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Good people
Stories of lives lost and found at the crossroads of the ordinary, the bizarre, the tragic, and the comic
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Hap and hazard and the end of the world
In 1940s Texas, an isolated young girl navigates the mysteries and threats of the adult world
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Natural selections
What happens when evolutionary and cultural imperatives clash, and what we can do about it.
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A solemn pleasure
“A writer at the height of her powers” (Oprah.com) reflects on a literary life pulled in two directions: from war zone journalism to the writing and teaching of fictionIn an essay entitled “Spirit and Vision” Melissa Pritchard poses the question: “Why write?” Her answer reverberates throughout A ...
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The poetic species
A meeting of great minds at the intersection of the arts and sciences“Enchanting. . . . The Poetic Species is a wonderful read in its entirety, short yet infinitely simulating.” —Maria Popova, MarginalianIn this shimmering conversation, Edward O. Wilson, renowned scientist and proponent of “consi...
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The boy in his winter
Huck Finn’s mythic adventures—and childhood—abruptly end when he steps off his raft into Hurricane KatrinaHuck Finn and Jim float on their raft across a continuum of shifting seasons, feasting on a limitless supply of fish and stolen provisions, propelled by the currents of the mighty Mississippi...
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From the shadows
Publishers Weekly “Top 10 Books of the Year” selectionFrom one of Spain’s most original authors comes a wild, absurdist story about a lonely man’s misguided attempts to connectLaid off from his job, Damián Lobo obsessively imagines himself as a celebrity being interviewed on TV. After committing ...
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The cure
A novel of mid-twentieth-century America, about a family bound together and almost torn apart by a young son's polio.
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Science next
New science for a new administration from the premier liberal think tank.
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Freud's trip to orvieto
An illuminating journey into a complex mind, a searing exploration of masculinity, and a celebration of art’s provocative power
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A loaded gun
A passionate and deeply researched reassessment of Emily Dickinson’s life and singular legacy in American arts and lettersWe think we know Emily Dickinson: the Belle of Amherst, virginal, reclusive, and possibly mad. But in A Loaded Gun, Jerome Charyn introduces us to a different Emily Dickinson:...
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The attempt
From an assassination attempt by early anarchists to Occupy Wall Street, a novel of radical lives and lovesWhen a Czech historian becomes convinced he’s the illegitimate great-grandson of an infamous anarchist who attempted an assassination while living in the United States, he travels to New Yor...
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Jerzy
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICEA startling novel of a celebrated author whose life was warped by war, shrouded in mystery, and broken by scandal.Jerzy Kosinski was a great enigma of post-World War II literature. When he exploded onto the American literary scene in 1965 with his best-selling novel ...
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Mortal and immortal dna
"An absolute first-rate writer [on science and the arts]."--Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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The flip
A perspective-altering deep dive into the nature of consciousness honoring both science and spirituality
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Places of the heart
A neuroscientist illuminates how we make and are made by the world both real and virtual
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Impromptu man
The untold story of the creative genius behind major 20th-century movements in therapy and theater and his lasting influence
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Keep out of reach of children
A modern medical mystery about an illness that ravaged healthy children, changed policy, and vanished before a cause was found
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Then they started shooting
An illuminating, decades-spanning analysis of children’s experience during wartime and its reverberation into their adulthood
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The cage
An incisive first account of the formation, history, and bloody dissolution of the rebel Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka.
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Country of ash
A starkly compelling, original chronicle of survival in Nazi-occupied Poland, available in English for the first time
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Ghost moth
In this lyrical, evocative debut novel, a family is consumed by dark secrets as tensions rise in Northern Ireland.
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Cesare
A spy navigates the labyrinthine horrors of Nazi Germany, on a mission to save the woman he lovesOn a windy night in 1937, a seventeen-year-old German naval sub-cadet is wandering along the seawall when he stumbles upon a gang of ruffians beating up a tramp, whose life he saves. The man is none o...
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Pain studies
An intimate and revelatory voyage through pain and perception, pop culture and personal experience
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The child
An emotionally implosive novel about confronting the death of a loved one and the possibility of hope a child brings.
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Invisible beasts
Aesop’s Fables for the Age of Extinction
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The jump artist
A novel of Philippe Halsman's life, from Austrian prisoner, to Paris exile, to American celebrity photographer.
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A fugitive in walden woods
Henry David Thoreau’s principles are tested when a young man escapes from slavery into Walden WoodsIn Norman Lock’s fourth stand-alone book of The American Novels series, Samuel Long escapes slavery in Virginia, traveling the Underground Railroad to Walden Woods where he encounters Henry David Th...
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Boltzmann's tomb
Traveling through the history of science, a scientist charts the course of his own development.
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Epigenetics in the age of twitter
Pop culture meets cutting-edge science in this one-volume introduction to the history of science and modern biology.
