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Light from a Nearby Window Juvenal Acosta Contemporary Mexican Poetry Light from a Nearby Window introduces a new generation of poets who have become a driving force in Mexican literature today. Until quite recently, contemporary Mexican poetry has been little-known and virtually unavailable to English-speaking...

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being A Novel Milan Kundera A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover -- these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. In a world in which lives...

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This War Called Love Alejandro Murguía From Mexico City to San Francisco's Mission District, nothing comes easy-in life or in love. Here is an unstereotypical view of a world as treacherous as it is tender, as hilarious as it is heartbreaking. Authentic and honest, these nine stories...

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How to Paint Sunlight Lyric Poems & Others (1997-2000) Lawrence Ferlinghetti This collection of recent poems is graced with a short introduction by the poet in which he says, "All I ever wanted to do was to paint light on the walls of life." For more than fifty years Ferlinghetti has been doing just that—illuminating both...

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Flight A Novel Sherman Alexie A harrowing time-travel adventure starring an unforgettable young Native American who finds himself center stage at seminal historic moments. A darkly observant, funny, and moving tale. —Recommended by Nancy, City Lights Publishers

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This Is Water Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life David Foster Wallace Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in THIS IS WATER. How does one keep from going through...

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being A Novel Milan Kundera A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon, a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals—while her other lover, earnest, faithful, and good...

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This Book Is Not Good For You The Secret Series Pseudonymous Bosch Between the pages of this book lies the secret to the best-tasting chocolate in all the world. I promise, your taste buds will tingle. Your palette will sing! Oh no, have I accidentally tempted you to read this book? I will warn you, however, the...

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Look Down, This Is Where It Must Have Happened Hal Niedzviecki A millennial masterpiece, wildly imaginative and boldly executed by a master storyteller and penetrating cultural observer.

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This Is How You Lose Her A Novel Junot Díaz Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Díaz's first book, Drown, established him as a major new writer with "the dispassionate eye of a journalist and the tongue of a poet" (Newsweek). His first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, was named #1 Fiction Book of the Year” by Time magazine and spent more than 100 weeks on the New York Times bestseller...

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In the Light of What We Know A Novel Zia Haider Rahman A bold, epic debut novel set during the war and financial crisis that defined the beginning of our century One September morning in 2008, an investment banker approaching forty, his career in collapse and his marriage unraveling, receives a surprise visitor at his West London townhouse. In the disheveled figure of a South Asian male carrying a...

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City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology 60th Anniversary Edition Lawrence Ferlinghetti A comprehensive selection from Ferlinghetti's famed City Lights Pocket Poets Series, published on the 60th anniversary of its founding.

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This Changes Everything Capitalism vs The Climate Naomi Klein The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core "free market" ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems.

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Where All Light Tends to Go David Joy Recommended by Andy, City Lights Books "Remarkable . . . This isn't your ordinary coming-of-age novel, but with his bone-cutting insights into these men and the region that bred them, Joy makes it an extraordinarily intimate experience."—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review

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All This Life A Novel Joshua Mohr The next time one of your friends or family members asks you how the latest tech wave has changed things in San Francisco, hand them this book. —Recommended by Stacey, City Lights Publishers

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