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The Park is a theatrical panoply of intertwined narratives of quiet and violent desperation, culminating in a kidnapping, an exploding human, and a brawl involving small creatures and the four remaining members of a set of quintuplets. Inspired by a German comic opera and drawn from scale models built by the author, The Park captures the reader with an accessible presentation that belies its many nuances and details, which may only reveal themselves after a second or third pass. Opening with a geographic layout of the park and a snapshot of... + Read More
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Series: Art ofThe Style of LoishFinding your artistic voiceHardcover
Lois van Baarle9781912843435
$74.95ART
Aug 19, 2022
In this visually stunning hardback, globally loved artist Lois van Baarle, AKA Loish, explores the origins, influences, and features of her style, and helps readers do the same deep dive into their own style.It is her third book with 3dtotal Publishing, a natural progression from the bestselling The Art of Loish (2016) and The Sketch Book of Loish (2018) which to date have sold over 85,000 copies combined. The Style of Loish now sees the artist explore her own style through several facets of her work, including creating volume, choosing color, ... + Read More
Following the success of previous titles in this popular series, Sketching from the Imagination: Worlds of Magic showcases the fantastical characters and worlds of 50 artists and illustrators. Chosen especially for this book these artists from around the globe take inspiration from folklore, myths, modern stories, and sometimes even real life as a basis for their imaginative work. Everything mystical, magical, impossible, and unlikely has fascinated us across the centuries and been an enduring theme in art, literature, film and TV. This book is... + Read More
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Series: Anatomy for Artists: Drawing Form & PoseThe ultimate guide to drawing anatomy in perspective and pose with tomfoxdrawsPaperback
3dtotal Publishing9781912843428
$83.95ART
Jun 17, 2022
Learn how to confidently draw the human form from head to toe with this comprehensive, richly illustrated guide. Expert drawing instructor and storyboard artist Tom Fox knows exactly how to capture the figure in poses that are both dynamic and true to human anatomy. The book details the central figure-drawing elements and techniques that are essential to every artist of every skill level. From understanding the XYZ axis and basic skeleton, to thinking in 3D space and creating mannequins of all levels of detail, the book deals with everything th... + Read More
Turn creating anime characters and stories from a passion into your profession with this guide to drawing and painting, promoting, and selling your work. Specially commissioned step-by-step tutorials by respected professionals help you fine-tune your technique for engaging results, and define your niche as a pro artist. Projects tackle anime styles such as the dynamic Shōnen and fantasy tinged Shōjo, both aimed at adults, and Kodomo, created for children. Case studies explore anime sub-styles, helping you pinpoint how your innate style fits int... + Read More
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Series: Art ofThe Art of FeefalHardcover
3dtotal Publishing9781912843503
$74.95ART
Oct 21, 2022
Whether your favourite medium is digital, traditional, or a mix of both, Stockholm-based Feefal will have used it to explore her unique world of anthropomorphised figures, animals in dream-like settings, and cool-girl magic. Her spooky-cute style has been a constant throughout her career, amassing 870K dedicated Instagram followers who not only adore her art, but are always keen to know the stories and inspiration behind it. Now for the first time, Feefal has written a beautifully produced book, her work printed on high-quality paper, providing... + Read More
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Series: Character Design QuarterlyCharacter Design Quarterly 20Paperback
3dtotal Publishing9781912843442
$23.95ART
May 13, 2022
Widely loved illustrator Tasia brings her unique style to this issue's cover design, and she also provides an in-depth tutorial to show us how she creates her art. Kenneth Anderson creates a 70s rock band, Johanna Forster brings fruit to life, and Sara Paz shows us how to create characters from reference photos.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 ... + 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 DreamWork... + Read More
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Series: After the RevolutionA NovelPaperback
Robert Evans9781849354622
$28.50FICTION
May 20, 2022
A chronicle of serendipitous alliances in a dystopia that's right around the corner. What will the fracturing of the United States look like? After the Revolution is an edge-of-your-seat answer to that question. In the year 2070, twenty years after a civil war and societal collapse of the "old" United States, extremist militias battle in the crumbling Republic of Texas. As the violence spreads like wildfire and threatens the Free City of Austin, three unlikely allies will have to work together in an act of resistance to stop the advance of the ... + Read More
