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  • RESISTANCE
    VAL MCDERMID
    A mysterious illness appears in Scotland while a reporter searches for the truth in this graphic novel by the bestselling author of the Karen Pirie series. The first graphic novel from Britain’s “Queen of Crime” (Scotsman) and gorgeously illustrated by up-and-comer Kathryn Briggs, Resistance is a chilling but incredibly moving and inspiring story of individuals pressed to rise ...

    $229.00

  • PYRE
    PERUMAL MURUGAN
    By the author of One Part Woman: "A haunting story of forbidden love set in Southern India that illustrates the cruel consequences of societal intolerance." — Kirkus Reviews, starred review Saroja and Kumaresan are young and in love. After meeting in a small southern Indian town where Kumaresan works at a soda bottling shop, they quickly marry before returning to Kumaresan's fa...

    $251.00

  • GORDO
    JAIME CORTEZ
    This debut story collection "masterfully navigates adverse conditions of migrant life while . . . managing to find joy and amusement, love and triumph" ( San Francisco Chronicle). Gordo brings readers inside a migrant workers camp near Watsonville, California in the 1970s. At the heart of these interrelated stories is a young, probably gay, boy named Gordo, who must find a way ...

    $229.00

  • MAGMA
    THORA HJÖRLEIFSDÓTTIR
    "The provocative Icelandic poet's debut novel . . . urgently explores the challenges and costs of a young woman's passionate yet toxic relationship." — Time, Best Books of Summer 2021 As a young university student, Lilja is quickly smitten with the intelligent, beautiful young man from school who quotes Derrida and reads Latin and cooks balanced vegetarian meals. Before she kno...

    $251.00

  • AMERICA
    EDITOR FRANÇOIS BUSNEL
    Today's leading French writers offer their perspective of a post-2016 America in this collection of pieces from the bestselling French literary magazine. From Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America to the moveable feasts of the Lost Generation, France and the United States have long shared a special relationship, defined as much by romantic fascination as occasional incom...

    $229.00

  • MISS ICELAND
    AUÐUR AVA ÓLAFSDÓTTIR
    "Will appeal to readers of Elena Ferrante and Margaret Atwood . . . the unusual setting offers an interesting twist on the portrait of an artist as a young woman." — Bookpage In 1960s Iceland, Hekla dreams of being a writer. In a nation of poets, where each household proudly displays leatherbound volumes of the Sagas, and there are more writers per capita than anywhere else in ...

    $212.00

  • BIRD SUMMONS
    LEILA ABOULELA
    Three Muslim women search for freedom and happiness in the Scottish Highlands in this novel of "psychological acuity [and] rich characterization" ( Washington Post). When Salma, Moni, and Iman—friends and active members of their local Muslim Women's group—decide to take a road trip together to the Scottish Highlands, they leave behind lives often dominated by obligation, frustr...

    $229.00

  • SECOND SISTER
    CHAN HO-KEI
    A reclusive Hong Kong PI and hacker investigates a teenager's mysterious death in this technological thriller by the author of The Borrowed. A schoolgirl—Siu-Man—has committed suicide, leaping from her twenty-second floor window to the pavement below. Siu-Man is an orphan and the librarian older sister who's been raising her refuses to believe there was no foul play—nothing see...

    $179.00

  • THE GIRL AT THE DOOR
    VERONICA RAIMO
    An accusation of rape upsets a utopian island community in this "provocative, fiercely intelligent" Italian novel ( Daily Mail, UK). When "The Crash" brough entire nations to their knees, the island society of Miden—a place dedicated to fairness and equality—rose like a phoenix from the wreckage. While on vacation in this oasis, a seemingly aimless woman meets an attractive man...

    $251.00

  • RED BIRDS
    MOHAMMED HANIF
    This "splendidly satirical novel" by the award-winning Pakistani author "beautifully captures the absurdity and folly of war and its ineluctable impact" ( Booklist, starred review).   An American pilot crash lands in the desert and finds himself on the outskirts of the very camp he was supposed to bomb. After days spent wandering and hallucinating from dehydration, Major Ellie ...

