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National Book Awards - Finalist

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A Man in Full

A Novel

Tom Wolfe Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Big men. Big money. Big games. Big libidos. Big trouble. A decade ago, The Bonfire of the Vanities defined an era--and established Tom Wolfe as our prime...

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The Rest of Love

Poems

Carl Phillips Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Striking new poems from a writer whose "lyric gift . . . outstrips all diversionary maneuvers." (Carol Moldaw, The Antioch Review) The light, for as far...

National Book Awards - Finalist - Poetry
Lambda Literary Award - Nominee - Gay Men's Poetry
Triangle Awards - Winner - Gay Poetry

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Life on the Outside

The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett

Jennifer Gonnerman Picador

Life on the Outside tells the story of Elaine Bartlett, who spent sixteen years in Bedford Hills prison for selling cocaine--a first offense--under New York's...

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Varieties of Disturbance

Stories

Lydia Davis Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Lydia Davis has been called “one of the quiet giants in the world of American fiction” (Los Angeles Times), “an American virtuoso of the short story form”...

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Trance

A Novel

Christopher Sorrentino Picador

2005 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction A Los Angeles Times Book Review Favorite Book of the Year A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Novel of the Year ...

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Star Dust

Poems

Frank Bidart Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

In 2002, Frank Bidart published a sequence of poems, Music Like Dirt, the first chapbook ever to be a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. From the beginning, he...

National Book Awards - Finalist - Poetry
Triangle Awards - Nominee - Gay Men's Poetry

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Out of Eden

An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion

Alan Burdick Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Now as never before, exotic animals and plants are crossing the globe, borne on the swelling tide of human traffic to places where nature never intended them...

National Book Awards - Finalist - Nonfiction
National Outdoor Book Awards - Winner - Natural History

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Capacity

Poems

James McMichael Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Capacity, the extraordinary new collection from the award-winning poet James McMichael, deliberates an earth that supplies what people need to live. Land,...

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Averno

Poems

Louise Glück Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. That place gives its name to Louise Glück’s...

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Fieldwork

A Novel

Mischa Berlinski Picador

When his girlfriend takes a job in Thailand, Mischa Berlinski goes along for the ride, planning to enjoy himself and work as little as possible. But one...

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Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution

Woody Holton Hill and Wang

Average Americans Were the True Framers of the Constitution Woody Holton upends what we think we know of the Constitution’s origins by telling the history...

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Watching the Spring Festival

Poems

Frank Bidart Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

This is Frank Bidart’s first book of lyrics—his first book not dominated by long poems. Narrative elaboration becomes speed and song. Less embattled than...

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Home

A Novel

Marilynne Robinson Picador

WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE 2009 A 2008 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE A New York Times Bestseller A Washington...

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Speak Low

Poems

Carl Phillips Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Speak Low is the tenth book from one of America’s most distinctive—and one of poetry’s most essential—contemporary voices. Phillips has long been hailed for...

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Far North

A Novel

Marcel Theroux Picador

This National Book Award finalist and New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice is an enthralling, poetic adventure set in post-apocalyptic Siberia....

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