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  • Every Minute Is First

    Selected Late Poems

    by Marie-Claire Bancquart ...
    Translated by Jody Gladding ...
    The first full-length English translation of this celebrated French poet offers a penetrating and encompassing collection touching on death, domesticity, nature, language itself, and—always—the body.French literary icon Marie-Claire Bancquart (1932–2019) is known for an uncanny inhabitation of the concrete, finding whole worlds, even afterlives, in daily instances and spaces. "If I could seize a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • If You Cross the River

    A Novel

    by Geneviève Damas ...
    Translated by Jody Gladding ...
    From celebrated Belgian author Geneviève Damas, a modern fable about friendship, self-determination, and the power of words.Illiterate, isolated, and held at arm's length by a bitter father, François Sorrente has spent his seventeen years within narrow confines. By day he tends the family farm's pigs; by night he manages the household chores. Still, François can't help but wonder about the wider ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Queen, Warrior, Captain

    The Story of Artemisia of Halicarnassus

    by Violaine Sebillotte Cuchet ...
    Translated by Jody Gladding ...
    The story of Artemisia, formidable queen of the Greek city-state of Halicarnassus, that counters longstanding misconceptions about women’s roles in antiquityHerodotus’s listeners never doubted that Artemisia I of Caria had commanded a fleet in the naval Battle of Salamis. After all, she was the queen of the Greek city-state of Halicarnassus and a military ally of Persia, despite her Greek origins. ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Queen, Warrior, Captain

    The Story of Artemisia of Halicarnassus

    by Violaine Sebillotte Cuchet ...
    Narrated by Aasne Vigesaa ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 32 min

    The story of Artemisia, formidable queen of the Greek city-state of Halicarnassus, that counters longstanding misconceptions about women's roles in antiquityHerodotus's listeners never doubted that Artemisia I of Caria had commanded a fleet in the naval Battle of Salamis. After all, she was the queen of the Greek city-state of Halicarnassus and a military ally of Persia, despite her Greek origins. ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • Small Lives

    by Pierre Michon ...
    Translated by Elizabeth Deshays, Jody Gladding ...
    Small Lives (Vies minuscules), Pierre Michon’s first novel, won the Prix France Culture. Michon explains that he wrote it "to save my own skin. I felt in my body that my life was turning around. This book born in an aura of inexpressible joy and catharsis rescued me more effectively than my aborted analysis." Le Monde calls it "his chef d’oeuvre. A bolt of lightening." In Small Lives, Michon ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Five Meditations on Death

    In Other Words . . . On Life

    by François Cheng ...
    Translated by Jody Gladding ...
    Philosophical discussions on the ways that death makes life meaningful and sacred• Reveals how being conscious of death gives our fate its full meaning, inviting the reader to contemplate life in the light of their own death• Examines the author’s experience of ancestor worship in his native China and the beliefs that underlie it• Explains how death is a transition in a longer living process not ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Pink

    The History of a Color

    by Michel Pastoureau ...
    Translated by Jody Gladding ...
    Series series The History of a Color
    From the acclaimed author of Blue and other color histories, the beautifully illustrated story of pink, from the first ancient pigments to BarbiePink has such powerful associations today that it’s hard to imagine the color could ever have meant anything different. But it’s only since the introduction of the Barbie doll in 1959 that pink has become decisively feminized. Indeed, in the eighteenth ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Lichens

    Toward a Minimal Resistance

    by Vincent Zonca, Emanuele Coccia ...
    Translated by Jody Gladding ...
    Covering almost 8 percent of the earth's terrain, lichens are living beings which are familiar to everyone, known to no one. They are one of those organisms that seem to offer nothing to hold our gaze. But the more time we spend with lichens, the more they reveal their beauty, their mysteries and their strange power of attraction. Part-algae and part-fungus, lichens call into question our ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Wild Geese Returning

    Chinese Reversible Poems

    by Michele Metail ...
    A breathtaking introduction to Chinese multidirectional poems, told through the story of Su Hui, the greatest writer of these poems who embroidered a silk with 840 characters--equaling as many as 12,000 multidirectional poems--for her distant husband.For nearly two thousand years, the condensed language of classical Chinese has offered the possibility of writing poems that may be read both forward ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Severed Head

    Capital Visions

    by Julia Kristeva ...
    Translated by Jody Gladding ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    Informed by a provocative exhibition at the Louvre curated by the author, The Severed Head unpacks artistic representations of severed heads from the Paleolithic period to the present. Surveying paintings, sculptures, and drawings, Julia Kristeva turns her famed critical eye to a study of the head as symbol and metaphor, as religious object and physical fact, further developing a critical theme in ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • The Science of the Oven

    by Hervé This ...
    Translated by Jody Gladding ...
    Series series Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
    Mayonnaise "takes" when a series of liquids form a semisolid consistency. Eggs, a liquid, become solid as they are heated, whereas, under the same conditions, solids melt. When meat is roasted, its surface browns and it acquires taste and texture. What accounts for these extraordinary transformations?The answer: chemistry and physics. With his trademark eloquence and wit, Hervé This launches a wry ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Second Star

    and other reasons for lingering

    by Philippe Delerm ...
    Translated by Jody Gladding ...
    A #1 bestseller in France, Second Star is an inspiring series of lyrical meditations on life's smallest moments, from peeling a clementine, drinking a cold mojito, to washing your windowsA still life in motion, Second Star "consumes the present" with a patient curiosity, asking us to "put off tomorrow" and join Philippe Delerm in tasting, touching, listening, and noticing.Whether biting into a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD