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  • Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun

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    National Book Award finalist M?nica Ojeda returns with a blazing, psychedelic novel about girlhood, violence, and the loss of innocence.

    In the near future, best friends Noa and Nicole flee their home

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    • Author: Ojeda, Mónica
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 250
    • Publish Date: May 12 2026
    • ISBN10: 1566897556
    • Language: English
  • Very Collected Poems

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    Over sixty years of poems celebrating one of the most dynamic careers in twentieth and twenty-first century American poetry.

    Gathering a lifetime of poetry, Ron Padgett’s Very Collected Poems is the u

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    • Author: Padgett, Ron
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 1128
    • Publish Date: November 18 2025
    • ISBN10: 1566897432
    • Language: English
  • Hyper

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    A cutting, hypermodern saga of money, family, and survival for fans of Zadie Smith, Patricia Lockwood, and Mohsin Hamid.

    On the eve of the 1979 Revolution, Rafiq Hardi Kermanj, founder of Kurdistan’s

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    • Author: Ismaïl, Agri
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 360
    • Publish Date: January 13 2026
    • ISBN10: 1566897475
    • Language: English
  • The Aquatics

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    An extraordinary novel of loyalty, strife, and empowerment from Peabody Award-winning Cameroonian filmmaker Osvalde Lewat.

    In the fictional African country of Zambuena, Katm? Abbia enjoys a life of pr

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    • Author: Lewat, Osvalde
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: December 02 2025
    • ISBN10: 1566897459
    • Language: English
  • Analog Days

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    Acclaimed translator Damion Searls’s exuberant debut novella navigates the bittersweet tug-of-war between nostalgia and living life meaningfully in a world buzzing with information overload.

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    • Series: Nvla #6
    • Author: Searls, Damion
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 120
    • Publish Date: October 21 2025
    • ISBN10: 1566897394
    • Language: English
  • Terry Dactyl

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    From iconic author and activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore comes a breathless search for intimacy and connection, ranging from club culture to the art world, from the AIDS crisis to COVID-19.

    Terry D

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    • Author: Sycamore, Mattilda Bernstein
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: November 11 2025
    • ISBN10: 1566897416
    • Language: English
  • Helen of Nowhere

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    An electrifying novel about the delights and dangers of starting over.

    In the middle of the countryside, a realtor is showing a disgraced professor around an idyllic house. She speaks not only about t

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    • Author: Goodman, Makenna
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: September 09 2025
    • ISBN10: 1566897351
    • Language: English
  • Patchwork

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    Tom Comitta returns with a novella that is at once a picaresque quest for a stolen snuffbox and a marvel of literary d?coupage, equal parts love story, old-fashioned thriller, and absurdist romp.

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    • Series: Nvla
    • Author: Comitta, Tom
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 200
    • Publish Date: August 19 2025
    • ISBN10: 1566897297
    • Language: English
  • The Mind Reels

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    In his debut novel, longtime observer of culture and politics Fredrik deBoer depicts mental illness in all its grim and ugly reality, free of our culture’s endless romanticization of insanity.

    In a do

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    • Author: DeBoer, Fredrik
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 168
    • Publish Date: October 07 2025
    • ISBN10: 1566897378
    • Language: English
  • Out of the Sierra: A Story of Rar?muri Resistance

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    A displaced family charts a path forward in this testament to the power of perseverance and the many forms resistance can take.

    The Rar?aacute;muri people of Chihuahua, Mexico, make up one of the larg

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    • Author: Blanco, Victoria
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 328
    • Publish Date: June 11 2024
    • ISBN10: 1566896533
    • Language: English
  • Cecilia

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    An erotic, surreal novella from the author of Organ Meats and Bestiary.

    Seven, who works as a cleaner at a chiropractor’s office, reencounters Cecilia, a woman who has obsessed her since their school

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    • Series: Nvla
    • Author: Chang, K-Ming
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: May 21 2024
    • ISBN10: 1566897076
    • Language: English
  • Sansei and Sensibility

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    Generations of Japanese Americans merge with Jane Austen’s characters in these lively stories, pairing uniquely American histories with reimagined classics.

    • Author: Yamashita, Karen Tei
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: May 05 2020
    • ISBN10: 1566895782
    • Language: English
  • True Failure

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    A twisting examination of life under late capitalism and the deceptions we inhabit to invent our own success stories.

    Ben just lost his job, but he won’t fess up to his wife Tara. Instead, while he cl

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    • Author: Higley, Alex
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 280
    • Publish Date: February 25 2025
    • ISBN10: 1566897130
    • Language: English
  • Audition

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    A genre-defying novel–part science fiction, part social realism–from one of the most powerful voices in New Zealand literature today.

    A spaceship called Audition is hurtling through the cosmos. Squa

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    • Author: Adam, Pip
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: June 10 2025
    • ISBN10: 1566897319
    • Language: English
  • The Seers

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    With echoes of Zora Neale Hurston and Clarice Lispector, Sulaiman Addonia turns from the broader immigration narrative of land and nations to look closely at the erotic and intimate lives of asylum se[more below]

    • Author: Addonia, Sulaiman
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 136
    • Publish Date: April 22 2025
    • ISBN10: 1566897211
    • Language: English
  • No Names

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    Inspired by the iconic punk scene of the late ’70s, No Names blurs the lines of affection and sexuality in a haunting tale of desire, hope, and loss.

    Mike and Pete were “no names,” two working-class b

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    • Author: Hewett, Greg
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: April 08 2025
    • ISBN10: 1566897254
    • Language: English
  • Out of the Blank

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    “We waited for Word to arrive/ like a messiah in a stagecoach/ or a sheriff riding a thundercloud.”

    From acclaimed poet Elaine Equi comes her latest provocatively playful collection. “Thoughtful, witt

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    • Author: Equi, Elaine
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: February 11 2025
    • ISBN10: 1566897173
    • Language: English
  • We’re Safe When We’re Alone

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    Son is real. Son was saved from a life he cannot remember. Son is a human in a mythical world of ghosts. This is what Father tells him.

    Son has lived his entire life inside the mansion. He is a good

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    • Series: Nvla
    • Author: Nghiem, Tran
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 168
    • Publish Date: September 19 2023
    • ISBN10: 1566896835
    • Language: English
  • Sand-Catcher

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    A sardonic, thrilling fable about collective memory and the many ways it can be saved or subverted.

    Four young, Palestinian journalists at a Jordanian newspaper are tasked, on account of their heritag

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    • Author: Khalifah, Omar
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: December 03 2024
    • ISBN10: 1566897335
    • Language: English
  • Lesser Ruins

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    From the author of Reinhardt’s Garden and Saint Sebastian’s Abyss comes a breathless new novel of delirious obsession.

    Bereft after the death of his ailing wife, a retired professor has resumed his l

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    • Author: Haber, Mark
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 296
    • Publish Date: October 08 2024
    • ISBN10: 156689719X
    • Language: English
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