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The Dali Squiggle

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Life is not a straight line, but a squiggle. Alex Dante is not quite living the dream as he tends a bar in Madrid, but he knows life could be worse. The right señorita would be perfect, he thinks, but then falls for the wrong one. Optimistic, or foolish, or both. Aided as well as hindered by his strange friend Nuria Hidalgo, Alex refuses to stop chasing dreams that doggedly elude his pursuit. ... Read more

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Life is not a straight line, but a squiggle. Alex Dante is not quite living the dream as he tends a bar in Madrid, but he knows life could be worse. The right señorita would be perfect, he thinks, but then falls for the wrong one. Optimistic, or foolish, or both. Aided as well as hindered by his strange friend Nuria Hidalgo, Alex refuses to stop chasing dreams that doggedly elude his pursuit.
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Ploughshares Fall 2021

by Ladette Randolph, Leslie Kirk Campbell, Afsheen Farhadi, Christie Hodgen, Yxta Maya Murray, Mona Susan Power, Will Schluter, Nick Sweeney, Joan Wickersham, Julian Zabalbeascoa ...

The Fall 2021 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Fall 2021 Issue of Ploughshares, ... Read more

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The Fall 2021 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Fall 2021 Issue of Ploughshares,
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Blue Coast Mystery

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In A Blue Coast Mystery: Almost Solved, a London nurse narrates the story of a drifter she latches onto in a public hospital. Henri is in permanent recovery, not only from his heroin addiction but from the 1960s, a decade that invited the unwary to the biggest party in history, then discarded them. She is curious about his past life on the C\u00f4te d\u2019Azur with a French countess, hanging out ... Read more

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In A Blue Coast Mystery: Almost Solved, a London nurse narrates the story of a drifter she latches onto in a public hospital. Henri is in permanent recovery, not only from his heroin addiction but from the 1960s, a decade that invited the unwary to the biggest party in history, then discarded them. She is curious about his past life on the C\u00f4te d\u2019Azur with a French countess, hanging out
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“You couldn’t shoot people for sneering. You could, however, shoot them for burning down stores and bankrupting people. And in fact, if nobody else was going to do it for you, you had to.”Nick Sweeney’s stories haunt the web and print. His books include a lover’s jaunt around Poland in Laikonik Express (Unthank Books, 2011), an opportunist’s wander into the wrong part of Silesia in The Exploding ... Read more

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“You couldn’t shoot people for sneering. You could, however, shoot them for burning down stores and bankrupting people. And in fact, if nobody else was going to do it for you, you had to.”Nick Sweeney’s stories haunt the web and print. His books include a lover’s jaunt around Poland in Laikonik Express (Unthank Books, 2011), an opportunist’s wander into the wrong part of Silesia in The Exploding
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This Strange Eventful History

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**Longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize • Longlisted for the 2024 Giller Prize • Winner of the 2024 Deborah Pease PrizeA 2024 New York Times Best Historical Fiction Book • One of the Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2024 • A New Yorker Best Book of 2024 • A Boston Globe Best Book of 2024 • A Financial Times Best Book of 2024 • A Vogue Best Book of 2024 • An Oprah Daily Best book of the Year • A ... Read more

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**Longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize • Longlisted for the 2024 Giller Prize • Winner of the 2024 Deborah Pease PrizeA 2024 New York Times Best Historical Fiction Book • One of the Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2024 • A New Yorker Best Book of 2024 • A Boston Globe Best Book of 2024 • A Financial Times Best Book of 2024 • A Vogue Best Book of 2024 • An Oprah Daily Best book of the Year • A
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The President's Hat

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**This international bestseller is a charming “fable of romance and redemption” about an unsuspecting accountant who happens upon the life-changing power of a rather special hat (Telegraph)“As entertaining as it is original, this is the story to enjoy like a chocolate with a surprise centre” –Marie France“Impossible to resist” –L'Express**Dining alone in an elegant Parisian brasserie, accountant ... Read more

