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  • George Orwell's Elephant & Other Essays
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    George Orwell's Elephant & Other Essays

    In his new collection of essays Subhash Jaireth traverses the globe in an exploration of the personal and collective memory held within natural and built landscapes.His roving curiosity takes us from his early life in Delhi to his years as a student in...
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    Breath Taking

    "A master class in how to be a person." --Joanna Rakoff, bestselling author of My Salinger Year"Astonishing...one of the most moving memoirs I've read." --Caroline Leavitt, best-selling author of With or Without You and Days of Wonder. In Breath Taking:...
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  • Stories from the Center of the World
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    Stories from the Center of the World

    One of The Millions Most Anticipated Books for Spring!Featured in Alta Magazine's New Books for May!Short stories from 25 emerging and established writers of Middle Eastern and North African origins, a unique collection of voices and viewpoints...
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    Miyamoto Musashi's Book of Five Rings: The Manga Edition
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    Miyamoto Musashi's Book of Five Rings: The Manga Edition

    Miyamoto Musashi is the greatest swordsman who ever lived. He is renowned for his fighting prowess and famous for having never having been defeated. Then he mysteriously disappeared at the relatively young age of 29 to meditate and study.This book tells...
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  • Counterfeit Worlds
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    Counterfeit Worlds

    Philip K. Dick struggled to make a living during his lifetime, but his work has since served as a deep seam of ideas to be mined by filmmakers such as Ridley Scott, Paul Verhoeven, Steven Spielberg, John Woo and Richard Linklater, resulting in some of...
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  • Curious Sounds
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    Curious Sounds

    A collaborative book by two extraordinary Black artists about finding beauty in the chaos. Roger Mooking is well-known as a celebrity chef and the host of such television shows as the Cooking Channel's Man Fire Food and Everyday Exotic; he is...
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  • Sharp Notions
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    Sharp Notions

    A wide-ranging anthology of personal essays from diverse voices about their relationships to the fibre arts. Sometimes, the reliability of a knit stitch, the steady rocking of a quilting needle, the solid structure of a loom, is all you have. During the...
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  • Beneath the Surface of Things
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    Beneath the Surface of Things

    'Wade Davis is a true wayfinder, and these essays offer new insight into his visionary approach to culture, landscape, and the planet he loves as fiercely as any writer working today.' John Vaillant, author of Fire WeatherThe essays in...
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    Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fifteen
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    Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fifteen

    From Ellen Datlow - 'the venerable queen of horror anthologies' per the New York Times - comes a new entry in the series that has brought you thrilling stories from Stephen King and Neil Gaiman, the best horror stories available.For...
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    Cults: A True Crime Collection
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    Cults: A True Crime Collection

    Discover the truth of what happens when true believers go too far with the shocking stories of the world's most known and horrific cults like The Order of the Solar Temple and the NXIVM Cult.Cults have been around for centuries, and many have been dubbed...
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    Big Book of 1980s Serial Killers
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    Big Book of 1980s Serial Killers

    Take a deep dive into the rise and fall of some of the most notorious serial killers of the '80s, including Jeffrey Dahmer, Joseph James DeAngelo, Dennis Lynn Rader, and the Night Stalker.Neon leg warmers, big hair, rock band T-shirts, and mix tapes -...
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  • Terry and the Pirates: The Master Collection Vol. 6
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    Terry and the Pirates: The Master Collection Vol. 6

    "Caniff visualized his setup with a cinematic flair that remains thrilling because it is played straight." -The New Yorker"Arguably the greatest of all adventure strips." - The WashingtonPostThe saga continues inTerry and the PiratesVolume 6, reproduced...
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  • Terry and the Pirates: The Master Collection Vol. 4
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    Terry and the Pirates: The Master Collection Vol. 4

    "Before Caniff introduced the Dragon Lady to Pat Ryan, before Burma and Raven Sherman and NormandieDrake fell for our hero, there was not a hint of sex-real sex-to be found in the American newspaper strip. Caniff changed all that." - Jules FeifferThe...
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  • Terry and the Pirates: The Master Collection Vol. 2
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    Terry and the Pirates: The Master Collection Vol. 2

    Volume 2 of this landmark series-reproduced from Milton Caniff's personal set of color syndicate tabloid proofs-features the iconic 1936 daily and Sunday adventures, which continue their separate paths until the end of August when the stories-and cast of...
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  • The Best Literary Translations 2024
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    The Best Literary Translations 2024

    Best Literary Translations is a new, annual anthology that celebrates world literatures in English translation and honors the translators who create and literary journals that publish this work.Best Literary Translations 2024 features both contemporary...
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  • My Belly
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    My Belly

