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Series: Art of Aveline StokartHardcover
Aveline Stokart9781912843282
$62.50ART
Aug 13, 2021
Aveline Stokart is a 3dtotal Publishing favorite, designing popular characters for Character Design Quarterly magazine, and the book Beginner’s Guide to Digital Painting in Procreate. When asked to create a whole book dedicated to her stunning art, creative teachings, and life as a designer, Aveline happily agreed! The Art of Aveline Stokart is a beautifully produced hardback that will delight her existing fans and lovers of classic character design. Aveline creates endearing characters that steal the viewer’s heart in seconds. Infused with... + Read More
Character Design Quarterly (CDQ) is a lively, creative magazine bringing inspiration, expert insights, and leading techniques from professional illustrators, artists, and character art enthusiasts worldwide. Each issue provides detailed tutorials on creating diverse characters, enabling you to explore the processes and decision making that go into creating amazing characters. Learn new ways to develop your own ideas, and discover from the artists what it is like to work for prolific animation studios such as Disney, Warner Bros., and DreamWorks... + Read More
Following the success of the established titles in this popular series, Sketching from the Imagination: Storytelling brings to life the characters, worlds, and tales of traditional stories and modern tales alike. 50 professional storybook artists from around the globe take inspiration from folklore and fairytales, myths and legends, and modern books and novels. Many of these artists create their own narratives, exploring their storytelling skills through an extraordinary talent fortransforming words into compelling visual concepts. Children... + Read More
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Series: Character Design CollectionCharacter Design Collection: HeroinesAn inspirational guide to designing heroines for animation, illustration & video gamesPaperback
3dtotal Publishing9781912843268
$53.95ART
Aug 13, 2021
Delve into the popular and competitive world of heroine design as 50 of the world’s finest character artists from the fields of animation, illustration, comics, and games share a behind-the-scenes look at their stunning sketchbook pages, showcasing over 2,500 drawings! A range of styles and genres are explored, including classic comic book superheroines and magical princesses, plus historical, fantasy, and sci-fi heroines from across time and space. From concept sketches and initial thumbnails, to emotions and expressions, outfit variations, a... + Read More
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Series: Draw What You LoveThe Art of Simone GrunewaldHardcover
Simone Grunewald9781912843305
$54.95ART
Aug 13, 2021
Simone Grünewald is a 3dtotal Publishing favorite as the designer of popular characters for Character Design Quarterly magazine, and the author of Sketch Every Day, a book packed with her much sought-after sketching techniques and character-design tips. This new title, The Art of Simone Grünewald, is a beautifully produced hardback that goes even further to delight existing fans, as well as aspiring character designers new to her work. Simone is an expert in the art of imbuing scenes and character with a depth of mood, emotion, and atmosp... + Read More
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Series: A Sam Rivers MysteryWolf KillA Sam Rivers MysteryPaperback
Cary J. Griffith9781647550578
$25.95FICTION
Jun 25, 2021
In this outdoors thriller, the investigation of a bizarre wolf attack leads to evidence of murder, conspiracy, and shocking family secrets.A decades-old promise haunts Sam Rivers, but the wildlife biologist refuses to return home—not with his abusive and estranged father still there. Rivers left the family farm some 20 years ago. He found solace in nature and built a respected career as a special agent for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. His experiences have given him a penchant for understanding predators—a skill he’ll need, now, more than e... + Read More
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Series: Adventure Quick GuidesAnimal Tracks of the NortheastYour Way to Easily Identify Animal TracksSpiral bound
Jonathan Poppele9781647550769
$14.95NATURE
Jul 02, 2021
Your Quick Guide to Identifying Animal Tracks When you’re out and about, keep this convenient track guide by Jonathan Poppele close at hand. Designed for ease of use, the tabbed booklet is organized by track group for quick identification. Narrow your choices by group, and view just a few animal tracks at a time. The detailed illustrations cover more than 100 species of mammals—from mice and squirrels to deer and bears—as well as common birds, amphibians, and reptiles. It includes species found in Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massac... + Read More
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Series: Nature's Favorite Foods CookbooksTomatoes50 Tried & True RecipesPaperback
Julia Rutland9781591939504
$25.95COOKING
Jun 04, 2021
The Cookbook for Enjoying Summer’s Quintessential Food Easy to grow and delicious to eat, tomatoes can be enjoyed raw and are commonly cooked in recipes. Ranging from the size of a grape to that of a softball, tomatoes provide a sweet, tangy flavor, perfect for salads, appetizers, beverages, pasta, and more. Tomatoes is a cookbook by Julia Rutland that features 50 easy recipes geared for busy cooks who enjoy great flavor. The author is a professional writer, recipe developer, recipe tester, food stylist, and television/media demonstrator, so y... + Read More
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Series: Favorite WildlifeBald EaglesThe Ultimate RaptorsPaperback
Stan Tekiela9781647551452
$29.95NATURE
Jun 18, 2021
Enter the World of the Eagle with Stan’s Amazing Photography If you’ve ever seen an eagle fly gracefully over an unbroken forest or watched it snatch a fish from the surface of a crystal-clear lake, you probably experienced a feeling of inspiration. Award-winning author, naturalist, and wildlife photographer Stan Tekiela believes that eagles are the most majestic of birds. He spent years studying bald eagles, noting their behaviors and capturing them in photographs. Stan’s research spanned major events such as migration and courtship, as well ... + Read More
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Series: Fuel Your BodyHow to Cook and Eat for Peak Performance: 77 Simple, Nutritious, Whole-Food Recipes for Every AthleteHardcover
Angie Asche MS, CSSD9781572842960
$38.95HEALTH & FITNESS
May 21, 2021
Take your athletic performance to the next level with these nutritious, simple, and convenient recipes. This new cookbook is an indispensable resource for athletes of all ages and experience levels. Fuel Your Body: How to Cook and Eat for Peak Performance: 77 Simple, Nutritious, Whole-Food Recipes for Every Athlete is filled with nourishing recipes that are not only quick to prepare and simple enough for beginner home cooks, but don’t sacrifice flavor in the process. Whether you are an athlete at the elite level or a weekend warrior, the foo... + Read More
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Series: In Their Own WordsElon Musk: In His Own WordsPaperback
B2 Books9781572842984
$19.95BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Jul 23, 2021
Get inside the head of one of the most compelling entrepreneurs of our time with this collection of quotes from global business icon Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX. Elon Musk, the South African-born entrepreneur who made his first fortune with Internet companies such as PayPal, has risen to global prominence as the visionary CEO of both Tesla Motors and SpaceX, two companies with self-proclaimed missions to improve life as we know it and better secure the future of humanity. Now, the most insightful, thought-pro... + Read More
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Series: CharcuteriaThe Soul of SpainHardcover
Jeffrey Weiss9781572842991
$59.95COOKING
Aug 20, 2021
2015 James Beard Award nominee 2015 Gourmand World Cookbook Award nominee An updated and redesigned edition of CharcuterÃa: The Soul of Spain, the first and best book to introduce authentic Spanish butchering and meat-curing techniques to America. CharcuterÃa features more than 100 traditional Spanish recipes, straightforward illustrations providing easy-to-follow steps for amateur and professional butchers, and gorgeous full-color photography of savory dishes, Iberian countrysides, and centuries-old Spanish cityscapes. Jeffrey Weiss ... + Read More
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Series: Sing Her NameA NovelPaperback
Rosalyn Story9781572842977
$26.95FICTION
Apr 22, 2022
Sing Her Name follows two musically gifted women whose lives overlap across the boundaries of time. This third novel by Rosalyn Story, whose critically acclaimed books treat the central role of Black people in American music, is her best and most rewarding yet. Beautiful and brilliantly talented Celia DeMille is a nineteenth-century concert artist who has garnered fame, sung all over the world, and amassed a fortune. But prejudice bars her from achieving her place in history as one of the world’s greatest singers, and she dies in poverty and ob... + Read More
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Series: Representing RadicalsA Guide for Lawyers and MovementsPaperback
Tilted Scales Collective9781849354165
$17.95POLITICAL SCIENCE
Jul 09, 2021
