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  • Olga

    Revolutionary and Martyr

    Translated by Ellen Watson ...
    This "heartbreaking biography" of the Communist revolutionary "is filled with high drama," daring escapes, and eventual imprisonment in Nazi Germany ( Publishers Weekly).A German-born Jew, Olga Benario was one of the most remarkable Communist activists of the twentieth century. With a genius for organization and an unwavering devotion, she crisscrossed the globe educating and activating legions to ... Read more

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  • And Still the Earth

    Series series Brazilian Literature
    Welcome to São Paulo, Brazil, in the not too distant future. Water is scarce, garbage clogs the city, movement is restricted, and the System—sinister, omnipotent, secret—rules its subjects' every moment and thought. Here, middle-aged Souza lives a meaningless life in a world where the future is doomed and all memory of the past is forbidden. A classic novel of "dystopia," looking back to Orwell's ... Read more

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  • The Alphabet in the Park

    Selected Poems

    by Adélia Prado ...
    Translated by Ellen Watson ...
    Poetry that eloquently concentrates on the spiritual and physical lives of women.This is the first book published in English by of the work of Brazilian poet Adélia Prado. Incorporating poems published over the past fifteen years, The Alphabet in the Park is a book of passion and intelligence, wit and instinct. These are poems about human concerns, especially those of women, about living in one's ... Read more

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  • The Story of My Teeth

    Translated by Christina MacSweeney ...
    Bon vivant, world traveler, auctioneer—the story of Highway and his teeth is like Johnny Cash meets Robert Walser in Mexico.Highway is a late-in-life world traveller, yarn spinner, collector, and legendary auctioneer. His most precious possessions are the teeth of the ‘notorious infamous’ like Plato, Petrarch, and Virginia Woolf. Written in collaboration with the workers at a Jumex juice factory, ... Read more

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  • Che Guevara

    A Revolutionary Life (Revised Edition)

    A New York Times Notable Book of the year.Acclaimed around the world and a national best-seller, this is the definitive work on Che Guevara, the dashing rebel whose epic dream was to end poverty and injustice in Latin America and the developing world through armed revolution.Jon Lee Anderson’s biography traces Che’s extraordinary life, from his comfortable Argentine upbringing to the battlefields ... Read more

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  • Thirst

    Poems

    by Mary Oliver ...
    Thirst, a collection of forty-three new poems from Pulitzer Prize-winner Mary Oliver, introduces two new directions in the poet's work. Grappling with grief at the death of her beloved partner of over forty years, she strives to experience sorrow as a path to spiritual progress, grief as part of loving and not its end. And within these pages she chronicles for the frst time her discovery of faith, ... Read more

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  • The Battle for Spain

    The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

    by Antony Beevor ...
    The bestselling author of STALINGRAD and BERLIN: THE DOWNFALL on the Spanish Civil War, drawing on masses of newly discovered material from the Spanish, Russian and German archives.The civil war that tore Spain apart between 1936 and 1939 and attracted liberals and socialists from across the world to support the cause against Franco was one of the most hard-fought and bitterest conflicts of the ... Read more

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  • Out of the Woods

    A Memoir of Wayfinding

    by Lynn Darling ...
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  • The Book of Manuals

    by Paulo Coelho ...
    I have read many manuals in my life, ranging from manuals on how to mend boats to ones telling me how to use a computer (nowadays, of course, the computer itself tells us what we should do). Gradually, I developed something of a passion for the manual and started to draw up my own, based on my observations of daily life. When Celso Loducca asked me to write a book, I thought: Why not collect ... Read more

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  • High Tide in Tucson

    Essays from Now or Never

    "Clever. . . magical. . . beautifully crafted. Kingsolver spins you around the philosophic world a dozen times." — Milwaukee Sentinel"Kingsolver's essays should be savored like quiet afternoons with a friend." —New York Times Book ReviewIn this brilliant essay collection, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Kingsolver turns to her favored literary terrain to explore themes of family, community, ... Read more

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  • I Have More Souls Than One

    Series series Penguin Modern
    'But no, she's abstract, is a birdOf sound in the air of air soaring,And her soul sings unencumberedBecause the song's what makes her sing.'Dramatic, lyrical and ranging over four distinct personae, these poems by one of Portugal's greatest poets trace a mind shaken by intense suffering and a tireless search for meaning.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the ... Read more

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