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This anthology is the essential resource for readers, critics, and publishers interested in contemporary European literature. In this, the eighth installment of the series, the anthology continues its commitment to uncovering the best prose writing happening across the continent from …
Toska derives its title from the Russian word which denotes a melancholic longing without a singular cause, longing for a better world than the late-stage capitalist hell we live in. Toska explores a sense of rootlessness and a sort of …
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Shocking, erudite, and affecting, these twenty-odd short stories, "micro-novels," and vignettes span a vast territory, from Mexico City to Washington, D.C. to the late nineteenth-century Adriatic to the blood-soaked foothills of California's gold-rush country, introducing an array of bewildering characters: …
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Keeper of the Stone
When the owner of a mysterious old house inexplicably disappears, the extremely disagreeable, overbearing Bentley's take over; along with Stephanie, the twelve-year-old girl they adopted as their housemaid.The grey-stone house holds many secrets, and when Stephanie stumbles onto a clue, …
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The Mysteries of Mrs. Mullycuddle's Toy Shop
Most weeks Emma, Nathan and Mum would take the No.49 bus into town to do their weekly shopping.It's Nathan's birthday in a couple of weeks so they decide to have a look in Mrs Mullycuddle's Toy Shop for any ideas.Emma …
You'll Like it Here is a haunting bricolage, divided into three parts, that excavates the forgotten history of Redondo Beach in the early 1900s through old news clippings, advertisements, recipes and other ephemera that speak to the ills of male …
This is Barth's most distinguished masterpiece. This modern classic is a hilarious tribute to all the most insidious human vices, with a hero who is "one of the most diverting . . . to roam the world since Candide." "A …
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Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003), one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century French literature, produced a wide variety of essays and fictions that reflect on the complexities of literary work. His description of writing continually returns to a number of themes, …
From the winner of the 2022 Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Prize: a fractal exploration of a woman's grief as she moves through disjointed segments of time. Divided Island is the story of a woman with a neurological disorder. …
A National Book Award winner, this bawdy, comic trio of novellas finds John Barth injecting his signature wit into three tales many times told: that of Scheherazade, storyteller of the Thousand and One Nights; of Perseus, slayer of Medusa; and …
The war against aliens is over. Earth lost-and humans are nearly extinct...Arwen Cruz watched her parents, brother, and sister die in an endless war. As the last surviving soldier in her battalion, she staggers out of a bombed-out military base …
The son of a village blacksmith, Mithron never expected that the path of wizardry would be an option, for it is well-known that the profession is reserved for the wealthy elite. That is until a traveling wizard recognizes his latent …
Get ready to cackle and crackle with laughter with our spooktacular "Halloween Jokes and Riddles Book"! Dive into the enchanting world of Halloween humor, featuring witch jokes that will cast a spell on your funny bone, zombie jokes that will …
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After the success of his first novels (Edwin Mullhouse and Portrait of a Romantic), Steven Millhauser went on to enchant critics and readers with two short story collections that captured the magic and beauty of his longer works in vivid …
The second novel in Pitol's Carnival trilogy following The Love Parade continues his daring, genre-melding, picaresque style.From the famous Mexican author, Sergio Pitol, comes his 1988 classic translated by George Henson. Taming the Divine Heron tells the semi-autobiographical story of …
Trash interweaves the voices of three women with lived connections to the municipal garbage dump of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Aguilar Zeleny's Trash shows the complexities of survival and joy, love and violence for three women: a teenager abandoned by her …
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The nature and basis of eternal punishment in hell
A BIBLICAL EXPLORATION OF THE BASIS AND NATURE OF GOD'S JUDGMENT.The clearest expression of salvation in the Bible is John 3:16: "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall …
Clara isn't proud of her mistakes, and some may even be hell-worthy.Death is always a surprise, but at sixteen, it's a shock. Finding your escort to the afterlife is a Harley-riding biker is just crazy.When a biker tells sixteen-year-old Clara …
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In his own words, the novel is "a kind of encyclopedia made into farce . . . A book in which I shall spit out my bile." At the center of this book are Bouvard and Pecuchet, two retired clerks …
Yanick Lahens leads us into a breathless intrigue with her newest portrait of Haiti, Sweet Undoings.In Port-au-Prince, violence never consumes. It finds its counterpart in a "high-pitched sweetness", a sweetness that overwhelms Francis, a French journalist, one evening at the …
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Strategies for Meaningful and Fun Reading Experiences
Learn to facilitate modern book clubs devoted to elevating the reading experience through active engagement, resulting in long-term commitment to book club events.How do you get the kids in your library to read? The benefits of reading are plentiful, especially …
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Closing the gap between the contemporary Russian novel and the masterpieces of the early Soviet avant-garde, this masterful mixture of prose and poetry, excerpts from private letters and diaries, and quotes from newspapers and NKVD documents, is a unique amalgam …
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Developing Culturally Competent Library Professionals
Filling a gap in the existing library and information science literature, this book consolidates recent research and best practices to address the need for diversity and social justice in the training and education of LIS professionals.The development of cultural competency …
"Little Seed is what I want the future of literature to be." Sam Cohen, author of Sarahland Little Seed is an experimental memoir that braids together the narrative of the author's relationship with her brother and family with a deeply …
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First published in 1910, Rilke's Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge is one the first great modernist novels, the account of poet-aspirant Brigge in his exploration of poetic individuality and his reflections on the experience of time as death approaches. A …
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