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Series: Scripted Custom Lettering in Graphic Design Paperback Wang Shaoqiang 9788417656478 $67.50 DESIGN Nov 05, 2021

After decades of using software as their exclusive work tool, graphic designers today are rediscovering the creative and expressive power of handmade characters: lettering has distinctive visual impact and provides endless possibilities for the expression of ideas through a more artful use of type, texture and volume. This results in personal, timeless ‘works of art’ and a richer aesthetic experience. This publication, now in paperback, brings together a wide range of custom lettering projects produced by graphic designers and typographers fro... + Read More
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Series: Illustration Unzipped Hardcover Julia Schonlau 9788417412876 $37.50 DESIGN Dec 03, 2021

This book is a collection of contemporary artists and illustrators who have established their own style and found their voice. Some of them have successfully adapted their work to more commercial uses, while others are seeking to break into the art market. By showcasing this impressive range of illustrators,Illustration Unzipped reveals the most compelling styles and techniques of today. Among the many talents included in this book are Luke Ramsay, Ville Savimaa, Julia Pott, Matthew Hodson, Akinori Oishi Malin and Rosenqvist. Their work serves ... + Read More
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Series: Kaddish: Before the Holocaust and After Paperback Jane Yolen 9780998601090 $25.50 POETRY Age (years) from 16 - 95 Oct 22, 2021

Recipient of the Sophie Brody Award (2022) for outstanding achievement in Jewish literature, for works published the previous year in the US, presented by the American Library Association (ALA). Kaddish is the first and only poetry collection to have received the Sophie Brody Award. Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, is recited in a time of deep sorrow. In it, the sacredness of the Almighty One is affirmed. In her new gathering of sixty poems, award-winning author Jane Yolen gives us a feminist view of Biblical themes and personalities s... + Read More
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Series: Mary Jane Wild Two Walks and a Rant Paperback Brooke Williams 9781953340207 $28.50 POLITICAL SCIENCE Nov 02, 2021

Brooke Williams walked twice into southern utah’s mary jane wilderness: at the beginning of the trump presidency, perhaps the most tumultuous and destructive in American History, and four-years later at its end. InMary Jane Wild we follow Brooke as he crosses into this magical place looking for answers to the question, “What has happened to America?” He reminds us how wilderness heals and helps us adapt to a world of uncertainty, that evolution continues, and wildness is the force behind it.
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Series: Calling The Creatures Paperback Gunilla Norris 9781953340283 $26.95 POETRY Oct 29, 2021

Gunilla Norris has written a book that spans decades of her life. She invites us to wonder what calls us into recollection. It is always a mystery when an inner voice asks for attention. In a long life, that call can be insistent and want a welcome for a vast array of experiences. Gunilla likens this to the calling of farm animals back to the barn after foraging all day which she witnessed in northern Sweden as a child. Meaningful experiences, be they losses, loves, queries or epiphanies, want sanctuary. If the doors of the heart are open, the... + Read More
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Series: Shoal Water Paperback Kip Robinson Greenthal 9781953340269 $26.95 FICTION Oct 22, 2021

Disillusioned by the Vietnam war and troubled by their own past, Kate and Andy leave New York City for a remote Nova Scotia fishing village in search of a simpler life. Living in Andy’s boyhood summer home, they discover the old house is haunted by its original owner, Basil Tannard, who decades earlier was saved by a seal from an accident at sea. Because no one in the village believed Basil and thought he’d gone mad, Basil drowned himself. Yet he remains a ghost in the house, a soothsayer prompting Kate to believe in the unimaginable. As Kate ... + Read More
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Series: Little Bound Books Essay Series The Mike File A Story of Grief and Hope Paperback Stephen Trimble 9781953340221 $22.50 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Oct 08, 2021

2022 Human Relations Mental Health Awareness Book of the YearIn The Mike File, Stephen Trimble grapples with his brother's heartrending life and death and looks behind doors he’s barricaded in himself. In 1957, when “Stevie” was six and Mike 14, psychosis overwhelmed Mike. He never lived at home again and died alone in a Denver boarding home at 33. Journalists used Mike’s death to expose these “ratholes” warehousing people with mental illness. Detective story, social history, journey of self-discovery, and compassionate and unsparing memorial t... + Read More
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Series: Happiness is an Imaginary Line in the Sand Paperback Thomas Lloyd Qualls 9781953340245 $28.50 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Nov 05, 2021

In this collection of observations, contemplations, and insights, award-winning author Thomas Lloyd Qualls offers a down-to-earth oracle to help decipher the riddles of modern life.Part field notes from a seeker’s journey and part teachings of a would-be monk who doesn’t get to live on the side of a mountain,Happiness Is an Imaginary Line in the Sand is convincing in its stubborn insistence that a better world is not only possible, but within our grasp.The author lives not in a cloistered world of saffron robes, but is knee deep in the muddines... + Read More
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Series: We Imagined It Was Rain: Stories Paperback Andrew Siegrist 9781938235887 $25.50 FICTION Oct 22, 2021