    $229.00

  • DON'T SEND FLOWERS
    MARTIN SOLARES
    A gritty novel of Mexico's volatile and violent narco-state. "A kind of Molotov cocktail that explodes in the hands of the reader."— Forbes (Mexico)  From a writer whose work has been praised by Junot Díaz as "Latin American fiction at its pulpy phantasmagorical finest,"  Don't Send Flowers is a riveting novel centered on Carlos Treviño, a retired police detective in northern M...

    $229.00

  • BLOWN
    MARK HASKELL SMITH
    A darkly funny satire of corporate greed, sexual desire, and crime from "the slightly more well-adjusted offspring of Hunter S. Thompson and James Ellroy" ( Los Angeles Times). The boy genius of the foreign exchange desk, Bryan LeBlanc is surrounded by acolytes of the free market, the true believers, the U.S. Marines of capitalism—"the few, the proud, the completely full of the...

    $251.00

  • NIGHT BEAST
    RUTH JOFFRE
    A debut collection of doomed love stories and twisted fairytales "perfect for fans of Kelly Link and of Carmen Maria Machado's Her Body and Other Parties" ( Booklist).   In Night Beasts, author Ruth Joffre explores the lives of women—particularly queer women and mothers—and reveals the monsters lurking in our daily lives: the madness, isolation, betrayals, and regrets that aris...

    $229.00

  • THE RED WORD
    SARAH HENSTRA
    "A timely, telling look at rape culture on campus, Sarah Henstra's The Red Word boldly goes to the places where memoir can't but fiction can."—PopSugar As her sophomore year begins, Karen enters into the back-to-school revelry—particularly at a fraternity called GBC. When she wakes up one morning on the lawn of Raghurst, a house of radical feminists, she gets a crash course in ...

    $229.00

  • HOTEL SILENCE
    AUÐUR AVA ÓLAFSDÓTTIR
    "[A] novel of mid-life redemption . . . Ólafsdóttir writes about a good man in crisis with a raw beauty, as he gradually awakens to life and love." — Financial Times Winner of the Icelandic Literary Prize, Hotel Silence is a delightful and heartwarming new novel from Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, a writer who "upends expectations" ( The New York Times). Jónas Ebeneser is a handy DIY k...

    $251.00

  • BRAVE DEEDS
    DAVID ABRAMS
    From the author of Fobbit: "A stirring, sardonic war story . . . Mordantly funny and harrowing . . . Reminiscent of such classic war novels as  Catch-22" ( Tampa Bay Times).   A Military Times Best Book of 2017, Brave Deeds is a compelling novel of war, brotherhood, and America. Spanning eight hours, the novel follows a squad of six AWOL soldiers as they attempt to cross war-to...

    $251.00

  • DISASTERS IN THE FIRST WORLD
    OLIVIA CLARE
    "Olivia Clare is pure literary dynamite . . . [She] writes with Carveresque clarity and bite and an elegance all her own. A bravura debut." —Janet Fitch, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of White Oleander   Olivia Clare's delightfully strange and tender debut collection traces the impact of larger-than-life forces on everyday people. From siblings whose relationship is as f...

    $229.00

  • BRIGHT AIR BLACK
    DAVID VANN BRIGHT
    A "sensual, brutal . . . ambitious, dazzling, disturbing, and memorable" retelling of Jason and the Argonauts seen through the eyes of Medea ( Financial Times).   International bestselling and multi-prize-winning author David Vann transports readers to the Mediterranean and Black Sea, 3,250 years ago, for "[a] stunning depiction of one of mythology's most complex characters" ( ...

    $229.00

  • THE WHITE CITY
    KAROLINA RAMQVIST
    An award-winning Scandinavian novel of one woman's struggle to pull herself and her daughter from the grasp of a criminal past. "A literary tour de force" ( Mystery Scene).   A celebrated bestseller in Sweden, and the winner of the prestigious Per Olov Enquist Literary Prize,  The White City is an arresting story of betrayal and empowerment as a criminal's girlfriend is left be...

    $251.00

  • THE BORROWED
    CHAN HO-KEI
    A legendary detective uncovers Hong Kong's darkest crimes: "An ambitious narrative brilliantly executed . . . What an achievement!" (John Burdett, author of Bangkok 8).   From award-winning author Chan Ho-kei, The Borrowed tells the story of Kwan Chun-dok, a detective who's worked in Hong Kong fifty years. Across six decades of Hong Kong's volatile history, the narrative follow...