    If my hatred of my belly was a person, she would be old enough to have completed a lengthy education and given me grandchildren.An unflinching and feminist portrait of one woman's obsession with her belly and the cultural and social norms that feed that...
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  • Skid Dogs
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    Skid Dogs

    Skid Dogs is araw and riveting debut memoir about coming of age during the casual oppression of '90s rape culture and the passionate tumult of teenage friendships."I can't remember the last time I read a book so brave. Maybe never." -Ani DiFranco"I fell...
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  • Freedom Shall Prevail
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    Freedom Shall Prevail

    Freedom Shall Prevail is the first graphic novel exploring the life and struggle of Abdullah calan, affectionately known as "Apo." Highly regarded around the world, calan led the Kurdish freedom struggle as the head of the PKK from its foundation in 1978...
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  • Rottenkid
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    Rottenkid

    A memoir sauteed in Hollywood stories, world travel, and always, the need to belongProlific cookbook author Brigit Binns' coming-of-age memoir-co-starring her alcoholic actor father Edward Binns and glamorous but viciously smart narcissistic...
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  • Finding the Fox
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    Finding the Fox

    'Tjernshaugen writes in an easy-to-read style that is full of insight and understanding. I felt like I was sitting beside him as he described fox behavior.' - Rick McIntyre, Yellowstone wolf researcher and author of The Rise of Wolf 8An...
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  • The Pain Project
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    The Pain Project

    'The Pain Project is ironically full of pleasure: on every page is another generous, original insight into this most intimate human subject.' - NAOMI KLEIN, author of Doppelganger'The Pain Project is a beautiful, humane,...
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    Searching for Franklin
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    Searching for Franklin

    Arctic historian Ken McGoogan approaches the legacy of nineteenth-century explorer Sir John Franklin from a contemporary perspective and offers a surprising new explanation of an enduring Northern mystery.Two of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin's...
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  • The Best Australian Science Writing 2023
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    The Best Australian Science Writing 2023

    Should we alter animals' DNA to save them from extinction? What secrets will old ice reveal to us about the Earth's deep past? How is the world's most expensive - and explosive - substance made?Great science writing offers fascinating insights into our...
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  • Bad Indians  (10th Anniversary Edition)
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    Bad Indians (10th Anniversary Edition)

    Now in paperback and newly expanded, this gripping memoir is hailed as essential by Joy Harjo, Leslie Marmon Silko, and ELLE magazine-among others.Bad Indians-part tribal history, part lyric and intimate memoir-is essential reading for anyone seeking to...
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  • Under the Henfluence
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    Under the Henfluence

    An immersive blend of chicken-keeping memoir and culture reporting by a journalist who accidentally became obsessed with her flock.Since first domesticating the chicken thousands of years ago, humans have become exceptionally adept at raising them for...
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    The Bishop and the Butterfly
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    The Bishop and the Butterfly

    The riveting story of how the murder of prostitute Vivian Gordon brought about the downfall of the mayor of New York City and an end to the dominance of Tammany Hall."Propulsive. . . . Unlike the sensationalist reporters of the era, Wolraich manages to...
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  • Griffith Review 82: Animal Magic
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    Griffith Review 82: Animal Magic

    Whether it's man's best friend or the king of the jungle, animals occupy a central place in our social, emotional and cultural lives. We're happy as clams or pigs in mud; we hold our horses or take a lion's share of what we want; we avoid the elephant in...
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  • Honeymoons
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    Honeymoons

    Beautifully produced and a perfect gift for travellers newly wedded or not - by turn funny, tender, acerbic and charming.Includes extracts from: Paul Bowles, Dorothy Sayers, D. H. Lawrence, Byron, Tolstoy, Flaubert, Dorothy Parker, A. N. Wilson,...
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  • When My Ghost Sings
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    When My Ghost Sings

    A lucid exploration of amnesia, selfhood, and who is left behind when the past is obliterated.Tara Sidhoo Fraser is thirty-one years old when a rare mutation in her brain causes a stroke. Awakening after surgery with no memory of her previous life, she...
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  • Erdoan
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    Erdoan

    **Winner, 2022 Atomium Comic Strip Prize**A comprehensive graphic biography of Recep Tayyip Erdoan, the authoritarian president of Turkey.One of the world's most divisive and controversial leaders, Recep Tayyip Erdoan has ruled over Turkey as either...
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    Barbara Comyns
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    Barbara Comyns

    The extraordinary twentieth-century writer Barbara Comyns led a life as captivating as the narratives she spun. This pioneering biography reveals the journey of a woman who experienced hardship and single-motherhood before the age of thirty but went on...
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  • She played and sang
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    She played and sang

