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  • Mouth: Stories

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    “Sometimes surreal, sometimes horrifying, always startling . . . Mouth introduces readers to Puloma Ghosh’s unmatched ability to probe the visceral depths of female pain, desire, and grief.” –Alice M[more below]

    • Author: Ghosh, Puloma
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: June 11 2024
    • ISBN10: 1662602472
    • Language: English
  • Spring on the Peninsula

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    Longlisted for the 2024 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize!

    A desultory libertine mourns a failed relationship over the course of two harsh winters in this unprecedented portrait of millennials livi

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    • Author: Shin, Ery
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: April 09 2024
    • ISBN10: 1662602227
    • Language: English
  • Mood Swings

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    “Yes, Mood Swings is a novel about tech moguls and the collapse of society. Yes, maybe it’s an ‘internet novel.’ But it’s also so much more than that. And isn’t that lovely, to find a book that transc[more below]

    • Author: Barnet, Frankie
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: May 21 2024
    • ISBN10: 1662602596
    • Language: English
  • Systemic: How Racism Is Making Us Sick

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    In the spirit of Medical Apartheid and Killing the Black Body; A science-based, data-driven, and global exploration of racial disparities in health care access by virologist, immunologist, and science[more below]

    • Author: Liverpool, Layal
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: June 18 2024
    • ISBN10: 1662601670
    • Language: English
  • Early Sobrieties

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    WINNER of the 2025 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel

    Longlisted for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction

    “‘Just give me one more day, ‘ Monk says, and Early Sobrieties is such a

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    • Author: Deagler, Michael
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: May 07 2024
    • ISBN10: 1662602243
    • Language: English
  • Dusk

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    For fans of North Woods and The Vaster Wilds, Dusk is a propulsive, moody, and atmospheric take on the Western.

    In the distant highlands, a puma named Dusk is killing shepherds. Down in the lowlands,

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    • Author: Arnott, Robbie
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: August 05 2025
    • ISBN10: 1662603304
    • Language: English
  • Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus Is Alive!: Stories

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    “Melissa Lozada-Oliva writes with a perfect blend of intoxicating magic and unflinching humor, illuminating the visceral tensions of yearning and darkness that define our most human moments. A beautif[more below]

    • Author: Lozada-Oliva, Melissa
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: September 02 2025
    • ISBN10: 1662601824
    • Language: English
  • Blowfish

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    “A memorable existential tale.” —Publishers Weekly

    For readers of Han Kang and Sheila Heti, an atmospheric, melancholic novel about a successful sculptor who decides to commit suicide by artfully pre

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    • Author: Jo, Kyung-Ran
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: July 15 2025
    • ISBN10: 1662601786
    • Language: English
  • Mood Swings

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    “Yes, Mood Swings is a novel about tech moguls and the collapse of society. Yes, maybe it’s an ‘internet novel.’ But it’s also so much more than that. And isn’t that lovely, to find a book that transc[more below]

    • Author: Barnet, Frankie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: May 20 2025
    • ISBN10: 1662603126
    • Language: English
  • What in Me Is Dark: The Revolutionary Afterlife of Paradise Lost

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    A highly original hybrid of literary criticism and political history, telling of the enduring, surprising and ever-evolving relevance of Milton’s epic poem through the scandalous life of its creator a[more below]

    • Author: Reade, Orlando
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: December 10 2024
    • ISBN10: 1662602790
    • Language: English
  • The Parenthood Dilemma: Procreation in the Age of Uncertainty

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    Our Culture Magazine Best Book of 2023

    “Rushton’s work is generous, thoughtful, and honest, taking care neither to romanticize nor to disparage the choice to become a parent.”
    –Jenny Hamilton, Bookli

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    • Author: Rushton, Gina
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: September 05 2023
    • ISBN10: 1662602383
    • Language: English
  • Foreclosure Gothic

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    “Lyrical and eerie . . . the prose is subtly alluring, such as the author’s description of nature as ‘a witch’s brew of mistrust.’ This sly and creepy drama is worth a look.”–Publishers Weekly

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    • Author: Lahti, Harris
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: June 10 2025
    • ISBN10: 1662602820
    • Language: English
  • Are You Happy?: Stories

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    “Once I read the first story in Are You Happy?, I put aside everything else to savor the rest. This is a wise collection, capturing its characters swimming upstream to encounter their fates. With vivi[more below]

    • Author: Ostlund, Lori
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: May 06 2025
    • ISBN10: 1662603029
    • Language: English
  • Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind

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    “Disturbing and darkly funny, McGhee’s surrealist debut is sure to keep readers up at night.” —People

    Now in paperback, an Electric Literature and Chicago Review of Books best book of the year, the d

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    • Author: McGhee, Molly
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: October 15 2024
    • ISBN10: 1662602707
    • Language: English
  • Mrs. Lilienblum’s Cloud Factory

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    A comic novel for fans of Adelle Waldman about a tech startup that turns sand into rain clouds from Sami Rohr prize winner Iddo Gefen.

    Our story opens with Mrs. Lilienblum discovered drinking a martin

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    • Author: Gefen, Iddo
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: April 01 2025
    • ISBN10: 1662600879
    • Language: English
  • Barbara

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    Like Nolan’s Oppenheimer by way of Lucia Berlin, a radiant novel tracking the lifecycle of a silver screen starlet rising against the backdrop of the Atomic Age.

    Barbara is born shortly before World W

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    • Author: Murphy, Joni
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: March 25 2025
    • ISBN10: 1662602871
    • Language: English
  • Fireweed

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    In the mowed-down industrial north of Prince George, Canada, “white trash” housewife Jenny Hayes shares a fence with the only First Nations woman in the neighborhood, Rachelle, and her two little girl… [more below]

    • Author: Haddad, Lauren
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: April 29 2025
    • ISBN10: 1662602901
    • Language: English
  • Dengue Boy

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    For fans of David Cronenberg’s films and lovers of Kafka, this gaucho-punk, sci-fi novel set in 2197 offers an explosive interpretation of an ultra-capitalistic society on the brink of climate collaps[more below]

    • Author: Nieva, Michel
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: February 04 2025
    • ISBN10: 1662602650
    • Language: Spanish
  • Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto

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    • Author: Saito, Kohei
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: October 29 2024
    • ISBN10: 1662602723
    • Language: English
  • The Chronicles of Doom: Unraveling Rap’s Masked Iconoclast

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    The definitive biography of MF DOOM, charting the reclusive and revered hip-hop artist’s life, career, and eventual immortality.

    “Fernando provides a comprehensive look at DOOM’s life and career, meti
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    • Author: Fernando, S. H.
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: October 29 2024
    • ISBN10: 1662602170
    • Language: English
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