City Life
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Lazarus Man
$29.00 Add to cartIn this electrifying novel, Richard Price, the author of Clockers and a writer on The Wire, gives us razor-sharp anatomy of an ever-changing Harlem.
East Harlem, 2008. In an instant, a five-story tene- Author: Price, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0374168156
- Language: English
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Sojourn
$16.95 Read moreIn this haunting and noirish novel by a leading author and critic, an Indian writer travels to Berlin and soon finds himself slipping into a fragmented, fuguelike state.
An Indian writer has come to B- Author: Chaudhuri, Amit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 168137708X
- Language: English
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Metropolitan Stories
$23.00 Read more“Only someone who deeply loves and understands the Metropolitan Museum could deliver such madcap, funny, magical, tender, intimate fables and stories.” –Maira Kalman, artist and bestselling author of… [more below]
- Author: Coulson, Christine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1590510585
- Language: English
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Write My Name Across the Sky
$14.95 Read moreThe USA Today bestselling author of When We Believed in Mermaids returns with a tale of two generations of women reconciling family secrets and past regrets.
Life’s beautiful for seventysomething influ
- Author: O’Neal, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 366
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 1542021642
- Language: English
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Cairo Circles
$18.00 Add to cartOne of BuzzFeed’s New Books You’ll Love
“Cairo Circles is a novel that proves literature needn’t choose between pleasure and substance. You will tear through the pages of this delicious book, and you… [more below]- Author: Mahmoud, Doma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 195121367X
- Language: English
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Life Without Children: Stories
$18.00 Read more“[Doyle] imparts a sense of poignancy and glimpses of happiness, of grief and loss and small moments of connection . . . you’re left feeling close to dazzled.” –Daphne Merkin, New York Times Book Rev… [more below]
- Author: Doyle, Roddy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0593300580
- Language: English
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Discernment
$21.95 Read moreCedric Willow is a middle-aged journalist and senior warden at St. Bartholomew by the Lake, a small Episcopal parish in Minneapolis. St. Bart’s church is a widely admired icon of mid-century modern ar
- Author: Close, Roy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1643436341
- Language: English
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A Dark Matter: Volume 1
$15.95 Read moreThree generations of women from the Skelfs family take over the family funeral home and PI businesses in the first book of a taut, gripping page-turning and darkly funny new series.
***Shortlisted fo- Series: Skelfs
- Author: Johnstone, Doug
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1912374986
- Language: English
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The Autograph Man
$15.95 Read moreFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Swing Time and one of the most revered writers of her generation comes an “intelligent … exquisitely clever [novel] about fame, mortality, and the trium… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Smith, Zadie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 17 2003
- ISBN10: 037570387X
- Language: English
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Speculative Los Angeles
$16.95 Read more“A stimulating anthology of 14 futuristic L.A. fables . . . Some of the best of these tales seem illumined by the humanistic spirit of the late Ray Bradbury, poet laureate of Southern California fanta
- Author: Hamilton, Denise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1617758566
- Language: English
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Optic Nerve
$16.95 Read more“In this delightful autofiction―the first book by Gainza, an Argentine art critic, to appear in English―a woman delivers pithy assessments of world-class painters along with glimpses of he… [more below]
- Author: Gainza, Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1646220021
- Language: English
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Estates Large and Small
$18.95 Read moreProfound, perceptive, and wryly observed, Estates Large and Small is the story of one man’s reckoning and an ardent defense of the shape books make in a life.
What decades of rent increases and declini
- Author: Robertson, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1771964626
- Language: English
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City People
$16.99 Read moreFrom Perfectly Impossible author Elizabeth Topp comes an unforgettably searing novel about a band of mothers who are forced to reckon with themselves after the unexpected loss of one of their own.
When
- Author: Topp, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1662507313
- Language: English
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Nothing Is Lost
$17.00 Read moreFrom one of France’s most talented young authors, an urban thriller full of rage and raw emotion
In a small town just like any other, a police identity check goes wrong. The victim, Sa?, was fifteen y
- Author: Medhi, Cloé
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1609458222
- Language: English
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The Book of Jakarta: A City in Short Fiction
$18.95 Read moreA young woman takes a driverless taxi through the streets of Jakarta, only to discover that the destination she is hurtling towards is now entirely submerged… A group of elderly women visit a famous… [more below]
- Series: Reading the City
- Author: Fransisca, Hanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1912697327
- Language: English
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O. Henry: 101 Stories (Loa #345)
$35.00 Add to cartThe ultimate O. Henry: an annotated edition of classic tales by America’s master storyteller
Texas troubadour, convicted embezzler, and adopted New Yorker William Sidney Porter–better known as O. Hen- Author: Henry, O.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 840
- Publish Date: July 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1598536907
- Language: English
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American Gospel
$25.95 Add to cartA low-income Baltimore neighborhood is targeted for a controversial urban renewal project–an amusement park in the theme of Baltimore itself–that forces its residents to reckon with racism, displace… [more below]
- Author: Jeffra, Miah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 500
- Publish Date: March 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1625570430
- Language: English
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The Handicapper: A Novel about Love, Ambition, and the World of Professional Sports Gambling
$17.99 Read moreDavid Lazar, passionate, excessive, riddled with contradictions and soaring ambitions, is a compulsive gambler. He is hopelessly in debt and stuck in a humdrum job that can’t support his addiction. He
- Author: Kalich, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: December 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1933480548
- Language: English
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The Strudlhof Steps: The Depth of the Years
$29.95 Read moreThe first English translation of an essential Austrian novel about life in early-twentieth-century Vienna, as seen through a wide and varied cast of characters.
The Strudlhof Steps is an unsurpassed po… [more below]- Author: Doderer, Heimito Von
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: December 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1681375273
- Language: English
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The Broken Places
$20.95 Read moreShortlisted for 2023 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize and a Globe and Mail Best Book of 2022!
Vancouver. A day like any other. Kyle, a successful cosmetic surgeon, is punishing himself with a spri
- Author: Peck, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1774390450
- Language: English
