Bellevue Literary Press

  • Life After Kafka

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    A novel of Felice Bauer, Franz Kafka’s first fiancée, and the story behind Letters to Felice

    Franz Kafka scholars know Felice Bauer, his onetime fiancée, through his Letters to Felice, as little more

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    • Author: Platzov?, Magdal?na
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: August 06 2024
    • ISBN10: 195427629X
    • Language: English
  • Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths about America’s Lingua Franca

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    “Superb.” —Steven Pinker

    “An explanation, a defense, and, most heartening, a celebration. . . . McWhorter demonstrates the ‘legitimacy’ of Black English by uncovering its complexity and sophistication… [more below]

    • Author: McWhorter, John
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: September 11 2018
    • ISBN10: 1942658583
    • Language: English
  • All Else Failed: The Unlikely Volunteers at the Heart of the Migrant Aid Crisis

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    As hundreds of thousands of displaced people sought refuge in Europe, the global relief system failed. This is the story of the volunteers who stepped forward to help.

    In 2015, increasing numbers of re

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    • Author: Sachs, Dana
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: March 21 2023
    • ISBN10: 1954276095
    • Language: English
  • Pain Studies

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    “A fascinating, totally seductive read ” —Eula Biss, author of Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays and On Immunity: An Inoculation

    “A book built of brain and nerve and blood and heart. . . . Irr

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    • Author: Olstein, Lisa
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: March 04 2020
    • ISBN10: 1942658680
    • Language: English
  • The World Itself: Consciousness and the Everything of Physics

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    There is a wonderfully weird but real world out there, and we are a part of it. It is time for physics to take life seriously.

    Can we ever truly comprehend the universe before we fully understand consc

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    • Author: Danielsson, Ulf
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: February 21 2023
    • ISBN10: 1954276117
    • Language: English
  • Alpha: Abidjan to Paris

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    Doctors Without Borders Prize
    PEN Promotes Award
    GLLI (Global Literature in Libraries Initiative) Translated YA Book Prize Shortlist
    CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal Longlist
    Library Journal “Best Book of the Y

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    • Author: Bessora
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: May 01 2018
    • ISBN10: 1942658400
    • Language: English
  • The Bar at Twilight

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    NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE

    An incomparable storyteller serves up an enchanting concoction of art, love, and longing

    In fifteen masterful stories, Frederic Tuten entertains questions of existential m

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    • Author: Tuten, Frederic
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: May 10 2022
    • ISBN10: 1954276036
    • Language: English
  • City of Incurable Women

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    In a fusion of fact and fiction, nineteenth-century women institutionalized as hysterics reveal what history ignored

    City of Incurable Women is a brilliant exploration of the type of female bodily and

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    • Author: Casey, Maud
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: February 22 2022
    • ISBN10: 1942658869
    • Language: English
  • Her Here

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    An atmospheric debut novel about one lost young woman’s search for another

    “Spellbinding. . . . Wholly engrossing.” —Washington Post

    Elena, struggling with memory loss due to a trauma that has unmoored

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    • Author: Dennis, Amanda
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: March 09 2021
    • ISBN10: 1942658761
    • Language: English
  • The Impostor

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    Two exquisite novellas on memory, perception, and shifting intimacies

    In “The Impostor,” a man travels with his wife through Italy and recalls a family legend about an uncle who was swallowed by Mt. Ve

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    • Author: Telles Ribeiro, Edgard
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: June 13 2023
    • ISBN10: 195427615X
    • Language: English
  • Flight of the Wild Swan

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    A majestic novel of Florence Nightingale, whose courage, self-confidence, and resilience transformed nursing and the role of women in medicine

    Sweeping yet intimate, Flight of the Wild Swan tells the s

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    • Author: Pritchard, Melissa
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 416
    • Publish Date: March 12 2024
    • ISBN10: 1954276214
    • Language: English
  • Canción

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    From internationally celebrated Eduardo Halfon comes a new installment in his hero’s nomadic odyssey as he searches for answers surrounding his grandfather’s abduction

    In Canci?n, Eduardo Halfon’s epon

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    • Author: Halfon, Eduardo
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: September 20 2022
    • ISBN10: 1954276079
    • Language: English
  • Seasons of Purgatory

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    NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST

    The first English-language story collection from “one of Iran’s most important living fiction writers” (Guardian), “a playful, whip-smart literary conjuror: a Kundera or Ru

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    • Author: Mandanipour, Shahriar
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: January 25 2022
    • ISBN10: 1942658958
    • Language: English
  • The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic

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    The acclaimed portrait of institutionalized patients whose abandoned possessions recall their forgotten lives

    “A deeply moving testament to the human side of mental illness.” –Oliver Sacks

    When Willard

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    • Author: Penney, Darby
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: January 01 2009
    • ISBN10: 1934137146
    • Language: English
  • Ravage & Son

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    A master storyteller’s novel of crime, corruption, and antisemitism in early 20th-century Manhattan

    Ravage & Son reflects the lost world of Manhattan’s Lower East Side–the cradle of Jewish immigration

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    • Author: Charyn, Jerome
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: August 22 2023
    • ISBN10: 1954276192
    • Language: English
  • Trondheim

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    NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE

    A son’s collapse pulls his two mothers together and apart in a novel that probes the limits of love, hope, and forgiveness

    In Norway, thousands of miles from home, a stude

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    • Author: James, Cormac
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: February 06 2024
    • ISBN10: 1954276230
    • Language: English
  • The Ice Harp

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson battles dementia while debating whether to intercede in a Black soldier’s unjust arrest

    In 1879, toward the end of his life, the Sage of Concord has lost his words. Beset by aphasia

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    • Series: American Novels
    • Author: Lock, Norman
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: July 04 2023
    • ISBN10: 1954276176
    • Language: English
  • Uncommon Measure: A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time

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    NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST
    NPR “BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR” SELECTION
    NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE

    A virtuosic debut from a gifted violinist searching for a new mode of artistic becoming

    How does time sh

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    • Author: Hodges, Natalie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: March 22 2022
    • ISBN10: 1942658974
    • Language: English
  • A Mathematician’s Lament

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    “One of the best critiques of current K-12 mathematics education I have ever seen, written by a first-class research mathematician who elected to devote his teaching career to K-12 education.” —Keith

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    • Author: Lockhart, Paul
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: April 01 2009
    • ISBN10: 1934137170
    • Language: English
  • Like the Appearance of Horses

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    A novel of one family, a century of war, and the promise of homecoming from Dayton Literary Peace Prize winner and National Book Award finalist Andrew Krivak

    Rooted in the small, mountain town of Darda

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    • Author: Krivak, Andrew
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: May 9, 2023
    • ISBN10: 1954276133
    • Language: English
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