The courtroom is always political. How lawyers can best represent radical defendants and their movements.Representing Radicals helps lawyers understand ways to work with radical defendants, with an explicit focus on how to help them achieve ends that go beyond traditional legal goals. For example, many radical defendants want to use their trials to discuss political issues even if doing so could lead to a conviction when a standard criminal defense might lead to an acquittal. Understanding radical defendants’ goals and political priorities is a... + Read More
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Series: The Operating SystemAn Anarchist Theory of the Modern StatePaperback
Eric Laursen9781849353878
$23.95POLITICAL SCIENCE
May 28, 2021
“By what cunning perversion of logic and history has the modern capitalist State persuaded us that it is the only possible form of polity? Why do we passively accept its claim to inevitability and its lame excuses for the increasingly invasive surveillance of our private lives? How do the already powerful hide short-cuts to even greater influence and wealth across a ruined environment and vast stretches of poverty? In thoughtful, provocative, and engaging reflections on the modern State, Eric Laursen seeks deliberate withdrawal from the self-fu... + Read More
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Series: The Abolition of PrisonPaperback
Jacques Lesage de La Haye9781849354202
$20.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Jul 23, 2021
The Abolition of Prison provides a reflection from a longtime prison abolitionist, psychoanalyst, and former prisoner on the history, theory, and practice of anti-prison activism in France and globally over the last fifty years. This book powerfully makes the case for the end of prisons, punishment, and guilt and, instead, suggests we work towards social change, care, collectivity. The book weaves together Lesage deLa Haye’s own experiences—in prison, as a psychiatrist, and as a social theorist—with the simple argument that, if we take the reas... + Read More
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Series: Damaged Like MeEssays on Love, Harm, and TransformationPaperback
Kimberly Dark9781849354141
$26.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Jul 09, 2021
That which damages us can make us stronger, smarter, more compassionate, and ready to build something better.People who have been damaged, thrown away, marginalized, or traumatized are more capable of apprehending social patterns, precisely because they’ve needed to be aware and vigilant about how the world works. For too long, those who rely on long-held rights and entitlement have claimed that others are biased about the very topics on which they have expertise. Damaged Like Me is a series of essays and stories that reveal a complex social la... + Read More
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Series: The July RevolutionBarcelona 1909Paperback
Leopoldo Bonafulla9781849354103
$26.95HISTORY
Jul 31, 2021
A spirited eye-witness account of revolutionary upheaval and state repression.The “Tragic Week" in Spain, which took place in July 1909, began as anti-conscription riots, but soon evolved into a widespread uprising attacking the pillars of Spanish society: Church and State. It is known today mostly for its most famous martyr, Francisco Ferrer, the radical educator and founder of the Modern School who was executed by the Spanish army. But Ferrer was only one of hundreds of people who died that week in a brutal crackdown on anarchists and other r... + Read More
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Series: Intersectional Class StruggleTheory and PracticePaperback
Michael Beyea Reagan9781849354127
$26.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Jul 02, 2021
How to think about class, race, and sex at the same time.This innovative study, explores the relevance of class as a theoretical category in our world today, arguing that leading traditions of class analysis have missed major elements of what class is and how it operates. It combines instersectional theory and materialism to show that culture, economics, ideology, and consciousness are all factors that go into making “class” meaningful. Using a historical lens, it studies the experiences of working class peoples, from migrant farm workers in Ca... + Read More
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Series: I'll Forget It When I Die!The Bisbee Deportation of 1917Paperback
Mitchell Abidor9781849353700
$26.95HISTORY
Aug 27, 2021
Did you ever hear the story about 1,186 men kidnapped in Arizona and dumped in a desert 200 miles away?On July 12, 1917, in the mining town of Bisbee Arizona, twelve hundred striking miners and their supporters were rounded up by forces organized by the town sheriff and the mining companies, marched through the town, parked in the town’s baseball field, and then put in boxcars and shipped into the New Mexican desert. The deportees were largely members or supporters of the radical IWW labor union and mostly foreign-born. The roundup and de... + Read More
