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  • Funeral Platter

    Stories

    by Greg Ames ...
    From the author of Buffalo Lockjaw comes a mordantly humorous collection of taut, off-the-wall, and heartbreaking short stories. A young girl aspiring to be a ventriloquist using a burnt log as a dummy; Franz Kafka and Sartre cruising a seedy bar, trying to pick up chicks; a lighthearted retired couple stages and executes their own funeral; a son lovingly prepares and brings corn chowder to his ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Buffalo Lockjaw

    by Greg Ames ...
    James Fitzroy isn't doing so well. Though his old friends in Buffalo believe his life in New York City is a success, in fact he writes ridiculous taglines for a greeting card company. Now he's coming home on Thanksgiving to visit his aging father and dying mother, and unlike other holidays, he's not sure how this one is going to end. Buffalo Lockjaw introduces a fresh new voice in American fiction ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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    How to Identify and Gather Over 200 Species Throughout North America and Europe

    Translated by Grace McQuillan ...
    Everything You Could Ever Want to Know about Mushrooms!Mushrooms are an incredibly vast range of species, including all shapes and sizes and colors. This exciting collection includes a wealth of information on two hundred essential mushroom varieties, including their:Scientific namesHabitatsModes of developmentBotanical specificitiesUses in culinary cuisineAnd more!Spread throughout this... ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Smash all the Windows

    by Jane Davis ...
    It has taken conviction to right the wrongs. It will take courage to learn how to live again.'An all-round triumph.' John HudspithWinner of 'The Selfies' Best Independent Fiction Author Award at London Book Fair 2019For the families of the victims of the St Botolph and Old Billingsgate disaster, the undoing of a miscarriage of justice should be a cause for rejoicing. For more than thirteen years, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Rift in the Earth

    Art, Memory, and the Fight for a Vietnam War Memorial

    A Distinguished and Bestselling Historian and Army Veteran Revisits the Culture War that Raged around the Selection of Maya Lin's Design for the Vietnam MemorialA Rift in the Earth tells the remarkable story of the ferocious “art war” that raged between 1979 and 1984 over what kind of memorial should be built to honor the men and women who died in the Vietnam War. The story intertwines art, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Doha Experiment

    Arab Kingdom, Catholic College, Jewish Teacher

    Gary Wasserman’s decision to head to Qatar to teach at Georgetown sounds questionable, at best. “In the beginning,” he writes, “this sounds like a politically incorrect joke. A Jewish guy walks into a fundamentalist Arab country to teach American politics at a Catholic college.” But he quickly discovers that he has entered a world that gives him a unique perspective on the Middle East and on ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Weeping Woman

    A Novel

    Translated by David Frye ...
    by Zoé Valdés ...
    Winner of the prestigious Azorín Prize for Fiction, the best-selling novel about love, sacrifice, and Picasso's mistress, Dora Maar.A writer resembling Zoé Valdés-a Cuban exile living in Paris with her husband and young daughter-is preparing a novel on the life of Dora Maar, one of the most promising artists in the Surrealist movement until she met Pablo Picasso. The middle-aged Picasso was ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • To Live Forever

    An Afterlife Journey of Meriwether Lewis

    by Andra Watkins ...
    Merry Lewis died of two gunshot wounds more than two centuries ago. Was it suicide? Or murder? Because no one knows for sure, he’s stuck in an in-between called Nowhere. When he completes a Nowhere assignment, his soul will finally rest. But he’s failed every assignment, and he’s running out of time.Merry’s last hope for redemption is nine-year-old Emmaline Cagney. Her mother has a despicable ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Spring Flowers, Spring Frost

    A Novel

    by Ismail Kadare ...
    Translated by David Bellos ...
    In a small town at the foot of the northern highlands in Albania, a decade after the fall of the Communist regime, the harsh blood-for-blood law of the fearsome Kanun mountain folk is emerging from hibernation, like everything else that was forbidden under the fifty years of Communist rule. Mysterious happenings that are two thousand years old, two centuries old, or even just two years old ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Ascent of Humanity

    Civilization and the Human Sense of Self

    Charles Eisenstein explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self. In this limited hardcover edition of Eisenstein's landmark book, he argues that our disconnection from one another and the natural world has mislaid the foundations of science, religion, money, technology, economics, medicine, and education as ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

    by Lydia Davis ...
    The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is an event in American letters.Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers. She has been called "an American virtuoso of the short story form" (Salon) and "one of the quiet giants . . . of American fiction" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Now, for the first time, Davis's short stories are collected in one volume, from the groundbreaking ... Read more

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  • Make Money from Blogging

    A Step-by-Step Guide to Start a Profitable Blog, Grow Traffic, and Build Multiple Income Streams Online

    This book provides a structured introduction to building and managing a blog with a focus on long-term sustainability and income generation. It outlines the essential steps required to move from idea to execution, including defining a target audience, selecting a niche, setting up a website, and developing a consistent content strategy. The material also examines how blogging fits within the ... Read more

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