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Series: HeavenA NovelPaperback
Mieko Kawakami9781609457457
$25.95FICTION
Aug 26, 2022
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE “A raw, painful, and tender portrait of adolescent misery… This book is very likely to make you cry.”—Lily Meyer, NPR With profound tenderness and sensitivity, Japanese literary superstar Mieko Kawakami turns her unique gaze onto the causes and effects of violence. Raw but revelatory, this novel stands as a dazzling confirmation of Kawakami’s standing as one of her country’s most insightful and compelling novelists. In Heaven, a shy high-school student is subjected to bullying from his classma... + Read More
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Series: You've Got Red on YouHow Shaun of the Dead Was Brought to LifePaperback
Clark Collis9781948221191
$28.95PERFORMING ARTS
Oct 28, 2022
Softcover edition contains all-new hand-drawn cover artwork by HagCult! As featured in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, MovieMaker, SYFY, Fangoria, Yahoo's "It List", SFX, Mental Floss, Total Film, Mashable, and more!How did a low-budget British movie about Londoners battling zombies in a pub become a beloved global pop culture phenomenon?You’ve Got Red on You details the previously untold story of 2004’s Shaun of the Dead, the hilarious, terrifying horror-comedy whose fan base continues to grow and grow. After speaking ... + Read More
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Series: The Last Days of Roger FedererAnd Other EndingsMainHardcover
Geoff Dyer9781838855741
$44.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jun 28, 2022
A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'Quite possibly the best living writer in Britain' Daily TelegraphMuch attention has been paid to so-called late style - but what about last style? When does last begin? How early is late? When does the end set in?In this endlessly stimulating investigation, Geoff Dyer sets his own encounter with late middle age against the last days and last achievements of writers, painters, athletes and musicians who've mattered to him throughout his life. With a playful charm and penetrating intelligence, he examines Friedrich ... + Read More
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Series: Beer Hiking Pacific Northwest 2nd EditionThe Tastiest Way to Discover Washington, Oregon and British ColumbiaPaperback
Rachel Wood9783907293706
$29.95TRAVEL
Oct 07, 2022
A Pacific Northwest Bookseller Association Bestseller!The new and updated second edition of the Pacific Northwest's bestselling guide to hikes and breweries. Beer lovers and hiking enthusiasts, these 52 Pacific Northwest hikes are for you! Each carefully-selected hike leads you through stunning scenery, and ends near a brewery or a brewpub—where a local craft beer awaits! This full-color guidebook features the best one to six-hour beer hikes in Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia. Each trail description includes details on access, difficul... + Read More
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Series: BACKYARD BIRD FEEDING GUIDESAttracting & Feeding CardinalsPaperback
Stan Tekiela9781647553319
$11.95NATURE
Nov 18, 2022
Learn to attract and feed cardinals with this pocket-sized guide. The vibrant red of the male Northern Cardinal is stunning any time of year—and nothing is more beautiful than the early spring duets of cardinals singing their hearts out. You love these beloved birds, and you want to see them visiting your backyard or garden. Professional naturalist and award-winning author Stan Tekiela teaches you all that you need to know about cardinals. The handy book is divided into three main sections. First, you’ll learn all about cardinals: facts, rang... + Read More
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Series: BACKYARD BIRD FEEDING GUIDESAttracting & Feeding FinchesPaperback
Stan Tekiela9781647553333
$11.95NATURE
Nov 18, 2022
Learn to attract and feed a variety finches with this pocket-sized guide. The bold yellow color of the male American Goldfinch is a welcome sight in any summer garden. And the pleasing songs and high-pitched calls of all the finches truly bring your yard to life. You love these beloved birds, and you want to see them visiting your backyard or garden. Professional naturalist and award-winning author Stan Tekiela teaches you all that you need to know about finches, from crossbills to grosbeaks. The handy book is divided into three main section... + Read More
Learn to attract and feed a variety of hummingbirds with this pocket-sized guide. The glittering throat patch of the male Ruby-throated Hummingbird is a worthy adornment for this princely bird. And what else can captivate a bird watcher as much as a hummingbird’s aerial acrobatics? You love these beloved birds, and you want to see them visiting your backyard or garden. Professional naturalist and award-winning author Stan Tekiela teaches you all that you need to know about hummingbirds—including Anna’s, black-chinned, broad-tailed, rufous, and... + Read More
