FICTION / Literary
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Loving
$16.95 Add to cartDrama unfolds between the servants and masters of an aristocratic Irish household in this “classic upstairs-downstairs story” set during World War II–for fans of Downton Abbey (Time)
The war has led- Author: Green, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 18 2016
- ISBN10: 168137014X
- Language: English
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Devil on the Cross
$17.00 Read moreThe great Kenyan writer and Nobel Prize nominee’s novel that he wrote in secret, on toilet paper, while in prison–featuring an introduction by Namwali Serpell, the author of the novel The Old Drift
On… [more below]- Series: Penguin African Writers #5
- Author: Wa Thiong’o, Ngugi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 11 2017
- ISBN10: 0143107364
- Language: English
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Up the Down Staircase
$18.00 Read moreSylvia Barrett arrives at New York City’s Calvin Coolidge High fresh from earning literature degrees at Hunter College and eager to shape young minds. Instead she encounters broken windows, a lack of … [more below]
- Author: Kaufman, Bel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 30 2019
- ISBN10: 525565655
- Language: English
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Namaste Trump and Other Stories
$17.00 Read moreA collection of other stories from shining India–those not often told.
The short story “Namaste Trump” starts in a deceptive domestic setting, where a servant from the hinterlands is patronized and e- Author: Khair, Tabish
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1623717485
- Language: English
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Venice Stories
$25.00 Read moreA gorgeously jacketed hardcover anthology of classic stories set in Venice, by an international array of brilliant writers.
The sublime city of Venice has long offered inspiration to the world’s story- Series: Everyman’s Library Pocket Classics
- Author: Keates, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 1101908068
- Language: English
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The Dark Dark: Stories
$18.00 Read moreA Best Book of the Year: NPR, Vogue, The Huffington Post, The Chicago Review of Books, The National Post, Electric Literature, Kirkus
“Wields such a subtle and alien power . . . Wonderfully spooky.” –- Author: Hunt, Samantha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 18 2017
- ISBN10: 0374282137
- Language: English
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The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$37.00 Add to cartTo celebrate the centennial of his birth, the collected plays of America’s greatest twentieth-century dramatist in a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
In the history of postwar American art and politics- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
- Author: Miller, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1312
- Publish Date: October 13 2015
- ISBN10: 0143107771
- Language: English
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Trinity
$16.99 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author of Speak comes a kaleidoscopic novel about Robert Oppenheimer–father of the atomic bomb–as told by seven fictional characters
J. Robert Oppenheimer was a brilliant scientist
- Author: Hall, Louisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 27 2019
- ISBN10: 0062851977
- Language: English
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The Waiter
$17.99 Add to cart“As if The Remains of the Day had been written by Kingsley Amis, The Waiter is…one of the most purely entertaining novels I’ve read in years. This book is a meal you won’t want to finish.” –J. Ryan… [more below]
- Author: Faldbakken, Matias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 18 2019
- ISBN10: 1501197533
- Language: English
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
$12.00 Add to cartIn the aftermath of the Mexican-American War, two French Jesuit priests travel to the American Southwest to establish a new Roman Catholic diocese. Upon arrival, Father Jean Marie Latour and Father Jo… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels
- Author: Cather, Willa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0486850269
- Language: English
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Our Friends from Frolix 8
$13.99 Add to cartThis satirical adventure from Philip K. Dick deals with issues of power, class, and politics, set in a world ruled by big-brained elites.
In Our Friends from Frolix 8, the world is run by an elite few… [more below]
- Author: Dick, Philip K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 16 2013
- ISBN10: 054757259X
- Language: English
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The Glass Forest
$16.99 Add to cartThe lives of three very different women intersect in shocking ways in this “outstanding psychological thriller” (Library Journal, starred review), by the New York Times bestselling author of The Books… [more below]
- Author: Swanson, Cynthia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1501172107
- Language: English
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My Struggle: Book 2
$27.00 Add to cart“[Book 2] sears the reader because Knausgaard is a passionate idealist [who] wants to fight the conformity and homogeneity of modern bourgeois existence.” –James Wood, The New Yorker
In the second ins- Series: My Struggle #2
- Author: Knausgaard, Karl Ove
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0374534152
- Language: English
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Pitch Dark
$16.95 Add to cartA strange, thrilling novel about desperate love, paranoia, and heartbreak by one of America’s most singular writers.
“What’s new. What else. What next. What’s happened here.” Pitch Dark is a book abo- Series: Nyrb Classics
- Author: Adler, Renata
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 19 2013
- ISBN10: 1590176146
- Language: English
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Toby’s Last Resort
$21.95 Add to cartToby Jenkins, the oldest surviving member of her family, has opened a summer residence program in the Nebraska Sandhills for the wounded and broken, misfits and dreamers. Besides her guests–a ministe… [more below]
- Series: Flyover Fiction
- Author: Joern, Pamela Carter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496232690
- Language: English
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The Derelict Light
$21.95 Add to cartThe Derelict Light takes place in Prohibition-era Astoria, Oregon, a bleak and rain-soaked fishing town where violence and vice have found a home at the edge of the continent. After the Great War the … [more below]
- Author: Stark, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496235223
- Language: English
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This Is Paradise: Stories
$16.00 Add to cartElegant, brutal, and profound—this magnificent debut captures the grit and glory of modern Hawai’i with breathtaking force and accuracy.
In a stunning collection that announces the arrival of an inc- Author: Kahakauwila, Kristiana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 09 2013
- ISBN10: 0770436250
- Language: English
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The Mountain: Stories
$17.00 Add to cartIn “a spectacular display of intelligence and feeling” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), Paul Yoon’s collection of short stories ranges throughout the world–from the Hudson Valley to the Russian F… [more below]
- Author: Yoon, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 14 2018
- ISBN10: 1501154095
- Language: English
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Dog on Fire
$19.95 Add to cartOut of a Shakespearean-wild Midwest dust storm, a man rises. “Just a glimpse of him,” says his sister; “every inch of him,” says his guilt-filled lover. “Close your eyes,” says his nephew. “What about… [more below]
- Series: Flyover Fiction
- Author: Svoboda, Terese
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1496235169
- Language: English
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California
$24.99 Add to cartThe world Cal and Frida have always known is gone, and they’ve left the crumbling city of Los Angeles far behind them. They now live in a shack in the wilderness, working side-by-side to make their da… [more below]
- Author: Lepucki, Edan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 07 2015
- ISBN10: 031625083X
- Language: English