Palm Springs now joins Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange County, San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley in California’s Noir Series arena."Contrary to popular belief, noir doesn’t require a bleak city street for its setting. Nor water, for that matter. Noir thrives on secrets, lies and lust, all flowing plentifully through the jewel in the Coachella Valley’s fragile crown...For all the playfulness of the genre and the location, the wisecracks and the kidney-shaped pools, there is an unmanageable darkness waiting to seep in, like so much blood in the... + Read More
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Series: The Third Mrs. GalwayPaperback
Deirdre Sinnott9781617758423
$26.95FICTION
Jul 16, 2021
Antislavery agitation is rocking Utica in 1835 when a young bride discovers an enslaved family hiding in her shed, setting in motion the exhumation of long-buried family secrets."This suspenseful novel vividly breathes life into the early years of the United States, and the burden of slavery the young Republic carries with it...This book engrosses the reader and does what historical fiction does best. In bringing the past into sharp focus, it shines a light on our present day. Highly recommended."--Historical Novels Review, Editor’s Choice Pick... + Read More
This fourteen-piece, limited-edition box set--an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project--features the work of thirteen new African poets."The African Poetry Book Fund’s New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set is one of the most important annual literary projects, presenting to a wide audience the work of fresh and promising poets in the continent and its diaspora."--Open Country Magazine Included in Publishers Weekly's Adult 2021 Announcements (Poetry)"Dawes and Abani have taken on the vital project of publishing short collections by... + Read More
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Series: Do Something for NothingSeeing Beneath the Surface of Homelessness, through the Simple Act of a HaircutPaperback
Joshua Coombes9781617759352
$29.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
May 28, 2021
Through the simple act of a haircut, readers are taken on a geographical and emotional journey into the lives of humans experiencing homelessness in different cities across the world."In this uplifting book, Coombes deftly illustrates how reaching out and listening can break down barriers in an often indifferent world."--Booklist"Coombes documents the transformation that comes over people when they are given a fresh look, a new perspective, some hope. The photos are inspirational as is every page of this uplifting book. Their smiles show relief... + Read More
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Series: UnstrungRants and Stories of a Noise GuitaristHardcover
Marc Ribot9781617759307
$53.95MUSIC
Aug 13, 2021
Iconoclastic guitar player Marc Ribot offers up essays and stories in this darkly funny and subversive debut collection."A slim yet powerful book in which Marc Ribot blends bits of memoir with strange little fictions, many of which are based on his own life and career."—Wall Street Journal"Ribot . . . produced a book that is much like his musical output: difficult to categorize but fascinating and engaging."—Inside HookThroughout his genre-defying career as one of the most innovative musicians of our time, iconoclastic guitar player Marc Ribot ... + Read More
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Series: The VaultPaperback
AndrAs Cerpa9781948579186
$26.95POETRY
Jun 25, 2021
The Vault is a quiet and vulnerable sequence of ethereal fragments, letters, and poems that trace a narrative of love and healing in the afterlife of a parental death. Seasons turn and a life is built despite the ruin. Each poem is a music box of prayer, of the decisions made and yet to be made.
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Series: White CampionPaperback
Donald Revell9781948579179
$26.95POETRY
May 21, 2021
White Campion attempts a libretto to the music of aphasia and forgetting. The disappearance of memory can break hearts, but may open into something wonderful, on the clean far side of memory. Poems explore the idea that identity proves to be simply flashpoints of intervals, and at the end of all, humanity hopes to find a hymn to oblivion
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Series: No Ruined StonePaperback
Shara McCallum9781948579193
$28.95POETRY
Aug 20, 2021
No Ruined Stone is a verse sequence rooted in the life of 18th-century Scottish poet Robert Burns. In 1786, Burns arranged to migrate to Jamaica to work on a slave plantation, a plan he ultimately abandoned. Voiced by a fictive Burns and his fictional granddaughter, a "mulatta" passing for white, the book asks: what would have happened had he gone?
