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Series: ISIS: The Terror NationPaperbackLoretta Napoleoni9781609807252$20.95POLITICAL SCIENCE Sep 19, 2017
From its birth in the late 1990s as the jihadist dream of terrorist leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the Islamic State (known by a variety of names, including ISIS, ISIL, and al Qaeda in Iraq) has grown into a massive enterprise, redrawing national borders across the Middle East and subjecting an area larger than the United Kingdom to its own vicious brand of Sharia law.In ISIS: The Terror Nation, world-renowned terrorism expert Loretta Napoleoni builds on her international best-selling The Islamic Phoenix, with new chapters on the Islamic State’s ... + Read More
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Series: MoggerhangerA NovelPaperbackAlan Sillitoe9781609807238$25.95FICTION Aug 09, 2016
Never before published, Moggerhanger is the last novel written by iconic British writer Alan Sillitoe before his death in 2010. Originally intended as the third part in a trilogy, the first two of which, A Start in Life and Life Goes On, were published in England but not in America, Moggerhanger stands on its own as the last act in an amazing writer’s career, a madcap, bawdy, boisterous, and above all comic novel written in a masterly, unflinching hand, Sillitoe’s Don Quixote. Michael Cullen, the narrator of Moggerhanger, is an aimless and now ... + Read More
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Series: Merchants of MenHow Jihadists and ISIS Turned Kidnapping and Refugee Trafficking into a Multi-Billion Dollar BusinessHardcoverLoretta Napoleoni9781609807085$32.95POLITICAL SCIENCE Aug 30, 2016
A powerful and sophisticated underground business delivers thousands of refugees a day all along the Mediterranean coasts of Europe. The new breed of criminals that controls it has risen out of the political chaos of post-9/11 Western foreign policy and the fiasco of the Arab Spring. These merchants of men are intertwined with jihadist armed organizations such as al Qaeda in the Maghreb. They have prospered smuggling cocaine from West Africa and kidnapping Westerners. More recently, the destabilization of Syria and Iraq coupled with the rise of... + Read More
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Series: A Life in WordsPaperbackPaul Auster9781609807108$25.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 16, 2016
A fascinating discussion with one of America’s greatest living writers about language, literature, and life.Paul Auster’s A Life in Words—a wide-ranging dialogue between Auster and the Danish professor I. B. Siegumfeldt—is a remarkably candid and often surprising celebration of one writer’s art, craft, and life. It includes many revelations that have never been shared before, such as that he doesn’t consider himself a postmodernist even though he is frequently labeled as one. This is a book that’s full of surprises, composed of spoken words tha... + Read More
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Series: Where Do They Go?HardcoverJulia Alvarez9781609806705$21.95JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7Nov 02, 2016
Bestselling novelist (How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents) and children's (The Tia Lola Stories) author Julia Alvarez's new picture book is a beautifully crafted poem for children that gently addresses the emotional side of death. The book asks, "When somebody dies, where do they go? / Do they go where the wind goes when it blows? ... Do they wink back at me when I wish on a star? Do they whisper, 'You're perfect, just as you are'? ..." Illustrated by Vermont woodcut artist, Sabra Field, Where Do They Go? is a beautiful and comforting medit... + Read More
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Series: ¿Dónde va a parar?PaperbackJulia Alvarez9781609807177$15.50JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7Nov 08, 2016
El nuevo libro ilustrado en español de la novelista próspera (How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents) y autora de niños (The Tia Lola Stories) Julia Alvarez es un poema bellamente elaborado para niños que aborda delicadamente el lado emocional de la muerte. El libro pregunta, “Cuando alguien muere, ¿dónde va a parar? / ¿Será con el viento cuando le da con soplar? … ¿Me hacen guiños—como estrellas cuando les pido un favor—parpadeando ‘Eres perfecta, no hay que ser algo mejor? …” Ilustrado por la artista de grabado de Vermont, Sabra Field,... + Read More
