Literature

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GOLEM

Written by Meyrink, Gustav
"A superbly atmospheric story set in the old Prague ghetto featuring The Golem, a kind of rabbinical Frankenstein's monster, which manifests iitself every 33 years in a room without a door. Stranger still, it seems to have the same face as the narrator.
June 1, 2000 | Paperback | Dedalus |
$11.99
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WALPURGISNACHT

Written by Meyrink, Gustav
Comic and fantastic, gruesome and grotesque, Walpurgisnacht uses Prague as the setting for a clash between German officialdom immured in the ancient castle above the Moldau, and a Czech revolution seething in the city below.
June 1, 2011 | Paperback | Dedalus |
$13.99
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OBLATE

Written by Huysmans, J -K
This is the final part of Huysmans' alter ego Durtal's spiritual journey. From the satanism of La-Ba (1891) he makes his way to the foot of the cross by a retreat in a Trappist monastery in En Route (1895), and by living in Chartres in The Cathedral(1898) until finally he embraces Roman Catholicism in The Oblate (1903).
March 1, 2023 | Paperback | Dedalus | 368 Pages |
$13.99
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MURDER ON THE VINE

Written by Trinchieri, Camilla
Ex-NYPD homicide detective Nico Doyle investigates the murder of a local bartender in the Tuscan countryside. On a late October Sunday morning in Gravigna, local maresciallo Perillo is having breakfast with ex-NYPD detective Nico Doyle when he is called back to the station in Greve.
August 8, 2023 | Paperback | Soho Crime | 360 Pages |
$16.95
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PRACTICAL GUIDE TO LEVITATION: STORIES

Written by Agualusa, Jose Eduardo
A luminous collection of dryly humorous stories that revel in the surreal and fantastic, from the pen of José Eduardo Agualusa, winner of the International Dublin Literary Award Perfect for readers of Haruki Murakami, Julio Cortázar, and Namwali Serpell's The Old Drift Vividly translated into English for the first time by long-time Agualusa collaborator Daniel Hahn, the
July 25, 2023 | Paperback | Archipelago Books | 256 Pages |
$18.00
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JANE: A MURDER

Written by Nelson, Maggie
Part elegy, part true crime story, this memoir-in-verse from the author of the award-winning The Argonauts expands the notion of how we tell stories and what form those stories take through the story of a murdered woman and the mystery surrounding her last hours. Jane tells the spectral story of the life and death of Maggie Nelson's aunt Jane, who was murdered in 1969 whil
September 13, 2016 | Paperback | Soft Skull |
$16.95
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POCKET EMILY DICKINSON

Written by Dickinson, Emily
Considered by many to be the spiritual mother of American poetry, Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) was one of the most prolific and innovative poets of her era. Well-known for her reclusive personal life in Amherst, Massachusetts, her distinctively short lines, and eccentric approach to punctuation and capitalization, she completed over seventeen hundred poems in her short life.
June 30, 2009 | Paperback | Shambhala |
$9.95
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VILLAGE OF EIGHT GRAVES

Written by Yokomizo, Seishi
The third title in Japan's most popular murder mystery series -- after The Honjin Murders and The Inugami Curse -- fiendish classics featuring investigator Kosuke Kindaichi. Translated into English for the first time.
December 7, 2021 | Paperback | Pushkin Vertigo |
$14.95
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DEAD LIONS

Written by Herron, Mick
The CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning British espionage novel about disgraced MI5 agents who inadvertently uncover a deadly Cold War-era legacy of sleeper cells and mythic super spies.
April 8, 2014 | Paperback | Soho Crime | 384 Pages |
$16.95
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DEATH ON GOKUMON ISLAND

Written by Yokomizo, Seishi
A fiendish, classic locked room murder mystery, from one of Japan's greatest crime writers, that's perfect for fans of Lucy Foley and Ruth Ware "An exceptional whodunit... The brilliant and intricate plot will keep readers turning the pages." --Publishers Weekly, starred review
July 5, 2022 | Paperback | Pushkin Vertigo |
$15.95

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