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**This international bestseller is a charming “fable of romance and redemption” about an unsuspecting accountant who happens upon the life-changing power of a rather special hat (Telegraph)“As entertaining as it is original, this is the story to enjoy like a chocolate with a surprise centre” –Marie France“Impossible to resist” –L'Express**Dining alone in an elegant Parisian brasserie, accountant
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Life: A User's Manual

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Series series Verba Mundi International Literature Series
The renowned French author's modern masterpiece: "one of the great novels of the century . . . on the level of Joyce, Proust, Mann, Kafka, and Nabokov" ( Boston Globe).Structured around a single moment in time—8:00 p.m. on June 23, 1975—Georges Perec's "elaborate jigsaw puzzle of a novel" begins in an apartment block in Paris where, chapter by chapter, room by room, a rich cast of characters is ... Read more

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The renowned French author's modern masterpiece: "one of the great novels of the century . . . on the level of Joyce, Proust, Mann, Kafka, and Nabokov" ( Boston Globe).Structured around a single moment in time—8:00 p.m. on June 23, 1975—Georges Perec's "elaborate jigsaw puzzle of a novel" begins in an apartment block in Paris where, chapter by chapter, room by room, a rich cast of characters is
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An international bestseller from French author Jean-Paul Didierlaurent, The Reader on the 6.27 is ready to take you on a journey . . .Guylain Vignolles lives on the edge of existence. Working at a book pulping factory in a job he hates, he has but one pleasure in life . . .Sitting on the 6.27 train each day, Guylain recites aloud from pages he has saved from the jaws of his monstrous pulping ... Read more

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An international bestseller from French author Jean-Paul Didierlaurent, The Reader on the 6.27 is ready to take you on a journey . . .Guylain Vignolles lives on the edge of existence. Working at a book pulping factory in a job he hates, he has but one pleasure in life . . .Sitting on the 6.27 train each day, Guylain recites aloud from pages he has saved from the jaws of his monstrous pulping
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The Cyclist - A World War II Thriller

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"The story is brilliantly executed... Nath's biggest success is the sustained atmospheric tension that he creates somewhat effortlessly."- Little Interpretations"A haunting and bittersweet novel that stays with you long after the final chapter – always the sign of a really well-written and praiseworthy story. It would also make an excellent screenplay."- Historical Novels Review - Editor's ... Read more

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"The story is brilliantly executed... Nath's biggest success is the sustained atmospheric tension that he creates somewhat effortlessly."- Little Interpretations"A haunting and bittersweet novel that stays with you long after the final chapter – always the sign of a really well-written and praiseworthy story. It would also make an excellent screenplay."- Historical Novels Review - Editor's
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**A probing masterpiece-in-miniature of self-reflection and cultural reckoning.The Times [UK] • 12 Best Books of 2024Financial Times • Best Books of 2024 [Fiction in Translation]A Vanity Fair "Can't Miss Novel to Read"Literary Hub • Best Book Covers of October 2024**From “the great German-language writer of his generation” (Joshua Cohen) comes the second novel of Christian Kracht’s career narrated ... Read more

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**A probing masterpiece-in-miniature of self-reflection and cultural reckoning.The Times [UK] • 12 Best Books of 2024Financial Times • Best Books of 2024 [Fiction in Translation]A Vanity Fair "Can't Miss Novel to Read"Literary Hub • Best Book Covers of October 2024**From “the great German-language writer of his generation” (Joshua Cohen) comes the second novel of Christian Kracht’s career narrated
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**Named a Best Book of the Year by *The Guardian, The Observer, PopMatters,*and Sydney Morning Herald.The true story of a love affair between two extraordinary women becomes a literary tour deforce in this novel that recreates the surrealist movement in Paris and the horrors of the two world wars with a singular incandescence and intimacy.**In the years preceding World War I, two young women meet,
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