    Like her much-loved heroine Emma Woodhouse, Jane Austen 'played and sang'. Music occupied a central role in her life, and she made brilliant use of it in her books to illuminate characters' personalities and highlight the contrasts between them.Until...
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  • An Unruled Body
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    An Unruled Body

    In a searching and powerful debut memoir, award-winning poet and literary translator Ani Gjika tells a different kind of origin story by writing about the ways a woman listens to her own body, intuition, and desire.Ani Gjika was born in Albania and came...
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  • Calvaria Fell
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    Calvaria Fell

    Calvaria Fell is a stunning collaborative collection of weird tales from two acclaimed authors, Kaaron Warren and Cat Sparks. It features previously published stories from both authors, along with a new novella by Kaaron Warren and four new stories by...
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  • Polluted Sex
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    Polluted Sex

    **Shortlisted, The Barbellion Prize****Shortlisted, The Irish Book Awards**A pregnant woman takes the ferry to the UK.A fractious intimate relationship develops between an Irish woman, an English man, and her girlfriend.Two ungendered characters contest...
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    Duty Calls
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    Duty Calls

    Follow the remarkable journey of a trailblazing American leader, Dr. Antonia Novello, the first woman and the first Hispanic Surgeon General of the United States Dr. Antonia Novellois a vanguard in the United States and Puerto Rico, whose enduring...
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  • Nina Simone in Comics!
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    Nina Simone in Comics!

    This is the story of an emancipation, that of a young black and poor woman living in an America marked by segregation.This is the story of a fierce battle, that of a musician involved in the civil rights movement.This is the story of a long career, that...
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  • Degas & Cassatt
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    Degas & Cassatt

    One of the founders of the Impressionist movement while also one of its most ruthless critics, too bohemian for the bourgeois and too bourgeois for the artists, Edgar Degas was a man of paradoxes. A loner, he only loved one woman without ever courting...
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    A Seat at the Table
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    A Seat at the Table

    When Shirley Chisholm was asked why she would dare run for president, her response was, why not her? Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm rose from being the child of immigrants to the United States to running for the highest office in the land. She was both...
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  • Wrong Is Not My Name
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    Wrong Is Not My Name

    A dazzling hybrid of personal memoir and criticism, considering the work of Black visual artists as a means to explore loss, legacy, and the reclamation of life through art.At the age of twenty-one, Erica Cardwell finds herself in New York City, reeling...
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    Gorilla Tactics
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    Gorilla Tactics

    Gorillas are among the most recognizable of the large charismatic mammals, but climate change and poaching has brought them to the brink of extinction. Greg Cummings was the executive director of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund for seventeen years. He...
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  • The Weird Sister Collection
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    The Weird Sister Collection

    Collecting the best of the underground blog Weird Sister, these unapologetic and insightful essays link contemporary feminism to literature and pop culture.Launched in 2014, Weird Sister proudly staked out a corner of the internet where feminist writers...
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  • Swords in the Shadows
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    Swords in the Shadows

    It was an age of adventure.An age of sorcery.An age of unrelenting horror.Sword and sorcery and pulp horror go hand-in-hand. Sinister enchanters working foul magic. Hideous beasts lurking in shadowy dungeons. Blasphemous elder gods uncoiling from...
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  • Easywriter, The Flawed Memories of an Easyriders Editor
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    Easywriter, The Flawed Memories of an Easyriders Editor

    Kai Michael Raecke was a journalist for Easyriders Magazine for 32 years, a motorcycle enthusiast, world traveler, and a passionate philanthropist. He was born in Austria, and raised in the town of Freilassing in southern Bavaria by his maternal...
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    Alcatraz Ghost Story
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    Alcatraz Ghost Story

    The Incredible True Story of the Most Hunted Man in Pacific Coast Historyand the Woman He LovedBefore the 1920s found theirroar, a charismatic gambling addict named Roy Gardner dominated news headlines with daring train robberies and escapes from...
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    Crimes of the Centuries
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    Crimes of the Centuries

    A fascinating pop-history dive into the stories behind the incredibly impactful crimes - both infamous and little-known - that have shaped the legal system as we know it.When asked why true crime is so in vogue, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New...
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    Farnsworth's Classical English Argument
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    Farnsworth's Classical English Argument

    "Instructive and entertaining."-Wall Street JournalLearn how to argue from the masters. This book is a complete course on the art of argument, taught by the greatest practitioners of it: Churchill, Lincoln, and hundreds of others from the golden age of...
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  • Women and Psychedelics
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    Women and Psychedelics

    This collection of short essays examines the place of women in the history of psychedelics.While some of the subjects are pioneers in their own right, the authors in this collection go beyond merely adding women to the past in psychedelic history,...
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