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Flights by Olga Tokarczuk; Jennifer Croft (Translator)
Category: Fiction
2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATUREWINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZENAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018 BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, THE WASHINGTON POST, BOSTON GLOBE, LITHUB AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLYSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 WARWICK PRIZE FOR WOMEN IN TRANSLATION A visionary work of fic ...Show more
Flights by Olga Tokarczuk; Jennifer Croft (Translator)
Category: Fiction
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE A visionary work of fiction with "echoes of Sebald and] Kundera . . . There's] no better travel companion in these turbulent, fanatical times" (The Guardian). A seventeenth-century Dutch anatomist discovers the Achilles tendon by dissecting his own amputated ...Show more
Homesick by Jennifer Croft
Category: Fiction
The coming of age story of an award-winning translator, HOMESICK is about learning to love language in its many forms, healing through words and the promises and perils of empathy and sisterhood. Sisters Amy and Zoe grow up in Oklahoma where they are homeschooled for an unexpected reason: Zoe suffers f ...Show more
Homesick by Jennifer Croft
Category: Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
The coming of age story of an award-winning translator, Homesick is about learning to love language in its many forms, healing through words and the promises and perils of empathy and sisterhood. Sisters Amy and Zoe grow up in Oklahoma where they are homeschooled for an unexpected reason: Zoe suffers f ...Show more
The Art of Being Bill - The Many Faces of Awesome by Ezra Croft; Jennifer Raiser
Category: Film & Tv
The Art of Being Bill is the first illustrated collection of Bill Murray, highlighting the star like you've never seen him before: Bill Murray at The Last Supper, Bill Murray as an Indian god, Bill Murray as a knight, Bill Murray as Superman, and nearly 150 other fitting tributes that will amuse and ins ...Show more
The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk (translated by Jennifer Croft)
Category: Fiction
Description: In THE BOOKS OF JACOB, Tokarczuk traverses the Hapsburg and Ottoman Empires and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in search of Jacob Frank, a highly controversial historical figure from the eighteenth century and the leader of a mysterious, heretical Jewish splinter group that converted at ...Show more
The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft
Category: Fiction
From the International Booker Prize-winning translator, a propulsive, beguiling novel about eight translators and their search for a world-renowned author who goes missing in a Polish forest. Eight translators arrive at a house in a primeval Polish forest on the border of Belarus. It belongs to the wor ...Show more
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