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Series: BACKYARD BIRD FEEDING GUIDESAttracting & Feeding BluebirdsPaperback
Stan Tekiela9781647553296
$11.95NATURE
Nov 18, 2022
Learn to attract and feed Eastern, Western, and Mountain Bluebirds with this pocket-sized guide. The Eastern Bluebird’s blend of sky blue and rusty orange is a happy sprinkle of color in any backyard or garden. Easily tamed and full of personality, bluebirds are like welcomed friends. You love these beloved birds, and you want to see them visiting your yard or garden. Professional naturalist and award-winning author Stan Tekiela teaches you all that you need to know about bluebirds. The handy book is divided into three main sections. First, y... + Read More
Brighten a special someone’s day with notecards from this 12-card set, featuring watercolors of backyard birds, painted by Jenny deFouw Geuder. The best, most thoughtful greeting cards are the ones you write yourself. Say everything you wish to say with this wonderful collection of notecards by acclaimed watercolorist and naturalist Jenny deFouw Geuder. The Backyard Birds Boxed Notecard Assortment showcases four favorite paintings from Jenny’s coffee-table book, Drawn to Birds. The 12-card set with envelopes includes three cards each of four d... + Read More
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Series: Jenny Geuder ArtThe Seasons Boxed Notecard AssortmentPostcard book or pack
Jenny deFouw Geuder9781647553272
$22.95NON-CLASSIFIABLE
Nov 25, 2022
Brighten a special someone’s day with notecards from this 12-card set, featuring watercolors of the four seasons, painted by Jenny deFouw Geuder. The best, most thoughtful greeting cards are the ones you write yourself. Say everything you wish to say with this wonderful collection of notecards by acclaimed watercolorist and naturalist Jenny deFouw Geuder. The Seasons Boxed Notecard Assortment showcases four favorite paintings from Jenny’s coffee-table book, Drawn to Birds. The 12-card set with envelopes includes three cards each of four differ... + Read More
HARDCOVER, A5-Sized Journal: Standard A5 size (5.75 x 8.25 inches) allows for easily transporting in a handbag, backpack or tote.144 DOTTED PAGES: Dotted grid pages give you the freedom to personalize your journaling experience. Are you an artist who wants to sketch? Are you a writer who wants to journal? Do you like to switch between text and art? The dotted pages give you both--the space to draw and guidelines to take notes--allowing you to have a one-stop location for all your writing needs. RIBBON BOOKMARK: Whether you're an avid writer o... + Read More
PAPERBACK A5-Sized Journal: Standard A5 size (5.75 x 8.25 inches) allows for easily transporting in a handbag, backpack or tote.144 DOTTED PAGES: Dotted grid pages give you the freedom to personalize your journaling experience. Are you an artist who wants to sketch? Are you a writer who wants to journal? Do you like to switch between text and art? The dotted pages give you both--the space to draw and guidelines to take notes--allowing you to have a one-stop location for all your writing needs.INNER BACK POCKET: This paperback journal has a b... + Read More
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Series: JournalGolden Waves Dotted Hardcover JournalBlank Notebook with Ribbon BookmarkBlank book
Tuttle Studio9780804855686
$22.95ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES
Nov 29, 2022
HARDCOVER, A5-Sized Journal: Standard A5 size (5.75 x 8.25 inches) allows for easily transporting in a handbag, backpack or tote. 144 DOTTED PAGES: Dotted grid pages give you the freedom to personalize your journaling experience. Are you an artist who wants to sketch? Are you a writer who wants to journal? Do you like to switch between text and art? The dotted pages give you both--the space to draw and guidelines to take notes--allowing you to have a one-stop location for all your writing needs. RIBBON BOOKMARK: Whether you're a chronic writ... + Read More
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Series: JournalBatik 'Blue Clouds' Lined Hardcover JournalBlank Notebook with Ribbon BookmarkBlank book
Tuttle Studio9780804855679
$22.95ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES
Nov 29, 2022
HARDCOVER A5-Sized Journal: Standard A5 size (5.75 x 8.25 inches) allows for easily transporting in a handbag, backpack or tote. 144 LINED PAGES: Perfect for taking notes or writing daily journal entries. RIBBON BOOKMARK: Whether you're a chronic writer or more spontaneous, a ribbon bookmark will help keep track of where you left off writing, so that you don't have to flip through pages to find your last entry. The use of a colorful ribbon also adds a more classic, sophisticated look to the journal and can withstand constant use versus a paper... + Read More