Hailed by ZZ Packer as "a master of tone, detail, and imagery," Andrew Siegris's debut collection, We Imagined It Was Rain, is a love song to Tennessee. These loosely connected stories are imbued with tenderness, seriousness, and a deep understanding of the human spirit. A young man moves to the mountains and builds an heirloom chest in the wake of his son’s death; a town official must make the decision to execute a circus elephant; two siblings help their father commit suicide; a preacher picks up the pieces of his ruined church, and his marr... + Read More
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Series: Reparations Now! Paperback Ashley M. Jones 9781938235863 $23.95 POETRY Sep 17, 2021

Reparations Now! asks for what’s owed.In formal and non-traditional poems, award-winning poet Ashley M. Jones calls for long-overdue reparations to the Black descendants of enslaved people in the United States of America. In this, her third collection, Jones deftly takes on the worst of today—state-sanctioned violence, pandemic-induced crises, and white silence—all while uplifting Black joy. These poems explore trauma past and present, cultural and personal: the lynching of young, pregnant Mary Turner in 1918; the current white nationalist poli... + Read More
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Series: Cold Mountain Fund Series Child in the Valley Hardcover Gordy Sauer 9781938235795 $38.95 FICTION Sep 03, 2021

Seventeen-year-old Joshua Gaines is the orphaned foster son of a failed doctor on the run from his father’s debt. In 1849, he travels to Independence, Missouri and falls in with the mysterious, four-fingered Renard, and his companion, formerly-enslaved Free Ray. Joshua offers his medical expertise to their party, and together they embark on the fifteen-hundred mile overland journey to Gold Rush California. Following the hardship, disease, and death on the trail, the company abandons panning the river in favor of robbery and murder. Engulfed b... + Read More
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Series: The Boy with Two Hearts A Story of Hope Paperback Hamed Amiri 9781785787133 $22.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 04, 2021

** The true story that inspired the stage adaptation of the Amiri family's journey from Afghanistan to the UK, currently being performed at the Dorfman Theatre (National Theatre) in London between 1 October - 12 November 2022 following a sold-out run at the Wales Millennium Centre **A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 29 JUNE - 3 JULY 2020 READ BY SANJEEV BHASKAR (GOODNESS GRACIOUS ME, THE KUMARS AT NO. 42 AND MORE) 'Enthralling ... A fascinating insight' Daily Mail'An inspiring read' Nihal Arthanayake, BBC Radio 5 LiveA powerful tale of a family ... + Read More
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Series: The Year of the End A Memoir of Marriage, Truth and Fiction Hardcover Anne Theroux 9781785787393 $29.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 12, 2021

'A moving and absorbing account' Adam Buxton'Scorching ... a brave book' Helen Brown, Telegraph'A wise and vivid memoir of a disintegrating marriage and a study of the role of the spouse in the life of a literary giant' Fiona Sturges, i Paper18TH JANUARY 1990Paul left today at 8am.We had been married just over 22 years. The previous evening we had gone out to eat at a local restaurant, where we drank champagne and reminisced. In a short story which he wrote about that final evening of a marriage, the central characters talk wittily and poignant... + Read More
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Series: City in Europe From Allison to Guardiola: Manchester City's quest for European glory Hardcover Simon Curtis 9781785787324 $56.50 SPORTS & RECREATION Nov 15, 2022

'A superb book and a must-read for any City fan.' - DANIEL TAYLOR, senior writer, The Athletic'A thorough and delicious retelling of perhaps not the most successful of European journeys, but definitely the most interesting ... Fantastic.' - DAVID MOONEY, BBC Radio 5 Live'A book that brilliantly explodes the myth that City have no history or pedigree in Europe.' - SIMON MULLOCK, chief football writer, Sunday MirrorTHE ESSENTIAL NEW HISTORY OF MANCHESTER CITY'S EUROPEAN TRIUMPHS AND TRAGEDIESFEATURING A FOREWORD BY CITY LEGEND FRANCIS LEEAs one o... + Read More
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Series: Ten Days in Physics that Shook the World How Physicists Transformed Everyday Life Hardcover Brian Clegg 9781785787478 $25.99 SCIENCE Nov 16, 2021

