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  • Demoiselles of Numidia
    Demoiselles of Numidia
    Leftah, Mohamed
    The acclaimed Moroccan author’s debut novel, this stunning portrait of the world of sex work describes its sordid reality with beautiful, poetic prose.Available now for the first time in English, Demoiselles of Numidia offers an intimate glimpse into the lives of young women working in a Casablanca brothel—their relationships with each other and with their pimps, their dramas, ...

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  • Stone and Shadow
    Stone and Shadow
    Sönmez, Burhan
    In the city of Mardin, near Turkey’s border with Syria, the orphaned Avdo finds purpose when an old mason takes him on as an apprentice. From Master Josef, he learns the importance of their art, which looks after the dead and bears witness to their lives. Avdo then travels the country and meets a woman he loves wholeheartedly, only to lose her through a tragic crime. Resigned t...

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  • Nation of Plants, The
    Nation of Plants, The
    Mancuso, Stefano
    In this playful yet informative manifesto, a leading plant neurobiologist presents the eight fundamental pillars on which the life of plants-and by extension, humans-rests.Even if they behave as though they were, humans are not the masters of the Earth, but only one of its most irksome residents. From the moment of their arrival, about three hundred thousand years ago-nothing w...

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  • Planting Our World
    Planting Our World
    Mancuso, Stefano
    With fun, fascinating vignettes, a renowned neurobiologist illuminates the interconnectedness of plant life and how we can learn from it to better plan our communities.We animals account for a paltry 0.3% of the planet’s biomass while plants add up to 85%. And when, with just a little training, we are able to look at the world without seeing it solely as humanity’s playground, ...

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  • Open Heart
    Open Heart
    Lindo, Elvira
    This intimate family novel that follows the rise and fall of a great love is also a moving tribute to the generation that struggled to survive in Spain after the Civil War.In Open Heart, Elvira Lindo tells the story of her parents--the story of an excessive love, passionate and unstable, forged through countless fights and reconciliations, which had a profound effect on their e...

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  • Lady Life
    Lady Life
    Altan, Ahmet
    From the acclaimed author of I Will Never See the World Again, this poignant coming-of-age novel finds moments of remarkable humor in a present-day Istanbul rife with economic and political hardships.Fazil’s comfortable existence studying literature is upended by his family’s sudden financial ruin, followed swiftly by the death of his father. Forced to sell his belongings and m...

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  • Sentimental Economy
    Sentimental Economy
    Nesi, Edoardo
    Attempting to make sense of the incredible upheaval of 2020 (from the devastating impact of COVID-19 to the sudden loss of his father), Edoardo Nesi considers the changing global economy and its effect on our lives. He shares the stories of Alberto Magelli, a small textile entrepreneur; Livia Firth, a prominent advocate for sustainability; Elisa Martelli, a young Sangiovese win...

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  • Stories From the City of God
    Stories From the City of God
    Pasolini, Pier Paolo
    Now in paperback, a collection of the legendary filmmaker’s short fiction and nonfiction from 1950 to 1966, in which we see the machinations of the creative mind in post-World War II Rome.In a portrait of the city at once poignant and intimate, we find artistic witness to the customs, dialect, squalor, and beauty of the ancient imperial capital that has succumbed to modern warf...

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  • Truckin up to Buffalo (5 LP)
    Truckin up to Buffalo (5 LP)
    Greateful Dead
    A1.- BerthaA2.- Greatest Story Ever ToldA3.- Cold Rain And SnowB1.- Walkin' BluesB2.- Row JimmyC1.- When I Paint My MasterpieceC2.- Stagger LeeC3.- Looks Like RainD1.- DealD2.- Touch Of GreyE1.- Man Smart, Woman SmarterE2.- Ship Of FoolsF1.- Playing In The BandF2.- Terrapin StationG1.- DrumsG2.- SpaceH1.- I Will Take You HomeH2.- All Along The WatchtowerI1.- Morning DewI2.- Not...

