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Story Time Essays on the Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collection of American Children's Literature

Young Timothy, Campbell Jill, Marcus Leonard, Maguire Gregory, Martin Michelle, Trumpener Katie, Whyte Padraic, Lyon Clark Beverly, Wasowicz Laura E., Frengel Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780300218459, Yale University Press, February 2017
248 pp., 20.3x19 cm, 35 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.

The history of children's literature is a growing area of study; this group of essays brings together innovative, scholarly voices to explore the fascinating tales behind many beloved books. The publication mines the "Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collectio...

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Fiction

Summer of Caprice

Vancura Vladislav

ISBN: PB: 9788024632896, ISBN: HB: 9788024611952, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2017
204 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 8 colour plates, 90 line drawings

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Summer of Caprice", a captivating comic novel first published in 1926, is a classic of Czech literature, yet it is little known elsewhere. Commonly considered untranslatable due to the co...

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Fiction

Saturnin

Jirotka Zdenek

ISBN: PB: 9788024632889, ISBN: HB: 9788024606835, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2016
263 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! On its initial publication in Czech in 1942, Saturnin was a best seller, its gentle satire offering an unexpected – if temporary – reprieve from the grim reality of the German occupation....

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Seven Days in August

Bildoen Brit

ISBN: HB: 9780857423825, Seagull Books, November 2016
224 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

A few years after the deadly 2011 terror attack in Norway's Utoya Island, Otto and Sofie are attempting to put the pieces of their life back together without their beloved daughter, who was murdered alongside countless other youths on one of the wors...

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Shanghai Intrigue

Koyama Michael S.

ISBN: HB: 9780857423832, Seagull Books, November 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

When a Chinese American intelligence officer at the US Embassy in Beijing intercepts complex coded messages, the race is on to decipher their meaning. When she finally succeeds in decoding them, the messages seem to indicate a targeted assault on the...

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Shadows of Your Black Memory

Ndongo Donato

ISBN: PB: 9780997228700, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, October 2016
180 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Set during the last years of Spanish rule in Equatorial Guinea, "Shadows of Your Black Memory" presents the voice of a young African man reflecting on his childhood. Through the idealistic eyes of the nameless protagonist, Donato Ndongo portrays the...

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Fiction

Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comet Four Fairy Tales of Home and One Astral Pantomime

Scheerbart Paul

ISBN: PB: 9781939663214, DAP, Wakefield Press, October 2016
128 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! "The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets" brings together two short books, originally published in 1903, by the antierotic godfather of German science fiction, Paul Scheerbart. "The Stairway to the Sun" contains four...

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Fiction

The Swiss List

Spirits of the Earth

Colomb Catherine

ISBN: HB: 9780857423726, Seagull Books, September 2016
232 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Swiss novelist Catherine Colomb is known as one of the most unusual and inventive francophone novelists of the twentieth century. Fascinated by the processes of memory and consciousness, she has been compared to that of Virginia Woolf and Marcel Prou...

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Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories Barnes & Noble Flexibound Editions

Stevenson Robert Louis

ISBN: FLEXI: 9781435163096, GMC Group, Barnes & Noble, September 2016
312 pp., 21.6x15.3 cm, illus.

Since his first literary appearance in 1886, the murderous Mr Hyde has embodied the evil that even good men including his alter ego, Henry Jekyll – are capable of when the constraints of civilized life are loosed. This chilling anthology also collect...

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Poetry

Selected Poems

Cunard Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9781784102364, Carcanet, August 2016
94 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

"Selected Poems" gathers writing from four decades of ?Nancy Cunard's life, some published here for the first time. The selection illuminates Cunard's transnational modernist project in full, from her early years as a coterie poet on the edges of Blo...

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