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  • Willful Disregard

    A Novel About Love

    by Lena Andersson ...
    Translated by Sarah Death ...
    Winner of Sweden's most prestigious literary award, a novel about an otherwise sensible woman's descent into the obsession and delusion of unrequited love.Ester Nilsson is a sensible person in a sensible relationship. She knows what she thinks and she acts according to her principles.Until the day she is asked to give a lecture on renowned artist Hugo Rask. The man himself sits in the audience, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Son of Svea

    A Tale of the People's Home

    by Lena Andersson ...
    Translated by Sarah Death ...
    From one of Sweden’s most astute cultural critics, a razor-sharp comedy of the progress and ruin of the industrial welfare state, told through the story of a single family.Ragnar Johansson is born in 1932, a transformative moment in Swedish history. He has Swedish social democracy flowing through his veins—convinced it lifted humankind out of the dark ages and into modernity, he cherishes it. At ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Acts of Infidelity

    A Novel

    by Lena Andersson ...
    Translated by Saskia Vogel ...
    Like diving into the mind of a brilliant, infuriating friend, this novel dissects the experience of "the other woman" with tremendous wit and insight.When Ester Nilsson meets the actor Olof Sten, she falls madly in love. Olof makes no secret of being married, but he and Ester nevertheless start to meet regularly and begin a strange dance of courtship. Olof insists he doesn't plan to leave his wife ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • My First Book of Horses

    by Ingrid Andersson, Marie Paulsson-Bertmar ...
    Illustrated by Lena Furberg ...
    For the first-time horse owner, My First Book of Horses guides young equestrians through this very important-and fun-commitment. Beginning with a history of horses and what roles they’ve played throughout history, readers will get a full-color glimpse of horses with knights in full armor, as companions to the Native Americans, in formal dressage competitions, racing, and as a mode of early ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Rape Narratives in Motion

    Edited by Ulrika Andersson, Monika Edgren, Lena Karlsson, Gabriella Nilsson ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture
    This book critically examines the last few decades of discussion around sex and violence in the media, on social media, in the courtroom and through legislation. The discursive struggles over what constitutes "sexual violence", "victims" and "offenders" is normally determined through narratives: a selective ordering of events and participants. Centrally, the book investigates the social processes ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

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    This visionary and unflinching novel is about a black woman who has spent her life carefully navigating cutthroat worlds of privilege in her career and relationships—until one day she is pulled up short by a life and death decision.Come of age in the credit crunch. Be civil in a hostile environment. Go to college, get an education, start a career. Do all the right things. Buy an apartment. Buy art ... Read more

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  • Pond

    by Claire-Louise Bennett ...
    **“A sharp, funny, and eccentric debut … Pond makes the case for Bennett as an innovative writer of real talent. … [It]reminds us that small things have great depths.”–New York Times Book Review"Dazzling…exquisitely written and daring ." –O, the Oprah Magazine**Immediately upon its publication in Ireland, Claire-Louise Bennett’s debut began to attract attention well beyond the expectations of the ... Read more

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  • The Almost Nearly Perfect People

    Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia

    by Michael Booth ...
    **The Christian Science Monitor's #1 Best Book of the YearA witty, informative, and popular travelogue about the Scandinavian countries and how they may not be as happy or as perfect as we assume, “The Almost Nearly Perfect People offers up the ideal mixture of intriguing and revealing facts” (Laura Miller, Salon).Journalist Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians for more than ten years, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Imagining Transgender

    An Ethnography of a Category

    by David Valentine ...
    Imagining Transgender is an ethnography of the emergence and institutionalization of transgender as a category of collective identity and political activism. Embraced by activists in the early 1990s to advocate for gender-variant people, the category quickly gained momentum in public health, social service, scholarly, and legislative contexts. Working as a safer-sex activist in Manhattan during ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Nutshell

    A Novel

    by Ian McEwan ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “suspenseful, dazzlingly clever and gravely profound” (The Washington Post) novel that brilliantly recasts Shakespeare and lends new weight to the age-old question of Hamlet's hesitation, from the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement.Trudy has been unfaithful to her husband, John. What’s more, she has kicked him out of their marital home, a valuable old ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Gender-Critical Feminism

    by Holly Lawford-Smith ...
    The expectation used to be that men would be masculine and women would be feminine, and this was assumed to come naturally to them in virtue of their biology. That orthodoxy persists today in many parts of society. On this view, sex is gender and gender is sex. A new view of gender has emerged in recent years, a view on which gender is an 'identity', a way that people feel about themselves in ... Read more

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  • Whatever

    by Michel Houellebecq, Won Prix Goncourt in 2010 for The Map and the Territory ...
    Series series Serpent's Tail Classics
    Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par excellence of this grim, funny and clever novel smokes four packs of cigarettes a day and writes weird animal stories in his spare time. A computer programmer by day, he is tolerably content, until, that is, he's packed off with a colleague - the unimaginably ugly, sexually-frustrated virgin Raphael ... Read more

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