City Life
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Nothing Is Lost
$17.00 Read moreFrom one of France’s most talented young authors, an urban thriller full of rage and raw emotion
In a small town just like any other, a police identity check goes wrong. The victim, Sa?, was fifteen y
- Author: Medhi, Cloé
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1609458222
- Language: English
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The Book of Jakarta: A City in Short Fiction
$18.95 Add to cartA young woman takes a driverless taxi through the streets of Jakarta, only to discover that the destination she is hurtling towards is now entirely submerged… A group of elderly women visit a famous… [more below]
- Series: Reading the City
- Author: Fransisca, Hanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1912697327
- Language: English
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O. Henry: 101 Stories (Loa #345)
$35.00 Add to cartThe ultimate O. Henry: an annotated edition of classic tales by America’s master storyteller
Texas troubadour, convicted embezzler, and adopted New Yorker William Sidney Porter–better known as O. Hen- Author: Henry, O.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 840
- Publish Date: July 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1598536907
- Language: English
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American Gospel
$25.95 Add to cartA low-income Baltimore neighborhood is targeted for a controversial urban renewal project–an amusement park in the theme of Baltimore itself–that forces its residents to reckon with racism, displace… [more below]
- Author: Jeffra, Miah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 500
- Publish Date: March 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1625570430
- Language: English
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The Handicapper: A Novel about Love, Ambition, and the World of Professional Sports Gambling
$17.99 Read moreDavid Lazar, passionate, excessive, riddled with contradictions and soaring ambitions, is a compulsive gambler. He is hopelessly in debt and stuck in a humdrum job that can’t support his addiction. He
- Author: Kalich, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: December 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1933480548
- Language: English
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The Strudlhof Steps: The Depth of the Years
$29.95 Read moreThe first English translation of an essential Austrian novel about life in early-twentieth-century Vienna, as seen through a wide and varied cast of characters.
The Strudlhof Steps is an unsurpassed po… [more below]- Author: Doderer, Heimito Von
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: December 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1681375273
- Language: English
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The Broken Places
$20.95 Read moreShortlisted for 2023 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize and a Globe and Mail Best Book of 2022!
Vancouver. A day like any other. Kyle, a successful cosmetic surgeon, is punishing himself with a spri
- Author: Peck, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1774390450
- Language: English
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Bibliolepsy
$16.95 Read moreMoving, sexy, and archly funny, Gina Apostol’s Philippine National Book Award-winning Bibliolepsy is a love letter to the written word and a brilliantly unorthodox look at the rebellion that brought d… [more below]
- Author: Apostol, Gina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1641294116
- Language: English
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Ragged Company
$19.00 Add to cartFour chronically homeless people-Amelia One Sky, Timber, Double Dick and Digger-seek refuge in a warm movie theatre when a severe Arctic Front descends on the city. During what is supposed to be a one… [more below]
- Author: Wagamese, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 06 2009
- ISBN10: 0385256949
- Language: English
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Cult Classic
$27.00 Read moreHilariously insightful and delightfully suspenseful, Cult Classic is an original: a masterfully crafted tale of love, memory, morality, and mind control, as well as a fresh foray into the philosophy o
- Author: Crosley, Sloane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0374603391
- Language: English
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The Bookseller’s Notebooks
$17.95 Read moreWinner of the 2021 International Prize for Arabic Fiction–known as the “Arabic Booker Prize”– this novel explores themes of loneliness, homelessness, and mental illness.
After losing his job and ref- Author: Barjas, Jalal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1623718201
- Language: English
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The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu
$18.00 Read moreReminiscent of Kurasawa’s film Ikiru, Enlightenment explores the interior mindscape of a Japanese-Peruvian man and his luminous unraveling
Katzuo Nakamatsu is having a recurring dream. He’s strolling- Author: Oshiro, Augusto Higa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1953861520
- Language: English
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The Mutual Friend
$18.00 Read more“This is a rare thing: an original, intelligent novel that’s not just a perfect summer beach read, but one that deserves serious awards consideration as well. Put down your phone and pick it up. . . .… [more below]
- Author: Bays, Carter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 0593186788
- Language: English
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Redhead by the Side of the Road
$18.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE – From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a sparkling novel about misperception, second chances, and the sometimes elusive power of human conne… [more below]
- Author: Tyler, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 30 2021
- ISBN10: 0593080947
- Language: English
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City People
$28.99 Read moreFrom Perfectly Impossible author Elizabeth Topp comes an unforgettably searing novel about a band of mothers who are forced to reckon with themselves after the unexpected loss of one of their own.
When
- Author: Topp, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 166250733X
- Language: English
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Pleasantview
$18.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2022 CLMP Firecracker Award for Fiction
Winner of the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature
“In one of Chekhov’s stories, a character says that every happy man should have someone
- Author: Mohammed, Celeste
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1632462028
- Language: English
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Nothing’s Ever the Same
$15.99 Add to cartItzel’s 13th birthday party starts in just about the unluckiest way possible-with her dad having a heart attack. In those frantic moments, the pi?ntilde;ata and the frosted sheetcake and the Styrofoam… [more below]
- Series: New Chicago Classics #9
- Author: Vargas, Cyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1948954877
- Language: English
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Thorn City
$18.00 Read moreSuspected murder, eclectic food trucks, and artisanal cocaine: just another day in Thorn City.
It’s the night of the Rose City Ripe for Disruption gala–a gathering of Portland’s elite. Dressed to kill
- Author: Statz, Pamela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1947845497
- Language: English
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Out of the Rain
$19.95 Read moreA debut novel from the award-winning journalist about the people in a San Francisco homeless shelter, and those who try to help–or prey on them.
“Ever since I first read Mr. Garcia’s journalism I hav- Author: Garcia, J. Malcolm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1644213869
- Language: English
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Quarterlife
$29.99 Add to cart“In the fashion of the big novels by Salman Rushdie or Amitav Ghosh” (Biblio), Quarterlife is a groundbreaking portrait of a nation on the cusp of a new age. When the Bharat Party comes to power after
- Author: Rege, Devika
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1324095490
- Language: English
