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Radiant, lyrical, and deeply moving, this is the unforgettable story of one woman’s struggle to unearth the true history of Vietnam while also carving out a place for herself within it.Vietnam, 1972: under a full moon, on the banks of the Song Ma River, a baby girl is pulled out of her dead mother’s grave. This is Rabbit, who is born with the ability to speak with the dead. She will flee from her destroyed village with a makeshift family thrown together by war. As Rabbit channels the voices of the dead, their chorus reconstructs the turbulent h... + Read More
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Series: Vintage ContemporariesWe Ride Upon SticksA NovelPaperback
Quan Barry9780525565437
$22.95FICTION
Feb 16, 2021
In the town of Danvers, Massachusetts, home of the original 1692 witch trials, the 1989 Danvers Falcons will do anything to make it to the state finals—even if it means tapping into some devilishly dark powers. Against a background of irresistible 1980s iconography, Quan Barry expertly weaves together the individual and collective progress of this enchanted team as they storm their way through an unforgettable season. Helmed by good-girl captain Abby Putnam (a descendant of the infamous Salem accuser Ann Putnam) and her co-captain Jen Fiorenza ... + Read More
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Series: The ChangelingA NovelPaperback
Victor LaValle9780812985870
$24.00FICTION
Mar 06, 2018
One man’s thrilling journey through an enchanted world to find his wife, who has disappeared after seemingly committing an unforgiveable act of violence, from the award-winning author of the The Devil in Silver and Big Machine.“If the literary gods mixed together Haruki Murakami and Ralph Ellison…the result would be Victor LaValle.”—Anthony DoerrApollo Kagwa has had strange dreams that have haunted him since childhood. An antiquarian book dealer with a business called Improbabilia, he is just beginning to settle into his new life as a committed... + Read More
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Series: The Devil in SilverA NovelPaperback
Victor LaValle9780812982251
$24.00FICTION
Sep 10, 2013
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • The Washington Post • Publishers WeeklyNew Hyde Hospital’s psychiatric ward has a new resident. It also has a very, very old one. Pepper is a rambunctious big man, minor-league troublemaker, working-class hero (in his own mind), and, suddenly, the surprised inmate of a budget-strapped mental institution in Queens, New York. He’s not mentally ill, but that doesn’t seem to matter. He is accused of a crime he can’t quite square with his memory. In the darkness of his roo... + Read More
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Series: Big MachineA NovelPaperback
Victor LaValle9780385527996
$24.00FICTION
Mar 09, 2010
Ricky Rice is a middling hustler with a lingering junk habit, a bum knee, and a haunted mind. A survivor of a suicide cult, he scrapes by as a porter at a bus depot in Utica, New York, until one day a mysterious letter arrives, summoning him to enlist in a band of paranormal investigators comprised of former addicts and petty criminals, all of whom had at some point in their wasted lives heard what may have been the voice of God.Infused with the wonder of a disquieting dream and laced with Victor LaValle’s fiendish comic sensibility, Big Machin... + Read More
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Series: Vintage ContemporariesThe EcstaticPaperback
Victor LaValle9780375713316
$18.95FICTION
Oct 14, 2003
Anthony James weighs 315 pounds, is possibly schizophrenic, and he’s just been kicked out of college. He’s rescued by his mother, sister, and grandmother, but they may not be altogether sane themselves. Living in the basement of their home in Queens, New York, Anthony is armed with nothing but wicked sarcasm and a few well-cut suits. He intends to make horror movies but takes the jobs he can handle, cleaning homes and factories, and keeps crossing paths with a Japanese political prisoner, a mysterious loan shark named Ishkabibble, and packs ... + Read More
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Series: My Sister, the Serial KillerA NovelPaperback
Oyinkan Braithwaite9780525564201
$23.00FICTION
Jul 30, 2019
WINNER OF THE LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR MYSTERY/THRILLER • “A taut and darkly funny contemporary noir that moves at lightning speed, it’s the wittiest and most fun murder party you’ve ever been invited to.” —MARIE CLAIRE Korede’s sister Ayoola is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola’s third boyfriend in a row is dead, stabbed through the heart with Ayoola’s knife. Korede’s practicality is the sisters’ saving grace. She knows the best solutions for cleaning blood (bleach, bleach, and more bleach)... + Read More
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Series: The DeepPaperback
Alma Katsu9780525537922
$23.00FICTION
Feb 23, 2021
From the acclaimed and award-winning author of The Hunger comes a haunting psychological twist on one of the world’s most famous tragedies: the sinking of the Titanic and the ill-fated sail of its sister ship, the Britannic.Someone, or something, must be haunting the ship. Between mysterious disappearances and sudden deaths, the guests of the Titanic have found themselves suspended in an eerie, unsettling twilight zone from the moment they set sail. Several of them, including maid Annie Hebley, guest Mark Fletcher, and millionaires Madeleine As... + Read More
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Series: The HungerPaperback
Alma Katsu9780735212534
$23.00FICTION
Mar 05, 2019
“Deeply, deeply disturbing, hard to put down, not recommended reading after dark.”—Stephen KingA tense and gripping reimagining of one of America’s most haunting human disasters: the Donner Party with a supernatural twist.Evil is invisible, and it is everywhere. That is the only way to explain the series of misfortunes that have plagued the wagon train known as the Donner Party. Depleted rations, bitter quarrels, and the mysterious death of a little boy have driven the isolated travelers to the brink of madness. Though they dream of what awaits... + Read More
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Series: Zone OnePaperback
Colson Whitehead9780307455178
$22.00FICTION
Jul 10, 2012
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys: A pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. • “One of the best books of the year.” —EsquireAfter the worst of the plague is over, armed forces stationed in Chinatown’s Fort Wonton have successfully reclaimed the island south of Canal Street—aka Zone One. Mark Spitz is a member of one of the three-person civilian sweeper units tasked with... + Read More
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Series: Immigrant, MontanaPaperback
Amitava Kumar9780735234987
$22.00FICTION
Jun 11, 2019
A singularly smart, engaging, and moving novel about a young immigrant in search of himself, and love, in the wider world.Carrying a single suitcase, Kailash arrives in post-Reagan America from India to attend graduate school. His new friends in New York City teasingly call him Kalashnikov, then AK-47, then AK. He takes it all in his stride: he wants to fit in—and more than that, to shine.As he begins to settle into American existence, AK comes under the indelible influence of a charismatic professor—also an immigrant, his personal history as d... + Read More
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * KIRKUS PRIZE FINALIST FOR FICTION * NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST FOR FICTION * NAACP IMAGE AWARD FINALIST FOR OUTSTANDING LITERARY WORK—FICTIONFrom two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead, a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s.“Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked….”To his customers and neighbours on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a life for himself a... + Read More
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Series: The Nickel BoysPaperback
Colson Whitehead9780385693981
$19.95FICTION
Jun 30, 2020
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWinner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for FictionWinner of the 2019 Kirkus Prize for FictionFinalist for the 2019 National Book Critics Circle AwardFinalist for the 2021 DUBLIN Literary AwardsLonglisted for the 2019 National Book AwardsLonglisted for the 2020 Orwell Prize for Political FictionIn this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of history through the story of two boys sen... + Read More
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Series: The Underground RailroadA NovelPaperback
Colson Whitehead9780345804327
$22.95FICTION
Jan 30, 2018
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • “An American masterpiece” (NPR) that chronicles a young slave’s adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. • The basis for the acclaimed original Amazon Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins.Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to ... + Read More
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Series: Sag HarborPaperback
Colson Whitehead9780307455161
$22.95FICTION
Jun 15, 2010
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FINALIST • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys: a hilarious and supremely original novel set in the Hamptons in the 1980s, "a tenderhearted coming-of-age story fused with a sharp look at the intersections of race and class” (The New York Times). Benji Cooper is one of the few Black students at an elite prep school in Manhattan. But every summer, Benji escapes to the Hamptons, to Sag Harbor, where a small community of Black professionals have bu... + Read More
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Series: The Colossus of New YorkPaperback
Colson Whitehead9781400031245
$22.00LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Oct 12, 2004
In a dazzlingly original work of nonfiction, the two time Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys recreates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise, and the heartbreak of New York. Here is a literary love song that will entrance anyone who has lived in—or spent time—in the greatest of American cities. A masterful evocation of the city that never sleeps, The Colossus of New York captures the city’s inner and outer landscapes in a series of vignettes, meditations, and personal memories. Colson Whitehead ... + Read More
