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A Compass on the Navigable Sea: 100 Years of World Literature
$26.00 Add to cartCurated from the archives of World Literature Today, this landmark anthology celebrates a century of exploration through pen and ink, and reimagines what international readership can be.
From Nobel lau
- Author: Simon, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1632064138
- Language: English
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Unexploded Ordnance: What She Felt. What They Feared. How They Survived. What They Saw.
$17.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2023 RESTLESS BOOKS PRIZE FOR NEW IMMIGRANT WRITING
In imaginative prose that interrogates the past with a poet’s curiosity and a scientist’s pen, Unexploded Ordnance seeks to answer how
- Author: Coenen, Catharina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1632064057
- Language: English
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Wilderness of Mirrors
$17.00 Add to cartExquisitely written and deeply absorbing, this debut from Caine Prize-winning author Olufemi Terry captures the heady abandon of early adulthood in a country still reeling from the lasting effects of
- Author: Terry, Olufemi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1632063980
- Language: English
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The Last House Before the Sea: One Year on the Ebro Delta
$22.00 Add to cartA year spent at the precipice of severe climate change in oceanfront Spain.
The Last House Before the Sea is the magnificent result of a year lived on the island of Buda, contemplating the passing of t
- Author: MartÃnez, Gabi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1632064030
- Language: English
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Serge
$18.00 Add to cartAcclaimed novelist and playwright Yasmina Reza masterfully portrays the messiness of family, where affection and resentment intertwine and the weight of a shared past looms large.
When adult siblings S
- Author: Reza, Yasmina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1632064014
- Language: English
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How to Be Unmothered: A Trinidadian Memoir
$18.00 Add to cartMapping the fault lines between mother and child (humanity’s first and supposedly strongest bond), and with a poet’s homeric vision of her native Trinidad, Camille U. Adams weaves the Caribbean island
- Author: Adams, Camille U.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 1632063956
- Language: English
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Tenderloin
$18.00 Add to cartCan killing be an act of love? Hypnotic, gruesome, and exultant, Joy Sorman’s macabre ballet whirls from industrial slaughterhouses to the boutique butcher shops of Paris.
Pim is a delicate youth–stri
- Author: Sorman, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1632063611
- Language: English
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The Book Censor’s Library
$18.00 Add to cartFINALIST, National Book Award for Translated Literature, 2024
A perilous and fantastical satire of banned books, secret archives, and the looming eye of an all-powerful government.
The new book censor h
- Author: Al-Essa, Bothayna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1632063344
- Language: English
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Lamentations of Nezahualc?yotl: Nahuatl Poems
$24.00 Add to cartFrom award-winning author, editor, and translator Ilan Stavans comes a one-of-a-kind retelling of a legendary Aztec ruler’s timeless verses.
A king, a warrior, and a poet, Nezahualc?yotl was a revoluti
- Author: Nezahualc?yotl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1632063867
- Language: English
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Concerning My Daughter
$17.00 Add to cartPrize-winning Korean author Kim Hye-Jin’s debut confronts familial love, duty, mortality, and generational schism through the incendiary gaze of a tradition-bound mother faced with her daughter’s quee… [more below]
- Author: Hye-Jin, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1632063492
- Language: English
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The Third Temple
$26.00 Add to cartWho will rule the Holy Land, and at what cost?
In a near-future Jerusalem, harrowing omens plague the city: a desecrated altar, an unbearable stench, a rampant famine. Shaken but devout, Jonathan, the
- Author: Sarid, Yishai
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1632063891
- Language: English
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Look Hamlet
$17.99 Read moreA hilarious, darkly comic graphic retelling of Shakespeare’s Hamlet in radically condensed prose by legendary Swedish children’s author Barbro Lindgren and illustrator Anna H glund.
Look Hamlet.
Hamlet
- Author: Lindgren, Barbro
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1632062593
- Language: English
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Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
$24.00 Read moreWith new illustrations and a brilliant original introduction by New Yorker writer and author of My Life in Middlemarch Rebecca Mead, the Restless Classics edition of Middlemarch presents George Eliot’
- Author: Eliot, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1632063069
- Language: English
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The Trial of Anna Thalberg
$22.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2020 Mauricio Achar Award
Does evil lurk in the shadows of the forest or within the human heart? Eduardo Sangarc?a’s tale of one woman’s trial opens the door to deeper horrors.
Anna Thalbe
- Author: Sangarc?a, Eduardo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1632063735
- Language: English
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Between This World and the Next
$28.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2022 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Praveen Herat’s gripping international thriller is a breathtaking exploration of power, identity, unconditional love, and the questio
- Author: Herat, Praveen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1632063670
- Language: English
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The Souls of Black Folk
$19.99 Add to cartRestless Classics presents The Souls of Black Folk: W. E. B. Du Bois’s seminal work of sociology, with searing insights into our complex, corrosive relationship with race and the African-American cons
- Series: Restless Classics
- Author: Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 14 2017
- ISBN10: 1632060973
- Language: English
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De-Integrate!: A Jewish Survival Guide for the 21st Century
$22.00 Add to cartA controversial, best-selling polemic in Germany, De-Integrate! is a battle cry against Jewish assimilation into a dominant culture that seeks to paint over the past–and a handbook for minorities on … [more below]
- Author: Czollek, Max
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1632063182
- Language: English
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Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir
$19.00 Add to cartWinner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Rajiv Mohabir’s Antiman is an impassioned, genre-blending memoir that navigates the fraught constellations of race, sexuality, and cultura
- Author: Mohabir, Rajiv
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1632061686
- Language: English
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How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish
$29.99 Add to cartIs it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are based on Holocaust survivors? And how ha
- Author: Stavans, Ilan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: January 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1632062623
- Language: English
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The Body Papers: A Memoir
$17.99 Add to cartWinner of The Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Grace Talusan’s critically acclaimed memoir The Body Papers, a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection, powerfully explores the fraught c
- Series: Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant W
- Author: Talusan, Grace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1632060248
- Language: English
