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

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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"--

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

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

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'Juan Gabriel Vsquez is one of the most original new voices of Latin American literature. His first novel, The Informers, a very powerful story about the shadowy years immediately following World War II, is testimony to the richness of his imagination as well as the subtlety and elegance of his prose' Mario Vargas Llosa

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Winner of the Kurt Vonnegut Fiction Prize, Parkison mixes literary fiction with gritty realities in her second story collection.

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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.

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Against a backdrop of Prohibition, the Vietnam War, and the new millennium, the Verbicaro family makes its way from southern Italy to San Francisco to the Yucatan, finding ways to reinvent themselves as each member brushes up against some aspect of the divine.

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Touching on the fundamental of human desires - sex, love, and the need for acceptance - Tiptree Award-winning authors challenge the social identities, simultaneously exploring and expanding gender. This collection gathers short fiction and essays that were chosen by the Tiptree Award judges in 2004, as well as selections from previous years.

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Zelmont has slid a long way since gaining his ability to jook - to out manoeuvre his opponents on the field - winning wide receiver and earned him lucrative endorsement deals. However, a series of missteps have virtually sidelined his career. Now that Los Angeles has a new pro franchise Zelmont has one last chance at the big time he dearly misses.

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Masterful storyteller and Cervantes Prize winner reflects on the power of literature and travel to change our lives

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Moses, a Polish Jew, is fleeing both the Nazis and his own failed marriage; Sahadeva, an itinerant Hindu monk, is trying to resolve his crisis of religious belief. Both men find themselves embroiled in hardship, shame, and chaos, stumbling into scandal and ultimately tragedy.