Miyuki Miyabe

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

California

Wataru Mitani has to grow up fast, and not just in this world but in a magical land called Vision.

Young Wataru flees his messed-up life to navigate the magical world of Vision, a land filled with creatures both fierce and friendly. His ultimate destination is the Tower of Destiny where a goddess of fate awaits. Only when he has finished his journey and collected five elusive gemstones will he possess the Demon's Bane--the key that will grant him his most heartfelt wish...the wish to bring his family back together again!

Young Wataru flees his messed-up life to navigate the magical world of Vision, a land filled with creatures both fierce and friendly. His ultimate destination is the Tower of Destiny where a goddess of fate awaits. Only when he has finished his journey and collected five elusive gemstones will he possess the Demon's Bane--the key that will grant him his most heartfelt wish...the wish to bring his family back together again!

Brave Story

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Leo Tolstoy

Richard Pevear

Larissa Volokhonsky

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

The must-have Pevear and Volokhonsky translation of one of the greatest Russian novels ever written Described by William Faulkner as the best novel ever written and by Fyodor Dostoevsky as “flawless,” Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and thereby exposes herself to the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, the novel's seven major characters create a dynamic imbalance, playing out the contrasts of city and country life and all the variations on love and family happiness. While previous versions have softened the robust and sometimes shocking qualities of Tolstoy's writing, Pevear and Volokhonsky have produced a translation true to his powerful voice. This authoritative edition, which received the PEN Translation Prize and was an Oprah Book Club™ selection, also includes an illuminating introduction and explanatory notes. Beautiful, vigorous, and eminently readable, this Anna Karenina will be the definitive text for fans of the film and generations to come. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition also features French flaps and deckle-edged paper. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Anna Karenina

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William Langland

Elizabeth Ann Robertson

Stephen H. A. Shepherd

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Virginia

Astonishing in its cultural and theological scope, William Langland's iconoclastic masterpiece is at once a historical relic and a deeply spiritual vision, probing not only the social and religious aristocracy but also the day-to-day realities of a largely voiceless proletariat class.E. Talbot Donaldson's translation of the text has been selected for this Norton Critical Edition because of its skillful emulation of the original poem's distinct alliterative verse. Selections of the authoritative Middle English text are also included for comparative analysis."Sources and Backgrounds" includes a large collection of contemporary religious and historical documents pertaining to the poem, including selections from the Douai Bible, accounts of the plague, and legal statutes."Criticism" includes twenty interpretive essays by leading medievalists, among them E. Talbot Donaldson, George Kane, Jill Mann, Derek Pearsall, C. David Benson, and Elizabeth D. Kirk.A Glossary and Selected Bibliography are also included.

Piers Plowman

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Donatella Di Pietrantonio

Ann Goldstein

Lovely Europa edition, winner of Campiello Prize. Great shape!

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Florida

WINNER OF THE CAMPIELLO PRIZE

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 TRANSLATED BOOK AWARDS

A 2019 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (Washington Post ãf»Kirkus Reviewsãf»Dallas Morning News)

A pitch-perfect rendering in English by Ann Goldstein, Elena Ferrante's translator.

"I was theArminuta, the girl returned. I spoke another language, I no longer knew who I belonged to. The word 'mama' stuck in my throat like a toad. And, nowadays, I really have no idea what kind of place mother is. It is not mine in the way one might have good health, a safe place, certainty."

Told with an immediacy and a rare expressive intensity that has earned it countless adoring readers and one of Italy's most prestigious literary prizes,A Girl Returned is a powerful novel rendered with sensitivity and verve by Ann Goldstein, translator of the works of Elena Ferrante. Set against the stark, beautiful landscape of Abruzzo in central Italy, this is a compelling story about mothers and daughters, about responsibility, siblings, and caregiving.

Without warning or explanation, an unnamed 13-year-old girl is sent away from the family she has always thought of as hers to live with her birth family: a large, chaotic assortment of individuals whom she has never met and who seem anything but welcoming. Thus begins a new life, one of struggle, tension, and conflict, especially between the young girl and her mother. But in her relationship with Adriana and Vincenzo, two of her newly acquired siblings, she will find the strength to start again and to build a new and enduring sense of self.

A Girl Returned

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Illinois

A Novel

A marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies--her first in nearly a decade. Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. The woman at the center wavers between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties. The city she calls home, an engaging backdrop to her days, acts as a confidant: the sidewalks around her house, parks, bridges, piazzas, streets, stores, coffee bars. We follow her to the pool she frequents and to the train station that sometimes leads her to her mother, mired in a desperate solitude after her father's untimely death. In addition to colleagues at work, where she never quite feels at ease, she has girl friends, guy friends, and "him," a shadow who both consoles and unsettles her. But in the arc of a year, as one season gives way to the next, transformation awaits. One day at the sea, both overwhelmed and replenished by the sun's vital heat, her perspective will change. This is the first novel she has written in Italian and translated into English. It brims with the impulse to cross barriers. By grafting herself onto a new literary language, Lahiri has pushed herself to a new level of artistic achievement.