'[A]n engaging exploration, ending with interesting speculation on the nature of a future 11th day.'Peet Morris, Times Higher EducationDevelopments in physics and physics-based engineering have led to some of the biggest transformations in the way we live out lives. Here, we journey back to ten separate days in history for a closer look at the breakthroughs that have shaped the modern world. From Isaac Newton's law of motion, to Michael Faraday's electrical field theory, as well as Maxwell's equations that make TV, radio and cellphones possible... + Read More
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Series: What Do You Think You Are The Science of What Makes You You Paperback Brian Clegg 9781785786600 $22.50 SCIENCE Jan 07, 2021

'Gets right to the heart of what makes us what we are. Read it!' Angela Saini, author of Inferior and Superior: The Return of Race ScienceThe popular science equivalent of Who Do You Think You Are? Popular science master Brian Clegg's new book is an entertaining tour through the science of what makes you you.From the atomic level, through life and energy to genetics and personality, it explores how the billions of particles which make up you - your DNA, your skin, your memories - have come to be.It starts with the present-day reader and follows... + Read More
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Series: Art is a Tyrant The Unconventional Life of Rosa Bonheur Paperback Catherine Hewitt 9781785786594 $21.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 12, 2021

'Art is a Tyrant recounts [Bonheur's] life with no little brio.' Michael Prodger, The Times Books of the Year 2020'[A] diligently researched, beautifully produced and insistently sympathetic biography.' Kathryn Hughes, GuardianA new biography of the wildly unconventional 19th-century animal painter and gender equality pioneer Rosa Bonheur, from the author of the acclaimed Mistress of Paris and Renoir's Dancer. Rosa Bonheur was the very antithesis of the feminine ideal of 19th-century society. She was educated, she shunned traditional 'woma... + Read More
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Series: Space 2069 After Apollo: Back to the Moon, to Mars, and Beyond Paperback David Whitehouse 9781785787195 $22.50 SCIENCE Oct 22, 2021

'It is rare to read something that so closely mixes science fiction with reality, but Space 2069 does just that ... [It's] an intelligent portrait of where we may be in the next half-century. - BBC Sky at NightNearing half a century since the last Apollo mission, mankind has yet to return to the Moon, but that is about to change. With NASA's Artemis program scheduled for this decade, astronomer David Whitehouse takes a timely look at what the next 50 years of space exploration have in store.The thirteenth man and the first woman to walk on the ... + Read More
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Series: Imperial Mud The Fight for the Fens Paperback James Boyce 9781785787157 $22.50 NATURE Apr 08, 2021

**WINNER OF THE HISTORY AND TRADITION CATEGORY, EAST ANGLIAN BOOK AWARDS 2020****LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2021** 'A real page-turner ... a warning about what happens when the rich and powerful dress up their avarice as "progress" - a lesson we could do with learning today.' Dixe Wills, BBC Countryfile magazine FROM A MULTI-AWARD-WINNING HISTORIAN, AN ARRESTING NEW HISTORY OF THE BATTLE FOR THE FENS.Between the English Civil Wars and the mid-Victorian period, the proud indigenous population of the Fens of eastern England fought to p... + Read More
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Series: Drums In The Distance Journeys Into the Global Far Right Paperback Joe Mulhall 9781785787515 $29.50 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 21, 2021

"Few, if any, are better placed to write a book of this breadth and scale than Joe Mulhall." Mark Townsend, Home Affairs editor of the ObserverA terrifying and timely look at the spread of far-right movements across the globeJoe Mulhall knows what it's like to stare fascism in the face. For a decade, often undercover at significant personal risk, he has investigated hate groups. He infiltrated a US white supremacist militia, set up a fake Ku Klux Klan branch, has been on countless street marches with violent far-right groups across Europe,... + Read More
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Series: John Stonehouse, My Father The True Story of the Runaway MP Hardcover Julia Stonehouse 9781785787416 $38.50 HISTORY Jul 19, 2021

'Clear, dispassionate and selfless' Spectator'Exhaustive in her research, tenacious in spotting errors, indignant in denouncing lies.' Guardian'A compelling account of an extraordinary political scandal, written from inside the Stonehouse family'. Martin BellThe authoritative account of the infamous runaway MP, by his daughter.On 20 November 1974, British Labour MP and Privy Counsellor John Stonehouse faked his death in Miami and, using a forged identity, entered Australia hoping to escape his old life and start anew. One month later his identi... + Read More
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Series: A Pretoria Boy The Story of South Africa's `Public Enemy Number One' Hardcover Peter Hain 9781785787638 $45.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 26, 2021

'A stalwart anti-racist and anti-apartheid campaigner.' Doreen (Baroness) Lawrence'From fighting for Nelson Mandela's freedom to exposing his betrayal under Jacob Zuma, a 50 year story of constant campaigning.' Sir Trevor McDonald, broadcasterThe powerful and timely story of Peter Hain's political life fighting South African apartheid and modern-day corruption.Peter Hain has had a dramatic 50-year political career, in Britain and his native South Africa. This is the story of that extraordinary journey, from Pretoria to the House of Lords.Hain v... + Read More
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Series: Aston Villa: The Complete Record The Complete Record Hardcover Rob Bishop 9781785787614 $56.50 SPORTS & RECREATION Feb 15, 2022

An encyclopedic guide to Aston Villa, one of football's most characterful clubs. Aston Villa: The Complete Record is an encyclopedic guide to the Pride of the Midlands. One of the twelve founding members of the Football League, the oldest league competition in the world, the Villains have been at the forefront of English football from the very start. Since their formation in 1874, Aston Villa have been crowned championsof England on no fewer than seven occasions, lifting the FA Cup seven times along the way and joining an elite group of c... + Read More
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Series: Madness Stories of Uncertainty and Hope Paperback Sean Baumann 9781776191475 $22.50 PSYCHOLOGY Oct 12, 2021

A leading psychiatrist's professional and personal reflections on mental illness - beautifully written, informative and accessible.'This book has irrevocably changed my understanding of madness. Through succinct and often poetic accounts Baumann carefully mediates access to glimpses of the brave, fearful, lonely and vulnerable humanities of those suffering from psychiatric disorders, especially schizophrenia. The text, illuminated by extraordinary artwork, compels one to believe that beyond all the distress and despair, there is, and always sho... + Read More
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Series: Future Tense Reflections on my Troubled Land South Africa Paperback Tony Leon 9781776191420 $42.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 14, 2022

'Tony Leon is not only an experienced politician but also a talented writer, and this book is the highly readable result of that combination.' - Lord William Hague, former British Foreign Secretary and Conservative Party leader 'Anyone who wants to understand South Africa today - a country so beautiful, yet so broken - simply has to read this book.' - Niall Ferguson, author of The Ascent of MoneyIn his riveting new book, Future Tense, Tony Leon captures and analyses recent South African history, with a focus on the squandered and corrupted year... + Read More
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Series: Years of Fire and Ash South African Poems of Decolonisation Paperback Wamuwi Mbao 9781776191444 $24.95 POETRY Nov 16, 2021

A unique anthology containing over five decades of protest poetry.'i may have been born on 27 April 1994 - but i was never born free.' Mjiele MsimangContemporary poet Mjiele Msimang captures something of today's zeitgeist in his poem 'born(e) to the grave.' But what of the past half-century of protest poetry in South Africa, a rich tradition born in response to colonialism, and fed by apartheid and a faltering democracy?In Years of Fire and Ash: South African Poems of Decolonisation, over fifty years of protest poetry are gathered in one single... + Read More
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Series: Putin's Trolls On the Frontlines of Russia's Information War Against the World Paperback Jessikka Aro 9781632461292 $28.50 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jul 15, 2022

"Timely exposé of Russia’s vast disinformation campaign from a Finnish journalist persecuted for her persistent reporting of its brazen abuses...a damning portrait of Putin and his autocratic, manipulative regime."—Kirkus“Jessikka Aro has written a frightening and fascinating book, chronicling Russian information warfare in irrefutable detail. Exposing Putin’s trolls is dangerous, vital, and ultimately heroic work.”—Anne-Marie Slaughter “By exposing Putin’s institutionalized trolling operations Jessikka Aro has gone where no one has had the co... + Read More
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Series: Our Synthetic Environment Paperback Murray Bookchin 9781632461278 $20.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 08, 2021

Originally published in 1962, Our Synthetic Environment is a pioneering work that shows how the rise of chemicals and other toxins in our environment has led to numerous health consequences. Written by Murray Bookchin, one of the leading radical thinkers and environmentalists of the twentieth century, this book provides a devastating ecological portrait of how our food, soil, air and the way we life has negatively impacted our health, giving rise to diseases such as cancer. Many of the changes Bookchin describes in this book are even more pron... + Read More
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Series: Blimey, I'm Knackered! An American's Survival Guide to British English Hardcover Marshall Hall 9781945501494 $35.95 HUMOR Age (years) from 12 - 99 Sep 10, 2021

Brit Speak for Yanks! Back in 1887, Oscar Wilde wrote, “We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.” One would think, in a world homogenized by technology and social media, that differences between British English and American English would gradually disappear. Ask any recent traveler, though, and you’ll learn that plenty of linguistic idiosyncrasies persist, and new ones emerge all the time. Folks on both sides of the pond may be in closer touch than ever before, but we are still, as George Bernard ... + Read More
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Series: In Easy Steps Linux in easy steps Paperback Mike McGrath 9781840789379 $25.50 COMPUTERS Jul 30, 2021

