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  • Queer Street

    Rise and Fall of an American Culture, 1947-1985

    by James McCourt ...
    "A heroically imaginative account of gay metropolitan culture, an elegy and an apologia for a generation."—New York Times Book ReviewA fierce critical intelligence animates every page of Queer Street. Its sentences are dizzying divagations. The postwar generation of queer New York has found a sophisticated bard singing 'the elders' history' (The New York Times). James McCourt's seminal Queer ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Mawrdew Czgowchwz

    by James McCourt ...
    Diva Mawrdew Czgowchwz (pronounced “Mardu Gorgeous”) bursts like the most brilliant of comets onto the international opera scene, only to confront the deadly malice and black magic of her rivals. Outrageous and uproarious, flamboyant and serious as only the most perfect frivolity can be, James McCourt’s entrancing send-up of the world of opera has been a cult classic for more than a quarter ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Lasting City

    The Anatomy of Nostalgia

    by James McCourt ...
    A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year (Nonfiction)The darkly intense Irish-American family drama come alive like never before in this "virtuosic meta-memoir" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).“The blood-red of Manhattan, the brilliant green of an Irish-American wake, the blue-rinsed divas of the opera and the bathhouse alike” (Michael Gorra) are hypnotically rendered in this “astoundingly smart ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Dubliners

    by James Joyce, Malachy McCourt ...
    This Vintage Classics edition of James Joyce’s groundbreaking story collection has been authoritatively edited by scholars Hans Walter Gabler and Walter Hettche and includes a chronology, bibliography, and afterword by John S. Kelly. Also included in a special appendix are the original versions of three of the stories as well as Joyce's long-suppressed preface to Dubliners.With the fifteen stories ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Cobra

    by Severo Sarduy ...
    Translated by Suzanne Jill Levine ...
    Series series Dalkey Archive Essentials
    The late Severo Sarduy was one of the most outrageous and baroque of the Latin American Boom writers of the sixties and seventies, and Cobra was his finest creation. Cobra (1972) recounts the tale of a transvestite named Cobra, star of the Lyrical Theater of the Dolls, whose obsession is to transform his/her body. She is assisted in her metamorphosis by the Madam and Pup, Cobra’s dwarfish double. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What's for Dinner?

    by James Schuyler ...
    James Schuyler's utterly original What's for Dinner? features a cast of characters who appear to have escaped from a Norman Rockwell painting to run amok. In tones that are variously droll, deadpan, and lyrical, Schuyler tells a story that revolves around three small-town American households. The Delehanteys are an old-fashioned Catholic family whose twin teenage boys are getting completely out of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Dubliners

    by James Joyce ...
    Narrated by Malachy McCourt, Malachy McCourt, Dan O'Herlihy, Patrick McCabe, Ciaran Hinds, T.P. McKenna, Brendan Coyle, Camogie Inc., Rejoycing Company ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 9 min

    Dubliners - James Joyce's stories of his native homeland - performed by a cast of 15 different actors originating from Ireland. Unabridged.The fifteen stories that make up this brilliant audio roam over a human landscape that stretches from the bleakest of despair to the most blinding of epiphanies. First published in 1914, the stories are as lucid and accessible as they are memorable poignant.As ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

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  • Ulysses(Illustrated)

    by James Joyce ...
    llustrated Edition: Contains 20 vivid illustrations, capturing key moments and characters from each chapter.Includes Comprehensive Summary: An engaging and detailed summary of the entire narrative.Character List Provided: Offers an in-depth look at the diverse cast of characters in "Ulysses."Author Biography: Features a fascinating biography of James Joyce, exploring his life and the inf... ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Ulysses

    by James Joyce ...
    Narrated by Full Cast, Sinead Cusack, Stephen Rea ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 25 min

    The young poet Stephen has been recalled from Paris to Dublin to be at his mother’s deathbed. But he refuses her dying wishes: to kneel and pray for her. Now, holed up in his Martello tower outside the city walls, he has to suffer the taunts of Buck Mulligan by day and, by night, the vision of ‘her eyes, shaking out of death to shake and bend my soul.’ Timelessly evocative, Ulysses is far more ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

  • The Asking

    New and Selected Poems

    by Jane Hirshfield ...
    The long-awaited new and selected collection by the author of “some of the most important poetry in the world today” (The New York Times Magazine), assaying the ranges of our shared and borrowed lives: our bonds of eros and responsibilities to the planet; the singing dictions and searchlight dimensions of perception; the willing plunge into an existence both perishing and beloved, dazzling “even ... Read more

    Was $9.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Stolen Childhood

    A Dark Past, a Terrible Secret, a Girl Without a Future

    by Casey Watson ...
    Bestselling author and teacher Casey Watson shares the horrifying true story of Kiera Bentley, a 12-year-old girl with a deeply shocking secret she’s too young to even understand.When Casey first meets Kiera, a small slight girl who’s just lashed out at a fellow pupil in assembly, she immediately senses something’s wrong. Something in Kiera’s eyes alerts Casey that this is an “old head on young ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Apple Trees at Olema

    New and Selected Poems

    by Robert Hass ...
    “No practicing poet has more talent than Robert Hass.”—Atlantic MonthlyThe National Book Award-winning author of Time and Materials, Robert Hass is one of the most revered of all living poets. With The Apple Trees at Olema, the former Poet Laureate and winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize offers twenty new and selected poems grounded in the beauty of the physical world. As with all of the collections ... Read more

    $7.99 USD