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  • The Tears and Smiles of Things
    Andriy Sodomora / Roman Ivashkiv / Sabrina Jaszi
    An evocative collection of vignettes and essays from Ukraine’s 'voice' of classical antiquity, now available in English for the first time.Inspired by Virgil’s exquisitely ambivalent phrase “sunt lacrimae rerum” (there are tears of/for/in things), Andriy Sodomora, the Ukrainian “voice” of classical antiquity, has produced a series of original vignettes and essays about things: ...
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    17,91 €

  • Local Weather
    Andrew Squitiro
    Andrew Squitiro’s debut prose collection, LOCAL WEATHER (Dynamo Verlag; 94pp; paperback; 6 February 2024) is a collection of sixteen tight dispatches as intense as they are concise. Set amid the weeping willows and Spanish moss of New Orleans, a city where climate change is felt punishingly, these essays unflinchingly explore human alienation, the human yearning for connection ...
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    12,98 €

  • Sincerely, Black Teens
    Jack and Jill of America Nashville
    Sincerely, BlackTeens is a collection of essays, poems, and prose written by the Teens of Jack and Jill of America, Inc. Nashville Chapter. In this book, the authors write a heartfelt letter to the country, their peers, their parents, and the world, that shares what it means to grow up Black in America. The Jack and Jill teens share their feelings on issues like Racism, coloris...
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    19,15 €

  • Bring Out Your Dead
    Chad Davidson
    Could the shlock-rock ’70s band Kiss in any way affect the outcome of a death-dealing twenty-first-century virus? Is Bob Ross--that permed, inimitable painter of Edenic nostalgia on PBS--actually an emissary from the land of personal loss? Might the work of Edward Hopper reflect facets of a global plague? What is the grammar, finally, of grief, of isolation? The essays in Chad...
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    22,31 €

  • X in the Tickseed
    Ed Falco
    From discursive essay-poems to tightly constructed lyrics, Ed Falco’s X in the Tickseed examines a world that reveals itself through its mysteries, reflecting upon the ephemeral nature of all things. In the series of poems that bookend the collection, a speaker identified only as X reviews personal history and relationships, speculating, pondering, and questioning in the face o...
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    15,67 €

  • Elephant of Silence
    John Barger
    'A poem is an act of faith because the poet believes in it,' contends John Wall Barger in The Elephant of Silence, a collection of essays exploring forms of knowing (and not knowing) that awaken a poetic mind. By considering poetry, film, and the intersections among aesthetic moments and our lives, Barger illuminates the foundations of poetic craft but also probes how to be al...
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    22,22 €

  • The Road
    Jack London
    In this entertaining collection of tales and autobiographical essays, London relates the days he spent on the road. Each story details an aspect of the hobo’s life - from catching a train to cadging a meal. The wealth of experiences and the necessity of having to lie for a living brought depth London’s subsequent stories. ...
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    11,45 €

  • Of Pigs and Meteorites
    Greg Dorchak
    Greg Dorchak’s family moved to upstate New York in 1965 when he was just a baby. For the next 13 years his playground was the High Peaks Region of the Adirondack Park, 6 million acres of lakes, trees, mountains and colorful people.Though he has been gone for over 40 years, the Adirondacks still occupy a big part of his memory and personality. In OF PIGS AND METEORITES, Dorchak ...
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    12,51 €

  • A Farmer’s Almanac
    Drausin Wulsin
    This is Volume I of A Farmer’s Almanac Series, Fascination of Discovery. Drausin Wulsin’s initial venture on the land was developing one of the first grass-based, New Zealand-style dairies in Ohio. The next enterprise entailed creating a wetlands mitigation bank on 200 acres. The third was developing a grass-based meat business, involving beef, sheep, laying hens, broilers, tur...
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    14,00 €

  • Creative Writing Ideas To Spark Your Imagination
    Dr. Gabriella Kőrösi / Dr. Preeti Singh / Lorena Avila Jaimes
    Review by Annelise LordsPrompts are everywhere and are in everything. It comes in different names too. Signals, intuition, gut feelings, fear etc., depending on your circumstance and or situation in life. A writing Prompt sparks creativity sending many signals to the brain. It possesses the power to ignite innovation, expand imagination sending your brain into places you can’t ...
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    21,22 €

  • David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the sun machine
    Nicholas Royle
    A dazzling act of literary-critical rebellion, casting new light on the lives of David Bowie and Enid Blyton ...
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    30,46 €

  • David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the sun machine
    Nicholas Royle
    A dazzling act of literary-critical rebellion, casting new light on the lives of David Bowie and Enid Blyton ...
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    159,50 €

  • Layers of Life
    Stephen Evans
    Layers of Life by author and playwright Stephen Evans presents a thoughtful if fragmented view of a thoughtful if fragmented life. The author sketches a gentle life, filled with awareness of the world around him, fragile, diverse, beautiful, and joyful. ...
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    16,22 €

  • my mother’s tomorrow
    Karsonya Wise Whitehead
    In 2017, Dr. Kaye began a three-year in-depth ethnographic study within Baltimore’s Black Butterfly neighborhoods, documenting and recording the community stories. In 'you tell them that we’re not invisible, you tell them that we matter,' she met someone from the Poe Homes community, who was filling their pots and pans with water from the fire hydrant after the community had go...
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    23,11 €

  • my mother’s tomorrow
    Karsonya Wise Whitehead
    In 2017, Dr. Kaye began a three-year in-depth ethnographic study within Baltimore’s Black Butterfly neighborhoods, documenting and recording the community stories. In 'you tell them that we’re not invisible, you tell them that we matter,' she met someone from the Poe Homes community, who was filling their pots and pans with water from the fire hydrant after the community had go...
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    15,69 €

  • Becoming Poetry
    Jay Rogoff
    Winner of the Lewis P. Simpson Award In Becoming Poetry, Jay Rogoff closely inspects the work of two dozen poets, his forebears and his contemporaries, to reveal how their poetry impacts readers. His essays, drawn from more than twenty years of literary criticism, explore how the staying power of a poet’s work and the likelihood of it enjoying a lasting identification with its ...
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    71,44 €

  • Becoming Poetry
    Jay Rogoff
    Winner of the Lewis P. Simpson Award In Becoming Poetry, Jay Rogoff closely inspects the work of two dozen poets, his forebears and his contemporaries, to reveal how their poetry impacts readers. His essays, drawn from more than twenty years of literary criticism, explore how the staying power of a poet’s work and the likelihood of it enjoying a lasting identification with its ...
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    26,63 €

  • The Long COVID Reader
    COVID-19 is possibly the world’s biggest mass-disabling event. This ambitious book gives a humanized view of chronic illness while offering a poignant reminder of the millions of people with long COVID. The collection is rich with living history from the stories, essays, and poems of 45 long haulers.  Writer Mary Ladd, a one-time Anthony Bourdain collaborator, leads the team be...
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    17,44 €

  • Flags & Bones
    Ben Wildsmith
    From Westminster to the Senedd, liars, posers and fools are harpooned as we revisit the surreal bin fire of current affairs 2023-style. Taking in - but never taken in by - a cast that includes Boris Johnson, Carol Vorderman, Mark Drakeford, Shakin’ Stevens, Wayne Pivac, and Charles Windsor;  Wildsmith’s unflinching eye dissects the tragedies and comedies of the year. Whether wr...
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    14,18 €

  • An Earnest Blackness
    Eugen Bacon
    In this debut collection of personal essays, Eugen Bacon offers critical perspectives on blackness, Afrofuturism, colonialism, historicity, and (mis)recognition as she explores the untapped possibilities of speculative fiction. Using a variety of analytic, narrative, and anecdotal techniques, Bacon shares her experiences as an African Australian woman, mother, and writer who oc...
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    19,09 €

  • Damned Agitator
    Michael Gold
    The most comprehensive collection of writings by an important twentieth-century radical writer. ...
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    126,61 €

  • Underdogs
    This collection of short stories, poems, personal essays, and other pieces came together from a collection of authors and artists primarily in the San Gabriel Valley in California. The collection was first envisioned as we imagined expanding our bookstore from a pop-up bookstore at the Monrovia Street Fair & Market to a brick-and-mortar shop on Myrtle Avenue in Old Town Monrovi...
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    7,97 €

  • Shoes for Lucy
    Lynne Kemen
    Lynne Kemen’s Shoes for Lucy is a beautiful and relatable collection of poems that explores a wide range of emotions. From grief to rediscovery, Kemen writes with a deft hand, creating vibrant and introspective pieces that remind us to cherish life’s simple pleasures.- Kelli Russell AgodonAuthor of Dialogues with Rising Tides (Copper Canyon Press)Shoes for Lucy is like a beauti...
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    17,27 €

  • Studyu2028 - Harry Potter’s Magical Success
    Sigrun Strunk
    Discover some aspects of the worldwide success of the Harry Potter series. Learn what J.K. Rowling thinks about eternal life, the decisions that lead to Voldemort’s death, Dumbledore’s secret motivations and the tragic character of Severus Snape, as well as a long chapter about Harry Potter’s development.With commentary on ’Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’. ...
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    16,59 €

  • Becoming Human
    Natalie Kathryn Sanchez
    Becoming Human explores the essence of grief and its evolutionary nature. Through cherished childhood memories, deep reflections, and current life experiences, Natalie Sanchez provides an introspective commentary on loss. This collection of vignettes features core themes of longing, connection, growth, and love, all sewn together by the universal desire to be understood. Becomi...
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    12,19 €

  • In Defense Of Sanity
    G. K. Chesterton
    'In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays of G.K. Chesterton' is a captivating collection of G.K. Chesterton’s most insightful and witty essays. Covering a wide range of topics, from literature to faith and politics, Chesterton’s timeless wisdom shines through. These essays offer a refreshing perspective on the complexities of the modern world, championing traditional values and c...
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    9,05 €

  • In Defense Of Sanity
    G. K. Chesterton
    'In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays of G.K. Chesterton' is a captivating collection of G.K. Chesterton’s most insightful and witty essays. Covering a wide range of topics, from literature to faith and politics, Chesterton’s timeless wisdom shines through. These essays offer a refreshing perspective on the complexities of the modern world, championing traditional values and c...
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    16,18 €

  • Imperfect Memories
    Lenore Manderson
    IMPERFECT MEMORIES EXPLORES THE RELIEF OF STORYTELLING, DELVING DEEP INTO WORKS BUILT FROM REMINISCENCE AND DISCONNECTION, HUMOUR, STRENGTH AND LOVE...For many, telling stories is a means of survival, of making it through days, weeks, months, years. But capturing the past is tumultuous and flawed at best, influenced always by our capability to grasp the fleeting moments when we...
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    14,25 €

  • Genuflect 2.0
    Tracy R. Twyman
    2nd Edition PublicationGenuflect 2.0 is a collection of essays and articles pertaining Tracy R. Twyman novel Genuflect written by the author.Adding more external details unto the meaning of her novel, Tracy published online a few articles and essays explaining the construct and other concepts that are in her novel Genuflect, and specifying the locations of where the novel takes...
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    81,95 €

  • Fugue State
    John Wilkinson
    Fugue State is John Wilkinson’s fifteenth book of poems, and the most fiery. In it, the world is thicker than ever, crowded with all sorts of things, from futures to the exhumed bodies of 80 girls. His muse is a fly, try to catch it. His sentences zigzag. His unique fashion of figuration risks cutting ties with 'verisimilitude.' Opposing everything that blocks, hardens, locks, ...
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    17,84 €


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