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The Water Statues

by Fleur Jaeggy ...

Translated by Gini Alhadeff ...

Family, obsession, and privilege boiled down by the icy-hot Swiss-Italian master stylist Fleur JaeggyEven among Fleur Jaeggy’s singular and intricate works, The Water Statues is a shiningly peculiar book. Concerned with loneliness and wealth’s odd emotional poverty, this early novel is in part structured as a play: the dramatis personae include the various relatives, friends, and servants of a man ... Read more

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Family, obsession, and privilege boiled down by the icy-hot Swiss-Italian master stylist Fleur JaeggyEven among Fleur Jaeggy’s singular and intricate works, The Water Statues is a shiningly peculiar book. Concerned with loneliness and wealth’s odd emotional poverty, this early novel is in part structured as a play: the dramatis personae include the various relatives, friends, and servants of a man
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I Am the Brother of XX

by Fleur Jaeggy ...

Translated by Gini Alhadeff ...

As concentrated as bullets, new stories by the inimitable Fleur JaeggyFleur Jaeggy is often noted for her terse and telegraphic style, which somehow brews up a profound paradox that seems bent on haunting the reader: despite a sort of zero-at-the-bone baseline, her fiction is weirdly also incredibly moving. How does she do it? No one knows. But here, in her newest collection, I Am the Brother of ... Read more

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As concentrated as bullets, new stories by the inimitable Fleur JaeggyFleur Jaeggy is often noted for her terse and telegraphic style, which somehow brews up a profound paradox that seems bent on haunting the reader: despite a sort of zero-at-the-bone baseline, her fiction is weirdly also incredibly moving. How does she do it? No one knows. But here, in her newest collection, I Am the Brother of
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The Road to the City

by Natalia Ginzburg ...

Translated by Gini Alhadeff ...

A magnificently stark book—within the smallness of one poor, muddled, provincial life, Natalia Ginzburg finds enormous pain and lossAn almost unbearably intimate novella, The Road to the City concentrates on a young woman barely awake to life, who fumbles through her days: she is fickle yet kind, greedy yet abashed, stupidly ambitious yet loving too—she is a mass of confusion. She’s in a bleak ... Read more

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A magnificently stark book—within the smallness of one poor, muddled, provincial life, Natalia Ginzburg finds enormous pain and lossAn almost unbearably intimate novella, The Road to the City concentrates on a young woman barely awake to life, who fumbles through her days: she is fickle yet kind, greedy yet abashed, stupidly ambitious yet loving too—she is a mass of confusion. She’s in a bleak
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Good Life, Good Death

by Gini Alhadeff, Mark Magill, Nawang Gelek Rimpoche ...

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Who are we? Where did we come from? Where are we going? How do we get there? Many have asked these questions, and many have attempted to answer them. But there is another question Good Life, Good Death asks us to contemplate: How does the idea of life after death affect how we live our lives?Gelek Rimpoche tells stories of the mystical Tibet he lived in, as well as the contemporary America he ... Read more

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Who are we? Where did we come from? Where are we going? How do we get there? Many have asked these questions, and many have attempted to answer them. But there is another question Good Life, Good Death asks us to contemplate: How does the idea of life after death affect how we live our lives?Gelek Rimpoche tells stories of the mystical Tibet he lived in, as well as the contemporary America he
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Walker on Water

by Kristiina Ehin ...

Translated by Ilmar Lehtpere ...

A woman cultivates a knack for walking on water, but is undermined by her husband's brain, which he removes each night when he returns home from work; a couple overcomes the irksome mischief of the gods; a skeptical dragon wonders what sex is all about: this is the world of Kristiina Ehin. From the 2007 British Poetry Society Popescu prize winner for European poetry in translation: a series of ... Read more

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A woman cultivates a knack for walking on water, but is undermined by her husband's brain, which he removes each night when he returns home from work; a couple overcomes the irksome mischief of the gods; a skeptical dragon wonders what sex is all about: this is the world of Kristiina Ehin. From the 2007 British Poetry Society Popescu prize winner for European poetry in translation: a series of
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Nostos and Algos

by Manolis ...

In Nostos and Algos a mature poet tells a simple story and yet underlying it all is a tension formed by intense, glaring, cutting, gripping and captivating images. This collection, Manolis' best so far, is subtle and unexpected, and you are left to imagine what may occur. You feel this sense of expectation in many of the poems, and this keeps them from feeling dry or overwrought. Most fascinating ... Read more

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In Nostos and Algos a mature poet tells a simple story and yet underlying it all is a tension formed by intense, glaring, cutting, gripping and captivating images. This collection, Manolis' best so far, is subtle and unexpected, and you are left to imagine what may occur. You feel this sense of expectation in many of the poems, and this keeps them from feeling dry or overwrought. Most fascinating
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An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

by Clarice Lispector, Sheila Heti, Benjamin Moser ...

