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  • THE STRANGER FROM THE SEA
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    THE STRANGER FROM THE SEA
    PAUL BINDING
    A shipwrecked sailor disturbs the life of a journalist in a late nineteenth-century English seaside town in this reimagining of Ibsen’s The Lady from the Sea.   After a ferocious storm shipwrecks young Norwegian sailor Hans Lyngstrand in the English Channel near Dengate, aspiring journalist Martin Bridges takes a job at the local newspaper. When Hans moves into Martin’s boardin...

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  • THE GIRL THAT HE MARRIES
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    THE GIRL THAT HE MARRIES
    RHODA LERMAN
    Outrageous and outrageously funny, The Girl That He Marries is a swift satiric jab at love and romance, a novel that gets right to the heart of the modern man/woman relationship. It is the story of Stephanie—nearly thirty and still single, a bright and attractive young woman with an unerring instinct for unmarriageable men and a nagging fear she’s going to grow old alone.En...

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  • THE COLLECTED POEMS OF FREDDY THE PIG
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    THE COLLECTED POEMS OF FREDDY THE PIG
    WALTER R. BROOKS
    The weather, all animals (with special emphasis on the peculiar attributes of pigs), joy and sorrow, the utility of facial features, and a world of other subjects are poetically worked over by the world’s most distinguished pig-of-letters, Freddy—the Bard of Bean Farm. Whether he’s happy or sad Freddy is ever the poet, and his verse—both heavy and light—has created an internati...

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  • FREDDY RIDES AGAIN
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    FREDDY RIDES AGAIN
    WALTER R. BROOKS
    The Freddy the Pig books have long been considered classics of American children’s literature and with each new edition, this wonderful pig is charming his way into the hearts of more and more readers, adults and children alike. In Freddy Rides Again, a new family has moved into the neighborhood, complete with a rude son, a timid cat with a secret name, and a foxhunter father, ...

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  • FREDDY AND THE SPACE SHIP
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    FREDDY AND THE SPACE SHIP
    WALTER R. BROOKS
    The lovable characters from Bean Farm took off for Mars in Benjamin Bean’s fabulous space ship but Mrs. Peppercorn’s fiddling with the controls knocked them off their course and landed them in a far more strange place than they had prepared for. ...

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  • FREDDY GOES CAMPING
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    FREDDY GOES CAMPING
    WALTER R. BROOKS
    Originally published between 1927 and 1958, the 26 classic books about Freddy the Pig are now going on to delight a sixth generation of children. Freddy the Pig, the “Renaissance Pig” (The New York Times Book Review) of Bean Farm, is back to thrill his fans of all ages in facsimile editions of these all-American children’s classics. In Freddy Goes Camping, Mr. Camphor’s aunts, ...

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  • FREDDY'S COUSIN WEEDLY
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    FREDDY'S COUSIN WEEDLY
    WALTER R. BROOKS
    The Freddy the Pig books have long been considered classics of American children’s literature and with each new edition, this wonderful pig is charming his way into the hearts of more and more readers, adults and children alike. In Freddy’s Cousin Weedly, Freddy’s timid little cousin is sent to Bean Farm, in the hopes that Freddy can cure his shyness. Jinx the cat takes the pig...

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  • KATA GOLDA'S HAND-STITCHED FELT
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    KATA GOLDA'S HAND-STITCHED FELT
    KATA GOLDA / ALISON KAPLAN
    Toys, bags, bookmarks—quick and delightfully quirky projects for sewing enthusiasts young and old.   With no more than felt and thread, Kata Golda creates toys and practical items for the home that are undeniably charming, stylish, and sweetly imperfect. Her whimsical creations have been selling at high-end boutiques for several years, and now, in Kata Golda’s Hand-Stitched Fel...

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  • THE SONG OF IGOR'S CAMPAIGN
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    THE SONG OF IGOR'S CAMPAIGN
    VLADIMIR NABOKOV
    The author of Lolita translates the celebrated, medieval epic Russian poem about a doomed campaign led by Prince Igor Sviatoslavich the Brave. A chivalric expedition is undertaken in the late twelfth century by a minor prince in the land of Rus’ to defeat, against overwhelming odds, a powerful alliance in a neighboring territory. The anonymous poet who chronicled this adventure...

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  • CHEMICAL PINK
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    CHEMICAL PINK
    KATIE ARNOLDI
    This surprise bestseller set in the world of female bodybuilding is “a modern gothic comedy of obsession” (Vanity Fair).   Aurora Jeanine Johnson is an unwed mother from Savannah, Georgia, desperate to sculpt a new life—and a new body—in California, where the quest for the perfect butt or bicep reaches religious intensity. Spending every spare moment training at the gym, Aurora...

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  • BEDLAM BURNING
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    BEDLAM BURNING
    GEOFF NICHOLSON
    The acclaimed author of Bleeding London spins a yarn of academia, lunacy, and the blurry lines between them in this Whitbread Prize–finalist novel.   It all starts at Cambridge University, where Dr. John Bentley throws his book burning parties—“a little active, symbolic literary criticism”—in which guests are invited to state their grudges against their least favorite books, an...

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  • A BED OF EARTH
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    A BED OF EARTH
    TANITH LEE
    In this “deliciously creepy” novel by the Bram Stoker Award winner, two feuding families face supernatural vengeance in a parallel 16th-century Venice (Publishers Weekly).   In the City of Venus, two noble families—the della Scorpias and the Barbarons—have been locked in a bitter dispute over burial grounds on the overcrowded Isle of the Dead. But it is fourteen-year-old Merald...

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  • SAINT FIRE
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    SAINT FIRE
    TANITH LEE
    Following Faces Under Water, Tanith Lee’s alchemical thriller series continues with a Joan of Arc–inspired novel set in an alternate medieval Venice.   In Saint Fire, the second volume in the Secret Books of Venus series, Volpa is a strangely beautiful servant girl who glows with an inhuman inner flame. When her master, an abusive wood seller, is mysteriously incinerated, Volpa...

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  • THE CARPENTER'S PENCIL
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    THE CARPENTER'S PENCIL
    MANUEL RIVAS
    The acclaimed Galician author’s novel of the Spanish Civil War is “a sincere and beautiful portrait of a brutal, ugly period of Spanish history” (The Guardian).   Novelist and El País journalist Manuel Rivas has been heralded as one of the brightest in a new wave of Spanish authors. Originally written in Galician, his native language, The Carpenter’s Pencil was a bestseller in ...

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  • SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS
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    SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS
    ERNEST LEHMAN
    The screenwriter behind North by Northwest and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? skewers show business in these fifteen tales. In Sweet Smell of Success, the main novelette of this collection,Lehman scathingly depicts the dark side of success through the twisted relationship of Sid Wallace, an ambitious publicist, and Harvey Hunsucker, a powerful and vindictive gossip columnist, ...

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  • HERMA
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    HERMA
    MACDONALD HARRIS
    An inventive historical novel that delves into the mysteries of gender identity, from the National Book Award–nominated author of The Balloonist.   With a foreword by Michael Chabon   As a child in Southern California at the dawn of the twentieth century, Herma exhibits an incredible talent for vocal mimicry. Her gift will eventually take her from the choir of her country churc...

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  • WHAT IF OUR WORLD IS THEIR HEAVEN?
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    WHAT IF OUR WORLD IS THEIR HEAVEN?
    PHILIP K. DICK, GWEN LEE, AND DORIS ELAINE SAUTER
    Interviews with the genius behind The Man in the High Castle and countless other science fiction classics.   In the field of science fiction, Philip K. Dick is unparalleled. His novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? became the classic film Blade Runner. His short story “The Minority Report” was adapted for the screen by Steven Spielberg. The Man in the High Castle has beco...

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  • TRIOMF
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    TRIOMF
    MARLENE VAN NIEKERK
    “A scatologocial black satire . . . Triomf may be the signal Afrikaans novel of the 1990s . . . A daring, vicious and hilarious flight of imagination” (The Washington Post).   This is the story of the four inhabitants of 127 Martha Street in the poor white suburb of Triomf. Living on the ruins of old Sophiatown, the freehold township razed to the ground as a so-called “black sp...

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  • THE PECULIAR MEMORIES OF THOMAS PENMAN
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    THE PECULIAR MEMORIES OF THOMAS PENMAN
    BRUCE ROBINSON
    “Never before has the painful, knotty journey to maturity been depicted with such gusto. . . . Riotously profane” (Patrick McGrath, The New York Times Book Review).   Thomas Penman is enduring a very bad adolescence. Growing up in dark, dingy 1950s England, Thomas has problems. These include an unspeakable personal hygiene issue, an eccentric, ailing grandfather who speaks to h...

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  • ISLAND
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    ISLAND
    JANE ROGERS
    In this “unsettling and resonant novel” by the acclaimed author of Mr. Wroe’s Virgins, an orphan seeks revenge on her birth mother in rural Scotland (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times).   Having spent her traumatic childhood in and out of foster homes, twenty-eight-year-old Nikki Black has decided to finally take control of her life. That begins with finding her birth mother...

