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Series: A Map for the Missing A Novel Hardcover Belinda Huijuan Tang 9780593300664 $36.00 FICTION Aug 09, 2022

An epic, mesmerizing debut novel set against a rapidly changing post–Cultural Revolution China, A Map for the Missing reckons with the costs of pursuing one’s dreams and the lives we leave behind“Belinda Huijuan Tang’s debut novel is a beautifully drawn, sensitively rendered portrait of a man desperately searching for his father—and for reconnection to the past and people he once knew and loved. Both rich in historical detail and timeless in scope, A Map for the Missing explores the costs of choosing your own path, whether what’s left behind ca... + Read More
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Series: Of the Diaspora A Woman's Place (Of the Diaspora) Hardcover Erica Vital-Lazare 9781952119446 $30.95 FICTION Aug 30, 2022

It is 1968 and everything about being a Black woman in America is changing. A society once walled off has begun opening doors. Against this backdrop, three young women meet at a New England college and form a friendship that endures, heals, and dramatically shapes their lives. With backgrounds and temperaments symbolic of the many questions around attaining selfhood in the aftermath of freedom movements, Faith, Crystal and Serena struggle to exercise personal agency in an era when family history, along with race and gender identities, threaten ... + Read More
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Series: About Us Paperback Sinead Moriarty 9781844885367 $16.99 FICTION Aug 30, 2022

’A charming, laugh-out-loud read’ - SUNDAY INDEPENDENTSHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2021Three couples. One therapist’s couch…Alice and Niall used to be lovers, best friends and parents, in that order. Now they’re no longer on the same page or even reading from the same book.Ann thought when she and Ken retired, it would be their second spring. Instead, it feels more like an icy winter.Orla is falling in love with boyfriend Paul, but her complicated past makes her unsure if she can ever be intimate with anyone.Three couples find themselv... + Read More
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Series: After the Sun Paperback Jonas Eika 9780593329122 $22.00 FICTION Aug 23, 2022

From a major new international voice, mesmerizing, inventive fiction that probes the tender places where human longings push through the cracks of a breaking world.Under Cancún’s hard blue sky, a beach boy provides a canvas for tourists’ desires, seeing deep into the world’s underbelly. An enigmatic encounter in Copenhagen takes an IT consultant down a rabbit hole of speculation that proves more seductive than sex. The collapse of a love triangle in London leads to a dangerous, hypnotic addiction. In the Nevada desert, a grieving man tries to m... + Read More
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Series: Spanish Literature Series Antagony Paperback Luis Goytisolo 9781628973983 $35.50 FICTION Aug 12, 2022

Antagony surveys the social history of Barcelona and Catalonia, primarily since the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939. The work, originally published as a tetralogy and now collected into one volume, follows the youth and education of Raúl Ferrer Gaminde, son of a well-connected, middle-class Catalan family that embraces Franco and Spanish Nationalism. Its potent drama plays out through Goytisolo’s crisp, forceful presentation of youth, humor, optimism, rebellion, violence, sexual awakening, indulgence, punishment, and the realization of one... + Read More
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Series: Ascension A Novel Paperback Steve Tomasula 9781573661959 $28.95 FICTION Aug 01, 2022

Ascension is a novel of the end of Nature. Or rather, the end of three “natures”: the time just before Darwin changed the natural world; the 1980s, just as the digital and genetic revolutions begin to replace “nature” with “environment”; and today, a time when we have the ability to manipulate nature at both the scale of the planet and the genome. The narrative follows three different biologists on the brink of each of these cultural extinctions to explore how nature occupies our imaginations, and how our imaginations bring the natural world, a... + Read More
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Series: Spanish Literature Series Bad Handwriting Paperback Sara Mesa 9781948830553 $22.50 FICTION Aug 05, 2022

