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Galapagos
Kurt Vonnegut
“A madcap genealogical adventure . . . Vonnegut is a postmodern Mark Twain.”—The New York Times Book Review Galápagos takes...
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Bluebeard
Kurt Vonnegut
“Ranks with Vonnegut’s best and goes one step beyond . . . joyous, soaring fiction.”—The Atlanta Journal and Constitution Broad...
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Zone One
Colson Whitehead
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys: A pandemic has...
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Sag Harbor
Colson Whitehead
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FINALIST • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel...
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Dialogues
Stanislaw Lem
The first English translation of a nonfiction work by Stanisław Lem, which was "conceived under the spell of cybernetics" in...
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Mend!
Kate Sekules
A hands-on manual and a history and celebration of clothes tending--and its remarkable resurgence as art form, political statement, and...
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Resist Everything Except Temptation
Kristian Williams
A book that penetrates the surface of the Oscar Wilde mythos to uncover the radical politics that propelled his art.
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