Coffee House Press

  • Through the Arc of the Rain Forest

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    A freewheeling black comedy bound up in cultural confusion, political insanity, and environmental catastrophe.

    • Author: Yamashita, Karen Tei
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 216
    • Publish Date: September 12 2017
    • ISBN10: 1566894859
    • Language: English
  • Tropic of Orange

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    “Fiercely satirical. . . . Yamashita presents [an] intricate plot with mordant wit.” —New York Times Book Review

    “A stunner. . . . An exquisite mystery novel. But this is a novel of dystopia and apoca

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    • Author: Yamashita, Karen Tei
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 264
    • Publish Date: September 12 2017
    • ISBN10: 1566894867
    • Language: English
  • Blood Dazzler

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    In minute-by-minute detail, Patricia Smith tracks Hurricane Katrina as it transforms into a full-blown mistress of destruction. From August 23, 2005, the day Tropical Depression Twelve developed, thro

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    • Author: Smith, Patricia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 90
    • Publish Date: September 01 2008
    • ISBN10: 156689218X
    • Language: English
  • Look at This Blue

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    Finalist for the 2022 National Book Award in Poetry

    Winner of the 2022 Emory Elliott Book Award

    Finalist for the 2023 Firecracker Award

    Finalist for the 2023 ASLE Creative Book Award

    Interweaving eleg

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    • Author: Hedge Coke, Allison Adelle
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 168
    • Publish Date: March 29 2022
    • ISBN10: 1566896207
    • Language: English
  • A Cowardly Woman No More

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    Over the course of one fateful day, Trisha Donahue begins to reclaim her courage and discovers secrets in a familiar place. A surprising, quietly dramatic adventure story infused with Ellen Cooney’s w

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    • Author: Cooney, Ellen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: April 04 2023
    • ISBN10: 1566896711
    • Language: English
  • The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell

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    “Here is how monstrous humans are.”

    A sentient, murderous prosthetic leg; shadowy creatures lurking behind a shimmering wall; brutal barrow men–of all the terrors that populate The Glassy, Burning Fl

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    • Author: Evenson, Brian
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 248
    • Publish Date: August 03 2021
    • ISBN10: 1566896118
    • Language: English
  • Father of Lies

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    Is the devil in Eldon Fochs? Is he a sexual psychopath? Or is the church protecting him to blame?

    • Author: Evenson, Brian
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 200
    • Publish Date: February 09, 2016
    • ISBN10: 1566894158
    • Language: English
  • Pretentiousness: Why It Matters

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    Pretentiousness is the engine oil of culture; the essential lubricant in the development of all arts, high, low, or middle.

    • Author: Fox, Dan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: April 05 2016
    • ISBN10: 156689428X
    • Language: English
  • Brown Neon

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    A meditation on southwestern terrains, intergenerational queer dynamics, and surveilled brown artists that crosses physical and conceptual borders.

    Part butch memoir, part ekphrastic travel diary, par
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    • Author: Gutiérrez, Raquel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 200
    • Publish Date: June 07 2022
    • ISBN10: 1566896371
    • Language: English
  • Leaving the Atocha Station

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    Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. What is actual when

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    • Author: Lerner, Ben
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 186
    • Publish Date: August 23, 2011
    • ISBN10: 1566892740
    • Language: English
  • The Story of My Teeth

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    “Luiselli follows in the imaginative tradition of writers like Borges and M?quez, but her style and concerns are unmistakably her own. This deeply playful novel is about the passion and obsession of c

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    • Author: Luiselli, Valeria
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 184
    • Publish Date: September 15 2015
    • ISBN10: 1566894093
    • Language: English
  • The Nature Book

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    Part sweeping evocation of Earth’s rhythms, part literary archive, part post-human novel, The Nature Book collages descriptions of the natural world into a singular symphonic paean to the planet.

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    • Author: Comitta, Tom
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: March 14, 2023
    • ISBN10: 1566896630
    • Language: English
  • Last Days

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    “The deceptively simple prose keeps the book brisk and even gripping as its puzzles grow more craggy and complex. This is Evenson’s singular, Poe-like gift: He writes with intelligence and a steady ha

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    • Author: Evenson, Brian
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 200
    • Publish Date: February 09 2016
    • ISBN10: 1566894166
    • Language: English
  • American Precariat: Parables of Exclusion

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    Fifteen essays coedited by a collective of award-winning incarcerated writers, featuring contributions from Lacy M. Johnson, Kiese Laymon, Valeria Luiselli, Kao Kalia Yang, and more, with a foreword b

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    • Author: Caligiuri, Zeke
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: November 14, 2023
    • ISBN10: 1566896959
    • Language: English
  • Mean

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    Gurba grows up queer, chicana, and take no prisoners. Her story is a revelation, a delight, and an eye-opener.

    • Author: Gurba, Myriam
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: November 7, 2017
    • ISBN10: 1566894913
    • Language: English
  • Nefando

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    A techno-horror portrait of the fears and desires of six young artists whose lives are upended by a controversial video game, from National Book Award finalist Mica Ojeda.

    Six young artists share an a

    • Author: Ojeda, Mónica
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 184
    • Publish Date: October 24, 2023
    • ISBN10: 1566896894
    • Language: English
  • Alive at the End of the World

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    Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author of Prelude to Bruise and How We Fight for Our Lives confronts our everyday apocalypses.

    In haunted p

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    • Author: Jones, Saeed
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: September 13 2022
    • ISBN10: 1566896517
    • Language: English
  • Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions

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    “Humane yet often horrifying, Tell Me How It Ends offers a compelling, intimate look at a continuing crisis–and its ongoing cost in an age of increasing urgency.” –Jeremy Garber, Powell’s Books

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    • Author: Luiselli, Valeria
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: April 04 2017
    • ISBN10: 1566894956
    • Language: English
  • Jawbone

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    Finalist for the 2022 National Book Award in Translated Literature!

    “Was desire something like being possessed by a nightmare?”

    Fernanda and Annelise are so close they are practically sisters: a doubl

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    • Author: Ojeda, Mónica
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: February 08 2022
    • ISBN10: 1566896215
    • Language: English
  • The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir

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    An NEA Big Read Selection

    “This is the best account of the Hmong experience I’ve ever read–powerful, heartbreaking, and unforgettable.”–Anne Fadiman, author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Dow

    • Author: Yang, Kao Kalia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 312
    • Publish Date: April 11, 2017
    • ISBN10: 1566894786
    • Language: English
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