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Africasoul

by Albert Russo, Eric Tessier, Jérémy Fraise ...

The soul of Africa through poetic descriptions and photos of Senegal and KenyaPhotos by Albert Russo and Elena Peters, texts by Albert Russo, Eric Tessier and Jérémy Fraise. ... Read more

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The soul of Africa through poetic descriptions and photos of Senegal and KenyaPhotos by Albert Russo and Elena Peters, texts by Albert Russo, Eric Tessier and Jérémy Fraise.
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The Crowded World of Solitude Volume 1

The Collected Stories and Essays

by Albert Russo ...

WORLD LITERATURE TODAY: Albert Russos collected stories included in this hefty volume constitute an excellent testimony on the writers ability to create fiction which is both entertaining and thought-provoking in a surprising variety of contexts. All of Mr Russos readers know that he can write as easily about his native Africa as about present-day New York or Italy; and the collection, with ... Read more

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WORLD LITERATURE TODAY: Albert Russos collected stories included in this hefty volume constitute an excellent testimony on the writers ability to create fiction which is both entertaining and thought-provoking in a surprising variety of contexts. All of Mr Russos readers know that he can write as easily about his native Africa as about present-day New York or Italy; and the collection, with
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The Crowded World of Solitude Volume 2

The Collected Poems, Including a Bilingual Section

by Albert Russo ...

Preface by LEIGH EDUARDO, British poet and musician.I have never met Albert Russo and yet, through his writing, I feel I have had that privilege. He possesses that rare and enviable talent of being able to say what is important in a very few words. His contributions to the literary world are amazingly varied, reminding one of an intellectual butterfly - able to flit from one topic to another, but ... Read more

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Preface by LEIGH EDUARDO, British poet and musician.I have never met Albert Russo and yet, through his writing, I feel I have had that privilege. He possesses that rare and enviable talent of being able to say what is important in a very few words. His contributions to the literary world are amazingly varied, reminding one of an intellectual butterfly - able to flit from one topic to another, but
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The Benevolent American in the Heart of Darkness

by Albert Russo ...

"The Benevolent American in the Heart of Darkness" is a trilogy of Albert Russos award-winning African novels set in the former Belgian Congo and Rwanda-Urundi. In The Black Ancestor, the reader will find, as in the two other novels, Eclipse over Lake Tanganyika and Mixed Blood or your son Lopold, many poignant and delightful passages, especially in the journeys across the magnificent Kivu ... Read more

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"The Benevolent American in the Heart of Darkness" is a trilogy of Albert Russos award-winning African novels set in the former Belgian Congo and Rwanda-Urundi. In The Black Ancestor, the reader will find, as in the two other novels, Eclipse over Lake Tanganyika and Mixed Blood or your son Lopold, many poignant and delightful passages, especially in the journeys across the magnificent Kivu
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Zapinette Goes to New York: The First Ever Series of Global Jewish Humor Volume 1

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Narrated by Jeanette Skirvin ...

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5 hours 11 min

Zapinette spends Christmas in the Big Apple! She reveals a slice of life from a perspective that is both rare and familiar. She is unique in her worldly travels, having been born in the United States, currently living in Paris, and visiting faraway lands with her beloved Unky Berky. She is all too common in her pain as the child of a broken home, her anger and hostility over her mother's new beau ... Read more

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Zapinette spends Christmas in the Big Apple! She reveals a slice of life from a perspective that is both rare and familiar. She is unique in her worldly travels, having been born in the United States, currently living in Paris, and visiting faraway lands with her beloved Unky Berky. She is all too common in her pain as the child of a broken home, her anger and hostility over her mother's new beau
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ADIEU ADIOS & FAREWELL

by Albert Russo ...

Narrated by Jeanette Skirvin ...

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The emotion and experience of parents' lives is indelible. The physical loss is heart wrenching, however the human psyche holds the memory bank that overpowers our physical presence. In our mind's eye, the presence of our lost parents is just as real, just as vivid, the emotion even more pronounced, even more valued and cherished. There are no physical boundaries that can intervene in the ... Read more

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The emotion and experience of parents' lives is indelible. The physical loss is heart wrenching, however the human psyche holds the memory bank that overpowers our physical presence. In our mind's eye, the presence of our lost parents is just as real, just as vivid, the emotion even more pronounced, even more valued and cherished. There are no physical boundaries that can intervene in the
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Tropic of Cancer

by Henry Miller ...