From the author of the highly acclaimed Four by Four and Among the Hedges comes a collection of unsettling, captivating stories.The eleven stories in this collection approach themes of childhood and adolescence, guilt and redemption, power and freedom. There are children who resist authority and experience the process of growing up with shock, and loneliness; alienated young girls whose rebellion lies under the surface—subterranean, furious and impotent; people who are tormented—or not—by regret and doubt, addicted to feelings of culpability; m... + Read More
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Series: Balco Atlantico Paperback Jérôme Ferrari 9780857059932 $24.99 FICTION Aug 16, 2022
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Series: Benefit Street A Novel Paperback Adria Bernardi 9781573661973 $20.95 FICTION Aug 01, 2022

A universal story of exile, of the refugee and emigrant, and of all those displaced who can reconstruct a sense of home only by weaving a new fabric of the imaginationFor nearly two decades, Siva has met after work on Tuesdays with four friends at a teahouse called the Kafiye. In interrupted conversations, the women explore what it is to live engaged lives inside and outside the home. Amidst joking and complaints, while drinking too much tea and eating too many sweets, they tell of their days: a son’s ninth birthday; the bruise on the arm of an... + Read More
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Series: Boys Don't Cry 'I can't remember ever reading something so moving.' Marian Keyes Main Paperback Fiona Scarlett 9780571365210 $19.95 FICTION Aug 23, 2022

'I can't remember ever reading anything so moving . . . It's so beautiful.' MARIAN KEYESThey say boys don't cry.But Finn's seen his Da do it when he thinks no one's looking, so that's not true.And isn't it OK to be sad, when bad things happen?They say boys don't cry, but you might . . .'Unforgettable.' Donal Ryan'Authentic to the bone' Kit de WaalIt will break your heart in a million different ways.' Louise O'Neill'Powerful and poignant.' Ruth Hogan'Hilarious and heartbreaking.' Louise NealonWhat readers are saying:'Fiona Scarlett is certainly ... + Read More
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Series: Burntcoat Main Paperback Sarah Hall 9780571329342 $19.95 FICTION Aug 09, 2022

An electrifying story of passion, connection and transformation from 'a writer of show-stopping genius' (Guardian).'Dark and brilliant.' SARAH MOSS'A masterpience.' DAISY JOHNSON'Extraordinary.' SARAH PERRY'Hall has set a bar . . . Finely wrought, intellecutally brave and emotionally honest.'THE SCOTSMANIn the bedroom above her immense studio at Burntcoat, the celebrated sculptor Edith Harkness is making her final preparations. The symptoms are well known: her life will draw to an end in the coming days.Downstairs, the studio is a crucible glow... + Read More
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Series: Daughters of The Labyrinth Paperback Ruth Padel 9781472156389 $17.99 FICTION Aug 02, 2022

'An immersive novel, steeped in the history and folklore of Crete: transporting, historically informative story-telling' Sunday Times'A moving, superbly written exploration of a family with dark secrets. Crete itself becomes one of the main characters in the story' Irish Times, Best Books 2021----------This was my home. This harbour and sea. These golden alleys. But the town I grew up in has disappeared.Broken by the death of her husband, Ri, a successful international artist living in London, returns to her ancestral home of Crete. The Greek i... + Read More
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Series: American Literature Series Deer Paperback Dashiel Carrera 9781628974027 $22.50 FICTION Aug 12, 2022

The Deer is a rhythmic, surrealist psychological thriller about a physicist who hits—what appears—to be a deer. As he returns from the scene of the accident to his childhood home, long-forgotten memories flood his consciousness, and he must come to terms with the fact that his past, and reality as he knows it, are not what they appear. Part experimental film, part jazz record, but always lyrical, luminous, and austere, The Deer is a poignant meditation on familial love, loss, and the mystery at the heart of existence.
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Series: Delphi A Novel Hardcover Clare Pollard 9781982197896 $35.00 FICTION Aug 02, 2022

For readers of Jenny Offill, Deborah Levy, and Olivia Laing, an exquisite debut novel about a classics academic researching prophecy in the ancient world, just as the pandemic descends and all visions of her own family’s future begin to blur.Covid-19 has arrived in London, and the entire world quickly succumbs to the surreal, chaotic mundanity of screens, isolation, and the disasters small and large that have plagued recent history. As our unnamed narrator—a classics academic immersed in her studies of ancient prophecies—navigates the tightenin... + Read More
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Series: Elizabeth Finch A novel Hardcover Julian Barnes 9781039004887 $32.00 FICTION Aug 16, 2022

From the award-winning writer, a swift narrative that turns on the death of a vivid and particular woman, and becomes the occasion for a man’s deeper examination of love, friendship and the mysteries of biography.This novel of unrequited platonic love springs into being around the singular character of the stoic, exacting Elizabeth Finch. When Neil, the narrator, takes her adult education class on Culture and Civilization, he becomes deeply fascinated by this private, withholding yet commanding woman. While other personal relationships and even... + Read More
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Series: Estates Large and Small Paperback Ray Robertson 9781771964623 $24.95 FICTION Aug 16, 2022

Profound, perceptive, and wryly observed, Estates Large and Small is the story of one man’s reckoning and an ardent defense of the shape books make in a life. What decades of rent increases and declining readership couldn’t do, a pandemic finally did: Phil Cooper has reluctantly closed his secondhand bookstore and moved his business online. Smoking too much pot and listening to too much Grateful Dead, he suspects that he’s overdue when it comes to understanding the bigger picture of who he is and what we’re all doing here. So he’s made another ... + Read More
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Series: Freetown Paperback Otto de Kat 9781529401622 $17.99 FICTION Aug 23, 2022

"He was a Fula. I say 'was', because I haven't seen him for a long time. I don't know if he's still alive or where he might be. He just disappeared."Maria is independent, unconventional and unafraid. She is trying to find an explanation for the disappearance of Ishmael, a refugee from Sierra Leone who came to her door as a newspaper boy and stayed for seven years. He was like a son to her. Vincent is a psychologist. Once he and Maria had an all-encompassing relationship, but since their break-up he has been living in a kind of haze. One day, Ma... + Read More
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Series: Middle East Literature In Translation Island of Bewilderment A Novel of Modern Iran Paperback Simin Daneshvar 9780815611479 $40.95 FICTION Sep 15, 2022

Twenty-six-year-old college graduate, artist, and employee of the Ministry of Art and Culture, Hasti Nourian aspires to be a “new woman”—independent-minded, strong-willed, and in control of her own destiny. A destiny that includes Morad, an idealistic young architect and artist with whom Hasti is deeply in love. Morad is a sharp critic of Iran’s Westernized bourgeois class, the one that Hasti’s mother relishes. After Hasti’s father died, her mother married a wealthy businessman and moved to an exclusive neighborhood of northern Tehran.Socializi... + Read More
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Series: Madeleine Paperback Euan Cameron 9780857058607 $17.99 FICTION Nov 08, 2022
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Series: Medusa 1st edition Paperback Oana Avasilchioaei 9781772013856 $19.95 FICTION Aug 10, 2022

An incendiary new novel based on the myth of Medusa from noted author Martine Desjardins She’s been called Medusa for so long that she’s forgotten her real name. She walks with her head down, her face hidden behind her hair to spare others the sight of her Deformities – eyes so horrible they repel women and petrify men. She herself never dares to look in a mirror. Driven from her family home, Medusa is locked up in the Athenæum, an institute for young “malformed” girls, which stands on the shores of a lake infested with jellyfish. In this dism... + Read More
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Series: My Armenian Friend A Novel Hardcover Andreï Makine 9781950994465 $35.99 FICTION Aug 16, 2022

A heart-wrenching novel that is at once an indelible portrait of friendship, a coming-of-age tale, and a dive into the memory of the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman Empire.Siberia, Early Seventies. The narrator, a thirteen-year-old orphan, saves Vardan, a young Armenian boy, from discrimination and being attacked by fellow Soviet students in their schoolyard. A friendship is born.When Vardan brings him home, the narrator enters a world of Armenian families living in the periphery of a prison where their husbands, sons, and fathers are detained... + Read More
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Series: Perfect Light Paperback Marcello Fois 9780857056757 $17.99 FICTION Aug 23, 2022
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Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials Poor Things Paperback Alasdair Gray 9781628973938 $26.95 FICTION Aug 05, 2022

One of Alasdair Gray’s most brilliant creations, Poor Things is a postmodern revision of Frankenstein that replaces the traditional monster with Bella Baxter—a beautiful young erotomaniac brought back to life with the brain of an infant. Godwin Baxter’s scientific ambition to create the perfect companion is realized when he finds the drowned body of Bella, but his dream is thwarted by Dr. Archibald McCandless’s jealous love for Baxter’s creation.The hilarious tale of love and scandal that ensues would be “the whole story” in the hands of a less... + Read More
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Series: Puertas demasiado pequeas Paperback Ave Barrera 9781913867171 $22.50 FICTION Aug 05, 2022

JosÃ© Federico Burgos es un pintor frustrado devenido falsificador, atrapado en un esplendor surrealista y algo alarmante que involucra una obra maestra flamenca, un vagabundoÂ pÃcaro y dos hermanos mellizos tan intimidantes como ingeniosos. Ã?l bebe demasiado alcohol, deambula por la zona y, cada dÃa que pasa sin lograr copiar la pintura, se acerca un poco mÃ¡s hacia lo que realmente sucede tras los altos muros del jardÃn.En homenaje a grandes como Juan Rulfo y Luis BarragÃ¡n,Â _Puertas demasiado pequeÃ±asÂ _de Ave Barrera recorre la Guadal... + Read More
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Series: Biblioasis International Translation Series Querelle of Roberval Paperback Kevin Lambert 9781771963541 $22.95 FICTION Aug 02, 2022

Homage to Jean Genet’s antihero and a brilliant reimagining of the ancient form of tragedy, Querelle of Roberval, winner of the Marquis de Sade Prize, is a wildly imaginative story of justice, passion, and murderous revenge. As a millworkers’ strike in the northern lumber town of Roberval drags on, tensions start to escalate between the workers—but when a lockout renews their solidarity, they rally around the mysterious and magnetic influence of Querelle, a dashing newcomer from Montreal. Strapping and unabashed, likeable but callow, by day he ... + Read More
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Series: Shadow Life Paperback Michael Decter 9781770866676 $24.95 FICTION Aug 20, 2022

In one minute, delivering a not guilty verdict at the end of the trial for a disturbing murder of a child, Matthew Rice’s life begins to unravel. The very structures his life is built upon collapse. He finds refuge, if not security, when he embarks on a journey to learn more about the mother he never knew. His travels take him to Sydney, Boston, and Dublin. Still unsure of his place in a world that has changed in ways he doesn’t completely understand, he goes into survivalist mode on Quarry Island in Georgian Bay, where he believes he can sit o... + Read More
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Series: Sins of the Daughter Paperback Carolyn Huizinga Mills 9781770865945 $24.95 FICTION Aug 27, 2022

Danah Calsely was only nine when her mother abandoned her. Years later, as a promising Sociology PhD candidate, Danah appears largely unaffected by this traumatic loss — until she finds a letter that she’s convinced is from her missing mother. The truth about Jane Lily and her disappearance is wrapped in a long history of silence, and Danah’s grandmother, Edith, has no interest in rehashing the past. Danah becomes obsessed with the letter and the secrets she believes Edith is keeping from her. Edith is convinced she’s only protecting her grand... + Read More
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Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials Sot-Weed Factor Paperback John Barth 9781628973945 $35.50 FICTION Aug 19, 2022

This is Barth's most distinguished masterpiece. This modern classic is a hilarious tribute to all the most insidious human vices, with a hero who is "one of the most diverting . . . to roam the world since Candide." "A feast. Dense, funny, endlessly inventive (and, OK, yes, long-winded) this satire of the eighteenth-century picaresque novel—think Fielding's Tom Jones or Sterne's Tristram Shandy—is also an earnest picture of the pitfalls awaiting innocence as it makes its unsteady way in the world. It's the late seventeenth century and Ebenezer ... + Read More
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Series: Storybook ND Series Spadework for a Palace Hardcover Laszlo Krasznahorkai 9780811228404 $25.50 FICTION Aug 16, 2022

Spadework for a Palace bears the subtitle “Entering the Madness of Others” and offers an epigraph: “Reality is no obstacle.” Indeed. This high-octane obsessive rant vaults over all obstacles, fueled by the idÃ©es fixe of a “gray little librarian” with fallen arches whose name—mr herman melvill—is merely one of the coincidences binding him to his lodestar Herman Melville (“I too resided on East 26th Street . . . I, too, had worked for a while at the Customs Office”), which itself is just one aspect of his also being “constantly conscious of his ... + Read More
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Series: Stories from the Tenants Downstairs Hardcover Sidik Fofana 9781982145811 $35.00 FICTION Aug 16, 2022

Set in a Harlem high rise, a stunning debut about a tight-knit cast of characters grappling with their own personal challenges while the forces of gentrification threaten to upend life as they know it.Like Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place and Lin Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights, Sidik Fofana’s electrifying collection of eight interconnected stories showcases the strengths, struggles, and hopes of one residential community in a powerful storytelling experience. Each short story follows a tenant in the Banneker Homes, a low-income hig... + Read More
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Series: Storm Birds Paperback Einar Karason 9780857059420 $17.99 FICTION Aug 09, 2022
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Series: The Day My Grandfather Was a Hero Paperback Paulus Hochgatterer 9780857059499 $17.99 FICTION Aug 16, 2022
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Series: The Elephant on Karluv Bridge Paperback Thomas Trofimuk 9781771872256 $24.95 FICTION Aug 15, 2022

Set in Prague and narrated by the 600-year-old Charles Bridge, this novel begins with an lephant named Sál escaping the Prague Zoo. As the elephant moves through the beautiful Czech city, the lives of the men and women she meets are altered by the encounter. Each character is at a crossroads, and desperately seeking the wisdom they need to wrestle with profound questions—how to live, how to love, who to love, how to heal. And the elephant herself is haunted, as memories of her long-ago capture in Africa resurface. Sál carries the narrative fro... + Read More
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Series: Storybook ND Series The English Understand Wool Hardcover Helen DeWitt 9780811230070 $25.50 FICTION Aug 16, 2022

Maman was exigeante—there is no English word–and I had the benefit of her training. Others may not be so fortunate. If some other young girl, with two million dollars at stake, finds this of use I shall count myself justified. Raised in Marrakech by a French mother and English father, a 17-year-old girl has learned above all to avoid mauvais ton ("bad taste" loses something in the translation). One should not ask servants to wait on one during Ramadan: they must have paid leave while one spends the holy month abroad. One must play the piano;... + Read More
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Series: The Forgery Paperback Ave Barrera 9781913867157 $22.50 FICTION Aug 05, 2022

A failing artist turned forger, an architectural masterpiece hidden behind high walls, an impish vagabond, and some very resourceful, very intimidating twins—Forgery pays homage to greats like Juan Rulfo and Luis BarragÃ¡n, traversing late 20th Century Guadalajara with the exuberance and eccentricity of an 18th Century picaresque.
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Series: The Goodby People Paperback Gavin Lambert 9781946022448 $23.00 FICTION Aug 09, 2022