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Series: John Henry DaysPaperback
Colson Whitehead9780385498203
$22.95FICTION
May 14, 2002
From the bestselling, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a novel that is “funny and wise and sumptuously written” (Jonathan Franzen, The New York Times Book Review).Colson Whitehead’s triumphant novel is on one level a multifaceted retelling of the story of John Henry, the black steel-driver who died outracing a machine designed to replace him. On another level it’s the story of a disaffected, middle-aged black journalist on a mission to set a record for junketeering who attends the annua... + Read More
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Series: The IntuitionistA NovelPaperback
Colson Whitehead9780385493000
$22.00FICTION
Jan 04, 2000
This debut novel by the two time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys wowed critics and readers everywhere and marked the debut of an important American writer. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.It is a time of calamity in a major metropolitan city’s Department of Elevator Inspectors, and Lila Mae Watson, the first black female elevator inspector in the history of the department, is at the center of it. There are two warring factions within the department:... + Read More
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Series: Grand UnionStoriesPaperback
Zadie Smith9780735235557
$22.00FICTION
Oct 06, 2020
The first ever collection of stories from the bestselling and beloved author of Swing Time and White TeethZadie Smith has established herself as one of the most iconic, critically respected, and popular writers of her generation. In her first short story collection, she combines her power of observation and her inimitable voice to mine the fraught and complex experience of life in the modern world. Interleaving eleven previously unpublished stories with some of her best-loved pieces from The New Yorker and elsewhere, Smith presents a dizzyingly... + Read More
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERDeeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on the experience of lock down, by one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our time“There will be many books written about the year 2020: historical, analytic, political and comprehensive accounts. This is not any of those—the year isn’t half-way done. What I’ve tried to do is organize some of the feelings and thoughts that events, so far, have provoked in me, in those scraps of time the year itself has allowed. These are above all... + Read More
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Series: Feel FreePaperback
Zadie Smith9780143192596
$22.00LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Feb 05, 2019
A timely, powerful collection of essays from one of our sharpest minds and most sparkling stylists.Since she burst spectacularly into view with her debut novel almost two decades ago, Zadie Smith has established herself not just as one of the world’s preeminent fiction writers, but also a brilliant and singular essayist. She contributes regularly to The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books on a range of subjects, and each piece of hers is a literary event in its own right.Arranged into five sections—In the World, In the Audience, In the ... + Read More
An ambitious, exuberant novel moving from northwest London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On BeautyTwo brown girls dream of being dancers—but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, about what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly free. It’s a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten, either.Dazzlingly energetic and deeply human, Swing ... + Read More
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Series: NWPaperback
Zadie Smith9780143170280
$21.00FICTION
Aug 06, 2013
“An extraordinary vision of our age.” —Washington PostThis is the story of a city. The northwest corner of a city. Here you’ll find guests and hosts, those with power and those without it, people who live somewhere special and those who live nowhere at all. And many people in between. Every city is like this. Cheek-by-jowl living. Separate worlds.And then there are the visitations: the rare times a stranger crosses a threshold without permission or warning, causing disruption in the whole system. Like the April afternoon a woman came to Leah Ha... + Read More
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Series: On BeautyPaperback
Zadie Smith9780143017639
$22.00FICTION
Sep 12, 2006
In this loose retelling of Howard’s End, Zadie Smith considers the big questions: Why do we fall in love with the people we do? Why do we visit our mistakes on our children? What makes life truly beautiful?Set in New England mainly and London partly, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families—the Belseys and the Kippses—and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some searching questions about what life does to love. For the Belseys and the Kippses, the confusions—both personal and political—of our uncertain... + Read More