Now in its seventh edition, Linux in easy steps explains the Linux environment and how to get more out of this stable, as well as free, operating system. You’ll be able to download, install and customize Linux, and master the desktop, in no time. Then, explore the key Linux apps, including: The LibreOffice suite: Writer (word processor), Calc (spreadsheet), Impress (presentation), Draw (drawing tool), and Base (database). Firefox for browsing the web. Thunderbird for exchanging emails. GIMP, Pix, Celluloid, Hypnotix, and Rhythmbox media app... + Read More
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Series: In Easy Steps InDesign in easy steps Paperback Robert Shufflebotham 9781840789362 $25.50 COMPUTERS Sep 03, 2021

Written by an expert on Adobe software training for some of the largest and most prestigious magazine, book and newspaper publishers in the world, InDesign in easy steps, 3rd edition is ideal for anyone wanting to get started with InDesign basics and become a competent and confident InDesign user. You’ll master the fundamentals and then progress to exploit the full creative potential of this powerful tool. In easy steps, you’ll learn: The InDesign environment and creating pages. Entering, editing and formatting text. Adding images and gra... + Read More
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Series: Throwback The Tangled Miracle Paperback Bertram Brooker 9781988784816 $21.95 FICTION Nov 02, 2021

A first-rate thriller from one of Canada's pioneer abstract painters. A cult leader announces a miracle will take place and she will rise to heaven. A medium prophesies the date, publicity gets to work, and all of America hums with anticipation. On the appointed day, she disappears and scientist Mortimer Hood, there to verify the miracle, must investigate how—and whether—the whole thing is a hoax, or if the priestess has been murdered. Originally published in 1936, this edition features a new introduction by poet and academic Gregory Betts.
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Series: Frost & Pollen Paperback Helen Hajnoczky 9781988784809 $19.95 POETRY Oct 05, 2021

Flower and flour. Coral and choral. Lashes and luscious. Frost & Pollen is a poetry collection in two acts: "Bloom & Martyr" is a sensuous walk through a menacing garden of flowers and desire, while "Foliage" retells the Arthurian legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight from the point of view of the Green Knight, the mysterious figure who teases and torments Gawain. By turns earthy and lush, and punctuated by dark and unsettling undercurrents, these poems converge into an engaging yet evasive feminine exploration of nature and sexuality.
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Series: The Pump Paperback Sydney Hegele 9781988784793 $20.95 FICTION Sep 07, 2021

Winner of the 2022 ReLit AwardsFinalist for the 2022 Trillium Book Award A Gothic collection of stories featuring carnivorous beavers, art-eaters, and family intrigue, for fans of Alice Munro and Shirley Jackson The small southern Ontario town known as The Pump lies at the crossroads of this world’s violence—a tainted water supply, an apathetic municipal government, the Gothic decay of rural domesticity—and another’s. In Hegele's interconnected stories, no one is immune to The Pump’s sacrificial games. Lighthouse dwellers, Boy Scouts, queer chu... + Read More
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Series: Yes, Roya: Color Edition Paperback C. Spike Trotman 9781945820854 $22.50 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Age (years) from 18 Nov 12, 2021

Wylie Kogan is an aspiring artist, stumping for work in 1963 California. When a fawning fan letter grants him access to his cartoonist hero, the wealthy and celebrated Joseph Ahlstrom, he's quick to take advantage of a proffered portfolio review . . . but winds up learning more than he ever wanted to about Joe when he stumbles across some of his idol's illicit fetish art. His hasty, ill-considered theft of a drawing triggers a series of events he never planned on . . . most of which involve Joseph's imposing and resolute partner, Roya.This univ... + Read More
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Series: Smut Peddler Presents Smut Peddler Presents: Sordid Past Paperback Andrea Purcell 9781945820816 $44.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Age (years) from 18 Jan 07, 2022

"Another slam-dunk for a series that breaks new ground in erotic art." — PUBLISHERS WEEKLY"Sex-positive, consent-driven erotica with an anchor in . . . the delightful smut of human history." — POLYGON Shelve those dusty tomes, fold up your smoking jacket, and lock the door of the study; this research trip is going to be wild! The latest in the Smut Peddler series of high-end erotic anthologies, Sordid Past is our most scholarly smutty journey yet as we dive into the annals of human history around the globe. From the depths of antiquity to the ... + Read More
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Series: Stars, Hide Your Fire Paperback Kel McDonald 9781945820892 $22.50 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 10 - 12 Oct 15, 2021

"A resonant graphic novel about the price of growing up—or avoiding it." — FOREWORD"McDonald's tale blends elements of realism and fantasy into a distinctly modern take on the supernatural." — NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO"Strongly recommended for fans of dark fantasy and YA graphic novels." — CEMETERY DANCE Andrea and Darra live in a dead-end Massachusetts town, making their way through high school with hopeful (but slim) dreams of escape. Everything’s going according to plan until a chance encounter with an otherworldly spirit named Carmen changes e... + Read More
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Series: Abandoned Moments A Love Letter To Photography Hardcover Ed Kashi 9783969000441 $86.95 PHOTOGRAPHY Dec 03, 2021

