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  • Gigi, Julie de Carneilhan, and Chance Acquaintances: Three Short Novels

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    Two volumes of Colette’s most beloved works, with a new Introduction by Judith Thurman.

    Perhaps Colette’s best-known work, Gigi is the story of a young girl being raised in a household more concerned

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    • Author: Colette
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: October 10 2001
    • ISBN10: 0374527857
    • Language: English
  • The Kingdom of This World

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    A masterful new translation of a haunting novel of nineteenth-century Haiti

    A few years after its liberation from harsh French colonial rule in 1803, Haiti endured a period of great brutality under th

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    • Series: FSG Classics
    • Author: Carpentier, Alejo
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: November 07 2017
    • ISBN10: 0374537380
    • Language: English
  • Dear Cyborgs

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    One of Vol. 1 Brooklyn‘s Favorite Fiction Books of 2017, a Literary Hub Staff Favorite Book of 2017, and one of BOMB Magazine’s Looking Back on 2017: Literature Selections.

    Wondrous . . . [A] sense of

    • Author: Lim, Eugene
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: June 06, 2017
    • ISBN10: 0374537119
    • Language: English
  • Stream System: The Collected Short Fiction of Gerald Murnane

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    Stories from a mind-bending Australian master, “a genius on the level of Beckett” (Teju Cole)

    Never before available to readers in this hemisphere, these stories–originally published from 1985 to 201

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    • Author: Murnane, Gerald
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 560
    • Publish Date: April 03 2018
    • ISBN10: 0374126003
    • Language: English
  • In the Land of the Cyclops: Essays

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    From the New York Times bestselling author of the My Struggle series comes a collection of ambitious, remarkably erudite essays on art, literature, culture, and philosophy.

    In the Land of the Cyclops

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    • Author: Knausgaard, Karl Ove
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 416
    • Publish Date: January 10 2023
    • ISBN10: 0374265607
    • Language: English
  • My Struggle, Book Four

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    The fourth installment in the beloved, internationally celebrated My Struggle series from Karl Ove Knausgaard.

    My Struggle: Book 4 finds an eighteen-year-old Karl Ove Knausgaard in a tiny fishing villa

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    • Series: My Struggle #4
    • Author: Knausgaard, Karl Ove
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 512
    • Publish Date: April 19 2016
    • ISBN10: 0374534179
    • Language: English
  • The Fixer

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    The Fixer is the winner of the 1967 National Book Award for Fiction and the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

    The Fixer (1966) is Bernard Malamud’s best-known and most acclaimed novel — one that makes

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    • Series: FSG Classics
    • Author: Malamud, Bernard
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 335
    • Publish Date: May 05 2004
    • ISBN10: 0374529388
    • Language: English
  • A Walk on the Wild Side

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    With its depictions of the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers, and hustlers of Perdido Street in the old French Quarter of 1930s New Orleans, Nelson Algren’s A Walk in the Wild Side has found a plac

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    • Author: Algren, Nelson
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: June 24 1998
    • ISBN10: 0374525323
    • Language: English
  • Sylvia

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    First acclaimed as a story-length memoir, then expanded into a novel, Sylvia draws us into the lives of a young couple whose struggle to survive Manhattan in the early 1960s involves them in sexual fa

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    • Series: FSG Classics
    • Author: Michaels, Leonard
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: May 29 2007
    • ISBN10: 0374271070
    • Language: English
  • Enemies, a Love Story

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    Almost before he knows it, Herman Broder, refugee and survivor of World War II, has three wives: Yadwiga, the Polish peasant who hid him from the Nazis; Masha, his beautiful and neurotic true love; an

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    • Author: Singer, Isaac Bashevis
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: April 01 1988
    • ISBN10: 0374515220
    • Language: English
  • Orientation and Other Stories

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    Breakfast’s boiled egg, the overhead hum of fluorescent lights, the midmorning coffee break–daily routines keep the world running. But when people are pushed–by a coworker’s taunt, a face-to-face en

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    • Author: Orozco, Daniel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: May 22 2012
    • ISBN10: 0865478716
    • Language: English
  • Time of the Hero

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    WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

    The action of The Time of the Hero, Nobel Prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa’s first novel, takes place at the Leoncio Prado Military Academy in Lima, Peru

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    • Author: Llosa, Mario Vargas
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 412
    • Publish Date: December 05 2003
    • ISBN10: 0374520216
    • Language: English
  • The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford

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    These Pulitzer Prize-winning stories represent the major short works of fiction by one of the most distinctively American stylists of her day. Jean Stafford communicates the small details of lonelines… [more below]

    • Series: FSG Classics
    • Author: Stafford, Jean
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 512
    • Publish Date: September 01 2005
    • ISBN10: 0374529930
    • Language: English
  • The Dead Father

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    The Dead Father is a gargantuan half-dead, half-alive, part mechanical, wise, vain, powerful being who still has hopes for himself–even while he is being dragged by means of a cable toward a mysterio

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    • Series: FSG Classics
    • Author: Barthelme, Donald
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: September 15 2004
    • ISBN10: 0374529256
    • Language: English
  • At the Bottom of the River

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    Jamaica Kincaid’s At the Bottom of the River … inspired, lyrical short stories

    Reading Jamaica Kincaid is to plunge, gently, into another way of seeing both the physical world and its elusive inhabi

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    • Author: Kincaid, Jamaica
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: October 15 2000
    • ISBN10: 0374527342
    • Language: English
  • Auto-Da-Fé

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    Auto-da-Fé, Elias Canetti’s only work of fiction, is a staggering achievement that puts him squarely in the ranks of major European writers such as Robert Musil and Hermann Broch.

    It is the story of

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    • Author: Canetti, Elias
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 464
    • Publish Date: December 01 1984
    • ISBN10: 0374518793
    • Language: English
  • Hard Laughter

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    Anne Lamott’s poignant first novel Hard Laughter, reissued in an attractive paperback edition.

    “A moving and strangely joyful book, a kind of celebration, and it’s written with an assurance far beyond

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    • Author: Lamott, Anne
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: April 15 1979
    • ISBN10: 0865472807
    • Language: English
  • She Sang for India: How M.S. Subbulakshmi Used Her Voice for Change

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    A picture book biography about M.S. Subbulakshmi, a powerful Indian singer who advocated for justice and peace through song.

    Before M.S. Subbulakshmi was a famous Carnatic singer and the first Indian

    • Author: Subramaniam, Suma
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 40
    • Publish Date: November 08, 2022
    • ISBN10: 0374388741
    • Language: English
  • A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton

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    The first book from the legendary New Yorker writer John McPhee, tells about Bill Bradley when he was the best basketball player Princeton had ever seen.

    When John McPhee met Bill Bradley, both were a

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    • Author: McPhee, John
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: June 30 1999
    • ISBN10: 0374526893
    • Language: English
  • The Stone Virgins

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    Winner of the Macmillan Prize for African Adult Fiction

    An uncompromising novel by one of Africa’s premiere writers, detailing the horrors of civil war in luminous, haunting prose

    In 1980, after decad

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    • Author: Yvonne, Vera
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 184
    • Publish Date: February 14 2004
    • ISBN10: 0374528942
    • Language: English
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