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Plunder Squad A Parker Novel

Stark Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226770932, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
198 pp., 20x13 cm

"Hearing the click behind him, Parker threw his glass straight back over his right shoulder, and dove off his chair to the left". When a job looks like amateur hour, Parker walks away. But even a squad of seasoned professionals can't guarantee agains...

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Slayground A Parker Novel

Stark Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226770925, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
200 pp., 20x13 cm

The hunter becomes prey, as a heist goes sour and Parker finds himself trapped in a shuttered amusement park, besieged by a bevy of local mobsters. There are no exits from Fun Island. Outnumbered and outgunned, Parker can't afford a single miscalcula...

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Poetry

Ice Floe New & Selected Poems

Gramse Shannon, Kirk Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9781602230835, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2010
233 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Ice Floe", the celebrated and award-winning journal of circumpolar poetry, is here reborn as an annual book series. This first volume features the best of the journal's first seven years, along with evocative new poetry from Alaska, Canada, Iceland,...

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Cold Flashes Literary Snapshots of Alaska

Engelhard Michael

ISBN: PB: 9781602230934, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2010
210 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 68 halftones

As the old adage goes, "if you can't say it in a few pages, you won't in a hundred". The selections in "Cold Flashes" – very short prose and black-and-white photographs – embody perfectly this transparency, thrift, and restraint. Found here are highl...

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Philosophy

Literary Criticism

This Is Enlightenment

Siskin Clifford, Warner William

ISBN: PB: 9780226761480, ISBN: HB: 9780226761473, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
568 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 line drawings, 24 halftones

Debates about the nature of the Enlightenment date to the eighteenth century, when Imanual Kant himself addressed the question, "What is Enlightenment?" The contributors to this ambitious book offer a paradigm-shifting answer to that now-famous query...

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Culture Studies

Medicine Show

Yuill Tom

ISBN: PB: 9780226971650, ISBN: HB: 9780226971643, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
80 pp., 21.5x14 cm

In "Medicine Show", inner conflict is wonderfully realized in the clash of down-home plain speech and European high culture utterances. Freely translating and adapting Catullus (Latin), Villon (Middle French), Corbiere (French), Hikmet (Turkish), and...

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Love Poems by Pedro Salinas My Voice Because of You and Letter Poems to Katherine

Salinas Pedro

ISBN: HB: 9780226734262, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 halftones, 1 line illus.

When Pedro Salinas's 1933 collection of love poems, "La voz a ti debida", was introduced to American audiences in Willis Barnstone's 1975 English translation, it was widely regarded as the greatest sequence of love poems written by a man or a woman,...

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Slow Trains Overhead Chicago Poems and Stories

Gibbons Reginald

ISBN: PB: 9780226478845, ISBN: HB: 9780226290584, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
120 pp., 21.5x14 cm

Few people writing today could successfully combine an intimate knowledge of Chicago with a poet's eye, and capture what it's really like to live in this remarkable city. Embracing a striking variety of human experience – a chance encounter with a ve...

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Black Ice Score A Parker Novel

Stark Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226771090, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
168 pp., 20x13 cm

A corrupt African colonel has converted half his country's wealth into diamonds and smuggled them to a Manhattan safe house. Four upstanding citizens plan to rescue their new nation by stealing the diamonds back – with the help of a "specialist" – Pa...

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Green Eagle Score A Parker Novel

Stark Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226771083, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
184 pp., 20x13 cm

Here's Parker – planning to steal the entire payroll of an Air Force base in upstate New York, with help from Marty Fusco, fresh out of the pen, and a smart aleck finance clerk named Devers. Holed up with family in a scrappy little town, the hoisters...

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