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Feb 18 2012
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‘Vintage Hairstyling by Lauren Rennells’~You NEED this book!
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The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry $12.12 McClatchy’s selections include Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Allen Ginsberg, Frank O’Hara, Adrienne Rich, Rita Dove, Sharon Olds, |
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The Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature (Paperback) $20.01 Chaudhuri`s collection of stories and nonfiction pieces includes work by R. K. Narayan, Raja Rao, Vikram Seth, Salman Rushdie, Nirmal Verma, and others–among them Rabindrinath Tagore, India`s only Nobel prizewinner. |
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The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories $10.55 This is a collection of 33 stories by writers including Dorothy Allison, Raymond Carver, Jamaica Kincaid, Mona Simpson, and John |
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Paperback) $10.74 Swedish journalist Stieg Larsson penned the Millennium trilogy, which finally lands on American shores with THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO. It`s the story of a financial journalist who agrees to investigate a 40-year-old kidnapping in exchange for hel… |
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Cutting for Stone (Paperback) $9.47 Twin brothers born of an illicit affair between an Indian nun and a British doctor experience love, loss, and the true healing power of medicine in this epic tale. Marion and Shiva Stone are raised as orphans at the Ethiopian mission hospital where the… |
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Nobody’s Fool $11.52 In North Bath, a down-at-the-heels town in upstate New York which is not unlike the Mohawk of Russo’s two previous novels, Sully |
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The Woman in Black (Paperback) $10.88 “An excellent ghost story… magnificently eerie… compulsive reading.” —Evening Standard   The classic ghost story by Susan Hill: a chilling tale about a menacing spectre haunting a small English town. … |
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No Disrespect $10.1 A sexual memoir from hip-hop artist Sister Souljah, who came to the nation’s attention during the 1992 Presidential campaign aft |
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Mama Day (Paperback) $9.86 The story of Ophelia Day and her fiance George Andrews is just the tip of the iceberg in MAMA DAY. Naylor narrates Ophelia`s family history on the island of Willow Springs, South Carolina. Ophelia is from a matriarchal family, whose head, Miranda “Mama… |
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Paperback) $11.52 Stieg Larsson`s #1 bestselling mystery featuring Lisbeth Salander is now a major motion picture directed by David Fincher, starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara, from Columbia Pictures/Sony. In theaters December 2011. The first volume in the Millennium… |
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French Women Don`t Get Fat (Paperback) $7.42 A gourmand`s guide to the slim life shares the principles of French gastronomy, the art of enjoying all edibles in proportion, arguing that the secret of being thin and happy lies in the ability to appreciate and balance pleasures, not in deprivation, … |
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Before You Know Kindness $14.34 Spencer McCullough is a member of an extreme activist group, the Federation for Animal Liberation (FERAL). When he is accidentally shot and seriously wounded by his 12-year-old daughter, Charlotte, with a rifle that belongs to Spencer’s brother-in… |
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Bridge of Sighs (Paperback) $10.07 In the small, economically gutted town of Thomaston, N.Y., three friends and lovers, Lou C. Lynch (nicknamed “Lucy”), Bobby Marconi, and Sarah Berg, struggle with the emotional desolation of their lives, loves, and families. Richard Russo is a master a… |
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Unaccustomed Earth (Paperback) $10.1 Jhumpa Lahiri`s exquisite short stories deal with the subtle dramas, crises, and occasional tragedies of Bengali immigrants attempting to assimilate and thrive in America. |
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The Invisible Bridge (Paperback) $10.74 Julie Orringer follows up her acclaimed short-story collection HOW TO BREATHE UNDERWATER with a sweeping historical tale about lives, loves, and personal ambitions devastated by the relentless events of history. Hungarian Jew Andras Levi travels to Par… |
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The Hundred Secret Senses $14.29 Olivia is 3 years old when she discovers she has a half-sister, Kwan, who lives in China. When Kwan arrives to join the family, |
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Jane Eyre (Paperback) $9.85 Charlotte Brontk`s first novel, published in 1847, was based in part on the author`s own days in a brutal boarding school where two of her sisters died of tuberculosis; her characterization of the place in her first published work was an act of revenge… |
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The Flame Alphabet (Paperback) $11.12 Experimental fiction writer Ben Marcus adopts a more traditional narrative structure for his fourth book, THE FLAME ALPHABET. Telling the story of a Jewish couple living in upstate New York, Marcus crafts a story that reads something like a new renditi… |
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The Power of the Dog $12.96 Description not available. |
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The Other (Book) $11.58 Neil Countryman and John Williams meet at a high-school track event, and despite their class differences–Neil is a carpenter`s son, John the scion of an old moneyed Seattle family–the two young men forge a deep friendship based on their love of the w… |
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Letter to a Christian Nation (Paperback) $10.26 Sam Harris`s rebuttal of Christian fundamentalism is occasioned by the many letters he received following the publication of his best selling THE END OF FAITH. Many readers were astounded that he said he does not believe in God and does not consider th… |
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A Town Like Alice (Paperback) $10.1 "A harrowing, exciting, and in the end very satisfying war romance."HARPER`SA TOWN LIKE ALICE tells of a young woman who miraculously survived a Japanese "death march" in World War II, and of an Australian soldier, also a pr… |
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Paperback) $10.77 A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1… |
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The Breast $9.33 Like Kafka’s hapless Gregor Samsa, Philip Roth’s David Kepesh wakes up one day to find himself transformed–not into a cockroach, but into an enormous breast. Roth manages to make this farcical situation surprisingly realistic, as Kepesh endures t… |
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El testamento Maya (Paperback) $11.88 An archeologist investigates the collision of an asteroid into the Earth and uncovers an ancient mystery with potential consequences for the entire planet. |
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The Ways of White Folks $11.05 This short-story collection was published in 1928. |
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Farewell, My Lovely $10.07 In this second Philip Marlowe novel, the detective is more fleshed-out and well-drawn. Chandler expanded Marlowe’s trademark irreverence and wise-guy remakrs, and in Farewell, My Lovely Marlowe is more well-intentioned. Taking on the case of Moose… |
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The Last Sherlock Holmes Story $8.76 In 1888 Sherlock Holmes is lamenting the lack of a criminal case to challenge his intellectual powers when one materializes–her |
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Bruno, Chief of Police (Paperback) $10.07 Meet Benot Courrges, aka Bruno, a policeman in a small village in the South of France.  He’s a former soldier who has embraced the pleasures and slow rhythms of country life. He has a gun but never wears it; he has the power to arrest but … |
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Bangkok Haunts (Paperback) $10.8 Sonchai Jitpleecheep, the devout Buddhist Royal Thai Police detective who led us through the best sellers Bangkok 8 and Bangkok Tattoo, returns in this blistering novel.Sonchai has seen virtually everything on his beat in Bangkok`… |
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Hiroshima $7.87 The most famous work of the Pulitzer Prizewinning novelist and reporter. An account of the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, told fr |
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Einstein’s Dreams $10.88 A modern classic,Einstein’s Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity… |
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Como Agua Para Chocolate/Like Water for Chocolate $10.1 Peppered with recipes, remedies and folky digressions, this novel is a treat. The heroine of this fantastical love story, Tita, |
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The Chicago Way $10.8 A former Chicago cop and tough, street-smart private detective, Michael Kelly is hired by his former partner, John Gibbons, to solve an eight-year-old rape and battery case, a crime that is complicated by Gibbons`s own murder, the mob, a serial killer,… |
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Metroland $11.42 Julian Barnes`s first novel, published in 1980, is about a Francophile growing up in stifling English suburbia. He grows up to be a young man whose main ambition, to be outrageous, evolves into a competition with a friend, in which they bet money on |
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Krik? Krak! (Paperback) $11.09 Short stories that illuminate the realities of Haitian life. |
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The Lonelinesss of the Long-distance Runner (Paperback) $10.95 Perhaps one of the most revered works of fiction in the twentieth-century, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner is a modern classic about integrity, courage, and bucking the system. Its title story recounts the story of a reform school cro… |
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Die for You (Paperback) $7.91 Isabel Raine thought she had everything–a successful career, a supportive family, and a happy marriage to the man she loved. Then one ordinary morning, her husband, Marcus, picks up his briefcase, kisses her good-bye, and simply vanishes…. |
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Zen in the Art of Archery $9.72 This is the story of philosopher Eugen Herrigel’s effort to learn archery as a tool for grasping the concepts of Zen Buddhism. H |
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The Fifth Floor (Paperback) $10.8 Private detective Michael Kelly returns in a lightning-paced, intricately woven mystery that links a political cover up in contemporary Chicago to the great Chicago Fire of 1871.When an old girlfriend hires Kelly to tail her abusive husband, Mi… |
