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The Village of the Hanged

A True Story from the Carpathians

by Corben Vale ...

What if your grandmother's warning were a matter of life and death? When the narrator falls in love with Lena, a Romanian woman, he has no idea what he's getting into: a village at the foot of the Carpathians that the locals know by only one name the village of the hanged. At first it's just small things: a cat that flees from his new girlfriend, voices calling names in the night, knocking at ... Read more

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What if your grandmother's warning were a matter of life and death? When the narrator falls in love with Lena, a Romanian woman, he has no idea what he's getting into: a village at the foot of the Carpathians that the locals know by only one name the village of the hanged. At first it's just small things: a cat that flees from his new girlfriend, voices calling names in the night, knocking at
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Uncanny Voices in the Night

by Corben Vale ...

Series Book 2 - Carpathian Chronicles
A year after The Village of the Hanged, the narrator returns with Lena to her home village at the foot of the Carpathians – for the wedding of her cousin Ana. He only means to collect stories. He hears of Florica, who spent forty years at a window waiting for a voice she had answered just once. Of an old man who walked barefoot into the marsh one night. Of a bride who vanished at her own wedding ... Read more

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A year after The Village of the Hanged, the narrator returns with Lena to her home village at the foot of the Carpathians – for the wedding of her cousin Ana. He only means to collect stories. He hears of Florica, who spent forty years at a window waiting for a voice she had answered just once. Of an old man who walked barefoot into the marsh one night. Of a bride who vanished at her own wedding
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The Yellow Wallpaper

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman ...

Through a series of journal entries, a woman records her thoughts and feelings over the course of a summer, shortly after giving birth to her child. Confined to her bedroom on the advice of her husband, a physician, “The Yellow Wallpaper” chronicles the woman’s increasing instability, as she becomes obsessed with the yellow wallpaper covering the walls of her room.“The Yellow Wallpaper” is ... Read more

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Through a series of journal entries, a woman records her thoughts and feelings over the course of a summer, shortly after giving birth to her child. Confined to her bedroom on the advice of her husband, a physician, “The Yellow Wallpaper” chronicles the woman’s increasing instability, as she becomes obsessed with the yellow wallpaper covering the walls of her room.“The Yellow Wallpaper” is
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All We Saw

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**From the internationally celebrated author of Fugitive Pieces and the Griffin Poetry Prize-shortlisted collection Correspondences—and Toronto's Poet Laureate—comes a profoundly moving new collection of poetry of love and memory.In All We Saw, Anne Michaels returns to poetry with strikingly original lyrics to explore one of her essential concerns: "what love makes us capable of, and incapable of. ... Read more

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**From the internationally celebrated author of Fugitive Pieces and the Griffin Poetry Prize-shortlisted collection Correspondences—and Toronto's Poet Laureate—comes a profoundly moving new collection of poetry of love and memory.In All We Saw, Anne Michaels returns to poetry with strikingly original lyrics to explore one of her essential concerns: "what love makes us capable of, and incapable of.
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52 Series: Fun Things to Do in the Car

by Lynn Gordon ...

Illustrated by Susan Synarski, Karen Johnson ...

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Kiss the roadtrip blues good-bye with the revised version of this best-selling activity deck featuring updated text throughout as well as a variety of new activities. From engaging games to creative art activities to mind-bending puzzles, this deck will make getting there all the fun. ... Read more

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Kiss the roadtrip blues good-bye with the revised version of this best-selling activity deck featuring updated text throughout as well as a variety of new activities. From engaging games to creative art activities to mind-bending puzzles, this deck will make getting there all the fun.
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Selected Poems

by James Tate ...

Series series Wesleyan Poetry Series
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1992)Winner of the William Carlos Williams Award (1992)The Selected Poems James Tate's Pulitzer Prize-winning collection and his first British publication, gathers work from nine previous books, from the Lost Pilot which was a Yale Younger Poets selection in 1967, through his 1986 collection Reckoner. He is a most agile poet in a precarious world. Life is ... Read more

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1992)Winner of the William Carlos Williams Award (1992)The Selected Poems James Tate's Pulitzer Prize-winning collection and his first British publication, gathers work from nine previous books, from the Lost Pilot which was a Yale Younger Poets selection in 1967, through his 1986 collection Reckoner. He is a most agile poet in a precarious world. Life is
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The Yellow Wallpaper

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman ...

