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181.
Series: Faber Poetry The Haw Lantern Main Hardcover Seamus Heaney 9780571352326 $23.95 POETRY Sep 05, 2019

Widely praised on its first publication in 1987, The Haw Lantern ventured into new imaginative territory with poems exploring the theme of loss - including a celebrated sonnet sequence concerning the death of the poet's mother - joined by meditations on the conscience of the writer and exercises in an allegorical vein.This beautifully designed edition forms part of a series of ten titles celebrating Faber's publishing over the decades.
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Series: Mary and Mr Eliot A Sort of Love Story Main Hardcover Mary Trevelyan 9780571337330 $44.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Dec 13, 2022

A rediscovered story of unrequited love which reveals an intimate new portrait of the poet T. S. Eliot - and of its author, a formidable woman sidelined by literary history.'Heartbreaking and wonderfully told.' Susan Hill, Spectator Books of the Year'Compelling ... compulsive.' Margaret Drabble, New StatesmanIn 1938 T.S. Eliot struck up a friendship with Mary Trevelyan, a passionately curious woman and intrepid traveller. Their relationship was cosy and domestic - characterised by churchgoing, record-playing, day trips with Mary at the wheel or... + Read More
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Series: The Five Realms Uki and the Outcasts BLUE PETER BOOK AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR Main Hardcover Kieran Larwood 9780571342792 $29.50 JUVENILE FICTION Sep 05, 2019

From bestselling author and winner of the Blue Peter Best Story Book Award, Uki and the Outcasts is the first in a new trilogy set in the world of Podkin One-Ear.'EXCELLENT,' says the bard. 'It's probably a good idea for you to know about him.''Wait . . . him? Who's him?' said Rue.'Uki,' says the bard. 'Uki Patchwork. The Magpie Demon. Uki of the Two Furs.'From the Ice Wastes beyond the Cinder Wall emerges an unlikely hero. Rejected by his village and left to die, young Uki is given life and unique powers by a long-buried spirit from the time o... + Read More
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Series: Untitled Collection Paperback David Mitchell 9780571353187 $25.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Nov 25, 2022
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Series: Ruby & Roland A Novel Hardcover Faith Sullivan 9781571311320 $37.50 FICTION Sep 20, 2019

From the author of Good Night, Mr. Wodehouse and The Cape Ann comes a new tale of resilient womanhood in Harvester, Minnesota.Growing up in early twentieth-century Illinois, Ruby Drake is a happy child. But one winter’s night, her beloved parents perish in an accident—and suddenly Ruby finds herself penniless and nearly alone in the world. Her new path eventually takes her to Harvester, where she is lucky enough to find work on the welcoming Schoonover farm. Kind Emma, forward-thinking Henry, and their hired men—ambitious Dennis and reserved Ja... + Read More
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Series: Seedbank When the Whales Leave Paperback Yuri Rytkheu 9781571311313 $20.95 FICTION Mar 20, 2020

Nau cannot remember a time when she was not one with the world around her: with the fast breeze, the green grass, the high clouds, and the endless blue sky above the Shingled Spit. But her greatest joy is to visit the sea, where whales gather every morning to gaily spout rainbows.Then, one day, she finds a man in the mist where a whale should be: Reu, who has taken human form out of his Great Love for her. Together these first humans become parents to two whales, and then to mankind. Even after Reu dies, Nau continues on, sharing her story of b... + Read More
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Series: National Poetry Series Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers Poems Paperback Jake Skeets 9781571315205 $23.95 POETRY Sep 20, 2019

Winner of the 2021 Kate Tufts Discovery AwardWinner of a 2020 Whiting Award in PoetryFinalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award in Gay PoetrySelected by Kathy Fagan as a winner of the 2018 National Poetry Series, Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers is a debut collection of poems by a dazzling geologist of queer eros.Drunktown, New Mexico, is a place where men “only touch when they fuck in a backseat.” Its landscape is scarred by violence: done to it, done on it, done for it. Under the cover of deepest night, sleeping men are run over b... + Read More
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Series: Letters from Max A Poet, a Teacher, a Friendship Paperback Sarah Ruhl 9781571313751 $23.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 20, 2019

A KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF 2018In 2012, Sarah Ruhl was a distinguished author and playwright, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Max Ritvo, a student in her playwriting class at Yale University, was an exuberant, opinionated, and highly gifted poet. He was also in remission from pediatric cancer.Over the next four years—in which Ritvo’s illness returned and his health declined, even as his productivity bloomed—the two exchanged letters that spark with urgency, humor, and the desire for connection. Reincarnation, books, the afterlife as an Amtr... + Read More
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Series: Bodega Poems Paperback Su Hwang 9781571315243 $23.95 POETRY Oct 18, 2019

Finalist for the 2021 Kate Tufts Discovery AwardWinner of the 2020 Minnesota Book Award in PoetryAgainst the backdrop of the war on drugs and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots, a Korean girl comes of age in her parents’ bodega in the Queensbridge projects, offering a singular perspective on our nation of immigrants and the tensions pulsing in the margins where they live and work.In Su Hwang’s rich lyrical and narrative poetics, the bodega and its surrounding neighborhoods are cast not as mere setting, but as an ecosystem of human interactions where a ... + Read More
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Series: Owl of Minerva Poems Paperback Eric Pankey 9781571315106 $23.95 POETRY Oct 18, 2019

“Pankey writes poems that give us back, if not the world, our relation to it.” —DAN BEACHY-QUICKTaking its name from the Roman goddess of wisdom and her companion bird, Owl of Minerva turns astonishingly precise attention to the physical world, scouring it for evidence of the spiritual as the poet travels through such places as Appalachia, New England, Venice, Spain, the Caribbean, and the American Midwest. Along the way, Pankey ponders mortality, religious narratives and iconography, the continued press of childhood on the present, and the sim... + Read More
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Series: White Hot Silence A Novel Hardcover Henry Porter 9780802147530 $38.95 FICTION Sep 13, 2019

On a deserted road in Calabria, Greek aid worker Anastasia Cristakos is driving alone to visit one of the new refugee centers funded by billionaire Denis Hisami whom she has recently married. She slows down to greet two African migrants she recognizes. Too late she realizes they are not her friends. This is an ambush. She manages a desperate phone call to Hisami before her Mafia kidnappers silence her with a powerful drug. Hours later she wakes up in the pitch dark on a container ship, powering eastwards across the Mediterranean. Anastas... + Read More
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Series: Pursuit Hardcover Joyce Carol Oates 9780802147912 $34.50 FICTION Oct 11, 2019

As a child, Abby had the same recurring nightmare night after night, in which she wandered through a field ridden with human skulls and bones. Now an adult, Abby thinks she’s outgrown her demons, until, the evening before her wedding, the terrible dream returns and forces her to confront the dark secrets from her past she has kept from her new husband, Willem. The following day—less than 24 hours after exchanging vows—Abby steps out into traffic. As his wife lies in her hospital bed, sleeping in fits and starts, Willem tries to determine wheth... + Read More
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Series: Jack Taylor Novels Galway Girl A Jack Taylor Novel Hardcover Ken Bruen 9780802147936 $38.95 FICTION Nov 15, 2019

Jack Taylor has never quite been able get his life together, but now he has truly hit rock bottom. Still reeling from a violent family tragedy, Taylor is busy drowning his grief in Jameson and uppers, as usual, when a high-profile officer in the local Garda is murdered. After another Guard is found dead, and then another, Taylor’s old colleagues from the force implore him to take on the case. The plot is one big game, and all of the pieces seem to be moving at the behest of one dangerously mysterious team: a trio of young killers with very diff... + Read More
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Series: Fentanyl, Inc. How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic Hardcover Ben Westhoff 9780802127433 $40.50 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 13, 2019

A remarkable four-year investigation into the dangerous world of synthetic drugs—from black market drug factories in China to users and dealers on the streets of the U.S. to harm reduction activists in Europe—which reveals for the first time the next wave of the opioid epidemicA deeply human story, Fentanyl, Inc. is the first deep-dive investigation of a hazardous and illicit industry that has created a worldwide epidemic, ravaging communities and overwhelming and confounding government agencies that are challenged to combat it. “A whole new cr... + Read More
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Series: Animalia A Novel Hardcover Jean-Baptiste Del Amo 9780802147578 $40.50 FICTION Sep 20, 2019