If Cartier-Bresson’sdecisive moment reflects a situation perfectly in tune with the photographer’s intuition, flawlessly combining the elements of composition and timing, then Ed Kashi’sabandoned moment is the result of an imprecise instant of surrender. This collection of photographs, made over a 40-year period, reveals imprecise glimpses of transitory events filled with frenetic energy – the chaos of everyday life. Embodying photography’s intrinsic power, they preserve moments that can never occur again in exactly the same time and space. ... + Read More
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Series: Between Girls Hardcover Karen Marshall 9783969000359 $74.95 PHOTOGRAPHY Nov 05, 2021

In 1985, Karen Marshall began photographing a group of teenagers in New York City. Her intent was to look at the emotional bonding that happens between girls at age 16 and document the emblematic relationships that often develop at this time in their lives. Ten months later, Molly, one of the girls in the group, was hit by a car and killed. Marshall resolved to keep the project going and continued to document the girls in various ways over the years. Between Girls evolved into a thirty-year meditation on friendship. Karen Marshall documents so... + Read More
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Series: side walk 6' apart in New York City Hardcover Renate Aller 9783969000328 $59.95 PHOTOGRAPHY Oct 08, 2021

In April 2020, when New York was in lockdown and the epicentre of the pandemic, Renate Aller created the project side walk. She hosted friends and neighbors on her sidewalk or visited them in their street, her camera in self timer mode, recording these masked encounters at a safe 6 feet distance. With voices muted by masks we learn to communicate with our eyes and body language, finding our bearings in a new emotional landscape. These sidewalk visits created a deep sense of communitywhere community had been forced apart. This project is in ... + Read More
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Series: Peaceable Kingdom The Special Bond between Animals and their Humans Hardcover Sage Sohier 9783969000281 $74.95 PHOTOGRAPHY Oct 01, 2021

Sage Sohier photographed at refuges for exotic animals, wildlife rescues that rehabilitate and re-release animals to the wild, dog and cat rescues, and farm animal sanctuaries. She focused on showing the bond between people and animals: Â»Many of the people pictured here have dedicated most of their adult lives to saving animals. As for the animals, their sweetness, resilience, zest for life, and willingness to forgive people – to coexist with them and often to flourish – is remarkable, and may betheir only salvation.Â« (S. Sohier) Sohier has... + Read More
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Series: Come Get Your Honey A story about the LGBTQIA+ refugee and asylum seekers Hardcover Samet Durgun 9783969000311 $74.95 PHOTOGRAPHY Oct 22, 2021

What if photography is more Â»listeningÂ« than seeing? Come Get Your Honey uses this question as a compass while telling a story about the trans* and queer refugees in Berlin. It is the photographer’s journey of weaving bonds at eye-level with individuals through vulnerability, friendship, and joy. Samet Durgun strives to depict each individual as complex human beings in their wholeness, trying to establish a new home in a foreign country and an extremely polarized political climate. He goes beyond the common narratives about LGBTQIA+ and refu... + Read More
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Series: The Kingdom of God A Fully Illustrated Commentary on Surah Al Mulk Paperback Asim Khan 9780860378655 $22.50 RELIGION Dec 31, 2021

This book, suitably titled ‘The Kingdom of God’ delves into the profound meanings and guidance found in Surah al-Mulk, the 67th chapter of the Qur’an. It contains key features that are unique for a book explaining a chapter of the Qur’Än, such as the diagrams and illustrations highlighting the beautiful meanings of the verses. It will take you on a captivating journey exploring diverse topics, including tenets of faith, political issues, spirituality, and social affairs, in a smooth and coherent manner. If you love the Qur’an you will ... + Read More
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Series: Sahih Muslim Sahih Muslim (Volume 6) Paperback Imam Abul-Husain Muslim 9780860378501 $34.50 RELIGION Jan 28, 2022

Imam Nawawi's commentary on Sahih Muslim is one of the most highly regarded works in Islamic thought and literature. Accepted by every sunni school of thought, and foundational in the Shaafi school, this text, available for the first time in English, is famed throughout the Muslim world. After the Qur'an, the prophetic traditions are the most recognised source of wisdom in Islam. Amongst the collected Hadith, Sahih Muslim is second only to the the collection of Imam Bukhari. With a commentary by Imam Nawawi, whose other works are amongst the mo... + Read More
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Series: One Breath At A Time Finding Solace in Faith Paperback Salatu E Sule 9781847741677 $19.50 RELIGION Jan 07, 2022

