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Series: Glorious Birds A Celebratory Homage to Harold and Maude Paperback Heidi Greco 9781772141719 $18.00 PERFORMING ARTS Mar 15, 2021

Cinematic film, the art form that came into its own in the 20th Century, is not only familiar to all of us, but is likely the form that lodges most clearly in memory. Like music - and the music employed in a film - scenes come back, often carrying emotion as well as remembrance. One such film is Harold and Maude, the 1971 production that brought Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon to what are possibly their most memorable roles, and the film that locked so many Cat Stevens songs in mind. A cockeyed love story that stretches the definition of a May/Decemb... + Read More
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Series: Scofflaw Paperback Garry Thomas Morse 9781772141726 $18.00 POETRY Apr 25, 2021

Scofflaw is a long poem, a playful exploration of Indigenous-Settler relations amid globalized pressures. For the most part, the poem is a lyrical dialectic flowing between a shadowy figure known as Scofflaw and an enigmatic "we." The content ranges from the effect of pesticides on Manitoba butterflies to the reworking of a John Newlove poem on Indigenous peoples to Native remains beneath the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. The text culminates in a "lexicon standoff," where Scofflaw uses metaphysical means to avoid a character assassination, ... + Read More
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Series: il virus Paperback Lillian Necakov 9781772141733 $18.00 POETRY Apr 15, 2021

il virus brings together 113 poems written over seventy-eight days during the spring 2020 pandemic lockdown in Toronto. These responses to daily news and eclectic media posts encompass dogs (lots of them), Zambonis, jazz and blues, Jackie Gleason, mathematics, thermodynamics, and geography (real and imagined). These miniatures are Lillian Necakov's most spare poems, but each is jam-packed with explosives: anger, grief, love, need, and a foraging for ink.
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Series: The Beijing Conspiracy Main Paperback Shamini Flint 9781838851675 $19.95 FICTION Apr 06, 2021

'Flint . . . creates fascinating, unforgettable characters' BooklistA LONG-LOST DAUGHTER. AN EXPLOSIVE SECRET. A LETHAL CONSPIRACY.Ex-Delta Force soldier Jack Ford is trying to put the past behind him. But when he receives a letter from someone he hasn't spoken to in thirty years, claiming he has a daughter, he can't resist investigating for himself.Soon he's on a plane to China, a country he hasn't returned to since witnessing the atrocities of the Tiananmen Square massacre. But on his search he stumbles upon a document which both the Chinese ... + Read More
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Series: The Secret Political Adviser The Unredacted Files of the Man in the Room Next Door Main Hardcover Michael Spicer 9781838853143 $23.95 HUMOR Dec 11, 2020

The hilarious collection of 'leaked' correspondence between Michael Spicer's genius comic creation - AKA The Man in the Room Next Door - and political figures, from Boris Johnson to Donald Trump and Jared KushnerJust who is the secret political adviser calling himself The Man in the Room Next Door? No one knows. We don't even know his name.But now the lid is about to be blown clean off, because the secret files of the world's most influential* political media adviser are published in this book. Packed with letters, memos, texts, tweets, emails,... + Read More
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Series: The Burying Ground Main Paperback David Mark 9781838850944 $21.95 FICTION Dec 01, 2020

'Mark is a wonderfully descriptive writer' Peter JamesCumbria, 1967. Grieving the loss of her son, Cordelia Hemlock is in the village graveyard when lightning strikes a tomb, giving her a glimpse of a fresh corpse that doesn't belong among the crumbling bones. But when the body vanishes, the authorities refuse to believe her, a relative newcomer to rural and ancient Upper Denton.Cordelia persuades Felicity, her new friend from the village and the only other person to have seen the corpse, to join her unofficial investigation. But the other vill... + Read More
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Series: Antlers of Water Writing on the Nature and Environment of Scotland Main Hardcover Kathleen Jamie 9781786899798 $44.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Dec 01, 2020

The first ever collection of contemporary Scottish writing on nature and landscape, Antlers of Water showcases the diversity and radicalism of new Scottish nature writing today.Edited, curated and introduced by the award-winning Kathleen Jamie, and featuring prose, poetry and photography, this inspiring collection takes us from walking to wild swimming, from red deer to pigeons and wasps, from remote islands to back gardens.With contributions from Amy Liptrot, Malachy Tallack, Chitra Ramaswamy, Jim Crumley, Amanda Thomson, Karine Polwart and ma... + Read More
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Series: Fethering Village Mysteries The Killer in the Choir Main Paperback Simon Brett 9781838853839 $19.95 FICTION Jan 19, 2021

At her husband's funeral, Heather Mallet is publicly accused of his murder. But did she really kill her husband, as many residents of the sleepy coastal town of Fethering believe? To get to the heart of the matter, local amateur sleuths Carole and Jude join the community choir and discover that amidst the clashing egos and petty resentments there lurk some decidedly false notes. At least one chorister would appear to be hiding a deadly secret - and it's up to Carole and Jude to unearth the truth.
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Series: My Name Is Why Main Paperback Lemn Sissay 9781786892362 $22.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 26, 2021

THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERINDIE BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION WINNER'EXTRAORDINARY' The Times, 'BEAUTIFUL' Dolly Alderton, 'SHATTERING' Observer, 'INCREDIBLE' Benjamin Zephaniah, 'UNPUTDOWNABLE' Sunday Times, 'ASTOUNDING' Matt Haig, 'POWERFUL' Elif Shafak At the age of seventeen, after a childhood in a foster family followed by six years in care homes, Norman Greenwood was given his birth certificate. He learned that his real name was not Norman. It was Lemn Sissay. He was British and Ethiopian. And he learned that his mother had been ple... + Read More
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Series: To Calais, In Ordinary Time Main Paperback James Meek 9781786896773 $22.50 FICTION Jan 26, 2021

'Inventive and original' The Times'Fans of intelligent historical fiction will be enthralled' Hilary MantelShortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical FictionLonglisted for the Orwell Prize for Political FictionThree journeys. One road.England, 1348. A gentlewoman flees an odious arranged marriage, a proctor sets out for a monastery in Avignon and a young ploughman in search of freedom is on his way to volunteer with a company of archers. All come together on the road to Calais. In the other direction comes the Black Death, the plague... + Read More
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Series: The Assassin's Cloak An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists Main - New edition Hardcover Irene Taylor 9781786899118 $56.50 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Nov 20, 2020

'A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen', wrote William Soutar in 1934. But a diary is also a place for recording everyday thoughts and special occasions, private fears and hopeful dreams. The Assassin's Cloak gathers together some of the most entertaining and inspiring entries for each day of the year, as writers ranging from Queen Victoria to Andy Warhol, Samuel Pepys to Adrian Mole, pen theirmusings on the historic and the mundane.Spanning centuries and international in scope, this peerless... + Read More
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Series: Crossroads In Search of the Moments that Changed Music Main Paperback Mark Radcliffe 9781786898173 $22.50 MUSIC Feb 23, 2021

Standing at the crossroads - the Mississippi crossroads of Robert Johnson and the devil's infamous meeting - Mark Radcliffe found himself facing his own personal juncture. Aged sixty, he had just mourned the death of his father, only to be diagnosed with mouth and throat cancer. Together these events led Radcliffe to think about pivotal tracks in music and how the musicians who wrote and performed them had reached the crossroads that led to such epoch-changing music.Crossroads is a warm, intimate account of music and its power to transform our ... + Read More
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Series: Island Dreams Mapping an Obsession Main Hardcover Gavin Francis 9781786898180 $44.95 TRAVEL Mar 05, 2021

SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEARIn Island Dreams, Gavin Francis examines our collective fascination with islands. He blends stories of his own travels with psychology, philosophy and great voyages from literature, shedding new light on the importance of islands and isolation in our collective consciousness.Comparing the life of freedom of thirty years of extraordinary travel from the Faroe Islands to the Aegean, from the Galapagos to the Andaman Islands with a life of responsibility as a doctor, community member and parent approachi... + Read More
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Series: Stories We Tell Ourselves Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe Main Hardcover Richard Holloway 9781786899934 $32.95 HISTORY Feb 05, 2021

Throughout history we have told ourselves stories to try and make sense of what it all means: our place in a small corner of one of billions of galaxies, at the end of billions of years of existence. In this new book Richard Holloway takes us on a personal, scientific and philosophical journey to explore what he believes the answers to the biggest of questions are. He examines what we know about the universe into which - without any choice in the matter - we are propelled at birth and from which we are expelled at death, the stories we have tol... + Read More
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Series: Indigenous Toronto Stories That Carry This Place Paperback Denise Bolduc 9781552454152 $24.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Apr 13, 2021

