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Lazarillo de Tormes and The Swindle...

Francisco de Quevedo

Lazarillo de Tormes and The Swindler

Combined in this volume are two famous Spanish picaresque novels, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza's «Lazarillo de Tormes» and Francisco de Quevedo's «The Swindler.» «Lazarillo de Tormes» portrays the clever ploys of a young Salamancan boy determined to outsmart his long string of masters. This Spanish novella was first published in 1554, during the Spanish Inquisition, by an author who wished to remain anonymous due to the work's heretical content. Scholars now attribute the authorship...

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Francisco de Quevedo

My Mother's Kitchen

Meera Ekkanath Klein

My Mother's Kitchen

My Mother's Kitchen  is an enchanting place filled with promise, change and good food. If the weathered walls of this magical room could talk they would tell the story of Meena and her childhood life. Each chapter is a slice in her young life and depicts her spunk and youthful spirit. A visit to the local Fruit and Flower Show becomes an adventure as told by Meena. Her distress at finding out about her aunt's dark secret or her joy of making a new friend are all told...

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Meera Ekkanath Klein

Seeing Ceremony

Meera Ekkanath Klein

Seeing Ceremony

This feel-good sequel to the award-winning My Mother's Kitchen is all about family, good food, love and finding the way back home. Since the death of her husband three years ago, Meena's mother has wanted to see her oldest daughter married and so she organizes Meena's "seeing ceremony," a ritual associated with arranged marriages. However, eighteen-year-old Meena is not ready to be married and wants to leave her hilltop home in Mahagiri, south India,...

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Meera Ekkanath Klein

Evie of the Deepthorn

André Babyn

Evie of the Deepthorn

A deeply affecting and daring novel about small towns, art, and loneliness. “A gorgeous, urgent, nonlinear exploration of loss, belonging, rage, and connection, Evie of the Deepthorn announces André Babyn as an unmissable talent.” – Grace O'Connell What is Evie of the Deepthorn ? It’s a cult Canadian movie that Kent looks to for inspiration as he struggles to understand the death of his brother. It’s a fantasy novel that Sarah wrestles with as she navigates a traumatic childhood and...

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André Babyn

Seven

Farzana Doctor

Seven

A rich, nuanced inter-generational family tale that brings visibility to the practice of female genital cutting Leaving New York to visit India with her husband, Sharifa dives into genealogical research and is intrigued by the missing stories of her great-great-grandfather's four wives. Soon Sharifa uncovers uncomfortable truths about her family's past and is faced with reconciling age-old traditions with their place in the modern world. Author's previous novel Six Metres of...

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Farzana Doctor

Real Life

Adeline Dieudonné

Real Life

• Super lead title for Fall 2019 with an AFP of 20,000 copies • #1 bestseller in France, with 100,000 copies sold within the first month of publication • Mega-international bestseller with 14 licenses sold in heated multi-day auctions to the world’s most prestigious publishers: Italian (Solferino), German (Dtv), Dutch (Atlas Contact), Polish (Znak), Greek, Spanish (Salamandra), Croatian (Znanje), Hebrew (Keter), Finnish (WSOY) and Arabic (Centre Culturel Arabe). • Ecstatic reviews from...

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Adeline Dieudonné

Hard Rain

Darlene Scalera

Hard Rain

A hurricane is heading straight for the tiny coastal town of Turning Point, Texas. Four volunteers from Courage Bay Emergency Services rush to the town's aid. Their lives will never be the same again…Love came early to teenagers Amy Sherwood and Jesse Boone. Then Jesse suddenly disappeared. Now, fourteen years later, Amy doesn't know whether she's disappointed or relieved that Turning Point's sheriff isn't her Jesse. Or is he? The face is different, yet Amy feels an...

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Darlene Scalera

Enchanted Again

Nancy Madore

Enchanted Again

Following the overwhelming success of Enchanted, author Nancy Madore has responded to her fans' pleas for a follow-up with a brilliant second collection–this time comprised of superbly sensual, delightfully debauched and decidedly darker modern-day interpretations of classic nursery rhymes.Meet Dan, the handyman whose toolbox is full of surprises. . . Georgie Porgie, no longer the boy who's content with only kissing girls. . . Jessica, who, torn between two men, may be lured into the...

