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A gift book for parents that will have them laughing even as they cry.

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A compelling portrait of NYC's neighborhoods by eight diverse teenage girls through interviews and stories.

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A Florida cop with a connection to the dead investigates the murder of a monstrous woman in this “edgy police drama” by the Edgar Award-winner (New York Times Book Review).   When Harry Doyle was ten years old, he was murdered by ...

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“Traverses Texas, finding evidence of the hard boiled, sultry, and disreputable throughout the state . . . Think of the book as a sort of criminal travelogue.” —Booklist   If everything is bigger in Texas, the...

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“A collection enhanced by an unerring sense of place, with no clinkers . . . that will please the most discriminating lovers of the dark side.” —Kirkus Reviews   From its posh Main Line to its blue-collar encl...

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Edgar Award finalist: A “hypnotic” crime novel set in Cuba after the collapse of the USSR (Tim McLoughlin, author of Heart of the Old Country).   One hungry, hallucinatory night in the dark heart of Havana, Mano Rodriguez, a young...

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An “entertaining” novel about a family of three women “navigating relationships, a half-dozen lovers and innumerable dogs” (Publishers Weekly).   Alice Hunter is a thirty-six-year-old professional gambler living in Que...

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From the award-winning author of The Boy Detective Fails: A novel of two brothers growing up on the other side of the tracks.   “A trailer park in the Plains town of Tenderloin is the setting of this crusty coming-of-age debut, which fe...

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“A wide-ranging collection from the beloved but besieged Caribbean island,” from a lineup of authors including two National Book Award finalists (Kirkus Reviews).   “The Haitian-born Danticat has brought her country’s ...

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The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse, a radical map of shortcomings in our daily experiences in the form of a debut story collection, presents thematically related windows into serious emotional trouble and monstrous love. Lonely Christopher co...

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Left with her white grandparents, a biracial girl deals with abandonment in a 1970s rural Wisconsin town that doesn’t easily accept change. Michelle LeBeau, the child of a white American father and a Japanese mother, lives with her grandpare...

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A “mordantly funny” novel set in a Dublin educational institution known as the Brothers of Godly Coercion School for Young Boys of Meager Means (Publishers Weekly). Combining the spirit of Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim with a...

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The true story of a group of people devastated by loss—and inspired to save others from the same heartbreak: “Very personal and moving accounts.”—Publishers Weekly   Told through essays and correspondence, this is the ...

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In her role as author and activist, Jennifer Baumgardner has permanently changed the way people think about feminism . . . and will shape the next hundred years of politics and culture.The Commonwealth Club of California, hailing Baumgardner as on...

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The M*A*S*H actor, activist, and author of Just Call Me Mike embarks on a cross-country book tour visiting human rights and social justice organizations.   In May 2008—shortly after being named by the Los Angeles Times as a &l...

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“A Jewish man flees 1938 Germany only to find a new and unexpected nightmare” in Guatemala, in this tale of dark humor and desperate suspense (Publishers Weekly).   In 1938, as Samuel Berkow’s tramp steamer from Germany appr...

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Southern California is not all sun, sand, and surf in this gripping collection of noir tales from T. Jefferson Parker, Don Winslow, Maria Lima, and others.   San Diego is home to miles of beaches, Balboa Park, a world-famous zoo, and some of ...

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Journey to Spain with “stories that tap into history, politics and culture to cast a cloak of horror and humor on the city’s distinctive neighborhoods” (The Miami Herald).   For some, Barcelona is a European enchantress of n...

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"e;John O'Brien was a stunningly talented writer who created poetry from the most squalid materials."e;Jay McInerney, author of Bright Lights, Big CityWithin the walls of a foreboding mansion situated in the hills overlooking Los Angeles, ...

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The first nonfiction volume in the “superb series” —true crime stories from Bushwick to Borough Park to Brooklyn Heights (The Globe and Mail, Toronto).   The people who brought you the Brooklyn Noir crime-fiction collections...

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Essays of the 1960s by a prominent African American voice who “demands rights—not conditional favors” (The New York Times Book Review).   Amiri Baraka, also known as LeRoi Jones, was known not only as a poet, playwright, and...

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“A wonderfully eccentric and vibrant collection . . . Sometimes dreamlike, sometimes nightmarish, always riveting” (Jill McCorkle, New York Times–bestselling author of Life After Life).   In “Hummingbird...

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“Crane seems to be carving out a younger, brassier, less dystopic territory to complement the fiction of George Saunders and David Foster Wallace.” —The Quarterly Conversation   In her third short story collection, following...

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“American Visa is beautifully written, atmospheric, and stylish in the manner of Chandler . . . a smart, exotic crime fiction offering.” —George Pelecanos, award-winning author/producer of The Wire   Arme...

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This moody murder mystery set during an overnight train journey in 1950s South America “delights like strong coffee savored in a cosmopolitan cafe” (Publishers Weekly).   In 1952, a train makes its way from La Paz, Bolivia, to the...

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Eighteen authors share dark mysteries set on the sunny Caribbean island in this anthology.Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book is compromised of all-new stori...

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From the author of Long Train to the Redeeming Sin, “the most jubilant celebration of black African beauty so far seen in the English language” (The Boston Globe).   Following in the footsteps of her idols Alice Walker and Toni Mo...

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“A brilliant, fearless look at the savage rites of passage that exist in the fraternity of American sports . . . gripping and unforgettable.” —Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River   In 1964, seventeen-ye...

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From an American Book Award winner, “a poetic thriller . . . A very different and rewarding mystery” (Booklist).   When Puerto Rican ladies’ man Alex awakes one morning to find a mysterious woman in his bed, h...

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“Go Fish is that rarest of creatures: an essential collection of political cartoons.” —David Rees, author of Get Your War On   This volume of cartoons from the revered Mr. Fish (aka Dwayne Booth) spans politics, po...

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