WINNER OF THE HERITAGE TORONTO 2022 BOOK AWARDRich and diverse narratives of Indigenous Toronto, past and presentBeneath many major North American cities rests a deep foundation of Indigenous history that has been colonized, paved over, and, too often, silenced. Few of its current inhabitants know that Toronto has seen twelve thousand years of uninterrupted Indigenous presence and nationhood in this region, along with a vibrant culture and history that thrives to this day.With contributions by Indigenous Elders, scholars, journalists, artists, ... + Read More
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Series: Uncle Race, Nostalgia, and the Politics of Loyalty Paperback Cheryl Thompson 9781552454107 $22.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Feb 16, 2021

From martyr to insult, how “Uncle Tom” has influenced two centuries of racial politics. Jackie Robinson, President Barack Obama, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, O.J. Simpson and Christopher Darden have all been accused of being an Uncle Tom during their careers. How, why, and with what consequences for our society did Uncle Tom morph first into a servile old man and then to a racial epithet hurled at African American men deemed, by other Black people, to have betrayed their race? Uncle Tom, the eponymous figure in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s... + Read More
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Series: The Crash Palace Paperback Andrew Wedderburn 9781552454053 $22.95 FICTION Jan 12, 2021

SHORTLISTED FOR THE RELIT 2022 NOVEL AWARD A joy ride set on a crash course with the past. Audrey Cole has always loved to drive. Anytime, anywhere, any car: a questionable rustbucket, a family sedan, the SUV she was paid to drive around the oil fields. From the second she learned to drive, she’s always found a way to hit the road. Years ago, when she abandoned her oil field job, she found herself chauffeuring around the Lever Men, a B-list band relegated to playing empty dive bars in far-flung towns. That’s how she found herself at the Crash P... + Read More
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Series: An Artistic Journey: Atey Ghailan Hardcover Atey Ghailan 9781912843176 $55.50 ART Apr 16, 2021

When law student Atey Ghailan realized that he was doing more sketching than note-taking in class, he decided to pursue a career in art. Atey has written a book that showcases his best and most fascinating work, with details from behind the scenes of his experiences in the art industry so far. Atey’s artistic journey, from doodling in class to Senior Illustrator at Riot Games, California is central to the book. In addition, he wants readers to consider their own exciting journey, whether they have still to set off, or are on the road already. R... + Read More
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Series: Beginner's Guide Beginner's Guide to Creating Characters in Blender Paperback 3dtotal Publishing 9781912843138 $77.95 ART Jun 25, 2021

Blender is the world’s premier open source 3D software, created by some of the best digital artists working in creative industries around the globe. This book will give those interested in this versatile and expansive tool all the information they will need as they start their journey into 3D. Beginning with the fundamentals of working with 3D, this thorough tutorial book will help you piece together a skill set that will have you creating stunning 3D character in no time at all. Four complete projects will walk you through the creation of mult... + Read More
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Series: Towards A Libertarian Socialism Reflections on the British Labour Party and European Working-Class Movements Paperback G.D.H. Cole 9781849353892 $37.50 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jul 30, 2021

A collection of essays from a revered member of the British Labour Party. What distinguished Cole was his distance from traditional marxist and bureaucratic labour approaches. Neither a Communist nor a Social Democrat (nowadays referred to as a Democratic Socialist a la Bernie Sanders) Cole desired a socialism that centered freedom for workers—an end to capitalist exploitation, workers’ management of production, and an expanding democracy in all realms of social life.
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Series: Here Lies a Father Paperback Mckenzie Cassidy 9781617757570 $25.50 FICTION Jan 15, 2021

Fifteen-year-old Ian Daly's moral universe is turned upside down when, at this father's funeral, he discovers that his father had two secret families."Cassidy's debut is affecting...Like the best coming-of-age novels,Here Lies a Father grounds its big concerns in the exquisite particulars of one person’s life."--Literary Hub“Mckenzie Cassidy stuns with his beautiful debut novel,Here Lies a Father. Told as a classic coming-of-age story, Cassidy’s narrator, fifteen-year-old Ian Daly, is a nuanced combination of the naivete of Huckleberry Finn and... + Read More
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Series: Creatures of Passage Hardcover Morowa Yejide 9781617758768 $62.95 FICTION Mar 26, 2021

With echoes of Toni Morrison's Beloved, Yejidé's novel explores a forgotten quadrant of Washington, DC, and the ghosts that haunt it.Longlisted for the 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction!"Yejidé’s writing captures both real news and spiritual truths with the deftness and capacious imagination of her writing foremothers: Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison and N.K. Jemisin...Creatures of Passage is that rare novel that dispenses ancestral wisdom and literary virtuosity in equal measure."--Washington Post"The novel is worthy of every Toni Morrison comp... + Read More
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Series: Slash And Burn Paperback Claudia Hernandez 9781911508823 $26.95 FICTION Jan 15, 2021