    $229.00

  • MEANTIME
    KATHARINE NOEL
    From the award-winning author of Halfway House: a "heartfelt and heartbreaking story" of a woman whose life unravels while her husband is hospitalized ( Library Journal).   Claire Hood has never had a typical family. When she was nine, her father fell in love with a married woman, and the two households agreed to live under one roof. Nicknamed "the Naked Family," they were infa...

    $229.00

  • BANDIT
    MOLLY BRODAK
    One woman's "raw, poetic and compulsively readable" account of growing up with a bank robber for a father (Kathryn Stockett, author of  The Help).   In the summer of 1994, when Molly Brodak was thirteen years old, her father robbed eleven banks, until the police finally caught up with him. Dubbed the "Mario Brothers Bandit" by the FBI, he served seven years in prison and was re...

    $229.00

  • BADAWI
    MOHED ALTRAD
    "Poetically depicts a Bedouin boy's extended coming of age and the uneasy navigation of his transition from provincial Syria to the West." — Publishers Weekly   Published to wide critical acclaim in France,  Badawi is Mohed Altrad's heartrending debut novel, inspired by the author's own narrative arc from Bedouin orphan to engineer and finally billionaire businessman.   In the ...

    $229.00

  • LIONS
    BONNIE NADZAM
    The author of the critically acclaimed, award-winning debut novel,  Lamb returns with "a story of haunted histories and broken promises" ( O, The Oprah Magazine, Must-Read Book of the Summer).   Set on the Colorado high plains, the town of Lions is nearly deserted. Built to be a glorious city, it was never fit for farming, mining, trading, or any of the industries its pioneers ...

    $229.00

  • BORN ON A TUESDAY
    ELNATHAN JOHN
    "A Nigerian bildungsroman featuring Dantala, a street kid thrust calamitously into the arms of a gentle sheikh, who thereafter faces Islamic extremism." — O, The Oprah Magazine, "10 Titles to Pick Up Now"   Winner of the 2017 Betty Trask Prize A Finalist for the Nigeria Prize for Literature Nominated for 2017 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award An Indies Introduce Selection An Amazon B...

    $229.00

  • BOTTOMLAND
    MICHELLE HOOVER
    "A lyrical, at times mysterious, and dreamy tale of family ties . . . An intriguing, modern take on a classic American landscape" ( Kirkus Reviews ).   At once intimate and sweeping, Bottomland follows the Hess family in the years after World War I, as they attempt to rid themselves of the anti-German sentiment that left a stain on their name. But when the youngest two daughter...

    $229.00

  • THE ICEBERG
    MARION COUTTS
    "The work of an exceptional woman artist, writing from the inside about the things women have always done: nursing, nurturing, loving." — The Guardian   Winner of the Wellcome Book Prize, and finalist for every major nonfiction award in the UK, including the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Costa Biography Award, The Iceberg is artist and writer Marion Coutts' astonishing memoir; a...

    $229.00

  • THE CORE OF THE SUN
    JOHANNA SINISALO
    The Finnish author of Troll: A Love Story delivers a work of "scathing satire . . . that sits somewhere between Margaret Atwood and Kurt Vonnegut" (NPR).   The Core of the Sun further cements Finlandia Award–winning author Johanna Sinisalo's reputation as a master of literary speculative fiction and of her country's unique take on it, dubbed "Finnish weird."   In an alternative...

    $229.00

  • THE MAN WHO SPOKE SNAKISH
    ANDRUS KIVIRÄHK
    The runaway Estonian bestseller tells the imaginative and moving story of a boy tasked with preserving ancient traditions in the face of modernity.   Set in a fantastical version of medieval Estonia, The Man Who Spoke Snakish follows a young boy, Leemet, who lives with his hunter-gatherer family in the forest and is the last speaker of the ancient tongue of snakish, a language ...

    $229.00

  • NEIN.
    ERIC JAROSINSKI
    This "witty and droll" collection of philosophical tweets from the popular @NeinQuarterly offers a "perfect antidote to relentless positivity" ( Publishers Weekly).   "Rome didn't burn in a day." — Nein. A Manifesto   Eric Jarosinski is the self-described "failed intellectual" behind @NeinQuarterly, a "Compendium of Utopian Negation" that uses the aphoristic potential of Twitte...

    $229.00


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