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Bringing Tony HomeWritten by Tissa AbeysekaraPrice: $14.95North Atlantic BooksSet in the 1940s and 1960s, Bringing Tony Home is a masterful modern example of a timeless genre, the bildungsroman. In the title novella, a boy returns to his old home to find Tony, his beloved dog who was abandoned when economic circumstances forced the family to leave. “Bringing Tony Home”...
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Blackbird, FarewellWritten by Robert GreerPrice: $25.95Frog BooksShandell “Blackbird” Bird has everything going for him, or so he thinks. Recently selected number two overall in the NBA draft, the 6'8", 250-pound superstar has a gleaming new ride and a salary and athletic shoe contract that make him an instant millionaire. What he doesn’t have is the ability to...
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The Hierophant of 100th StreetWritten by Cullen DornPrice: $16.95Frog BooksThe Hierophant of 100th Street is a rarity: a metaphysical novel set in a violent world of gangs, prisons, and the army. Drawing on the author’s experience of growing up in East Harlem in the 1960s, the story follows 17-year-old Adam Kadman and his 9-year-old brother John through their respective initiations...
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The OdysseyTranslated by Charles SteinPrice: $22.95North Atlantic BooksMost translations of The Odyssey are in the kind of standard verse form believed typical of high-serious composition in the ancient world. Yet some scholars believe the epic was originally composed in a less formal, phrase-by-phrase prosody. Charles Stein employs the latter approach in this dramatic, and in some ways truer...
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The Book from the SkyWritten by Robert KellyPrice: $15.95North Atlantic Books“I’m on my way back. I was one of the first they took away.” So begins Robert Kelly’s remarkable science fiction novel about a literally divided self. “I” is Billy, the book’s protagonist, a boy who is captured by a group of aliens who take him to a cave and meticulously...
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Dreams of the PresidentsFrom George Washington to George W. BushWritten by Charles BaraschPrice: $12.95North Atlantic BooksThe stuff of dreams—hopes, fears, and longings—represents universal subjects to which everyone can relate. Dreams take on a new cultural currency in this collection of dream-poems, one for each American president. Exploring power, as well as its limits and possibilities, linguistics instructor Charles Barasch plays no favorites, making light of the...
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Poems for New OrleansWritten by Edward SandersPrice: $14.95North Atlantic BooksThe indomitable spirit of the people of New Orleans is the focus of this powerful suite of poems by counterculture icon Ed Sanders. The book begins with a series of vivid evocations of key events and personalities in the city’s history, then brings this colorful legacy into the present with the...
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BelongingNew Poetry by Iranians Around the WorldEdited by Niloufar TalebiPrice: $18.95North Atlantic BooksRecent political developments, including the shadow of a new war, have obscured the fact that Iran has a long and splendid artistic tradition ranging from the visual arts to literature. Western readers may have some awareness of the Iranian novel thanks to a few breakout successes like Reading Lolita in Tehran...
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The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass NiggerWritten by Cecil Brown, Introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Price: $15.95Frog Books“If you're black you don't need to get at anything. You're already there. You can live right out of your insides.” So says the antihero of this legendary novel that reimagines the Bible’s prodigal son as a young black man in post-Civil Rights-era America. George Washington—one of his many aliases—is a...
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Sweetpea's SecretWritten by Renay JacksonPrice: $14.95Frog BooksRenay Jackson’s previous books in this series introduced the curious character of Sweetpea, who’s not exactly what he seems. By day he’s Horace Boudreaux, mortgage broker and sometime playboy who likes nothing better than getting down with his girlfriend Harriette. Other times, he’s one of Oaktown’s more successful hitmen. He doesn’t...
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Guarding HannaWritten by Miha MazziniPrice: $15.95North Atlantic BooksAbandoned at birth because he has the face of a “prize boar,” the unnamed narrator of Guarding Hanna knows only a local Berlin gang as family. Patriarch Maestro acts as surrogate father, employing him to collect debts and perform thuggish tasks. Except for brief moments interacting with the gang, “the beast”...
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The Fourth PerspectiveWritten by Robert GreerPrice: $14.95Frog BooksWhen bail bondsman and bounty hunter CJ Floyd opens an antique store, the last thing he expects is to be fingered for murder. But that’s exactly what happens after an immigrant student tries to sell him a rare book. The book contains a hidden photograph as legendary—and valuable—as the Maltese Falcon...
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Angels Beneath the SurfaceA Selection of Contemporary Slovene FictionEdited by Mitja Cander and Tom Priestly, Introduction by Ales StegerPrice: $15.95North Atlantic BooksWith a per capita publishing rate of more that three times that of the United States, Slovenia has a long and storied literary history, from the legendary 9th-century Freising Manuscripts to postmodern masterpieces by Igor Bratoz. Continuing that tradition, Angels Beneath the Surface, the first collection of Slovene fiction to...