Through war and its aftermaths, a woman fights to keep her daughters safe. As a girl she sees her village sacked and her beloved father and brothers flee. Her life in danger, she joins the rebellion in the hills, where her comrades force her to give up the baby she conceives. Years later, having outlived countless men, she leaves to find her lost daughter, travelling across the Atlantic with meagre resources. She returns to a community riven with distrust, fear and hypocrisy in the wake the revolution. Hernandez’ narrators have the level gaze o... + Read More
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Series: Sergeant Salinger Hardcover Jerome Charyn 9781942658825 $43.50 FICTION Feb 05, 2021

“Charyn skillfully breathes life into historical icons.” —New YorkerJ.D. Salinger, mysterious author of The Catcher in the Rye, is remembered today as a reclusive misanthrope. Jerome Charyn’s Salinger is a young American WWII draftee assigned to the Counter Intelligence Corps, a band of secret soldiers who trained with the British. A rifleman and an interrogator, he witnessed all the horrors of the war—from the landing on D-Day to the relentless hand-to-hand combat in the hedgerows of Normandy, to the Battle of the Bulge, and finally to the fir... + Read More
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Series: Come On Up Paperback Jordi Nopca 9781942658801 $25.50 FICTION Feb 19, 2021

Global capitalism fails young Barcelona couples in this dynamic debut“Heartbreaking and hilarious” —New York Times Book Review“Nopca’s stories, written with clarity and flair, are smart and modern, filled with sharply observed detail. They capture the unease of the times and the flux of contemporary life in Barcelona with wit, wisdom, moments of pure hilarity, and a mixture of sympathy and dark laughter.” —Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn and House of NamesWhat happens when the hopes of a generation are dashed by austerity policies and underempl... + Read More
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Series: Her Here Paperback Amanda Dennis 9781942658764 $25.50 FICTION Mar 19, 2021

An atmospheric debut novel about one lost young woman’s search for another“Spellbinding. . . . Wholly engrossing.” —Washington PostElena, struggling with memory loss due to a trauma that has unmoored her sense of self, deserts graduate school and a long-term relationship to accept a bizarre proposition from an estranged family friend in Paris: she will search for a young woman, Ella, who went missing six years earlier in Thailand, by rewriting her journals. As she delves deeper into Ella’s story, Elena begins to lose sight of her own identity a... + Read More
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Series: Blood and Circuses Football and the Fight for Europe's Rebel Republics Hardcover Mr Rob O'Connor 9781785905117 $44.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Feb 24, 2021
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Series: Crocodile Tears Paperback Mercedes Rosende 9781913394431 $22.50 FICTION Mar 05, 2021

"Fast, slick and acerbically funny: buckle up and enjoy the ride." Guardian "It reads like a marvellous mash-up of Anita Brookner and Quentin Tarantino." The Times STARRED REVIEW "Rosende smoothly combines dark humor and farce with moving depictions of the grimmer aspects of life. Elmore Leonard fans will look forward to the sequel." Publishers Weekly The story is set in Uruguay, it starts in a Montevideo prison where Diego waits for his lawyer, the slick Dr Antinucci, always raybanned, chain-smoking, never frisked by the prison guards. Diego, ... + Read More
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Series: Veronica Rosenthal Mystery The Foreign Girls Paperback Sergio Olguin 9781913394387 $23.95 FICTION Apr 02, 2021

"Olguín, an acclaimed Argentinian novelist, delivers a layered, gripping story, finely translated by Miranda France." Best New Crime Thrillers, Financial Times THE TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTH. "The Foreign Girls is very much a literary novel rather than simply a thriller. More slow-burning tango than brisk paso doble. The realities of life in Latin America offer little escapism perhaps, but in the gutsy, raunchy Veronica they have a contemporary heroine to cherish." The Times Two foreign girls are murdered after a high society party in Yacanto ... + Read More
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Series: The Baddest Girl on the Planet Hardcover Heather Frese 9781949467161 $38.95 FICTION Mar 12, 2021