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Nancy Madore

Enchanted: Erotic Bedtime Stories F...

Nancy Madore

Enchanted: Erotic Bedtime Stories For Women

Allow yourself to be drawn into a fantasy world like no other…Where a beautiful princess is seduced into a love triangle with a handsome prince and her winsome maid…Where a mysterious gentleman`s young bride is deliciously disciplined for her unchecked curiosity…Where a naive daughter is married off to a beast of a man whose carnal appetites awaken her budding desire….With a unique and decidedly adult twist on thirteen classic fairy tales, Nancy Madore intrigues and arouses with her titillating,...

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Nancy Madore

Braised Pork

An Yu

Braised Pork

One autumn morning, Jia Jia walks into the bathroom of her lavish Beijing apartment to find her husband dead. One minute she was breakfasting with him and packing for an upcoming trip, the next, she finds him motionless in their half-full bathtub. Like something out of a dream, next to the tub Jia Jia discovers a pencil sketch of a strange watery figure, an image that swims into Jia Jia’s mind and won’t leave.<p>The mysterious drawing launches Jia Jia on an odyssey across contemporary...

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An Yu

Shuggie Bain

Douglas Stuart

Shuggie Bain

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD[/b][i]Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh “Shuggie” Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher’s policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city’s notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. Shuggie’s mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is Shuggie’s guiding light but a burden for him and his...

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Douglas Stuart

Earthlings

Sayaka Murata

Earthlings

Praise for Earthlings : “I loved this book! It easily converted me to being an alien. A radical, hilarious, heartbreaking look at the crap we have all internalized in order to fit in and survive.” —Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot “ Earthlings takes the mood of colorful disquiet she honed in Convenience Store Woman and pushes it further out. The boy and a girl at the heart of her latest believe they have landed on earth from outer space. Raised by separate families, treated badly, they...

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Sayaka Murata

The Royal Abduls

Ramiza Shamoun Koya

The Royal Abduls

Ramiza Shamoun Koya reveals the devastating cost of anti-Muslim sentiment in <i>The Royal Abduls</i>, her debut novel about an Indian-America family. Evolutionary biologist Amina Abdul accepts a post-doc in Washington, DC, choosing her career studying hybrid zones over a faltering West Coast romance. Her brother and sister-in-law welcome her to the city, but their marriage is crumbling, and they soon rely on her to keep their son company. Omar, hungry to understand his cultural...

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Ramiza Shamoun Koya

The Remnants

Robert Hill

The Remnants

The town of New Eden, peopled with hereditary oddities, has arrived at its last days. As two near-centenarian citizens prepare for their annual birthday tea, a third vows to interrupt the proceedings with a bold declaration. The Remnants cartwheels rambunctiously through the lives of wood-splitters, garment-menders, and chervil farmers, while exposing an electrical undercurrent of secrets, taboos, and unfulfilled longings. With his signature wit and wordplay, Robert Hill delivers a bittersweet...

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Robert Hill

Carry the Sky

Kate Gray

Carry the Sky

Kate Gray takes an unblinking look at bullying in her debut novel, Carry the Sky. It’s 1983 at an elite Delaware boarding school. Taylor Alta, the new rowing coach, arrives reeling from the death of the woman she loved. Physics teacher Jack Song, the only Asian American on campus, struggles with his personal code of honor when he gets too close to a student. These two young, lonely teachers narrate the story of a strange and brilliant thirteen-year-old boy who draws atomic mushroom...

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Kate Gray

The Last Summer

Chan Howell

The Last Summer

The Last Summer is a story of friendships that were born on a baseball field in a small but growing North Carolina town. Swansville once had baseball fever, and over a decade later, a group of twelve-year-old boys reignite the love of baseball for everyone in town. Narrator Carson Smith is nearly thirty-eight years old as he looks back on the magical summer when he was only twelve years old. Carson, or sometimes called Worm, as in bookworm, chronicles his and his teammates’ summer playing Little...