Chosen by the Guardian as one of the Best Books of the 21st Century From the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN’S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Swing Time, On Beauty and Grand Union’BELIEVE THE HYPE’ The TimesThe international bestseller and modern classic of multicultural Britain - an unforgettable portrait of LondonOne of the most talked about debut novels of all time, White Teeth is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by critics and readers alike. Dealing - among many other things - with friendship, love, war, three cultures and three famili... + Read More
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Series: Killing CommendatorePaperback
Haruki Murakami9780385690713
$25.00FICTION
Oct 01, 2019
A publishing event: a major new, epic novel from the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of 1Q84 and Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.A thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a previously unseen painting in the attic, he unintentionally opens a circle of mysterious circumstances. To close it, he must complete a journey that involves a mysterious ringing bell, a two-foot-high physical ma... + Read More
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Series: Men Without WomenStoriesPaperback
Haruki Murakami9780385689465
$21.00FICTION
May 01, 2018
The dazzling new collection of short stories from the beloved, internationally acclaimed author of #1 New York Times bestselling Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball and the Beatles, woven together to tell stories that speak to us all. Marked by the same wry humour that has defined his entire body of wor... + Read More
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Series: Wind/PinballPaperback
Haruki Murakami9780385682794
$19.95FICTION
May 03, 2016
The first two short novels—never before widely available in the U.S.—by the internationally acclaimed writer, newly translated, in one volume, with a new introduction by the author.Widely available in English for the first time ever, Wind/Pinball brings together the two first novels—Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973—by the legendary Haruki Murakami. Written at his kitchen table in the hours before dawn, these remarkable short works—powerful, at times surreal, stories about two young men coming of age—launched the career of one of the most ce... + Read More
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage marks a new direction in Murakami’s fiction: a return to the lyrical realism not seen since his 1987 novel Norwegian Wood, but set against the social realities of contemporary Japan.In high school, Tsukuru Tazaki belonged to an extremely tight-knit group of friends who pledged to stay together forever. But when Tsukuru returns home from his first year of college in Tokyo, he finds that they want nothing to do with him. Something has changed, but nobody will tell him what—and he never sees the... + Read More
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Series: The Strange LibraryPaperback
Haruki Murakami9780385683142
$24.00FICTION
Dec 02, 2014
From internationally acclaimed author Haruki Murakami—a fantastical illustrated short novel about a boy imprisoned in a nightmarish library.A lonely boy, a mysterious girl, and a tormented sheep man plot their escape from the nightmarish library of internationally acclaimed, bestselling Haruki Murakami’s wild imagination.
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Series: 1Q84Paperback
Haruki Murakami9780385678025
$24.00FICTION
Jan 22, 2013
“Murakami is like a magician who explains what he’s doing as he performs the trick and still makes you believe he has supernatural powers…But while anyone can tell a story that resembles a dream, it’s the rare artist, like this one, who can make us feel that we are dreaming it ourselves.”—The New York Times Book ReviewThe year is 1984. Aomame is riding in a taxi on the expressway, in a hurry to carry out an assignment. Her work is not the kind that can be discussed in public. When they get tied up in traffic, the taxi driver suggests a bizarre ... + Read More
From the surreal to the mundane, twenty-four stories that “show Murukami at his dynamic, organic best” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). “A warning to new readers of Haruki Murakami: You will become addicted…. His newest collection is as enigmatic and sublime as ever.” —San Francisco ChronicleHere are animated crows, a criminal monkey, and an ice man, as well as the dreams that shape us and the things we might wish for. From the surreal to the mundane, these stories exhibit Murakami’s ability to transform the full range of human experience in wa... + Read More
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Series: Vintage InternationalKafka on the ShorePaperback
Haruki Murakami9781400079278
$24.95FICTION
Jan 03, 2006
Kafka on the Shore displays one of the world’s great storytellers at the peak of his powers.Here we meet a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who is on the run, and Nakata, an aging simpleton who is drawn to Kafka for reasons that he cannot fathom. As their paths converge, acclaimed author Haruki Murakami enfolds readers in a world where cats talk, fish fall from the sky, and spirits slip out of their bodies to make love or commit murder, in what is a truly remarkable journey.
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Series: Vintage InternationalAfter the QuakeStoriesPaperback
Haruki Murakami9780375713279
$22.00FICTION
May 13, 2003
Set at the time of the catastrophic 1995 Kobe earthquake, the mesmerizing stories in After the Quake are as haunting as dreams and as potent as oracles.An electronics salesman who has been deserted by his wife agrees to deliver an enigmatic package— and is rewarded with a glimpse of his true nature. A man who views himself as the son of God pursues a stranger who may be his human father. A mild-mannered collection agent receives a visit from a giant talking frog who enlists his help in saving Tokyo from destruction. The six stories in this coll... + Read More
Part romance, part detective story, Sputnik Sweetheart tells the story of a tangled triangle of uniquely unrequited love.K is madly in love with his best friend, Sumire, but her devotion to a writerly life precludes her from any personal commitments. At least, that is, until she meets an older woman to whom she finds herself irresistibly drawn. When Sumire disappears from an island off the coast of Greece, K is solicited to join the search party—and finds himself drawn back into her world and beset by ominous visions. Subtle and haunting, Sputn... + Read More
A New York Times bestselling author—and “a mythmaker for the millennium, a wiseacre wiseman” (New York Times Book Review)—delivers a surreal and elaborate quest that takes readers from Tokyo to the remote mountains of northern Japan, where the unnamed protagonist has a surprising confrontation with his demons. An advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend and casually appropriates the image for an advertisement. What he doesn’t realize is that included in the scene is a mutant sheep with a star on its back, and in using this photo ... + Read More
From the bestselling author of Kafka on the Shore: A magnificent coming-of-age story steeped in nostalgia, “a masterly novel” (The New York Times Book Review) blending the music, the mood, and the ethos that were the sixties with a young man’s hopeless and heroic first love. Toru, a serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before. As Naoko retreats further into her own world, Toru finds himself drawn ... + Read More
South of the Border, West of the Sun is the beguiling story of a past rekindled, and one of Haruki Murakami’s most touching novels.Hajime has arrived at middle age with a loving family and an enviable career, yet he feels incomplete. When a childhood friend, now a beautiful woman, shows up with a secret from which she is unable to escape, the fault lines of doubt in Hajime’s quotidian existence begin to give way. Rich, mysterious, and quietly dazzling, in South of the Border, West of the Sun the simple arc of one man’s life becomes the exquisit... + Read More
A "dreamlike and compelling” tour de force (Chicago Tribune)—an astonishingly imaginative detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets from Japan’s forgotten campaign in Manchuria during World War II. In a Tokyo suburb, a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife’s missing cat—and then for his wife as well—in a netherworld beneath the city’s placid surface. As these searches intersect, he encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists. Gripping, prophetic, and suffused with come... + Read More
Dance Dance Dance—a follow-up to A Wild Sheep Chase—is a tense, poignant, and often hilarious ride through Murakami’s Japan, a place where everything that is not up for sale is up for grabs.As Murakami’s nameless protagonist searches for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend, he is plunged into a wind tunnel of sexual violence and metaphysical dread. In this propulsive novel, featuring a shabby but oracular Sheep Man, one of the most idiosyncratically brilliant writers at work today fuses together science fiction, the hardboiled thriller, and whit... + Read More
In the tales that make up The Elephant Vanishes, the imaginative genius that has made Haruki Murakami an international superstar is on full display.In these stories, a man sees his favorite elephant vanish into thin air; a newlywed couple suffers attacks of hunger that drive them to hold up a McDonald’s in the middle of the night; and a young woman discovers that she has become irresistible to a little green monster who burrows up through her backyard. By turns haunting and hilarious, in The Elephant Vanishes Murakami crosses the border between... + Read More
Hyperkinetic and relentlessly inventive, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is Haruki Murakami’s deep dive into the very nature of consciousness.Across two parallel narratives, Murakami draws readers into a mind-bending universe in which Lauren Bacall, Bob Dylan, a split-brained data processor, a deranged scientist, his shockingly undemure granddaughter, and various thugs, librarians, and subterranean monsters collide to dazzling effect. What emerges is a novel that is at once hilariously funny and a deeply serious meditation on th... + Read More
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Series: Real LifeA NovelPaperback
Brandon Taylor9780525538899
$23.00FICTION
Feb 16, 2021
A FINALIST FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZEA NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE“A blistering coming of age story”—O: The Oprah MagazineOne of the year’s most talked about novels, following a young man who runs away to a Midwestern university townonly to fight a deeper psychic battle.A novel of rare emotional power that excavates the social intricacies of a late-summer weekend—and a lifetime of buried pain. Almost everything about Wallace, an introverted African-American transplant from Alabama, is at odds with the lakeside Midwestern university town where... + Read More
Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction Winner of the Gotham Book PrizeOne of Barack Obama's "Favorite Books of the Year"Oprah's Book Club PickNamed one of the Top Ten Books of the Year by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly and TIME Magazine A Washington Post Notable Novel From the author of the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird and the bestselling modern classic The Color of Water, comes one of the most celebrated novels of the year. In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat sh... + Read More
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Series: Love After LoveA NovelPaperback
Ingrid Persaud9780593157589
$23.00FICTION
Jul 13, 2021
An electrifying novel of love in its messiest forms—a complicated marriage, an unconventional family, and the shocking secrets that unite them—from an award-winning Trinidadian author.After Betty Ramdin’s abusive husband dies, she invites a colleague, Mr. Chetan, to move in with her and her son, Solo, as their lodger. Over time, these three form an unconventional family, loving each other deeply and depending upon one another. Then, one fateful night, Solo overhears Betty confiding in Mr. Chetan and learns a secret that plunges him into torment... + Read More
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Series: The Kiss QuotientPaperback
Helen Hoang9780451490803
$22.00FICTION
Jun 05, 2018
A heartwarming and refreshing debut novel that proves one thing: there’s not enough data in the world to predict what will make your heart tick.Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases—a job that has given her more money than she knows what to do with, and way less experience in the dating department than the average thirty-year-old.It doesn’t help that Stella has Asperger’s and French kissing reminds her of a shark getting its teeth cleaned by pilot fish. Her... + Read More
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Series: The Bride TestPaperback
Helen Hoang9780451490827
$23.00FICTION
May 07, 2019
From the USA Today bestselling author of The Kiss Quotient comes a romantic novel about love that crosses international borders and all boundaries of the heart...Khai Diep has no feelings. Well, he feels irritation when people move his things or contentment when ledgers balance down to the penny, but not big, important emotions—like grief. And love. He thinks he's defective. His family knows better—that his autism means he just processes emotions differently. When he steadfastly avoids relationships, his mother takes matters into her own hands ... + Read More
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Series: The Heart PrinciplePaperback
Helen Hoang9780451490841
$22.00FICTION
Aug 31, 2021
A woman struggling with burnout learns to embrace the unexpected—and the man she enlists to help her—in this heartfelt new romance by USA Today bestselling author Helen Hoang.When violinist Anna Sun accidentally achieves career success with a viral YouTube video, she finds herself incapacitated and burned out from her attempts to replicate that moment. And when her longtime boyfriend announces he wants an open relationship before making a final commitment, a hurt and angry Anna decides that if he wants an open relationship, then she does, too. ... + Read More
Serena Singh is tired of everyone telling her what she should want—and she is ready to prove to her mother, her sister, and the aunties in her community that a woman does not need to be in a romantic relationship to have a happy life.Serena’s life has a lot of positives. She is smart, confident, and just got a kick-ass new job at a top advertising firm in Washington, D.C. When her younger sister gets married in a big, traditional wedding, Serena knows she does not need a husband or children to make her own dreams come true. But with her mother... + Read More
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Series: Grown-Up PosePaperback
Sonya Lalli9780451490964
$22.00FICTION
Mar 24, 2020
Acclaimed author Sonya Lalli is back with a delightfully modern look at what happens for a young woman when tradition, dating, and independence collide.Adulting shouldn’t be this hard. Especially in your thirties. Having been pressured by her tight-knit Indian community to get married at a young age to her first serious boyfriend, Anu Desai must now start from the beginning: learning who she is and what she truly wants.But Anu doesn’t have time to start over. Telling her parents that she was separating from her husband was the hardest thing she... + Read More
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Series: The Matchmaker's ListPaperback
Sonya Lalli9780451490940
$20.00FICTION
Feb 05, 2019
One devoted modern girl + a meddlesome, traditional grandmother = a heartwarming multicultural romantic comedy about finding love where you least expect it.Raina Anand may have finally given in to family pressure and agreed to let her grandmother play matchmaker, but that doesn’t mean she has to like it—or that she has to play by the rules. Nani always took Raina’s side when she tried to push past the traditional expectations of their tight-knit Indian-immigrant community, but now she’s ambushing Raina with a list of suitable bachelors. Is it t... + Read More
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Series: The Dating PlanPaperback
Sara Desai9780593100585
$22.00FICTION
Mar 16, 2021
Without rules, these fake fiancés might accidentally fall for each other in this romantic comedy by the author of The Marriage Game.Daisy Patel is a software engineer who understands lists and logic better than bosses and boyfriends. Ever the obedient daughter, she always follows the rules, but the one thing she can’t give her family is the marriage they expect. With few options left to her, and desperate to escape a parade of unwanted suitors, she asks her childhood crush to be her decoy fiancé.Liam Murphy is a venture capitalist with somethin... + Read More
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Series: The Marriage GamePaperback
Sara Desai9780593100561
$22.00FICTION
Jun 09, 2020
It’s a clash of culture in this romantic comedy about arranged marriages from Sara Desai.Layla Santos is the child of first-generation immigrants from India. Her parents run a Michelin-starred Indian restaurant in San Francisco and are very traditional in their ways, including a firm belief in the benefit of arranged marriages. Her father, thinking he knows best, signs Layla up for IndianGirlMatch.com and sets up a series of dates without telling her….Sam Mehta is the self-made CEO of a corporate consultancy specializing in downsizing. Also the... + Read More
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Series: While We Were DatingPaperback
Jasmine Guillory9780593100851
$22.00FICTION
Jul 13, 2021
Two people realize that it’s no longer an act when they veer off-script in this sizzling romantic comedy by New York Times bestselling author Jasmine Guillory.Ben Stephens has never bothered with serious relationships. He has plenty of casual dates to keep him busy, family drama he’s trying to ignore and his advertising job to focus on. When Ben lands a huge ad campaign featuring movie star, Anna Gardiner, however, it’s hard to keep it purely professional. Anna is not just gorgeous and sexy, she’s also down to earth and considerate, and he can’... + Read More
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Series: Royal HolidayPaperback
Jasmine Guillory9780593099049
$23.00FICTION
Oct 13, 2020
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Proposal and a “rising star in the romance genre” (Entertainment Weekly) comes a dazzling novel about a spontaneous holiday vacation that turns into an unforgettable romance.Vivian Forest has been out of the country a grand total of one time, so when she gets the chance to tag along on her daughter Maddie’s work trip to England to style a royal family member, she can’t refuse. She’s excited to spend the holidays taking in the magnificent British sights, but what she doesn’t expect is to become i... + Read More
