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  • Saltwater Demands a Psalm: Poems

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    In Ghana’s Akan tradition, on the eighth day of life a child is named according to the day of the week on which they were born. This marks their true birth. In Kweku Abimbola’s rhapsodic debut, the in

    • Author: Abimbola, Kweku
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: April 04, 2023
    • ISBN10: 1644452278
    • Language: English
  • Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems

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    • Author: Ellis, Thomas Sayers
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: August 06 2013
    • ISBN10: 1555976506
    • Language: English
  • The Best Poems of Jane Kenyon: Poems

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    “Jane Kenyon had a virtually faultless ear. She was an exquisite master of the art of poetry.” –Wendell Berry

    Published twenty-five years after her untimely death, The Best Poems of Jane Kenyon prese

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    • Author: Kenyon, Jane
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: April 21 2020
    • ISBN10: 1644450194
    • Language: English
  • The Art of Time in Fiction: As Long as It Takes

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    Fiction imagines for us a stopping point from which life can be seen as intelligible, asserts Joan Silber in The Art of Time in Fiction. The end point of a story determines its meaning, and one of the

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    • Series: Art Of…
    • Author: Silber, Joan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 120
    • Publish Date: June 23 2009
    • ISBN10: 1555975305
    • Language: English
  • Silence Is My Mother Tongue

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    A sensuous, textured novel of life in a refugee camp, long-listed for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction

    On a hill overlooking a refugee camp in Sudan, a young man strings up bedsheets that, in an

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    • Author: Addonia, Sulaiman
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: September 08 2020
    • ISBN10: 164445033X
    • Language: English
  • Assumption

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    A baffling triptych of murder mysteries by the author of I Am Not Sidney Poitier

    Ogden Walker, deputy sheriff of a small New Mexico town, is on the trail of an old woman’s murderer. But at the crime sc

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    • Author: Everett, Percival
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: October 25 2011
    • ISBN10: 1555975984
    • Language: English
  • Pocketful of Names

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    “Coomer is clearly an author of serious talent.” —The Washington Post Book World

    Inhabiting an island off the coast of Maine left to her by her great-uncle Arno, Hannah finds her life as a dedicated

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    • Author: Coomer, Joe
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: May 01 2007
    • ISBN10: 1555974619
    • Language: English
  • Abundance

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    Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction

    A wrenching debut about the causes and effects of poverty, as seen by a father and son living in a pickup

    Evicted from their trailer on New Year’s Ev

    • Author: Guanzon, Jakob
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 328
    • Publish Date: March 02, 2021
    • ISBN10: 1644450461
    • Language: English
  • Red Plenty

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    Spufford cunningly maps out a literary genre of his own . . . Freewheeling and fabulous. –The Times (London)

    Strange as it may seem, the gray, oppressive USSR was founded on a fairy tale. It was buil

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    • Author: Spufford, Francis
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 448
    • Publish Date: February 14 2012
    • ISBN10: 1555976042
    • Language: English
  • Glyph

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    In paperback for the first time, the much-beloved satirical novel The New York Times praised as “both a treatise and a romp”


    Baby Ralph has ways to pass the time in his crib–but they don’t include st

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    • Author: Everett, Percival
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 216
    • Publish Date: February 18 2014
    • ISBN10: 1555976670
    • Language: English
  • Bitter Water Opera

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    An electrifying debut novel about art, solitude, family, and faith in a world without it

    In 1967, the dancer Marta Becket and her husband were traveling through Death Valley Junction when they came ac

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    • Author: Polek, Nicolette
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: April 16 2024
    • ISBN10: 1644452839
    • Language: English
  • This Mournable Body

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    SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZE

    A searing novel about the obstacles facing women in Zimbabwe, by one of the country’s most notable authors

    Anxious about her prospects after leaving a stagnant jo

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    • Series: Nervous Conditions
    • Author: Dangarembga, Tsitsi
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: August 07 2018
    • ISBN10: 1555978126
    • Language: English
  • The Legend of Pradeep Mathew

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    Winner of the Commonwealth Book Prize

    * Winner of the $50,000 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature *
    * A Publishers Weekly “First Fiction” Pick for Spring 2012 *

    “A crazy ambidextrous delight. A drunk

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    • Author: Karunatilaka, Shehan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 416
    • Publish Date: May 08 2012
    • ISBN10: 1555976115
    • Language: English
  • City of Bohane

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    Extraordinary . . . Barry takes us on a roaring journey . . . Powerful, exuberant fiction. —The New York Times Book Review (front cover)

    Forty or so years in the future. The once-great city of Bohane

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    • Author: Barry, Kevin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 309
    • Publish Date: June 04 2013
    • ISBN10: 155597645X
    • Language: English
  • Ask Me: 100 Essential Poems of William Stafford

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    In our time there has been no poet who revived human hearts and spirits more convincingly than William Stafford. –Naomi Shihab Nye

    Some time when the river is ice ask me
    mistakes I have made. Ask me w

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    • Author: Stafford, William
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: December 17 2013
    • ISBN10: 1555976646
    • Language: English
  • Against Heaven: Poems

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    Winner of the Academy of American Poets First Book Award, selected by Claudia Rankine.

    Kemi Alabi’s transcendent debut reimagines the poetic and cultural traditions from which it is born, troubling th

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    • Author: Alabi, Kemi
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: April 05 2022
    • ISBN10: 1644450828
    • Language: English
  • The Renunciations: Poems

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    An extraordinary collection of endurance and transformation by the award-winning author of Bestiary

    The Renunciations is a book of resilience, survival, and the journey to radically shift one’s sense

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    • Author: Kelly, Donika
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 72
    • Publish Date: May 04 2021
    • ISBN10: 1644450534
    • Language: English
  • Pilgrim Bell: Poems

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    Kaveh Akbar’s exquisite, highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf

    With formal virtuosity and ruthless precision, Kaveh Akbar’s second collection takes its readers on a spiritual journey o

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    • Author: Akbar, Kaveh
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: August 03 2021
    • ISBN10: 1644450593
    • Language: English
  • On Immunity: An Inoculation

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    On Immunity is a book I’ve recommended too many times to count–a searching, empathetic, ultimately unassailable argument, not just for vaccination but for thoroughly acknowledging our interdependenc

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    • Author: Biss, Eula
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: September 15 2015
    • ISBN10: 1555977200
    • Language: English
  • On Sal Mal Lane

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    In the tradition of In the Time of the Butterflies and The Kite Runner, a tender, evocative novel about the years leading up to the Sri Lankan civil war

    * A Library Journal Best Indie Fiction of 2013

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    • Author: Freeman, Ru
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 424
    • Publish Date: May 20 2014
    • ISBN10: 155597676X
    • Language: English
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