E. B. Asher

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

A Novel

The Princess Bride meets People We Meet on Vacation in this cozy romantasy about a group of friends who once saved their magical land together but haven't spoken in ten years, reuniting to attend a royal wedding then ending up on a new quest to defend the realm, for readers of Legends and Lattes and lovers of Shrek.Ten year[Bokinfo].

This Will Be Fun

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Yuri Herrera

Lisa Dillman

This is in perfect condition, except for an inscription on the title page (pictured)

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Stories

A collection of fanciful, philosophical science fictions by “one of Mexico’s finest novelists” (Vulture). The characters that populate Yuri Herrera’s surprising new story collection inhabit imagined futures that reveal the strangeness and instability of the present. Drawing on science fiction, noir, and the philosophical parables of Jorge Luis Borges’s Fictions and Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomics, these very short stories are an inspired extension of this significant writer’s work. In Ten Planets, objects can be sentient and might rebel against the unhappy human family to which they are attached. A detective of sorts finds clues to buried secrets by studying the noses of his clients, which he insists are covert maps. A meager bacterium in a human intestine gains consciousness when a psychotropic drug is ingested. Monsters and aliens abound, but in the fiction of Yuri Herrera, knowing who is the monster and who the alien is a tricky proposition. In Ten Planets, Herrera’s consistent themes—the mutability of borders, the wounds and legacy of colonial violence, and a deep love of storytelling in all its forms—are explored with evident brilliance and delight.

Ten Planets

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Wole Talabi

Incomplete Solutions

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Barbara Kingsolver

Animal Dreams

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The Housekeeper and The Professor

Rebecca Makkai

The first novel from the acclaimed author of The Great Believers "Rarely is a first novel as smart and engaging and learned and funny and moving as The Borrower." —Richard Russo, author of Pulitzer Prize–winning Empire Falls Lucy Hull, a children’s librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both kidnapper and kidnapped when her favorite patron, ten-year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home. Ian needs Lucy’s help to smuggle books past his overbearing mother, who has enrolled Ian in weekly antigay classes. Desperate to save him from the Drakes, Lucy allows herself to be hijacked by Ian when she finds him camped out in the library after hours, and the odd pair embarks on a crazy road trip. But is it just Ian who is running away? And should Lucy be trying to save a boy from his own parents?

The Borrower

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Natalia García Freire

Victor Meadowcroft

After years away, Lucas returns uninvited to the home he was expelled from as a child. The garden has been conquered by weeds, which blanket his mother's beloved flowerbeds and his father's grave alike. A lot has changed since Eloy and Felisberto were invited into the family home to work for Lucas's father, long ago. The two hulking strangers have brought the land and everyone on it under their control--and removed nuisances like Lucas. Now everything rots. Lucas, a hardened young man, turns to a world that thrives in dirt and darkness: the world of insects. In raw, lyrical prose, García Freire portrays a world brought low by human greed, while hinting at glimmers of hope in the unlikeliest places.

This World Does Not Belong to Us

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Kikuko Tsumura

Unable to find the perfect job that suits her needs, a young woman discovers an alternative to the daily grind that comes with a high price.

There's No Such Thing As an Easy Job

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James Polchin

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Tangled Story of Murder, Media, and Privilege That Scandalized Jazz Age America

The Great Gatsy meets Last Call, and set against the rapid social transformation of the post-World War I era in New York, Shadow Men is a deeply reported narrative nonfiction of queer exploitation and class privilege told through a murder mystery that captivated a nation On the morning of May 16, 1922, the body of a young man was found on a desolate road near the Kensico Reservoir in Westchester County, a suburb of New York City. Killed by a single bullet to the chest, it took the coroner three days to track the man’s prints to naval records in Washington, D.C. The victim, nineteen-year-old Clarence Peters, would be termed by the press as a “penniless ex-sailor” and his murder soon went from local story to national scandal. The day after Peter’s identity was made public, Walter S. Ward, the thirty-one-year-old vice president and millionaire heir of the Ward Baking Company, whose factory in Brooklyn produced the iconic fluffy white loaf known as Wonder Bread, issued a statement through his attorney admitting that he was the one who committed the murder. This confession only added to the mystery. Ward claimed to have run afoul of the “shadow men,” those who entrapped others in compromising positions and then blackmailed them to remain silent. In Shadow Men: Blackmail, Murder, and a Sensational Scandal at the Dawn of the Jazz Age, James Polchin tells the story of a diverse cast of characters who either by choice or circumstance were drawn into the case, from minor figures such as small town butchers and shoemakers in Massachusetts, and Black doormen and maids in Harlem, to the well-known and powerful, like the New York State governor and future presidential candidate Al Smith, Joseph Medill Peterson, the ambitious editor of New York Daily News, and even the British detective writer Arthur Conan Doyle. In placing the queer aspects of this crime within a host of complex social tensions in the 1920s about class privilege, criminality, and the growing power of the press to define ideas of private life and public reputation, Shadow Men reckons with the elusive nature of crime stories themselves—what they reveal and what remains hidden.

Shadow Men

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Neil Gaiman

Now a major motion picture—this charming fairy tale by the #1 New York Times bestselling author, weaves a magical story set long ago in the tiny English village of Wall, a place where things are not quite what they seem. Go and catch a falling star . . . Tristran Thorn promises to bring back a fallen star for his beloved, the hauntingly beautiful Victoria Forester—and crosses the wall that divides his English country town from another, more dangerous world of lords and witches, all of them in search of the star. Rich with adventure and magic, Stardust is one of master storyteller Neil Gaiman's most beloved tales. “Eminently readable—a charming piece of work.” —Washington Post Book World “Beautiful, memorable . . . A book full of marvels.” —Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Stardust

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Edward Powys Mathers

Six murders. One hundred pages. Millions of possible combinations... but only one is correct. Can you solve Torquemada's murder mystery? In 1934, the Observer's cryptic crossword compiler, Edward Powys Mathers (aka Torquemada), released a novel that was simultaneously a murder mystery and the most fiendishly difficult literary puzzle ever written. The pages have been printed in an entirely haphazard order, but it is possible - through logic and intelligent reading - to sort the pages into the only correct order, revealing six murder victims and their respective murderers. Only three puzzlers have ever solved the mystery of Cain's Jawbone: do you have what it takes to join their ranks? Please note: this puzzle is extremely difficult and not for the faint-hearted.

Cain's Jawbone

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Tsitsi Dangarembga

Some ink on the spine, but otherwise in great condition

A modern classic from the Booker-shortlisted author of This Mournable Body

The groundbreaking first novel in Tsitsi Dangarembga's award-winning trilogy, Nervous Conditions, won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and has been "hailed as one of the 20th century's most significant works of African literature" (The New York Times). Two decades before Zimbabwe would win independence and ended white minority rule, thirteen-year-old Tambudzai Sigauke embarks on her education. On her shoulders rest the economic hopes of her parents, siblings, and extended family, and within her burns the desire for independence. She yearns to be free of the constraints of her rural village and thinks she's found her way out when her wealthy uncle offers to sponsor her schooling. But she soon learns that the education she receives at his mission school comes with a price.

Nervous Conditions

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Tananarive Due

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

From the author of the national bestseller My Soul to Keep comes a riveting new novel of supernatural suspense -- a gripping tale that brilliantly showcases a writer at the pinnacle of her astounding storytelling abilities.
Jessica Jacobs-Wolde has somehow survived the worst that any mother or wife could ever endure: the deaths of her husband and first daughter. But now, four years later, not only is the nightmare continuing -- it may have only just begun. Jessica has discovered the terrifying truth behind the legacy that her husband left to their second daughter, Fana...a legacy preordained a thousand years before her time and drenched in the powerful lifeblood that now courses through her veins. As young Fana begins to display unearthly abilities that are quickly spiraling out of control, she becomes the target of those who will stop at nothing to exploit her power -- and the unwitting touchstone in an ancient supernatural battle whose outcome may decide the fate of all humanity.

The Living Blood

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From the acclaimed author of The Living Blood comes an imaginative and enthralling tale about an ancient group of African immortals facing one of the most challenging issues of our time - the AIDS/HIV pandemic. In the sequel to The Living Blood and My Soul to Keep, Due introduces a new drug: Glow. Said to heal almost any illness, Glow gets its power from the blood of the immortals and its up to the Blood Colony, a small but powerful group of immortals, to keep the supplies coming so that AIDS and other diseases will be wiped out.

Blood Colony

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Hemley Boum

Nchanji Njamnsi

Days Come and Go

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Jo Hamya

From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation’s Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a novel set between the London stage and Sicily, about a daughter who turns her novelist father’s fall from grace into a play, and a father who increasingly fears his precocious daughter’s voice. “A sharp book, beautifully written. Jo Hamya poses complex questions—about art and ethics, family life and sexual mores—and withholds from her reader any easy answers.” —Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind and Entitlement “Sharp, witty and astute about parents and children, but never cruel; I enjoyed it hugely.” —David Nicholls, author of One Day and You Are Here August 2020. Sophia, a young playwright, awaits her father’s verdict on her new show. A famous author whose novels haven’t aged as gracefully into the modern era as he might have hoped, he is completely unaware that the play centers around a vacation the two took years earlier to an island off Sicily, where he dictated to her a new book. Sophia’s play has been met with rave reviews, but her father has studiously avoided reading any of them. When the house lights dim however, he understands that his daughter has laid him bare, has used the events of their summer to create an incisive, witty, skewering critique of the attitudes and sexual mores of the men of his generation. Set through one staging of the play, The Hypocrite seamlessly and scorchingly shifts time and perspective, illuminating an argument between a father and his daughter that, with impeccable nuance, examines the fraught inheritances each generation is left to contend with and the struggle to nurture empathy in a world changing at lightning-speed.

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E. B. Asher

This Will Be Fun

Yuri Herrera; Lisa Dillman

Ten Planets

Wole Talabi

Incomplete Solutions

Barbara Kingsolver

Animal Dreams

Yoko Ogawa

The Housekeeper and The Professor

Rebecca Makkai

The Borrower

Natalia García Freire; Victor Meadowcroft

This World Does Not Belong to Us

Kikuko Tsumura

There's No Such Thing As an Easy Job

James Polchin

Shadow Men

Neil Gaiman

Stardust

Edward Powys Mathers

Cain's Jawbone

Tsitsi Dangarembga

Nervous Conditions

Tananarive Due

The Living Blood

Tananarive Due

Blood Colony

Hemley Boum; Nchanji Njamnsi

Days Come and Go

Jo Hamya

The Hypocrite

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E. B. Asher

This Will Be Fun

Yuri Herrera; Lisa Dillman

Ten Planets

Wole Talabi

Incomplete Solutions

Barbara Kingsolver

Animal Dreams

Yoko Ogawa

The Housekeeper and The Professor

Rebecca Makkai

The Borrower

Natalia García Freire; Victor Meadowcroft

This World Does Not Belong to Us

Kikuko Tsumura

There's No Such Thing As an Easy Job

James Polchin

Shadow Men

Neil Gaiman

Stardust

Edward Powys Mathers

Cain's Jawbone

Tsitsi Dangarembga

Nervous Conditions

Tananarive Due

The Living Blood

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Blood Colony

Hemley Boum; Nchanji Njamnsi

Days Come and Go

Jo Hamya

The Hypocrite

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