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    Odd Birds & Fat Cats (An Urban Bestiary)

    Peter Wortsman

    Ravens in Berlin . . . Parakeets in Brooklyn . . . Chickensin Tel Aviv . . . Spiders in Cognac. City creatures spark the imagination andintellect in words and…

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    I Just Let Life Rain Down on Me

    Rahel Levin Varnhagen

    A personal look into the mind of one of Europe's first and foremost women of letters.

    At times poetic but not a poem, prosaic but not an essay, a letter…

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    Epiphany of a Middle-Aged Pilgrim: essays in lieu of a memoir

    Peter Wortsman

    In Epiphany of a Middle-Aged Pilgrim, essays in lieu of a Memoir, author Peter Wortsman, best known for his prose fiction and plays, takes stock of life in late middle…

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    Cold Earth Wanderers

    Peter Wortsman

    A science fiction novel set in a completely built up world where vertical values are prized while all horizontal tendencies are suspect. An illicit underground group is hoping to break…

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    Ghost Dance in Berlin: A Rhapsody in Gray

    Peter Wortsman

    Every great city is a restless work in progress, but nowhere is the urban impulse more in flux than in Berlin, that sprawling metropolis located on the fault line of…

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    Footprints in Wet Cement

    Peter Wortsman

    These Footprints in Wet Cement are just that: stories some experienced, some homespun, some dredged from the fertile detritus of dreams; impressions gathered and ruminations fermented over the past decade…

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    Borrowed Words

    Peter Wortsman

    Like a farmer rotating his crops, Peter Wortsman periodically ploughs words back into the mulch of meaning. Romanian emigre DADA poet Tristran Tzara (aka Samuel Rosenstock, 1896-1963) gave it a…

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    The Caring Heirs of Doctor Samuel Bard: Profiles of Selected Distinguished Graduates of Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

    Peter Wortsman

    Peter Wortsman offers a selection of profiles of Columbia-educated doctors who have made a fundamental difference in the lives of others. The physicians profiled in this book represent the complete…

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    A Modern Way to Die

    Peter Wortsman

    First published in 1991 comprising short short fictions most written in the eighties, A Modern Way to Die, by Peter Wortsman, "predates the in-vogue term flash fiction, but it's surely…

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    Driftwood at the River’s Edge

    Peter Wortsman

    Like driftwood, words, phrases and severed sentences come floating by. Part fisherman, part scavenger, I spread my net and rescue these bits of debris from the deep. I can't say…

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    Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann

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    Offers a collection of the haunting German stories from the past 200 years. This title includes Hoffmann’s hallucinatory portrait of terror and insanity The Sandman ; Chamisso’s influential black masterpiece…

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    The Sandman

    E.T.A. Hoffmann

    Tells a disturbing tale of a young man’s obsession with the Sandman, stealer of eyes, which has inspired writers from Sigmund Freud to Neil Gaiman.

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    Intimate Ties: Two Novellas

    Two erotic novellas by one of the masters of high modernism.

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    Travel Pictures

    Heinrich Heine

    A candid and lyrical account of Heine’s travels through Germany and Italy.

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    The Golden Pot

    E.T.A. Hoffmann, Peter Wortsman

    Whether a surrealist exploration of the anxieties surrounding automation, or a mystery concerning a goldsmith, missing jewels, and a spate of murders, each tale in this collection reveals the complexities…

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    Hinkemann

    Ernst Toller

    Conceived in the German theatrical tradition of Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz's The Soldiers and Georg Buechner's Woyzeck, Toller's devastating tragedy Hinkemann is a painfully poetic plaidoyer for the overlooked vision…

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    Selected Tales Of The Brothers Grimm: with Haitian Art by Edouard Duval-Carrie, Pascale Monnin, and Franketienne

    Jacob Grimm,Wilhelm Grimm

    A new selection and translation of the tales of the Brothers Grimm with sixteen full-color illustrations by celebrated Haitian artists.

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    The Creator

    Mynona

    A philosophical fable from a great forgotten German fabulist

    Billed by its author–the pseudonymous Mynona (German for anonymous backward)–as the most profound magical experiment since Nostradamus, The Creator tells the…

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