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Moor`s Last Sigh (Paperback) $10.77 Salman Rushdie`s first full-length novel since THE SATANIC VERSES is the story of a dynasty of spice traders in Bombay. The families in the story are neither Hindu nor Muslim, but Jewish and Christian. Rushdie follows his usual circuitous route to the … |
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The Vintage Caper (Paperback) $10.07 Peter Mayle takes a set-up from film noir and applies it to pinot noir in this winsome whodunit about an everyman detective on the trail of a stolen wine collection. Hollywood big-shot Danny Roth is so proud of his majestic wine collection that he allo… |
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The Lady in the Lake $10.97 Derace Kingsley, executive at a cosmetics company, …can’t stand scandal. But a month before he hired Marlowe, his wife went to Mexico for a divorce in order to marry a playboy named Lavery. However, the wife’s car is discovered, abandoned, and L… |
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Conquistadora (Paperback) $13.84 This is a Spanish-language edition. A Spanish immigrant to Puerto Rico gets her aristocratic life tossed into uncertainty when the United States blazes into war over slavery. Ana Cubillas, the heroine of CONQUISTADORA, manages her sugar hacienda with g… |
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Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (Paperback) $10.1 Gertrude Stein writes about herself from the point of view of her partner, Alice B. Toklas. In a tone that is at once conversational, revealing, witty, and gossipy, Stein exposes a generation of writers and artists who comprised her salon in Paris, inc… |
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Swimming Lessons $10.84 A collection of short stories that center on a single apartment building in Bombay. |
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All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes $11.09 Angelou writes about her travels in Africa, particularly Ghana (including a romance with an African Muslim), as well as her trip |
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The Grace of Silence (Paperback) $10.07 NPR “All Things Considered” host Michele Norris brings a journalistic integrity to this highly personal investigation into the complex issue of race in the United States. In the course of her research, Norris uncovered some never-discussed pieces of he… |
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The Piano Tuner (Paperback) $11.1 During the Anglo-Burmese Wars of the 1880s, a London piano tuner named Edgar Drake is recruited to tune the piano for an army surgeon in Burma. What he finds when he gets there–about the surgeon, about Burma`s political situation, and about himself–i… |
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The Return of History and the End of Dreams (Paperback) $10.88 The intellectually ambitious Robert Kagan surveys the new world order and finds it complex and threatening–and most of all, very different from the days of the Cold War era with its superpower rivalry. The U.S. and the rest of the liberal West face ch… |
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Vintage Dog Book Plate $59.99 Eugene Field Vintage Dog Book Plate – Wall Decal |
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Vintage $30 This book is in Good Used condition |
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Veteran and Vintage (A Studio book) $7.95 This book is in Good Used condition |
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The Vintage wine book $5 This book is in Acceptable condition |
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The Vintage Book of Amnesia $10.5 This book is in New – Excellent condition |
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Vintage Wine Book $35 This book is in Good Used condition |
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Vintage Charm Guest Book(Pack of 1) $69.99 Vintage Charm Guest Book. The book records 800 signatures. 7 1/2″ x 5 3/4″. |
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Vintage Book of War Fiction, by Faulks $1.95 This book is in Acceptable condition |
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The Vintage Book of African American Poetry $11.96 This book is in New – Excellent condition |
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The Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature $27.59 This book is in Used condition |
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The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry $8.99 This book is in New – Excellent condition |
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The Vintage Book of Latin American Stories $11.21 This book is in New – Excellent condition |
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The New Great Vintage Wine Book $30 This book is in Good Used condition |
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The Vintage Book Of American Women Writers $10.99 The Vintage Book of American Women Writers is the first of its kind: a dazzling monumental showcase of 350 years of poetry and fiction by American women. Inspired and informed by her groundbreaking history A Jury of Her Peers Elaine Showalter"s landmark anthology features the best work of writers ranging from Puritan poet Anne Bradstreet to contemporary stars like Annie Proulx and Jhumpa Lahiri. For centuries women have been marginalized and overlooked in American literary history and Showalter"s collection corrects this injustice allowing us to see our famous women writers in their full literary context and to encounter scores of lesser-known and forgotten writers who fully deserve to be rediscovered and enjoyed by new generations of readers. Sure to fuel debate for years to come The Vintage Book of American Women Writers offers an epic overview of the canon in one readable entertaining and provocative volume. From the Trade Paperback edition. |
