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A series that offers quality editions of important works of literature to the student and the general reader, each featuring new scholarship and pages of carefully crafted extras. It pulls together a constellation of influences; biographical, historical and literary, to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.

(Paperback, Reissue)

(Paperback)

Akashic Books launches an African American-focused reprint series with this classic story collection.

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(Paperback, Large Print Edition)

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"Retired from public life, Ralph Waldo Emerson takes up arms to save a fugitive black soldier from unjust arrest in the tenth of Lock's American Novels"--

(Paperback, New edition)

The only collection of short stories from the author of From Here to Eternity, with a new introduction by daughter Kaylie Jones.

(Paperback)

A bawdy, backwoods, Victorian picaresque following the misadventures of a runaway groom, and the wicked punishments exacted by the bride who runs him aground.

(Paperback)

Evoking Calvino & Yan Lianke, Oulipo member Berti paints a classic tragic love story with sumptuous detail in pre-revolutionary China

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A woman must emerge from the virtual world she's created to confront her flesh-and-blood past and family.

(Paperback)

"Two novellas translated from the Portuguese"--

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Imprint. An imagined journey through the life of Frida Kahlo. We are inside her mind at 46, on her deathbed, racked with memories and hallucinations. Frida navigates the alleys and opium dens of San Francisco's Chinatown in the 1920's, the Park Avenue salons of New York, and her corner of Mexico City.

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(Paperback)

The Incompleteness Theorem is a novel of closely observed middle age in the spirit of Pat Conroy and Richard Ford. The story's narrator, Jack Callany, is a recent widower who is seeking to understand, and then rebuild, himself.

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Most of the time, Clay Blackburn is an average, bisexual, book scout in Berkeley, but sometimes he's a would-be private detective - without a license, gun, or even a business card. Despite his questionable qualifications, people still come to him for help, and he inevitably comes across more than his fair share of trouble.

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The rollercoaster childhood story of the Icelandic comedian turned international celebrity whom Noam Chomsky called his "favorite mayor on Earth."

(Paperback)

This wide-ranging saga of family conflict and social injustice leaves few of the skeletons of Queensland colonial past buried. It is also known as Giant's Stride. Landtakers (1934) and Inheritors (1936) are two parts of an unfinished trilogy depicting Queensland's early colonial period.

(Paperback)

People behave differently at night: feelings of desperation, violence, melancholy surface; nocturnal hunts for adventure, sex, drugs transpire; prowling through shadows... anything. This anthology sheds light on the world that emerges when people sleep and examines the dark side of evening, from prostitution and adultery to hospital and suicide.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

A sprawling epic about imagination, creation, and reality in the vein of Infinite Jest and Gravity's Rainbow.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

A teenager working in a mountain encampment during the Chinese Cultural Revolution yearns for romance and excitement.

(Paperback, Customer-Specific)

Employing disturbing elements to explore both the implications of evolutionary theory and to satirize modern society's religious institutions and its pride in its civilization, this title presents a story filled with suspense and adventure.