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Series: The Other Left SideLeft and Right in Evolution and Other EssaysHardcoverTijs Goldschmidt9781609806668$34.95SCIENCE Jun 05, 2018
In essays like “How to Fake Faking,” and the title essay, “The Other Left Side: the Phenomenon of Left and Right in Evolution,” Tijs Goldschmidt shatters our expectations of what a scientific essay is and then rebuilds it in intensely personal, artful and wry ways. Goldschmidt has won the top awards in Holland and is well known internationally within the field of science writing. Now for the first time available in English, his essays crackle with insight and joy at the discoveries to be made in the world in which we live—whether comparing the ... + Read More
A progressive parliamentary deputy is scheduled to appear at a political rally. Meanwhile, local political bosses plot his assassination. Thugs are recruited to disrupt the rally. Rumors begin to spread. But the forces already set in motion are irresistible. Z is the story of a crime, a time, a place, and people transformed by events.Z was published in Greece in 1966, and banned there one year later. It is based on an actual political assassination in 1963 in Salonika. The victim was Gregory Lambrakis, a socialist legislator and outspoken criti... + Read More
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Series: My Night in the PlanetariumHardcoverInnosanto Nagara9781609807009$23.95JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 6 - 9Nov 10, 2016
7-year-old Innosanto spends an exciting night with his mom sleeping under the stars in the Jakarta Planetarium. Innosanto's father is a playwright and the boy memorizes lines during the actors' rehearsals, so they invite him to join the performance, which tours the country. The play is about a General, who doesn't treat people very well, "so they decided to do a play about how that was wrong." Fact: Indonesia aka The Spice Islands is the place Christopher Columbus was looking for when he crashed in the New World. Fact: Indonesia is made up of 1... + Read More
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Series: A is for ActivistHardcoverInnosanto Nagara9781609806934$23.95JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7Nov 10, 2016
This bestselling ABC book is written and illustrated for the next generation of progressives: families who want their kids to grow up in a space that is unapologetic about activism, environmental justice, civil rights, LGBTQ rights, and everything else that activists believe in and fight for. A continuous bestseller for Triangle Square, we heard from booksellers around the country who clamored for a large format edition that would appeal to children over the age of 5. This engaging book carries huge messages as it inspires hope for the future, ... + Read More
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Series: Animal EnvyA FableHardcoverRalph Nader9781609807528$31.95FICTION Nov 15, 2016
Ralph Nader's newest work of the imagination, Animal Envy, is a fable about the kinds of intelligences that are all around us in other animals. What would animals tell us—about themselves, about us—if there were a common language among all animal species? A bracingly simple idea, one that has been used before in books like George Orwell's Animal Farm and E. B. White's Charlotte's Web among others, but never like this. In Animal Envy, Ralph Nader proposes, quite plausibly, that a programmer has created a "digital translation" app whereby animals... + Read More
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Series: Censored 2017The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2015-2016PaperbackMickey Huff9781609807153$28.95POLITICAL SCIENCE Oct 04, 2016
The annual yearbook from Project Censored features the year's most underreported news stories, striving to unmask censorship, self-censorship, and propaganda in corporate-controlled media outlets. Featuring the top 25 most underreported stories, as voted by scholars, journalists, and activists across the country and around the world, as well as chapters exploring timely issues from the previous year with more in-depth analysis.
