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  • In Praise of the Stepmother

    A Novel

    Translated by Helen Lane ...
    Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, this classic novel erotically explores the relationships in one family.Mario Vargas Llosa lures readers into a passionate world of family life and erotic love with the story of Don Rigoberto, his second wife, Lucretia, and Rigoberto's prepubescent son, Alfonso. Although the group appears to be a happy household, within this small constellation lurk the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The War of the End of the World

    A Novel

    Translated by Helen R. Lane ...
    The Nobel Prize–winning author's classic novel of civil war in nineteenth-century Brazil: "A modern tragedy on the grand scale . . . As dark as spilled blood" (Salman Rushdie, The New Republic).Deep within the remote backlands of Brazil lies Canudos, home to all the damned of the earth: prostitutes, bandits, beggars, and every kind of outcast. It is a place where history and civilization have been ... Read more

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  • Hang in There

    Quotes & Meditations for Spiritual Survival

    With all the stress of daily living, how do you keep your spiritual sanity in an instant gratification filled world? Readers feeling disheartened and devalued will discover a compilation of quotes and meditations inspired by Spirit to have faith when one is in doubt and losing hope while staying on the course of love. The authors share both new as well as previous spiritual communication retrieved ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • A Fish in the Water

    A Memoir

    Translated by Helen R. Lane ...
    In this literary memoir, the Nobel Prize–winning author and Peruvian politician shares "a convincing self-portrait . . . an often funny and cautionary tale" ( Time).In 1990, Mario Vargas Llosa decided to run for the presidency of his native Peru. He campaigned on a platform of economic reform and stringent counterterrorism against the far-left gorilla group, Sendero Luminoso. His failed campaign ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • WTF I'm Trying to Be Spiritual

    A Workbook for Loving Yourself without Fear

    This workbook is a tool for you to use based on the book WTF I’m Trying to Be Spiritual: A Guidebook for Loving Yourself without Fear and is a stepping stone to greater self-awareness. This workbook is an honest look at our need to create self-love that in turn reflects on our daily lives and our relationship with the world. Along the way, readers are asked to gently try quieting their minds via ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • WTF I’m Trying to Be Spiritual

    A Guidebook for Loving Yourself without Fear

    Winner of the 2015 International Book Awards New Age: Non-Fiction CategoryFinalist in the 10th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards for New Age Non-Fiction CategoryFed up with living life as an opinion of someone else? Throughout this book, readers will discover themselves, or at least what or who they aren’t. There’s no point in having spiritual answers if we can’t stand ourselves, as we layer ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

    A Novel

    Translated by Helen R. Lane ...
    Mario Vargas Llosa's brilliant, multilayered novel is set in the Lima, Peru, of the author's youth, where a young student named Marito is toiling away in the news department of a local radio station. His young life is disrupted by two arrivals.The first is his aunt Julia, recently divorced and thirteen years older, with whom he begins a secret affair. The second is a manic radio scriptwriter named ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Storyteller

    A Novel

    Translated by Helen R. Lane ...
    From the Nobel Prize-winning author. "With enormous skill and formal grace, Vargas Llosa weaves through the mystery surrounding the fate of Saul Zuratas." — TimeAt a small gallery in Florence, a Peruvian writer happens upon a photograph of a tribal storyteller deep in the jungles of the Amazon. He is overcome with the eerie sense that he knows this man . . . that the storyteller is not an Indian ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    A Novel

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  • The Very Long, Very Strange Life of Isaac Dahl

    by Bart Yates ...
    Both sweeping and exquisitely intimate, award-winning author Bart Yates blends historical fact and fiction in a surprising, thought-provoking saga spanning 12 significant days across nearly 100 years in the life of a single man, beginning in 1920s Utah.“Each day is a story, whether or not that story makes any damn sense or is worth telling to anyone else.”At the age of ninety-six, Isaac Dahl sits ... Read more

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  • I Will

    How Four American Indians Put Their Lives on the Line and Changed History

    A unique portrayal of four members of the American Indian Movement--with fascinating full-color images created by Leonard Peltier**!**In I Will, Sheron Wyant-Leonard weaves the personal recollections of four members of the American Indian Movement--Leonard Peltier, Dennis Banks, Dorothy Ninham, and her husband Herb Powless--into a unique narrative to expose their trials and tribulations over the ... Read more

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  • Points North

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    "Mosher's stories poignantly illuminate complex themes of loyalty and identity and can rightfully be called American classics." — BooklistUpon his passing in January 2017, Howard Frank Mosher was recognized as one of America's most acclaimed writers. His fiction set in the world of Vermont's fabled Northeast Kingdom chronicles the intertwining family histories of the natives, wanderers, outcasts, ... Read more

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