City Life

  • Endpapers

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    It’s 2003, and artist Dawn Levit is stuck. A bookbinder who works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, she spends all day repairing old books but hasn’t created anything of her own in years–and with no… [more below]

    • Author: Savran Kelly, Jennifer
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: December 05 2023
    • ISBN10: 1643755404
    • Language: English
  • Dirty Havana Trilogy: A Novel in Stories

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    “A lewd, impious and brilliant novel of contemporary Cuba. In the brutality of his honesty, Mr. Gutierrez reminds one of Jean Genet and Charles Bukowski.” —New York Times

    Dirty Havana Trilogy chronic

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    • Author: Gutierrez, Pedro Juan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: February 05 2002
    • ISBN10: 0060006897
    • Language: English
  • The Cheap Dates Club

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    Two broke strangers.
    Two broken hearts.
    Two happily-ever-afters for the price of one?

    Isla and Leigh are starting to think love is not worth it.

    Until they both see an ad in the gazette for a new dating s

    • Author: Brook, Lottie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: December 12, 2023
    • ISBN10: 0008623570
    • Language: English
  • Old New York

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    Four novellas by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Age of Innocence, brilliantly capturing New York of the 1840s, ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s.

    The four short novels in this collection are set in the N

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    • Author: Wharton, Edith
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: March 01 1995
    • ISBN10: 0020383142
    • Language: English
  • A Plague of Mercies

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    A lethal plague sweeps the globe. Millions have died. Survivors are confined to their homes.

    Gabriel passes his time in a small New York apartment on the city’s Upper West Side. During the plodding sol

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    • Author: Pelzman, Adam
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 356
    • Publish Date: June 07 2023
    • ISBN10: 1733258566
    • Language: English
  • Tokyo Ueno Station (National Book Award Winner)

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    WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE

    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR

    A surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo’s busiest train stati

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    • Author: Miri, Yu
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: June 22 2021
    • ISBN10: 0593187520
    • Language: English
  • Love Lettering: A Witty and Heartfelt Love Story

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    In this warm and witty romance from acclaimed author Kate Clayborn, one little word puts a woman’s business-and her heart-in jeopardy . . .

    Meg Mackworth’s hand-lettering skill has made her famous as t

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    • Author: Clayborn, Kate
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: December 31 2019
    • ISBN10: 1496725174
    • Language: English
  • The River of Silver: Tales from the Daevabad Trilogy

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    Bestselling author S. A. Chakraborty’s acclaimed Daevabad Trilogy gets expanded with this new compilation of stories from before, during, and after the events of The City of Brass, The Kingdom of Copp

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    • Series: Daevabad Trilogy #4
    • Author: Chakraborty, S. A.
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: October 11 2022
    • ISBN10: 0063093731
    • Language: English
  • Oliver Twist

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    Chiltern Publishing creates the most beautiful editions of the world’s finest literature. Your favorite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before; the tactile layers, fine details and be

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    • Series: Chiltern Classic
    • Author: Dickens, Charles
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 0
    • Publish Date: July 11 2023
    • ISBN10: 191460220X
    • Language: English
  • Queer

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    The definitive text of William S. Burroughs’s early, long-unpublished novel, reissued on the seventieth anniversary of the year of its writing, set to be adapted for film directed by Luca Guadagnino a

    • Author: Burroughs, William S.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: September 06, 2022
    • ISBN10: 0802160565
    • Language: English
  • The Twelve Topsy-Turvy, Very Messy Days of Christmas: Inspiration for the Emmy-Winning Holiday Special

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    Move over, Dickens–America’s favorite storyteller has written a gift, “a delightful Christmas story to be shared by the whole family” (Kirkus), destined to become as treasured as A Christmas Carol.

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    • Author: Patterson, James
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: October 03 2022
    • ISBN10: 0316405906
    • Language: English
  • City of Night

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    ” Rechy’s] tone rings absolutely true, is absolutely his own. . . . He tells the truth, and tells it with such passion that we are forced to share in the life he conveys. . . . This is a most humbling[more below]

    • Author: Rechy, John
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: November 12 2013
    • ISBN10: 0802121535
    • Language: English
  • The Goodby People

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    First published in 1971, The Goodby People is perhaps the greatest novel ever written about post-Manson, pre-Disney Los Angeles. “His elegant, stripped-down prose caught the last gasp of Old Hollywood[more below]

    • Author: Lambert, Gavin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: August 09 2022
    • ISBN10: 1946022446
    • Language: English
  • By: Yu, An

    Ghost Music

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    From the author of the “original and electric” Braised Pork (Time), An Yu’s enchanting and contemplative novel of music and mushrooms follows a former concert pianist searching for the truth about a v[more below]

    • Author: Yu, An
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: January 10, 2023
    • ISBN10: 0802159621
    • Language: English
  • The New Animals

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    Winner of the 2018 Acorn Prize, New Zealand’s highest fiction award, Pip Adam’s The New Animals is a work of artistic ambition and political urgency.

    Set in the Auckland fashion scene in 2016, The New

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    • Author: Adam, Pip
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: October 03 2023
    • ISBN10: 1948980177
    • Language: English
  • V.

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    “This work may well stand as one of the very best works of the century.” —Atlantic Review

    Acclaimed writer Thomas Pynchon’s wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men–one looking for

    • Series: Perennial Classics
    • Author: Pynchon, Thomas
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 560
    • Publish Date: July 05, 2005
    • ISBN10: 0060930217
    • Language: English
  • East of Troost

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    Troost is a real street. East of it is where you can buy a house if you’re Black. It’s also where our middle-aged white narrator grew up-and where she has just returned to reboot her life. How will sh[more below]

    • Author: Barker, Ellen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 328
    • Publish Date: September 06 2022
    • ISBN10: 1647422299
    • Language: English
  • Desperate Characters

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    Otto and Sophie Bentwood live in a changing neighborhood in Brooklyn. Their stainless-steel kitchen is newly installed, and their Mercedes is parked curbside. After Sophie is bitten on the hand while

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    • Author: Fox, Paula
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: March 30, 2015
    • ISBN10: 0393351106
    • Language: English
  • The Complete Fear of Kathy Acker

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    The first complete edition of this notorious novel which maps the 1980s anarchic underground of Los Angeles.

    Published in excerpts over almost four decades, Jack Skelley’s “secretly legendary” novel i

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    • Author: Skelley, Jack
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 136
    • Publish Date: June 6, 2023
    • ISBN10: 1635901855
    • Language: English
  • Jaded

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    A young lawyer wakes up the morning after a work gala with no memory of how she got home the previous night and must figure out what, exactly, happened–and how much she’s willing to put up with to ma[more below]

    • Author: Lee, Ela
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: March 19 2024
    • ISBN10: 1668010992
    • Language: English
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