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Tacoma stories
The lives of sixteen people who once gathered in a City of Destiny bar in 1968 unfold over sixty years.
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The port-wine stain
A young surgical assistant faces his doppelgänger in a chilling tale featuring Edgar Allan Poe and a “lost” Poe story.In his third stand-alone book of The American Novels series, Norman Lock recounts the story of a young Philadelphian, Edward Fenzil, who, in the winter of 1844, falls under the sw...
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Monastery
The nomadic odyssey of Eduardo Halfon continues as he searches for clues about his identity across Central America and Europe, New York and JerusalemIn Monastery, Eduardo Halfon’s eponymous wanderer travels from Guatemalan cities, villages, coffee plantations, and border towns to a private jazz c...
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American meteor
A scrappy Brooklyn orphan turned vengeful assassin narrates a visionary tale of the American WestIn this panoramic tale of Manifest Destiny—the second stand-alone book in The American Novels series—Stephen Moran comes of age with the young country that he crosses on the Union Pacific, just as the...
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Water, ice & stone
A classic of contemporary nature writing, Water, Ice & Stone is Bill Green’s John Burroughs Medal award-winning account of Antarctica
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The leper compound
The psychic geography of conflict in southern Africa is revealed in this arrestingly imaginative first novel.
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Pale faces
The Bellevue Literary Press Pathographies series debuts with a fascinating journey through the history of medicine.
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Wolf season
The war comes home in a searingly compassionate story about the wounds inflicted on soldiers, refugees, and their families
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The surfacing
In Irish novelist Cormac James’s “vivid, hypnotic, and acutely piercing” (Colum McCann) North American debut, a ship’s lieutenant discovers a stowaway, pregnant with his child, while battling crushing Arctic ice“An extraordinary novel, combining a powerful narrative with a considered and poetic u...
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Maria la divina
An intimate portrait of the world’s most iconic opera singerMaria Callas, called La Divina, is widely recognized as the greatest diva who ever lived. Jerome Charyn’s Callas springs to life as the headstrong, mercurial, and charismatic artist who captivated generations of fans, thrilling audiences...
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North of ordinary
The long-awaited return of a quintessentially American storyteller“You’re as likely to be hit twice by lightning on a Monday as see a wood chipper pull a man into its maw.”So begins North of Ordinary, John Rolfe Gardner’s virtuosic story collection of survivors getting by despite the odds in a sh...
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Not long ago persons found
A forensics team investigates the murder of a child and is drawn into a chilling international coverupThe body of a young boy is found floating in a city river with pollen in his lungs from a warm river valley far from the country where he died. Who is he? Why was he carrying only a library card ...
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Eden's clock
A disabled Civil War veteran makes an epic, westward journey toward a fateful encounter with author Jack London, only hours before the 1906 San Francisco earthquakeRendered mute at the Battle of Gettysburg, Frederick Heigold returns to Dobbs Ferry, New York, where he marries a resolute suffragist...
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Only smoke
A son follows the breadcrumbs through a volume of Grimms’ Fairy Tales in search of his estranged fatherOn his eighteenth birthday, Carlos receives a strange gift: his father, whom he never knew, has died and left him his apartment. As he goes through the man’s belongings, Carlos comes across a ma...
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Potomac fever
An impassioned meditation on American identity and its ebb and flow through the Capital’s great waterwayAs she walks the length of the Potomac River, clambering up its banks and sounding its depths, Charlotte Taylor Fryar examines the geography and ecology of Washington, D.C. with all manner of f...
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The delicate beast
A novel of a life built on the ashes of childhoodIn the 1950s Tropical Republic, a boy lives amid opulence and privilege, spending days at the beach or in the cool hills above the sweltering capital, enjoying leisurely Sunday lunches around the family compound’s swimming pool. That is, until the ...
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Trondheim
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICEA son’s collapse pulls his two mothers together and apart in a novel that probes the limits of love, hope, and forgivenessIn Norway, thousands of miles from home, a student drops dead on the street. A passerby revives his heart, but he remains in a coma from which he...
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Flight of the wild swan
A majestic novel of Florence Nightingale, whose courage, self-confidence, and resilience transformed nursing and the role of women in medicineSweeping yet intimate, Flight of the Wild Swan tells the story of Florence Nightingale, a brilliant, trailblazing woman whose humanity has been obscured be...
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To & fro
A tale of two girls—one living in a parable, the other in ManhattanAni, journeying across a great distance accompanied by a stolen kitten, meets many people along her way, but her encounters only convince her that she is meant to keep searching. Annamae, journeying from childhood to young adultho...
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Benefit
A young woman discovers what lurks beneath the system that anointed her among the best and brightest of her generation“A smart, razor-sharp exploration of the precarious island of academic life and the cold unforgiving waters that surround it.” —Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation and We...
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