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  • Another Life
    Another Life
    Kallifatides, Theodor / Delargy, Marlaine
    A rewarding philosophical essay on memory, language, love, and the passage of time, from a Greek immigrant who became one of Sweden’s most highly respected writers“Nobody should write after the age of seventy-five,” a friend had said. At seventy-seven, struggling with the weight of writer’s block, Theodor Kallifatides makes the difficult decision to sell the Stockholm studio wh...

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  • Transmigration of Bodies, The
    Transmigration of Bodies, The
    Herrera, Yuri
    A plague has brought death to the city. Two feuding crime families with blood on their hands need our hard-boiled hero, The Redeemer, to broker peace. Both his instincts and the vacant streets warn him to stay indoors, but The Redeemer ventures out into the city’s underbelly to arrange for the exchange of the bodies they hold hostage.Yuri Herrera’s novel is a response to the vi...

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  • I'll Sell You a Dog
    I'll Sell You a Dog
    Villalobos, Juan Pablo
    Long before he was the taco seller whose 'Gringo Dog' recipe made him famous throughout Mexico City, our hero was an aspiring artist: an artist, that is, till his would-be girlfriend was stolen by Diego Rivera, and his dreams snuffed out by his hypochondriac mother. Now our hero is resident in a retirement home, where fending off boredom is far more gruelling than making tacos....

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  • Ulysses
    Ulysses
    Joyce, James

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  • Mothers and Dogs
    Mothers and Dogs
    Morábito, Fabio
    Drawing from everyday life in Mexico and abroad, these subtle, unsettling stories probe the boundaries between sanity and madness, life and death, safety and danger.The first story collection from prize-winning author Fabio Morábito available in English, Mothers and Dogs features fifteen tales that show the emotional extremes in seemingly trivial details and quotidian situation...

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  • Beethoven in the Bunker
    Beethoven in the Bunker
    Brouwers, Fred
    This compelling survey examines the remarkable relationship between the Nazis and classical music through the stories of musicians, composers, and conductors across the political spectrum.May 1945. A Soviet military patrol searches Hitler’s secret bunker in Berlin. They find bodies, documents, jewelry, paintings, and also an extensive collection of 78 rpm records. It comes as n...

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  • Age of the Strongman, The
    Age of the Strongman, The
    Rachman, Gideon
    From Putin, Trump, and Bolsonaro to Erdogan, Orbán, and Xi, an intimate look at the rise of strongman leaders around the world.The first truly global treatment of the new nationalism, underpinned by an exceptional level of access to its key actors, from the award-winning journalist and author of Easternization.This is the most urgent political story of our time: authoritarian l...

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  • As We Exist
    As We Exist
    Harchi, Kaoutar
    In this thoughtful coming-of-age memoir, a young sociologist reflects on her Moroccan immigrant parents, their journey to France, and how growing up an outsider shaped her identity.Imbued with tenderness for her family and a critical view of the challenges facing French North African immigrants, Kaoutar Harchi’s probing account illustrates the deeply personal effects of politic...

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  • Wind Drinkers
    Wind Drinkers
    Bouysse, Franck
    In the godforsaken valley of the Black Rimstone, four siblings meet by the viaduct, a place of their own away from home and daily life, which hold so little for them: Mark, who reads in secret against his father’s orders; Matthew, who understands the forest, the river, and all their creatures; Mabel, who wields her stunning beauty in pursuit of pleasure and independence; and Lu...

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  • Dangerous Love
    Dangerous Love
    Okri, Ben
    An epic of daily life, Dangerous Love is one of Ben Okri’s most accessible and most disarming novels.Omovo is an office worker and artist who lives at home with his father and his father’s second wife. In the communal world of the compound in which he lives, Omovo has both friends and enemies, but his most important relationship is with Ifeyiwa, a beautiful young married woman ...

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  • Struggle and Mutual Aid
    Struggle and Mutual Aid
    Delalande, Nicolas
    A dynamic historian revisits the workers’ internationals, whose scope and significance are commonly overlooked.In current debates about globalization, open and borderless elites are often set in opposition to the immobile and protectionist working classes. This view obscures a major historical fact: for around a century—from the 1860s to the 1970s—worker movements were at the c...

