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Parade: A Folktale By Hiromi Kawakami, Allison Markin Powell (Translated by) Cover Image
$11.95
ISBN: 9781593765804
Availability: On Our Shelves
Published: Soft Skull - November 5th, 2019

Like holding a Miyazaki film in the palm of your hand.  |  SLIM & FAST


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Star By Yukio Mishima, Sam Bett (Translated by) Cover Image
By Yukio Mishima, Sam Bett (Translated by)
$11.95
ISBN: 9780811228428
Availability: On Our Shelves
Published: New Directions - April 30th, 2019

Mishima wanted to be a movie star.  |  SLIM & FAST


Ghachar Ghochar: A Novel By Vivek Shanbhag, Srinath Perur (Translated by) Cover Image
By Vivek Shanbhag, Srinath Perur (Translated by)
$18.00
ISBN: 9780143111689
Availability: On Our Shelves
Published: Penguin Books - February 7th, 2017

A knotty tale of more money, more problems.  |  SLIM & FAST


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The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (Vintage International) By Michael Ondaatje Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780679767862
Availability: On Our Shelves
Published: Vintage - March 19th, 1996

Will make you yee haw only to later cry for Meemaw.  |  SLIM & FAST


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Giovanni's Room (Vintage International) By James Baldwin Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780345806567
Availability: On Our Shelves
Published: Vintage - September 12th, 2013

Just read every single book by James Baldwin.  |  SLIM & FAST


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The Secret Lives of Church Ladies By Deesha Philyaw Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781949199734
Availability: On Our Shelves
Published: West Virginia University Press - September 1st, 2020

Because we all need to know "how to make love to a physicist.”  |  SLIM & FAST


100 Boyfriends By Brontez Purnell Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780374538989
Availability: On Our Shelves
Published: MCD x FSG Originals - February 2nd, 2021

Quick smart dirty gay fun.  |  SLIM & FAST


Jaws By Peter Benchley Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780345544148
Availability: On Our Shelves
Published: Ballantine Books - August 6th, 2013

♪... ♪... ♪... ♪...  |  SLIM & FAST


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Little Fish By Casey Plett Cover Image
$19.95
ISBN: 9781551527208
Availability: On Our Shelves
Published: Arsenal Pulp Press - May 1st, 2018

Intimate, harrowing, poetic, and wonderfully trans.  |  SLIM & FAST


American Spy: A Novel By Lauren Wilkinson Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780812988284
Availability: On Our Shelves
Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - March 17th, 2020

When Beatty, Coates, and Irby recommend a spy thriller, we buy it.  |  SLIM & FAST


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An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter By César Aira, Chris Andrews (Translated by), Roberto Bolaño (Preface by) Cover Image
By César Aira, Chris Andrews (Translated by), Roberto Bolaño (Preface by)
$12.95
ISBN: 9780811216302
Availability: On Our Shelves
Published: New Directions - May 25th, 2006

Because sometimes the landscape paints you.  |  SLIM & SLOW


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Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (Vintage Contemporaries) By Anne Carson Cover Image
$20.00
ISBN: 9780375701290
Availability: On Our Shelves
Published: Vintage - July 27th, 1999

Breaks your heart, rearranges it into a mosaic. |  SLIM & SLOW


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McGlue: A Novella By Ottessa Moshfegh Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780525522768
Availability: On Our Shelves
Published: Penguin Books - January 8th, 2019

Darkness distilled—rotgot of the sinning soul. |  SLIM & SLOW


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The Summer Book By Tove Jansson, Kathryn Davis (Introduction by), Thomas Teal (Translated by) Cover Image
By Tove Jansson, Kathryn Davis (Introduction by), Thomas Teal (Translated by)
$15.95
ISBN: 9781590172681
Availability: On Our Shelves
Published: NYRB Classics - May 20th, 2008

It's right there in the title. |  SLIM & SLOW


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The Days of Abandonment By Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781933372006
Availability: On Our Shelves
Published: Europa Editions - September 1st, 2005

Hot psychosis summer. |  SLIM & SLOW


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Pizza Girl: A Novel By Jean Kyoung Frazier Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781984899002
Availability: On Our Shelves
Published: Anchor - May 4th, 2021

Tackles big issues like the meaning of family & whether pickles belong on pizza. |  SLIM & SLOW


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A Severed Head By Iris Murdoch Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780140020038
Availability: On Our Shelves
Published: Penguin Books - November 18th, 1976

Profoundly bonkers. |  SLIM & SLOW


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Garden by the Sea By Mercè Rodoreda, Martha Tennent (Translator) Cover Image
By Mercè Rodoreda, Martha Tennent (Translator)
$15.95
ISBN: 9781948830089
Availability: On Our Shelves
Published: Open Letter - February 18th, 2020

Pour yourself a glass and read it there. |  SLIM & SLOW


The Inland Sea: A Novel By Madeleine Watts Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781646220175
Availability: On Our Shelves
Published: Catapult - January 12th, 2021

Coming of age in the bildingsromanthropocene. |  SLIM & SLOW


The Bell Jar By Sylvia Plath Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780060837020
Availability: On Our Shelves
Published: Harper Perennial Modern Classics - August 2nd, 2005

Interns of the world, unite!  |  SLIM & SLOW


Tapping the Source: A Novel By Kem Nunn Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781451645545
Availability: On Our Shelves
Published: Scribner - June 19th, 2012

Surf Noir: Keanu tested, Keanu approved.  |  EPIC & FAST


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Homegoing By Yaa Gyasi Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781101971062
Availability: On Our Shelves
Published: Vintage - May 2nd, 2017