A prizewinning and word of mouth literary sensation in France, Animalia is an extraordinary epic that retraces the history of a modest French peasant family over the twentieth century as they develop their small plot of land into an industrial pig farm, a visceral, chilling tale of man and beastThe small village of Puy-Larroque, southwest France, 1898. ÃlÃ©onore is a child living with her father, a pig farmer whose terminal illness leaves him unable to work, and her God-fearing mother, who runs both farm and family with an iron hand. ÃlÃ©onor... + Read More
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Series: Frances Gorges Historical Trilogy The Devil's Slave A Novel Hardcover Tracy Borman 9780802129451 $40.50 FICTION Sep 13, 2019

At the end of The King’s Witch, the first book in Tracy Borman’s Stuart-era trilogy, Frances Gorges was pregnant with the child of her dead lover, Thomas Wintour, executed for his role as a conspirator in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Now, in The Devil’s Slave, Frances is compelled to return to the dissolute and dangerous court where she has been suspected of witchcraft.Catholics have gone underground in the new Puritan regime of King James I, and yet whispers of conspiracies continue to echo behind closed doors and down the halls of the royal pa... + Read More
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Series: Clear My Name Hardcover Paula Daly 9780802147837 $38.95 FICTION Sep 20, 2019

Paula Daly is widely acclaimed for her masterful plotting and thrilling page-turners. Now she delivers Clear My Name, a page-turning new thriller about an investigator, who in order to free her client, must confront secrets she has struggled a lifetime to hide. When Carrie was accused of brutally murdering her husband’s lover, she denied it. She denied it again when they found her blood inside his house, again when they put her in front of a jury, and again when they sent her to prison. Now she’s three years into her fifteen-year sentence, gra... + Read More
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Series: Elements of Fiction Meditations on the Structure of Revelation Hardcover Walter Mosley 9780802147639 $34.50 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Sep 13, 2019

In his essential writing guide, This Year You Write Your Novel, Walter Mosley supplied aspiring writers with the basic tools to write a novel in one year. In this com-plementary follow up, Mosley guides the writer through the elements of not just any fiction writing, but the kind of writing that transcends convention and truly stands out. How does one approach the genius of writers like Melville, Dickens, or Twain? In The Elements of Fiction, Walter Mosley contemplates the answer. In a series of instructive and conversational chapters, Mosley... + Read More
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Series: Tough Luck Sid Luckman, Murder, Inc., and the Rise of the Modern NFL Hardcover R. D. Rosen 9780802129444 $40.50 SPORTS & RECREATION Sep 13, 2019

In the long annals of sports and crime, no story compares to the one that engulfed the Luckman family in 1935. As 18-year-old Sid Luckman made headlines across New York City for his high school football exploits at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, his father, Meyer Luckman, was making headlines in the same papers for a very different reason: the gangland murder of his own brother-in-law. Amazingly, when Sid became a star at Columbia and a Hall of Fame NFL quarterback in Chicago, all of it while Meyer Luckman served 20-years-to-life in Sing... + Read More
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Series: Information Wars How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation and What We Can Do About It Hardcover Richard Stengel 9780802147981 $41.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Oct 18, 2019

From former TIME editor and Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Richard Stengel, Information War is the first and only insider account exploring how the U.S. tried — and failed — to combat the global rise of disinformation that eventually spilled into the 2016 election. Disinformation is as old as humanity. When Satan told Eve nothing would happen if she bit the apple, that was disinformation. But the rise of social media has made disinformation even more pervasive and pernicious in our current era. In a disturbing... + Read More
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Series: Frankissstein Hardcover Jeanette Winterson 9780802129499 $0.00 FICTION Oct 01, 2019

From internationally bestselling icon Jeanette Winterson comes her most highly anticipated new book since Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal?, about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire Since her astonishing debut at twenty-five with Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson has achieved worldwide critical and commercial success as “one of the most daring and inventive writers of our time” (Elle). Her new novel, Frankissstein, is an audacious love story that weaves together disparate lives into an explo... + Read More
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Series: Takes One to Know One A Novel Hardcover Susan Isaacs 9780802147554 $38.95 FICTION Oct 11, 2019