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Series: Phone Photography for Everybody SeriesPortraits with an iPhonePhoto Techniques for Pro Quality ImagesPaperback
Jake Durham9781682034538
$44.95COMPUTERS
May 07, 2021
Capturing a professional portrait requires a specific skill set—one that most casual smartphone photographers are unaware of. In this book, Jake Durham presents a clear and concise look into the techniques required to optimize your smartphone camera’s settings, find appropriate backgrounds, establish focus and exposure, coax believable poses that flatter subjects, work with natural and artificial light to create flattering effects indoors or outdoors, and provide insight into the personality of the subject. With chapters on basic photographic t... + Read More
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Series: The Old King in his ExilePaperback
Arno Geiger9781908276889
$25.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
May 21, 2021
International BestsellerShortlisted for the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize and Schlegel-Tieck PrizeWhat makes us who we are? Arno Geiger’s father was never an easy man to know and when he developed Alzheimer’s, Arno realised he was not going to ask for help. “As my father can no longer cross the bridge into my world, I have to go over to his.” So Arno sets out on a journey to get to know him at last. Born in 1926 in the Austrian Alps, into a farming family who had an orchard, kept three cows, and made schnapps in the cellar, his father was conscrip... + Read More
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Series: The Luminous NovelPaperback
Mario Levrero9781913505011
$29.95FICTION
Aug 13, 2021
‘Perhaps the luminous novel is this thing that I started writing today, just now. Maybe these sheets of paper are a warm-up exercise. [...] But it’s quite possible that if I go on writing – as I usually do – with no plan, although this time I know very well what I want to say, things will start to take shape, to come together. I can feel the familiar taste of a literary adventure in my throat. I’ll take that as confirmation, then, and start describing what I think was the beginning of my spiritual awakening – though nobody should expect re... + Read More
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Series: White LiePaperback
Clint Burnham9781772141740
$18.00FICTION
Aug 15, 2021
Part travelogue, part autofiction, part record of living under Western regimes that torture, kidnap, and murder its own citizens and those who wish to cross its borders, White Lie is a collection of super-short fictions. Written to be read in a book, but written on a phone, about that technology, about how our stories today blend into factual-seeming fictions and lying propaganda. Repressed memories of living in repressive societies. Like Tierra Whack's album of one-minute rap songs or Stan Douglas' Monodramas. Shorter than a stand-up comic's j... + Read More
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Series: Just Like a Real PersonPaperback
Douglas Diaczuk9781772141764
$18.00FICTION
Sep 14, 2021
Just Like a Real Person is a story about broken cars and broken people. A story of intoxication, sobriety, and potent memories of a woman in a yellow sundress. But, it's also a story about love that asks what it means to finally feel, after years of feeling nothing but numb. The story begins with a crash, and throughout the story, we bear witness to many more - both literal and metaphorical - as cars wrap around lamp posts and jump medians, and as the humans inside them are unknotted from smouldering metal and the entanglements of their choi... + Read More
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Series: All the Broken ThingsPaperback
Geoff Inverarity9781772141757
$18.00
Oct 14, 2021
Geoff Inverarity writes poems for people who don't like poetry (and those who do). In this debut collection Inverarity writes of broken things, things that have come apart at the seams, things that ought not to but sometimes do dissolve with time: friendships, relationships, promises, aging parents, hearts, bodies, love, and even time itself. But it's not all shattered dreams and sad-luck stories here, there is hope and optimism too - in the future, in the Now, and in the heat and power of the coming generations. And there are poems of memory... + Read More
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Series: ARTEMISIAHardcover
Nathalie Ferlut9781948886116
$37.95COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Age (years) from 16
Aug 20, 2021
The English-language edition of Nathalie Ferlut and Tamia Baudouin’s stunning biography of Artemisia Gentileschi, the trailblazing Italian baroque painter, originally published in French. This full-color graphic novel recounts the remarkable story of Artemisia, whose life story is told through the lens of Artemisia's daughter as she questions her mother about their family history. The ensuing tale spans most of Gentileschi's life, beginning with her childhood in Rome in her father’s painting studio, to the sexual abuse she experienced at the... + Read More
Comedy and tragedy collide in stories of family life in Soviet Russia and the complexities of the immigrant experience“We can’t stop turning the pages of this book.” —Ilya Kaminsky, New York Times Book ReviewFrom the moment of its founding, the USSR was reviled and admired, demonized and idealized. Many Jews saw the new society ushered in by the Russian Revolution as their salvation from shtetl life with its deprivations and deadly pogroms. But Soviet Russia was rife with antisemitism, and a Jewish boy growing up in Leningrad learned early, har... + Read More
