Aperture by Jacek Dehnel; Karen Kovacik (Translator)
$0.00 NZD
Category: Poetry in Translation | Series: New Polish Writing Ser.
The poet brings his fascination with formal poetry to 21st century subjects -- internet culture, science, postmodern architecture -- even as he also explores intimacy, gay love, and emotionally-charged objects in this bilingual (Polish/English) collection. Dehnel's range of style and diction includes po ...Show more
Augustown by Kei Miller
$18.54 NZD
Category: Open Book Award
WINNER OF THE OCM BOCAS PRIZE FOR CARIBBEAN LITERATURE SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE, THE GREEN CARNATION PRIZE, and the HISTORICAL WRITERS AWARD 'Miller's storytelling is superb' SUNDAY TIMES One April day in Augustown, Jamaica. Ma Taffy, old and blind, sits in her usual spot on the veranda. N ...Show more
Bark by Georges Didi-Huberman; Samuel E. Martin
$39.99 NZD
Category: Translation
A noted French thinker's poignant reflections, in words and photographs, on his visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau.On a visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Georges Didi-Huberman tears three pieces of bark from birch trees on the edge of the site. Looking at these pieces after his return home, he sees them as letters, ...Show more
Because It Is So Beautiful: Unraveling the Mystique of the American West by Robert Leonard Reid
$40.95 NZD
Category: Art of the Essay
A Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay Yes, every inch of the globe has been seen, mapped, photographed, and measured, but is it known? Robert Leonard Reid doesn't think so. To draw a circle and calculate its diameter is not to know the circle. In this collectio ...Show more
Because When God Is Too Busy - Haiti, Me, and the WORLD by Gina Athena Ulysse
$7.37 NZD
Category: Open Book Award
Gina Athena Ulysse's Because When God Is Too Busy: Haïti, me & THE WORLD is a lyrically vivid meditative journey that is unapologetic in its determination to name, embrace and reclaim a revolutionary Blackness that has been historically stigmatized and denied. Crafting experiments with "ethnographic ...Show more
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky
$52.95 NZD
Category: Literary Science Writing
The New York Times bestseller "It's no exaggeration to say that Behave is one of the best nonfiction books I've ever read." --David P. Barash, The Wall Street Journal "It has my vote for science book of the year." --Parul Sehgal, The New York Times "Hands-down one of the best books I've read in years ...Show more
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
Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs That Changed Our Minds by Lauren Slater
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Category: Literary Science Writing
A groundbreaking and revelatory history of psychotropic drugs, from "a thoroughly exhilarating and entertaining writer" (Washington Post)Although one in five Americans now takes at least one psychotropic drug, the fact remains that nearly seventy years after doctors first began prescribing them, not eve ...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
Bring Out The Dog: Stories by Will Mackin
$55.00 NZD
Category: Debut Short Story Collection
"A near-miraculous, brilliant debut."--George Saunders, Man Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo "In one exquisitely crafted story after the next, Will Mackin maps the surreal psychological terrain of soldiers in a perpetual war."--Phil Klay, National Book Award-winning author of Rede ...Show more
Cape Verdean Blues by Shauna Barbosa
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Category: Open Book Award | Series: Pitt Poetry Ser.
"These words feel like experiences. Some are personal, most are enlightening, but all connect. Connect on a higher Level. A spiritual level." --Kendrick Lamar, Grammy Award-winning artist, and winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music -- A Lit Hub Favorite Book of 2018 The speaker in Cape Verdean Bl ...Show more