In this whip-smart suburban mystery from New York Times bestselling author Susan Isaacs, a retired FBI agent turned Long Island housewife taps into her investigative past when she begins to suspect that her neighbor is harboring criminal secrets. Just a few years ago, Corie Geller was busting terrorists as an agent for the FBI. But at thirty-five, she traded in her badge for the stability of marriage and motherhood. Now Corie is married to the brilliant and remarkably handsome Judge Josh Geller and is the adoptive mother of his lovely 14-year-... + Read More
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Series: Freeman's Freeman's: California Paperback John Freeman 9780802147875 $23.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Oct 18, 2019

From immigration rights to climate change, California has been ground zero for the most crucial questions of our time. In a bravura essay, Rabih Alamdeddine remembers bartending during the worst years of the AIDS crisis. William T. Vollmann visits the Carr fire and discovers that gas masks are the new normal. Natalie Diaz describes growing up in the desert and remaking her body on the basketball court. Award-winning journalist Lauren Markham revisits her family’s tales of their arrival in a town built by a con man on stolen land. Karen Tei Yama... + Read More
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Series: Palm Beach, Mar-a-Lago, and the Rise of America's Xanadu Hardcover Les Standiford 9780802128492 $40.50 HISTORY Nov 15, 2019

Looking at the island of Palm Beach today, with its unmatched mansions, tony shops, and pristine beaches, one is hard pressed to visualize the dense tangle of Palmetto brush and mangroves that it was when visionary entrepreneur and railroad tycoon Henry Flagler first arrived there in April 1893. Trusting his remarkable instincts, within less than a year he had built the Royal Poinciana Hotel, and two years later what was to become the legendary Breakers—instantly establishing the island as the preferred destination for those who could afford it... + Read More
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Series: Will A Memoir Hardcover Will Self 9780802128461 $38.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 24, 2020

Unflinching, intoxicating, heartfelt, and propelled by an exceptional energy, Will is the long-awaited memoir by Will Self, whose works have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and translated into over twenty languages. A portrait of the artist as a young addict, Will is one of the most eloquent and unusual depictions of the allure of hard drugs ever written.Will spins the reader from Self’s childhood in a quiet North London suburb to his mind-expanding education at Oxford, to a Burroughsian trip to Morocco, an outback vision in Australia, an... + Read More
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Series: The Rise of the G.I. Army, 1940-1941 The Forgotten Story of How America Forged a Powerful Army Before Pearl Harbor Hardcover Paul Dickson 9780802147677 $44.95 HISTORY Jul 17, 2020

In September 1939, when Nazi Germany invaded Poland and initiated World War II, a strong strain of isolationism existed in Congress and across the country. The U.S. Army stood at fewer than 200,000 men—unprepared to defend the country, much less carry the fight to Europe and the Far East. And yet, less than a year after Pearl Harbor, the American army led the Allied invasion of North Africa, beginning the campaign that would defeat Germany, and the Navy and Marines were fully engaged with Japan in the Pacific.The story of America’s astounding i... + Read More
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Series: Why We Can't Sleep Women's New Midlife Crisis Hardcover Ada Calhoun 9780802147851 $38.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jan 17, 2020

A generation-defining exploration of the new midlife crisis facing Gen X women and the unique circumstances that have brought them to this point, Why We Can’t Sleep is a lively successor to Passages by Gail Sheehy and The Defining Decade by Meg Jay When Ada Calhoun found herself in the throes of a midlife crisis, she thought that she had no right to complain. She was married with children and a good career. So why did she feel miserable? And why did it seem that other Generation X women were miserable, too? Calhoun decided to find some answ... + Read More
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Series: Tony Hill Novels How The Dead Speak A Tony Hill and Carol Jordan Thriller Hardcover Val McDermid 9780802147615 $38.95 FICTION Dec 13, 2019

Longlisted for the 2020 Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the YearThe latest in internationally bestselling crime writer Val McDermid’s beloved series, How The Dead Speak reunites Tony Hill and Carol Jordan after a mysterious skeleton turns up on the grounds of an old orphanage Val McDermid is an award-winning, crime-writing powerhouse, and now she returns to her explosive, thrilling series featuring psychological profiler Tony Hill and ex-DCI Carol Jordan in her latest How The Dead Speak With Tony behind bars and Carol finally out ... + Read More
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Series: Open Your Eyes Paperback Paula Daly 9780802147226 $23.95 FICTION Sep 27, 2019