PAPERBACK A5-Sized Journal: Standard A5 size (5.75 x 8.25 inches) allows for easily transporting in a handbag, backpack or tote. 144 LINED PAGES: Perfect for taking notes or writing daily journal entries. INNER BACK POCKET: This paperback journal has a back pocket to offer a safe place to keep receipts, treasured notes or mementos. ACID-FREE PAPER: More difficult to decompose than regular paper and has a longer shelf-life. It is commonly used when someone wants to archive notes, daily journal entries or sketches for several years without the p... + Read More
PAPERBACK A5-Sized Journal: Standard A5 size (5.75 x 8.25 inches) allows for easily transporting in a handbag, backpack or tote.144 LINED PAGES: Perfect for taking notes or writing daily journal entries. INNER BACK POCKET: This paperback journal has a back pocket to offer a safe place to keep receipts, treasured notes or mementos.ACID-FREE PAPER: More difficult to decompose than regular paper and has a longer shelf-life. It is commonly used when someone wants to archive notes, daily journal entries or sketches for several years without the ... + Read More
PAPERBACK A5-Sized Journal: Standard A5 size (5.75 x 8.25 inches) allows for easily transporting in a handbag, backpack or tote. 144 DOTTED PAGES: Dotted grid pages give you the freedom to personalize your journaling experience. Are you an artist who wants to sketch? Are you a writer who wants to journal? Do you like to switch between text and art? The dotted pages give you both--the space to draw and guidelines to take notes--allowing you to have a one-stop location for all your writing needs. INNER BACK POCKET: This paperback journal has a... + Read More
HARDCOVER, A5-Sized Journal: Standard A5 size (5.75 x 8.25 inches) allows for easily transporting in a handbag, backpack or tote. 144 LINED PAGES: Perfect for taking notes or writing daily journal entries. RIBBON BOOKMARK: Whether you're an avid writer or more spontaneous, a ribbon bookmark will help keep track of where you left off writing, so that you don't have to flip through pages to find your last entry. The use of a colorful ribbon also adds a more classic, sophisticated look to the journal and can withstand constant use versus a pape... + Read More
BOTANICA marries the tradition of Tarot to a lexicon far more ancient: the natural vocabulary of life on Earth. Find purpose, peace and possibility in this Tarot deck about the language of flowers. In this gorgeously illustrated artist's deck, creator Kevin Jay Stanton explores the biological roots of the Arcana. 78 fully-painted symbolic cards, rooted in classical Tarot interpretations as well as the lore and mythology of the plant kingdom.THE DECK: THE HERBALIST EDITION includes the full set of foil stamped, gilt-edged cards, printed 3.25" x ... + Read More
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Series: Nature's Favorite Foods CookbooksEggs50 Tried & True RecipesPaperback
Julia Rutland9781647552329
$25.95COOKING
Oct 21, 2022
Create wholesome meals with this egg-themed cookbook, featuring 50 recipes complemented by full-color photographs of each dish. Whether you prefer your eggs fried or scrambled, boiled or poached, you’ve undoubtedly enjoyed the distinguishable taste of the yolk paired with the whites’ mild flavor. Packed with protein, eggs are the perfect breakfast food—yet we can make them an integral part of every meal. Eggs is a cookbook by Julia Rutland that features 50 recipes—from beverages and breads to soups and entrees—for cooks who enjoy great flavo... + Read More
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Series: Hockey Moms Aren't Crazy!. . . Well, Maybe Just a Little BitPaperback
Jody M. Anderson9781940647630
$19.50HUMOR
Oct 21, 2022
Give your mother the perfect gift: this humorous tribute to Hockey Moms everywhere with funny illustrations, jokes, and true stories. Hockey Moms... if we can't laugh at ourselves, who can we laugh at? (Besides Soccer Moms!) Author Jody M. Anderson is a passionate mom and an avid hockey fan, and this funny book pays tribute to Hockey Moms everywhere with hilarious illustrations and lively jokes. It even includes short funny stories from Hockey Moms and hockey greats—like Mike Eruzione, captain of the “Miracle on Ice” 1980 Winter Olympics natio... + Read More
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Series: Favorite WildlifeWolves, Coyotes & FoxesSymbols of the WildPaperback
Stan Tekiela9781647553159
$29.95NATURE
Nov 25, 2022
Celebrate the kings of the canine world with this collection of photographs and information by award-winning author and wildlife photographer Stan Tekiela. Their beauty strikes us. Their mystique enchants us. Wolves, coyotes, and foxes are beloved, appreciated, and misunderstood. A sighting in nature is rare, which serves to enhance our fascination with these magnificent animals. Award-winning author, naturalist, and wildlife photographer Stan Tekiela believes that wolves, coyotes, and foxes are mystical and elusive. He spent more than 20 year... + Read More
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Series: The Food Allergy Baking BookGreat Dairy-, Egg-, and Nut-Free Treats for the Whole FamilyPaperback
Kelly Woyan9781572843158
$32.95COOKING
Sep 23, 2022