First published in 1971, The Goodby People is perhaps the greatest novel ever written about post-Manson, pre-Disney Los Angeles. "His elegant, stripped-down prose caught the last gasp of Old Hollywood in a way that has yet to be rivalled." (Armistead Maupin)"The bisexual draft dodger living on the skids, the glamorous young widow in search of enlightenment, the skinny gamine from out of town who wants to make it in the movies . . ."* These are the people who inhabit Gavin Lambert's mordant portrait of Southern California at the end of the 1960s... + Read More
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Series: The Human Zoo Paperback Sabina Murray 9780802157515 $23.95 FICTION Aug 26, 2022

A blistering new novel that follows a Filipino American journalist’s return to dictatorship-ruled Manila to research her book on tribes from a “cracklingly original” (Elle) and “singular” (New York Times Book Review) author, PEN Faulkner award-winner, Sabina Murray. Filipino-American Christina “Ting” Klein has just travelled from New York to Manila, both to escape her imminent divorce, and to begin research for a biography of Timicheg, an indigenous Filipino brought to America at the start of 20th century to be exhibited as part of a "human ... + Read More
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Series: The King of Infinite Space Paperback Lyndsay Faye 9780525535911 $23.00 FICTION Aug 30, 2022

In this lush, magical, queer, and feminist take on Hamlet in modern-day New York City, a neuro-atypical physicist, along with his best friend Horatio and artist ex-fiancé, Lia, are caught up in the otherworldly events surrounding the death of his father.Meet Ben Dane: brilliant, devastating, devoted, honest to a fault (truly, a fault). His Broadway theater baron father is dead—but on purpose or by accident? The question rips him apart.Unable to face alone his mother’s ghastly remarriage to his uncle, Ben turns to his dearest friend, Horatio Pa... + Read More
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Series: Catalan Literature Series The Left Parenthesis Paperback Muriel Villanueva 9781948830522 $21.50 FICTION Aug 26, 2022

The narrator of this novel, a writer, arrives by train at Casetes Beach with her month-old daughter on her back. She prepares to spend a few weeks in one of the cottages by the sand. Her husband has recently passed away and she needs to open the parenthesis of her life: to forget something, and to discover something else. But the appearance of an overly assertive starfish precedes a series of disturbing events, and as the narrator begins to lose a hold on reality, we are immersed in the uncertain territory of allegory.With a lively and direct s... + Read More
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Series: The Recipe for Revolution A Novel Paperback Carolyn Chute 9780802148469 $29.95 FICTION Aug 26, 2022

Nationally bestselling author and winner of the PEN New England Award for Literary Excellence in Fiction, Carolyn Chute, returns with The Recipe for Revolution, a searing portrait of class, politics, and brewing social changeIt’s September 1999 and the world is on the cusp of a new millennium. In rural Maine, Gordon St. Onge, known as “The Prophet”, presides over his controversial Settlement, a place rumored to be a cult, where his many wives and children live off the grid and off the land. Out in greater America, Bruce Hummer, the aging CEO of... + Read More
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Series: The Shimmering State A Novel Paperback Meredith Westgate 9781982156725 $23.00 FICTION Aug 16, 2022

A “moving, astounding, and totally unsettling” (Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author) literary debut following two patients in recovery after an experimental memory drug warps their lives.Lucien moves to Los Angeles to be with his grandmother as she undergoes an experimental treatment for Alzheimer’s using the new drug, Memoroxin. An emerging photographer, he’s also running from the sudden death of his mother, a well-known artist whose legacy haunts him. Sophie has just landed the lead in the upcoming performance of La Sylphide ... + Read More
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Series: The Voids Paperback Ryan O'Connor 9781950354948 $23.95 FICTION Aug 12, 2022

“After a couple of weeks, I found myself standing outside the voids in the middle of the night listening for human activity, for any sign of life at all. Voids are flats that have been vacated, that will never be lived in again. But there never were any signs of life. Only the wind whistling through vacant interiors.” In a condemned tower block in Glasgow, residents slowly trickle away until a young man is left alone with only the angels and devils in his mind for company. Stumbling from one surreal situation to the next, he encounters others o... + Read More
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Series: The Women of Troy A Novel Paperback Pat Barker 9780593311325 $23.00 FICTION Aug 30, 2022

A daring and timely feminist retelling of The Illiad from the perspective of the women of Troy who endured it—an extraordinary follow up to The Silence of the Girls from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Regeneration Trilogy. Troy has fallen and the victorious Greeks are eager to return home with the spoils of an endless war—including the women of Troy themselves. They await a fair wind for the Aegean. It does not come, because the gods are offended. The body of King Priam lies unburied and desecrated, and so the victors remain in suspensi... + Read More
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Series: We Are Not Like Them A Novel Paperback Christine Pride 9781982181048 $23.00 FICTION Aug 02, 2022

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK Named a Best Book Pick of 2021 by Harper’s Bazaar and Real Simple Named a Most Anticipated Book of Fall by People, Essence, New York Post, PopSugar, New York Newsday, Entertainment Weekly, Town & Country, Bustle, Fortune, and Book Riot Told from alternating perspectives, this “propulsive, deeply felt tale of race and friendship” (People) follows two women, one Black and one white, whose friendship is indelibly altered by a tragic event.Jen and Riley have been best friends since kindergarten. As adults, t... + Read More
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Series: You Are Here Selected Stories Paperback Cynthia Flood 9781771963411 $24.95 FICTION Oct 25, 2022

Gathering the best twenty stories from Cynthia Flood’s career, these spare, stylistically inventive stories explore subjects ranging from the domestic to the political. In this collection, Flood navigates a wide range of subject matter with a writing style which gradually becomes more intense, tighter, and sometimes experimental with each story. Most themes are familiar—love, hate, children, the natural world, parents, failure, despair, anger, regret. Other stories are more unusual, dealing with topics such as far-left political activity. Conta... + Read More
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Series: American Literature Series You'll Like it Here Paperback Ashton Politanoff 9781628974034 $22.50 FICTION Aug 26, 2022

You'll Like it Here is a haunting bricolage, divided into three parts, that excavates the forgotten history of Redondo Beach in the early 1900’s through old news clippings, advertisements, recipes and other ephemera that speak to the ills of male stoicism, industrialization and capitalism, and environmental displacement. Ashton used digital archives from the Redondo Reflex and other city adjacent newspapers as the basis for his surrealist account, masterfully tracing this larger shift away from coastal maritime repose in the wake of the Spanish... + Read More
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Series: Yours, Mine, Ours Paperback Sinead Moriarty 9781844885381 $24.99 FICTION Aug 30, 2022

From the No.1 bestselling author of About Us, Seven Letters and The Baby Trail_______________________What’s another branch on the family tree?Things are finally looking up for Anna. Seventeen miserable years of marriage to man-child Connor have left her drained and ready for a new start. So when they separate, she couldn’t be more thrilled to move in with James, a handsome lecturer who is everything her ex-husband is not: kind, thoughtful, and above all, reliable.But Anna and James’s kids hate living with the loved-up couple and the new set-up.... + Read More
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Series: there are more things Hardcover Yara Rodrigues Fowler 9780349726748 $34.99 FICTION Aug 02, 2022

Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2022 'a serious accomplishment from a talented writer with a gloriously untethered style'Sunday Times'there are more things is a vivid and expansive novel of sisterhood, love and connection. Reading it is a true experience of joy, and of hope' Sophie Mackintosh, author of THE WATER CUREthere are more things is a novel about two women - Melissa and Catarina. Born to a well-known political family in Olinda, Brazil, Catarina grows up in the shadow of her dead aunt, Laura. Melissa, a South Lond... + Read More