In a Day's Work: The Hidden Story of Sexual Violence Against America's Most Vulnerable Workers by Bernice Yeung
$54.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Longlisted for the PEN/Kenneth Galbraith Award Winner of the 2018 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice "In a Day's Work is a . . . much-needed addition to the literature on sexual harassment in the U.S."--The New York Review of Books An acclaimed journalist investigates sexual a ...Show more
Limits of the Known by David Roberts
$27.99 NZD
Category: Literary Sports Writing
David Roberts has spent his career documenting voyages to the most extreme landscapes on earth. In Limits of the Known, he reflects on humanity's--and his own--relationship to exploration and extreme risk. Part memoir and part history, this book tries to make sense of why so many have committed their li ...Show more
Looking for Lorraine - The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry by Imani Perry
$55.00 NZD
Category: Biography
A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted and charismatic, yet least understood, Black artists and intellectuals of the twentieth century. Lorraine Hansberry, who died at thirty-four, was by all accounts a force of nature. Although best-known for her work A Raisin in the Sun, her life was full of e ...Show more
Love by Hanne Ørstavik; Martin Aitken (Translator)
$37.00 NZD
Category: Translation
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATUREA mother and son move to a village in northern Norway, each ensconced in their own world. Their distance has fatal consequences.Love is the story of Vibeke and Jon, a mother and son who have just moved to a small place in the north of Norw ...Show more
Negative Space by Luljeta Lleshanaku
$0.00 NZD
Category: Poetry in Translation
"Language arrived fragmentary / split in syllables / spasmodic / like code in times of war," writes Luljeta Lleshanaku in the title poem to her powerful new collectionNegative Space. In these lines, personal biography disperses into the history of an entire generation that grew up under the oppressive d ...Show more
Neruda: The Poet's Calling by Mark Eisner
$57.99 NZD
Category: Biography
The most definitive biography to date of the poet Pablo Neruda, a moving portrait of one of the most intriguing and influential figures in Latin American history Few poets have captured the global imagination like Pablo Neruda. In his native Chile, across Latin America, and in many other parts of the w ...Show more
Nevada Days by Bernardo Atxaga
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Category: Translation
A seductive, unclassifiable blend of autobiography and fiction set in Reno, from the preeminent Basque authorNine months as a writer in residence can prove unnerving for anyone. For Bernardo Atxaga, newly arrived with his wife and two daughters, research at the Center for Basque Studies in Reno, Nevada, ...Show more
Never Ran, Never Will: Boyhood and Football in a Changing American Inner City by Albert Samaha
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Category: Literary Sports Writing
This uplifting story of a boys' football team shines light on the under-appreciated virtues that can bloom in impoverished neighborhoods, even as nearby communities exclude them from economic progress.Never Ran, Never Will tells the story of the working-class, mostly black neighborhood of Brownsville, B ...Show more
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy by Carol Anderson; Dick Durbin (Introduction by, Foreword by)
$0.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Longlisted for the National Book Award in Nonfiction Named one of the Best Books of the Year by: Washington Post * Boston Globe * NPR* Bustle * BookRiot * New York Public Library From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of ...Show more
Patriot Number One - American Dreams in Chinatown by Lauren Hilgers
$19.25 NZD
Category: Biography
The deeply reported story of one indelible family transplanted from rural China to New York City, forging a life between two worlds In 2014, in a snow-covered house in Flushing, Queens, a village revolutionary from Southern China considered his options. Zhuang Liehong was the son of a fisherman, the ...Show more
Severance by Ling Ma
$0.00 NZD
Category: Debut Fiction
Maybe it's the end of the world, but not for Candace Chen, a millennial, first-generation American and office drone meandering her way into adulthood in Ling Ma's offbeat, wryly funny, apocalyptic satire, Severance. Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devot ...Show more
She Has Her Mother's Laugh - The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity by Carl Zimmer
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Category: Literary Science Writing
Heredity is redefined in this sweeping, resonating overview of a force that shaped human society--a force set to shape our future even more radically. One of New York Times 100 Notable Books for 2018 One of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Books of 2018 One of Kirkus's Best Books of 2018 One of Mental Flos ...Show more