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Training School for Negro Girls
Camille Acker
"Acker navigates her characters' lives with humor, heart, and grace. I loved these stories." --Lisa Ko This debut collection is...
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The Emigrants
Winfried Georg Sebald
What initially appears to be a plain account of the lives of Jewish emigrants in Norfolk, Austria, America and Manchester,...
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Not One Day
Anne Garréta
An intimate, sensuous exploration of memory and desire, delving into loves and lusts past, by Oulipo member Anne Garreta.
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This is Not a Novel and Other Novels
David Markson
David Markson was a writer like no other. In his novels, which have been called "hypnotic," "stunning," and "exhilarating" and...
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The Calculating Stars
Mary Robinette Kowal
"A Tom Doherty Associates book"--Title page.
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The Parade
Dave Eggers
From the bestselling author of The Monk of Mokha and The Circle comes a taut, suspenseful story of two foreigners'...
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Tiempos Irredentos - Unrepentant Times
Yuri Herrera
Seis relatos violentos de autores mexicanos: Alberto Chimal, Erika Mergruen, Yuri Herrera, Isai Moreno, Ursula Fuentesberain, Lorea Canales "En cada...
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The Sense of an Ending
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LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning debut novel about love and forgiveness, about the violence of memory and the...
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Scribe: A Novel
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