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  • Akiko's Quiet Happiness

    The Japan Trilogy, Vol. 1

    by Jan-Philipp Sendker ...
    Translated by Daniel Bowles ...
    Two lonely former classmates reconnect in Tokyo and unravel a family secret in this touching new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Art of Hearing Heartbeats.Still grieving the death of her mother, 29-year-old Akiko is single and lives in self-imposed isolation in Tokyo. Then one evening, she unexpectedly runs into Kento, her first love from school. Kento now leads a ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • Marseille 1940

    The Flight of Literature

    by Uwe Wittstock ...
    Translated by Daniel Bowles ...
    June 1940: France surrenders to Germany. The Gestapo is searching for Heinrich Mann and Franz Werfel, Hannah Arendt, Lion Feuchtwanger and many other writers and artists who had sought asylum in France since 1933. The young American journalist Varian Fry arrives in Marseille with the aim of rescuing as many as possible. This is the harrowing story of their flight from the Nazis under the most ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Air

    A Novel

    by Christian Kracht ...
    Translated by Daniel Bowles ...
    A hauntingly beautiful and radically disorienting tale by the International Booker Prize-nominated author of Eurotrash.Paul, a Swiss interior designer living alone in the remote Orkney Islands, receives an unusual commission from Kuki, a prestigious design magazine: travel to a massive data center in Norway and coat its cavernous interior in the “perfect white.” But after a solar storm disrupts ... Read more

    $25.89 CAD

  • The Dead

    A Novel

    by Christian Kracht ...
    Translated by Daniel Bowles ...
    "A great Faustian fable, and a literary endeavor of historical ingenuity that we now may start to characterize as Krachtian." —Karl Ove KnausgaardIn Berlin, Germany, in the early 1930s, the acclaimed Swiss film director Emil Nägeli receives the assignment of a lifetime: travel to Japan and make a film to establish the dominance of Adolf Hitler's Nazi empire once and for all. But his handlers are ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • February 1933

    The Winter of Literature

    by Uwe Wittstock ...
    Translated by Daniel Bowles ...
    It all happened in a flash. February 1933 was the month in which the fate of German writers, as for so many others, was decided. In a tensely spun narrative, Uwe Wittstock tells the story of a demise which was predicted by some but also scarcely thought possible. He reveals how, in a matter of weeks, the glittering Weimar literary scene gave way to a long, dark winter, and how the net drew ever ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Eurotrash

    A Novel

    by Christian Kracht ...
    Translated by Daniel Bowles ...
    **A probing masterpiece-in-miniature of self-reflection and cultural reckoning.The Times [UK] • 12 Best Books of 2024Financial Times • Best Books of 2024 [Fiction in Translation]A Vanity Fair "Can't Miss Novel to Read"Literary Hub • Best Book Covers of October 2024**From “the great German-language writer of his generation” (Joshua Cohen) comes the second novel of Christian Kracht’s career narrated ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Imperium

    A Fiction of the South Seas

    by Christian Kracht ...
    Translated by Daniel Bowles ...
    One of Publishers Weekly's Ten Best Books of the Year: An uncategorizable, "astonishing and captivating" novel of obsession, adventure, and coconuts (Karl Ove Knausgaard, New York Times–bestselling author of My Struggle).In 1902, a radical vegetarian and nudist from Nuremberg named August Engelhardt set sail for what was then called the Bismarck Archipelago. His destination: the island Kabakon. ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • How Nietzsche Came in From the Cold

    Tale of a Redemption

    by Philipp Felsch ...
    Translated by Daniel Bowles ...
    Nietzsche’s reputation, like much of Europe, lay in ruins in 1945. Giving a platform to a philosopher venerated by the Nazis was not an attractive prospect for Germans eager to cast off Hitler’s shadow. It was only when two ambitious antifascist Italians, Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, began to comb through the archives that anyone warmed to the idea of rehabilitating Nietzsche as a major ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 36

    Bestselling Anthology of Award-Winning Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Stories

    by L. Ron Hubbard, Nnedi Okorafor, Katherine Kurtz, Jody Lynn Nye, Sean Williams, Echo Chernik, Mike Perkins, Zack Be, F. J. Bergmann, Tim Boiteau, Andy Dibble, David Elsensohn, Michael Gardner, J. L. George, Storm Humbert, Katherine Livingston, Leah Ning, C. Winspear, Sonny Zae ...
    Series Book 36 - L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future
    Soar to new heights of Science Fiction & Fantasy.Who are the top science fiction writers and illustrators of the future? The answer is here. Get to know tomorrow’s brightest creative talents chosen by some of today’s bestselling authors and celebrated artists including Kevin J. Anderson, Orson Scott Card, Larry Elmore, Brandon Sanderson, Dan dos Santos, and Robert J. Sawyer.Enter brilliantly ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • So You Want To Be In Musicals?

    by Ruthie Henshall ...
    Series series So You Want To Be...? career guides
    An insider's guide to achieving that dream career – by one of the brightest stars in musical theatre.Being in a West End or Broadway musical is the dream of thousands of talented performers. But competition is intense and reaching the spotlight can often require a leap into the dark. So You Want To Be In Musicals? by Ruthie Henshall is your comprehensive guide to building – and sustaining – a ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Staging Social Justice

    Collaborating to Create Activist Theatre

    by Carly Halse, Megan Hanley, Cristina Pippa, Diane Finnerty, Lindsey Barlag Thornton, Amanda Dunne Acevedo, Ann Elizabeth Armstrong, Bryan Moore, Tracey Calhoun, David Kaye, Susan V. Iverson, Michael Ellison, Bernardo Solano, Paula Weston Solano, Xanthia Angel Walker, Selina Busby, Catherine McNamara, Kathleen Juhl, Lindsey Smith, Rod Ainsworth, Jude Pippen, Rebecca Root, Erasmo Tacconelli, Jessy Ardern, Brooke Kiener, Laura Reed Goodson, Natalya Brusilovsky, Crystal Grills, Daniel-Raymond Flint ...
    Series series Theater in the Americas
    Normal.dotm0011901163SIU Press195141012.00false18 pt18 pt00falsefalsefalseFringe Benefits, an award-winning theatre company, collaborates with schools and communities to create plays that promote constructive dialogue about diversity and discrimination issues. Staging Social Justice is a groundbreaking collection of essays about Fringe Benefits’ script-devising methodology and their collaborations ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Akiko's Quiet Happiness

    by Jan-Philipp Sendker ...
    Narrated by Jennifer Ikeda ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - The Japan Trilogy

    Unabridged

    9 hours 48 min

    Two lonely former classmates reconnect in Tokyo and unravel a family secret in this touching new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Art of Hearing Heartbeats.Still grieving the death of her mother, 29-year-old Akiko is single and lives in self-imposed isolation in Tokyo. Then one evening, she unexpectedly runs into Kento, her first love from school. Kento now leads a ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus