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Day Counter (Paperback)

By Sara Mumolo

$17.95

ISBN: 9781632430601

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Published: Omnidawn - October 2nd, 2018

Sometimes collage essay, sometimes daybook, sometimes poetry, Day Counter offers snapshots of daily life--at home, in the workplace, and within the societal (often politically-charged) meeting-grounds we all navigate--that contemplates concepts of naming, distance between speaker and experience, and dissonance of reality through a vernacular directness that is underwired with formal control.

What Future 2018: The Year's Best Writing on What's Next for People, Technology & the Planet (Paperback)

By Meehan Crist (Editor), Rose Eveleth (Editor)

$21.99

ISBN: 9781944700669

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Published: Unnamed Press - September 18th, 2018

What Future: The Year's Best Writing on What's Next for People, Technology, and the Planet, edited by Meehan Crist and Rose Eveleth, is a best of the year anthology featuring new writing by and about the scientists, writers, journalists, and philosophers who are proposing the options that lay not just ahead, but beyond us.

The Dragonglass Bowl: The Dream Walker's Path (Paperback)

By Caroline J. Thibeaux

$20.00

ISBN: 9780997440720

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Published: Rare Bird Books - August 7th, 2018

Is a dream a thing of Shadow or Light?

If you knew the truth would you dare to dream again?

For a thousand years the Light of Ashar has protected the land of Ellaria because the people of Ellaria have protected the secret, forgotten through time, of Dragonglass.

Useful Phrases for Immigrants: Stories (Paperback)

By May-Lee Chai

$16.95

ISBN: 9780932112767

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Published: Blair - October 23rd, 2018

In the title story of this timely and innovative collection, a young woman wearing a Prada coat attempts to redeem a coupon for plastic storage bins while her in-laws are at home watching the Chinese news and taking her private phone calls. It is the lively and wise juxtaposition of cultures, generations, and emotions that characterize May-lee Chai's amazing stories.

Fox (Paperback)

By Dubravka Ugresic, Ellen Elias-Bursaac, David Williams (Translator)

$16.95

ISBN: 9781940953762

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Published: Open Letter - April 17th, 2018

Fox is the story of literary footnotes and "minor" characters--unnoticed people propelled into timelessness through the biographies and novels of others.

Karaoke Culture (Paperback)

By Dubravka Ugresic, David Williams (Translator), Ellen Elias-Bursac (Translator)

$15.95

ISBN: 9781934824573

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Published: Open Letter - October 23rd, 2011

Finalist for the NBCC award for Criticism.

"Ugresic is sharp, funny and unafraid. . . . Orwell would approve."--Times Literary Supplement

Flights (Hardcover)

By Olga Tokarczuk, Jennifer Croft (Translated by)

$26.00

ISBN: 9780525534198

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Published: Riverhead Books - August 14th, 2018

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE
AS FEATURED IN THE NEW YORK TIMES

A visionary work of fiction by "A writer on the level of W. G. Sebald" (Annie Proulx)

"A magnificent writer." --Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize-winning author of Secondhand Time