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Jesse Ball
Ball has created a voice that echoes the beloved narrators of J. D. Salinger and John Green… . With her tragic past, brilliant mind and subversive potential, Lucia could be…
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Franz Kafka meets Yorgos Lanthimos in this provocative new novel from one of America's most brilliant and distinctive writers
In a speculative future, Abel, a menial worker, is called to…
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The author of The Way Through Doors and Samedi the Deafness returns with this tender, spellbinding novel of a father and daughter living in a city ruled by fear.
The author presents a novel about a society that has abandoned the concept ofequality, wherein one ethnic group is subjugated by another.
An astonishing novel of unjust conviction, lost love and a journalist’s obsession.
Over the course of several months, eight people vanish from their homes in the same Japanese town, a…
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A captivating novel about free will, grief, the power of memory and the ferocity of parental love.
A startling, subversive novel from award-winning author Jesse Ball. An unsettling exploration of inequality and the devastating effect of unmitigated power.
From the acclaimed author of Silence Once Begun comes a beguiling new novel about a man starting over at the most basic level, and the strange woman who insinuates herself…
A work of unflinching honesty, Autoportrait is a hypnotic memoir of reflection, loss, and everyday joy from one of America’s best contemporary novelists
Jesse Ball has produced fourteen acclaimed works…
‘CENSUS is a vital testament to selfless love; a psalm to commonplace miracles; and a mysterious evolving metaphor. So kind, it aches.’ David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas
A father…
Over the course of several months, eight people vanish from their homes in the same Japanese town, a single playing card found on each door. Known as the Narito Disappearances…
A text for those curious about education as a context for creativity and collaboration, and for teachers who want to reconsider hierarchy in their classrooms, Jesse Ball’s Notes on My…
***LONG-LISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD***
A man and a woman have moved into a small house in a small village. The woman is an examiner, charged with teaching the…
A novel about a society that has abandoned the concept of equality, wherein one ethnic group is subjugated by another –
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March Book is a wonder and a revelation. A shockingly assured first collection from young poet Jesse Ball, its elegant lines and penetrating voice present a poetic symphony instead of…
From the author of A Cure for Suicide and Census comes a philosophical recasting of myth and legend, folklore and popular culture: a fabulist’s compendium of poetry and prose.
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Sleep, Death’s Brother is an instruction manual on dreaming for children or incarcerated persons, teaching such individuals to lucid dream and thus use their dreams to somewhat escape their situations…
A stunning debut, this work is a dream-like spy novel set in an asylum for the curing of chronic liars. Like a tale by Lewis Carroll or a film by…
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Offering up moments of pure insight and unexpected humor, The Way Through Doors is a haunting novel of love and identity, from the acclaimed author of Samedi the Deafness.
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Jesse Winecoffe Ball
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
Absolute Idealism And Immortality is a philosophical treatise written by Jesse Winecoffe Ball in 1907. The book explores the concept of absolute idealism, which posits that the universe is a…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
Jesse F. Ball Jr.
Contains stories told by the author’s grandfather in his late eighties. This book also has stories that the author have learned and lived through his own. His father was in…
Brian Evenson,Jesse Ball
There are so many ways to die, thought Henry King, and nearly as many ways to live.
Jesse Cole, Don Yaeger
A love letter to baseball, to readers of THE BASEBALL 100 and Ed Catmull's Pixar memoir CREATIVITY INC, and to all fans who are bananas for baseball.
The first trade…
Denise Markonish
Contemporary artists examine the human condition from all sides in this riveting collection of American art that questions how we represent ourselves in the 21st century.
RANDOM HOUSE,J. E. Lighter
A collection of American slang which includes both present-day and historical terms.
