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Amnesty
$17.00 Add to cartAn “urgent and significant book [that] speaks to our times” (The New York Times Book Review) from the bestselling, Man Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger and Selection Day about a young il… [more below]
- Author: Adiga, Aravind
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1982127309
- Language: English
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Thrones, Dominations: A Lord Peter Wimsey / Harriet Vane Mystery
$24.00 Add to cartIn 1936, Dorothy L. Sayers –considered one of the best mystery writers of the Golden Age–abandoned the last Lord Peter Wimsey detective story. Sixty years later, a copy of the unfinished manuscript
- Series: Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries with Harriet Vane #1
- Author: Sayers, Dorothy L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 1250017432
- Language: English
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The Clarion
$16.95 Add to cartLonglisted for the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Globe and Mail 100 Best Book of 2023
CBC Books, Best Canadian Fiction 2023
Apple Books, Best Canadian Debut 2023 and Best Book of the Month for September 2
- Author: Dunic, Nina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1778430287
- Language: English
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Lump
$18.99 Read moreA dark, satiric novel about a woman whose attempt to escape crises in her health and marriage ends up causing more chaos.
Cat’s career has stalled, her marriage has gone flat, and being a stay-at-home
- Author: Whitlock, Nathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1459751280
- Language: English
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Up with the Sun
$18.00 Read moreThrough the curious life of Dick Kallman–a real-life celebrity striver, poisonously charming actor, and eventual murder victim–the unforgiving worlds of postwar showbiz and down-low gay sexuality ar… [more below]
- Author: Mallon, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0525565914
- Language: English
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Ghostroots: Stories
$26.99 Add to cartIn 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 bef
- Author: Aguda, ‘Pemi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1324065850
- Language: English
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Numbers
$16.00 Add to cartBook jacket/back: Johnny Rio, a handsome narcissist but no longer a pretty boy, travels to Los Angeles, the site of past sexual conquest and remembered youthful radiance, in a frenzied attempt to recr… [more below]
- Series: Rechy, John
- Author: Rechy, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 13 1994
- ISBN10: 0802151981
- Language: English
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Such Big Dreams
$18.00 Read moreA savvy former street child working at a law office in Mumbai fights for redemption and a chance to live life on her own terms in this “smart, haunting, and compulsively readable” (Amy Jones, author o… [more below]
- Author: Patel, Reema
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0593499522
- Language: English
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The Longcut
$17.95 Add to cartFrom Museum of Modern Art editor Emily Hall, a debut novel in the first person about the place of art and the artist in the world.
- Series: American Literature
- Author: Hall, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1628973978
- Language: English
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The Dark Hours
$44.00 Add to cartA Wall Street Journal and South Florida Sun-Sentinel Best Book of the Year
“A masterpiece”–LAPD detective Ren? Ballard must join forces with Harry Bosch to find justice in a city scarred by fear and- Author: Connelly, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0316301299
- Language: English
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Shaky Town
$17.99 Add to cart-Engaging characters who live on the non-glamorous side of L.A. -Like Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place, and Pat Barker’s Union Street, Shaky Town tells … [more below]
- Author: Mathews, Lou
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1684428084
- Language: English
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Aviary
$16.00 Add to cartA masterful novel illuminating the rich and hidden facets of human character among the residents of a senior residence in Montana–and “a cleansing antidote to the last few years of political and cult… [more below]
- Author: McNamer, Deirdre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1571311424
- Language: English
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The Life Before Us
$16.95 Add to cartMomo has been one of the ever-changing ragbag of whores’ children at Madame Rosa’s boarding house in Paris ever since he can remember. But when the check that pays for his keep no longer arrives and a… [more below]
- Author: Gary, Romain
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0811232417
- Language: English
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The Hive
$17.95 Add to cartComplete and uncensored in English for the very first time, a fragmented, daringly irreverent depiction of decadence and decay in Franco’s Spain written by the 1989 winner of the Nobel Prize in Litera… [more below]
- Author: Cela, Camilo José
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1681376156
- Language: English
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The Wise Women
$18.99 Read moreA Good Morning America Buzz Pick and one of Read With Jenna’s Most Anticipated Books of 2022
“I laughed and shook my head in recognition as the three Wise women crashed through love relationships, terr
- Author: Sorell, Gina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 04, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063111853
- Language: English
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Made in L.A. Vol. 5: Vantage Points
$19.99 Add to cartIn Los Angeles, the only constant is change. Our lives go through cycles and rotations. We incorporate new ideas, people, workplaces, and patterns as we create the futures we have dreamed of since chi
- Series: Made in L.A. Fiction Anthology #5
- Author: Sisco, Cody
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1953954049
- Language: English
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L.A. Breakdown (Deluxe Edition)
$17.99 Add to cartA 1999 LOS ANGELES TIMES BEST BOOK
DELUXE EDITION, WITH NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN RECOVERED CHAPTERS
–Los Angeles, 1967–
With gleaming detail and blinding precision, Lou Mathews freeze-frames a hidden corner o… [more below]
- Author: Mathews, Lou
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1684429781
- Language: English
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The Sterns Are Listening
$28.00 Read moreFrom acclaimed poet and memoirist Jonathan Wells comes a raucous and aching New York novel about family derangement, Boomer laments and youthful revolt, rock and roll, and the sacrifices we make for w… [more below]
- Author: Wells, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 257
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1736309374
- Language: English
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I Hate the Internet
$15.95 Add to cartWhat if you told the truth and the whole world heard you? Would you expect to be believed? What if you lived in a country swamped with Internet outrage? What if you were a woman living in a society th… [more below]
- Author: Kobek, Jarett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0996421807
- Language: English
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The Confession of Copeland Cane
$28.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION
“A significant new voice in fiction, Norris has written what may be one of the defining novels of the era…” –BuzzFeed
One of Publishers Weekl- Author: Norris, Keenan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1951213254
- Language: English
