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  • Parental Leave and Beyond

    Recent International Developments, Current Issues and Future Directions

    by Sophie Mathieu, Lindsey McKay, Andrea Doucet, Bernard Fusulier, Fred Deven, Laura Merla, Sonja Blum, Ivana Dobrotic, Maria Letizia Bosoni, Luca Pesenti, Sara Mazzucchelli0, Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay1, Elin Kvande2, Berit Brandth3, Tine Rostgaard4, Johanna Lammi- Taskula5, Ingolfur Gislason6, Guðný Björk Eydal7, Ann-Zofie Duvander8, Isabel Valarino0, Gayle Kaufman1, Anna Escobedo2, Wen-Jui Han3, Shirley Gatenio Gabel4, Hideki Nakazato5, Nadav Perez-Vaisvidovsky6, Margaret O'Brien7, Anna Kurowska8, Jesus Rogero Garcia9, Gerardo Meil Landwerlin0 ...
    This volume brings together contributors from 18 countries to provide international perspectives on the politics of parental leave policies in different parts of the world. Initially looking at the politics of care leave policies in eight countries across Europe, the US, Latin America and Asia, the book moves on to consider a variety of key issues in depth, including gender equality, flexibility ... Read more

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  • The Black Body

    Translated by Eilis Kierans, Sandra Waters ...
    by Anna Maria Gehnyei (Karima 2G) ...
    Series series Other Voices of Italy
    In her memoir, Anna Maria Gehnyei, better known as singer, rapper, and producer Karima 2G, reveals the challenges she faced as the child of Liberian immigrants, born and raised in Rome but perpetually viewed by her fellow Italians as a foreigner.The daughter of the first Kpelle man to ever leave his native village and emigrate to Europe, Anna is proud of her heritage but only knows Liberia as a ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Roman Stories

    by Jhumpa Lahiri ...
    Translated by Jhumpa Lahiri, Todd Portnowitz ...
    **A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORKER, NPR • The first short story collection by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and master of the form since her number one New York Times best seller Unaccustomed Earth • Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is the protagonist, not the setting, of these nine stories"A delectable, sun-washed treat . . ... Read more

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  • Ilustrado

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    by Miguel Syjuco ...
    Garnering international prizes and acclaim before its publication, Ilustrado has been called "brilliantly conceived and stylishly executed . . .It is also ceaselessly entertaining, frequently raunchy, and effervescent with humor" (2008 Man Asian Literary Prize panel of judges).It begins with a body. On a clear day in winter, the battered corpse of Crispin Salvador is pulled from the Hudson River ... Read more

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  • The Beach at Night

    by Elena Ferrante ...
    Translated by Ann Goldstein ...
    A "beautifully written" dark fable from a doll's point of view—by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Lost Daughter and the Neapolitan Novels ( The Washington Post).One of NPR's Best Books of the Year.Readers of Elena Ferrante's The Lost Daughter may recall the little doll—lost or stolen—around which that novel revolves. Here, Ferrante retells the tale from the doll's perspective.Celina i ... Read more

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  • La Superba

    by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer ...
    Translated by Michele Hutchison ...
    "An ode to the imagination."—NRC HandelsbladA joy to read, La Superba, winner of the most prestigious Dutch literary prize, is a Rabelaisian, stylistic tour-de-force. Migration, legal and illegal, is at the center of this novel about a writer who becomes trapped in his walk on the wild side in mysterious and exotic Genoa, the labyrinthine port city nicknamed "La Superba."Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer (b. ... Read more

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  • Pretty Little Mistakes

    by Heather McElhatton ...
    Series series Do Over Novels
    There are hundreds of lives sown inside Pretty Little Mistakes, Heather McElhatton's singularly spectacular, breathtakingly unique novel that has more than 150 possible endings. You may end up in an opulent mansion or homeless down by the river; happily married with your own corporation or alone and pecked to death by ducks in London; a Zen master in Japan or morbidly obese in a trailer park.Is it ... Read more

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  • Lost on Me

    by Veronica Raimo ...
    Translated by Leah Janeczko ...
    LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZEA bestseller and award-winner in Veronica Raimo’s native Italy, Lost on Me is an irreverent and hilariously inverted bildungsroman from one of the most celebrated young writers working today.Born into a family with an omnipresent mother who is devoted to her own anxiety, a father ruled by hygienic and architectural obsessions, and a precocious ... Read more

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  • New Daughters of Africa

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    A major international collection that brings together the work of women writers of African descent, showcasing their contributions to modern literature.Twenty-five years ago, Margaret Busby's Daughters of Africa was published to international acclaim and hailed as "an extraordinary body of achievement . . . a vital document of lost history" ( Sunday Times) and "the ultimate reference guide" ( ... Read more

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  • Six Days in Rome

    by Francesca Giacco ...
    **In this decadent, deeply evocative novel, a young artist travels to Rome to heal a broken heart, where she confronts loneliness and intimacy, rage and desire: “**Sensorial as hell . . . A stunningly cool and stylish debut" (Paul Beatty, Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sellout).Emilia arrives in Rome reeling from heartbreak and reckoning with her past. What was supposed to be a romantic ... Read more

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  • Daisy Dreamer and the World of Make-Believe

    by Holly Anna ...
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    Hi! I’m Daisy Dreamer and my totally true imaginary friend Posey invited me to his amazing world of make believe! Oh, and you’re totally invited, too!Remember me? Daisy Dreamer? Of course you do, silly! And you remember my totally true imaginary friend, Posey, too. Obviously! But did you know that Posey comes from a totally true imaginary world! You won’t believe the things that live there, like ... Read more

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