WINNER of the LEE SMITH NOVEL PRIZE“This sun-and-salt-kissed coming-of-age story reads like a wry, honest chat with a close friend.”—Jaclyn Fulwood,Shelf AwarenessEvie Austin, native of Hatteras Island, North Carolina and baddest girl on the planet, has not lived her life in a straight line. There have been several detours—career snafus, bad romantic choices, a loved but unplanned child—not to mention her ill-advised lifelong obsession with boxer Mike Tyson. Evie is not plucky, but when life’s changes smash over her like the rough surf of the l... + Read More
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Series: Surrounded by Wood Contemporary Living Styles Hardcover Agata Toromanoff 9783037682661 $74.95 ARCHITECTURE Jul 16, 2021

Wood has undergone quite an image change – as future and trend researcher Matthias Horx puts in a nutshell: “Wood is Style”. It has come out of the corner of the traditional and rustic and moved to the top of high-tech building materials. In addition to the well-known ecological and building biology aspects, innovative timber construction technology allows a great deal of design freedom, is extremely precise, and at the same time manages to enrich even very daring architecture with the factors of warmth and coziness. Using wood in combination ... + Read More
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Series: Ecological Buildings New Strategies for Sustainable Architecture Hardcover Dorian Lucas 9783037682685 $74.95 ARCHITECTURE Oct 01, 2021

In contrast to a decade ago, when ecological architecture was considered a luxury, it has now become essentially impossible to build without considering sustainability issues. Aspects of ecological balance have become an important part in the planning and construction process. In recent years, a canon of standard methods and possibilities has emerged to achieve this goal of environmentally friendly architecture. However, there are architects whose ideas and techniques for sustainablebuildings go beyond the standards that have now been establi... + Read More
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Series: CCCP Underground Metro Stations of the Soviet Era Hardcover Frank Herfort 9783716518632 $59.95 PHOTOGRAPHY Feb 11, 2022

Fighters made of bronze, gigantic wall reliefs depicting heroic cosmonauts, and socialist pomp: If you immerse yourself today into the subway systems in countries that formerly belonged to the USSR and of Eastern Europe, time seems to stand still. The stations are chronicles of the history and art of a long vanished world power, conceived as prestige projects, thousands of kilometers apart, and created under different conditions in different times. In this volume, photographer Frank Herfort presents around 20 metro systems of the Soviet era fr... + Read More
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Series: China: The New Creative Power in Architecture Hardcover Chris van Uffelen 9783037682678 $74.95 ARCHITECTURE Oct 17, 2021

The building culture of China is currently one of the most innovative and most adventurous in the world because of the bold ways architects approach materials and genres as well as forms and functions. At the same time, it offers the opportunity to implement the most daring designs in the shortest possible time, as both the expertise and the necessary manpower are available. While technology and tradition play an important role, so do sustainability and ecological concepts aiming at achieving a harmonious interplay between the respective buildi... + Read More
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Series: Hortus Conclusus Hortus Conclusus Gardens for Private Homes Hardcover Chris van Uffelen 9783037682692 $59.95 GARDENING Jan 07, 2022

The desire for beautiful gardens is as strong as ever. An own garden as a private oasis of well-being, but also as a place of prestige can be much more than lawn and flowerbed, path, and hedge. The projects by professional landscape and garden architects presented in this volume show which elements, components and structures, composed and conceived with care and sophistication, constitute stylish and convincing garden design. The interaction with the surroundings, usually the house that belongs to the particular garden, always plays an import... + Read More
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Series: Testimony Paperback Paula Martinac 9781612941790 $25.50 FICTION Jan 29, 2021

In rural Virginia in 1960, history professor Gen Rider has secured tenure at Baines College, a private school for white women. A woman in a man’s field, she teaches “Negro” history, which has made her suspect with a powerful male colleague. Even while she’s celebrating her triumph, she’s also mourning the break-up of a long-distance relationship with another woman—a romance she has tightly guarded, even from her straight female mentor.As the fall semester dawns, a male instructor at the college is arrested for having sex with a man in a park. H... + Read More
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Series: Fishwives Paperback Sally Bellerose 9781612941899 $26.95 FICTION Feb 19, 2021

Eighty-nine-year-old Regina and ninety-year-old Jackie met in 1955, an era when women were rounded up and jailed simply for dancing together or dressing like a man. On a cold winter day they manage to get themselves out of the house with the help of TJ and Ramon, two young men from their working-class neighborhood in Western Massachusetts. They tie their long-dead Christmas tree to the top of their car and, using a screwdriver in place of a broken gearshift, slowly make the drive to the dump.This is also the day when everything changes.During t... + Read More
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Series: The Tender Grave Paperback Sheri Reynolds 9781612941936 $25.50 FICTION Mar 26, 2021