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Series: The American NovelsTooth of the CovenantPaperback
Norman Lock9781942658832
$25.95FICTION
Jul 16, 2021
Nathaniel Hawthorne pens a new tale to exact revenge on his ancestor, a notorious judge of the Salem witch trials Best known for his novel The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne was burdened by familial shame, which began with his great-great-grandfather John Hathorne, the infamously unrepentant Salem witch trial judge. In this, the eighth stand-alone book in The American Novels series, we witness Hawthorne writing a tale entitled Tooth of the Covenant, in which he sends his fictional surrogate, Isaac Page, back to the year 1692 to save Bridge... + Read More
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Series: Swimming to the Top of the TideFinding Life Where Land and Water MeetPaperback
Patricia Hanlon9781942658870
$26.95NATURE
Jun 18, 2021
Four seasons of immersion in New England’s Great Marsh“Like Wendell Berry and Rachel Carson, Hanlon is a true poet-ecologist, sharing in exquisitely resonant prose her patient observations of nature’s most intimate details. As she and her husband, through summer and snow, swim their local creeks and estuaries, we marvel at the timeless yet fragile terrain of both marshlands and marriage. This is the book to awaken all of us, right now, to how our coastline is changing and what it means for our future.” —Julia Glass, author of Three Junes and A ... + Read More
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Series: Radical HumilityEssays on Ordinary ActsPaperback
Rebekah Modrak9781948742962
$25.95PHILOSOPHY
Mar 16, 2021
This innovative essay collection explores the personal and civic function of humility from a range of popular and scholarly perspectives. What does humility mean and why does it matter in an age of golden escalators and billionaire entrepreneurs? How can the cultivation of humility empower us to see success in failure, to fight against injustice, to stretch beyond our usual ways of thinking, and to foster a culture of listening in an age of digital shouting?Edited by Rebekah Modrak and Jamie Vander Broek, Radical Humility: Essays on Ordinary Ac... + Read More
Ed Simon tells the story of Pittsburgh through this exploration of its hidden histories—the LA Review of Books calls it an “epic, atomic history of the Steel City.”The land surrounding the confluence of the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio rivers has supported communities of humans for millennia. Over the past four centuries, however, it has been transformed countless times by the many people who call it home. In this brief, lyrical, and idiosyncratic collection, Ed Simon, a staff writer at The Millions, follows the story of America’s furnace t... + Read More
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Series: Belt City AnthologiesThe Indianapolis AnthologyPaperback
Norman Minnick9781948742917
$29.95HISTORY
May 04, 2021
Part of Belt’s city anthology series, a reconsideration of one of America’s most misunderstood cities.Is Indianapolis just another midwestern city to fly over on the way to bigger and better destinations? Or is it, as locals know, a place where different peoples and ideals converge to create a rich cultural center? The Indianapolis Anthology showcases Naptown’s vibrancy and diversity with pieces from journalists, poets, historians, established community voices, and first-time writers. The Circle City is more than the home of the Indianapolis 50... + Read More
Series: ... And What Do You Do?What the royal family don't want you to knowPaperback
Norman Baker9781785906213
$28.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Nov 20, 2020
A hard-hitting analysis of the royal family, exposing its extravagant use of public money and the highly dubious behaviour of some among its ranks, whilst being critical of the knee-jerk sycophancy shown by the press and politicians. Baker also considers the wider role the royals play in British society, examining the constitutional position of the monarch.
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Series: Guido Guerrieri SeriesThe Measure of TimePaperback
Howard Curtis9781913394486
$23.95FICTION
May 07, 2021
"Mr. Carofiglio, drawing on his own professional background, excels at describing everyday legal proceedings in ways that transfix the reader." Wall Street Journal -------The latest in the Guido Guerrieri series. The setting is Bari in Southern Italy. Against his own instincts, defence attorney Guerrieri takes on an appeal against what looks like an unassailable murder conviction. The alleged perpetrator is the son of a former lover. A taught legal thriller and a meditation about the ravages of time.
STARRED REVIEW "Swiss author Schneider’s excellent first mystery and series launch...gripping, plausible debut bodes well for future entries." Publishers Weekly--------- It all begins with two murders, an old man found dead on a street bench in Basel and a prostitute pulled out of a nearby lake. Both strangled and both found with their left earlobes slit. Inspector Hunkeler of the Basel police investigates and is soon faced with the consequences of certain recent events in Swiss history that everyone wants to keep buried.