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Chan Howell

The Coming of Age

Vincent Montgomery

The Coming of Age

Steph never planned on following in his father’s footsteps. Growing up in NYC, he knew what living life in the streets could do to a young kid. The fact that he was an orphan was living proof. Steph had a few golden rules he abided by: stay true to himself and his friends and to follow his plan. The plan was simple: graduate high school, attend college, and take care of his grandmother. However, as is often true, things don’t always go according to plan. As summer vacation looms closer,...

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Vincent Montgomery

Great Stories from the German Roman...

Ludwig Tieck

Great Stories from the German Romantics

This outstanding compilation presents stories by two of the writers who helped launch the early nineteenth-century German Romanticism movement: Ludwig Tieck and Jean Paul Richter. Translated by the great British historian Thomas Carlyle, it features seven highly influential tales that range in mood from fantasy and fairy tale lightness to witty satire. Shemlzie's Journey to Fletz and Life of Quintus Fixlien, a story and a novella by Richter, the least translated of the major German...

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Ludwig Tieck

A Lover's Discourse

Xiaolu Guo

A Lover's Discourse

[i]“I don’t believe in love at first sight.” I was taken aback. I thought we were definitely in love at first sight. “What do you mean? Wasn’t it clear the moment you picked the elderflowers by the park and we looked at each other? Or was it in that book club?” You gave me a damp smile, as if my confusion proved that you were right.[/i] A Chinese woman moves from Beijing to London for a doctoral program—and to begin a new life—just as the Brexit campaign reaches a fever pitch. Isolated and...

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Xiaolu Guo

Pink Mountain on Locust Island

Jamie Marina Lau

Pink Mountain on Locust Island

Fifteen-year-old Monk drifts through a monotonous existence in a grimy Chinatown apartment with her “grumpy brown couch” of a dad, until she meets high school senior Santa Coy (santacoyshotsauce@gmail.com). For a moment, it looks like he might be her boyfriend. But when Monk's dad becomes obsessed with Santa Coy's artwork, Monk finds herself shunted to the sidelines as her father and the object of her affections begin to hatch a scheme of their own. To keep up, Monk...

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Jamie Marina Lau

Here Lies a Father

Mckenzie Cassidy

Here Lies a Father

Fifteen-year-old Ian Daly's moral universe is turned upside down when, at this father's funeral, he discovers that his father had two secret families. "Cassidy's debut is affecting…Like the best coming-of-age novels, Here Lies a Father grounds its big concerns in the exquisite particulars of one person’s life."– Literary Hub “Mckenzie Cassidy stuns with his beautiful debut novel, Here Lies a Father . Told as a classic coming-of-age story, Cassidy’s narrator,...

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Mckenzie Cassidy

Correspondents

Tim Murphy

Correspondents

“Murphy artfully connects multiple narratives to produce a sprawling tale of love, family, duty, war, and displacement. It is above all a stinging indictment of the ill-fated war in Iraq and the heavy tolls it continues to exact on its people.”—Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner The world is Rita Khoury’s oyster. The bright and driven daughter of a Boston-area Irish-Arab family that has risen over the generations from poor immigrants to part of the coastal elite, Rita grows up in a...

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Tim Murphy

The Years, Months, Days

Yan Lianke

The Years, Months, Days

Over the last decade, Yan Lianke has been continually heralded as one of the “best contemporary Chinese writers” ( The Independent ) and “one of the country’s fiercest satirists” ( The Guardian ). Among many awards and honors, he has been twice a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize and he was awarded the prestigious Franz Kafka Prize for his impressive body of work. Now, for the first time, his two most acclaimed novellas are being published in English. “Timeless” and “marvelous” (...

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Yan Lianke

Please Read This Leaflet Carefully

Karen Havelin

Please Read This Leaflet Carefully

Please Read This Leaflet Carefully , the debut novel from Norwegian writer and translator Karen Havelin, is the story of a woman whose body has become her enemy. We meet Laura Fjellstad first as she works and cares for her young daughter, while struggling with debilitating pain and endometriosis, an invisible chronic illness. As the novel tracks backward, the reader meets Laura's younger and somewhat healthier selves (a hopeful bride in New York, a baby queer in Paris, a figure skater in...

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Karen Havelin

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