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  • The Last Mile of Braganza Reign

    by Lamberto Almeida ...
    The three south Goa villages were the last bastion of resistance to the Portuguese conversion drive during their colonial rule in Goa. By the final decade of their rule, the same villages became a stronghold of the converts' descendants, many of whom were families of seafarers. As fathers went to sea, the children were left under mother's supervision.Two boys meet at a village school and turn into ... Read more

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  • By Night in Chile

    by Roberto Bolaño ...
    Translated by Chris Andrews ...
    “Extraordinary . . . [Bolaño’s] greatest work.” —James Wood, The New York Times Book Review“A marvelous river of feeling, a brilliant meditation, an enthralling fantasy—By Night in Chile is the real thing, and the rarest: a contemporary novel destined to have a permanent place in world literature.” —Susan SontagThe book that catapulted Roberto Bolaño into international literary stardom, By Night ... Read more

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  • The Girl Who Reads on the Métro

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    by Christine Féret-Fleury ...
    "With a cast of characters reminiscent of the French film Amélie, Féret-Fleury creates a world that is delightful and enchanting…Light and sweet as a bonbon, this little confection of a book is delicious." — Kirkus ReviewsFor fans of Amélie and The Little Paris Bookshop, a modern fairytale about a French woman whose life is turned upside down when she meets a reclusive bookseller and his young ... Read more

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  • Travels on my Elephant

    by Mark Shand ...
    With the help of a Maratha nobleman, Mark Shand bought an elephant named Tara and rode her over six hundred miles across India to the Sonepur Mela, the world's oldest elephant market. From Bhim, a drink-racked mahout, Shand learned to ride and care for her. From his friend Aditya Patankar he learned Indian ways. And with Tara, his new companion, he fell in love. Travels on My Elephant is the story ... Read more

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  • The Accidental Feminist

    The Life of One Woman through War, Motherhood, and International Photojournalism

    by Toby Molenaar ...
    This is the story of an independent woman who is a model for our time-photographer Toby Molenaar. It begins in Holland during World War II, when her country is decimated by the occupying German army and she is literally left to starve. As a little girl, she learns to be self-sufficient-survival is the order of the day.After the war, she finds love in Switzerland, marries, and starts a family. Her ... Read more

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  • The Last Wolf & Herman

    by László Krasznahorkai ...
    Translated by John Batki, George Szirtes ...
    WINNER OF THE 2025 NOBEL PRIZENow in paperback, two novellas from the Hungarian master László Krasznahorkai—“one of the most mysterious artists now at work” (Colm Toíbín)The Last Wolf (translated by George Szirtes) is Krasznahorkai in a maddening nutshell—it features a classic obsessed narrator, a man hired (by mistake) to write the true tale of the last wolf in Spain. This miserable experience ... Read more

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  • His Name was Death

    by Rafael Bernal ...
    Translated by Kit Schluter ...
    **Never before in English, this legendary precursor to eco-fiction turns the coming insect apocalypse on its headA Wall Street Journal Best Science Fiction Book of 2021**A bitter drunk forsakes civilization and takes to the Mexican jungle, trapping animals, selling their pelts to buy liquor for colossal benders, and slowly rotting away in his fetid hut. His neighbors, a clan of the Lacodón tribe ... Read more

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  • The Country Between Us

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  • In Our Time

    by Ernest Hemingway ...
    When in Our Time, published in 1925, was widely praised for its simple and precise use of language to convey a wide range of complex emotions. His American debut was marked by this strikingly original collection of short stories and accompanying vignettes and earned him a place among the most promising American writers of that period. It contains several early Hemingway classics, including the ... Read more

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    Dazzling, hallucinatory stories by Sara Gallardo, a rediscovered Argentinian contemporary of García Márquez never before published in EnglishThese stunning stories by Sara Gallardo astonish, overwhelm and illuminate. Deeply real, they are also shot through with the supernatural. Every muscular, musical story reveals the way that the habits of everyday life can become unknowable and unpredictable. ... Read more

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