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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • THE ROME PROPHECY
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    THE ROME PROPHECY
    SAM CHRISTER
    The author of The Venice Conspiracy delivers a heart-stopping religious thriller “for readers who enjoy James Rollins, Steve Berry, and Dan Brown” (Booklist).   A woman has been arrested in the streets of Rome. She’s young. She’s beautiful. She’s covered in blood. And she claims to be an ancient prophet in search of a mystical amulet hidden somewhere within the city. Ex-priest ...

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  • TICKET TO CHILDHOOD
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    TICKET TO CHILDHOOD
    NGUYEN NHAT ANH
    “This charming short work recalls The Little Prince in its depiction of childhood sensibilities pitted against an often illogical and absurd adult world” (Publishers Weekly).   A fable for all ages and a massive bestseller in the author’s home country of Vietnam, Ticket to Childhood captures the texture of childhood in all of its richness. Narrated by a man looking back, it exp...

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  • WONDERKID
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    WONDERKID
    WESLEY STACE
    A “hilarious” novel of a rock and roll dream gone awry (The New York Times Book Review).   The Wonderkids are living the dream: sold-out concerts, screaming fans, TV shows, number-one hits. Unfortunately, it’s because the lead singer, Blake Lear, made a deal—wild success in exchange for transforming the band into a children’s entertainment act. Now the seats are packed with gra...

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  • THE LIMITS OF VISION
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    THE LIMITS OF VISION
    ROBERT IRWIN
    An obsessive-compulsive housewife teeters on the edge of madness in this “immensely intelligent and delightful . . . dance of a book” (The New York Times).   The Limits of Vision is Robert Irwin’s irrepressibly entertaining and imaginative novel about a young housewife named Marcia and the war she wages against dirt.   Set over the course of a single day as Marcia goes about he...

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  • DIVINA TRACE
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    DIVINA TRACE
    ROBERT ANTONI
    A groundbreaking novel in Caribbean literature and winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Novel from the acclaimed Trinidadian writer.   A mysterious child, half-human, half-frog, is born on the island of Corpus Christi in the West Indies. Its mother becomes Magdalena Divina, patron saint of the island, worshipped by Hindu and Muslim Caste Indians, Africans, C...

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  • GASCOYNE
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    GASCOYNE
    STANLEY CRAWFORD
    A delightfully absurd blend of crime, comedy, and social commentary: “A wild novel of black humor . . . Wonderful” (The New York Times).   Meet Gascoyne, a man who spends whole weeks in his car, eating, sleeping, and conducting his business via mobile phone. Gascoyne has found a new preoccupation―hunting down the killer of his business associate (last seen slithering away from ...

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  • MR. DOYLE & DR. BELL
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    MR. DOYLE & DR. BELL
    HOWARD ENGEL
    “Engel captures the spirit of Doyle’s tone in the Holmes sagas without it being a stilted or pale imitation . . . A lively, engaging page-turner.” —Curled Up With a Good Book   Howard Engel is the award-winning writer whose Benny Cooperman mysteries garner rave international reviews—fans stretch from Canada to Japan, England, Germany, Italy, Spain, Denmark, and the United State...

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  • THE CARP CASTLE
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    THE CARP CASTLE
    MACDONALD HARRIS
    A band of misfits boards an airship to search for utopia, in this novel by the author of The Balloonist, a National Book Award finalist: “A delight” (Philip Pullman, author of The Amber Spyglass).   An unemployed American metaphysician, a perpetually ill English nurse, a guilt-ridden German captain—they and a handful of others are about to board an airship called The League of ...

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  • HARRY GOLD
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    HARRY GOLD
    MILLICENT DILLON
    PEN/Faulker Award Finalist: A “fascinating and original” novel based on the real life of a notorious Soviet spy (The New York Times Book Review).   This gripping narrative brings to life dramatic true events in America from the 1930s through the McCarthy era—taking us from Russian Jewish immigrant Harry Gold’s recruitment by the Soviets, to his training in tradecraft, to his ro...

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  • FACES UNDER WATER
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    FACES UNDER WATER
    TANITH LEE
    “A fast start to what promises to be an exciting, innovative fantasy series” from the World Fantasy Award–winning author of Night’s Master (Publishers Weekly).   In the hedonistic atmosphere of an eighteenth-century Venice Carnival, gaiety turns deadly when Furian Furiano happens upon a mask of Apollo floating in the murky waters of the canals. The mask hides a sinister art, an...

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  • PRAYER-CUSHIONS OF THE FLESH
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    PRAYER-CUSHIONS OF THE FLESH
    ROBERT IRWIN
    The author of The Arabian Nightmare spins “a wryly subversive and darkly erotic fable” (The Sunday Times).   The virginal hero of the tale, Prince Orkhan, escapes from the Cage of the Imperial Harem, in which the sons of the sultan are imprisoned, and finds himself hailed by the Harem’s concubines as their new Sultan. He is immediately caught up in the excesses and perversions ...

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  • INVISIBLE STREETS
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    INVISIBLE STREETS
    TOBY BALL
    Big money reshapes an unnamed city as a radical group causes havoc in this thriller that “portrays the realities of graft and moral compromise . . . perfectly” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).   It’s the mid-1960s, and the City is a hulking shell of itself. Bohemians, crooks, and snarling anti-Communists run the streets, but Nathan Canada’s New City Project is about to pape...

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  • THE VAULTS
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    THE VAULTS
    TOBY BALL
    “Fans of writers like Caleb Carr, James Ellroy, and E. L. Doctorow need to give Ball a try” (Library Journal).   At the height of the most corrupt administration in the City’s history, a mysterious duplicate file is discovered deep within the Vaults—a cavernous hall containing all of the municipal criminal justice records of the last seventy years.   From here, we follow Arthur...

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  • BROTHER OF SLEEP
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    BROTHER OF SLEEP
    ROBERT SCHNEIDER
    “A highly unusual tale about an unrecognized musical genius,” this acclaimed debut novel “touches the grand questions about God, love, art and history” (Publishers Weekly).   Set against the backdrop of a nineteenth century Alpine village, Brother of Sleep tells the story of Johannes Elias Alder, a musical genius with an uncanny ear who develops his talent in secret midnight se...

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  • THE ILLUSIONISTS
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    THE ILLUSIONISTS
    ROSIE THOMAS
    “Beneath this buoyant tale of down-market entertainers in Victorian London rumbles a heavyweight novel . . . Intricate and thrilling” (The New York Times).   A young, beautiful woman of limited means, Eliza is modern before her time. Not for her the stifling—if respectable—conventionality of marriage, children, domestic drudgery. She longs for more. Through her work as an artis...

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