Whereabouts

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Massachusetts

District of Columbia

Ruxandra Cesereanu

ISBN 13: 9780979513756
Weight: 7.7 ounces
Dimensions: 6.05 x 0.47 x 9.02 “
Pages: 140
Publisher: Commonwealth Books, Black Widow (April 28, 2008)
Cover Design: Windhaven Press
Cover Photo: Calin Stegerean 
Book Design: Kerri Kemperman
Printed by Thomason-Shore
Printed in the U.S.A.

Condition: 
Excellent, like new

Description:
The first comprehensive anthology in English of one of Romania's most important and exciting young poets. With some nine volumes of poetry, five books of fiction, and a number of selected essays published in Romania and Europe, Andrei Codrescu in his introduction makes it clear: Ruxandra is the real thing: a poet of extreme vitality, painting visual images that linger long after the book is put down.

New Jersey

Poems previously published in magazines and books.

Crusader Woman

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Arkansas

Math

Recursion Sequences 

Inequalities 

Ohio

Garden of Delights

Karl Ove Knausgaard

Don Bartlett

Mammoth Hardcover (8 to 10 lbs)

Washington

A New York Times bestseller, My Struggle: Book 1 introduces American readers to the audacious, addictive, and profoundly surprising international literary sensation that is the provocative and brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard.

It has already been anointed a Proustian masterpiece and is the rare work of dazzling literary originality that is intensely, irresistibly readable. Unafraid of the big issues--death, love, art, fear--and yet committed to the intimate details of life as it is lived, My Struggle is an essential work of contemporary literature.

My Struggle: Book 1-6

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Condition: Some light marks on dust jacket and minor wear to dust jacket edges. 


Pages: 224


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New York

The Cursed Friend

Rachel Khan

Aude Massot

Nina is 18 in the mid-1990s. She's trying to find her place in a world constantly throwing her differences back at her face. Nina was born in a multi-culltural and multi-ethnic family: her father is black Muslim of Gambian origins and her mother is of Polish-Jewish descent. But Nina will turn her differences into strength as she embraces track and field. She runs, not to escape reality, but to be the champion of her own life. Adapted from the best selling French semi-biographical novel by Rachel Khan, "Les grandes et les petites choses" and drawn by cartoonist Aude Massot, this book will definitely prove you that no challenge is too big, regardless of where you're from or how different your family is!

I Run to Make My Heart Beat

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Cécile Volanges left her convent school to prepare for marriage to a proper suitor, chosen by her mother. But the lovely young creature had caught the eye of Marquise de Merteuil, a corrupt, amoral woman in league with her former lover, the Vicomte de Valmont. On the eve of the French Revolution, no excess was unknown to certain members of the aristocracy, and these two had created a perverse, diabolical game, a secret delight they shared. Cécile was their new victim… and nothing would thwart their desire. Slowly, cleverly, carefully, they won her trust, then her affection. Soon, the seduction would be complete…

“Les Liaisons Dangereuses,” first published in 1782, is a fascinating novel of sexual intrigue and the power of evil. An outrageous scandal in Paris, the book sold out within a few days. Marie Antoinette kept a private copy of the novel in her library, and forty years after its first appearance, it was condemned by a criminal court and publicly incinerated. “If this book burns,” said Baudelaire, “it burns as only ice can burn.” Two centuries later, this sensational story of forbidden obsession will shock you, stun you, and grip you up to the final, explosive climax.

NOTE: In reference to the last picture, this is a 1st edition book purchased around the time of publication in 1988, for all you vintage book collectors out there.

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

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Miyuki Miyabe

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Donatella Di Pietrantonio; Ann Goldstein

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A. I. Markushvich

Recursion Sequences

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Garden of Delights

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My Struggle: Book 1-6

Beatrice Salvioni

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Rachel Khan; Aude Massot

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Leo Tolstoy; Richard Pevear; Larissa Volokhonsky

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William Langland; Elizabeth Ann Robertson; Stephen H. A. Shepherd

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Donatella Di Pietrantonio; Ann Goldstein

A Girl Returned

Jhumpa Lahiri

Whereabouts

Leo Tolstoy; Richard Pevear; Larissa Volokhonsky

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Leo Tolstoy; Richard Pevear; Larissa Volokhonsky

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A. I. Markushvich

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P. P. Korovkin

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My Struggle: Book 1-6

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Rachel Khan; Aude Massot

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