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  • GOD'S FOOL
    MARK SLOUKA
    "If you can read [ God's Fool] without being astonished and touched, then you'd better check to see if your heart is made of stone…simply brilliant. A book of the year." — Dallas Morning News Born attached at the chest, Chang and Eng were considered a marvel, an act of God. By any standard, theirs is a history of epic variety and drama. Mark Slouka recounts their tumultuous sto...

    $337.70

  • BREWSTER
    MARK SLOUKA
    "Intense and elegiac…devastatingly agile." — New York Times Book Review The year is 1968. The world is changing, and sixteen-year-old Jon Mosher is determined to change with it. Racked by guilt over his older brother's childhood death and stuck in the dead-end town of Brewster, New York, he turns his rage into victories running track. Meanwhile, Ray Cappicciano, a rebel as gift...

    $311.70

  • THE VISIBLE WORLD
    MARK SLOUKA
    “A vibrantly told love story” with tragic roots in WWII Czechoslovakia (The Washington Post).   An American-born son of Czech immigrants grows up in postwar New York, part of a boisterous community of the displaced where he learns fragments of European history, Czech fairy tales, and family secrets gleaned from overheard conversations. Central in his young imagination is the he...

    $229.00