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  • Lemon
    Lemon
    Kwon, Yeo-Sun
    Parasite meets The Good Son in this piercing psychological portrait of three women haunted by a brutal, unsolved crime.In the summer of 2002, when Korea is abuzz over hosting the FIFA World Cup, eighteen-year-old Kim Hae-on is killed in what becomes known as the High School Beauty Murder. Two suspects quickly emerge: rich kid Shin Jeongjun, whose car Hae-on was last seen in, an...

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  • Now and at the Hour of Our Death
    Now and at the Hour of Our Death
    Moreira Marques, Susana
    A nurse sleeps at the bedside of his dying patients; a wife deceives her husband by never telling him he has cancer; a bedridden man has to be hidden from his demented and amorous eighty-year-old wife. In her poignant and genre-busting debut, Susana Moreira Marques confronts us with our own mortality and inspires us to think about what is important.Accompanying a palliative car...

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  • At the Existentialist Café
    At the Existentialist Café
    Bakewell, Sarah
    Named one of the Ten Best Books of 2016 by the New York Times, a spirited account of a major intellectual movement of the twentieth century and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape it, by the best-selling author of How to Live Sarah Bakewell. Paris, 1933: three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are the young J...

    $518.00 MXN

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  • Bad Girls
    Bad Girls
    Sosa Villada, Camila
    Gritty and unflinching, yet also tender, fantastical, and funny, a trans woman's tale about finding a community on the margins.In Sarmiento Park, the green heart of Córdoba, a group of trans sex workers make their nightly rounds. When a cry comes from the dark, their leader, the 178-year-old Auntie Encarna, wades into the brambles to investigate and discovers a baby half dead f...

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  • Heart, The
    Heart, The
    Petitjean, Marc
    This intimate account offers a new, unexpected understanding of the artist's work and of the vibrant 1930s surrealist scene.In 1938, just as she was leaving Mexico for her first solo exhibition in New York, Frida Kahlo was devastated to learn from her husband, Diego Rivera, that he intended to divorce her. This latest blow followed a long series of betrayals, most painful of al...

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  • Decolonization
    Decolonization
    Singaravélou,Pierre / Miské, Karim / Ball, Marc
    Decolonization started on the very first day of colonization.From the arrival of the Europeans, the peoples of Africa and Asia rose up. No one willingly accepts subjugation, but in order to one day regain freedom, you first and foremost need to stay alive. Faced with the Europeans’ machine guns, the colonized hit back in other ways: from civil disobedience to communist revoluti...

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  • Money Plot, The
    Money Plot, The
    Kaufman, Frederick
    Frederick Kaufman tackles the complex history of money, beginning with the earliest myths and wrapping up with Wall Street’s byzantine present-day doings. Along the way, he exposes a set of allegorical plots, stock characters, and stereotypical metaphors that have long been linked with money and commercial culture, from Melanesian trading rituals to the dogma of Medieval church...

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  • At the rock house (LP)
    At the rock house (LP)
    Orbison, Roy
    A1 This Kind Of Love A2 Devil Doll 2:10A3 You're My Baby A4 Tryin' To Get To You A5 Its Too Late A6 Rock House B1 You're Gonna Cry B2 I Never Knew B3 Sweet And Easy To Love B4 Mean Little Mama B5 Ooby Dooby B6 Problem Child ...

    $699.00 MXN

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  • Anomaly, The
    Anomaly, The
    Tellier, Hervé Le
    Winner of the Goncourt Prize and now an international phenomenon, this dizzying, whip-smart novel blends crime, fantasy, sci-fi, and thriller as it plumbs the mysteries surrounding a Paris-New York flight.Who would we be if we had made different choices? Told that secret, left that relationship, written that book? We all wonder—the passengers of Air France 006 will find out.In ...

    $327.00 MXN

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  • Incredible Journey of Plants, The
    Incredible Journey of Plants, The
    Mancuso, Stefano
    Named a Best Book of the Year for the Know-It-All by The Globe and MailIn this richly illustrated volume, a leading neurobiologist presents fascinating stories of plant migration that reveal unexpected connections between nature and culture.When we talk about migrations, we should study plants to understand that these phenomena are unstoppable. In the many different ways plants...

    $347.00 MXN

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