Literary
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Mother Tongue
$19.00 Add to cart“It is a great beauty of a book, and I am so proud of you for standing with and for the disappeared. A sister, a lover, a witness.”
Mary is nineteen and living alone in Albuquerque. Adri
–Alice Walker- Author: Martinez, Demetria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 12 1997
- ISBN10: 0345416562
- Language: English
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Fair and Tender Ladies
$22.00 Add to cartIvy Rowe, Virginia mountain girl, then wife, mother, and finally “Mawmaw,” never strays far from her home-but the letters she writes take her across the country and over the ocean. Writing “to hold on… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 05 2011
- ISBN10: 0425230457
- Language: English
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Crocosmia
$17.95 Add to cartA revelatory novel (or parable) of art, adventure, and radical politics, set in a world on the precipice.
A philosophical fable, Crocosmia centers on Maya as she recollects the “great turning”–a momen… [more below]- Author: Mellis, Miranda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1643622757
- Language: English
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Angels at the Gate
$20.95 Add to cartAt remote Rockhaven University, the shocking death of student Brantley Simms beneath the bell tower shatters the campus, a place that once felt safeguarded by local angels. A year later, Leah Gavin, w… [more below]
- Author: Joseph, Sheri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1646036530
- Language: English
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A Long Winter
$20.00 Add to cartAvailable for the first time in a beautiful standalone edition, one of Colm T?ib?n’s finest short stories and “the most striking example of T?ibin’s emotional control” (The Guardian), “A Long Winter,”… [more below]
- Author: Toibin, Colm
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1668212714
- Language: English
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Two Serious Ladies
$18.00 Add to cartJane Bowles’s avant-garde study of women breaking free from the bonds of convention is itself a master class in liberation from the constraints of everyday thinking, form, and feeling.
Two Serious Lad- Author: Bowles, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1250376564
- Language: English
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Banal Nightmare
$18.00 Add to cartA “vividly, chillingly current” (The Washington Post) novel by the author of The New Me, one of the boldest voices in American fiction
“[Halle Butler’s] talent lies in depicting how these sore winners- Author: Butler, Halle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 0593730364
- Language: English
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The Night in Question
$18.99 Add to cartA lyrical and emotionally engaging novel infused with mystery and wisdom about love, friendship, and the power of forgiveness.
Florrie Butterfield–eighty-seven, one-legged, and of cheerful dispositi- Author: Fletcher, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1454960205
- Language: English
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Monkey Grip
$19.00 Add to cartA BBC “100 Books That Shaped the World”
“[Helen Garner’s] novels give the impression of being in sharper focus than most.”–New Yorker The novel that launched the career of one of Australia’s greates- Author: Garner, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 0593470788
- Language: English
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Wallace Stegner: Collected Stories
$25.00 Add to cartIn a literary career spanning more than fifty years, Wallace Stegner created a remarkable record of the history and culture of twentieth-century America. Each of the thirty-one stories contained in th… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Stegner, Wallace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: July 25 2006
- ISBN10: 0143039792
- Language: English
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Anyone’s Ghost
$18.00 Add to cartA 2025 Lamda Literary Award finalist – Longlisted for The Center For Fiction’s 2024 First Novel Prize – Named a Best Book of 2024 by Elle, Vogue, and Debutiful
“This new novel is a real heart-squeezer- Author: Thompson, August
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 059365658X
- Language: English
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Absent
$22.00 Add to cartDalal is a young woman living in a crowded Baghdad apartment with the childless aunt and uncle who raised her. In the same building, Umm Mazin, a fortune-teller, offers her customers cures for their p… [more below]
- Author: Khedairi, Betool
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 10 2007
- ISBN10: 0812977424
- Language: English
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Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
$18.00 Add to cartThe incredible story continues in book three of the critically acclaimed Neapolitan Novels!
Since the publication of My Brilliant Friend, the first of the Neapolitan novels, Elena Ferrante’s fame as … [more below]- Author: Ferrante, Elena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: July 06 2016
- ISBN10: 1594139954
- Language: English
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The Ruins of California
$23.00 Add to cartFor the Ruin family in 1970s California, as described by the precocious young Inez, life is complex. Her father, Paul, is self-obsessed, intrusive, and brilliant. He’s also twice divorced, leaving Ine… [more below]
- Author: Sherrill, Martha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 02 2007
- ISBN10: 1594482314
- Language: English
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The Manager: A Tale of the Cold War
$25.95 Add to cartSpies in the Adirondacks. Lake Placid, 1982. Backcountry editor Walter Loving picks up a top-coated hitchhiker in the snow outside the Casa del Sol restaurant two years after the Soviet loss to the U.
- Author: Shaw, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: February 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1977276245
- Language: English
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Swag
$14.99 Add to cartThis “brilliant caper” (New York Times) from bestselling author Elmore Leonard is a rollicking tale of modern urban crime featuring a cast of small-time criminals with big-time dreams.
Ernest Stickley
- Author: Leonard, Elmore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 21 2019
- ISBN10: 0062227866
- Language: English
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From a Crooked Rib
$22.00 Add to cartWritten with complete conviction from a woman’s point of view, Nuruddin Farah’s spare, shocking first novel savagely attacks the traditional values of his people yet is also a haunting celebration of … [more below]
- Author: Farah, Nuruddin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 27 2006
- ISBN10: 0143037269
- Language: English
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Sea, Poison
$15.95 Add to cartCumin Baleen is a forty-one-year-old writer living in Philadelphia–this city of hospitals–who works at the upscale grocery Sea & Poison and is navigating the onset of an autoimmune condition. To sta
- Author: Beilin, Caren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0811239519
- Language: English
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We Computers: A Ghazal Novel
$20.00 Add to cartA multilayered exploration of poetry, authorship, and digital intelligence by “a writer of immense poetic power” (The Guardian)
“Many paths cross in Ismailov’s beautiful new work–poetry, history and- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Ismailov, Hamid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 030027274X
- Language: English