The Food Allergy Baking Book is a one-stop guide to delicious, everyday baked goods free of dairy, eggs, and nuts—the most common food allergens. The Food Allergy Baking Book offers more than 90 timeless, foolproof recipes that are easy to prepare, even for kitchen novices. It is an invaluable resource for home bakers (and their families) who love sweets and treats. These recipes are more than delicious enough to be enjoyed by everyone who craves great baked treats, whether they have food allergies or not, but they fill a particular need for ... + Read More
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Series: Emergent Strategy SeriesLiberated To the BoneHistories. Bodies. Futures.Paperback
Susan Raffo9781849354653
$32.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Nov 25, 2022
A way to deepen our understanding of the relationship between social justice and the work of healing—healing as individuals, communities, and societies.The newest title in the Emergent Strategy Series, Liberated to the Bone, addresses the intersections between healing our physical bodies and healing our social relations which are shaped by violence. Bodyworker and cultural worker Susan Raffo addresses intergenerational trauma, social justice, organizing, and how all of these things are relevant to our bodies. The book illuminates three differen... + Read More
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Series: No PasaranAntifascist Dispatches from a World in CrisisPaperback
Shane Burley9781849354820
$37.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Nov 04, 2022
Essays written by a who's who of antifascist researchers, including Tal Lavin (Culture Warlords); Kim Kelly (Fight Like Hell), Geo Maher (A World Without Police), Hilary A. Moore (No Fascist USA!), and Daryle Lamont Jenkins (One People's Project).¡No Pasarán! is an anthology of antifascist writing that takes up the fight against white supremacy and the far-right from multiple angles. From the history of antifascism to today's movement to identify, deplatform, and confront the right, and the ways an insurgent fascism is growing within capitalist... + Read More
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Series: A Participatory EconomyPaperback
Robin Hahnel9781849354844
$32.95POLITICAL SCIENCE
Oct 14, 2022
As of June 2021, 54% of Gen Z adults view capitalism negatively and over 41% have a positive view on socialism. A Participatory Economy is written for people who desire an equitable, ecological economy but want to know what an alternative to capitalism could look like.A Participatory Economy presents a fascinating, new alternative to capitalism. It proposes and defends concrete answers to how all society's economic decisions can be made without resorting to unaccountable and inhumane markets (capitalism) or central planning authorities (communi... + Read More
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Series: Street RebellionResistance Beyond Violence and NonviolencePaperback
Benjamin S. Case9781849354868
$31.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Dec 16, 2022
In a style that bridges the divide between academia and activism, Street Rebellion develops a broader and more accurate understanding of how people struggle for liberation. We are living in a time of uprisings that routinely involve physical confrontation—burning vehicles, barricades, vandalism, and scuffles between protesters and authorities. Yet the Left has struggled to incorporate rioting into theories of change, remaining stuck in recurring debates over violence and nonviolence. Civil resistance studies have popularized the term “strategic... + Read More
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Series: Trust Kids!Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult SupremacyPaperback
carla bergman9781849353854
$29.95FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
Nov 11, 2022
Trust Kids! weaves together essays, interviews, poems, and artwork from scholars, activists, and artists about our relationships with children in all areas of our lives.The contributors of Trust Kids! write from different backgrounds, genders, ages, and sexualities and combine past lineages with more recent child-rearing ideas to offer a fresh, inspiring perspective. Many works on parenting and families wind up re-inscribing hierarchies by declaring how kids should be liberated. Trust Kids! insists on youth autonomy, listening to youth, and que... + Read More
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Series: We Won't Be Here TomorrowAnd Other StoriesPaperback
Margaret Killjoy9781849354752
$26.95FICTION
Sep 30, 2022
A hacker who programs drones to troll CEOs into quitting. A group of LARPers who decide to live as orcs inthe burned forests of Oregon. Queer, teen love in a death cult. Terraforming a climate-changed Earth.Polyamorous love on an anarchist tea farm during the apocalypse. Spaceships, man-eating lesbian mermaids,swords, spears, demons, ghouls, thieves, hitchhikers, and life in the margins. Margaret’s stories haveappeared for years in the best science fiction and fantasy magazines. Here we have collected the best,previously published and brand new.