Translated by Stefan Tobler ...

Now in paperback, a romantic love story by the great Brazilian writerLóri, a primary school teacher, is isolated and nervous, comfortable with children but unable to connect to adults. When she meets Ulisses, a professor of philosophy, an opportunity opens: a chance to escape the shipwreck of introspection and embrace the love, including the sexual love, of a man. Her attempt, as Sheila Heti ... Read more

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Now in paperback, a romantic love story by the great Brazilian writerLóri, a primary school teacher, is isolated and nervous, comfortable with children but unable to connect to adults. When she meets Ulisses, a professor of philosophy, an opportunity opens: a chance to escape the shipwreck of introspection and embrace the love, including the sexual love, of a man. Her attempt, as Sheila Heti
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A Nest of Vipers

by Andrea Camilleri ...

Translated by Stephen Sartarelli ...

Series Book 21 - An Inspector Montalbano Mystery
**“The novels of Andrea Camilleri breathe out the sense of place, the sense of humor, and the sense of despair that fills the air of Sicily.” —Donna LeonMontalbano investigates the death of wealthy accountant Barletta in a case involving a string of mistresses and family secrets.**Inspector Montalbano enjoys simple pleasures: delicious food, walks along the water, the occasional smoke—yet these ... Read more

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**“The novels of Andrea Camilleri breathe out the sense of place, the sense of humor, and the sense of despair that fills the air of Sicily.” —Donna LeonMontalbano investigates the death of wealthy accountant Barletta in a case involving a string of mistresses and family secrets.**Inspector Montalbano enjoys simple pleasures: delicious food, walks along the water, the occasional smoke—yet these
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The Tennis Court Oath

A Book of Poems

by John Ashbery ...

Series series Wesleyan Poetry Program
John Ashbery writes like no one else among contemporary American poets. In the construction of his intricate patterns, he uses words much as the contemporary painter uses form and color- words painstakingly chosen as conveyors of precise meaning, not as representations of sound. These linked in unexpected juxtapositions, at first glance unrelated and even anarchic, in the end create by their ... Read more

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John Ashbery writes like no one else among contemporary American poets. In the construction of his intricate patterns, he uses words much as the contemporary painter uses form and color- words painstakingly chosen as conveyors of precise meaning, not as representations of sound. These linked in unexpected juxtapositions, at first glance unrelated and even anarchic, in the end create by their
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Princess From the Shadows

A Contemporary Royal Romance

by Maisey Yates ...

Series series The Santina Crown
Stop The Press: Santina' Secret Baby Scandal!Santina's royal palace officials were tight-lipped about claims that Prince Rodriguez Anguiano was jilted by his fiancée. But it seems the prince did not leave Santina empty-handed after all!Princess Carlotta Santina has been living out of the spotlight and under a cloud since giving birth to her illegitimate son. Now she's arriving at Rodriguez's ... Read more

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Stop The Press: Santina' Secret Baby Scandal!Santina's royal palace officials were tight-lipped about claims that Prince Rodriguez Anguiano was jilted by his fiancée. But it seems the prince did not leave Santina empty-handed after all!Princess Carlotta Santina has been living out of the spotlight and under a cloud since giving birth to her illegitimate son. Now she's arriving at Rodriguez's
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Pigeon Feathers

And Other Stories

by John Updike ...

When this classic collection of stories first appeared—in 1962, on the author’s thirtieth birthday—Arthur Mizener wrote in The New York Times Book Review: “Updike is a romantic [and] like all American romantics, that is, he has an irresistible impulse to go in memory home again in order to find himself. . . . The precise recollection of his own family-love, parental and marital, is vital to him; ... Read more

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When this classic collection of stories first appeared—in 1962, on the author’s thirtieth birthday—Arthur Mizener wrote in The New York Times Book Review: “Updike is a romantic [and] like all American romantics, that is, he has an irresistible impulse to go in memory home again in order to find himself. . . . The precise recollection of his own family-love, parental and marital, is vital to him;
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In Paradise

A Novel

by Peter Matthiessen ...

The bestselling final novel by a writer of incomparable range, power, and achievement, a three-time winner of the National Book Award.Peter Matthiessen was a literary legend, the author of more than thirty acclaimed books. In this, his final novel, he confronts the legacy of evil, and our unquenchable desire to wrest good from it.One week in late autumn of 1996, a group gathers at the site of a ... Read more

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The bestselling final novel by a writer of incomparable range, power, and achievement, a three-time winner of the National Book Award.Peter Matthiessen was a literary legend, the author of more than thirty acclaimed books. In this, his final novel, he confronts the legacy of evil, and our unquenchable desire to wrest good from it.One week in late autumn of 1996, a group gathers at the site of a
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