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  • Duplex

    A Novel

    by Kathryn Davis ...
    * A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year * A San Francisco Chronicle, Kansas City Star, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, New Hampshire Public Radio, Flavorwire, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Largehearted Boy, and Slaughterhouse 90210 Best Book of the Year ** A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * One of The Millions's Most Anticipated Books of 2013 *Mary and Eddie are meant for each other—but ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Versailles

    A Novel

    by Kathryn Davis ...
    Marie Antoinette “tells her own story” in this “sage, mercurial, and ravishing” novel (*The New Yorker*)**Versailles tells the story of an expansive spirit locked in a pretty body and an impossible moment in history. As the novel begins, fourteen-year-old Marie Antoinette is traveling from Austria to France to meet her fiancé. He will become the sixteenth Louis to rule France, and Antoinette will ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf

    A Novel

    by Kathryn Davis ...
    Back in print, an astonishing novel of art, obsession, and the secrets kept by two very different womenIn Kathryn Davis’s second novel, Frances Thorn, waitress and single parent of twins, finds herself transformed by the dazzling magnetism of Helle Ten Brix, an elderly Danish composer of operas. At the heart of what binds them is “The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf,” the Hans Christian Andersen tale of a ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Aurelia, Aurélia

    A Memoir

    by Kathryn Davis ...
    An eerily dreamlike memoir, and the first work of nonfiction by one of our most inventive novelists.Aurelia, Aurélia begins on a boat. The author, sixteen years old, is traveling to Europe at an age when one can “try on personae like dresses.” She has the confidence of a teenager cultivating her earliest obsessions—Woolf, Durrell, Bergman—sure of her maturity, sure of the life that awaits her. ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Silk Road

    A Novel

    by Kathryn Davis ...
    A spellbinding novel about transience and mortality, by one of the most original voices in American literatureThe Silk Road begins on a mat in yoga class, deep within a labyrinth on a settlement somewhere in the icy north, under the canny guidance of Jee Moon. When someone fails to arise from corpse pose, the Astronomer, the Archivist, the Botanist, the Keeper, the Topologist, the Geographer, the ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Voices

    by Frederic Prokosch ...
    James Joyce, Viriginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, and a multitude of other artistic titans are encountered and ventriloquized in this bitingly funny (and mostly fictitious) memoir by a nearly forgotten literary fantasist.Frederic Prokosch was a fantasist. His first novel, The Asiatics, was a stylish account of a man hitchhiking across an Asia that was more dream than reality. Praised by T. S. Eliot, ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • Liberty in Jane Austen’s Persuasion

    by Kathryn E. Davis ...
    Liberty in Jane Austen’s Persuasion is a meditation on Persuasion as a text in which Jane Austen, writing in the Age of Revolution, enters the conversation of her epoch. Poets, philosophers, theologians and political thinkers of the long eighteenth century, including William Cowper, George Gordon Byron, Samuel Johnson, Hugh Blair, Thomas Sherlock, Edmund Burke, and Charles Pasley, endeavored ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Versailles

    by Kathryn Davis ...
    Narrated by Elisabeth Rodgers ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 40 min

    A fictionalized account of the life of Marie Antoinette follows her through such challenges as her early marriage to the future King Louis XVI, struggles with the expectations of her station, painful palace betrayals and politics, and interactions with such figures as Mirabeau, Du Barry, and Robespierre. ... Read more

    $20.54 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington

    by Leonora Carrington ...
    “Complete Stories, a collection of Carrington’s published and unpublished short stories—many newly translated from their original French and Spanish—is a terrific introduction to her bizarre, dreamlike worlds.” —Carmen Maria Machado, NPRSurrealist writer and painter Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) was a master of the macabre, of gorgeous tableaus, biting satire, roguish comedy, and brilliant, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Rewriting American Architecture

    Contesting the Myths of National Culture

    Edited by Charles L. Davis II, Kathryn E. Holliday, Joanna Merwood-Salisbury ...
    A critical reassessment of nineteenth‑century American architecture that uncovers how race, settler colonialism, and contested national identities shaped the built environment and its historiography.Rewriting American Architecture offers a revisionist riposte to the canonical story of nineteenth-century American architecture. Drawing on new archival research and revisionist historiography, the ... Read more

    $49.59 CAD

  • Labrador

    A Novel

    by Kathryn Davis ...
    Back in print, Kathryn Davis’s riveting debut about the indelible pacts and hidden hatreds of sisterhoodLabrador is the story of two unforgettable sisters. Willie, the eldest, is willful, beautiful, and wayward; to Kitty, the youngest, she is the radiant center around which everything revolves. Kitty, too, is willful, but in the brooding manner of the inveterate loner. She is the one who is ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Engaged Language Policy and Practices

    by Kathryn A. Davis, Prem Phyak ...
    Engaged Language Policy and Practices re-envisions language policy and planning as an engaged approach, drawing on and portraying theoretical and educational equity perspectives. It calls for the right to language policy-making in which all concerned—communities, parents, students, educators, and advocates—collectively imagine new strategies for resisting global neoliberal marginalization of home ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD