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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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A CHILDREN'S BIBLE: A NOVEL

LYDIA MILLET

Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction One of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of the Year Named one of the best novels of the year by Time, Washington Post, NPR, Chicago Tribune, Esquire, BBC, and many others National Bestseller "A blistering little classic." —Ron Charles, Washington Post A Children’s Bible follows a group of twelve eerily mature children on a...

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COME WEST AND SEE

MAXIM LOSKUTOFF

An NPR Best Book of 2018 "Devastating.…Grows increasingly bizarre and haunting until it's left an indelible mark." —Janet Maslin, New York Times In an isolated region of Idaho, Montana, and eastern Oregon, an armed occupation of a wildlife refuge escalates into civil war. Against this backdrop, Maxim Loskutoff shatters the myths of the West: a lonesome trapper falls in love wit...

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ADJUSTMENT DAY

CHUCK PALAHNIUK

New York Times Bestseller "An irreverent satirical fantasy about a sudden and violent upheaval.…Think Tom Robbins channeling Jonathan Swift." —David Takami, Seattle Times Adjustment Day is an ingenious darkly comic work in which Chuck Palahniuk does what he does best: skewer the absurdities in our society. Geriatric politicians bring the nation to the brink of a third world war...

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PARIS METRO

WENDELL STEAVENSON

"A nuanced, engrossing novel about conviction and terrorism in a cosmopolitan, complicated world."— National Book Review From the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 to the terrorist attacks in Paris in 2015, Paris Metro is a story of East meets West. Kit, a reporter, has spent several years after 9/11 living in the Middle East, working as a correspondent for an American newspape...

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THE DRIEST SEASON

MEGHAN KENNY

"An elegant coming-of-age story that brings real heart to the American heartland. The book may be set during World War II, but the questions it asks—about love, loyalty, and the meaning of life—are timeless ones." —Elliott Holt, author of You Are One of Them As her Wisconsin community endures a long season of drought and feels the shockwaves of World War II, fifteen-year-old Ci...

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GOING FOR A BEER

ROBERT COOVER

"A mixtape of variations and a fugue on time from a postmodern master.… Familiar tales and conventional genres are made new, tinged with shuddering wonder and titillating humor." —Yu-Yun Hsieh, The New York Times Book Review Robert Coover has been playing by his own rules for more than half a century, earning the 1987 Rea Award for the Short Story as "a writer who has managed, ...

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ETERNAL LIFE

DARA HORN

A New York Times Notable Book A Booklist Editors' Choice A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year What would it really mean to live forever? Rachel is a woman with a problem: she can't die. Her recent troubles—widowhood, a failing business, an unemployed middle-aged son—are only the latest in a litany spanning dozens of countries, scores of marriages, and hundreds of chil...

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THE QUANTUM SPY

DAVID IGNATIUS

" The Quantum Spy takes us to a whole new level of intrigue and espionage. It's also unbelievably timely. In short: David Ignatius knows his stuff." —Wolf Blitzer A hyper-fast quantum computer is the digital equivalent of a nuclear bomb; whoever possesses one will be able to shred any encryption and break any code in existence. The question is: who will build one first, the U.S...

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GOD'S FOOL

MARK SLOUKA

"If you can read [ God's Fool] without being astonished and touched, then you'd better check to see if your heart is made of stone…simply brilliant. A book of the year." — Dallas Morning News Born attached at the chest, Chang and Eng were considered a marvel, an act of God. By any standard, theirs is a history of epic variety and drama. Mark Slouka recounts their tumultuous sto...

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DOGS AT THE PERIMETER

MADELEINE THIEN

The second novel by the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author Madeleine Thien is "beautiful, deeply moving, [and] addresses universal questions" ( Independent). Set in Cambodia during the regime of the-Khmer Rouge and in present day Montreal, Dogs at the Perimeter tells the story of Janie, who as a child experiences the terrible violence carried out by the Khmer Rouge and loses e...

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MIDWINTER BREAK

BERNARD MACLAVERTY

Shortlisted for the 2019 International Dublin Literary Award "[A] wrenchingly intimate depiction of a couple in the chilly, hibernal years of their marriage…[A book] with rare and unexpected beauty." — Wall Street Journal With Midwinter Break, a moving portrait of retired couple Gerry and Stella Gilmore's marriage in crisis, Bernard MacLaverty reminds us why he is regarded as o...

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A LIFE OF ADVENTURE AND DELIGHT

AKHIL SHARMA

A Life of Adventure and Delight delivers eight masterful stories from dazzlingly original and critically acclaimed author Akhil Sharma. Hailed as a storyteller whose fiction is "a glowing work of art" ( Wall Street Journal), Akhil Sharma is possessed of a narrative voice "as hypnotic as those found in the pages of Dostoyevsky" ( The Nation). In A Life of Adventure and Delight, ...

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LONESOME LIES BEFORE US

DON LEE

A contemporary ballad of heartbreak, failure, and unquenchable longing, this novel presents Don Lee at his best. Yadin Park is a talented alt-country musician whose career has floundered—doomed first by his homely looks and lack of stage presence and then by a progressive hearing disorder. His girlfriend, Jeanette Matsuda, might have been a professional photographer but for a d...

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EVENSONG

KATE SOUTHWOOD

A penetrating and powerful novel about the deep undercurrents of love and regret in one Midwestern family. In 1939, Maggie Doud married Garfield Maguire. Now, fifty years on, she's Margaret Maguire: a widow and a grandmother, unable to ignore the consequences of having married a cruel and arrogant man. Her daughters are strangers to each other, past hope of reconciling. Margare...

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THE DARK AND OTHER LOVE STORIES

DEBORAH WILLIS

"The emotional range and depth of [Willis's stories], the clarity and deftness, are astonishing."—Alice Munro The characters in these thirteen masterful and engaging stories exist on the edge of danger, where landscapes melt into dreamscapes and every house is haunted. A drug dealer's girlfriend signs up for the first manned mission to Mars. A girl falls in love with a man who ...

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HUCK OUT WEST

ROBERT COOVER

"An audacious and revisionary sequel to Twain's masterpiece. It is both true to the spirit of Twain and quintessentially Cooveresque." —Times Literary Supplement At the end of Huckleberry Finn, on the eve of the Civil War, Huck and Tom Sawyer decide to escape "sivilization" and "light out for the Territory." In Robert Coover's vision of their Western adventures, Tom decides he'...

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HAVE I GOT A STORY FOR YOU

EZRA GLINTER

A Finalist for the 2016 National Jewish Book Award Forty-two stories from America's greatest Yiddish newspaper, in English for the first time. The Forward, founded in 1897, is the most renowned Yiddish newspaper in the world. It welcomed generations of immigrants to the United States, brought them news of Europe and the Middle East, and provided them with sundry comforts such a...

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THE FALL GUY

JAMES LASDUN

In this taut psychological thriller, a couple and their houseguest find themselves caught in a deadly web of secrets, obsession, and revenge. It is summer, 2012. Charlie, a wealthy banker with an uneasy conscience, invites his troubled cousin Matthew to visit him and his wife in their idyllic mountaintop house. As the days grow hotter, the friendship between the three begins to...

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DO NOT SAY WE HAVE NOTHING

MADELEINE THIEN

Winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award Finalist for the Booker Prize and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction "A powerfully expansive novel…Thien writes with the mastery of a conductor." — New York Times Book Review "In a single year, my father left us twice. The first time, to end his marriage, and the second, when he took his own life...

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