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  • THE FOOD CHAIN
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    THE FOOD CHAIN
    GEOFF NICHOLSON
    “[A] maniacal little caper . . . Curiosity demands that the reader devour each page to find out exactly what the author wants to say” (Los Angeles Times).   Frank runs the Golden Boy fast-food chain, his wife, Mary, is having an affair with the chef, and his son, Virgil, modeled for the Golden Boy logo when he was a baby. All three get embroiled in the machinations of the Everl...

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  • TARABAS
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    TARABAS
    JOSEPH ROTH
    This modern fable of the Russian Revolution from the author of The Radetzy March follows the tragic life of a peasant who seeks meaning in violence.   A Russian peasant, Nicholas Tarabas learns in his youth from a gypsy that he is destined to be both a murderer and saint. After fleeing to America under suspicion of a crime, he soon returns to fight for his homeland in World War...

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  • MR. WROE'S VIRGINS
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    MR. WROE'S VIRGINS
    JANE ROGERS
    A nineteenth century prophet claims seven young women for his own in this “engaging, serious and gleefully ironic novel” based on true events (The New York Times Book Review).   A New York Times Notable Book   In the 1820s, Prophet John Wroe settled his Christian Israelite church in Lancashire, England, where he and his followers awaited the end of the world. And when God told ...

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  • THE WENTWORTHS
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    THE WENTWORTHS
    KATIE ARNOLDI
    From the bestselling author of Chemical Pink: “While tales of dysfunctional families abound, this one separates itself from the pack” (Elle).   Katie Arnoldi’s critically acclaimed debut novel Chemical Pink launched her onto the bestseller lists and so burrowed itself into the public’s consciousness that its title was the answer to a Double Jeopardy question. Now, seven years l...

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  • BLISS, REMEMBERED
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    BLISS, REMEMBERED
    FRANK DEFORD
    An “entertaining and thought provoking” WWII-era novel of love, war, and sports, told with “a superb sense of character and period” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).   At the 1936 Berlin Olympics, American swimmer Sydney Stringfellow finds herself falling in love with Horst Gerhardt, a dashing young German. When the rising tide of global conflict tears them apart, Sydney ret...

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  • THE ARABIAN NIGHTMARE
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    THE ARABIAN NIGHTMARE
    ROBERT IRWIN
    A cult classic that “combines the genres of travelogue, fable, dream narrative, novel and confessional into one beguiling whole” (Publishers Weekly).   The hero and guiding force of this epic fantasy is an insomniac young man who, unable to sleep, guides the reader through the narrow streets of Cairo—a mysterious city full of deceit and trickery.   He narrates a complex tangle ...

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  • I AM VENUS
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    I AM VENUS
    BÁRBARA MUJICA
    This fictional account of the seventeenth-century Spanish painter’s life is “a very enjoyable read . . . A portrait of Velázquez and a meditation on love” (Washington Independent Review of Books).   Narrated by the mysterious model who posed for Rokeby Venus, Diego Velázquez’s only surviving female nude, I Am Venus is the riveting account of a great artist’s rise to prominence,...

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  • PRIVATE MIDNIGHT
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    PRIVATE MIDNIGHT
    KRIS SAKNUSSEMM
    “James Ellroy meets David Lynch in this addictive mix of noir and supernatural horror” from the acclaimed author of Zaneville and Enigmatic Pilot (Publishers Weekly, starred review).   Det. Birch Ritter is a man on the edge—of himself. His past is filled with secrets, guilt, and ghosts. And his latest case is about to lead him to Genevieve, a woman who claims that her business ...

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  • KITTY & VIRGIL
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    KITTY & VIRGIL
    PAUL BAILEY
    A “luminous” story of love and sorrow spanning from London to Romania, from a prize-winning novelist (Publishers Weekly, starred review).   Kitty Crozier first laid eyes on Virgil Florescu, a dissident poet who swam across the Danube to escape Ceausescu’s Romania, in the hospital. She woke up after surgery to find a stranger sitting beside her bed gazing at her. He just smiled,...

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  • SIMA'S UNDERGARMENTS FOR WOMEN
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    SIMA'S UNDERGARMENTS FOR WOMEN
    ILANA STANGER-ROSS
    In a Brooklyn basement, Sima gives neighborhood women the support they need—but struggles with her own secrets: “Much more than a novel of female bonding” (Publishers Weekly).   Sima Goldner runs her own bra shop, where her customers can find not only a perfect fit but also a sympathetic ear. The store, in an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood, is like a secret underground sisterhood...

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