From acclaimed novelist and “master of psychological thrillers” (Library Journal) Paula Daly, Open Your Eyes follows a bestselling crime novelist’s tragic turn from fictional perpetrator into real-life victim. Jane Campbell avoids confrontation at any costs. Given the choice, she’ll always let her husband, Leon—a bestselling crime writer—take the lead, while she focuses on her two precious young children and her job as a creative writing teacher. After she receives another rejection for her novel, Leon urges Jane to put her hobby to rest. And ... + Read More
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Series: Firefly Paperback Henry Porter 9780802147691 $23.95 FICTION Sep 13, 2019

Henry Porter, who has been widely hailed as a next-generation John le CarrÃ©, is a bestselling author in the UK and has won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award. From the refugee camps of Greece to the mountains of Macedonia, a thirteen-year-old boy is making his way to Germany and to safety. Codenamed “Firefly,” he holds vital intelligence: unparalleled insight into a vicious ISIS terror cell, and details of their plans. But the terrorists are hot on his trail, determined he won’t live to pass on the information.When MI6 become aware of Fire... + Read More
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Series: None of My Business Paperback P.J. O'Rourke 9780802147769 $25.50 HUMOR Sep 27, 2019

After decades covering war and disaster, bestselling author and acclaimed satirist P. J. O’Rourke takes on his scariest subjects yet—business, investment, finance, and the political chicanery behind them. Want to get rich overnight for free in 3 easy steps with no risk? Then don’t buy this book. (Actually, if you believe there’s a book that can do that, you shouldn’t buy any books because you probably can’t read.) P.J.’s approach to business, investment, and finance is different. He takes the risks for you in his chapter “How I Learned Economi... + Read More
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Series: The Butt Paperback Will Self 9780802129284 $25.50 FICTION Oct 25, 2019

When Tom Brodzinksi tries to give up smoking, he inadvertently sets off a chain of events that threaten to upset the tenuous balance of peace in a not-too-distant land. When he flips the butt of his final cigarette off the balcony of his vacation apart-ment, it lands on elderly Reggie Lincoln, lounging on the balcony below. Lincoln suf-fers a burn, and the local authorities charge Tom with assaultâin a country with draconian anti-smoking laws, a cigarette is a weapon of offense. For reparation, Tom must leave his family behind and wander thro... + Read More
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Series: Christopher Marlowe Cobb Thriller Paris in the Dark Paperback Robert Olen Butler 9780802147707 $23.95 FICTION Oct 11, 2019

With Paris in the Dark, Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler returns to his lauded Christopher Marlowe Cobb series and proves once again that he can craft “a ripping good yarn” (Wall Street Journal) with unmistakably literary underpinnings.Autumn 1915. World War I is raging across Europe but Woodrow Wilson has kept Americans out of the trenches—though that hasn’t stopped young men and women from crossing the Atlantic to volunteer at the front. Christopher “Kit” Cobb, a Chicago reporter with a second job as undercover agent for the U.S. gove... + Read More
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Series: Evolution Paperback Eileen Myles 9780802147714 $23.95 POETRY Sep 27, 2019

The first all-new collection of poems since 2011’s Snowflake/different streets—and following the critically acclaimed Afterglow (a dog memoir), as well as the volume of selected poems, I Must Be Living Twice—here, in Evolution, we find the eminent, exuberant writer at the forefront of American literature, upending genre in a new vernacular that enacts—like nobody else—the way we speak (inside and out) today. Evolution, with its channeling of Quakers, Fresca, and cell phones, radiates vital insight, purpose, and risk, like in these opening lines... + Read More
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Series: The Western Wind A Novel Paperback Samantha Harvey 9780802147721 $23.95 FICTION Oct 25, 2019

An extraordinary new novel by Samantha Harvey—whose books have been nominated for the Man Booker Prize, the Women’s Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize), and the Guardian First Book Award—The Western Wind is a riveting story of faith, guilt, and the freedom of confession. It’s 1491. In the small village of Oakham, its wealthiest and most industrious resident, Tom Newman, is swept away by the river during the early hours of Shrove Saturday. Was it murder, suicide, or an accident? Narrated from the perspective of local priest John Reve—... + Read More
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Series: The Day the Sun Died Paperback Yan Lianke 9780802147738 $23.95 FICTION Nov 29, 2019