Independent Publisher Books Awards (IPPY) Gold Medalist in Mid-Atlantic-Best Regional Fiction From the author of the New York Times #1 bestseller, The Rapture of Canaan, and steeped in the rich tradition of Southern writers like Carson McCullers and Sue Monk Kidd, The Tender Grave is the gripping story of two estranged sisters who find their unlikely way toward forgiveness—and each other—through a disturbing set of circumstances. Dori, at age 17, participates in a hate crime against a gay boy from her school and runs away to escape prosecution—... + Read More
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Series: In the Palace of Flowers Paperback Victoria Princewill 9781911115755 $23.95 FICTION Jun 11, 2021

Set in Iran at the end of the 19th Century —in the Persian royal court of the Qajars—, In The Palace of Flowers is an atmospheric historical novel about Jamila, an Abyssinian slave who stands at the funeral of a Persian nobleman, watching the rites with empty eyes. In that very moment, she realises that her life will never be acknowledged or mourned with the same significance. The fear of being forgotten, of being irrelevant, sets her and Abimelech, a fellow Abyssinian slave and a eunuch, on a path to find meaning, navigating the dangerous and ... + Read More
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Series: African Crime Reads Series Divine Justice A Rae Valentine Thriller Paperback Joanne Hichens 9781946395429 $25.50 FICTION Jan 22, 2021

Ruthless underworld criminal Rocco Robano’s group of right wing fanatics, inspired by crazed evangelist Heinz Dieter, are responsible for mayhem and murder in the city of Cape Town. As they prepare to leave for their new home, Aurora, a protected community where the White Brothers, the Core, will live out their days in solidarity, they run amok in the city already cursed by xenophobia. Employed to find a set of missing uncut diamonds, ex-addict Rae Valentine, a feisty, sexy, intrepid, newly-minted Private Investigator, falls prey to the gan... + Read More
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Series: The Theory of Flight Paperback Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu 9781946395412 $25.50 FICTION Jan 22, 2021

"This transcendent and powerful testament to the indomitable human spirit is not to be missed." —Publishers Weekly, starred reviewFrom 2022 Windham Campbell Prize winner Siphiwe Gloria NdlovuBook 1 in the City of Kings trilogy As Imogen Zula Nyoni, aka Genie, lies in a coma at Mater Dei Hospital after having suffered through a long illness, her family and friends struggle to come to terms with her impending death. This is the story of Genie, who has gifts that transcend time and space. It is also the story of her forebears - Baines Tikiti, w... + Read More
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Series: The Power of Forgiveness The Power of Forgiveness Hardcover Eva Mozes Kor 9781949481440 $40.50 HISTORY Feb 26, 2021

Eva Mozes Kor forges a path of reconciliation and healing as a Holocaust survivor, sharing her life-changing message that forgiveness frees us from the pain of the past.Eva Mozes Kor was just ten years old when she was sent to Auschwitz. While her parents and two older sisters were murdered there, she and her twin sister Miriam were subjected to medical experiments at the hands of Dr. Joseph Mengele. Later on, when Miriam fell ill due to the long-term effects of the experiments, Eva embarked on a search for their torturers. But what she discove... + Read More
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Series: Trout Belly Up Paperback Rodrigo Fuentes 9781916465619 $22.50 FICTION Feb 12, 2021

In seven interconnected short stories, the Guatemalan countryside is ever-present: a place of timeless peace, and the site of sudden violence. Don Henrik, a good man struck time and again by misfortune, confronts the crude realities of farming life, family obligation, and the intrusions of merciless entrepreneurs, hitmen, drug dealers, and fallen angels, all wanting their piece of the pie. Told with precision and a stark beauty,Â Trout, Belly UpÂ is a beguiling, disturbing ensemble of moments set in the heart of a rural landscape in a country w... + Read More
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Series: An Orphan World Paperback Giuseppe Caputo 9781916465626 $23.95 FICTION Mar 12, 2021

In a poverty-stricken neighbourhood wedged between the city and the sea, a father and son struggle to keep their heads above water. Rather than being discouraged by their difficulties and hardship, their response is to come up with increasingly bizarre and imaginative plans in order to get by. Even when a horrifying, macabre event rocks the neighborhood and the locals start to flee, father and son decide to stay put. What matters is staying together.This is a bold, poignant text that juxtaposes a very tender father-son relationship with the son... + Read More
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Series: When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back Carl's Book Paperback Naja Marie Aidt 9781566895934 $25.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 16, 2021

