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  • Lonely Planet Brazil

    by Trent Holden, Ann Babe, Joel Balsam, Rosie Bell, Marc Di Duca, Jamie Ditaranto, Kathryn Dominique Lum, Luana Ferreira, Christine Gilbert, Anthony Ham, Daniel C Schechter ...
    Series series Travel Guide
    Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime in this latest edition of our guide to Brazil.Discover Brazil's most popular experiences and best kept secrets from taking your pick of raucous, remote, classy and laid-back beaches on Ilhabela; to immersing yourself in the Amazon's flooded forest at Mamiraua, a refuge for rare birds, reptiles and ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Stray Bullet

    William S. Burroughs in Mexico

    by Jorge García-Robles ...
    Translated by Daniel C. Schechter ...
    William S. Burroughs arrived in Mexico City in 1949, having slipped out of New Orleans while awaiting trial on drug and weapons charges that would almost certainly have resulted in a lengthy prison sentence. Still uncertain about being a writer, he had left behind a series of failed business ventures—including a scheme to grow marijuana in Texas and sell it in New York—and an already long history ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • At the End of the Road

    Jack Kerouac in Mexico

    by Jorge García-Robles ...
    Translated by Daniel C. Schechter ...
    “We had finally found the magic land at the end of the road and we never dreamed the extent of the magic.” Mexico, an escape route, inspiration, and ecstatic terminus of the celebrated novel On the Road, was crucial to Jack Kerouac’s creative development. In this dramatic and highly compelling account, Jorge García-Robles, leading authority on the Beats in Mexico, re-creates both the actual events ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    by Edgar Allan Poe ...
    This volume collects the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe.THE TALESMetzengerstein, The Duc de L’Omelette, A Tale of Jerusalem, Loss of Breath, Bon-Bon, Ms. Found in a Bottle, The Assignation, Berenice, Morella, Lionizing, The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfaal, King Pest, Shadow—A Parable, etc.THE POEMSPoetry, O, Tempora! O, Mores!, Tamerlane, Song, Dreams, Spirits of the Dead, Evening ... Read more

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  • Grimms' Fairy Tales

    Rapunzel, Tom Thumb, Snow White, Rumpelstiltskin and Many More Classic Stories

    by The Brothers Grimm ...
    Series Book 22 - Children's Literature Collection
    From the land of fantastical castles, vast lakes and deep forests, the Brothers Grimm collected a treasury of enchanting folk and fairy stories full of giants and dwarfs, witches and princesses, magical beasts and cunning children. From classics such as 'The Frog-Prince' and 'Hansel and Grettel' to the delights of 'Ashputtel' or 'Old Sultan', all hold a timeless magic which has enthralled children ... Read more

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  • Any Other Way

    Histories of Queer Toronto

    Edited by Stephanie Chambers, Jane Farrow, Maureen FitzGerald, Ed Jackson, John Lorinc, Tim McCaskell, Rebecka Sheffield, Tatum Taylor, Rahim Thawer ...
    Toronto is home to multiple and thriving queer communities that reflect the dynamism of a global city. Any Other Way is an eclectic and richly illustrated local history that reveals how these individuals and community networks have transformed Toronto from a place of churches and conservative mores into a city that has consistently led the way in queer activism, not just in Canada but ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Critical Regionalism

    Connecting Politics and Culture in the American Landscape

    by Douglas Reichert Powell ...
    The idea of "region" in America has often served to isolate places from each other, observes Douglas Reichert Powell. Whether in the nostalgic celebration of folk cultures or the urbane distaste for "hicks," certain regions of the country are identified as static, insular, and culturally disconnected from everywhere else. In Critical Regionalism, Reichert Powell explores this trend and offers ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • William Gaddis: Expanded Edition

    by Dr Steven Moore ...
    In 1989, Steven Moore published the first scholarly study of all three of William Gaddis's novels and since then it has been generally regarded as the best book on this difficult but major writer's work. This revised and expanded edition includes new chapters on the novels Gaddis published after 1989, the National Book Award-winning A Frolic of His Own and the posthumous novella Agape Agape, along ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Land of Rowan Oak

    An Exploration of Faulkner's Natural World

    by Ed Croom, Donald M. Kartiganer ...
    The plants and landscape at Rowan Oak are the “little postage stamp of soil” that William Faulkner owned, walked, and tended for over thirty years during the writing of many of his short stories and novels. Faulkner saw and smelled the earth and listened to sounds from the cultivated grounds and the surrounding woods. This is the place that offered him refuge for writing and provided him food from ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Elizabeth Bishop

    Her Poetics of Loss

    by Susan McCabe ...
    Elizabeth Bishop represents a full-scale examination of Bishop's work—poetry, prose, and selected unpublished material—to reveal how personal loss becomes implicated in her vision of self as fluid and unfixed and, at the same time, how gender and sexual identity inform the experience of loss in the act of writing. Susan McCabe argues that Bishop counters modernist claims for an autonomous art ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Responding to Loss

    Heideggerian Reflections on Literature, Architecture, and Film

    by Robert Mugerauer ...
    Series series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
    Much recent philosophical work proposes to illuminate dilemmas of human existence with reference to the arts and culture, often to the point of submitting particular works to preconceived formulations. In this examination of three texts that respond to loss, Robert Mugerauer responds with close, detailed readings that seek to clarify the particularity of the intense force such works bring forth. ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The House That Jack Built

    The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer

    by Jack Spicer ...
    The House That Jack Built collects for the first time the four historic talks given by controversial poet Jack Spicer just before his early death in 1965. These lively and provocative lectures function as a gloss to Spicer's own poetry, a general discourse on poetics, and a cautionary handbook for young poets. This long-awaited document of Spicer's unorthodox poetic vision, what Robin Blaser has ... Read more

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