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  • The Dear Ones

    by Berta Davila ...
    Translated by Bibiana Mas ...
    The Dear Ones is a book about a woman who decides to have an abortion five years after having a child. A mother full of guilt, who does not fit into the imposed canon. It is a book in where the protagonist advocates for the freedom of choice: to continue to be herself and, at the same time, to be a mother. She defends the choice not to procreate again. The idea of guilt in motherhood, the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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    by Don DeLillo ...
    A stunning novel by the bestselling National Book Award–winning author of White Noise and Underworld.Since the publication of his first novel Americana, Don DeLillo has lived in the skin of our times. He has found a voice for the forgotten souls who haunt the fringes of our culture and for its larger-than-life, real-life figures. His language is defiantly, radiantly American.In The Body Artist his ... Read more

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  • This Too Shall Pass

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    Translated by Valerie Miles ...
    An irresistible, vivid, and wise story of one woman's reckoning with loss and loveBlanca is forty years old and motherless. Shaken by the unexpected death of the most important person in her life, she suddenly realizes that she has no idea what her future will look like.To ease her dizzying grief and confusion, Blanca turns to her dearest friends, her closest family, and a change of scenery. ... Read more

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  • Comemadre

    Translated by Heather Cleary ...
    Literary Latin American Flatliners: a smart, engrossing, and darkly funny novel experimenting with where life and love begin and end.On the outskirts of Buenos Aires in 1907, Doctor Quintana pines for head nurse Menéndez while he and his colleagues embark on a grisly series of experiments to investigate the line between life and death. One hundred years later, a celebrated artist goes to extremes ... Read more

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  • Games Babies Play

    From Birth to Twelve Months

    by Vicki Lansky ...
    Series series Lansky, Vicki
    Over 100 games and activities designed for use from birth to one year are a gift from Vicki Lansky, tried and true advice-giver and author of more than two dozen books on parenting. Games Babies Play is a collection of traditional and contemporary games that are organized into four three-month sections to keep pace with baby’s changing abilities. ... Read more

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  • Thursday Night Widows

    Translated by Miranda France ...
    "An agile novel written in a language perfectly pitched for the subject matter, a ruthless dissection of a fast decaying society"—José Saramago, Nobel Prize winnerThe English translation of hit novel Las Viudas de Los Jueves!“Piñeiro’s clever U.S. debut.. . illuminates the hypocrisies of the country's upper classes after 9/11.”—Publishers Weekly“Piñeiro is particularly skilful at exposing the ... Read more

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  • Still Born

    Translated by Rosalind Harvey ...
    "Both uplifting and gut-wrenching, often at the same time . . . At its heart, it is a story about the many different ways to be a family, and it made me reflect on what an honor it is to care for someone you truly love.” -Dua LipaShortlisted for the 2023 International Booker PrizeA profound novel about motherhood, friendship, and the power of community from “one of the leading lights in ... Read more

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  • Don't Forget to Scream

    Unspoken Truths About Motherhood

    by Marianne Levy ...
    'Every person - parent or not - ought to read this . . . beautifully written and searingly honest'iLike grief or falling in love, becoming a mother is an experience both ordinary and transformative - one that not only turns your world upside-down, but your inner self, too.In this frank, funny and fearless memoir, Marianne Levy writes with heart-wrenching honesty about love and loss, rage and pain, ... Read more

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  • Quesadillas

    A Novel

    A brilliant new comic novel from "a linguistic virtuoso" (José Antonio Aguado, Diari de Terrassa)It's the 1980s in Lagos de Moreno—a town where there are more cows than people, and more priests than cows—and a poor family struggles to overcome the bizarre dangers of living in Mexico. The father, a high-school civics teacher, insists on practicing and teaching the art of the insult, while the ... Read more

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  • Take Six

    Edited by Margaret Jull Costa ...
    Take Six is a celebration of six remarkable Portuguese women writers: Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Agustina Bessa-Luís, Maria Judite de Carvalho, Hélia Correia, Teolinda Gersão and Lídia Jorge. They are all past mistresses of the short story form, and their subject matter ranges from finding one’s inner fox to a failed suicide attempt to a grandmother and grandson battling the wind on a beach ... Read more

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  • Animal Life

    Translated by Brian FitzGibbon ...
    From winner of the Nordic Council Literature Prize and the Icelandic Literature Prize, Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, comes a dazzling novel about a family of midwives set in the run-up to Christmas in IcelandIn the days leading up to Christmas, Dómhildur delivers her 1,922nd baby. Beginnings and endings are her family trade; she comes from a long line of midwives on her mother’s side and a long line of ... Read more

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  • The Luminous Novel

    by Mario Levrero ...
    Translated by Annie McDermott ...
    'Perhaps the luminous novel is this thing that I started writing today; just now. Maybe these sheets of paper are a warm-up exercise. […] But it's quite possible that if I go on writing – as I usually do – with no plan; although this time I know very well what I want to say; things will start to take shape; to come together. I can feel the familiar taste of a literary adventure in my throat. I'll ... Read more

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