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The Bees: A Novel – $395

The Handmaid’s Tale meets The Hunger Games in this brilliantly imagined debut set in an ancient culture where only the queen may breed and deformity means death. Flora 717 is a sanitation worker, a...

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The professor and the siren – $295

In the last two years of his life, the Sicilian aristocrat Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa wrote not only the internationally celebrated novel The Leopard but also three shorter pieces of fiction, brought...

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Pills and Starships – $250

Pills and Starships In this richly imagined dystopic future brought by global warming, seventeen-year-old Nat and her hacker brother Sam have come by ship to the Big Island of Hawaii for their parents’...

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Abroad: A Novel – $325

Not since Donna Tartt’s The Secret History has a novel this intoxicating captured the headiness and dark temptations of university life.  The old Etruscan city of Grifonia swarms with year-abroad...

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Mr. Mercedes: A Novel – $295

In a mega-stakes, high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely and winning heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from blowing up thousands. In the frigid...

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California: A Novel – $395

The world Cal and Frida have always known is gone, and they’ve left the crumbling city of Los Angeles far behind them. They now live in a shack in the wilderness, working side-by-side to make their...

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Summer House with Swimming Pool – $395

When a medical procedure goes horribly wrong and famous actor Ralph Meier winds up dead, Dr. Marc Schlosser needs to come up with some answers. After all, reputation is everything in this business....

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Song of the Shank – $265

A contemporary American masterpiece about music, race, an unforgettable man, and an unreal America during the Civil War era. At the heart of this remarkable novel is Thomas Greene Wiggins, a...

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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage – $395

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is the long-awaited new novel—a book that sold more than a million copies the first week it went on sale in Japan—from the award-winning,...

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Three Light-Years: A Novel – $325

Cecilia and Claudio are doctors are the same hospital. They eat lunch together almost every day; they talk, sometimes even share secrets. Each is enmeshed in a complicated, painful relationship that...

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The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone – $245

    For fans of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Girl, Interrupted, and A.S. King, National Book Award-finalist Adele Griffin tells the fully illustrated story of a brilliant young artist,...

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Green Girl: A Novel – $245

With the fierce emotional and intellectual power of such classics as Jean Rhys’s Good Morning, Midnight, Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, and Clarice Lispector’s The Hour of the Star, Kate Zambreno’s novel...

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Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)...

In this essential trilogy of novellas by the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, French author Patrick Modiano reaches back in time, opening the corridors of memory and exploring the...

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The Narrow Road to the Deep North: A novel – $325

“Nothing since Cormac McCarthy’s The Road has shaken me like this.” —The Washington Post From the author of the acclaimed Gould’s Book of Fish, a magisterial novel of love and war that traces the life...

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My Brilliant Friend (The Neapolitan novels) – $245

A modern masterpiece from one of Italy’s most acclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila. Ferrante’s inimitable style lends...

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The Peripheral – $325

William Gibson returns with his first novel since 2010’s New York Times–bestselling Zero History. Where Flynne and her brother, Burton, live, jobs outside the drug business are rare. Fortunately,...

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Emergency Anthems – $295

Fiction. “Alex Green‘s work blossoms on the page like small explosions. A surf-side Spoon River tinged with Chandler, Dali, and David Lynch. Neon sunsets, lost girls, grifting tennis instructors, and...

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Portrait of the Writer as a Domesticated Animal – $295

Portrait of the Writer as a Domesticated Animal French Literature Series by Lydie Salvayre What happens when a writer throws herself into the service of one of the richest businessmen in the world?...

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Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London – $495

“Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night,” wrote the poet Rupert Brooke. Before the age of electricity, the nighttime city was a very different place to the one we know today – home to the...

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Lucky Alan: And Other Stories – $395

The incomparable Jonathan Lethem returns with nine stories that demonstrate his mastery of the short form. Jonathan Lethem’s third collection of stories uncovers a father’s nervous breakdown at...

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Satin Island: A novel – $325

From the author of Remainder and C (short-listed for the Man Booker Prize), and a winner of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, comes Satin Island, an unnerving novel that promises to give us the...

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Where the Bird Sings Best – $395

The magnum opus from Alejandro Jodorowsky—director of The Holy Mountain, star of Jodorowsky’s Dune, spiritual guru behindPsychomagic and The Way of Tarot, innovator behind classic comics The Incal and...

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The Familiar, Volume 1: One Rainy Day in May – $435

From the author of the international best seller House of Leaves and National Book Award–nominated Only Revolutions comes a monumental new novel as dazzling as it is riveting. The Familiar (Volume 1)...

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Imperium: A Fiction of the South Seas – $325

An outrageous, fantastical, uncategorizable novel of obsession, adventure, and coconuts. In 1902, a radical vegetarian and nudist from Nuremberg named August Engelhardt set sail for what was then...

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The Cold Eye of Heaven (Irish Literature Series) – $285

Farley, a seventy-five year old man, lies on his bathroom floor, having just suffered a stroke. As his mind sifts through his past, we are introduced to the loyal friend he once was, his loving wife,...

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Eileen: A Novel – $385

A lonely young woman working in a boys’ prison outside Boston in the early 60s is pulled into a very strange crime, in a mordant, harrowing story of obsession and suspense, by one of the brightest new...

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The Trace – $300

A Mexican road novel of love, hate, drugs, and the Mexican Revolution. The Trace is a masterful, poetic novel about a journey through Mexico taken by a couple recovering from a world shattered. Driving...

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The Lost Time Accidents – $525

In his ambitious and fiercely inventive new novel, The Lost Time Accidents, John Wray takes us from turn-of-the-century Viennese salons buzzing with rumors about Einstein’s radical new theory to the...

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SHOWMAN KILLER: HEARTLESS HERO – $295

This is the first of three volumes of a violent, surreal space fantasy by filmmaker (El Topo) and comics visionary Jodorowsky. The saga of a super-assassin Showman Killer, bred from birth to care for...

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The Flame Alphabet – $275

In The Flame Alphabet, the most maniacally gifted writer of our generation delivers a novel about how far we will go in order to protect our loved ones. The sound of children’s speech has become...

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