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Series: Party of TwoPaperback
Jasmine Guillory9780593100820
$22.00FICTION
Jun 23, 2020
A chance meeting with a handsome stranger turns into a whirlwind affair that gets everyone talking.Dating is the last thing on Olivia Monroe’s mind when she moves to LA to start her own law firm. But when she meets a gorgeous man at a hotel bar and they spend the entire night flirting, she discovers too late that he is none other than hotshot junior senator Max Powell. Olivia has zero interest in dating a politician, but when a cake arrives at her office with the cutest message, she can’t resist—it is chocolate cake, after all.Olivia is surpris... + Read More
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Series: The Wedding PartyPaperback
Jasmine Guillory9781984802194
$20.00FICTION
Jul 16, 2019
The next charming romance by the USA Today bestselling author of The Wedding Date.Maddie and Theo have two things in common:1. Alexa is their best friend2. They hate each otherAfter an “Oops, we made a mistake” kiss, neither one can stop thinking about the other. With Alexa’s wedding rapidly approaching, Maddie and Theo both share bridal party responsibilities that require more interaction with each other than they’re comfortable with. Underneath the sharp barbs they toss at each other is a simmering attraction that won’t fade. It builds until... + Read More
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Series: The ProposalPaperback
Jasmine Guillory9780399587689
$22.00FICTION
Oct 30, 2018
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick“There is so much to relate to and throughout the novel, there is a sharp feminist edge. Loved this one, and you will too.”—New York Times bestselling author Roxane GayThe New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding Date serves up a novel about what happens when a public proposal doesn't turn into a happy ending, thanks to a woman who knows exactly how to make one on her own...When someone asks you to spend your life with him, it shouldn't come as a surprise—or... + Read More
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Series: The Wedding DatePaperback
Jasmine Guillory9780399587665
$20.00FICTION
Jan 30, 2018
THE USA TODAY BESTSELLER#5 LibraryReads PickOne of…Entertainment Weekly’s “12 Romances for V-Day”Cosmopolitan’s “2018 Anticipated Reads”Elle’s “2018 Must Reads”Harpers Bazaar’s “New January Must Reads”The Fug Girls’ “Best Books of the Year”Elle UK’s “Books to Get You Through 2018”Nylon’s “January Must Reads”Hello Giggles’ “New Release Recs”Electric Lit’s “Books by WoC to Read in 2018”Bitch Media’s “2018 Must Reads”BookBub’s “2018 Romance Must Reads”Bookriot’s “Must Read 2018 January Releases”RetailMeNot’s “2018 Must Reads”“A swoony rom-com brim... + Read More
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Series: Sex and VanityPaperback
Kevin Kwan9780385695381
$22.00FICTION
May 25, 2021
NATIONAL BESTSELLERNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe iconic author of the bestselling phenomenon Crazy Rich Asians returns with a glittering tale of love and longing as a young woman finds herself torn between two worlds, two men, and two very different cultures.On her very first morning on the jewel-like island of Capri, Lucie Churchill sets eyes on George Zao and instantly can’t stand him. She can’t stand it when he gallantly offers to trade hotel rooms with her so that she can have the view of the Tyrrhenian Sea, she can’t stand that he knows mor... + Read More
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Series: Vintage Contemporaries She Weeps Each Time You're Born Paperback 9780804171304 $23.00 FICTION Feb 23, 2016
Series: Vintage International Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman Paperback 9781400096084 $23.00 FICTION Oct 09, 2007
Series: Vintage International After the Quake Stories Paperback 9780375713279 $22.00 FICTION May 13, 2003
Series: Vintage International Sputnik Sweetheart Paperback 9780375726057 $23.00 FICTION Apr 09, 2002
Series: Vintage International South of the Border, West of the Sun A Novel Paperback 9780679767398 $23.00 FICTION Mar 14, 2000
Series: Vintage International The Elephant Vanishes Stories Paperback 9780679750536 $23.00 FICTION Jun 28, 1994
Series: Vintage International Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Paperback 9780679743460 $24.95 FICTION Mar 02, 1993
