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International best-selling rock band Garbage presents its own autobiography, a gorgeous, full-color coffee-table book with text and images galore.

Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighbourhood or location within the city of the book. Atlanta is one of America''s most dynamic and fastest growing cities, with an increasingly diverse population. This volume honours the city''s transformation - albeit in a chilling manner - with a highly talented crew of contributors who know the city inside and out.

Hitoshi Nagano takes a cell phone that a young man named Daiki Hiyama accidentally put on his tray at McDonald''s. Hitoshi uses the phone to call Daiki''s mother, pretending he is Daiki, and convinces her to wire him 900,000 yen. Three days later, Hitoshi returns home from work to discover Daiki''s mother there in his apartment, and she seems to truly believe Hitoshi is her son. Hitoshi''s own parents now treat him as a stranger; they, too, have a ''me'' living with them instead of Hitoshi. At a loss for what else to do, Hitoshi begins living as Daiki, and no one seems to bat an eye.

The Noir Series dives deeper into Europe, exploring a city with more than its share of sinister headlines and scandals.

An uproarious new essay collection from Washington, DC's, infamous cult music hero and satirist.

An outrageous and provocative photograph book of cult-hero Peaches, with text from Peaches, Yoko Ono, Elliot Page, and Michael Stipe.

On the heels of Tel Aviv Noir and Tehran Noir, the Akashic Noir Series moves deeper into the Middle East.

The book "Go The F*** To Sleep" quickly shot to the top of 2011's bestseller lists thanks to its profanely hilarious style that struck a note with exhausted parents everywhere. Now "Seriously, Just Go To Sleep" offers that same delight to their restless children.

Scandinavian writing has been dominating the global crime fiction landscape, and this volume offers a delicious, devious sampling.

The long-awaited reissue of the sequel to Amiri Baraka's seminal work, Blues People.