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  • MUNICHS: A NOVEL
    DAVID PEACE
    From the acclaimed author of The Damned Utd, a novel of tragedy and renewal, inspired by one of the greatest disasters in the history of sports. In 1958, Manchester United was flying high: the best-known soccer team in the world and reigning English champions, the team was led by a bright young group of star players nicknamed the “Busby Babes” after their charismatic manager Ma...

    $493.67

  • HOW TO FALL IN LOVE IN A TIME OF UNNAMEABLE DISASTER: A NOVEL
    MURIEL LEUNG
    A dark and tender debut set against a writhing backdrop of postapocalyptic New York City. Acid rainstorms have transformed New York City into a toxic wasteland, cutting its remaining citizens off from one another. In one apartment building, an unlikely family of humans and ghosts survives. Mira reels from a devastating breakup with her partner, Mal, whose whereabouts are unknow...

    $389.69

  • STILL LIFE: A NOVEL
    KATHERINE PACKERT BURKE
    A profound and piercing tribute to messy webs of queer friendship and to what is left behind in transition. Everything in Edith’s life is approaching disaster. Her writing career is stagnant. Her love life is a mess. Her ex, Tessa, is marrying a man. Her teeth are rotting in her skull. And her best friend, Val, is dead. Still Life volleys between the present and recent past, ch...

    $597.66

  • COME TO THE WINDOW: A NOVEL
    HOWARD NORMAN
    A drama of murder, love, and redemption set in Nova Scotia in the final year of World War I. It’s l9l8. The war in Europe grinds on, and the Spanish flu seems to be on an insatiable killing spree. But in the small fishing village of Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, a more confined drama—harrowing and provocative—slowly unfolds. It begins when Elizabeth Frame murders her husband hours af...

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  • OLD KING: A NOVEL
    MAXIM LOSKUTOFF
    In this haunting novel about the end of the frontier dream, a man tries to reinvent himself in one of America’s last wild territories, while his neighbor begins a crime spree that will tremble the nation. In the summer of 1976, Duane Oshun finds himself stranded in a remote Montana town beset by a series of strange and menacing events. He takes a job as a logger and builds a ca...

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  • GHOSTROOTS: STORIES
    'PEMI AGUDA
    A debut collection of stories set in a hauntingly reimagined Lagos where characters vie for freedom from ancestral ties. In this beguiling collection of twelve imaginative stories set in Lagos, Nigeria, ’Pemi Aguda dramatizes the tension between our yearning to be individuals and the ways we are haunted by what came before. In “Manifest,” a woman sees the ghost of her abusive m...

    $571.92

  • NEGATIVE SPACE: A NOVEL
    GILLIAN LINDEN
    A gem of a debut novel about a young mother navigating the instabilities of teaching, parenting, and marriage in the wake of the pandemic. With deadpan humor and a keen eye for the strangeness of our days, Negative Space follows a week in the life of an English teacher at a New York private school. At home, her two children, increasingly restless, ask constant questions about m...

    $519.67

  • SOME STRANGE MUSIC DRAWS ME IN: A NOVEL
    GRIFFIN HANSBURY
    From an award-winning author, this provocative novel tells an emotionally gripping story about friendship, family, and transgender awakening in a working-class American town. It’s the summer of 1984 in Swaffham, Massachusetts, when Mel (short for Melanie) meets Sylvia, a tough-as-nails trans woman whose shameless swagger inspires Mel’s dawning self-awareness. But Sylvia’s prese...

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  • TWILIGHT TERRITORY: A NOVEL
    ANDREW X. PHAM
    A sweeping first novel of love, war, and resistance in post–World War II Vietnam, by the award-winning author of Catfish and Mandala. The peak of the hot season, 1942: The wars in Europe and Asia and the Japanese occupation have upset the uneasy balance of French Indochina. In the Vietnamese fishing village of Phan Thiet, Tuyet ekes out a living at a small storefront with her a...

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  • THIS IS SALVAGED: STORIES
    VAUHINI VARA
    Named a most anticipated book of the year by Literary Hub, Electric Literature and The Millions A Best Book of Fall 2023 by Bustle. Pushing intimacy to its limits in prose of unearthly beauty, Vauhini Vara explores the nature of being a child, parent, friend, sibling, neighbor, or lover, and the relationships between self and others. A young girl reads the encyclopedia to her e...