Yan Lianke has secured his place as contemporary China’s most essential and daring novelist, “with his superlative gifts for storytelling and penetrating eye for truth” (New York Times Book Review). His newest novel, The Day the Sun Died—winner of the Dream of the Red Chamber Award, one of the most prestigious honors for Chinese-language novels—is a haunting story of a town caught in a waking nightmare. In a little village nestled in the Balou mountains, fourteen-year-old Li Niannian and his parents run a funeral parlor. One evening, he notice... + Read More
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Series: Jack Taylor Novels In the Galway Silence Paperback Ken Bruen 9780802147752 $23.95 FICTION Nov 15, 2019

Ken Bruen has been called “hard to resist, with his aching Irish heart, silvery tongue, and bleak noir sensibility” (New York Times Book Review). His prose is as characteristically sharp as his outlook in the latest Jack Taylor novel, In the Galway Silence. After much tragedy and violence, Jack Taylor has at long last landed at contentment. Of course, he still knocks back too much Jameson and dabbles in uppers, but he has a new woman in his life, a freshly bought apartment, and little sign of trouble on the horizon. Once again, trouble com... + Read More
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Series: The Heavens Paperback Sandra Newman 9780802147974 $23.95 FICTION Nov 29, 2019

New York, late summer, 2000. A party in a spacious Manhattan apartment, hosted by a wealthy young activist. Dozens of idealistic twenty-somethings have impassioned conversations over takeout dumplings and champagne. The evening shines with the heady optimism of a progressive new millennium. A young man, Ben, meets a young woman, Kate—and they begin to fall in love.Kate lives with her head in the clouds, so at first Ben isn’t that concerned when she tells him about the recurring dream she’s had since childhood. In the dream, she’s transported to... + Read More
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Series: A History of France Paperback John Julius Norwich 9780802147776 $29.95 HISTORY Oct 14, 2019

John Julius Norwich—called a “true master of narrative history” by Simon Sebag Montefiore—returns with the book he has spent his distinguished career wanting to write, A History of France: a portrait of the past two centuries of the country he loves best.Beginning with Julius Caesar’s conquest of Gaul in the first century BC, this study of French history comprises a cast of legendary characters—Charlemagne, Louis XIV, Napoleon, Joan of Arc and Marie Antionette, to name a few—as Norwich chronicles France’s often violent, always fascinating histo... + Read More
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Series: Big Week The Biggest Air Battle of World War II Paperback James Holland 9780802147783 $26.95 HISTORY Nov 29, 2019

The vivid and largely untold story of the dramatic Allied air campaign against Germany that was a turning point in World War II and ultimately crucial to the success of D-Day and the Allied invasion of Europe During the third week of February 1944, the combined Allied air forces based in Britain and Italy launched their first round-the-clock bomber offensive against Germany. Their goal: to smash the main factories and production centers of the Luftwaffe while also drawing German planes into an aerial battle of attrition to neutralize the Luf... + Read More
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Series: Wine Reads A Literary Anthology of Wine Writing Paperback Jay McInerney 9780802147790 $25.50 COOKING Nov 29, 2019

In this richly literary anthology, Jay McInerney—bestselling novelist and acclaimed wine columnist for Town & Country, Wall Street Journal, and House and Garden—selects over twenty pieces of memorable fiction and nonfiction about the making, selling, and of course, drinking of fine wine. Including excerpts from novels, short fiction, memoir, and narrative nonfiction, Wine Reads features big names in the trade and literary heavyweights alike. We follow Kermit Lynch to the Northern RhÃ´ne in a chapter from his classic Adventures o... + Read More
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Series: Inspector Karen Pirie Mysteries Broken Ground A Karen Pirie Novel Paperback Val McDermid 9780802147745 $23.95 FICTION Dec 13, 2019

Internationally bestselling author Val McDermid is one of our finest crime writers, and her gripping, masterfully plotted novels have garnered millions of readers from around the globe. In Broken Ground, cold case detective Karen Pirie faces her hardest challenge yet. Six feet under in a Highland peat bog lies Alice Somerville’s inheritance, buried by her grandfather at the end of World War II. But when Alice finally uncovers it, she finds an unwanted surprise—a body with a bullet hole between the eyes. Meanwhile, DCI Pirie is c... + Read More
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Series: The Story of a Goat Paperback Perumal Murugan 9780802147516 $23.95 FICTION Dec 20, 2019

