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Africa

The Africa List

Culture and Liberation Exile Writings, 1966-1985

La Guma Alex

ISBN: HB: 9780857427892, Seagull Books, March 2021
624 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

One of South Africa's best-known writers during the apartheid era, Alex La Guma was a lifelong activist and a member of the South African Communist Party and the African National Congress. Persecuted and imprisoned by the South African regime in the...

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Esoteric

Little Bit Series

Little Bit of Lucid Dreaming An Introduction to Dream Manipulation

Lee Cyrena

ISBN: HB: 9781454942849, GMC Group, Sterling, January 2021
128 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, illus.

Lucid dreaming is, simply put, the realization that you are dreaming. It is to wake up inside a dream, and to know that everything you see before you is a product of your imagination and consciousness. It can be disorienting, but once you know that,...

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Christianity

Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library

Gnostic Scriptures Second Edition

Layton Bentley, Brakke David

ISBN: PB: 9780300208542, Yale University Press, October 2020
744 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.

This definitive introduction to the gnostic scriptures provides a crucial look at the theology, religious atmosphere, and literary traditions of ancient Christianity and Hellenistic Judaism. It provides authoritative translations of ancient texts fro...

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Biography & Memoires

Cartoon Art

Stan Lee A Life in Comics

Leibovitz Liel

ISBN: HB: 9780300230345, Yale University Press, June 2020
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 36 black&white illus.

Few artists have had as much of an impact on American popular culture as Stan Lee. The characters he created – Spider-Man and Iron Man, the X-Men and the Fantastic Four – occupy Hollywood's imagination and production schedules, generate billions at t...

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Anthropology

The Africa List

Phantom Africa

Leiris Michel

ISBN: PB: 9780857427007, ISBN: HB: 9780857423771, Seagull Books, February 2020
720 pp., 22.8x19 cm, 37 halftones, 3 facsimiles

One of the towering classics of twentieth century French literature, "Phantom Africa" is a singular and ultimately unclassifiable work: a book composed of one man's compulsive and constantly mutating daily travel journal – by turns melodramatic, self...

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Little Bit Series

Esoteric

Little Bit of Goddess An Introduction to the Divine Feminine

Leigh Mercree Amy

ISBN: HB: 9781454936701, GMC Group, Sterling, January 2020
128 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, illus.

From seasonal celebrations to miracles and rebirth, this entry in the popular Little Bit of series explores the power, magic, and rituals of the goddess. Learn all about the Maiden, Mother, and Wise Woman archetypes, the SHE of clay and stars, and me...

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Literary Criticism

The French List

Mydriasis Followed by "To the Icebergs"

Le Clezio J. M. G.

ISBN: HB: 9780857426543, Seagull Books, September 2019
152 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

While presenting the Nobel Prize in Literature to J. M. G. Le Clezio in 2008, the Nobel Committee called him the "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization". In M...

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Fiction

The German List

Apostoloff

Lewitscharoff Sibylle

ISBN: PB: 9780857427199, Seagull Books, September 2019
288 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

"Gone, finito, The End, I say. A father who puts an end to it all before he wears down the whole family deserves more praise than damnation". Two sisters travel to Sofia – in a convoy of luxury limousines arranged by a fellow Bulgarian exile – to...

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Fiction

The Swiss List

My Mother's Tears

Layaz Michel

ISBN: HB: 9780857426529, Seagull Books, May 2019
192 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

With subtle, bemused humor and an unerring eye for human frailty, Michel Layaz writes about the hidden tensions within families, the awkwardness of adolescence, and the drama of intimacy between friends and lovers. His fifth novel, "My Mother's Tears...

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Fiction

The German List

September Mirage

Lehr Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780857426321, ISBN: HB: 9780857420787, Seagull Books, March 2019
480 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Two fathers with two daughters: Martin, professor of German, writes but is studying Earth Sciences at MIT; Tariq, a doctor in Baghdad and Muna, is studying the archaeology of a region that is seen as the cradle of civilization. These two parallel rel...

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