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The Vintage Book of War Fiction $9.29 In this powerful anthology Sebastian Faulks author of the international bestseller Birdsong and Jörg Hensgen have put together some of the finest fictional writing about war in the 20th century. Whether reporting with sober clarity or raw despair the assembled novelists each found a way to transcend the facts of death and metal tanks and blood. Many of the writers are concerned with battle but others dwell on moments of calm love and friendship. From revolutionary Russia to Republican Spain; from the trenches of the Western Front to the skies over Korea and the jungles of Vietnam this is a book filled with heroism and horror savagery and compassion and lightning-flashes of anarchic humor. From the Trade Paperback edition. |
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The Vintage Book Of Walking $7.49 ‘It is good to collect things, but better to go on walks. ‘ Anatole France. A fundamental act, often taken for granted, yet through the centuries it has inspired a fascinating literature. This, the first comprehensive anthology on the subject, delves into why we walk and how we walk; the differences between the country hike and the city stroll; walking and wooing; walking into trouble and marching out. Then some of us will walk to meet the Maker. A mix of fiction and non-fiction, poetry and drama provides the reader with over two hundred booted authors. Xenophone and Baudelaire, Flora Thompson and Julian Barnes, Mark Twain and Roberto Calasso tramp the pages of this fascinating collection. |
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The Vintage Book Of War Stories $8.55 In this unique and compelling anthology, Sebastian Faulks has collected the best fiction about war in the 20th century. Ranging from the First World War to the Gulf War, these stories depict a soldier`s experience from call-ups battle and comradship to leave, hospital and trauma in later life. Truely international in scope, this anthology includes stories by Erich Maria Remarque and Pat Barker, Issac Babel and Ernest Hemingway , Heinrich Boll and Norman Mailer, JG Ballard and Tim O`Brian Julian Barnes and Louis de Barnieres. Together they form a powerful and moving evocation of the horors of war. |
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Vintage Label Collage Book Boxes, Set of Three $78 -Set of 3 storage book box, featuring vintage labels from all over the world -Dimensions: 9.5-12.5-14.5″h x 6.5-8.5-10.5″w x 2-2.75-3.5″ -Materials: 75% MDF, 20% Tarpaulin, 5% Twilled Swansdown |
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The Vintage Book Of International Lesbian Fiction $14.39 A groundbreaking volume from Lamda Award-winning editors Naomi Holoch and Joan Nestle, The Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction presents a range of literary voices–from twenty-seven countries spanning six continents–and offers glimpses of lesbian life in unfamilar, often exotic climes. We follow an Irish woman as she travels through time in search of a wronged maiden, and anticipate the harrowing fate of a married Indian woman who pursues pleasure with her female lover under the shadow of her husbands suspicious rage. We meet a teacher in Barcelona who locks herself up in her grandmother’s house with her young Columbian student, and witness a Slovenian woman’s rendezvous with her long dead lover. This collection includes the work of familiar writers, as well as a number never before published in English. From the West Indies to Eastern Europe, the Middle East to Southeast Asia, Latin America to South Africa, the distinctive stories found in these pages evoke the diverse political, cultural, emotional, and sexual landscapes of each writer’s life. A groundbreaking volume from the Lamda Award-winning editors Naomi Holoch and Joan Nestle, who also wrote the introduction, this collections evokes the universal urgency of persistent desire. Table of Contents: Mary Dorcey, Ireland from A Noise from the WoodshedMakeda Sivera, Jamaica Caribbean ChameleonMireille Best, France Stéphanie’s BookChristina Peri Rossi, Uruguay Final Judgement and Singing in the DesertShani Mootoo, India-Trinidad-Canada Lemon ScentMarguerite Yourcenar, Belgium Sappho or SuicideEmma Donoghue, Ireland Looking for PetronillaSylvia Molloy, Argentinafrom Certificate of AbsenceDale Gunthorp, South Africa GypsophilaKaren Williams, South Africa The Came at DawnCynthia Price, South Africa Lesbian BedroomsAlifa Rifaat, Egypt My World of the UnknownYasmin V. Tambiah, Sri Lanka The Civil War, Sandalwood, Transl(iter)ation I, and Transl(iter)ation II (for Aruna and Giti)Dionne Brand, Trinidad Madame Alaird’s BreastsViolette Leduc, Francefrom L’AphyxieAnchee Min, Chinafrom Red AzaleaGerd Brantenberg, Norwayfrom Four WindsEsther Tusquets, Spainfrom The Same Sea as Every SummerKaren-Susan Fessel, Germany Lost FacesMar$#237;a Eugenia Alegría Nuñez, Cuba The Girl Typist Who Worked for a Provincial Ministry of CultureNgahuia Te Awekatuku, Aotearoa/New Zealand Paretipua, Old Man Tuna, and Watching the Big GirlsDacia Maraini, Italyfrom Letters to MarinaRosamaría Roffiel, Mexico Forever Lasts Only a Full MoonAnna Blaman, Hollandfrom Lonely AdventureChrista Winsloe, Germanyfrom The Child ManuelaAchy Obejas, Cuba WatersNicole Brossard, Canadafrom Mauve DesertGila Svirsky, Israel Meeting NataliaMaureen Duffy, Englandfrom The MicrocosmJeanne D’Arc Jutras, Canadafrom GeorgieSuzana Tratnik, Slovenia Under the Ironwood TreesElena Georgiou, Cyprus Aphrodite’s VisionEtel Adnan, Lebanonfrom In the Heart of the Heart of Another CountryGina Schein, Australia Minnie Gets Married |
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