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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Olga Tokarczuk, Jennifer Croft (trans.)
A literary and imaginative book that explores subjects such as anatomy and psychology through narratives and reflections on travel and the body, and life and death.
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Yoko Tawada
Yoko Tawada’s new novel is a breathtakingly light-hearted meditation on mortality and fully displays what Rivka Galchen has called her brilliant, shimmering, magnificent strangeness
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Domenico Starnone
Imagine a duel between an elderly man and a mere boy. The same blood runs through their veins. One, Daniele Mallarico, is a successful illustrator whose reputation is slowly fading…
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Hanne Orstavik
A short, suspenseful Norwegian winter’s tale crafted in beautifully spare and precise prose. A harrowing, tragic story of a mother and her son.
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Jenny Xie
Jenny Xie’s award-winning debut, Eye Level, takes us far and near, to Phnom Penh, Corfu, Hanoi, New York, and elsewhere, as we travel closer and closer to the acutely felt…
Justin Phillip Reed
Intricate, intimate, difficult, and confrontational poems that push at the boundaries of selfhood, skin, culture, sexuality, and blood.
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Diana Khoi Nguyen
Winner of the Omnidawn Open Poetry Book Prize
Terrance Hayes
A powerful, timely, dazzling collection of sonnets from one of America’s most acclaimed poets, Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award-winning author of Lighthead.
Leslie Connor
The acclaimed author of Waiting for Normal presents a deeply poignant and beautifully crafted story about self-reliance, redemption, and hope in which young Mason Buttle struggles in school and is…
M. T. Anderson
An anarchic, outlandish, and deeply political tale of warring elf and goblin kingdoms
Elizabeth Acevedo
Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do…
Christopher Paul Curtis
Thorndike Press Large Print Mini-Collections.
Jarrett Krosoczka
The powerful, unforgettable graphic memoir from Jarrett Krosoczka, about growing up with a drug-addicted mother, a missing father, and two unforgettably opinionated grandparents.
Adam Winkler
Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award for Nonfiction We the Corporations chronicles the revelatory story of one of the most successful, yet least known, civil rights movements in American…
Jeffrey C. Stewart
The definitive biography of Alain Locke, the first African American Rhodes Scholar and Harvard PhD in philosophy, Howard University philosophy scholar, and architect of the Harlem Renaissance, who mentored a…
Victoria Johnson
The untold story of Hamilton’s-and Burr’s-physician whose dream to build America’s first botanical garden inspired the young Republic.
Colin G. Calloway
A biography of America’s founding father and those on whose land he based the nation’s future
Sarah Smarsh
An eye-opening, topical, and moving memoir of one woman’s experience of working-class poverty in America.
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Jamel Brinkley
In the nine expansive, searching stories of A Lucky Man, fathers and sons attempt to salvage relationships with friends and family members and confront mistakes made in the past.
Sigrid Nunez
Elegiac and searching, The Friend is both a meditation on loss and a celebration of human-canine devotion.