PW STARRED REVIEW: “Brilliant sequel to 2018’s Beside the Syrian Sea. James Wolff skillfully portrays an espionage agent on the verge of losing himself to his demons. This is spy fiction like no other.” Publishers Weekly--------- April thriller of the Month: "Wolff’s examination of the crises of conscience caused by spying, however, make this a distinctly more thought-provoking novel than is customary in the genre. Turkish delight.” The Times------- Disgraced British spy August Drummond is on his way to Istanbul when he sees a passenger thr... + Read More
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Series: To Drink from the WellThe Struggle for Racial Equality at the Nations Oldest Public UniversityPaperback
Geeta N. Kapur9781949467529
$29.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Oct 01, 2021
Law professor and civil rights activist Geeta N. Kapur provides analysis and commentary on the story of systemic racism in leadership, scholarship, and organizational foundations at the University of North Carolina. The University of North Carolina is the oldest public university in the US, with the cornerstone for the first dormitory, Old East, laid in 1793. At that ceremony, the enslaved people who would literally build that structure were not acknowledged; they were not even present. In fact, 158 years passed before Black students were a... + Read More
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Series: BearwallowA Personal History of a Mountain HomelandPaperback
Jeremy B. Jones9781949467543
$26.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jun 04, 2021
Across the Blue Ridge Mountains stretches a world both charming and complicated. Jeremy Jones and his wife move into a small house above the creek where his family had settled 200 years prior. He takes a job alongside his former teachers in the local elementary school and sets out on a search to understand how this ancient land has shaped its people—how it shaped him. His search sends him burrowing in the past—hunting buried treasure and POW camps, unearthing Civil War graves and family feuds, exploring gated communities and tourist traps, enc... + Read More
Winner of the Bakwin Award. Final contest judge and award-winning author Carmen Maria Machado (Her Body and Other Parties) described the work as “a wonderful debut; a collection of frank, funny, and heartbreaking stories that delve into the mire of human loneliness.” Poland’s stories usher in a world where mortal fear, the threat of violation, and the body’s looming betrayal drive us to look beyond surface appearances. In these stories, readers will find: a mosquito-borne illness invading a small southern town, forcing its inhabitants to n... + Read More
The first wave of Overwatch cinematics captured the imagination of millions of fans around the world. After the game released in 2016, Blizzard Entertainment embarked on a new mission to take cinematic storytelling to the next level. From the intense, action-packed rush of “Shooting Star” to the somber, noble ethos of “Honor and Glory,” the creative team wanted to highlight a different side of the game’s beloved heroes. In pursuit of their objectives, the crew added new artists in the mix, devised novel methods for making movies, and ventured i... + Read More
What lies beyond the veil of death? Journey past this mortal coil and discover the secrets of the Shadowlands. Study the practices around death and dying on Azeroth, then follow a Broker through the groves of Ardenweald, over the gleaming towers of Bastion, and into the depths of the Maw for a detailed voyage unlike any other. Featuring gorgeous artwork never before glimpsed by mortal eyes, a stunning fold-out map, and secrets straight from the game team, Grimoire of the Shadowlands and Beyond is made to be treasured for eternity. In his auth... + Read More
In The Voyage of St Brendan, A.B. Jackson tells the tale of the legendary seafaring Irish abbot in poetry and prose. After burning a book of fantastical stories, Brendan is compelled to sail the ocean with a crew of six monks in a leather-skinned currach; his task, to prove the existence of wonders in the world and create a new book of marvels. Discoveries include Jasconius the island-whale, a troop of Arctic ghosts, a hellmouth of tortured souls, a rock-bound Judas, and the magical castle of the boar-headed Walserands. Although the roots of ... + Read More
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Series: Shall We Go?Paperback
Annemarie Austin9781780375533
$23.95POETRY
Jan 21, 2022
Annemarie Austin's vividly imaginative poems explore other worlds and other lives, drawing upon her own memories and experiences, as well as on art, travel, dream, myth, history and literature. The first poem in her new collection asks 'Shall we go on the shiny?', the last one ends 'being altogether gone this time'. In between there's the tightrope, 'The Walking Shot', the report on the pilgrimage in progress, the marquise going out at five o'clock. The eye moves left to right along with the poems' movement. Though there are stops from time to ... + Read More