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AlamutWritten by Vladimir BartolPrice: $16.95North Atlantic BooksAlamut takes place in 11th Century Persia, in the fortress of Alamut, where self-proclaimed prophet Hasan ibn Sabbah is setting up his mad but brilliant plan to rule the region with a handful elite fighters who are to become his "living daggers." By creating a virtual paradise at Alamut, filled with...
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The Mongoose DeceptionWritten by Robert GreerPrice: $25.95Frog BooksWhen Cornelius McPherson, a former highway maintenance man, finds himself trapped in a tunnel he helped create decades earlier, he’s horrified to discover the well-preserved, frozen arm of a fellow worker. McPherson remembers a secret the man whispered to him—that he knew who assassinated John F. Kennedy. When McPherson also turns...
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The Nail and the OracleVolume XI: The Complete Stories of Theodore SturgeonWritten by Theodore Sturgeon, Annotations by Paul Williams, Foreword by Harlan EllisonPrice: $35.00North Atlantic BooksThis book contains ten major stories by the master of science fiction, fantasy, and horror written during the 1960s. The controversial “If All Men We re Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?” shows the author’s technique of “ask the next question” used in a way that shatters social conventions...
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The New JerusalemA Millennium Poetic/Prophetic Travel Diario 1959-1962Written by Robert EisenmanPrice: $25.00North Atlantic BooksThis poetic diary documents Robert Eisenman’s life-changing backpacking journey through Europe, the Middle East, and Asia in the early 1960s. Eisenman’s search for meaning took him to San Francisco and its Beat culture, to Paris, to Lebanon, Israel, and far beyond. The author's keen eye catches it all: pre-hippie hotels, midnight...
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Resurrecting Langston BlueWritten by Robert GreerPrice: $13.95Frog BooksThe casualties of war take many forms. When Amerasian ER doctor Carmen Nguyen suspects that her father, Langston Blue, who disappeared during the Vietnam War, may be alive, she hires cheroot-smoking, African-American bail bondsman and Vietnam vet CJ Floyd to help her find him. CJ’s discoveries aren’t pretty: Carmen’s father was...
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If I Never Get BackA NovelWritten by Darryl BrockPrice: $15.95Frog BooksContemporary reporter Sam Fowler, stuck in a dull job and a failing marriage, abruptly finds himself transported back to the summer of 1869. After a wrenching period of adjustment, he comes to feel rejuvenated by his involvement with the nation's first pro baseball players. He also finds his senses quickening and...
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Two in the FieldA NovelWritten by Darryl BrockPrice: $15.95Frog BooksIn this sequel to the best-selling If I Never Get Back, Sam Fowler manages to break into the past once again—but this time it’s 1875. Gripped by an economic depression, America is a darker place. Again Sam falls in with ballplayers, but spins off on his own seeking the whereabouts of...
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Westport PoemsWritten by Jonathan TowersPrice: $25.00North Atlantic BooksA beloved, familiar figure known as “Jon the Walker” for his daily appearances traversing the marshes and waterways of various Connecticut towns, Jonathan Towers composed brief, emotionally evocative poems until his suicide in 2005 after years of struggle with mental illness. His work was fueled by reading and a rich inner...
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The Devil's BackboneA CJ Floyd MysteryWritten by Robert Greer, Foreword by Manuel RamosPrice: $13.95Frog BooksWhen Hambone Dolbey, a rodeo star with a deathly fear of water, turns up in a wet suit, floating in water, and quite dead, his friends know something is fishy. Two of them ask CJ Floyd to find their friend's killer. CJ quickly discovers that the dead man's colorful past encompassed...
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The Fourth PerspectiveA CJ Floyd MysteryWritten by Robert GreerPrice: $24.95Frog BooksCJ Floyd's antique and Western collectibles store is finally open and he's left bail bonding and bounty hunting far behind—or so he thinks. An old book he buys turns out to contain much more than a dry history of 19th-century Montana: tucked inside is a never-before-seen photograph from the Golden Spike...
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Crack CityWritten by Renay JacksonPrice: $14.95Frog BooksSex, violence, and drugs reign supreme in this engrossing depiction of an urban underworld. Lorraine has it all: a devoted husband, a comfortable home, a secure job, and a hot body. When she and her coworker Allison go out to lunch one day, they bump into Lorraine’s cousin, Dirty Don, and...
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I, StagoleeA NovelWritten by Cecil BrownPrice: $15.95North Atlantic BooksIt's the birth year of Ragtime music, 1895, and Lee "Stagolee" Shelton, a St. Louis pimp, murders Billy Lyons, a political gang member. Afterwards, Stagolee makes a deal with Judge Murphy to bring order to the underworld. As a member of a group of pimps called the "Stags," Stagolee makes alliances...
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