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Peddling Snakeoil for the Modern Age

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Peddling Snakeoil for the Modern Age

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This is a really great book that really opens your eyes to the use of hokey-pokey snakeoil based teething pain treatments that aren't Tylenol or Motrin based. Or then something else entirely that has nothing to do

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Series: The Lost Writings Hardcover Franz Kafka 9780811228015 $28.50 FICTION Oct 06, 2020

Selected by theÂ preeminentÂ Kafka biographer and scholar Reiner Stach and newly translatedÂ by the peerless Michael Hofmann, theÂ seventy-four pieces gathered hereÂ have been lost to sight for decades and two of them have never been translated into English before.Â Some stories are several pages long; some run about a page; a handful are only a few lines long:Â all areÂ marvels. Even the most fragmentary texts are revelations. These pieces were drawn from two large volumes of the S. Fischer Verlag editionÂ Nachgelassene Schriften und Fragmente... + Read More
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Series: Not a Novel A Memoir in Pieces Paperback Jenny Erpenbeck 9780811229326 $25.50 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Sep 01, 2020

Jenny Erpenbeck’s highly acclaimed novel Go, Went, Gone was a New York Times notable book and launched one of Germany’s most admired writers into the American spotlight. In the New Yorker, James Wood wrote: “When Erpenbeck wins the Nobel Prize in a few years, I suspect that this novel will be cited.” Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â On the heels of this literary breakthrough comes Â , a book of personal, profound, often humorous meditations and reflections. Erpenbeck writes, “With this collection of texts, I am looking back for the first time at many years of ... + Read More
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Series: The Caretaker Hardcover Doon Arbus 9780811229494 $29.95 FICTION Sep 15, 2020

Following the death of a renowned and eccentric collector—the author of Stuff, a seminal philosophical work on the art of accumulation—the fate of the privately endowed museum he cherished falls to a peripatetic stranger who had been his fervent admirer. In his new role as caretaker of The Society for the Preservation of the Legacy of Dr. Charles Morgan, this restive man, in service to an absent master, at last finds his calling. The peculiar institution over which he presides is dedicated to the annihilation of hierarchy: peerless antiquities ... + Read More
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Series: Box Hill A Story of Low Self-Esteem Paperback Adam Mars-Jones 9780811230056 $22.50 FICTION Sep 01, 2020

In Box Hill, a vivid coming-of-age novel, a young man suddenly wakes up to his gay self—on his eighteenth birthday, when he receives the best gift ever: love and sex. In the woodsy cruising grounds of Box Hill, chubby Colin literally stumbles over glamorous Ray—ten years older, leather-clad, cool, handsome, a biker, and a top. (Colin, if largely unformed, is nevertheless decidedly a bottom.) Colin narrates his love—conveying how mind-blowing being with Ray is—in comically humble-pie terms. “If there are leaders then there must be followers, and... + Read More
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Series: Angels & Saints with a Guide to the Illustrations by Mary Wellesley Hardcover Eliot Weinberger 9780811229869 $40.50 RELIGION Sep 01, 2020

Angels have soared through Western culture and consciousness from Biblical to contemporary times. But what do we really know about these celestial beings? Where do they come from, what are they made of, how do they communicate and perceive? The celebrated essayist Eliot Weinberger has mined and deconstructed, resurrected and distilled centuries of theology into an awe-inspiring exploration of the heavenly host. Â Â Â Â Â Â From a litany of angelic voices, Weinberger’s lyrical meditation then turns to the earthly counterparts, the saints, thei... + Read More
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Series: The Hole Paperback Hiroko Oyamada 9780811228879 $19.50 FICTION Oct 06, 2020

Asa’s husband is transferring jobs, and his new office is located near his family’s home in the countryside. During an exceptionally hot summer, the young married couple move in, and Asa does her best to quickly adjust to their new rural lives, to their remoteness, to the constant presence of her in-laws and the incessant buzz of cicadas. While her husband is consumed with his job, Asa is left to explore her surroundings on her own: she makes trips to the supermarket, halfheartedly looks for work, and tries to find interesting ways of killing t... + Read More
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Series: The Hour of the Star 100th Anniversary Edition Hardcover Clarice Lispector 9780811230049 $29.95 FICTION Oct 06, 2020

The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector’s consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of MacabÃ©a, one of life’s unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, MacabÃ©a loves movies, Coca-Cola, and her rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly, underfed, sickly, and unloved. Rodrigo recoils from her wretchedness, and yet he cannot avoid the realization that for all her out... + Read More
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Series: Personhood Paperback Thalia Field 9780811229739 $25.50 LITERARY COLLECTIONS May 04, 2021

Whether investigating refugee parrots, indentured elephants, the pathetic fallacy, or the revolving absurdity of the human role in the "invasive species crisis," Personhood reveals how the unmistakable problem between humans and our nonhuman relatives is too often the derangement of our narratives and the resulting lack of situational awareness. Building on her previous collection, Bird Lovers, Backyard, Thalia Field's essayistic investigations invite us on a humorous, heartbroken journey into how people attempt to control the fragile complexit... + Read More
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Series: Ellis Island Paperback Georges Perec 9780811229548 $17.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Feb 09, 2021

Georges Perec, employing lyrical prose meditations, lists, and inventories, conjures up the sixteen million people who, between 1890 to 1954, arrived as foreigners and stayed on to become Americans.Â Perec (who by the age of nine was an orphan: his father was killed by a German bullet, and his mother perished in Auschwitz) is wide-awake to the elements of chance in immigration and survival: “To me Ellis Island is the ultimate place of exile. That is, the place where place is absent, the non-place, the nowhere. Ellis Island belongs to all those ... + Read More
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Series: Pigeons on the Grass Paperback Wolfgang Koeppen 9780811229180 $23.95 FICTION Oct 06, 2020

Pigeons on the Grass is told over a single day in Munich in 1948. The first new cinemas and insurance offices are opening atop the ruins, Korea and Persia are keeping the world in panic, planes rumble in the sky (but no one looks up), newspaper headlines announce war over oil and atomic bomb tests. Odysseus Cotton, a black man, alights at the station and hires a porter; Frau Behrend disowns her daughter; with their interracial love affair, Carla Behrend and Washington Price scandalize their neighbors—who still expect gifts of chocolate and coff... + Read More
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Series: Antonio Paperback Beatriz Bracher 9780811227384 $23.95 FICTION Mar 02, 2021

Benjamin, on the verge of becoming a father, discovers a tragic family secret involving patrimony and determines to get to the root of. Those most immediately involved are all dead, but their three closest confidantes are still alive—Isabel, his grandmother; Haroldo, his grandfather’s friend; and Raul, his father’s friend—and each will tell him a different version of the facts.Â By collecting these shards of memories, which offer personal glimpses into issues of class and politics in Brazil, Benjamin will piece together the painful puzzle of ... + Read More
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Series: The Gentle Barbarian Paperback Bohumil Hrabal 9780811228589 $22.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 02, 2021

The Gentle Barbarian is Bohumil Hrabal’s moving homage to VladimÃr BoudnÃk, a brilliant but troubled Czech graphic artist who died tragically at the age of forty-four a few months after the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968. The Gentle Barbarian takes us to the heart of BoudnÃk’s creative drive: his gift for infusing the objects and events of everyday life with transcendent magic, and his passion for sharing his ideas and his art with anyone willing to listen. Hrabal’s anecdotal portrait includes another controversial figure in th... + Read More