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Poison for BreakfastIn the years since this publishing house was founded, we have worked with an array of wondrous authors who have brought illuminating clarity to our bewildering world. Now, instead, we bring you Lemony Snicket.Over the course of his long and suspicious career, Mr. Snicket...
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Post OfficeCharles Bukowski's classic roman à clef, Post Office, captures the despair, drudgery, and happy dissolution of his alter ego, Henry Chinaski, as he enters middle age.Post Office is an account of Bukowski alter-ego Henry Chinaski. It covers the period of Chinaski's life from the...
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QuintQuint is a dazzling and inventive novel based on a true story of the Dionne quintuplets-the first quintuplets known to have survived their infancy. Born during the Great Depression, the quintuplets are taken from their homes and turned into a tourist attraction in Canada...
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Raising The Titanic: A powerful novel of resilience and hope, inspired by a true storyShe survived the Titanic-and that was the least interesting thing about her. Based on the extraordinary true story of Helen Churchill Candee.Despite her initial misgivings, forensic artist Madison McClain joins an ambitious effort to exhume and identify the final forty-four unnamed victims of the...
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RavelsteinThis Penguin Classics edition commemorates the fifteenth anniversary of Viking's first publication of Ravelstein. Featuring a new introduction by Gary Shteyngart, it is the final novel of Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow and rounds out the entirety of his major works in Penguin Classics...
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RipcordA novel about escape and connection, class, sex, and queer intimacy in the American Midwest. The oldest story: an insider pretends to be an outsider and receives praise for his empathy and imagination and intelligence. Maybe some asshole even says bravery. An outsider pretends...
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Robinson CrusoeDaniel Defoe's enthralling story-telling and imaginatively detailed descriptions have ensured that his fiction masquerading as fact remains one of the most famous stories in English literature. On one level a simple adventure story, the novel also raises profound questions about moral and spiritual values,...
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Sad TigerWinner of multiple prizes, Neige Sinno has created a powerful literary form with Sad Tiger, a book that took France by storm and is an international phenomenon. "Reading Sad Tiger is like descending into an abyss with your eyes open. It forces you to...
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Season of the SwampA major new novel set in nineteenth-century New Orleans by the author of Signs Preceding the End of the World New Orleans, 1853. A young exile named Benito Juárez disembarks at a fetid port city at the edge of a swamp. Years later, he...
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Seeing FurtherIn this autobiographical novel by a leading German author and translator, the narrator attempts to revive a run-down Hungarian movie theater--an unpromising endeavor that soon leads into a consideration of the building's history and an homage to the power of the cinema, imperiled as...
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Self-Portraits: Stories"Art dies the moment it acquires authority." So said Japan's quintessential rebel writer Osamu Dazai, who, disgusted with the hypocrisy of every kind of establishment, from the nation's obsolete aristocracy to its posturing, warmongering generals, went his own way, even when that meant his...
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ServiceA darkly comic novel set on the lower slopes of the Los Angeles literary world. I stepped out to behold a crimson-streaked sky that would soon be adorning ten thousand Instagram posts, and walked down the sleepy residential streets, suffused with a soft and...
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Set My Heart on FireThe first novel from Izumi Suzuki to be published in English: a candid, intimate exploration of passion, music and transgression Hope I'm in for a good time, I thought. Even if it's just for tonight. Set in the underground bar and club scene of...
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Sex and RageNATIONAL BESTSELLER "This novel is studded with sharp observations . . . Babitz's talent for the brilliant line, honed to a point, never interferes with her feel for languid pleasures." --The New York Times Book Review The popular rediscovery of Eve Babitz continues with...
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Silver Echoes"A twisty, atmospheric story about the damage inflicted by childhood trauma and its manifestations later. Immersed in Silver's world as she performs daring high-wire feats, trains tigers, and debuts as a silver-screen starlet, danger is ever-present. Years later, her mother tries to find out...
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Sisters of Fortune: A Riveting Historical Novel of the Titanic Based on True HistoryBased on the true story of the Fortune sisters, three young women each at a crossroads when they boarded the RMS Titanic in the spring of 1912 - and how that maiden voyage would transform their lives in profound and unexpected ways. Fans of...
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Six Weeks by the SeaA vivid historical novel about Jane Austen that explores a question that has fascinated Janeites for years--Austen wrote some of the greatest love stories in existence, but did she ever fall in love? When Jane Austen hears the news that her family is to...
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Sleeping ChildrenAn intimate, captivating first novel that tells the story of a family in southern France whose lives are intertwined with the history of the AIDS crisis--and with the forgotten French doctors who are among the first to detect the virus. It's 1981. As a...
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Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.No one burned hotter than Eve Babitz. Possessing skin that radiated "its own kind of moral laws," spectacular teeth, and a figure that was the stuff of legend, she seduced seemingly everyone who was anyone in Los Angeles for a long stretch of the...
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Soul RetrievalPoet Mary Dixon yearns for meaning and understanding in Soul Retrieval, a gritty, lyrical reimagining of Kahlil Gibran's soul-searching masterpiece, The Prophet.Soul Retrieval begins in present-day, with the chapter "The Coming of the Ship". Mary is riding a train in France. She is a...
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