"The Yellow Wallpaper" is a 6,000-word short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's physical and mental health. The story is written in the first person as a series of journal entries. The narrator ... Read more

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"The Yellow Wallpaper" is a 6,000-word short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's physical and mental health. The story is written in the first person as a series of journal entries. The narrator
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The Book of Idle Pleasures

by Dan Kieran, Tom Hodgkinson ...

From a founder and editor of The Idler, a gentle guide to goofing off—and finding stolen moments of contentment amid the madness of the world.In this inspiring book, expert Idlers Tom Hodgkinson and Dan Kieran stand up for the simple pleasures in life . . . by lying down for a nap. With its tongue firmly in its cheek, The Book of Idle Pleasures renounces our world of ever-growing consumer overload ... Read more

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From a founder and editor of The Idler, a gentle guide to goofing off—and finding stolen moments of contentment amid the madness of the world.In this inspiring book, expert Idlers Tom Hodgkinson and Dan Kieran stand up for the simple pleasures in life . . . by lying down for a nap. With its tongue firmly in its cheek, The Book of Idle Pleasures renounces our world of ever-growing consumer overload
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The Water Statues

by Fleur Jaeggy ...

Translated by Gini Alhadeff ...

Family, obsession, and privilege boiled down by the icy-hot Swiss-Italian master stylist Fleur JaeggyEven among Fleur Jaeggy’s singular and intricate works, The Water Statues is a shiningly peculiar book. Concerned with loneliness and wealth’s odd emotional poverty, this early novel is in part structured as a play: the dramatis personae include the various relatives, friends, and servants of a man ... Read more

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Family, obsession, and privilege boiled down by the icy-hot Swiss-Italian master stylist Fleur JaeggyEven among Fleur Jaeggy’s singular and intricate works, The Water Statues is a shiningly peculiar book. Concerned with loneliness and wealth’s odd emotional poverty, this early novel is in part structured as a play: the dramatis personae include the various relatives, friends, and servants of a man
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The Unbreathing: A short story of Zombie Horror

by Veronica Crookall ...

In 1912, the small mill town of Byng Inlet in northern Ontario burned to the ground. Very little of the original settlement remains to this day. Recently discovered letters tell the chilling story of how this once-thriving logging community became the ghost town it is now. ... Read more

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In 1912, the small mill town of Byng Inlet in northern Ontario burned to the ground. Very little of the original settlement remains to this day. Recently discovered letters tell the chilling story of how this once-thriving logging community became the ghost town it is now.
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Aetherial Worlds

Stories

by Tatyana Tolstaya ...

**“Playful and poetic . . . A foxy, original writer. Memory fuses with wonder, and wonder with worship." —The Wall Street Journal“Marvelously vivid, perfectly tuned. . . Tolstaya is well known in Russia as a brilliant and caustic political critic, but her memories of her Soviet childhood have a tender, personal quality.” —The New York Times Book Review“Grimly hilarious ... Everything in this ... Read more

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**“Playful and poetic . . . A foxy, original writer. Memory fuses with wonder, and wonder with worship." —The Wall Street Journal“Marvelously vivid, perfectly tuned. . . Tolstaya is well known in Russia as a brilliant and caustic political critic, but her memories of her Soviet childhood have a tender, personal quality.” —The New York Times Book Review“Grimly hilarious ... Everything in this
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Daylight in Nightclub Inferno

Czech Fiction from the Post-Kundera Generation

by Elena Lappin ...

This is the first English-language collection of stories and novel excerpts by the best and most representative younger Czech writers. This volume reveals that, unlike the older generation, these writers have not been disillusioned; their darkness comes not from the disappointment of hopes, but from never having had any. This collection also introduced the new generation of American Czech-into ... Read more

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This is the first English-language collection of stories and novel excerpts by the best and most representative younger Czech writers. This volume reveals that, unlike the older generation, these writers have not been disillusioned; their darkness comes not from the disappointment of hopes, but from never having had any. This collection also introduced the new generation of American Czech-into
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