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GraceLand

A Novel

Chris Abani Picador

A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year

"GraceLand amply demonstrates that Abani has the energy, ambition, and compassion to create a novel that delineates and illuminates a complicated, dynamic, deeply fractured society."—Merle Rubin, Los Angeles Times

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award - Nominee - Fiction
L.A. Times Book Prize - Finalist - Fiction
Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award - Nominee - Winner - First Fiction
Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award - Winner - First Fiction
Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award - Finalist - Winner - Debut Fiction

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Trade Paperback : $18.00 Buy	The Fool's Progress An Honest Novel Edward Abbey A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book When his third wife abandons him in Tucson, boozing, misanthropic anarchist Henry Holyoak Lightcap shoots his refrigerator and sets off in a battered pick-up...

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	The Poet Game A Novel Salar Abdoh Picador In the wake of the first World Trade Center bombing, New York City is the center of an intricate web of betrayals and double-crosses in the shadowy world of...

Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	False Papers André Aciman Picador In these fourteen essays Andre Aciman, one of the most poignant stylists of his generation, dissects the experience of loss, moving from his forced departure...

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	Out of Egypt A Memoir André Aciman Picador This richly colored memoir chronicles the exploits of a flamboyant Jewish family, from its bold arrival in cosmopolitan Alexandria to its defeated exodus three...

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Call Me by Your Name

A Novel

André Aciman Picador

"A coming-of-age story, coming-out story, a Proustian meditation on time and desire, a love letter, an invocation and something of an epitaph, Call Me by Your Name is also an open question. It is an exceptionally beautiful book that cannot quite bring itself to draw the inevitable conclusion about axis-shifting passion that men and women of the world might like to think they will always reach—that that obscure object of desire is, by definition, ungraspable, indeterminate and already lost at exactly the moment you rush so fervently to hold him or her."—Stacey D'Erasmo, The New York Times Book Review

Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	A Better Angel Stories Chris Adrian Picador “Adrian, himself a pediatrician and seminary student, is a lucid, brilliant fortune-teller. He unveils our demons, who, in the wake of their visitations upon these children, reveal something you can only call the face of God.”—Tom Chiarella, Esquire

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The Cockatrice Boys

Joan Aiken; Illustrations by Jason Van Hollander Starscape

What does a cockatrice enjoy most for dinner? Anyone it can find. So the alarmed inhabitants of England discover when a plague of monsters-known as...

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Little Women

Tor Classics

Louisa May Alcott Tor Classics

Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each...

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Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	A Walk on the Wild Side A Novel Nelson Algren; Foreword by Russell Banks Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks With its depictions of the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers, and hustlers of Perdido Street in the old French Quarter of 1930s New Orleans, A Walk in the...

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Madras on Rainy Days

A Novel

Samina Ali Picador

A Finalist for the Northern California Book Award

"Ali explores cultural conditions with sensitivity, and mercifully does not over-exoticise. Her story is intriguing . . . She is one of a rare breed of writers who take us into the closed world behind a Muslim woman's veil . . . Carefully crafted [and] eminently readable."—Mitali Saran, Far Eastern Economic Review

"This book goes to a place where few, if any, of its predecessors have gone before. . . [This is] a deeply feminist novel with richly drawn and complicated characters."—Ms.

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Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award - Finalist - First Fiction
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The Marriage of the Sea

A Novel

Jane Alison Picador

In a damp Venetian palace, Oswaldo contemplates the ravages of time to his body and his beloved city. In New York, Lach savors his freedom, having just dropped...

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Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	Low Road The Life and Legacy of Donald Goines Eddie B. Allen, Jr. St. Martin's Griffin Donald Goines was a pimp, truck driver, heroin addict, factory worker, and career criminal. He was also one of the most popular Black contemporary writers...

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	Holding Pattern Stories Jeffery Renard Allen Graywolf Press Paper The world of Jeffery Renard Allen’s stunning short-story collection is a place like no other. A recognizable city, certainly, but one in which a man might...

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This I Believe

The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women

Jay Allison and Dan Gediman, eds. Holt Paperbacks

"To hold this range of beliefs in the palm of your hand is as fine, as grounding, as it was hearing them first on the radio. Heartfelt, deeply cherished beliefs, doctrines for living (yet none of them doctrinaire). Ideas and ideals that nourish. You can see it in their faces, in the photos in this book. And read it in their words. I'm so proud that NPR helped carry this Edward R. Murrow tradition into a new century. And so glad to have it in print, to encounter again and again."—Susan Stamberg, special correspondent, National Public Radio

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This I Believe II

More Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women

Jay Allison and Dan Gediman, eds. Holt Paperbacks

"In the second collection derived from the extraordinarily popular and influential National Public Radio program This I Believe, pithy, personal, and stealthily affecting essays grapple with life's big questions from myriad perspectives and with refreshingly positive energy . . . Infused with gratitude and hope, these declarations are at once grounding and uplifting."—Booklist

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Night Wraps the Sky

Writings by and about Mayakovsky

Vladimir Mayakovsky; Edited by Michael Almereyda Farrar, Straus and Giroux

"The translations—by a new generation of Russian American poets—are consistently wonderful. Rachel Cohen's essay concisely and brilliantly describes the Futurists, the Formalists, the Acmeists, and the Symbolists-all artistic groups surrounding Mayakovsky. The book further explores Mayakovsky's relationships with Lili Brik and Tatiana Yakovleva, explains his propaganda work, and addresses his mixture of the surreal, the lyric, and the sarcastic . . . Encompassing the excitement and glory of the revolution's generation."—Gene Shaw, Library Journal

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Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	The Women Hilton Als Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks A New York Times Notable Book Daring and fiercely original, The Women is at once a memoir, a psychological study, a sociopolitical manifesto, and an...

Trade Paperback : $13.00 Buy	The Man Who Turned Into Himself A Novel David Ambrose Picador In the middle of an important meeting, businessman Rick Hamilton has a terrible premonition: His wife is about to die. Racing to save her, he finds her...

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Human Capital

A Novel

Stephen Amidon Picador

"[A work of] meticulously observed social details [and] some shrewd psychological insights. And Mr. Amidon proves himself a nimble storyteller, providing the reader with a solid, literate, and consistently compelling tale . . . Mr. Amidon moves the story along as quickly as any Hollywood director of thrillers, but he does so while giving us entrée to his characters' inner lives."—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

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The Afterlife

A Memoir

Donald Antrim Picador

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice In the winter of 2000, shortly after his mother's death, Donald Antrim began writing about his family. In...

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Trade Paperback : $17.95 Buy	Purgatory A Prison Diary Volume 2 A Prison Diary (#2 of 3) Jeffrey Archer St. Martin's Griffin On August 9, 2001, 22 days after Archer--now known as Prisoner FF8282--was sentenced to four years in prison for perjury, he was transferred from a maximum...

Trade Paperback : $16.95 Buy	Heaven A Prison Diary Volume 3 A Prison Diary (#3 of 3) Jeffrey Archer St. Martin's Griffin Heaven, Jeffrey Archer's final volume in his trilogy of prison diaries, covers the period of his transfer from a medium security prison, HMP Wayland, to his...

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	Passage to Ararat Michael J. Arlen; Introduction by Geoffrey Wolff Farrar, Straus and Giroux In Passage to Ararat, which received the National Book Award in 1976, Michael J. Arlen goes beyond the portrait of his father, the famous Anglo-Armenian...