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  • STUDIES IN THE HEREAFTER
    SEAN BERNARD
    "A whimsical debut novel in which Bernard makes heaven the setting for a story of love and self-actualization . . . highly enjoyable." — Kirkus Reviews   A disillusioned office bureaucrat in the afterlife has come to realize that maybe heaven isn't all it's cracked up to be. Bored by the endless routine of work, golf, and vegan food, he finds his one saving grace in his Field S...

    $229.00

  • RESIDUE
    JIM KNIPFEL
    A longtime Wisconsin sheriff faces his first-ever homicide: "[Fuses] murder and mortuary science in a novel of the humorously macabre" (Derek Davis, author of Gifts of a Dead Man).   In the nearly twenty years that Leonard Koznowski has been sheriff of Beaver Rapids, Wisconsin, he's never encountered a homicide. When the local mortician and his assistant are brutally gunned dow...

    $229.00

  • ON HURRICANE ISLAND
    ELLEN MEEROPOL
    A math professor is seized by the FBI in "a tense thriller . . . a vivid portrait of the emotional ride an abductee might experience" ( Hampshire Daily Gazette).   The anniversary of 9/11 is approaching, and federal agents have a suspected terrorist in their sights: a math professor named Gandalf Cohen. As a major hurricane threatens the northeast, they abduct Cohen and fly her...

    $229.00

  • BLOOD DAUGHTERS
    MARCOS M. VILLATORO
    A riveting thriller by the author of A Venom Beneath the Skin starring "his fascinatingly flawed Salvadoran protagonist . . . [a] very human heroine" ( Booklist).   A child dies on the border between California and Mexico. This is nothing new, but this death is different. Someone has taken body parts from the child. FBI Agent Romilia Chacón, a Salvadoran American, follows this ...

    $229.00

  • COMMON SENSE FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
    BLASE BONPANE
    A collection of George W. Bush–era observations and interviews from a former priest turned activist for peace—a Thomas Paine for modern times. Much of our current media makes us feel powerless and unconscious. These commentaries are designed to make us conscious and aware of the power we must build humane national and international polities. "Blase Bonpane is a true guerilla fo...

    $229.00

  • WAVE IF YOU CAN SEE ME
    SUSAN LUDVIGSON
    From the author of Sweet Confluence, a moving collection of poetry conveying her experience of her husband's illness and eventual death.   The running theme through the collection Wave If You Can See Me is the progression of illnesses resulting in the death of the poet's husband, and fiction writer Scott Ely, from the effects of Agent Orange in Vietnam. Interspersed with these ...

    $229.00

  • HIGH SKIES
    TRACY DAUGHERTY
    A 1950s Texas small town reels from severe weather, Cold War paranoia, and school integration in this novella by the author of American Originals. High Skies recounts the collision of devastating weather, Cold War suspicion, tense race relations, and the unintended consequences of good intentions in a small west Texas town in the 1950s, changing the futures of the families ther...

    $159.00

  • UNSEEN CITY
    AMY SHEARN
    A spinster librarian in New York City becomes obsessed with a patron and his haunted house in this novel by the author of The Mermaid of Brooklyn. In a city teeming with stories, how do lost souls find one another? It's a question Meg Rhys doesn't think she's asking. Meg is a self-identified spinster librarian, satisfied with living with her cat, stacks of books, and her dead s...

    $229.00

  • ANIMAL WIFE
    LARA EHRLICH
    In this award-winning debut collection, fifteen magical realism stories portray girls and women searching for an escape from their everyday lives. "In villages where women bore most of the weight of a constricted life, witches flew by night on broomsticks," said Italo Calvino of the way imagination bridges the gap between everyday existence and an idealized alternative . . . Th...

    $179.00

  • SUGAR, SMOKE, SONG
    REEMA RAJBANSHI
    This "sterling debut" short story collection explores immigrant life in prose that is "crisp and economical but also poetic and full of imagery" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review). The nine linked stories of Reema Rajbanshi's Sugar, Smoke, Song are set in the Bronx, California, India, and Brazil. Following the secrets and passions of young women, these stories and their narra...

    $229.00

  • BEYOND REPAIR
    SEBASTIAN MATTHEWS
    A Southern poet and author shares a "beautifully written and timely" memoir that "weaves together personal and national traumas" (David Graham, The Atlantic). In 2011, Sebastian Matthews and his family were in a major car accident. It took them years to recover from their injuries and the aftereffects of trauma. When Sebastian finally returned to the world, he found society in ...

    $159.00

  • SUMMER OF THE CICADAS
    CHELSEA CATHERINE
    "A fast-paced, stirring narrative about loss and unrequited love" set amid a destructive cicada swarm in West Virginia ( Publishers Weekly). In a West Virginian town, a brood of Magicicadas emerges for the first time in seventeen years. The cicadas damage crops and trees, and swarm locals. Jessica, a former cop whose entire family was killed in a car crash two years earlier, is...

    $179.00

  • THE LIKELY WORLD
    MELANIE CONROY-GOLDMAN
    "[T]hemes of motherhood, love, and addiction collide in heartbreaking and dangerous ways" in this provocative and fascinating debut novel ( Publishers Weekly). After twenty years of addiction to cloud, a drug which wipes the user's short-term memory, Mellie's mind is a messy collection of fragments. Now a single mother, she has decided to get clean with the help of a tough-mind...

    $229.00

  • TEA BY THE SEA
    DONNA HEMANS
    A woman searches for the daughter who was taken from her long ago in "a powder keg of a novel, where secrets and lies explode into truth and consequences" (Marlon James, National Book Award finalist and author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf). To find the daughter taken from her, Plum Valentine must first locate the child's father, who walked out of a hospital with the day-old baby ...

    $229.00

  • GLORIOUS BOY
    AIMEE E. LIU
    "An absolutely gorgeous historical novel . . . set against the backdrop of a tribe in the Andamans struggling with British rule . . . Just magnificent." —Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You One of Booklist 's Top Ten Historical Fiction Books of 2020 Glorious Boy is a tale of war and devotion, longing and loss, and the power of love to prevail....

    $229.00

  • AFTER RUBÉN
    FRANCISCO ARAGÓN
    This collection of poetry, prose, and translations explores Latinx and queer identity through homage to the great Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío. After Rubén unfolds a decades-long journey braiding together the personal, the political and the historical. Throughout the text, acclaimed poet Francisco Aragon intersperses English-language translations and riffs of the Spanish-languag...

    $119.00

  • MOON JAR
    DIDI JACKSON
    This debut poetry collection "gives poignant testimony to the sorrow, rage, and piercing clarity of grief"—an Alice James Book Award finalist (Tracy K. Smith). In her intimately compelling debut collection Moon Jar, Didi Jackson explores the life-altering and heart-rending loss of her husband to suicide. While grief never fully subsides, Jackson allows herself to rediscover lov...

    $119.00

  • SUBDUCTION
    KRISTEN MILLARES YOUNG
    "Utterly unique . . . examines themes of love, intrusion, loss, community and trust against a backdrop of a Makah reservation in the Pacific Northwest." — Ms. Magazine Selected as a Staff Pick by The Paris Review Silver Medal winner in the Independent Publisher Book Awards in Multicultural Fiction Fleeing the shattered remains of her marriage and treachery by her sister, a Lati...

    $229.00

  • DON'T GO CRAZY WITHOUT ME
    DEBORAH A. LOTT
    A woman recounts coming of age in the shadow of her father's mental illness in this "candid, unsettling portrait of madness and enduring love" ( Kirkus). Deborah A. Lott grew up in a Los Angeles suburb in the 1950s, under the sway of her outrageously eccentric father. A lay rabbi who enjoyed dressing up like Little Lord Fauntleroy, he taught her how to have fun. But he also tau...

    $229.00

  • RIFT ZONE
    TESS TAYLOR
    "Brilliant . . . Rooted in the shifting California landscape, this elegiac yet hopeful book is . . . dedicated to grieving the world as we know it." —Ada Limón, author of The Carrying This collection of poems traces literal and metaphoric fault lines—rifts between past and present, childhood and adulthood, what is and what was. Circling Tess Taylor's hometown—an ordinary Califo...

    $119.00

  • HER SISTER'S TATTOO
    ELLEN MEEROPOL
    A fateful incident at an antiwar protest pits sister against sister in this family saga about the longstanding cost of commitment. In August of 1968, Rosa and Esther—sisters with matching red star tattoos—march together through downtown Detroit to protest the war in Vietnam. When a bloodied teenager reports that mounted police are beating protestors a few blocks away, the young...

    $229.00

  • BANJO GREASE
    DENNIS MUST
    The author of Brother Carnival and The World's Smallest Bible examines small-town life in this collection of sixteen stories. There is an inexplicable gravity in a small town. It can be read and enjoyed like a favorite book for most of its inhabitants. Comforting are its streets and institutions, its wedding and obituary announcements.  Banjo Grease is about life and death in a...

    $229.00

  • THE RIB JOINT
    JULIA KOETS
    "This dazzling writer has created a guidebook for growing up queer in the American South . . . a testament to human endurance and dignity." —Nick White, author of Sweet & Low   Growing up in a small town in the South, Julia and her childhood best friend Laura know the church as well as they know each other's bodies—the California-shaped scar on Julia's right knee, the tapered t...

    $119.00

  • LIKE WINGS, YOUR HANDS
    ELIZABETH EARLEY
    This award-winning novel by the author of A Map of Everything explores the relationship between an immigrant mother, her disabled son, and her father Kalina, born in Bulgaria and now living in Boston, has always been a spiritual seeker. Her fourteen-year-old son, Marko, who has spina bifida and is partially paralyzed, shares her curiosity about larger metaphysical questions, bu...

    $229.00

  • LIVING THINGS
    LANDON HOULE
    "The unforgettable characters . . . are trying their best, against the odds, to make their own good in a so-called nowhere town in rural South Carolina." —Nicholas Montemarano, author of  The Senator's Children   Black Creek, South Carolina: a small town in the swamps that convinces itself that nothing bad has ever happened and nothing bad ever will. Black Creek is the sort of ...

    $149.00

  • OLD GUY
    WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE
    "When has geezerhood been handled so appealingly? . . . A true American hero is born." —Albert Goldbarth, National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author of  Saving Lives    Meet Oldguy: your regular aging superhero whose powers have dwindled over the years, and whose very mechanics are seriously fizzling. In seriocomic misadventures, Oldguy valiantly attempts to continue his...

    $119.00

  • PIGS
    JOHANNA STOBEROCK
    A dark, dystopian novel from the author of City of Ghosts. Four children live on an island that serves as the repository for all the world's garbage. Trash arrives, the children sort it, and then they feed it to a herd of insatiable pigs: a perfect system. But when a barrel washes ashore with a boy inside, the children must decide whether he is more of the world's detritus, mea...

    $229.00

  • AGAINST THE WIND
    JIM TILLEY
    In this dramatic debut novel about relationships, six individuals' complicated lives are intertwined after a chance reunion. A successful environmental lawyer is forced to take himself to task when he realizes that everything about his work has betrayed his core beliefs. A high school English teacher asks her former high school love to take up her environmental cause. A transge...

    $229.00

  • FIRE SUMMER
    THUY DA LAM
    "Paints a vibrant portrait of post-war Vietnam, illuminating both the dangers and the great beauty of a country in the process of healing itself." — Booklist   You can go home again. When twenty-three-year-old Maia Trieu, a curator's assistant at the Museum of Folklore & Rocks in Little Saigon, Orange County, is offered a research grant to Vietnam for the summer of 1991, she ca...

    $229.00

  • PRAISING THE PARADOX
    TINA SCHUMANN
    A collection of poetry with "resilience throughout and an awareness of the common world that both comforts and devastates" (Dorianne Laux, award-winning author of Only As the Day Is Long).   From Tina Schumann, recipient of the American Poet Prize from  The American Poetry Journal and a Pushcart Prize nominee, comes a full collection of fifty-six poems reflecting on the concept...

    $119.00


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