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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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  • 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

    $8.99 USD

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  • 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

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  • 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

    $8.99 USD

  • The House of Lurking Death

    A Tommy & Tuppence Adventure

    by Agatha Christie ...
    Series series Tommy & Tuppence Short Stories

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  • Clearvigil in Spring (Clarivigilia Primaveral)

    by Miguel Angel Asturias ...
    The first authorized English translation of Nobel laureate Miguel Ángel Asturias' poetic cycle. The Nobel Committee took special note of Clarivigilia Primaveral, calling it an "impressive" work that "deals with the very genesis of the arts and of poetic creation, in a language which seems to have assumed the bright splendor of the magical queztal's feathers and the glimmering of phosphorescent ... Read more

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  • The Monkey Grammarian

    by Octavio Paz ...
    Translated by Helen R. Lane ...
    Nobel Prize–winner Octavio Paz offers a dazzling mind journey to the sources of poetry. Poet, diplomat, writer, philosopher, hailed as an “intellectual literary one-man band” by the New York Times Book Review, Nobel Prize–winner Octavio Paz was a key figure in the Latin American Literary Renaissance and in world literature. In this entrancing work, part prose-poem and part rumination on the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Collected Poems, 1930–1993

    by May Sarton ...
    A comprehensive volume collecting May Sarton's poetry from over sixty years of workThis collection spanning six decades exposes the charm and clarity of Sarton's poetry to the fullest. Arranged in chronological order, it follows the transformation of her writing through a wide range of poetic forms and styles. Her poetry meditates on topics including the American landscape, aging, nature, the act ... Read more

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