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Series: A Profession Without ReasonThe Crisis of Contemporary PsychiatryOCoUntangled and Solved by Spinoza, Freethinking, and Radical EnlightenmentPaperback
Bruce E. Levine9781849354608
$29.95PSYCHOLOGY
Jul 15, 2022
There is today a crisis in psychiatry. Even the former director of the National Institute of Mental Health has said: “Whatever we’ve been doing for five decades, it ain’t working.” The field of psychiatry requires a completely fresh look, and Bruce E. Levine finds that needed perspective in the seventeenth-century works of Baruch Spinoza. Readers unfamiliar with Spinoza will be intrigued by his life and the modern relevance of his radical philosophical, psychological, and political ideas. With the help of Spinoza, freethinking, and radical enli... + Read More
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Series: Gang PoliticsRevolution, Repression, and CrimePaperback
Kristian Williams9781849354561
$23.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Jul 08, 2022
Demystifying forces of the state, gangs, and revolutionary violence.In Gang Politics, Kristian Williams examines our society’s understanding of social and political violence, what gets romanticized, misunderstood, or muddled. He explores the complex intersections between “gangs” of all sorts—cops and criminals, Proud Boys and Antifa, Panthers and skinheads—arguing that government and criminality are intimately related, often sharing critical features. As society becomes more polarized and conflict more common, Williams’s analysis is a crucial c... + Read More
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Series: Emergent Strategy SeriesBegin the World OverPaperback
Kung Li Sun9781849354721
$25.50FICTION
Sep 02, 2022
"This historical fiction with a twist has an intriguing plot that will make the reader ask how the world could be different."—BooklistA revolutionary tale of Black and Indigenous insurrection. History as it should have been.Begin the World Over is a counterfactual novel about the Founders’ greatest fear—that Black and Indigenous people might join forces to undo the newly formed United States of America—coming true.In 1793, as revolutionaries in the West Indies take up arms, James Hemings has little interest in joining the fight for liberté—tale... + Read More
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Series: Overcoming CapitalismStrategy for the Working Class in the 21st CenturyPaperback
Tom Wetzel9781849354707
$32.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Jul 08, 2022
A new, inclusive union movement with a contemporary vision and an eye toward building social and economic power can remake society. Overcoming Capitalism is a book about strategy, particularly how the powerless can get the upper hand. And it’s written for everyone—not a specialized, self-selected audience. Tom Wetzel carefully explains how capitalism works and how the structure is stacked against us with an eye toward where power lies and how we can tip the scales. The book is a twenty-first century reworking of the approach to unionism. The Un... + Read More
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Series: Creative Interventions ToolkitA Practical Guide to Stop Interpersonal ViolencePaperback
Creative Interventions9781849354646
$59.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Dec 15, 2021
The primary resource on community accountability and transformative justice.The Creative Interventions Toolkit is a practical guide to community-based interventions against interpersonal violence, a process also known as community accountability or transformative justice. Originally an online resource, it is written for everyday people—survivors, people who caused harm, and friends/family who want to help without turning to the police or government. This toolkit provides basic information about interpersonal violence; advice for survivors of vi... + Read More
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Series: Creative Interventions WorkbookPractical Tools to Stop Interpersonal ViolencePaperback
Creative Interventions9781849354660
$37.50SOCIAL SCIENCE
Oct 07, 2022
The companion text to one of the most popular toolkits for ending interpersonal violence. The Creative Interventions Workbook features useful and effective tools and exercises aimed for survivors of interpersonal violence, friends/family who want to help, and people who caused harm. This companion text to the Creative Interventions Toolkit, also published by AK Press, provides grounded, hands-on lessons to help readers confront and end interpersonal violence of all sorts—sexual, domestic, family, and more. Together they form the feminist bedroc... + Read More
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Series: The Modern CrisisPaperback
Murray Bookchin9781849354462
$23.95NATURE
Aug 12, 2022
Six incisive essays from the father of social ecology.Murray Bookchin’s frank assessment of the disaster we are heading toward at increasing speed is as much a work of ethics as it is of environmentalism. The six essays that comprise it share the view that, as he puts it, “our ideas and our practice must be imbued with a deep sense of ethical commitment.” Whether he is critiquing the market economy, the state, or the idea—common to both capitalists and certain left materialists—that human beings are motivated solely by greed and self-interest, ... + Read More