From the best-selling author Joe Meno, a moving novel about the impossibility of fate and family“Joe Meno is one of those Chicago writers floating around so long that we take his sturdiness for granted. His latest, though, Book of Extraordinary Tragedies, (Sept. 6) the tale of Evergreen Park musical prodigies who reunite after ages of failure and loss, is a career best, a reminder of how unusually hopeful and buoyant Meno has remained all this time. It’s a charmer and a breakthrough.”—Chicago Tribune, Fall Books Preview"As in all his tender and... + Read More
In her gripping follow-up to the widely acclaimed Dust Bowl Mystery Death of a Rainmaker, Laurie Loewenstein brings 1930s Oklahoma evocatively to life.*A finalist for the 2023 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award for Best Historical"For Temple Jennings, the small-town Oklahoma sheriff who returns in Laurie Loewenstein's engaging new Dust Bowl-era mystery, Funeral Train, day-to-day matters have become challenging . . . Reading Funeral Train feels like being catapulted back in time to experience the 1930s at an almost unbearably visceral level.... + Read More
Emmy-winning actor Michael Imperioli (The Sopranos, The White Lotus, etc.) brilliantly evokes 1970s New York in this Holden Caulfield–esque debut"[T]he actor's first novel is a quintessential New York story: A teenager moves from Queens to Manhattan, discovering a world populated with drugs, sex, a witch, and Lou Reed. It's like a vivid walk through the city and adolescence, reveling in their grit and pathos." —New York Times"Imperioli's first novel is the atmospheric coming-of-age story of sixteen-year-old Matthew, whose mother moves them from... + Read More
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Series: Primus, Over the Electric GrapevineInsight into Primus and the World of Les ClaypoolPaperback
Primus9781636140681
$28.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Dec 16, 2022
An oral history of the legendary band Primus, with a star-studded cast of interviewees (Tom Waits, Phish front man Trey Anastasio, etc.)"It's a wild ride that's vividly captured in Greg Prato's excellent oral history . . ."—Bass Player MagazineUsually when the "alternative rock revolution" of the early 1990s is discussed, Nirvana's Nevermind is credited as the recording that led the charge. Yet there were several earlier albums that helped pave the way, including the Pixies's Doolittle, the Red Hot Chili Peppers's Mother's Milk, Jane's Addictio... + Read More
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Series: RandomHardcover
Penn Jillette9781636140711
$41.95FICTION
Oct 21, 2022
From Penn Jillette of the legendary magic duo Penn & Teller: a rollicking crime caper that will bend your mind like a spoon."Penn Jillette is an atheist, triple-goddamned lunatic, and his book is a glorious Las Vegas lunatic paean to chance and adventure—a page-turning, scabrous, hilarious ride into randomness."—Neil Gaiman"Jillette's latest novel, Random, is about a young man who inherits his father's crushing debt to a loan shark and turns to dice—and other dangerous measures—to dig himself out. That the dice bring him luck sends him a new ph... + Read More
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Series: Akashic Noir SeriesSouth Central NoirPaperback
Gary Phillips9781636140544
$25.95FICTION
Sep 16, 2022
The Akashic Noir Series’ forensic study of Southern California sharpens its focus on one of Los Angeles’s most recognized neighborhoods.“If you’re of a certain age, your perception of South Los Angeles might have been formed by riots and rappers. Or maybe you know it through television . . . But Gary Phillips, who grew up there, has a more historically complex point of view . . . For Phillips and the 13 other writers who contributed to his just-published anthology, those narrower, pop-infused renditions are just the tip of the iceberg . . . wit... + Read More
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Series: UnstrungRants and Stories of a Noise GuitaristPaperback
Marc Ribot9781636140674
$25.95MUSIC
Nov 11, 2022
The paperback edition of iconoclastic guitar player Marc Ribot’s darkly funny and subversive collection of writing, featuring brand-new essays not included in the hardcover."A slim yet powerful book in which Marc Ribot blends bits of memoir with strange little fictions, many of which are based on his own life and career."—Wall Street Journal"Ribot . . . produced a book that is much like his musical output: difficult to categorize but fascinating and engaging."—Inside HookThroughout his genre-defying career as one of the most innovative musicia... + Read More