Finalist for the 2019 Kirkus Prize in NonfictionLonglisted for the National Book Award for Translated LiteratureLonglisted for the 2020 PEN Translation AwardAn unflinchingly raw and lyrical exploration of a mother’s grief and how it transforms her relationship to time, reality, and language.In March 2015, Naja Marie Aidt’s twenty-five-year-old son, Carl, died in a tragic accident.When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back chronicles the few first years after that devastating phone call. It is at once a sober account of life after losing a... + Read More
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Series: Colors of the Cage A Memoir of an Indian Prison Paperback Arun Ferreira 9781942173137 $26.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 19, 2021

“This country needs many more books like this one.”—Arundhati Roy, author of Walking with the Comrades and The God of Small Things A powerful eyewitness account of life in an Indian prison shows how abolition is necessary to achieve a democratic transformation of society. In May 2007, Arun Ferreira, a democratic rights activist, was picked up at a railway station in western India, detained by the court, and condemned to prison for an expanding list of crimes: criminal conspiracy, murder, possession of arms, and rioting, among others added du... + Read More
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Series: FEM Paperback Magda Carneci 9781646050413 $23.95 FICTION Jun 18, 2021

In this modern classic of global feminist literature, the only novel by one of Romania's most heralded poets, styled as a long letter addressed to the man she is ready to leave, a woman meanders through a cosmic retelling of her life from childhood to adulthood with visionary language and visceral detail. Like a contemporary Scheherazade, she spins captivating tales that create space in the cosmos for the female experience. Through a dreamlike thread of strange images and passing characters from the small incidents of their lives together to th... + Read More
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Series: Arriving in a Thick Fog Paperback Jung Young Moon 9781646050437 $23.95 FICTION Aug 20, 2021

The four novellas in Arriving in a Thick Fog typify renowned Korean cult writer Jung Young Moon's emphasis not on events, but on the meticulous and convoluted paths the narrator's minds take as they navigate through life. Through a deep, filterless gaze into the narrator's heads, Jung shares thorough musings that manage to be both spontaneous and complex. Arriving in a Thick Fog takes the reader on a discombobulating yet captivating stroll. Like “a person looking for a path that stretches forever in the wrong direction,” the reader traces the s... + Read More
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Series: Out of the Cage Paperback Fernanda Garcia Lao 9781646050451 $23.95 FICTION Mar 19, 2021

Out of the Cage opens in 1956, in Argentina, with the freakish death of Aurora Berro, and descends into a dark philosophical exploration of humanity and mortality. In the midst of her family’s celebration of a national holiday, an LP, careening through the air like a “demented boomerang,” severs her jugular. Her family— an agglomeration of perversions, deformities, and obsessions—seems at first not to notice, singing on. Aurora is left behind in a voyeuristic limbo as an omniscient first-person narrator, to observe the depravity of her family a... + Read More
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Series: Farthest South & Other Stories Paperback Ethan Rutherford 9781646050475 $23.95 FICTION Apr 23, 2021

A baby is born with gills. Foxes raise and then lose a human child. A man, in the final throes of his deathbed fever-dream, experiences a cross-Antarctic voyage. The stories in Farthest South, the second story collection from renowned writer Ethan Rutherford, find characters in the most unexpectedly menacing of circumstances, in which their sanity, happiness, and safety are put to the test. Formally ambitious, with an eye toward the strange, with an inimitable style all Rutherford's own, each story is nonetheless firmly grounded by a deep, huma... + Read More
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Series: Learning from China A New Era of Retail Design Hardcover Ana Martins 9789492311498 $80.00 ARCHITECTURE May 25, 2021

• This 320-page reference book collects 50 pioneering retail designs in China • The book explores the multifunctional lifestyle destinations and food kiosks to multi-brand stores and themed pop-ups that are setting the scene in the Chinese retail • Featured projects are accompanied by descriptive text, stunning photography, drawings and sketches, and designer profiles in four to eight pages features • Each of the book's four chapters is prefaced by a short introduction highlighting leading trends in the retail industry in China • Closing th... + Read More
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Series: Aristotle From Antiquity to the Modern Era Hardcover Barbara Scalvini 9781911282754 $59.95 PHILOSOPHY Mar 05, 2021

Aristotle towers over Western philosophy and science as no other single person does. As they have come down to us, Aristotle’s works comprise a veritable encyclopedia of philosophy and logic, the physical and natural sciences, ethics and politics. Aristotle’s astonishing range and depth made him indisputably the most important intellectual figure in the Western tradition before the modern age. Although he has been studied continuously for more than two-thousand years, his individual works were dispersed, lost, recovered, and very gradually re... + Read More
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Series: BreakBeat Poets i remember death by its proximity to what i love most Paperback Mahogany L. Browne 9781642592641 $23.95 POETRY Jan 15, 2021