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Series: War and PeaceOn the Principle and Constitution of the Rights of PeoplesPaperback
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon9781849354684
$44.95POLITICAL SCIENCE
Sep 09, 2022
Proudhon's anarchist theory of international relations, a 19th-century vision of what might have been and could still be.War and Peace by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, originally published in 1861, is still one of the only extended accounts of anarchist international theory and is one of the earliest in the history of socialist thought. It is a profound contribution to the traditions of jus gentium and just war theory, that puts force and power at the centre of analysis. Alex Prichard’s introduction describes both its specificity and the multiple lin... + Read More
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Series: Frontlines of RepairPaperback
Seth Tobocman9781849354745
$22.50COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Jun 17, 2022
Political cartoonists and artists address social, political, and environmental damage, charting a path toward healing and repair.World War 3 Illustrated is back with a collection of comics and art about repairing our deeply damaged world. Over twenty artists interpret the theme in a wide variety of ways: mutual aid in the face of a deadly pandemic, the struggle to respond to catastrophic climate change; prison abolition and reparations for African Americans; the right of return for Palestinians and the restoration of land to Native Americans; t... + Read More
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Series: The ReservoirHardcover
David Duchovny9781636140445
$29.95FICTION
Jun 17, 2022
A former Wall Street veteran, quarantined by the coronavirus, becomes consumed with madness—or the fulfillment of his own mythic fate."A lonely ex-financier stuck in his apartment during the Covid-19 pandemic becomes obsessed with the Central Park Reservoir and slowly goes mad."—New York Times Book Review"[Duchovny’s] novella The Reservoir, set in New York City, probes how pandemic isolation has changed us."—The Boston Globe"A new, pandemic-inspired, Rear Window–esque thriller."—Village Voice“Evocative, chilly prose that wouldn’t be out of plac... + Read More
Innocence Project attorney M. Chris Fabricant presents an insider’s journey into the heart of a broken, racist system of justice and the role junk science plays in maintaining the status quoPraise from John Grisham, author of A Time for Mercy: "No one in America will ever know the number of innocent people convicted, sent to prison, and even executed because of the flood of rotten forensics and bogus scientific opinions presented to juries. In this intriguing and beautifully crafted book, Innocence Project lawyer M. Chris Fabricant illustrates ... + Read More
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Series: The PartitionHardcover
Don Lee9781636140315
$41.95FICTION
May 20, 2022
A thrilling new story collection from acclaimed writer Don Lee exploring Asian American identity, spanning decades and continents "Don Lee is one of those masterful storytellers who is both classic and modern, who can transport you into any setting, with any character."—The TODAY Show, recommended by author Weike Wang "The organizing conceit of all [Lee’s] fiction has remained consistent: Asian Americans are not monoliths . . . Lee narrates from a collective perspective, his stories offering a kaleidoscopic vision of all the ways it feels to ... + Read More
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Series: Nein, Nein, Nein!One Man's Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the HolocaustHardcover
Jerry Stahl9781636140254
$40.50BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jul 15, 2022
A guided group tour to concentration camps in Poland and Germany allows Stahl to confront personal and historical demons with both deep despair and savage humor"Gonzo meets the Shoah in this wildly irreverent—and brilliant—tour of Holocaust tourism . . . Stahl knows his Holocaust history . . . but he was also prepared to be surprised . . . A vivid, potent, decidedly idiosyncratic addition to the literature of genocide." —Kirkus Reviews, a Best Nonfiction Book of 2022"Stahl embarks on Holocaust tourism in this meditative yet humorous account, we... + Read More
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Series: Now Lila KnowsHardcover
Elizabeth Nunez9781636140247
$40.50FICTION
Jun 17, 2022
Caribbean professor Lila Bonnard arrives in Vermont for a short-term teaching position and is forced to confront the terrible legacy of American (in)justice"The racial politics of a small town in Vermont, as seen through Lila’s eyes, provides an illuminating counterplay between Caribbean and American Blackness."—Publishers Weekly"As a portrait of Lila's political and racial awakening, the novel is a grand success."—Kirkus Reviews"I fell deep, hard and fast into this book. The very first sentence slices clean and that energy continues throughout... + Read More
25.
