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Kill the Ámpaya!
Dick Cluster
This is the first English language anthology of translations of baseball stories by major Latin American and Caribbean writers.
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A Horse Walks Into a Bar
David Grossman
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE • From the bestselling author of To the End of the Land comes...
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Stephen Florida
Gabe Habash
A troubled college wrestler in North Dakota falls in love and becomes increasingly unhinged during his final season.
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The Doll's Alphabet
Camilla Grudova
"This doll's eye view is a total delight and surveys a world awash with shadowy wit and exquisite collisions of...
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Mother of Invention
Caeli Wolfson Widger
Meet Silicon Valley executive Tessa Callahan, a woman passionate about the power of technology to transform women's lives. Her company's...
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A Hand Full of Stars
Rafik Schami
Amid the turmoil of modern Damascus, one teenage boy finds his political voice in a message of rebellion that echoes...
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Sundown
John Joseph Mathews
Challenge Windzer, the mixed-blood protagonist of this compelling autobiographical novel, was born at the beginning of the twentieth century "when...
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Fools Crow
James Welch
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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A sharply observed, mordantly funny, and startlingly original novel from an exciting, unconventional...
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