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My Papa and the Maid of Orleans and Other Grotesques

Mynona

ISBN: PB: 9781939663276, DAP, Wakefield Press, August 2017
96 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm

Not for sale in Estonia! Mynona's other 1921 collection of grotesques is no less provocative and just as indefinable in nature – even close to a century after its original publication. These twelve off-kilter parabolic tales include items such as "...

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Blameless

Magris Claudio, Appel Anne Milano

ISBN: HB: 9780300218480, Yale University Press, June 2017
368 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

From one of Europe's most revered authors, a tale of one man's obsessive project to collect the instruments of death, evil, and humanity's darkest atrocities in order to oppose them. Claudio Magris's searing new novel ruthlessly confronts the human...

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River Runs through It and Other Stories

Maclean Norman

ISBN: PB: 9780226472065, ISBN: HB: 9780226475592, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
240 pp., 21.6x14 cm

When Norman Maclean sent the manuscript of "A River Runs through It and Other Stories" to New York publishers, he received a slew of rejections. One editor, so the story goes, replied, "it has trees in it". Forty years later, the title novella is rec...

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Young Men and Fire Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition

Maclean Norman

ISBN: PB: 9780226450353, ISBN: HB: 9780226475455, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
352 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 12 halftones, 6 line drawings

A devastating and lyrical work of nonfiction, "Young Men and Fire" describes the events of August 5, 1949, when a crew of fifteen of the US Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fir...

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Polonica

Mountains of Parnassus

Milosz Czeslaw

ISBN: HB: 9780300214253, Yale University Press, March 2017
184 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

The Nobel laureate's unfinished science fiction novel-available in English for the first time ever Awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1980, Czeslaw Milosz was one of the twentieth century's most esteemed poets and essayists. This outstanding tr...

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Prince Barnes & Noble Flexibound Pocket Editions

Machiavelli Niccolo

ISBN: FLEXI: 9781435163812, GMC Group, Barnes & Noble, March 2017
128 pp., 18.4x10.9 cm, illus.

"It is safer to be feared than loved". These words embody the spirit of "The Prince", Niccolo Machiavelli's classic work of political philosophy. Machiavelli's advice for how a ruler should acquire and ruthlessly exercise power over others continues...

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Classic War Fiction

Behind the Lines

Morris W. F.

ISBN: PB: 9781612004136, Casemate, August 2016
314 pp., 19x13.2 cm

I never saw the man again, alive or dead. One will say that I saw him only for a moment, that it was misty at the time, and that even I did not recognise the features, covered as they were with grime and stubble. Yet I am sure that the taller of the...

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Classic War Fiction

Patrol

MacDonald Philip

ISBN: PB: 9781612003788, Casemate, May 2016
246 pp., 19x13.2 cm

"Already loose sand had drifted over the stamped-down square which momentarily had distinguished the subaltern's grave: no there was no sign, no mark, no indication whatsoever. There had been, here, eleven men. Now ten rode away". In the Mesopotamian...

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Classic War Fiction

Bretherton Khaki or Field-Grey?

Morris W. F.

ISBN: PB: 9781612003764, Casemate, May 2016
320 pp., 19x13.2 cm

Towards the end of the war as the Germans are in their final retreat in November 1918, a British raiding party stumbles across a strange and eerie scene in a ruined chateau, under fire. Following the strains of a familiar tune, and understandably per...

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Pagan

Morris W. F.

ISBN: PB: 9781612004648, Casemate, April 2016
304 pp., 19x13.2 cm

Charles Pagan and Dick Baron, who served together in WWI, embark on a walking holiday in the Vosges Mountains in France, in 1930. En route they meet Cecil and his sister Clare who is recovering from the loss of her fiance during the war. Pagan and Ba...

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