Series: What I SeeThe Black Flag Photographs of Glen E. FriedmanHardcover
Glen E. Friedman9781636140360
$59.95MUSIC
Apr 15, 2022
A stunning collection of the most iconic photographs ever taken of Black Flag, along with never-before-seen shots and a foreword by Chuck Dukowski. 256 jam-packed pages, over 300 photographs, and over 70% of the photos have never been seen."[A] lively, lavishly assembled collection of Black Flag photos . . . Fury is palpable throughout the book—even rehearsals look like barnburners."—Los Angeles Times"This gorgeous book collects [Friedman’s] photographs chronologically, while capturing the full intensity, drama, and ethos of the group . . . For... + Read More
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Series: Police Brutality and White SupremacyThe Fight Against American TraditionsPaperback
Etan Thomas9781636140568
$28.50POLITICAL SCIENCE
Jan 21, 2022
An NBA veteran offers engaging interviews and reflections that explore police brutality, white supremacy, and the struggle for racial justice in America."Thomas's interviews demand careful reading by all who want to expose racism, hold police accountable, and create an American society that practices social justice."--Library Journal, a Best Book of the Year in Political Science/Civil Rights"The book is filled with thought-provoking interviews and commentary on police brutality, white supremacy, and the lack of racial equality in the United Sta... + Read More
Denver enters the Noir Series arena with a wide range of mile-high misgivings and perils."Denver has a dark side. And more than a dozen local authors are telling you all about it . . . Together, in Denver Noir, these authors pen a diverse look at the underside of Denver."—Denver Post "This anthology of short fictional crime and suspense stories written by 14 local authors and edited by Cynthia Swanson tells hair-raising, spine-tingling tales set in Denver’s unique neighborhoods. Follow felons down Colfax, solve a murder mystery and root for ru... + Read More
Denver enters the Noir Series arena with a wide range of mile-high misgivings and perils."Denver has a dark side. And more than a dozen local authors are telling you all about it . . . Together, in Denver Noir, these authors pen a diverse look at the underside of Denver."—Denver Post "This anthology of short fictional crime and suspense stories written by 14 local authors and edited by Cynthia Swanson tells hair-raising, spine-tingling tales set in Denver’s unique neighborhoods. Follow felons down Colfax, solve a murder mystery and root for ru... + Read More
Writer/director/producer Justine Bateman examines the aggressive ways that society reacts to the aging of women's faces. "Face . . . is filled with fictional vignettes that examine real-life societal attitudes and internal fears that have caused a negative perspective on women's faces as they age." —TODAY Show, a Best Book of 2021 "There is nothing wrong with your face. At least, that's what Justine Bateman wants you to realize. Her new book, Face: One Square Foot of Skin, is a collection of fictional short stories told from the perspectives... + Read More
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Series: Creatures of PassagePaperback
Morowa Yejide9781636140285
$26.95FICTION
Jul 15, 2022
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: Out of MesopotamiaPaperback
Salar Abdoh9781636140322
$26.95FICTION
Aug 12, 2022
Informed by firsthand experience on the battlefronts of Iraq and Syria, Abdoh captures the horror, confusion, and absurdity of combat from a seldom-glimpsed perspective that expands our understanding of the war novel. "Abdoh's powerful novel follows an Iranian war reporter who is torn between his wearying job on the front lines and a civilian existence that he finds increasingly alienating. The book is as much a reflection on memory and art as it is a war story, and Abdoh's writing captures beautifully the absurdity of both the battlefield and... + Read More
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Series: Song of My SofteningPaperback
Omotara James9781948579247
$28.50POETRY Jul 07, 2023
The raw poems inside Song of My Softening studies the ever-changing relationship with oneself, while also investigating the relationship that the world and nation has with Black queerness. Poems open wide the questioning of how we express both love and pain, and how we view our bodies in society, offering themselves wholly, with sharpness and compassion.
Titled after a small gallery of the same name found in Rome, the poems are devoted to meditations on religious relics and works of art. They explore the narrative power these objects carry—the way we imbue totemic figures with both meaning and story, and the potential they have to define the world.
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Series: Sugar WorkPaperback
Katie Marya9781948579261
$26.95POETRY
Jun 17, 2022
Sugar Work chronicles the complexities of womanhood, race, and gender that arose from growing up around sex work in Atlanta, Georgia in the late 1990s. Poems investigate beauty and whiteness, the aftermath of sexual trauma on the female body, divorce, desire, and art itself.
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Series: The VisitorsHardcover
Jessi Jezewska Stevens9781913505288
$38.95FICTION
Jun 17, 2022
On the eve of the Occupy Wall Street protests, C is flat broke. Once a renowned textile artist, she’s now the sole proprietor of an arts supply store in Lower Manhattan. Divorced, alone, at loose ends, C is stuck with a struggling business, a stack of bills, a new erotic interest in her oldest girlfriend, and a persistent hallucination in the form of a rogue garden gnome with a pointed interest in systems collapse . . .C needs to put her medical debt and her sex life in order, but how to make concrete plans with this little visitor haunting her... + Read More
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Series: Bad EminenceHardcover
James Greer9781913505349
$38.95FICTION
Jul 15, 2022
Meet Vanessa Salomon, a privileged and misanthropic French-American translator hailing from a wealthy Parisian family. Her twin sister is a famous movie star, which Vanessa resents deeply and daily. The only man Vanessa ever loved recently killed himself by jumping off the roof of her building. It’s a full life. Vanessa has just started working on an English translation of a titillating, experimental thriller by a dead author when she’s offered a more prominent gig: translating the latest book by an Extremely Famous French Writer who is not in... + Read More
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Series: The GamekeeperPaperback
Barry Hines9781913505301
$26.95FICTION
May 06, 2022
George Purse is an ex-steelworker employed as a gamekeeper on a ducal country estate. He gathers, hand-rears and treasures the birds to be shot at by his wealthy employers. He must ensure that the Duke and his guests have good hunts when the shooting season comes round on the Glorious Twelfth; he must ensure that the poachers who sneak onto the land in search of food do not.Season by season, over the course of a year, George makes his rounds. He is not a romantic hero. He is a laborer, who knows the natural world well and sees it without sentim... + Read More
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Series: Mister NPaperback
Najwa Barakat9781913505325
$26.95FICTION
May 27, 2022
Shortlisted for the 2023 EBRD Literature PrizeModern-day Beirut is seen through the eyes of a failed writer, the eponymous Mister N. He has left his comfortable apartment and checked himself into a hotel—he thinks. Certainly, they take good care of him there. Meanwhile, on the streets below, a grim pageant: there is desperate poverty, the ever-present threat of violence, and masses of Syrian refugees planning to reach Europe via a dangerous sea passage. How is anyone supposed to write deathless prose in such circumstances? Let alone an old man... + Read More
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Series: Tamarisk RowPaperback
Gerald Murnane9781911508366
$26.95FICTION
May 13, 2022
Nine-year-old Clement Killeaton’s father makes a living placing bets on horse races for a professional gambler. His mother is a pious Catholic. His fellow students are cruel and aloof. But from these elements, all suffused with the mysterious but forbidden attractions of sex, Clement creates an imagined world of his own. Centred on fictional horses, the races they run, and their invented owners, jockeys, and fellow competitors, it is played out with Clement’s prized marble collection in the dusty backyard of his home, across the landscapes of t... + Read More
Never before published in the United States, Gerald Murnane’s classic collection of literary and personal essays, Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs, is the perfect introduction to, and gazetteer for, the imaginary worlds created by one of the greatest living writers working in English today. Murnane writes of himself as a boy making racehorses of his marbles, a pastime and obsession shared with Jack Kerouac; as a writer, working his first ten years in secret; as a reader, trying to understand the mystery of writing a good sentence by way of Virgin... + Read More
Juan Pablo Villalobos’s fifth novel adopts a gentle, fable-like tone, approaching the problem of racism from the perspective that any position as idiotic as xenophobia can only be fought with sheer absurdity.In an unnamed city, occupied by an unnamed world power, an immigrant named Gastón makes his living selling exotic vegetables to eateries around the city. He has a dog called Kitten, who’s been diagnosed with terminal cancer, and a good friend called Max, who’s in a deep depression after being forced to close his restaurant. Meanwhile, Max’... + Read More
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Series: BoulderPaperback
Eva Baltasar9781913505387
$26.95FICTION
Aug 12, 2022
Working as a cook on a merchant ship, a woman comes to know and love Samsa, a woman who gives her the nickname “Boulder.” When Samsa gets a job in Reykjavik and the couple decides to move there together, Samsa decides that she wants to have a child. She is already forty and can’t bear to let the opportunity pass her by. Boulder is less enthused, but doesn’t know how to say no—and so finds herself dragged along on a journey that feels as thankless as it is alien. With motherhood changing Samsa into a stranger, Boulder must decide where her prior... + Read More
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Series: Last Letter to a ReaderPaperback
Gerald Murnane9781913505424
$26.95LITERARY CRITICISM
May 13, 2022
In the first days of spring in his eighty-second year, Gerald Murnane—perhaps the greatest living writer of English prose—began a project that would round off his strange career as a novelist. He would read all of his books in turn and prepare a report on each. His original intention was to lodge the reports in two of his legendary filing cabinets: in the Chronological Archive, which documents his life as a whole, and the Literary Archive, which is devoted to everything he has written. As the reports grew, however, they themselves took on the f... + Read More
Fitzgerald's beloved account of the devastating costs of the American dream gets a fittingly gorgeous update in this high-end art-book edition, elaborately decorated by the famed Italian illustrators known at the Balbusso Twins. Featuring more than fifty full color illustrations that combine jazz age decadence with a sleek, almost futuristic sensibility, this elegantly designed volume brings the roaring twenties straight into the 2020s. Anna and Elena Balbusso are celebrated graphic artists with over 80 international awards to their name. They ... + Read More
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Series: Milo's EyesHow a Blind Equestrian and Her "Seeing Eye Horse" Saved Each OtherPaperback
Lissa Bachner9781941887103
$25.50BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jun 17, 2022
The extraordinary bond between Lissa Bachner, a young blind woman and Milo, a neglected, frightened horse, helped them overcome staggering odds to become one of America's most inspiring, successful riding teams in the world of show jumping. Lissa Bachner was born with a passion for horses and won her first blue ribbon at age five. Other awards would follow as a young rider, and for years Lissa trained with jumpers, tackling more difficult leaps, and working to perfect her ride. When blindness struck in her teens, it appeared her passion fo... + Read More
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Series: The Bar at TwilightPaperback
Frederic Tuten9781954276031
$26.95FICTION
May 20, 2022
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICEAn incomparable storyteller serves up an enchanting concoction of art, love, and longingIn fifteen masterful stories, Frederic Tuten entertains questions of existential magnitude, pervasive yearning, and the creative impulse. A wealthy older woman reflects on her relationship with her drowned husband, a painter, as she awaits her own watery demise. An exhausted artist, feeling stuck, reads a book of criticism about allegory and symbolism before tossing her paintings out the window. Writing a book about the lives of... + Read More
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Series: The American NovelsVoices in the Dead HousePaperback
Norman Lock9781954276017
$25.50FICTION
Sep 16, 2022
Walt Whitman and Louisa May Alcott meet the horrors of the Civil War as they minister to its casualtiesAfter the Union Army’s defeat at Fredericksburg in 1862, Walt Whitman and Louisa May Alcott converge on Washington to nurse the sick, wounded, and dying. Whitman was a man of many contradictions: egocentric yet compassionate, impatient with religiosity yet moved by the spiritual in all humankind, bigoted yet soon to become known as the great poet of democracy. Alcott was an intense, intellectual, independent woman, an abolitionist and suffragi... + Read More