    $271.15

  • DIGGING STARS: A NOVEL
    NOVUYO ROSA TSHUMA
    Blending drama and satire while examining the complexities of colonialism, racism, and what it means to be American, Digging Stars probes the emotional universes of love, friendship, family, and nationhood. With admission to The Program, an elite interdisciplinary graduate cohort at the forefront of astronomy and technology, Rosa’s dreams are finally within reach. Her research ...

    $311.70

  • EMERGENCY: STORIES
    KATHLEEN ALCOTT
    From an “exquisite” (The New Yorker) writer, a searing volume of prizewinning stories starring women facing points of no return. A professor finds a photograph of her deceased mother in a compromising position on the wall of a museum. A twenty-something’s lucrative remote work sparks paranoia and bigotry. A transplant to a new city must make a choice about who she trusts when h...

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  • DISTURBANCE
    JENNA CLAKE
    A spellbinding, genre-bending debut that follows a woman's attempt to heal from an abusive relationship—with the help of black magic. As the sun sets on a feverishly hot July evening, a young woman spies on her teenage neighbor, transfixed by what looks like an occult ritual intended to banish an ex-boyfriend. Alone in a new town and desperate to expel the claustrophobic memori...

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  • THE ALL-AMERICAN: A NOVEL
    JOE MILAN JR.
    Introducing a character as viscerally believable and unforgettable as any in fiction, The All-American is a triumph—full of energy, dark humor, suspense, and hard-won wisdom. Seventeen-year-old Bucky Yi knows nothing about his birth country of South Korea or his bio-dad’s disappearance; he can’t even pronounce his Korean name correctly. Running through the woods of rural Washin...

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  • FLASH FICTION AMERICA: 73 VERY SHORT STORIES
    JAMES THOMAS / SHERRIE FLICK / JOHN DUFRESNE
    A spectacular new anthology of the best short-short fiction from across the United States. It has been more than thirty years since the term “flash fiction” was first coined, perfectly describing the power in the brevity of these stories, each under 1,000 words. Since then, the form has taken hold in the American imagination. For this latest installment in the popular Flash Fic...

    $337.70

  • IRON CURTAIN
    VESNA GOLDSWORTHY
    One of The New Yorker's Best Books of 2023 East and West collide in a "timely" and "bittersweet tale of loyalty, love, and the siren call of freedom" (Rebecca Abrams, Financial Times). Milena Urbanska is a red princess living in a Soviet satellite state in the 1980s. She enjoys limitless luxury and limited freedom; the end of the Cold War seems unimaginable. When she meets Jaso...

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  • MARGOT: A NOVEL
    WENDELL STEAVENSON
    A moving portrait of a young woman’s struggle to break free from her upper-class upbringing amid the whirlwind years of the sexual revolution. It’s the mid-1950s and Margot Thornsen is growing up between a Park Avenue apartment in New York City and her family’s sumptuous Oyster Bay estate, as the presumed heir to her late grandfather’s steel fortune. Stuck in the mores and bore...

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  • GHOST SEASON: A NOVEL
    FATIN ABBAS
    A dynamic, beautifully orchestrated debut novel connecting five characters caught in the crosshairs of conflict on the Sudanese border. A mysterious burnt corpse appears one morning in Saraaya, a remote border town between northern and southern Sudan. For five strangers on an NGO compound, the discovery foreshadows trouble to come. South Sudanese translator William connects the...

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  • THE WINTERING PLACE: A NOVEL
    KEVIN MCCARTHY
    Deserting to escape the horrors of the Indian wars two soldiers, Irish brothers, seek peace with the woman they love. Dakota Territory, 1867. The O’Driscoll brothers have survived a Sioux massacre, but Michael is gravely wounded. The deserters are fleeing north with Tom’s lover, Sara, when they come upon a sheltering rock by a river down off the Bozeman trail. If there is game...

    $571.66

  • NATURAL HISTORY: STORIES
    ANDREA BARRETT
    One of Kirkus Reviews's Best Books of 2022 A masterful new collection of interconnected stories, from the renowned National Book Award–winning author. In Natural History, Andrea Barrett completes the beautiful arc of intertwined lives of a family of scientists, teachers, and innovators that she has been weaving through multiple books since her National Book Award–winning coll...

    $545.67

  • THE FAMILY IZQUIERDO: A NOVEL
    RUBÉN DEGOLLADO
    A Kirkus Reviews Most Anticipated Book of the Fall A masterful debut that weaves together the lives of three generations of a Mexican American family bound by love, and a curse. The tight-knit Izquierdo family is grappling with misfortunes none of them can explain. Their beloved patriarch has suffered from an emotional collapse and is dying; eldest son Gonzalo’s marriage is f...

    $337.70

  • THE EMPIRE OF DIRT
    FRANCESCA MANFREDI
    In this captivating English-language debut, three generations of women must face their secrets and regrets when an old family curse awakens. There has always been tension in "the blind house," where Valentina lives with her mother and grandmother in the Italian countryside. Valentina's pious grandmother often hints at a family curse, while Valentina's mother scoffs at superstit...

    $311.70

  • HAWK MOUNTAIN
    CONNER HABIB
    An English teacher is gaslit by his charismatic high school bully in this tense story of deception, manipulation, and murder.  Single father Todd is relaxing at the beach with his son, Anthony, when he catches sight of a man approaching from the water's edge. As the man draws closer, Todd recognizes him as Jack, who bullied Todd relentlessly in their teenage years but now seems...

    $545.67

  • ONE'S COMPANY
    ASHLEY HUTSON
    One of the New Yorker's Best Books of 2022 So Far and BuzzFeed's Must-Read Summer Books For readers of Ottessa Moshfegh and Mona Awad, this fearless debut chronicles one woman's escape into a world of obsessive imagination. Bonnie Lincoln just wants to be left alone. To come home from work, shut out the ghosts of some devastating losses, and unwind in front of the nostalgic, go...

    $337.70

  • MID-AIR
    VICTORIA SHORR
    "[B[oth these fine novellas unfurl the kind of complicated family tapestries that every generation ends up weaving from money and love." — Wall Street Journal Fate is explored in the fall and rise of two twentieth-century American families. Victoria Shorr's remarkable gift for depicting the inner lives of complex characters shines in two powerful explorations of family, ambitio...

    $545.67

  • THE IMMORTAL KING RAO
    VAUHINI VARA
    Finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction Nominated for the 2022 NBCC John Leonard Prize Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Esquire, Vox, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Literary Hub In an Indian village in the 1950s, a precocious child is born into a family of Dalit coconut farmers. King Rao will grow up to be the most accomplished tech CEO in the world and, eventually, th...

    $220.97

  • ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING
    LISA HSIAO CHEN
    Finalist for the 2023 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel Finalist for the 2023 Gotham Book Prize Longlisted for the 2023 Carol Shields Prize Longlisted for the 2022 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A Vogue Best Book of the Year A "beguiling and brilliant" (Viet Thanh Nguyen) debut novel on the interconnection between art, work, ...

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  • TWO STORM WOOD
    PHILIP GRAY
    Three months after the end of the Great War, a young woman sets out across the wastelands of the Western Front to learn the fate of the man she loved. On the desolate battlefields of northern France, the guns of the Great War are silent. Special battalions now face the dangerous task of gathering up the dead for mass burial. Captain Mackenzie is a survivor of the war, but still...

    $597.66

  • BLANK PAGES
    BERNARD MACLAVERTY
    A Library Journal Best Book of 2022 in Short Stories "A deft and life-affirming collection by a master of the form."—Sarah Gilmartin, Irish Times A collection of twelve powerful and moving new stories from one of Ireland's most celebrated writers. Tinged with melancholy but rooted in resiliency, the exquisite stories of Bernard MacLaverty's Blank Pages display the perseverance ...

    $363.69

  • NEW YORK, MY VILLAGE
    UWEM AKPAN
    Exuberant storytelling full of wry comedy, dark history, and devastating satire—by the celebrated and original author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, Say You're One of Them. From a suspiciously cheap Hell's Kitchen walk-up, Nigerian editor and winner of a Toni Morrison Publishing Fellowship Ekong Udousoro is about to begin the opportunity of a lifetime: to learn the ins an...

    $389.69