Black Jesus and Other Superheroes by Venita Blackburn
$24.94 NZD
Category: Debut Fiction | Series: Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction Ser.
Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Black Jesus and Other Superheroes chronicles ordinary people achieving vivid extrasensory perception while under extreme pain. The stories tumble into a universe of the jaded and the hopeful, in which men and women burdened with unwieldy and undesira ...Show more
Black Moses by Alain Mabanckou; Helen Stevenson (Translator)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Translation
One of The New York Times 10 French Novels to Read Now Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary PrizeLonglisted for the PEN America Translation PrizeShortlisted for the Albertine PrizeIncluded in World Literature Today's "75 Notable Translations of 2017""The story's unflinching tone and sly humor belie t ...Show more
Bones - Brothers, Horses, Cartels, and the Borderland Dream by Joe Tone
$20.01 NZD
Category: Literary Sports Writing
The dramatic true story of two brothers living parallel lives on either side of the U.S.-Mexico border--and how their lives converged in a major criminal conspiracy Jos and Miguel Trevi o were bonded by blood and a shared vision of a better life. But they chose different paths that would end at the sam ...Show more
Chester B. Himes - A Biography by Lawrence P. Jackson
$57.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Winner of the 2018 Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical Work A Washington Post Notable Book The definitive biography of the groundbreaking African American author who had an extraordinary legacy on black writers globally. Chester B. Himes has been called "one of the towering figures of the black ...Show more
Eastman Was Here by Alex Gilvarry
$55.00 NZD
Category: Open Book Award
"Absorbing...Eastman is a riveting...presence who demands to be loved and remembered." --The Boston Globe An ambitious new novel set in the literary world of 1970s New York, following a washed-up writer in an errant quest to pick up the pieces of his life. One of Esquire's Best books of 2017 (So Far) ...Show more
Flâneuse - Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London by Lauren Elkin
$34.29 NZD
Category: Art of the Essay
The fl�neur is the quintessentially masculine figure of privilege and leisure who strides the capitals of the world with abandon. But it is the fl�neuse who captures the imagination of the cultural critic Lauren Elkin. In her wonderfully gender-bending new book, the fl�neuse is a "determined, resourcefu ...Show more
For Want of Water - And Other Poems by Sasha Pimentel
$29.99 NZD
Category: Open Book Award | Series: National Poetry Ser.
Searing verses set on the Mexican border about war and addiction, love and sexual violence, grief and loss, from an American Book Award-winning author. Selected by Gregory Pardlo as winner of the National Poetry Series. El Paso is one of the safest cities in the United States, while across the river, C ...Show more
Grant by Ron Chernow
$28.58 NZD
Category: Biography
A #1 New York Times BestsellerA Pulitzer Prize-Winning AuthorWith lucidity, breadth, and meticulousness, Ron Chernow sheds new light on the man whom Walt Whitman described as "nothing heroic . . . and yet the greatest hero." This is America's greatest biographer bringing movingly to life one of our fine ...Show more
Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life by David R. Montgomery
$43.99 NZD
Category: Literary Science Writing
The problem of agriculture is as old as civilization. Throughout history, great societies that abused their land withered into poverty or disappeared entirely. Now we risk repeating this ancient story on a global scale due to ongoing soil degradation, a changing climate, and a rising population.But ther ...Show more
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado
$38.00 NZD
Category: Debut Fiction
In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In thi ...Show more