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  • A Ballad for Metka Krašovec

    by Tomaž Šalamun, Michael Biggins (Translator) ...
    Tomaž Šalamun was one of the most influential and prolific poets in Central Europe over the past few decades. Thanks to the translation of his work, he also received wide international acclaim. A number of volumes of his poetry have been published in English, yet A Ballad for Metka Krašovec, originally published in Slovenia in the early 1980s at the mid-point of Šalamun’s career, is considered to ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Slow Sailing

    by Uroš Zupan ...
    Translated by Michael Biggins ...
    Series series Litterae Slovenicae
    Uroš Zupan (1963) is one of Slovenia's most prominent contemporary poets and he has made his mark on Slovenian poetry of the past 30 years. Slow Sailing presents the author's own selection of the best of his best. This collection, which covers a period of more than two dozen years, is both personal and stern, since the author deals with his own poetry. From his delving into the golden age of his ... Read more

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  • The Journey To Being A Successful Franchisee

    by Michael Biggins ...
    A guide to the critical steps along your journey to success and profits. Written by a 30 year veteran of multiple restaurant segments who has been on both sides of the table - a franchisee and a franchisor. A concise guidebook with step by step commentary and forms and tables to help you along the way. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Newcomers: Book One

    by Lojze Kovacic ...
    Translated by Michael Biggins ...
    The first volume of this three-part autobiographical series begins in 1938 with the expulsion of the Kovacic family from their home of Switzerland, eventually leading to their settlement in the father's home country of Slovenia. Narrated by Kovacic as a ten-year-old boy, he describes his family's journey with uncanny naiveté. Before leaving their home, he imagines his father's home country as ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Errors of Young Tjaz

    by Florjan Lipus ...
    Translated by Michael Biggins ...
    Series series Slovenian Literature
    With its echoes of fellow Austrian novelist Robert Musil's novella Young Törless, and of Günter Grass’s The Tin Drum, Florjan Lipuš's Young Tjaž, first published in 1972, helped moved the critique of Germanic Europe's fundamental social conformity into the postwar age. But Lipuš, a member of the Slovene ethnic minority indigenous to Austria's southernmost province of Carinthia, wrote his novel in ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sea at Eclipse

    by Mate Dolenc, Alenka Jovanovski, Alenka Jovanovski ...
    Translated by Michael Biggins ...
    Mate Dolenc's novel Morje v času mrka (Sea at Eclipse) is one of the most beautiful islands in the author's literary archipelago. In this work, Dolenc succeeds in summoning to the page all of his acquaintances, friends, fictional and actual heroes as well as their creators, so that they may listen together and refresh an age-old tale that people never grow tired of: a story about love and the ... Read more

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  • Alamut

    by Vladimir Bartol ...
    Translated by Michael Biggins ...
    Series series Scala Translation
    Alamut takes place in 11th Century Persia, in the fortress of Alamut, where self-proclaimed prophet Hasan ibn Sabbah is setting up his mad but brilliant plan to rule the region with a handful of elite fighters who are to become his "living daggers." By creating a virtual paradise at Alamut, filled with beautiful women, lush gardens, wine and hashish, Sabbah is able to convince his young fighters ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Publishing in Yugoslavia's Successor States

    by Michael Biggins, Janet Crayne ...
    From the Editor's Foreword: “Without any doubt, the 1990s will long be remembered as the decade of Yugoslavia's prolonged disintegration. A virtual blueprint of the conflict is accessible to anyone in a position to track the independent print media that were then emerging in Yugoslavia's various republics.”Publishing in Yugoslavia's Successor States presents the results of extensive tracking and ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Newcomers: Book Two

    by Lojze Kovacic ...
    Translated by Michael Biggins ...
    The first volume of this three-part autobiographical series begins in 1938 with the expulsion of the Kovacic family from their home of Switzerland, eventually leading to their settlement in the father's home country of Slovenia. Narrated by Kovacic as a ten-year-old boy, he describes his family's journey with uncanny naiveté. Before leaving their home, he imagines his father's home country as ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    A Glossary of Over 130 Terms for Creative Entrepreneurs

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  • A Gushing Fountain

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    by Martin Walser ...
    Translated by David Dollenmayer ...
    Appearing for the first time in English, this masterful novel by one of the foremost figures of postwar German literature is an indelible portrait of Nazism slowly overtaking and poisoning a small town. Semi-autobiographical, it is also a remarkably vivid account of a childhood fraught with troubles, yet full of remembered love and touched by miracle.In a provincial town on Lake Constance, Johann ... Read more

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  • Too Loud a Solitude

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    A fable about the power of books and knowledge, "finely balanced between pathos and comedy," from one of Czechoslovakia's most popular authors ( Los Angeles Times).A New York Times Notable BookHaňtá has been compacting trash for thirty-five years. Every evening, he rescues books from the jaws of his hydraulic press, carries them home, and fills his house with them. Haňtá may be an idiot, as his ... Read more

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