Life is not always easy. We face challenges, difficulties and hardship throughout our life journey. These highs and lows are a part of life. Sometimes however, we need that reminder that Allah is always there and these moments of hardship are not punishments but trials from Him to strengthen us, guide us and elevate us….one breath at a time.
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Series: Discover the Best in You Discover the Best in Your Relationships Life Coaching For Muslims Paperback Sayeda Habib 9781847741639 $22.50 RELIGION Jan 14, 2022

Discover the best in your relationships is the second book in the ‘Discover the best in you’ series. This self-help book looks at how to improve your relationships with your inner and outer circles in order to life a happier and content life. Accompanied with diagrams, charts, exercises and examples and quotes from the Qur’an and sunnah, this book will prove to be a great companion through your life journey.
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Series: Small Change, BIG DIFFERENCE - The Penny Appeal Story Paperback Adeem Younis 9781948585354 $23.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 17, 2023

Adeem built his fortune off the creation of the UK's most successful Muslim marriage App, SingleMuslim.com. From his success as a self-starter entrepreneur, he went on to found the charity, Penny Appeal, in his home city of Wakefield and in the memory of his late father. Penny Appeal provides poverty relief across the globe by offering water solutions, tackling food insecurity, supporting orphan care and providing emergency food and medical aid. With the support of the generous public and a dedicated team of employees and volunteers, the charit... + Read More
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Series: Reading Claudius Paperback Caroline Heller 9781948585217 $23.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 19, 2021

In Reading Claudius, Caroline Heller does what Rilke called the “heart-work,” exploring moral accountability and the toll exacted by the fact of survival. Her family story begins in pre-war Czechoslovakia, passes through the Nazi holocaust, and continues on in postwar America, affirming that events may end but repercussions never do. A searching and humane memoir.Sven Birkerts, author ofThe Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again In this unforgettable dual memoir of her parents’ lives and her own, Caroline Heller brings to life the lost world of Eu... + Read More
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Series: From Holocaust to Hope: Shores Beyond Shores - A Bergen-Belsen Survivor's Life Paperback Irene Hasenberg Butter 9781948585330 $23.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 08, 2021

NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALIST“Irene Butter’s book is a triumph of clarity and concision, written with a passionate intent to inform and with not a shred of self-pity. It is by turns profound and intimate, and bears witness to the resilience of a family who drew strength from one another even through the darkness of the Holocaust. It is a shockingly honest and hopeful book.”Andrew Solomon, National Book Award Winning Author ofThe Noonday Demon and author ofFar From The Tree Parent's Children, And The Search For Identity“Irene Butter’s stor... + Read More
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Series: Flyover Country A Milagro Mystery Paperback Katayoun Medhat 9781948585316 $25.50 FICTION Oct 07, 2022

“Why these novels aren’t on the way to a Netflix studio right now is beyond me. Whoever gets to play detective Franz Kafka will have the role of a lifetime.” - Mark Stevens, Author of the Allison Coil Mystery seriesThe Mesa, eyrie of the ancient Pueblan ancestors casts its shadow over small-town Milagro, where old-time ranchers and thrusting incomers converge in a common cause: profiteering from the land. Charged with mediating a seemingly innocuous dispute about a slain miniature horse, K is caught in the titanic, merciless clash between Old a... + Read More
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Series: Seven Ships Maritime History Darwin's Odyssey: The Voyage of the Beagle Paperback Kevin Jackson 9781948585170 $19.50 HISTORY Oct 08, 2021

The young Charles Darwin was like a young Indiana Jones. For five years in his mid-twenties, he sailed on the BEAGLE around the world, exploring jungles, climbing mountains, trekking across deserts. With every new landfall, he had new adventures: he rode through bandit country, was thrown into jail by revolutionaries, took part in an armed raid with marines, survived two earthquakes, hunted and fished. He suffered the terrible cold and rain of Tierra del Fuego, the merciless heat of the Australian outback and the inner pangs of heartbreak. He a... + Read More
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Series: Seven Ships Maritime History Mayflower: The Voyage from Hell Paperback Kevin Jackson 9781948585163 $19.50 HISTORY Oct 08, 2021

A RIVETING ACCOUNT OF THE VOYAGE OF THE MAYFLOWER that looks at the reality behind the mythical status and the journey that created the New World. Most of the voyagers of that famed 1620 crossing of the Atlantic were not in fact religious pilgrims but people intent on forging a better life for themselves in the virgin territory of America's east coast. 130 hardy souls were confined in a space no bigger than a tennis court, braving the "Northern Crossing' without any firm idea of what awaited them in the New World.Published to commemorate the 40... + Read More
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Series: Seven Ships Maritime History Nelson's Victory Paperback Kevin Jackson 9781948585194 $19.50 HISTORY Dec 03, 2021

