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Undressing The Moon

T. Greenwood

Undressing The Moon

Dark and compassionate, graceful yet raw, Undressing the Moon explores the seams between childhood and adulthood, between love and loss. . .At thirty, Piper Kincaid feels too young to be dying. Cancer has eaten away her strength; she'd be alone but for a childhood friend who's come home by chance. Yet with all the questions of her future before her, she's adrift in the past, remembering the fateful summer she turned fourteen and her life changed forever. Her nervous father's...

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T. Greenwood

The Moonshiner's Daughter

Donna Everhart

The Moonshiner's Daughter

If you fell in love with 1960s North Carolina when reading Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, Donna Everhart’s The Moonshiner’s Daughter will transport you right back. Everhart’s sensitive and expert storytelling will capture you in this Southern coming-of-age novel!  Set in North Carolina in 1960 and brimming with authenticity and grit, The Moonshiner’s Daughter evokes the singular life of sixteen-year-old Jessie Sasser, a...

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Donna Everhart

Francesca's Kitchen

Peter Pezzelli

Francesca's Kitchen

No one writes about Italian-American families with the humor, warmth, and heart of Peter Pezzelli. Now, with Francesca's Kitchen, he delivers another winning novel about how much we need the closeness of family–even if we don't know it. Where There's Food, There's Family For years, Francesca Campanile was the queen of her home. Standing in her Rhode Island kitchen, making sauce from sun-ripened tomatoes, dropping in basil from her garden, and adding fresh onion, Francesca...

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Peter Pezzelli

The River to Glory Land

Janie DeVos

The River to Glory Land

Miami in the 1920’s is a city with two faces. By day, it’s a dazzling beacon of industry; when the sun goes down, neon signs flash and decadence reigns. As Prohibition takes hold, speakeasies and illicit distilleries spring up alongside lavish mansions. Nothing can slow the influx of tourists thirsty for strong liquor—or quell the greed of those eager to provide it. Caught between these two worlds , and two very different men, beautiful Lily Strickland throws herself into re-building her...

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Janie DeVos

Blood Sisters

Kim Yideum

Blood Sisters

Kim Yideum has an international presence, having read at the Stockholm International Poetry Festival in 2014 and Biennale Internationale des Poètes en Val-de-Marne in 2015. She was a writer-in-residence at the Free University of Berlin through Arts Council Korea, and at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. She is considered one of the most exciting voices in contemporary Korean and feminist poetry, having received her PhD for a thesis on Korean Feminist Poetics. Ji Yoon Lee currently lives...

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Kim Yideum

Beaut

Donald Morrill

Beaut

The spare, poetic prose of Raymond Carver meets Jenny Offiill's Department of Speculation and Elizabeth Strout's My Name Is Lucy Barton. In a period when many families in the heartland are shattered by drug addiction, this timely novel chronicles one woman's attempts to understand and survive her blended family, including her meth-addicted son. BEAUT, the winner of the 2018 Lee Smith Novel Prize, is the first novel of acclaimed poet Donald...

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Donald Morrill

Mulberry

Paulette Boudreaux

Mulberry

Even if you think you know what it was like to grow up poor and black in the Jim Crow South, this novel will be a revelation to your understanding. Paulette Bourdreaux's first novel, and winner of the first Lee Smith Novel Prize, is a riveting, scary, and finally, uplifting account of a family's life in 1960s Mississippi. The novel was a finalist for the prestigious Crook's Corner Prize. Said Tayari Jones(An American Marriage): «This soaring story provs what teh old folks say: the...

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Paulette Boudreaux

Jimmy Bluefeather

Kim Heacox

Jimmy Bluefeather

1. This best-selling author received starred reviews from Kirkus, Booklist, and Publisher’s Weekly for his most recent book, JOHN MUIR AND THE ICE THAT STARTED A FIRE (Lyons/April 2014.) 2. This new novel follows his memoir, RHYTHM OF THE WILD (Lyons/May 2015.) 3. THE ONLY KAKAY: A JOURNEY INTO THE HEART OF ALASKA(Lyons, 2006) was Finalist for the 2006 Pen Center USA Western award in creative nonfiction. 4. Features exotic and adventurous setting, quirky-wise...