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE From one of India’s best-known writers and the author of the National Book Award-longlisted One Part Woman comes a charming and surprising tale of an orphaned goat and the family that decides to take care of her, despite the potential cost to them. As he did in the award-winning One Part Woman, in his newest novel, The Story of a Goat, Perumal Murugan explores a side of India that is rarely considered in the West: the rural lives of the country’s farming community. He paints a b... + Read More
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Series: Babel Around the World in Twenty Languages Paperback Gaston Dorren 9780802147806 $25.50 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Dec 27, 2019

English is the world language, except that most of the world doesn’t speak it—only one in five people does. Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world’s 7.4 billion people in their mother tongues, you would need to know no fewer than twenty languages. He sets out to explore these top twenty world languages, which range from the familiar (French, Spanish) to the surprising (Malay, Javanese, Bengali). Babel whisks the reader on a delightful journey to every continent of the world, tracing how these world languages rose to gre... + Read More
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Series: Convenience Store Woman A Novel Paperback Sayaka Murata 9780802129628 $23.95 FICTION Sep 27, 2019

Shortlisted for the Best Translated Book AwardLonglisted for the Believer Book AwardLonglisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in TranslationA Los Angeles Times BestsellerThe English-language debut of an exciting young voice in international fiction, selling 660,000 copies in Japan alone, Convenience Store Woman is a bewitching portrayal of contemporary Japan through the eyes of a single woman who fits into the rigidity of its work culture only too well.The English-language debut of one of Japan’s most talented contemporary writers, selling ove... + Read More
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Series: The Far Field Paperback Madhuri Vijay 9780802147967 $25.50 FICTION Oct 25, 2019

“The Far Field is remarkable, a novel at once politically timely and morally timeless. Madhuri Vijay traces the fault lines of history, love, and obligation running through a fractured family and country. Few novels generate enough power to transform their characters, fewer still their readers. The Far Field does both.”—Anthony Marra, author of The Tzar of Love and Techno An elegant, epic debut novel—“equal parts love story, war story, and family intrigue” (Ben Fountain)—from an exciting new talent and Pushcart Prize-winner that follows one yo... + Read More
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Series: The Neon Bible Paperback John Kennedy Toole 9780802128867 $23.95 FICTION Oct 03, 2019

John Kennedy Toole, who won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for his bestselling comic masterpiece A Confederacy of Dunces, wrote The Neon Bible for a literary contest at the age of sixteen. The manuscript languished in a drawer and became the subject of a legal battle among Toole’s heirs. It was only in 1989, thirty-five years after it was written and twenty years after Toole’s suicide at thirty-one, that this amazingly accomplished and evocative novel was freed for publication.The Neon Bible opens with the narrator, a young man named David, on a t... + Read More
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Series: The Ingenious Language Nine Epic Reasons to Love Greek Paperback Andrea Marcolongo 9781609455453 $23.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Oct 11, 2019

“A brilliant meditation on language and life.”—BookriotFor word nerds, language loons, and grammar geeks, an impassioned and informative literary leap into the wonders of the Greek language. Here are nine ways Greek can transform your relationship to time and to those around you, nine reflections on the language of Sappho, Plato, and Thucydides, and its relevance to our lives today, nine chapters that will leave readers with a new passion for a very old language, nine epic reasons to love Greek.The Ingenious Language is a love song dedicated t... + Read More
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Series: A New Sublime Ten Timeless Lessons on the Classics Paperback Piero Boitani 9781609455378 $26.95 HISTORY Feb 21, 2020

Boitani’s presentation of the classics is as entertaining and unexpected as it is informative. He invites the reader to discover the timeless beauty and wisdom of ancient literature, highlighting its profound and surprising connections to the present. With their emphasis on the mutability and fluidity of identity and matter, their examination of the power and position of women in society, and their enduring treatments of force and subjugation, fate and free will, the ethical life, hospitality, love, compassion, and mysticism, the classics p... + Read More
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Series: Berezina From Moscow to Paris Following Napoleon's Epic Fail Paperback Sylvain Tesson 9781609455545 $22.50 TRAVEL Nov 15, 2019

