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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World A Novel Haruki Murakami In a virtuoso performance, Murakami negotiates parallel narratives: one about a split-brain data processor who's caught in the middle of an information war and must avoid both Semiotecs and subterranean monsters; and the other about a dream...

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First World, Ha, Ha, Ha! The Zapatista Challenge Elaine Katzenberger The Zapatista Army emerged from the jungle on New Year's Day, 1994, and provoked a national crisis in Mexico. At a demonstration in Mexico City, over 100,000 people marched together and shouted, First World, HA HA HA!-a defiant declaration of...

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Pictures of the Gone World Pocket Poets Number 1 Lawrence Ferlinghetti Published to celebrate forty years of City Lights publishing, which began with the letterpress printing of this book in 1955. It was Lawrence Ferlinghetti's first book, and it has been reprinted twenty-one times, having never been out of print. The...

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The New World Border Prophecies, Poems, and Loqueras for the End of the Century Guillermo Gómez-Peña If writing about music is like dancing about architecture, then a book about performance art is surely like a sonata about sculpture. In the case of The New World Border, however, there is little lost in translation; the force and originality of...

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The World's Embrace Abdellatif Laâbi Selected Poems Compelling poems from one of the most prolific and critically acclaimed of contemporary North African writers. Imprisoned for many years by the Moroccan authorities, Laabi's poetry is haunted by memories of torture and prisons and bears witness to...

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Windblown World The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954 Jack Kerouac, Douglas Brinkley Jack Kerouac is best known through the image he put forth in his autobiographical novels. Yet it is only his private journals, in which he set down the raw material of his life and thinking, that reveal to us the real Kerouac. In Windblown World...

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A Crack in the Edge of the World America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 Simon Winchester Unleashed by ancient geologic forces, a magnitude 8.25 earthquake rocked San Francisco in the early hours of April 18, 1906. Less than a minute later, the city lay in ruins.

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Brave New World Aldous Huxley Aldous Huxley's tour de force, Brave New World is a darkly satiric vision of a "utopian" future—where humans are genetically bred and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a ruling order. A powerful work of speculative fiction that...

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Broken World Joseph Lease "Poems as cool as they are passionate, as soft-spoken as they are indignant, and as fiercely Romantic as they are formally contained. . . . An exquisite collection!" – Marjorie Perloff

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World Ball Notebook Sesshu Foster A genre-breaking adventure: narrative prose poems filled with awe, yearning, acerbic wit, and crystalline observations.

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Brave New World & Brave New World Revisited Aldous Huxley The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's legendary vision of a world of tomorrow utterly transformed. In Huxley's darkly satiric yet chillingly prescient imagining of a "utopian" future, humans...

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New World of Indigenous Resistance Noam Chomsky and Voices from North, South, and Central America Noam Chomsky, Lois Meyer, Benjamín Maldonado Interviews with Chomsky accompanied by commentaries by indigenous organizers on globalization and resistance in the Americas

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A Corner of the World Mylene Fernández-Pintado In contemporary Havana, "Do I stay or do I go?" is always the question, and love doesn't necessarily conquer all.

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Signs Preceding the End of the World A Novel Yuri Herrera Signs Preceding the End of the World is one of the most arresting novels to be published in Spanish in the last ten years. Yuri Herrera does not simply write about the border between Mexico and the United States and those who cross it. He explores the crossings and translations people make in their minds and language as they move from one...

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Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates This is a tremendous gift to the world. —Recommended by Tân, City Lights Books Also recommended by Scott & Paul, City Lights Books

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