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A collection of humorous essays spanning parenting, adulting and life in general from a woman who is just trying to figure it all out and help you along the way.Twyla Righter is a wife, mother of three and comic relief when life is a little too serious. In these laugh out loud essays, she takes us through her holiday disasters, mental health, the importance of parenting, the lessons she's learned and the struggles she's still enduring. After a...

Landscapes of War: From Sarajevo to Chechnya is an incisive examination of the tensions that exist between the West and Islamic societies of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. These essays, originating in Goytisolo's travels in the late 1990s, provide rich historical analysis and moving first-person reportage of life in four explosive war-zones: Sarajevo, Algeria, the West Bank and Gaza, and Chechnya. From the 17th century to the Gulf W...

Villaurrutia Prize for Best Mexican NovelSet in an imaginary walled city off the coast of Morocco, Mogador traces the days and nights of Fatma, a young woman who finds herself suddenly seized by desire. As she wanders the city's maze of erotic pleasures, she encounters other desiring bodies and the desperate worlds those desires create. Here is a vital fusion of Latin America magical realism with Arabic geometric and mystical imagery, written ...

From one of Guatemala's finest young writers, these twenty-six stories-at once brutal and intensely lyrical-are peopled with sorcerers, ghosts, and assassins.Springing from myth and beliefs indigenous to Central America and North America, where their action occurs, Rey Rosa's tales give the sense of being dreamed. At the same time they can be read as metaphors for the terror and oppression of years of warfare.Rodrigo Rey Rosa has based many of...

This startling and brilliantly comic novel tells the stories of two men: a father and his estranged son. Lamprias de Bergerac is a gentle mystic and amateur botanist who spends his middle-aged years in an erotic utopia deep in the Amazonian jungle, collecting specimens of rare orchids and ultimately finding Cucla, the young and free-spirited native woman who has become the love of his life. Meanwhile, his demented son Septimus is raised by his...

An insightful glimpse into the genius behind Pasolini's multi-genred "theater of reality.

In 1928, Georges Bataille published this first novel under a pseudonym, a legendary shocker that uncovers the dark side of the erotic by means of forbidden obsessive fantasies of excess and sexual extremes. A classic of pornographic literature, Story of the Eye finds the parallels in Sade and Nietzsche and in the investigations of contemporary psychology, it also forecasts Bataille's own theories of ecstasy, death and transgression which he de...

SPUR AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR C.K. CRIGGER DELIVERS BOOK TWO OF THE INTRIGUING HOMETOWN HOMICIDE MYSTERY SERIES!Paramedic and Afghanistan veteran Frankie McGill and resident deputy Gabe Zantos are caught up in a case of arson and murder. A house at the end of a country road has stood vacant for years, it's occupants mice and the stray raccoon or two. When the derelict house catches fire, the Hawkesford Fire Department responds because of the dange...

Former soldier Frankie McGill has returned home from Afghanistan minus half of her right foot, a plate in her head, and PTSD. After some months in medical care, she's ready to take on the new battle of finding and holding a job. But not just any job. Frankie is a combat-trained paramedic. When all she can find is a position in the small, mostly volunteer fire department of her old hometown, she's immediately plunged into much more than dealing...

Profound meditations on life, death, freedom, family, and faith written by radical, Black journalist Abu-Jamal, while he was awaiting his execution.

A dying woman's attempt to recount the story of her life reveals the fragility of memory and the illusion of identity. "A masterpiece from an extraordinary author who deserves to be read over and over."--Marjorie Agosin, author of I Lived On Butterfly Hillll

This volume brings together every known surviving poem by this major African-American surrealist, including the three books published in his lifetime, Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness, Golden Sardine, and The Ancient Rain.

A series of personal and historical encounters with surrealism from one of its foremost practitioners in the United States. "A marvelous, meticulous exploration of the surrealist experience, in all its infinite variety."--Gerome Kamrowski.wski.

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A black, gay Poundian in Boston, Stephen Jonas is a crucial missing piece of the postwar American poetry puzzle.

In this memoir and book of mourning, a grandson attempts to reconcile his ownuncontested citizenship with his grandfather's lifelong struggle.

A powerful critique of how manipulation of media gives rise to disinformation, intolerance, and divisiveness, and what can be done to change direction.

From New York School scion and memoirist, a new book of poems considering domesticity in the heart of the city.

This biography of Bayard Rustin for young readers depicts his life of nonviolent activism and resistance.

This historical guidebook reveals new perspectives on San Francisco, and how it came to be the way it is.