Henry Miller's famously banned book is "a matter-of-fact celebration of chucking one's dreary life and following your heart to Paris" (Richard Price).Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its first publication in Paris in 1934. Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship ... Read more

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Henry Miller's famously banned book is "a matter-of-fact celebration of chucking one's dreary life and following your heart to Paris" (Richard Price).Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its first publication in Paris in 1934. Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship
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The Snows Of Kilimanjaro

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by Ernest Hemingway ...

Dying slowly of an infected wound while on safari in Africa, Harry reflects on his privileged and decadent life, and confronts his failure of realize his potential as a writer. “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” is recognized as one of Ernest Hemingway’s greatest works, and inspired the film adaptation starring Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner.One of America’s foremost journalists and authors, Ernest ... Read more

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Dying slowly of an infected wound while on safari in Africa, Harry reflects on his privileged and decadent life, and confronts his failure of realize his potential as a writer. “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” is recognized as one of Ernest Hemingway’s greatest works, and inspired the film adaptation starring Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner.One of America’s foremost journalists and authors, Ernest
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An Unnecessary Woman

A Novel

by Rabih Alameddine ...

A happily misanthropic Middle East divorcee finds refuge in books in a "beautiful and absorbing" novel of late-life crisis ( The New York Times).Aaliya is a divorced, childless, and reclusively cranky translator in Beirut nurturing doubts about her latest project: a 900-page avant-garde, linguistically serpentine historiography by a late Chilean existentialist. Honestly, at seventy-two, should she ... Read more

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A happily misanthropic Middle East divorcee finds refuge in books in a "beautiful and absorbing" novel of late-life crisis ( The New York Times).Aaliya is a divorced, childless, and reclusively cranky translator in Beirut nurturing doubts about her latest project: a 900-page avant-garde, linguistically serpentine historiography by a late Chilean existentialist. Honestly, at seventy-two, should she
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Rimbaud: the Works

A Season in Hell; Poems & Prose; Illuminations

CHARLES NICHOLL, author of SOMEBODY ELSE: ARTHUR RIMBAUD IN AFRICA 1880-91 has written of Dennis J. Carlile's translation of RIMBAUD:THE WORKS."These are the best renditions of Rimbaud in English since Wallace Fowlie's nearly forty years ago, and many of them surpass that high standard. These poems have been wrestled with, which is the very least they demand, and successfully brought back home. ... Read more

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CHARLES NICHOLL, author of SOMEBODY ELSE: ARTHUR RIMBAUD IN AFRICA 1880-91 has written of Dennis J. Carlile's translation of RIMBAUD:THE WORKS."These are the best renditions of Rimbaud in English since Wallace Fowlie's nearly forty years ago, and many of them surpass that high standard. These poems have been wrestled with, which is the very least they demand, and successfully brought back home.
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The Sheltering Sky

by Paul Bowles ...

“The Sheltering Sky is one of the most original, even visionary, works of fiction to appear in the twentieth century.” —Tobias Wolff"It stands head and shoulders above most other novels published in English since World War II.” —New RepublicIn this existential classic of psychological terror, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans apprehend other cultures—and the ways in which their ... Read more

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“The Sheltering Sky is one of the most original, even visionary, works of fiction to appear in the twentieth century.” —Tobias Wolff"It stands head and shoulders above most other novels published in English since World War II.” —New RepublicIn this existential classic of psychological terror, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans apprehend other cultures—and the ways in which their
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Light Years

by James Salter ...

Series series Vintage International
**A brilliant portrait of a marriage from the PEN/Faulkner Award-winner and author of A Sport and a Pastime, with an introduction by Richard Ford.“Light Years is a novel of almost holy radiance to me. It is great in every sense of the word: vast, and timeless, and enduring.”—Lauren Groff, bestselling author of Fates and Furies**“Remarkable. An unexpectedly moving ode to beautiful lives frayed by ... Read more

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**A brilliant portrait of a marriage from the PEN/Faulkner Award-winner and author of A Sport and a Pastime, with an introduction by Richard Ford.“Light Years is a novel of almost holy radiance to me. It is great in every sense of the word: vast, and timeless, and enduring.”—Lauren Groff, bestselling author of Fates and Furies**“Remarkable. An unexpectedly moving ode to beautiful lives frayed by
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