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Resilience and Ageing

Creativity, Culture and Community

by Katarzyna Kosmala, Anna Sznajder, Laura Warwick, Claire Webster, Cathy Bailey, Tori Hui Ren, Lupin Battersby, Sarah L. Canham, Judith Sixsmith, Cynthia Meersohn Schmidt, Teri Howson-Griffiths, Aagje Swinnen, Jill Rezzano, Laurie Buys, Debra Sullivan, Geraldine Donoghue, Evonne Miller, Helen Manchester, Jackie Reynolds, Martin Gollan, Mary Nicholls, Barbara Douglas, Joanna Reynolds, Rose Gilroy, Andrew Sixsmith, Ryan Woolrych, Mei Lan Fang, Pamela Reyes, Kate de Medeiros, Miriam Bernard ...

Series series Connected Communities
Understanding how creative interventions can help develop social connectivity and resilience for older people is vital in developing a holistic cross-sector approach towards ageing well.Academics with a wide range of expertise critically reflect on how the built environment, community living, cultural participation, lifelong learning, and artist-led interventions encourage older people to thrive ... Read more

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Understanding how creative interventions can help develop social connectivity and resilience for older people is vital in developing a holistic cross-sector approach towards ageing well.Academics with a wide range of expertise critically reflect on how the built environment, community living, cultural participation, lifelong learning, and artist-led interventions encourage older people to thrive
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Polish Lace Makers

Gender, Heritage, and Identity

by Anna Sznajder ...

AnnaSznajder centers this ethnography of gendered creative practice in the lace-making community of Bobowa, Poland. Grounded in rural gender studies and feminist epistemology, Polish Lace Makers: Gender, Heritage, and Identity is a pivotal historical and modern account of the social and economic behaviors of entrepreneurial craftswomen tasked with preserving the originality and symbolic value of ... Read more

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AnnaSznajder centers this ethnography of gendered creative practice in the lace-making community of Bobowa, Poland. Grounded in rural gender studies and feminist epistemology, Polish Lace Makers: Gender, Heritage, and Identity is a pivotal historical and modern account of the social and economic behaviors of entrepreneurial craftswomen tasked with preserving the originality and symbolic value of
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Anthropology of Tourism in Central and Eastern Europe

Bridging Worlds

by Sabina Owsianowska, Magdalena Banaszkiewicz, Tom Selwyn, Maarja Kaaristo, Anna Wieczorkiewicz, Maria Zowislo, Carla Bethmann, Natalia Bloch0, Agata Bachórz1, Anna Sznajder2, Katarzyna Kosmala3, Armin Mikos von Rohrscheidt4, Malgorzata Nieszczerzewska5, Michael Zinganel6, Malgorzata Radkiewicz7, Nelson Graburn8 ...

Series series The Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility, and Society
In Anthropology of Tourism in Central and Eastern Europe: Bridging Worlds, Sabina Owsianowska and Magdalena Banaszkiewicz examine the limitations of the anthropological study of tourism, which stem from both the domination of researchers representing the Anglophone circle as well as the current state of tourism studies in Central and Eastern Europe. This edited collection contributes to the wider ... Read more

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In Anthropology of Tourism in Central and Eastern Europe: Bridging Worlds, Sabina Owsianowska and Magdalena Banaszkiewicz examine the limitations of the anthropological study of tourism, which stem from both the domination of researchers representing the Anglophone circle as well as the current state of tourism studies in Central and Eastern Europe. This edited collection contributes to the wider
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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
Best Translation of a Literary Work Published in 2025 from the American Association of Italian StudiesIn 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 ... Read more

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Best Translation of a Literary Work Published in 2025 from the American Association of Italian StudiesIn 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
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Brava, Valentine

A Novel

by Adriana Trigiani ...

Series series Valentine
New York Times Bestseller“Delightful, energetic. . . . Trigiani is a seemingly effortless storyteller.” — Boston GlobeAward-winning playwright, television writer, and documentary filmmaker Adriana Trigiani returns with Brava, Valentine, continuing the heartwarming and hilarious story of Valentine Roncalli, her family, her love life, and the Angelini Shoe Company. Following on the heels of... ... Read more

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New York Times Bestseller“Delightful, energetic. . . . Trigiani is a seemingly effortless storyteller.” — Boston GlobeAward-winning playwright, television writer, and documentary filmmaker Adriana Trigiani returns with Brava, Valentine, continuing the heartwarming and hilarious story of Valentine Roncalli, her family, her love life, and the Angelini Shoe Company. Following on the heels of...
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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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**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 . .
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Ilustrado

A Novel

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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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
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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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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
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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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"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.
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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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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
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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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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
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New Daughters of Africa

An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent

Edited by Margaret Busby ...

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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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" (
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