Informative, heartbreaking, hopeful, lovely. Go on this journey.  |  EPIC & FAST


Tyll: A Novel By Daniel Kehlmann, Ross Benjamin (Translated by) Cover Image
By Daniel Kehlmann, Ross Benjamin (Translated by)
$16.95
ISBN: 9780525562726
Availability: On Our Shelves
Published: Vintage - March 9th, 2021

Hypnotic, elusive, magical.  |  EPIC & FAST


When No One Is Watching: An Edgar Award Winner By Alyssa Cole Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9780062982650
Availability: On Our Shelves
Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - September 1st, 2020

Because gentrification doesn’t sleep.  |  EPIC & FAST


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Beach Read By Emily Henry Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9781984806734
Availability: On Our Shelves
Published: Berkley - May 19th, 2020

It's right there in the title.  |  EPIC & FAST


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Out: A Thriller (Vintage International) By Natsuo Kirino Cover Image
$19.00
ISBN: 9781400078370
Availability: On Our Shelves
Published: Vintage - January 4th, 2005

Women coming together, falling apart, dismembering men, coming together again.  |  EPIC & FAST


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The Idiot: A Novel By Elif Batuman Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780143111061
Availability: On Our Shelves
Published: Penguin Books - February 13th, 2018

Love in the time of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.  |  EPIC & FAST


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Breasts and Eggs By Mieko Kawakami, Sam Bett (Translator), David Boyd (Translator) Cover Image
By Mieko Kawakami, Sam Bett (Translator), David Boyd (Translator)
$17.95
ISBN: 9781609456702
Availability: On Our Shelves
Published: Europa Editions - March 23rd, 2021

Dingy bathhouses, menstrual pads, breast enhancement pamphlets, cheap beer, BBQ: Breasts & Eggs.  |  EPIC & FAST


Red Mars (Mars Trilogy #1) By Kim Stanley Robinson Cover Image
$8.99
This book is out of stock indefinitely, unable to order at this time.
ISBN: 9780553560732
Published: Spectra - October 1st, 1993

In your dreams, Elon.  |  EPIC & FAST


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The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas, Robin Buss (Translated by), Robin Buss (Introduction by), Robin Buss (Notes by) Cover Image
By Alexandre Dumas, Robin Buss (Translated by), Robin Buss (Introduction by), Robin Buss (Notes by)
$16.00
ISBN: 9780140449266
Availability: On Our Shelves
Published: Penguin Classics - May 27th, 2003

Imprisonment, escape, revenge: adventure!  |  EPIC & FAST


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The Rings of Saturn By W. G. Sebald, Michael Hulse (Translated by) Cover Image
By W. G. Sebald, Michael Hulse (Translated by)
$16.95
ISBN: 9780811226158
Availability: On Our Shelves
Published: New Directions - November 8th, 2016

From silkworms to satellites to pearl-eating dragons; each page uncovers the same truth. |  EPIC & SLOW


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The Transit of Venus By Shirley Hazzard, Lauren Groff (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Shirley Hazzard, Lauren Groff (Introduction by)
$18.00
ISBN: 9780143135654
Availability: On Our Shelves
Published: Penguin Classics - March 9th, 2021

Dare we say it? A perfect novel.  |  EPIC & SLOW


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Arturo's Island: A Novel By Elsa Morante, Ann Goldstein (Translated by) Cover Image
By Elsa Morante, Ann Goldstein (Translated by)
$18.95
ISBN: 9781631496622
Availability: On Our Shelves
Published: Liveright - February 18th, 2020

Italian island porn.  |  EPIC & SLOW


From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate: Bedouin Hornbook, Djbot Baghostus's Run, Atet A.D. By Nathaniel Mackey Cover Image
$22.95
ISBN: 9780811218443
Availability: On Our Shelves
Published: New Directions - July 30th, 2010

Free Jazz in book form, and vice versa.  |  EPIC & SLOW


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Collected Fictions By Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley (Translated by) Cover Image
By Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley (Translated by)
$28.00
ISBN: 9780140286809
Availability: On Our Shelves
Published: Penguin Books - September 1st, 1999

Stories: short, but INFINITE.  |  EPIC & SLOW


Life a User's Manual (Verba Mundi #18) By Georges Perec, David Bellos (Translator) Cover Image
By Georges Perec, David Bellos (Translator)
$24.95
ISBN: 9781567923735
Availability: On Our Shelves
Published: Verba Mundi - July 1st, 2009

Some assembly required.  |  EPIC & SLOW


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A Brief History of Seven Killings (Booker Prize Winner): A Novel By Marlon James Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781594633942
Availability: On Our Shelves
Published: Riverhead Books - September 8th, 2015

...from Bob Marley to Bushwick.  |  EPIC & SLOW


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The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue By Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear (Translated by), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translated by) Cover Image
By Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear (Translated by), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translated by)
Unavailable, our apologies.
ISBN: 9780374528379
Availability: Out of Print
Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - June 14th, 2002

An existential crisis wrapped in a whodunnit wrapped in a Karamazov.  |  EPIC & SLOW


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The Recognitions By William Gaddis, William H. Gass (Afterword by), Tom McCarthy (Introduction by) Cover Image
By William Gaddis, William H. Gass (Afterword by), Tom McCarthy (Introduction by)
$29.95
ISBN: 9781681374666
Availability: On Our Shelves
Published: NYRB Classics - November 24th, 2020

Notorously challenging. One of a kind.  |  EPIC & SLOW


Ducks, Newburyport By Lucy Ellmann Cover Image
$22.95
ISBN: 9781771963077
Availability: On Our Shelves
Published: Biblioasis - September 10th, 2019

The fact that this book is 988 pages long.  |  EPIC & SLOW