Dark, profane, and hilarious, yet ultimately humane, these ten stories are the latest and best of Robin McLean’s reports from the eternal battlefront that is the United States. Ranging across the continent, from Alaska to Missouri, from the flatlands to the mountains, each tale is a snapshot of the political, racial, and sexual undercurrents roiling contemporary life, and each finds a way into the nerves and blood that pulse beneath the question of how to live a decent life. Here you'll find stolen children living life to the fullest on the ru... + Read More
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Series: Pity the BeastPaperback
Robin McLean9781913505523
$26.95FICTION
Oct 28, 2022
A brutalized woman is left for dead. But dead is the one thing she isn’t. With a stolen horse and rifle, she escapes into the mountains, and a small posse of her tormentors has to gear up and give chase—whether to beg forgiveness or shut her up for good, nobody knows. With detours through time, space and myth—not to mention into the minds of a pack of philosophical mules—Pity the Beast is a mind-melting feminist Western that pins a tale of sexual violence and vengeance to a canvas as wide and strange as America itself. It’s a novel that turns... + Read More
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Series: TripticksPaperback
Ann Quin9781913505400
$23.95FICTION
Sep 02, 2022
First published in 1972, Ann Quin’s fourth and final novel was a radical break from the introspective style she had developed in Three and Passages: a declaration of independence from all expectations. Brashly experimental, ribald, and hilarious, Tripticks maps new territories for the novel—aspiring to a form of pop art via the drawings of the artist Carol Annand and anticipating the genre-busting work of Kathy Acker through collage and gory satire.Splattering its pages with the story of a man being chased across a nightmarish America by his “f... + Read More
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Series: Derelict BicyclesPaperback
Dale Tracy9781772141986
$18.00POETRY
Nov 10, 2022
This first collection by Dale Tracy is the atmosphere that derelict bicycles breathe. Like weeds, ones we've built, they burgeon. These poems wonder what sort of a performance thinking is-they perform their own logical hysteria, that emotion that feels what the other emotions feel like. Unconventional but interested in convention, they turn the world in on itself until "[i]t's almost like a curtain / has been pulled and it's a different world. / A curtain has been pulled, but I can't see the curtain." Dale Tracy mines the intersection of the su... + Read More
Stuart Ross's sometimes poignant, sometimes outrageous third story collection deepens his exploration of the possibilities of the short story and narrative. A trio of tales probe fame through the lens of 1960s-70s French pop and disco icon Claude François; legendary Hollywood actor Lee Marvin saves the day, again and again; the citizens of a small town worship an all-knowing potato; a man dons a bib to eat his neighbour's house; a tourist finds both love and a dead frog in Nicaragua; and, in one rather educational anti-story, the author instruc... + Read More
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Series: The Longest SuicideThe Authorized Biography of Art BergmannPaperback
Jason Schneider9781772141962
$24.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Nov 04, 2022
As Canada's punk poet laureate, Art Bergmann has been tearing up stages, and terrifying the music industry, for half a century. Often referred to as "Canada's Lou Reed," Art's story is one of rock and roll's great tales untold. Until now. From his days helping to lay the foundation of the Vancouver punk scene with The K-Tels, to his acclaimed solo work in the '80s and '90s, and a late career resurgence that has culminated with being named to the Order of Canada, The Longest Suicide chronicles every unlikely twist and turn Art's life has taken. ... + Read More
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Series: Pickles Tails Volume TwoThe Hijinks of Muffin & Roscoe: 2008-2020Hardcover
Brian Crane9781936097432
$44.95HUMOR
Sep 16, 2022
Pickles Tails Volume II is the second installment of Brian Crane’s Pickles strips dedicated to the hijinks of the beloved Pickles family pets, Roscoe and Muffin! This collection begins in 2008 and moves ahead through 2020, and includes over 300 fully colorized pages and 115 Sunday Strips. Pickles Tails Volume II has all of the beloved Pickles characters as they share all the warmth and antics you have come to expect from the hilarious Pickles family and their favorite furry friends.
From internationally celebrated Eduardo Halfon comes a new installment in his hero’s nomadic odyssey as he searches for answers surrounding his grandfather’s abductionIn Canción, Eduardo Halfon’s eponymous wanderer is invited to a Lebanese writers’ conference in Japan, where he reflects on his Jewish grandfather’s multifaceted identity. To understand more about the cold, fateful day in January 1967 when his grandfather was abducted by Guatemalan guerillas, Halfon searches his childhood memories. Soon, chance encounters around the world lead to ... + Read More
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Series: Let No One SleepPaperback
Juan Jose Millas9781942658931
$25.95FICTION
Sep 02, 2022
An odyssey of operatic proportions, featuring an obsession-fueled taxi driverAfter Lucía loses her job at an IT firm, she has a vision of her future career as a taxi driver, brought on by the intoxicating opera floating through her apartment’s air vent. She obtains her taxi license and meets the neighbor responsible for the music. Calaf is the man’s name, which also happens to be the name of the character in Puccini’s Turandot and the bird Lucía received on her tenth birthday from her long-since-dead mother. When he moves out of her building, L... + Read More
“This book made me laugh out loud and also gave me glimpses of an entire horizon of possibility I hadn’t seen before.”—Chris Hayes, host of MSNBC’s All In with Chris HayesEnd the filibuster. Abolish the Senate. Make everyone vote. Only if we do this (and then some), says Thomas Geoghegan, might we heal our fractured democracy.In 2008, Geoghegan―then an established labor lawyer and prolific writer―embarked on a campaign to represent Chicago’s Fifth District in Congress, in a special election called when Rahm Emanuel stepped down to serve as Pres... + Read More
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Series: RunawayNotes on the Myths that Made MeHardcover
Erin Keane9781953368317
$41.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 07, 2022
From Erin Keane, editor in chief at Salon, comes a touching memoir about the search for truths in the stories families tell. In 1970, Erin Keane’s mother ran away from home for the first time. She was thirteen years old. Over the next several years, and under two assumed identities, she hitchhiked her way across America, experiencing freedom, hardship, and tragedy. At fifteen, she met a man in New York City and married him. He was thirty-six. Though a deft balance of journalistic digging, cultural criticism, and poetic reimagining, Keane pieces... + Read More
By 2014, the world had grown weary of Iraq and its troubles. The Americans had all but gone and the media had switched its gaze towards Syria, but Iraq’s problems were far from over. That same year, ISIS put Iraq back on the map as they crossed the border from Syria and rampaged through the country, kidnapping, raping and killing, and enforcing their murderous interpretation of Sharia law. Saddam Hussein, the occupation, sectarian war, corruption and political instability had collectively laid the groundwork for further violence, and Iraqis wer... + Read More
49.
Series: Losing AfghanistanThe Fall of Kabul and the End of Western InterventionHardcover
Brian Brivati9781785907319
$44.95HISTORY
Sep 30, 2022
When Taliban forces took Kabul on 15 August 2021, it marked the end of the Western intervention that had begun nearly twenty years earlier with the US-led invasion. The fall of Afghanistan triggered a seismic shock in the West, where US President Joe Biden announced an end to America’s involvement in conflicts overseas. In Afghanistan itself it produced terror for the future for those who had worked with and grown up under the coalition-supported administration. Now, with the country spiralling into economic collapse and famine, Losing Afghanis... + Read More
50.
Series: A United IrelandWhy Unification Is Inevitable and How It Will Come AboutPaperback
Kevin Meagher9781785906657
$29.95POLITICAL SCIENCE
Sep 25, 2022
For over two centuries, the ‘Irish question’ has dogged UK politics. Though the Good Friday Agreement carved a fragile peace from the bloodshed of the Troubles, the Brexit process has shown a largely uncomprehending British audience just how uneasy that peace always was – and thrown new light on Northern Ireland’s uncertain constitutional status.Remote from the British mainland in its politics, economy and cultural attitudes, Northern Ireland is, in effect, in an antechamber, its place within the UK conditional on the border poll guaranteed by ... + Read More
51.
Series: Veronica Rosenthal MysteryThere Are No Happy LovesPaperback
Sergio Olguin9781913394714
$23.95FICTION
Sep 30, 2022
The third in Olguin’s Buenos Aires thriller series starring the gutsy, raunchy investigative reporter Veronica Rosenthal. Haunted by nightmares of her past, Veronica is soon involved in a new investigation. Darío, the sole survivor of a car accident that supposedly killed all his family, is convinced that his wife and child have in fact survived and that his wife has abducted their child. Then a truck searched in the port of Buenos Aires on suspicion that it is carrying drugs, is revealed to be transporting human body parts. These seemingly sep... + Read More
52.
Series: Tomorrow in ShanghaiStoriesPaperback
May-lee Chai9781949467864
$26.95FICTION
Sep 09, 2022
A short story collection exploring cultural complexities in China, the Chinese diaspora in America, and the world at large.In a vibrant and illuminating follow-up to her award-winning story collection, Useful Phrases for Immigrants, May-lee Chai’s latest collection Tomorrow in Shanghai explores multicultural complexities through lenses of class, wealth, age, gender, and sexuality—always tracking the nuanced, knotty, and intricate exchanges of interpersonal and institutional power. These stories transport the reader, variously: to rural China, w... + Read More
53.
Series: Army of LoversPaperback
K.M. Soehnlein9781612942476
$31.95FICTION
Oct 21, 2022
Lambda Literary Award-winner K.M. Soehnlein's Army of Lovers follows a young gay man swept up in the excitement, fury, and poignancy of the AIDS activist group ACT UP. Arriving in New York City full of idealism, Paul discovers the queer community gathering strength in the face of government inaction and social stigma. As he protests, parties, and makes a new home, he finds himself pulling away from his HIV-negative boyfriend to pursue an intense bond with a passionate, HIV-positive artist. Paul’s awakening parallels ACT UP’s rise, successes, an... + Read More
54.