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Series: Scandals of the Royal PalacesAn Intimate Memoir of Royals Behaving BadlyHardcover
Tom Quinn9781785906527
$44.50BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Apr 15, 2022
George Orwell once said that the British love a really good murder. He might also have said that the only thing the British love more than a good murder is a really good scandal, and best of all are the political and sexual scandals that take place in Britain’s royal palaces.Dozens of royal scandals have been covered up or suppressed to some degree by an establishment that is famous for its determination to keep royal secrets, well, secret.This book is the first in-depth look at the outrageous behaviour not just of the royals themselves but als... + Read More
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Series: The Good, The Bad and The GreedyWhy We've Lost Faith in CapitalismHardcover
Martin Vander Weyer9781785905940
$44.95BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Jun 03, 2022
Capitalism – once a great engine of human progress – has lost its moral compass, lost public trust and is urgently in need of repair. This has become a familiar refrain since the global economic downturn and has worsened through the pandemic.The young of today tend to regard wealth and its creation as alien to the society in which they wish to live, rather than essential to its well-being. Yet, they also regard personal debt, through credit cards and consumer loans, as a matter of entitlement, rather than burden, and have lost the frugal habit ... + Read More
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Series: China Vs AmericaA WarningHardcover
Oliver Letwin9781785906848
$44.50HISTORY
May 13, 2022
As a Cabinet minister attending meetings of the UK’s National Security Council, Oliver Letwin took a profound interest in our relationship with China. So much of the discussion of world events inevitably turns into a debate about the attitudes and intentions of Beijing. But the more Letwin became involved in such discussions, the clearer it became to him that there was an absence of any settled Western strategy for conducting a peaceful long-term relationship with China.With China’s authoritarian market socialist regime becoming increasingly as... + Read More
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Series: A Spy Called CynthiaAnd a Life in IntelligenceHardcover
Anonymous9781785907128
$34.50HISTORY
Apr 22, 2022
“Ashamed? Not in the least: my superiors told me that the results of my work saved thousands of British and American lives. It involved situations from which 'respectable' women draw back – but mine was total commitment. Wars are not won by respectable methods.”Elizabeth Thorpe, code-named Cynthia, was a glamorous American recruited by MI6 to obtain intelligence from the Polish Foreign Ministry, then from the Italian and Vichy French Embassies in Washington. Her method was to seduce whatever targets could provide her with vital intelligence, a ... + Read More
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Series: Lessons From HistoryHidden heroes and villains of the past, and what we can learn from themHardcover
Alex Deane9781785907104
$34.50HISTORY
May 20, 2022
Lessons from History is a joyful romp through the obscurest parts of the past. The annals have been scoured for overlooked figures and events that nonetheless made an impact, and within these pages they are brought hilariously and often poignantly back to life.Alex Deane began tweeting about quirky tales as a distraction from the monotony of lockdown. Now with over 2 million views online, the #deanehistory stories are a social media sensation. These tongue-in-cheek tales about eccentricity and endeavour have been comprehensively reworked and ex... + Read More
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Series: Murder at the BaileyPaperback
Henry Milner9781785907043
$29.95FICTION
May 27, 2022
A notorious loan shark is shot dead outside the Old Bailey. The killer is apprehended at the scene and Adrian Stanford is about to take on the toughest case of his career. Can he steer his client past the no-nonsense detective Chief Superintendent ‘Iron’ Rod Stokes, hell bent, in his last case before retirement, in achieving a murder conviction? Or the acerbic judge known to all as Mack The Knife, whose own resolve is being tested to the limit by an adulterous wife? That’s assuming he can keep him alive long enough for the trial to even go ahea... + Read More