Nelson's Victory is a vivid, gripping account of our greatest naval hero; Jackson's command of detail and story make this one of the best brief maritime narratives ever written. NICHOLAS LEZARD The fourth title in Kevin Jackson’s magnificent maritime history series, Nelson’s Victory, explores the remarkable achievements of the British naval and national hero Horatio Nelson and his victory and death at The Battle of Trafalgar. As with other titles in the series, Jackson demolishes the myths that abound about Nelson’s nature and reveals the real ... + Read More
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Series: Seven Ships Maritime History The Queen's Pirate: Sir Francis Drake and the Golden Hind Paperback Kevin Jackson 9781948585187 $19.50 HISTORY Dec 03, 2021

For more than four centuries, Sir Francis Drake has been world-famous for his feats as a master mariner – the captain who “singed the King of Spain’s beard” with his daredevil attack on the fleet at Cadiz, and who led the British Navy to victory against the Spanish Armada in 1588.But Drake’s exploits in his earlier years, though less well known, are even more remarkable. Born into a poor, obscure family, he worked his way rapidly up in the maritime world to his first captaincy. Before long, he was the most successful of all English pirates, adm... + Read More
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Series: Cretaceous Dawn Paperback Lisa Graziano 9781948585255 $23.95 FICTION Oct 07, 2022

A long-extinct beetle appears in a physics lab. Four-and-a-half people and a dog are hurled 65 million years through time, to the Age of the Dinosaurs, and paleontologist Julian Whitney and his companions have only one chance for rescue. Meanwhile in the lab, police chief Sharon Earles must solve the mystery of why half a body remains where five people had just been. Physicists try to determine what went wrong but can they fix the vault in time to retrieve the missing people—and do they want to?
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Series: Wife with Knife Paperback Molly Giles 9781948585293 $23.95 FICTION Nov 26, 2021

WINNER OF THE PUSHCART PRIZE "This collection is her best ever." AMY TAN Wife with Knife is a collection of quick and quirky short stories, that are an utter delight and winner of the Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize 2020"Molly Giles’ stories have always been among my favorites since I first read her work thirty-seven years ago. This collection is her best ever. What an irreverent, original voice! I found myself gasping in shock and laughter, feeling at the end of each tale that I had garnered strange wisdom on the human heart and its unerring s... + Read More
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Series: Pelham Grenville Wodehouse - Volume 1: "This is jolly old Fame" Paperback Paul Kent 9781948585279 $25.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 21, 2022

Whether you re an absolute beginner or an aficionado, Paul Kent has captured the essence of what made Wodehouse tick without spoiling all the fun; and makes a compelling case for why we owe it to our collective sanity to keep on reading him. P.G. Wodehouse 1881-1975 Humourist, Novelist, Lyricist, Playwright So reads the simple inscription on the memorial stone unveiled in London s Westminster Abbey in September 2019, honouring the greatest comic writer of the 20th century. It takes a steady hand and a steely nerve to insist that sweetness and l... + Read More
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Series: Like Fire Unbound Paperback Simon Petherick 9781948585231 $23.95 FICTION Oct 07, 2022

A disparate cast of characters are drawn together under the gaze of a mysterious mystic as they try their best to survive in the new contemporary capital, a city of changing rules, privatised streets, gig economies, fractured traditions. As the heat beats down upon them, day after day, they each attempt differing strategies to maintain their place, to protect their futures and somehow to forge a way through the challenge of the day. And in the background is the story of Lily Cadyman, maid to Thomas Farriner, whose bakery in Pudding Lane was the... + Read More
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Series: Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics Volume II, Issue 1 Paperback Leon Wieseltier 9781735718743 $28.50 POLITICAL SCIENCE Nov 03, 2021

“A Meteor of Intelligent Substance”“Something was Missing in our Culture, and Here It Is”"Liberties is THE place to be. Change starts in the mind."Liberties, a journal of Culture and Politics, is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural and political issues and causes of our time. Liberties features serious, independent, stylish, and controversial essays by significant writers and leaders throughout the world; new poetry; and, introduces the next generation of writers and voices to inspire and impact the intellectual and creative lif... + Read More
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Series: Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal: Semipublic Intellectual Issue Semipublic Intellectual Issue Paperback Lutz 9781940660783 $17.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Sep 17, 2021

Los Angeles Review of Books is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and disseminating rigorous, incisive, and engaging writing on every aspect of literature, culture, and the arts. Since its founding in 2011,LARB has quickly established itself as a thriving institution for writers and readers. TheLARB Quarterly Journal, a signature print edition, reflects the best that this institution brings to a national and international readership. The print magazine cultivates a stable of regular and ongoing contributors, both eminent and emergi... + Read More