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Dept. of Speculation meets Black Mirror in this lyrical, speculative debut about a queer mother raising her daughter in an unjust surveillance state  In a United States not so unlike our own, the Department of Balance has adopted a radical ne...

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A gorgeous, expansive piece of narrative non-fiction about care, dependence, and what it means to breathe in an age of environmental catastrophe A few moments after birth we begin to use our lungs for the first time. From then on, we must continue...

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Novelist and writing teacher Jane Alison illuminates the many shapes other than the usual wavelike "narrative arc" that can move fiction forward. The stories she loves most follow other organic patterns found in nature-spirals, meanders,...

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A kaleidoscopic anthology of essays published by Catapult magazine about the stories our bodies tell, and how we move within-and against-expectations of race, gender, health, and ability. Bodies are serious, irreverent, sexy, fragile, strong, poli...

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Witty and winkingly playful, Manuel Betancourt’s Hello Stranger explores modern queer romance and the expansive possibilities of ephemeral intimacies “Hello stranger.” As an opening line, you really can’t ask for better. He...

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Franz Kafka meets Yorgos Lanthimos in this provocative new novel from one of America’s most brilliant and distinctive writers In a speculative future, Abel, a menial worker, is called to serve in a secretive and fabled jury system. At the he...

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A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets caught up in a scheme reselling Birkin bags The Coin follows a Palestinian woman as she pursues a dream that generations of her family have failed ...

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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Calm and contemplative, softened by melancholy humor and always alive to beauty . . . Throughout My Heart, Mr. Mehmedinovic takes up the exile's perpetual investigation into memory, trying to reco...

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A poignant, surprising, and immersive read about a young professional woman pursuing an emotionally intense relationship with a married lesbian couple, for readers of Kristen Arnett and Melissa Broder Helen, a jittery attorney with a self-destruct...

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A groundbreaking resource for fiction writers, teachers, and students, this manifesto and practical guide challenges current models of craft and the writing workshop by showing how they fail marginalized writers, and how cultural expectations info...

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A tribute to the life and words of 3 times World Heavyweight Champion boxer, Muhammad Ali. I Am The GreatestA" is a 48 page book of quotations attributed to one of the greatest sportsmen and biggest personalities of modern times, Muhammad Ali...

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A deceptively simple fable featuring a man unlike any other who proudly presents himself to the world in search of love and acceptance. The book is thought-provoking and motivational, incorporating simple black and white illustrations to highlight...

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No American history, government, or journalism collection is complete without the new edition of what has been characterized as the best account of the fall of Richard Nixon. "Washington Post" editor Sussman became a walking compendium o...

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Most business owners in private practice are clueless when it comes to using the Internet, tools and services to grow their business. Are you one of them? Are you feeling powerless because old-school marketing no longer works and those business ow...

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CHOOSE LIFE! Your business has ruled over you for years. So now it's payback time - a chance to sell up finally, and live the life you deserve. But how much is the business worth? There's a lot to consider. Is your sales process nailed down? Does ...

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In an intricately linked series of poetic, short tales set in a 1983 suburb, Greg Bottoms portrays his life as one of two at-risk boys as they attempt to learn how to beand what it means to bemen. By turns funny, disquieting, and moving, Fight Sce...

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For more than 50 years, Leslie Fiedler played a pivotal role in the development of American literary culture. Despite his often unacknowledged influence, the academy, intellectuals, and the general audience in America and abroad still read his wor...

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From the shadows of the correspondences and the contradictions of biography, the elusive Salom emerges in this boldly revealing fiction to tell her own story through the three major relationships of her life: at twenty-one she meets the smitten ph...

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Jarring yet slyly comic, Waiting for Rescue evokes a world turned upside down after the events of 9/11 as seen through the eyes of a wry and observant American woman who, though far from the path of the hijacked planes, is thrown into turmoil neve...

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"e;Berry has become ever more prophetic . . . In the Sabbaths of 2005-08 published here, Berry angrily mourns the degradation of the nation wrought by destruction of the land and the pursuit of wealth and power. He says that we must prepare to...

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Advice on building a work of fiction, from ';a writer of great daring and skill to match' (Newsweek). From a highly acclaimed author who has spent many years teaching the craft of fiction writing, Architecture of the Novelis an ambitious blueprint...

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';[A] well-edited collection... More than friends and less than lovers, Salter and Phelps were literary soul mates.' Publishers Weekly It was James Salter's third novel, A Sport and a Pastimetogether with his filmThreeand a script he had written f...

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For his 65th birthday, acclaimed novelist Michael Mewshaw took a 4,000-mile overland trip across North Africa. Arriving in Egypt during food riots, he heads west into Libya, where billions in oil money have produced little except citizens eager to...

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From this best-selling author comes a magisterial new project: a dual biography of the preeminent figures of Judeo-Christian civilization overturning conventional views of Moses and Jesus as humble men of faith. By reanimating the biographies of M...

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In this collection about life as a twentysomething in the twenty-first century, Kathleen Rooney writes with the finesse of someone well beyond her years, but with fresh insights that reveal a girl still making discoveries at every turn. Varied and...

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"e;Berry's latest collection of essays is the reminiscence of a literary life. It is a book that acknowledges a lifetime of intellectual influences, and in doing so, positions Berry more squarely as a cornerstone of American literature . . . A...

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Walt Whitman was deeply interested in the American language as it was emerging in his time. He was fascinated by the vocabularies of the sciences and the streets, and was a regular visitor to the New York Public Library, where he loved to peer int...

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Over the last 160 years, a great dilemma has been hatching out of Western spiritual consciousness. In our modern existence, we have lost faith in the traditional routes by which human beings have come to experience the Divine, and an acceptance of...

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John Milton poet, polemicist, public servant, and author of one of the greatest masterpieces in English literature, Paradise Lost is revered today as a great writer and a proponent of free speech. In his time, however, his ideas far exceeded the o...

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