³n, Natasha Rao’s debut collectionLatitudeabounds with sensory delights, rich in colors, flavors, and sounds. These poems explore the complexities of family, cultural identity, and coming of age. By turns vulnerable and bold,Latitudeindulges in desire: “In my next life let me be a tomato/lusting and unafraid,” Rao writes, “…knowing I’ll end up in an eager mouth.”
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Series: Burying the Mountain Paperback Shangyang Fang 9781556596148 $23.95 POETRY Oct 29, 2021

In Shangyang Fang’s debut Burying the Mountain, longing and loss rush through a portal of difficult beauty. Absence is translated into fire ants and snow, a boy’s desire is transfigured into the indifference of mountains and rivers, and loneliness finds its place in the wounded openness of language. From the surface of a Song Dynasty ink-wash painting to a makeshift bedroom in Chengdu, these poems thread intimacy, eros, and grief. Evoking the music of ancient Chinese poetry, Fang alloys political erasure, exile, remembrance, and death into a si... + Read More
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Series: A God at the Door Paperback Tishani Doshi 9781556594526 $22.50 POETRY Nov 19, 2021

"We are homesick everywhere," writes Tishani Doshi, "even when we're home." With aching empathy, righteous anger, and rebellious humor, A God at the Door calls on the extraordinary minutiae of nature and humanity to redefine belonging and unveil injustice. In an era of pandemic lockdown and brutal politics, these poems make vital space for what must come next-the return of wonder and free movement, and a profound sense of connection to what matters most. From a microscopic cell to flightless birds, to a sumo wrestler and the tree of life, Dos... + Read More
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Series: Frick Diptych Fragonard's Progress of Love Hardcover Alan Hollinghurst 9781911282983 $37.50 ART Jan 21, 2022

An essay by Xavier F. Salomon paired with a contribution by award-winning novelist Alan Hollinghurst bring to life Jean-HonorÃ© Fragonard’s (1732–1806) Progress of Love, a series of fourteen paintings considered by many to be the artist’s masterpiece. The paintings were commissioned in 1771 for the comtesse du Barry, to be installed in 1772 in Louveciennes, the pavilion outside Paris built for her by her lover, Louis XV. By 1773 the canvases, The Pursuit, The Meeting, The Lover Crowned, and Love Letters, had been rejected by Du Barry and return... + Read More
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Series: Joseph Urban Unlocking an Art Deco Bedroom Hardcover Amy M. Dehan 9781911282563 $74.95 DESIGN Feb 11, 2022

A fascinating, profusely illustrated, study of the impact of Austrian-born architect and designer Joseph Urban (1872–1933), on the development and acceptance of American Modernism through the story of one of his last commissions.Designed in 1929 and completed in 1930, this rare, bespoke bedroom, created for the seventeen-year-old Elaine Wormser, embodies the skillful blend of Viennese artistic influences, sleek modern finishes, daring color and pattern that marked all of the artist’s greatest achievements. The interior, whose elements are held ... + Read More
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Series: The Material World of Eyre Hall Four Centuries of Chesapeake History Hardcover Carl R. Lounsbury 9781911282914 $134.95 HISTORY Sep 17, 2021

Erected in 1759 on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, Eyre Hall is still occupied by descendants of its builder. It retains a rich variety of objects from furniture and books to silver and paintings acquired by the family, reflecting the tastes and aspirations of its many different generations. Only a small handful of places in Virginia can claim such continuity. The material culture of Eyre Hall illustrates the everchanging meanings of this place in American culture from the seventeenth- through the twenty-first century. It represents the cult... + Read More
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Series: East meets West Paperback Martin Bommas 9781913875022 $25.50 ART Dec 24, 2021

This entirely new volume illuminates the complex intersection of western and eastern culture and civilization in the Eastern Mediterranean during the period of the Crusades from the eleventh to late thirteenth century; in particular it presents and studies 20 Byzantine and Mamluk Egyptian artworks and illuminated manuscripts drawn both from the collections of the Museum and external loans. The diverse artworks&mdahs;ceramic bowls, Sgraffito ware, gold coins, glass jewellery and leafs from the Qu’ran, and other illuminated manuscripts—are presen... + Read More
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Series: Imperial Splendor The Art of the Book in the Holy Roman Empire, 800-1500 Hardcover Jeffrey F. Hamburger 9781911282860 $67.50 ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES Dec 03, 2021

Focusing on production and patronage, this new volume features over 150 images of magnificently illustrated books and precious bindings, drawn largely from North American collections. The book’s three sections are arranged chronologically, yet in each case with a different thematic focus. Opening with a look at the precedents set by the Carolingian forerunners of the Empire, the first section considers deluxe imperial manuscripts associated with the Ottonian emperors. The second section examines the role of imperial monasteries in the productio... + Read More
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Series: John Leslie Breck American Impressionist Hardcover Katherine Bourguignon 9781911282891 $74.95 ART Oct 22, 2021

John Leslie Breck (1860-1899) was one of the founders of the American art colony at Giverny and was among the earliest American artists to embrace the Impressionist style. He was also one of the first to exhibit his Impressionist paintings in America and helped to popularize the style during his years working in the Boston area in the 1890s. Between 1887 and 1888 he and a handful of his American colleagues began visiting the French village of Giverny, where they met Claude Monet and subsequently explored the new approach to painting that Monet ... + Read More
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Series: Faithful and Fearless Portraits of Dogs Hardcover Xavier Bray 9781913875015 $51.95 ART Oct 22, 2021

This is a wonderful overview of the remarkable range of dog portraits—there are no human sitters—produced over the last 250 years. It features well-known works such as Rosa Bonheur'sBrizo, (one of the best-loved portraits in The Wallace Collection), George Stubbs'Turk, Thomas Gainsborough's portrait of his two dogs Tristram and Fox, Lucian Freud's oil painting of Pluto, his pet whippet, and David Hockney's dachshunds Stanley and Boodgie.Over 50 works, arranged by theme, are drawn from major British collections, including the Royal Collection, t... + Read More
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Series: Frick Madison The Frick Collection at the Breuer Building Hardcover Xavier F. Salomon 9781913875039 $74.95 PHOTOGRAPHY Sep 17, 2021

The Old Master paintings and European sculpture and decorative arts at the renowned Frick Collection might be thought to be all but inextricable from the domestic setting of the Gilded Age mansion in which they reside. For a couple of years, however, while the Frick is undergoing renovation, highlights from the collection have been relocated to a radically different, unlikely home: Marcel Breuer’s Brutalist building five blocks away, which the architect designed for the Whitney Museumof American Art. The result is a stunning reconstruction and ... + Read More