"A Quicksilver Mystery That Flickers, Flashes, Twists And Turns." New York Times, 21 July 2022. From the author of The Aosawa Murders, one of the NYT Notable Books of 2020. Set in Tokyo over the course of one night, Aki and Hiro have decided to be together one last time in their shared flat before parting. Their relationship has broken down after a mountain trek during which their guide died inexplicably. Now each believes the other to be a murderer and is determined to extract a confession before the night is over. Who is the murderer and what... + Read More
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Series: KalmannPaperback
Joachim Schmidt9781913394684
$25.50FICTION
Jul 01, 2022
This atmospheric crime thriller laced with humor—described by some as an Icelandic Fargo—is set in the village of Raufarhöfn in the far north of the country. Kalmann Odinsson is the self-appointed Sheriff of his town. Day by day, he treks the wide plains which surround the almost deserted village, hunts Arctic foxes and lays bait in the sea — to catch the gigantic Greenland sharks he turns into the Icelandic fermented delicacy, hákarl. There is nothing anyone needs to worry about. Kalmann has everything unde... + Read More
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Series: VandaPaperback
Marion Brunet9781913394653
$23.95FICTION
Apr 29, 2022
A psychological thriller set in Southern France. Brunet has followed on from the success of “the Summer of Reckoning” with this magnificent portrait of a woman and a mother.A beautiful and often poetic tale that is unflinching about social and personal violence. Set in Marseilles, this is the story of Vanda, a beautiful woman in her thirties, arms covered in tats, skin so dark that some take her for a North African. Devoted to her six-year-old son Noé, they live in a derelict shed by the beach. She had wanted to be an artist; she is now a clean... + Read More
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Series: The Moon Country Korean Poetry SeriesGrotesque Weather and Good PeoplePaperback
Solah Lim9781939568434
$23.95POETRY
Jul 01, 2022
A debut English translation of contemporary free verse poetry by award-winning South Korean poet and novelist Lim Solah. By turns humorous and dark, these poems explore the simultaneous intimacy and alienation of everyday life in urban Seoul. Writing in a simple vernacular, Lim’s lyric I struggles with the poet’s call to “wonder” in a world lurking with quiet dissonance and horror. Already an acclaimed novelist and prose writer, Lim Solah came out with her first collection of poems, Grotesque Weather and Nice People, in 2017. Many of these poem... + Read More
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Series: The FasteningPaperback
Julie Doxsee9781939568496
$23.95POETRY
May 27, 2022
The fifth book of poetry by a true poet's poet with a unique mastery of language and experimentation.In Julie Doxsee’s The Fastening, the permanent imprints of love, childhood, death, and pleasure are elongated, handled delicately, celebrated, puzzled over, all while underpinned by hauntingly vicious origins. Landscapes in the book shift and jolt, melt into snowman slush or gash the flesh with matter-of-fact craters, thorns, rope burns, and rocks.The poet wants to scrub the sharp peaks with steel wool but recognizes how millions of these violen... + Read More
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Series: Upon Her ShouldersSoutheastern Native Women Share Their Stories of Justice, Spirit, and CommunityPaperback
Mary Ann Jacobs9781949467802
$25.50BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jun 17, 2022
A documentary-style collection of stories, poems, essays, and interviews by Southeastern Native American women.Upon Her Shoulders is a collection of stories, poems, and prose by Southeastern Native American women whose narratives attest to the hard work and activism required to keep their communities well and safe. This collection highlights Native female voices in the Southeast, a region and its peoples rarely covered in other publications.The editors have deep roots in the scholarship and culture of Native women. Featured prominently is the L... + Read More
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Series: The Necessity of WildfirePoemsPaperback
Caitlin Scarano9781949467789
$25.50POETRY
Apr 15, 2022
Winner of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Award for poetryWinner of the Wren Poetry Prize selected by Ada Limón, Caitlin Scarano’s collection wrestles with family violence, escaping home, unraveling relationships, and the complexity of sexuality. The Necessity of Wildfire begins, “To not harm / each other is not enough. I want to love you / so much that you have no before.” These poems chase a singular, thorny question: how does where and who we came from shape who and how we love? Judge Ada Limón says the resulting collection is “hungry, clear... + Read More
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