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Kim Heacox

Fiebre Tropical

Juli Delgado Lopera

Fiebre Tropical

Lit by the hormonal neon glow of Miami, this heady, multilingual debut novel follows a Colombian teenager’s coming-of-age and coming out as she plunges headfirst into lust and evangelism. “Ebullient and assertive. . . . Francisca’s soul stinks up the place beautifully in Fiebre Tropical .” — The New York Times "Juli Delgado Lopera—remember that name—is an irreverent, shameless and disarming new novelist. They are a...

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Juli Delgado Lopera

"The Morgesons" and Other Writings,...

Elizabeth Stoddard

"The Morgesons" and Other Writings, Published and Unpublished

"Stoddard was, next to Melville and Hawthorne, the most strikingly original voice in the mid-nineteenth-century American novel, a voice . . . that ought to gain a more sympathetic and perceptive hearing in our time than in her own."—from the Introduction The centerpiece of this volume is The Morgesons (1862), one of the few outstanding feminist bildungsromanae of that century. Additional selections include arresting short stories and provocative journalistic essays/reviews,...

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Elizabeth Stoddard

Leaving Brooklyn

Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Leaving Brooklyn

An injury at birth left Audrey with a wandering eye. Though flawed, the bad eye functions well enough to permit her an idiosyncratic view of the world, one she welcomes in the stifling postwar Brooklyn of the 1950s. During a journey to Manhattan to see a doctor about her sight, she begins to explore the sexual rites of adulthood. But can her romance last? In this beautifully observed novel, Lynne Sharon Schwartz raises themes of innocence and escape while illuminating the rich inner life of a...

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Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Benchere in Wonderland

Steven Gillis

Benchere in Wonderland

What is the role of art in the world? And what is the responsibility of the artist? After the death of his wife, Michael Benchere, a well-respected sculptor and once-famous architect, looks for ways to redefine the meaning of his life through the purpose of his art. Determined to create a sculpture that celebrates nothing more than the pure beauty of art, Benchere heads into the Kalahari desert where he is followed quite unexpectedly by a ragtag mix of people. Over the course of his months in...

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Steven Gillis

Nowhere Is a Place

Bernice L. McFadden

Nowhere Is a Place

Nowhere Is a Place is a powerful portrait of family secrets, damage, and healing, probing deep below the surface of an African American family’s history to mend present day relationships . . . Ms. McFadden has a beautiful writing style that is simultaneously lyrical and transparent. In parts of the narrative, time seems to stand still as she describes an event in riveting minute to minute detail. Other times she employs a kind of poetic shorthand that condenses long periods...

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Bernice L. McFadden

I Loved You More

Tom Spanbauer

I Loved You More

Tom Spanbauer’s first novel in seven years is a love story triangle akin to The Marriage Plot and Freedom, only with a gay main character who charms gays and straights alike. I Loved You More is a rich, expansive tale of love, sex, and heartbreak, covering twenty-five years in the life of a striving, emotionally wounded writer. In New York, Ben forms a bond of love with his macho friend and foil, Hank. Years later in Portland, a now ill Ben falls for Ruth, who provides the care and...

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Tom Spanbauer

The Diamond Lane

Karen Karbo

The Diamond Lane

Reluctantly back home in L.A. after 16 years in Africa, documentary filmmaker Mouse FitzHenry longs for the harsh, teeming jungle life her lens took in so lovingly. Wrenched Stateside by a family emergency, with her longtime boyfriend/collaborator in tow, Mouse is instantly beleaguered by a past she’d leapt continents to escape. In this rollicking novel, Karbo explores familiar subjects  the phony glitz of Hollywood, the fairy tale lure of love and marriage  with...

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Karen Karbo

Faraway Places

Tom Spanbauer

Faraway Places

During a fateful summer, 13-year-old Jake Weber witnesses the brutal murder of a Native American woman by the town banker. Jake's parents forbid him to speak of the killing or name its perpetrator, even as the woman's African American lover stands falsely accused. The crime and what follows it forever alter Jake's view of his parents and the world around him. Faraway Places won widespread praise for its vivid narrative and incantatory style, and Spanbauer displays singular skill...

