The World in a Grain - The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization by Vince Beiser
$50.00 NZD
Category: Literary Science Writing
The gripping story of the most important overlooked commodity in the world--sand--and the crucial role it plays in our lives. After water and air, sand is the natural resource that we consume more than any other--even more than oil. Every concrete building and paved road on Earth, every computer scr ...Show more
There There by Tommy Orange
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Category: Debut Fiction
NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLER "This is a novel about what it means to inhabit a land both yours and stolen from you, to simultaneously contend with the weight of belonging and unbelonging. There is an organic power to this book--a revelatory, controlled chaos. Tommy Orange writes the way a storm makes la ...Show more
Today by Juan Gelman; Lisa Rose Bradford (Translator)
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Category: Poetry in Translation
Poetry. Latinx Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Lisa Rose Bradford. Appearing in English translation for the first time, TODAY (HOY) by Juan Gelman (1930-2014) is the final book published during the life of one of Latin America's most important and celebrated poets. Written as both a reckoning an ...Show more
Trick by Domenico Starnone; Jhumpa Lahiri (Translator)
$29.99 NZD
Category: Translation
Sharp, succinct storytelling and breathtaking prose combine in this new novel by the author of Ties, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and a Kirkus Reviews and Sunday Times Best Book of the Year. Trick is a stylish drama about ambition, family, and old-age that goes beyond the ordinary and pre ...Show more
Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World by Andrea Barnet
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Category: Biography
Four influential women we thought we knew well--Jane Jacobs, Rachel Carson, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters--and how they spearheaded the modern progressive movement This is the story of four visionaries who profoundly shaped the world we live in today. Together, these women--linked not by friendship or ...Show more
We Can't Breathe - On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival by Jabari Asim
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Category: Art of the Essay
Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay Insightful and searing essays that celebrate the vibrancy and strength of black history and culture in America by critically acclaimed writer Jabari AsimIn We Can't Breathe, Jabari Asim disrupts what Toni Morrison has exposed a ...Show more
White Dancing Elephants by Chaya Bhuvaneswar
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Category: Debut Short Story Collection
Best Books of 2018 Kirkus Reviews (debut and short fiction categories) Best Books of 2018, Entropy Magazine Best Reviewed Short Story Collections of 2018, Book Marks 35 over 35 Debut Fiction Award Finalist for the 2019 PEN American Robert Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection "Chaya Bhuvaneswa ...Show more