Lire Magazine Best Travel Book Take four friends, put them on two Ural motorcycles (complete with sidecars), send them off on a 2,500-mile odyssey retracing history’s most famous retreat, add what some might consider an excessive amount of Vodka, and you’ve got Sylvain Tesson’s Berezina, a riotous and erudite book that combines travel, history, comradery, and adventure. The retreat of Napoleon’s Grande ArmÃ©e from Russia culminated, after a humiliating loss, with the crossing of the River Berezina, a word that henceforth became synonymou... + Read More
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Series: Disturbance Surviving Charlie Hebdo Hardcover Philippe Lancon 9781609455569 $41.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 22, 2019

WINNER PRIX FEMINA AND PRIX DU ROMAN NEWS A 2019 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (Evening Standardã»New Statesman ã»Lit Hub) Paris, January 7, 2015. Two terrorists who claim allegiance to ISIS attack the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. The event causes untold pain to the victims and their families, prompts a global solidarity movement, and ignites a fierce debate over press freedoms and the role of satire today. Philippe LanÃ§on, a journalist, author, and a weekly contributor to Charlie Hebdo is gravely wounded in the attack. This intense life... + Read More
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Series: The Girl with the Leica Based on the true story of the woman behind the name Robert Capa Paperback Helena Janeczek 9781609455477 $26.95 FICTION Oct 18, 2019

WINNER The Strega Prize Gerda Taro was a German-Jewish war photographer, anti-fascist activist, artist and innovator who, together with her partner, the Hungarian Endre Friedmann, was one half of the alias Robert Capa, widely considered to be the twentieth century’s greatest war and political photographer. She was killed while documenting the Spanish Civil War and tragically became the first female photojournalist to be killed on a battlefield. August 1, 1937, Paris. Taro’s twenty-seventh birthday, and her funeral. Friedmann, who would he... + Read More
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Series: After the War 9781609455392 $0.00
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Series: Older Brother Paperback Mahir Guven 9781609455491 $25.50 FICTION Oct 18, 2019

”Superb...[Older Brother] accomplishes what the best kind of reporting can do: wade into questions that resist simple answers, while restoring dignity to its characters.”—The New York Times Books Review Older Brother is the poignant story of a Franco-Syrian family whose father and two sons try to integrate themselves into a society that doesn’t offer them many opportunities. The father, an atheist communist who moved from Syria to France for his studies and stayed for love, has worked for decades driving a taxi to support his family. The... + Read More
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Series: The Measure of a Man A Novel of Leonardo da Vinci Hardcover Marco Malvaldi 9781609455514 $35.95 FICTION Oct 25, 2019

October 1493. Florence is still mourning the death of Lorenzo the Magnificent. Columbus’ ships have only recently reached the New World. The modern financial system has just come into being thanks to the adaption of the letter of credit. Meanwhile, Milan is experiencing a renaissance under the leadership of Ludovico il Moro. Those wandering in the courtyards of Milan’s Castle or along the Navigli canals often encounter a strange man in his forties, dressed long pink robes, his expression calm, like someone who is lost in his own thoughts. Th... + Read More
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Series: Cooking with Fernet Branca Paperback James Hamilton-Paterson 9781933372013 $22.50 FICTION Sep 01, 2005

A witty satire of the expat experience in rural Europe and antidote to every ?wish-you-were-here' travel memoir, this novel is entertainment in its purest form. Gerald Samper is all about the good life. On his own private hilltop in idyllic Tuscany, he is living his own brand of la bella vita working as a ghostwriter for celebrities. He wiles away his free time concocting outrageous dishes with the distinctive liqueur gifted to the area's new arrivals. But it's not long before his little slice of paradise is shattered by the arrival of an ec... + Read More
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Series: The Story of a New Name (HBO Tie-in Edition) Book 2: Youth Paperback Elena Ferrante 9781609455538 $26.95 FICTION Mar 27, 2020

A novel in the bestselling quartet about two very different women and their complex friendship: “Everyone should read anything with Ferrante’s name on it” (The Boston Globe). The follow-up to My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name continues the epic New York Times–bestselling literary quartet that has inspired an HBO series, and returns us to the world of Lila and Elena, who grew up together in post-WWII Naples, Italy. In The Story of a New Name, Lila has recently married and made her entrÃ©e into the family business; Elena, meanwhile, co... + Read More