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Tom Spanbauer

Conquistador of the Useless

Joshua Isard

Conquistador of the Useless

Joshua Isard’s debut novel is a hoot. Our hero Nathan Wavelsky moves into the burbs with his wife. Life is good. He’s a successful slacker. He doesn’t want to rock the boat. His definition of a good time is listening to his favorite bands on his iPod and staring at the grass and the poplar trees in his backyard. As a mid-level corporate manager, he does what his bosses tell him. If they want somebody fired, he fires them. No questions asked. But the boat does start...

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Joshua Isard

The Dishwasher

Stéphane Larue

The Dishwasher

A NEW YORK TIMES NEW & NOTEWORTHY BOOK A NOW MAGAZINE BEST BOOK TO READ FOR SUMMER 2019 It’s October in Montreal, 2002, and winter is coming on fast. Past due on his first freelance gig and ensnared in lies to his family and friends, a graphic design student with a gambling addiction goes after the first job that promises a paycheck: dishwasher at the sophisticated La Trattoria. Though he feels out of place in the posh dining room, warned by the manager not to enter through the...

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Stéphane Larue

Sugar, Smoke, Song

Reema Rajbanshi

Sugar, Smoke, Song

Sugar, Smoke, Song is a collection of ten linked stories set in the Bronx, California, India, and Brazil. Following the secrets and passions of young women, these stories and their narrators cross genres and rules to arrive at unforeseen lives. A subway rider remembers enacting the gods with her estranged twin, a concert usher discovers her tango-dancing boyfriend’s lover, and a literacy worker confesses the gambles she and others have lost through the bluesy singers she admires. Told...

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Reema Rajbanshi

Open The Door!

Catherine Carswell

Open The Door!

Joanna Bannerman, capricious, selfish and warm-hearted, passionately seeks life and ‘loveliness’. Certainly the bustling streets of Glasgow at the turn of the century promise much greater excitement than the solid evangelical background she has known hitherto. Her studies in the School of Art open up new horizons – of independence and love – and Joanna reaches for them all. First published in 1920, this novel powerfully evokes the image of a young woman ensnared yet ultimately released by her...

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Catherine Carswell

The Wallace

Blind Harry

The Wallace

Edited and Introduced by Anne McKim. This extraordinary poem has been widely popular and influential ever since it was written in the fifteenth century, and its heroic account of the swordfighter Wallace was to symbolise the cause of liberty and independence to many other countries and cultures in the centuries to come. Looking back to the days of the Bruce and the war of independence, Blind Harry’s poem is not an aristocratic tale of chivalry and nobility, but a vivid account of the...

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Blind Harry

Island Landfalls

Роберт Стивенсон

Island Landfalls

Selected and introduced by Jenni Calder. Ill health drove Robert Louis Stevenson from Scotland; the urge for new and adventurous places drew him to the Pacific. There were those at home who would have been happier to see him purely as a spinner of the picturesque, but Stevenson could not close his eyes to the impact of colonialism, the ‘stir-about of epochs and races, barbarisms and civilizations, virtues and crimes’. This collection sets three of his imaginative works —The Bottle Imp, The...

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Роберт Стивенсон

Deep Singh Blue

Ranbir Singh Sidhu

Deep Singh Blue

Deep Singh wants out  out of his family, out of his city, and more than anything, out of his life. His parents argue over everything, his dad passes his evenings shouting at the television, and his brother, who hasn’t said a single word in over a year, suddenly turns to him one day and tells him to die. So when Lily, a beautiful, older, and married, woman, shows him more than a flicker of attention, he falls heedlessly in love. It doesn’t help that Lily is an...

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Ranbir Singh Sidhu

Breathing Water

T. Greenwood

Breathing Water

Startling and fresh. . .ripe with originality. – San Diego Union-Tribune Three years after leaving Lake Gormlaith, Vermont, Effie Greer is coming home. The unspoiled lake, surrounded by dense woods and patches of wild blueberries, is the place where she spent idyllic childhood summers at her grandparents' cottage. And it's where Effie's tempestuous relationship with her college boyfriend, Max, culminated in a tragedy she can never forget. Effie had hoped to save Max from his...

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T. Greenwood

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