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Series: LowPaperback
Chrissy Williams9781780375649
$25.95POETRY
Aug 20, 2021
This new collection from one of Britain's most innovative poets is an exploration of identity in the face of loss. At its heart is a series of poems about the desolation of miscarriage. These poems try to understand the many different means we use to come closer to articulating, and avoiding, experience. Drawing on the language of comedy, improvisation, drag and clown, Low interrogates humour’s role in enacting the possibility of change. A thought-provoking, irreverent and challenging book, Low exemplifies Chrissy Williams' ability to find 'ser... + Read More
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Series: Rite of PassagePaperback
Dom Bury9781780375496
$25.95POETRY
Jul 16, 2021
Dom Bury’s Rite of Passage is an initiation into what it means to be alive on the planet in the midst of extinction, of climate, environmental and systematic collapse. It is a journey into the shadow of man’s distorted relationship with the earth. And yet in the utter darkness of this hour, these often provocative poems suggest that there is hope. That we have had to come to the edge of our own annihilation as a species to collectively shift how we live, that only in the dark glare of this crisis, can a new world from the ashes of the old one n... + Read More
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Series: The Heavy Bear Who Goes with Me100 Classic Poems with CommentaryPaperback
Brendan Kennelly9781852244408
$35.95POETRY
Jul 22, 2022
The Heavy Bear Who Goes with Me is the ultimate reader’s companion to poetry: a selection of 100 classic poems from five centuries with lively companion commentaries to go with and illuminate each poem. The heavy bear can be many things which go with the bearer: another self or alter ego, the burden of poetry or art, what weighs us down and makes us do what we don’t really want to do as well as what pulls us back to our selves, the animal side which makes us bearable or human. The editors’ selection ranges from Wyatt, Ralegh and Shakespeare in ... + Read More
The submerged land of Lyonesse was once part of Cornwall, according to myth and the oral tradition, standing for a lost paradise in Arthurian legend, but now an emblem of human frailty in the face of climate change. And there was indeed a Bronze Age inundation event which swept the entire west of Cornwall under the sea, with only the Scilly Isles and St Michael’s Mount left as remnants above sea-level. Lyonesse was also Thomas Hardy’s name for Cornwall where Penelope Shuttle has lived all her adult life, always fascinated by the stories and sym... + Read More
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Series: Stone FruitPaperback
Rebecca Perry9781780375687
$25.95POETRY
Aug 20, 2021
A collection of three distinct parts, the poems in Rebecca Perry's Stone Fruit nonetheless speak across their many common preoccupations: memory, grief, the fallibility of the physical form, our connection to and place in the world, natural and otherwise. Opening with a study of a girl in a miniature portrait, expanding into lyrical prose pieces and closing with a reflective long poem – part elegy and part reflective essay on competitive trampolining – the poems are united by a desire to pay absolute attention to both the material and inner wor... + Read More
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Series: The ConversationPaperback
Stephanie Norgate9781780375748
$25.95POETRY
Dec 17, 2021
In The Conversation, Stephanie Norgate explores relationships between nature and the city, the past and present and character and writer. Shaped through both speech and storytelling, these visual, sensuous and imaginative poems celebrate friendship, even in grief, closeness in times of isolation and lockdown, and the longing to bridge gaps and find cures. Miracles are found in the everyday, in a child’s sleep or a lit-up house. Textiles transform into remembrancers, landscape into emotion. A contemporary Daedalus views his life from a hang-glid... + Read More
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Series: American Reader SeriesAlien StoriesPaperback
E.C. Osondu9781950774319
$25.95FICTION
May 21, 2021
“A vital voice in the short story, telling us new truths with deep humanity." –George Saunders Celebrated Nigerian-born writer E.C. Osondu delivers a short-story collection of nimble dexterity and startling originality in his BOA Short Fiction Prize-winning Alien Stories. These eighteen startling stories, each centered around an encounter with the unexpected, explore what it means to be an alien. With a nod to the dual meaning of alien as both foreigner and extraterrestrial, Osondu turns familiar science-fiction tropes and immigration n... + Read More
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