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  • Ploughshares Fall 2023

    by Ladette Randolph, Anthony David, Parul Kapur, John Keeble, Diane Hinton Perry, Austin Woerner, Nafis Shafizadeh, Wiam El-Tamami, Jamie Lyn Smith, Jim Shepard ...
    The Fall 2023 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Fall 2023 Issue, edited by Ladette ... Read more

    $9.85 CAD

  • Chutzpah!

    New Voices from China

    Edited by Ou Ning, Austin Woerner ...
    Series series Chinese Literature Today Book Series
    To Westerners China has often seemed a monolith, speaking with one voice—whether that of an ancient dynasty, a socialist state, or an economic powerhouse. Chutzpah! New Voices from China shatters this illusion, giving Western readers a rare chance to listen to the brilliant polyphony of Chinese fiction today.Here, in the realms of realism and fantasy, and portraying worlds lyrical, gritty, or ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Invisible Valley

    a novel

    by Su Wei ...
    Translated by Austin Woerner ...
    Coop available Advance Reading Copies: Advance Access, ALAM, Edelweiss National advertising Goodreads, LibraryThing giveaways #Weneeddiversebooks ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Seventh Day

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    by Yu Hua ...
    Translated by Allan H. Barr ...
    From the acclaimed author of Brothers and To Live: a major new novel that limns the joys and sorrows of life in contemporary China.Yang Fei was born on a moving train. Lost by his mother, adopted by a young switchman, raised with simplicity and love, he is utterly unprepared for the tempestuous changes that await him and his country. As a young man, he searches for a place to belong in a nation ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Peach Blossom Paradise

    by Ge Fei ...
    Translated by Canaan Morse ...
    An enthralling story of revolution, idealism, and a savage struggle for utopia by one of China's greatest living novelists.In 1898 reformist intellectuals in China persuaded the young emperor that it was time to transform his sclerotic empire into a prosperous modern state. The Hundred Days’ Reform that followed was a moment of unprecedented change and extraordinary hope—brought to an abrupt end ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • The Best American Short Stories 2022

    by Heidi Pitlor, Andrew Sean Greer ...
    Series series Best American
    A collection of the year's best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and series editor Heidi Pitlor.This volume gathers contemporary short stories that confront sudden reckoning, intimate crisis, and fragile connection. Lauren Groff follows a bruised mother fleeing an abusive policeman across country roads in an old Dodge.An Istanbul alley yields discarded violins and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Empress of Salt and Fortune

    by Nghi Vo ...
    Series Book 1 - The Singing Hills Cycle
    Winner of the 2020 Crawford Award!Winner of the 2021 Hugo Award!**A Hugo Award-Winning Series!A 2021 Locus Award FinalistA 2021 Ignyte Award FinalistA Goodreads Choice Award Finalist**A Book Riot Best Debut Fantasy of All Time"Dangerous, subtle, unexpected and familiar, angry and ferocious and hopeful... The Empress of Salt and Fortune is a remarkable accomplishme... ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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  • Letter to a Stranger

    Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us

    Edited by Colleen Kinder ...
    “Beautiful. The human condition is on full display in these glimpses of our essential connectedness. Perfect for our times.”—Dani Shapiro, author of InheritanceSixty-five extraordinary writers grapple with this mystery: How can an ephemeral encounter with a stranger leave such an eternal mark?When Colleen Kinder put out a call for authors to write a letter to a stranger about an unforgettable ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • My Life with Bob

    Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues

    by Pamela Paul ...
    "An engaging and . . . funny memoir. . . . A delightfully gushing love letter to books" by the former editor of The New York Times Book Review ( Washington Post).People Pick • O Magazine Title to Pick Up Now • Vanity Fair Hot Type • Glamour New Book You're Guaranteed to Love This Summer • LitHub.com Best Book about Books • Buzzfeed Book You Need to Read This Summer • Seattle Times Book for Summer. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • River Town

    Two Years on the Yangtze

    by Peter Hessler ...
    A New York Times Notable book, this memoir by a journalist who lived in a small city in China is "a vivid and touching tribute to a place and its people" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).In the heart of China's Sichuan province, amid the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, lies the remote town of Fuling. Like many other small cities in this ever-evolving country, Fuling is heading down a ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Every Falling Star

    The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea

    by Sungju Lee, Susan Elizabeth McClelland ...
    Written for a young audience, this intense memoir explores the harsh realities of life on the streets in contemporary North Korea.Every Falling Star is the memoir of Sungju Lee, who at the age of twelve was forced to live on the streets of North Korea and fend for himself. To survive, Sungju creates a gang and lives by thieving, fighting, begging, and stealing rides on cargo trains.Sungju richly ... Read more

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  • The Best American Essays 2018

    by Hilton Als ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    The Pulitzer–Prize winning and Guggenheim-honored Hilton Als curates the best essays from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites, bringing "the fierce style of street reading and the formal tradition of critical inquiry, reads culture, race, and gender" ( New York Times) to the task."The essay, like love, like life, is indefinable, but you know an essay when you see it, and you know a great ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus