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17 produkter
Bohemian Girl
Häftad, 2011
220 kr
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Young Harriet's father sells her as a slave to settle his gambling debt with an eccentric Indian—and her story is just beginning. Part Huck Finn, part True Grit, Harriet's story of her encounter with the dark and brutal history of the American West is a true original. When she escapes the strange …
Trailer Girl and Other Stories
Häftad, 2009
341 kr
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In this stunningly original collection of seventeen short stories, Terese Svoboda navigates a terrain of alienation and loss with searing, poetic prose. “I talk like a lady who knows what she wants,” begins the vagrant narrator of the title story. She insists there’s a wild child hiding among the …
Tin God
Häftad, 2013
220 kr
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“This is God,” the novel begins, and we are spinning on our way into the heart of a Midwest that spans spirits and centuries and forever redefines the middle of nowhere.Whispers plague a desperate conquistador lost in tall prairie grass. Four hundred years later, a male go-go dancer flings a bag of …
Mere Mortals
Poems
Häftad, 2009
457 kr
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All of the medical, technological, and psychological advances of the twentieth century challenge “mere mortals” in Terese Svoboda’s third book of poetry. In “Faust,” a mini-epic in five acts, the eponymous character of literary legend appears in the form of a woman, who redefines what being mortal …
All Aberration
Poems
Häftad, 2009
317 kr
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These are poems of family, of romantic hope and disappointment, of parenthood, and of grief that move from a childhood in Nebraska in which a father strides into a ripe wheat field; to the parks and parking lots of New York City, the interchangeable landscapes of suburban America, and the more …
Dog on Fire
Häftad, 2023
288 kr
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Out of a Shakespearean-wild Midwest dust storm, a man rises. “Just a glimpse of him,” says his sister; “every inch of him,” says his guilt-filled lover. “Close your eyes,” says his nephew. “What about it?” asks his father. The cupboard is filled with lime Jell-O, and there are aliens, deadly …
Black Glasses Like Clark Kent
A GI''s Secret from Postwar Japan
E-bok, 2012
168 kr
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After her Uncle''s suicide, Terese Svoboda investigates his stunning claim that MPs may have executed their own men during the occupation of Japan after World War II [Our captain] commended us for being good soldiers and doing our job well and having a minimum of problems. Then he dropped a bomb. …
Long Swim
Stories
Häftad, 2024
251 kr
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A runaway circus lion haunts a small town where two lovers risk more than their respective marriages. A junket to Cuba and an ambassador’s dalliance with a niece hide dark secrets and political revolution. “I’ve always had a knife,” says the unstable stepson to his parents. Inventive, dark, and …
Hitler and My Mother-in-Law
Häftad, 2026
228 kr
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Hitler and My Mother-in-Law is a memoir about a female WWII correspondent, propaganda, and the shifting boundaries between memory and truth—for fans of Rebecca Donner.Threaded with dark humor and sharp observation, this intriguing memoir interweaves the lives of two women: the author, a renowned …
Cleaned the Crocodile's Teeth
E-bok, 2014
107 kr
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The Nuer are a cattle herding people who live along the Nile. Although only a half million in population, they were made world famous by anthropologist E. Evans Pritchard''s classic "The Nuer." Song is the art form most suited to their harsh climate and semi-nomadic existence. Cleaned the …
Drink Called Paradise
E-bok, 2014
105 kr
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When a copywriter is stranded on a small island in the Pacific after helping a soft drink commercial shoot, she uncovers a terrible secret that eventually drives her to the brink of insanity. Svoboda''s stunning novel, frighteningly mysterious and complex, deals with many themes: a child''s …
Roxy and Coco
A Novel
Häftad, 2024
282 kr
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Roxy and Coco, sisters and glamorous harpies (mythical bird women), work to save the world by stopping child abuse, while also trying to evade capture. For readers of Neil Gaiman and Karen Russell.Sisters Roxy and Coco are two glamorous harpies—mythical bird women—attempting to outrun extinction …
Weapons Grade
Häftad, 2009
251 kr
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Contains poems that walk out to the edge where language is made.
