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  • Black Shack Alley

    by Joseph Zobel ...
    Translated by Charly Verstraet, Jeffrey Landon Allen, Keith Q. Warner ...
    **The semiautobiographical Caribbean novel that explores shifting race relations in early twentieth-century colonial Martinique, with a foreword by Martinican author Patrick ChamoiseauA Penguin Classic**Following in the tradition of Richard Wright's Black Boy, Joseph Zobel's semiautobiographical 1950 novel Black Shack Alley chronicles the coming-of-age of José, a young boy grappling with issues of ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Crusoe’s Footprint

    by Patrick Chamoiseau, Valérie Loichot ...
    Translated by Charly Verstraet, Jeffrey Landon Allen ...
    Series series CARAF Books
    The discovery in Robinson Crusoe of the footprint of a fellow human on an abandoned island is a haunting and iconic moment in world literature. In the hands of Patrick Chamoiseau, one of the most innovative and lauded authors in the French language, this moment of shattered solitude becomes an occasion for Crusoe to reconsider his origins, existence, and humanity and for one of our most acclaimed ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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    by Ursula K. Le Guin ...
    Winner of the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Story • A New York Times Notable Book"A fantastical travel guide, reminiscent of Gulliver's Travels, in which the narrator visits fifteen planes and describes the people, language and customs with the eye of an anthropologist and the humor of a satirist." —USA TodayIn these classic "vivid, entertaining, philosophical dispatches"</s... ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Faraway Nearby

    by Rebecca Solnit ...
    **A New York Times Notable BookFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle AwardA personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy, from the author of Orwell's Roses**Apricots. Her mother's disintegrating memory. An invitation to Iceland. Illness. These are Rebecca Solnit's raw materials, but The Faraway Nearby goes beyond her own life, as she spirals out into the stories she heard and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The House of Incest

    by Anais Nin ...
    The House of Incest, Anais Nin's famous prose poem, was first published in Paris in 1936 and immediately drew attention from the era's prominent writers, including Henry Miller and Lawrence Durrell. While written in English, it is considered a landmark work in the French surrealist tradition and one of the most unique books in 20th century literature. ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Água Viva

    by Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser ...
    Translated by Stefan Tobler ...
    Lispector at her most philosophically radical.A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Viva (1973) shows Lispector discovering a new means of writing about herself, more deeply transforming her individual experience into a universal poetry. In a body of work as emotionally powerful, formally innovative, and philosophically profound as Clarice Lispector’s, Água Viva stands out as a ... Read more

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  • Isla Negra

    by Clark M. Zlotchew, Maria Jacketti, Pablo Neruda, Dennis Maloney ...
    Series series White Pine Poetry Prize
    Few writers are as integrally bound to a place as Pablo Neruda was to the landscape of Isla Negra on Chile’s coast. From his arrival there in the late 1930s to his death in 1973, Neruda captured Isla Negra in images fundamental to an understanding of his work. It was, according to Martin Espada, at Isla Negra where Neruda "in the company of his muse, walked alongside the source of his most lyrical ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Tristes Tropiques

    by Claude Levi-Strauss ...
    Translated by John Weightman, Doreen Weightman ...
    "A magical masterpiece."-Robert Ardrey. A chronicle of the author's search for a civilization "reduced to its most basic expression." ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Unexpected Universe

    A Library of America eBook Classic

    by Loren Eiseley ...
    “No one has ever managed to make the pursuit of knowledge feel more soulful or more immediate than Loren Eiseley . . . ” —Ben Cosgrove, The Daily BeastAt the height of a distinguished career as a paleontologist, Loren Eiseley turned from fieldwork and scientific publication to the personal essay. Here, in The Unexpected Universe, he displays his far-reaching knowledge and searching curiosity about ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Spiritwalker

    Messages from the Future

    by Hank Wesselman ...
    "I am about to tell you a most unusual story, a chronicle of something that happened to me while I was living on the flank of an active volcano on the island of Hawai'i. I'm a scientist. I mention this because I do not feel that I was in any way predisposed for what was about to occur. In fact, my scientific training would seem to have preprogrammed me against such an experience." -- From ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Immense Journey

    An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature

    by Loren Eiseley ...
    Anthropologist and naturalist Loren Eiseley blends scientific knowledge and imaginative vision in this story of man. ... Read more

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  • Good Bones

    by Margaret Atwood, Rosemary Sullivan ...
    In Good Bones, first published in 1992, Margaret Atwood has fashioned an enthralling collection of parable, monologue, mini-romance and mini-biography, speculative fiction, prose lyric, outrageous recipe and reconfigured fairy tale, demonstrating yet again the play of an unerring wit overseen by a panoramic intelligence. Good Bones is a cornucopia of good things—precise, witty, wise, and sometimes ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD