1.
Series:
The Siege of Troy
A Novel
Paperback
Theodor Kallifatides
9781590519714
$19.99
FICTION
Sep 10, 2019
In this perceptive retelling of The Iliad, a young Greek teacher draws on the enduring power of myth to help her students cope with the terrors of Nazi occupation.Bombs fall over a Greek village during World War II, and a teacher takes her students to a cave for shelter. There she tells them about another war—when the Greeks besieged Troy. Day after day, she recounts how the Greeks suffer from thirst, heat, and homesickness, and how the opponents meet—army against army, man against man. Helmets are cleaved, heads fly, blood flows. And everythin...
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2.
Series:
Inheritance
A Novel
Paperback
Evelyn Toynton
9781590519219
$22.99
FICTION
Sep 17, 2019
In this luminous novel about romance and illusion—and what’s left of love when they’re stripped away—an American Anglophile is drawn into the lives of a disintegrating aristocratic family. After the sudden death of her husband, Annie Devereaux flees to England, site of the nostalgic fantasies her father spun for her before he deserted the family. A chance encounter in London leads Annie to cancel her return to New York and move in with Julian, the disaffected, moody son of Helena Denby, a famous British geneticist. As their relationship progres...
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3.
Series:
Agnes
A Novel
Paperback
Peter Stamm
9781590511534
$19.99
FICTION
Sep 24, 2019
Peter Stamm’s best-selling debut novel, Agnes, now available for the first time in paperback.“Write a story about me,” Agnes said to her lover, “so I know what you think of me.” So he started to write the story of everything that had happened to them from the moment they met.At first, he works with Agnes to create a narrative that is most true to life, but as time passes and he grows more enamored with the narrative he has begun, he continues writing on his own, imagining a future for them after he reaches the present. Happy couples do not nece...
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4.
Series:
The Bell of Treason
The 1938 Munich Agreement in Czechoslovakia
Hardcover
P. E. Caquet
9781590510506
$36.99
HISTORY
Sep 24, 2019
Drawing on a wealth of previously unexamined material, this staggering account sheds new light on the Allies’ responsibility for a landmark agreement that had dire consequences. On returning from Germany on September 30, 1938, after signing an agreement with Hitler on the carve-up of Czechoslovakia, Neville Chamberlain addressed the British crowds: “My good friends…I believe it is peace for our time. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Go home and get a nice quiet sleep.” Winston Churchill rejoined: “You have chosen dishonor and you w...
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5.
Series:
I Will Never See the World Again
The Memoir of an Imprisoned Writer
Paperback
Ahmet Altan
9781590519929
$21.99
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 01, 2019
A resilient Turkish writer’s inspiring account of his imprisonment that provides crucial insight into political censorship amidst the global rise of authoritarianism. The destiny I put down in my novel has become mine. I am now under arrest like the hero I created years ago. I await the decision that will determine my future, just as he awaited his. I am unaware of my destiny, which has perhaps already been decided, just as he was unaware of his. I suffer the pathetic torment of profound helplessness, just as he did. Like a cursed oracle, I f...
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6.
Series:
Metropolitan Stories
A Novel
Hardcover
Christine Coulson
9781590510582
$30.00
FICTION
Oct 08, 2019
“Only someone who deeply loves and understands the Metropolitan Museum could deliver such madcap, funny, magical, tender, intimate fables and stories.” —Maira Kalman, artist and bestselling author of The Principles of Uncertainty From a writer who worked at the Metropolitan Museum for more than twenty-five years, an enchanting novel that shows us the Met that the public doesn’t see. Hidden behind the Picassos and Vermeers, the Temple of Dendur and the American Wing, exists another world: the hallways and offices, conservation studios, storeroo...
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7.
Series:
The Dollmaker
A Novel
Paperback
Nina Allan
9781590519936
$22.99
FICTION
Oct 15, 2019
A love story of two very real, unusual people, and a novel rich with wonders that shines a radically different light on society’s marginal figures.Stitch by perfect stitch, Andrew Garvie makes exquisite dolls in the finest antique style. Like him, they are diminutive, but graceful, unique and with surprising depths. Perhaps that’s why he answers the enigmatic personal ad in his collector’s magazine.Letter by letter, Bramber Winters reveals more of her strange, sheltered life in an institution on Bodmin Moor, and the terrible events that put her...
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8.
Series:
If
A Mother's Memoir
Paperback
Lise Marzouk
9781590510971
$22.99
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 29, 2019
An eloquent, heartfelt account of a young boy’s fight with cancer and of a mother’s determination and resilience, which see their family through to his recovery.As her ten-year-old son sits at the kitchen table one evening, Lise Marzouk inspects his mouth and discovers an unusual growth, which doctors later confirm is cancerous. When he is hospitalized at the Curie Institute in Paris for lymphoma treatment, Lise finds herself torn between two worlds, one at his bedside, and the other at home with her two younger children, struggling to maintain...
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9.
Series:
Pain
A Novel
Paperback
Zeruya Shalev
9781590510926
$23.99
FICTION
Nov 05, 2019
“Zeruya Shalev is one of my favorite contemporary writers, her work always spiky and original, and Pain is a searing book, a wild and ravenous story of family entanglement and impossible yearning.” —Lauren Groff, author of Florida and Fates and FuriesA powerful, astute novel that exposes how old passions can return, testing our capacity to make choices about what is most essential in life.Ten years after she was seriously injured in a terrorist attack, the pain comes back to torment Iris. But that is not all: Eitan, the love of her youth, also ...
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10.
Series:
What It Is
Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man's Blues
Hardcover
Clifford Thompson
9781590519059
$25.99
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Nov 12, 2019
An African-American writer’s concise, heartfelt take on the state of his nation, exploring the war between the values he has always held and the reality with which he is confronted in twenty-first-century America.In the tradition of James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me comes Clifford Thompson’s What It Is. Thompson was raised to believe in treating every person of every color as an individual, and he decided as a young man that America, despite its history of racial oppression, was his home as much ...
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11.
Series:
Labyrinth
A Novel
Paperback
Burhan Sönmez
9781590510988
$21.99
FICTION
Nov 19, 2019
NAMED A LIT HUB MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEARFrom a prize-winning Turkish novelist, a heady, political tale of one man’s search for identity and meaning in Istanbul after the loss of his memory.A blues singer, Boratin, attempts suicide by jumping off the Bosphorus Bridge, but opens his eyes in the hospital. He has lost his memory, and can’t recall why he wished to end his life. He remembers only things that are unrelated to himself, but confuses their timing. He knows that the Ottoman Empire fell, and that the last sultan died, but has no i...
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12.
Series:
1947
Where Now Begins
Paperback
Elisabeth Åsbrink
9781635420128
$21.99
HISTORY
Nov 26, 2019
An award-winning writer captures a year that defined the modern world, intertwining historical events around the globe with key moments from her personal history.The year 1947 marks a turning point in the twentieth century. Peace with Germany becomes a tool to fortify the West against the threats of the Cold War. The CIA is created, Israel is about to be born, Simone de Beauvoir experiences the love of her life, an ill George Orwell is writing his last book, and Christian Dior creates the hyperfeminine New Look as women are forced out of jobs a...
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13.
Series:
NVK
A Novel
Paperback
Temple Drake
9781590519356
$21.99
FICTION
Nov 26, 2019
HER SECRET MUST BE KEPT FOR ALL ETERNITY.Set in the otherworldly megalopolis that is today’s Shanghai, Temple Drake’s suspenseful first novel blends the gothic, the erotic, and the supernatural as it charts an intense and dangerous affair. One night in 2012, executive Zhang Guo Xing takes a group of European clients to a fashionable nightclub in Shanghai. While there, he meets a strikingly beautiful young Western woman called Naemi Vieno Kuusela. The physical attraction between them proves irresistible, and they embark on an intoxicating affa...
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14.
Series:
Self-Confidence
A Philosophy
Hardcover
Charles Pépin
9781590510933
$34.99
PHILOSOPHY
Dec 31, 2019
Inspired by great figures from Emerson and Nietzsche to Madonna and Serena Williams, this engaging philosophical essay explores the workings of self-confidence and how to develop it. Where does self-confidence come from? How does it work? What makes it stronger or weaker? Why are some people more confident than others? Is it only a question of temperament or the result of conscious self-improvement? How do you get closer to those who stand out thanks entirely to their confidence in themselves? Drawing on philosophical texts, ancient wisdom,...
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15.
Series:
Parents Under the Influence
Words of Wisdom from a Former Bad Mother
Paperback
Cécile David-Weill
9781590510568
$21.99
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
Jan 14, 2020
Part American and part French, part memoir and part guide, this book offers a fresh, unique, and powerful perspective on the challenges of parenting and how to find a rewarding path forward for parents and children alike.How should we raise our children? It should be a simple enough question to answer but in fact it is an intimidating and complex one. We often address it by deciding to do either exactly what our parents did or just the opposite. After that we rely on a cocktail of love and instinct, hoping it will be enough to overcome the diff...
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16.
Series:
And in the Vienna Woods the Trees Remain
The Heartbreaking True Story of a Family Torn Apart by War
Hardcover
Elisabeth Åsbrink
9781590519172
$38.99
HISTORY
Jan 21, 2020
Winner of the August Prize, an intricate weave of documents, substantive narrative, and emotional commentary that centers on a young Jewish refugee’s friendship with the future founder of IKEA.Otto Ullman, a Jewish boy, was sent from Austria to Sweden right before the outbreak of World War II. There he became best friends with Ingvar Kamprad, who would grow up to become the founder of IKEA. Despite the huge Swedish resistance to Jews, the thirteen-year-old Otto was granted permission to enter Sweden—all in accordance with the Swedish archbishop...
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17.
Series:
The Sweet Indifference of the World
A Novel
Paperback
Peter Stamm
9781590519790
$19.99
FICTION
Jan 21, 2020
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE SEASON BY VOGUEIn this alluring, melancholic novel—Peter Stamm at his best—a writer haunted by his double blurs the line between past and present, fiction and reality, in his attempt to outrun the unknown.“Please come to Skogskyrkogården tomorrow at 2. I have a story I want to tell you.” Lena agrees to Christoph’s out-of-the-blue request, though the two have never met. In Stockholm’s Woodland Cemetery, he tells her his story, which is also somehow hers. Twenty years before, he loved a woman named Magdalena—an actress li...
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