Series: Catboat RoadPaperback
Kate Rounds9781612942452
$28.95FICTION
Sep 16, 2022
Mrs. Robinson, meet Holden Caulfield—if Holden were a smart, sexy teenage lesbian in love with her mother’s best friend. For Candace “Ace” Ragsdale, Mrs. Forest is an irresistible force of nature: luscious, tantalizing—and maybe not completely out of reach. No one in her family is moored to social convention—but they’ve each learned to surf the wave of the unfamiliar and make the most of chaos. From Ace’s womanizing-yet-worshipful brother to her elusive-yet-loving parents, we watch this well-meaning family weave its way into a rich tapestry of ... + Read More
55.
Series: Last Chance ChicagoPaperback
Diana DiGangi9781612942513
$28.95FICTION
Dec 16, 2022
Attorney and recovering cocaine addict Sam DiCiccio didn’t think she was ever going to see her ex-wife Amy Igarashi again, much less wind up defending her against felony insider trading charges. But Amy’s been falsely accused, and Sam, who’s still in love with her, can’t bear to watch her take the fall for a crime she didn’t commit. Amy is holding on to resentment from their broken relationship and is hesitant to let Sam back into her life. But that all changes when her assets are frozen by a judge, and Sam is the best and only lawyer she can a... + Read More
56.
Series: Billy No-MatesHow I Realised Men Have a Friendship ProblemMainHardcover
Max Dickins9781838853518
$38.50BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 04, 2022
'Where have all my friends gone?'When Max Dickins decided to propose to his girlfriend, he realised there was no one he could call on to be his best man. He quickly learned that he wasn't the only man struggling with friendships. For decades, countless studies from across the world have confirmed that men have fewer close friends than women - and the problem gets worse the older men get. But what goes wrong? And what can men do about it? Dickins is going to find out. His funny and charmingly candid search takes him to the doors of world-leading... + Read More
57.
Series: Blood LegacyReckoning With a Family's Story of SlaveryMainPaperback
Alex Renton9781786898890
$24.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 13, 2022
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE'An incredible work of scholarship' Sathnam SangheraThrough the story of his own family's history as slave and plantation owners, Alex Renton looks at how we owe it to the present to understand the legacy of the past. When British Caribbean slavery was abolished across most of the British Empire in 1833, it was not the newly liberated who received compensation, but the tens of thousands of enslavers who were paid millions of pounds in government money. The descendants of some of those slave owners are amo... + Read More
58.
Series: A Raven and Fisher MysteryA Corruption of BloodMainPaperback
Ambrose Parry9781786899897
$19.95FICTION
Oct 18, 2022
SHORTLISTED FOR THE McILVANNEY PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER 2022A Raven and Fisher Mystery: Book 3Edinburgh, 1850. This city will bleed you dry.Sarah Fisher is keeping a safe distance from her old flame Dr Will Raven. Having long worked at the side of Dr James Simpson, she has set her sights on learning to practise medicine herself. A notion everyone seems intent on dissuading her from.Across town, Raven finds himself drawn into Edinburgh's mire when a package containing human remains washes up on the shores of Leith, and an o... + Read More
59.
Series: CowardWhy We Get Anxious & What We Can Do About ItMainHardcover
Tim Clare9781838853105
$38.50SELF-HELP
Sep 20, 2022
Tim Clare has suffered from anxiety and panic attacks for over a decade. At their worst, his attacks would see him curled on the floor, screaming to his wife for help. When they became more than he and his family could manage, Tim made a promise to himself - he would try everything he could to get better, every method and medicine.In Coward, Tim Clare explores all the possible treatments for anxiety, from SSRIs to hypnosis, running to extreme diets. He interviews experts and becomes a guinea pig, testing their methods on himself. At the end of ... + Read More
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Series: EuphoriaMainHardcover
Elin Cullhed9781838855963
$38.50FICTION
Nov 01, 2022
A woman's life, erupting with brilliance and promise, is fissured by betrayal and the pressures of duty. What had once seemed a pastoral family idyll has become a trap, and she struggles between being the wife and mother she is bound to be and wanting to do and be so much more.The woman in question is Sylvia Plath in the final year of her life. As Plath's marriage to Ted Hughes unravels through the heady days of their first summer in Devon together, Sylvia turns increasingly to writing to express her pain and loss, yet also her resilience and p... + Read More
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