In this long-form poem, award-winning poet Mahogany L. Browne excavates and interrogates the grief, shame, and silence that that surround America’s system of mass incarceration, which extend far beyond the prison walls. Here is a timely and personal intervention into a growing public conversation about the brutality and injustice of the US prison system, and its reverberating impacts.
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Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences Organizing Anarchy Anarchism in Action Paperback Jeffrey Shantz 9781642593624 $41.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Feb 05, 2021

Organizing Anarchy details the remarkable growth and diversity of anarchist organizational practice in a range of spheres of activity, from community centers to online activism to labor and workplace militancy, over the first decades of the twenty-first century. These projects involve innovative approaches by which anarchists resist current forms of exploitation and oppression while building anarchist relations for the future post-capitalist world in the present. Through direct action and solidarity they make anarchism manifest today, rather th... + Read More
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Series: Blood Red Lines Blood Red Lines How Nativism Fuels the Right Hardcover Brendan OOCoConnor 9781642592610 $40.50 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jan 29, 2021

An engaging and reflective look at how austerity and the billionaire class paved the way for Trump's presidency, the rise of the "alt-right," and the caging of migrants children and adults in detention centers across the country. For all of the energy that the far right has demonstrated-and for all of the support that they receive from institutional conservatives in the GOP and affiliated organizations-the United States is experiencing an upsurge in left-wing social movements unlike any other in the past half-century, with roots not in the Demo... + Read More
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Series: Border and Rule Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism Paperback Harsha Walia 9781642592696 $29.50 POLITICAL SCIENCE Feb 19, 2021

InBorder and Rule, one of North America’s foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delivers an unflinching examination of migration as a pillar of global governance and gendered racial class formation. Harsha Walia disrupts easy explanations for the migrant and refugee crises, instead showing them to be the inevitable outcomes of conquest, capitalist globalization, and climate change generating mass dispossession worldwide.Border and Rule explores a number of seemingly disparate global geographies with shared logics of border rule tha... + Read More
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Series: Sustainable Fashion Responsible Consumption, Design, Fabrics, and Materials Paperback Wearme Fashion 9788417412791 $44.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Apr 16, 2021

An insight on the world of sustainable fashion: alternative ways of production, eco-friendly and reused materials and practical care advice for garments. The planet has come to a critical situation and it is up to all of us to innovate and drive change in all aspects of life, and fashion definitely is no exception. The fashion industry and its procedures are changing rapidly thanks to the visionary mindset of innovators, their business perspectives, the renewal of industrial processes, and a reconsideration of existing values. More and more cu... + Read More
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Series: Designing a Fashion Collection 16 Tutorials Using Manual and Digital Techniques Paperback Claudia Ausonia Palazio 9788417412777 $52.50 DESIGN Jun 23, 2021

An inspirational and beautifully illustrated book that pushes novel fashion designers and students to create their own capsule collections—a fashion collection based on one single design concept. Through these creations the reader will learn the necessary elements that any collection should have and how it should be presented in a portfolio. The techniques used in the book range from watercolour to collage, as well as digital tools. Creating a collection is a process that requires much thought and organization, with different steps to be consid... + Read More
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Series: Palette Perfect for Graphic Designers and Illustrators Colour Combinations, Meanings and Cultural References Paperback Sara Caldas 9788417412944 $44.95 ART Aug 20, 2021

Both a practical and inspirational book filled with color combinations for any design and illustration project. The use of color and its combinations creatively in illustration, graphic and product design also implies understanding what emotions they convey and how they affect our design and illustrations. We must also consider that color is also perceived differently in different countries and cultures. All this is widely explained in this second book in the Palette Perfect series, illustrated with projects by renowned international illustra... + Read More
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Series: Book Design From the Printing Basics to the Most Impressive Designs Hardcover Wang Shaoqiang 9788417656300 $89.95 DESIGN Apr 29, 2022

This publication offers a comprehensive and inspirational approach to book production and design in the broadest possible sense: from printing techniques to paper specifications, page layouts to cover design, and printing finishes to types of binding. Full of examples and tips on how to come up with the best solutions in book design while focusing on the features that make them truly engaging, it also includes an introduction to the history of books. Within these pages, you’ll gain insight into the operation of a printing company to understand ... + Read More