Roaming the country by bus and train, on a budget and without any institutional support, Linh Dinh set out to document, in words and pictures, what life is like for people. From Los Angeles, Cheyenne, Portland, and New Orleans, to Jackson and Wolf Point--Linh walked miles and miles through unfamiliar neighborhoods, talking to whoever would talk to him: the homeless living in tent cities, the peddlers, the protestors, the public preachers, the prostitutes. With the uncompromising eye of a Walker Evans or a Dorothea Lange, and the indomitable, fo... + Read More
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Series: Parable of the TalentsA NovelHardcoverOctavia E. Butler9781609807207$35.00FICTION Feb 28, 2017
Parable of the Talents celebrates the classic Butlerian themes of alienation and transcendence, violence and spirituality, slavery and freedom, separation and community, to astonishing effect, in the shockingly familiar, broken world of 2032. Long awaited, Parable of the Talents is the continuation of the travails of Lauren Olamina, the heroine of 1994's Nebula-Prize finalist, bestselling Parable of the Sower. Parable of the Talents is told in the voice of Lauren Olamina's daughter—from whom she has been separated for most of the girl's life—wi... + Read More
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Series: Sun Moon StarHardcoverKurt Vonnegut9781609807245$29.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 5 - 9Nov 17, 2016
Sun Moon Star is the story of the birth of Jesus--as told by Kurt Vonnegut. This children's book takes the newborn Jesus' perspective, offering beautiful and insightful descriptions of the world from someone newly born into it. In this book, we follow Jesus and meet the people most important to his life--presented in new and surprising ways. A powerful departure from Vonnegut's more adult work, Sun Moon Star gives readers a rare glimpse of the writer's talent in a format that's unique and unexpected. Originally published in 1980, the book is lo... + Read More
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Series: Parable of the SowerA NovelHardcoverOctavia E. Butler9781609807191$32.00FICTION Feb 28, 2017
Parable of the Sower is the Butlerian odyssey of one woman who is twice as feeling in a world that has become doubly dehumanized. The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves from hordes of desperate scavengers and roaming bands of people addicted to a drug that activates an orgasmic desire to burn, rape, and murder. When one small community is overrun, Lauren Olamina, an 18 year old black woman with the hereditary train of "hyperempathy"—which causes her to feel others’ pain as her own—sets ... + Read More
Parable of the Sower is the Butlerian odyssey of one woman who is twice as feeling in a world that has become doubly dehumanized. The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves from hordes of desperate scavengers and roaming band of people addicted to a drug that activates an orgasmic desire to burn, rape, and murder. When one small community is overrun, Lauren Olamina, an eighteen-year-old black woman with the hereditary trait of “hyperempathy”—which causes her to feel others’ pain as her own—... + Read More
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Series: Almost Complete PoemsHardcoverStanley Moss9781609807276$60.00POETRY Dec 06, 2016
WINNER OF THE 2016 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FOR POETRYMoss is oceanic: his poems rise, crest, crash, and rise again like waves. His voice echoes the boom of the Old Testament, the fluty trill of Greek mythology, and the gongs of Chinese rituals as he writes about love, nature, war, oppression, and the miracle of language. He addresses the God of the Jews, of the Christians, and of the Muslims with awe and familiarity, and chants to lesser gods of his own invention. In every surprising poem, every song to life, beautiful life, Moss, by turns g... + Read More
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Series: Listen, Yankee!Why Cuba MattersPaperbackTom Hayden9781609807221$23.95POLITICAL SCIENCE Jan 31, 2017
Based on unprecedented access to both Cuban and American officials, a book that offers fresh insight into one of history's most enigmatic relationships between nation-states—from one of America's best-known voices of political and social activism.Listen, Yankee! offers an account of Cuban politics from Tom Hayden's unique position as an observer of Cuba and as a US revolutionary student leader whose efforts to mobilize political change in the US mirrored the radical transformation simultaneously going on in Cuba.Chapters are devoted to the writ... + Read More
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Series: The Up-DownA NovelPaperbackBarry Gifford9781609807146$17.95FICTION Dec 06, 2016
A novel of violence, of love, and introspection, The Up-Down follows a man who leaves home and all that’s familiar, finds true love, loses it, and finds it again. Pace’s voyage is outward, among strangers, and inward into the fifth direction that is the up-down, in a sweeping, voracious human tale that takes no prisoners, witnesses extreme brutalities and expresses a childlike amazement. Here the route goes from New Orleans, to Chicago to Wyoming to Bay St. Clement, North Carolina, but the geography he is charting is always first and foremost u... + Read More
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