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Asi es como la pierdes
Relatos
Written by Junot Diaz


Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $9.99

Así es como la pierdes es un libro sobre mujeres que quitan el sentido y sobre el amor y el ardor. Y sobre la traición porque a veces traicionamos lo que más queremos, y también es un libro sobre el suplicio que pasamos después –los ruegos, las lágrimas, la sensación de estar... Read more >
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Asi es como la pierdes

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Asi es como la pierdes
Written by Junot Diaz
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780345805249
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Asi es como la pierdes
Relatos
Written by Junot Diaz


Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $15.00

Así es como la pierdes es un libro sobre mujeres que quitan el sentido y sobre el amor y el ardor. Y sobre la traición porque a veces traicionamos lo que más queremos, y también es un libro sobre el suplicio que pasamos después –los ruegos, las lágrimas, la sensación de estar... Read more >
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In Between Days

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In Between Days
Written by Andrew Porter
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307475183
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In Between Days

Written by Andrew Porter


Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $15.00

“Andrew Porter is a born storyteller . . . He makes his own space instantly and invites you in. Hats off!”  —Barry Hannah
 
From a commanding new voice in fiction comes a novel as perceptive as it is generous: a portrait of an American family trying to cope in our... Read more >
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Taipei

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Taipei
Written by Tao Lin
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307950178
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Taipei

Written by Tao Lin


Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $14.95

From one of this generation's most talked about and enigmatic writers comes a deeply personal, powerful, and moving novel about family, relationships, accelerating drug use, and the lingering possibility of death.
 
Taipei by Tao Lin is an ode--or lament--to the way we live now. Following Paul from New York, where he comically navigates... Read more >
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Taipei

Written by Tao Lin


Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $9.99

From one of this generation's most talked about and enigmatic writers comes a deeply personal, powerful, and moving novel about family, relationships, accelerating drug use, and the lingering possibility of death.
 
Taipei by Tao Lin is an ode--or lament--to the way we live now. Following Paul from New York, where he comically navigates... Read more >
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GTO 14 Days in Shonan, volume 9

(Available May 28, 2013)
GTO 14 Days in Shonan, volume 9
Written by Toru Fujisawa
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781935654636
Our Price: $10.95
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GTO 14 Days in Shonan, volume 9

Written by Toru Fujisawa


Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $10.95

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A Conspiracy of Friends
A Conspiracy of Friends
Written by Alexander McCall Smith
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307948007
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A Conspiracy of Friends
A Corduroy Mansions Novel (3)
Written by Alexander McCall Smith


Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $15.00

CORDUROY MANSIONS - Book 3

In the Corduroy Mansions series of novels, set in London’s hip Pimlico neighborhood, we meet a cast of charming eccentrics, including perhaps the world’s most clever terrier, who make their home in a handsome, though slightly dilapidated, apartment block. 

The universe seems to be conspiring against Freddie de...

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The Woman Upstairs
The Woman Upstairs
Written by Claire Messud
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307596901
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The Woman Upstairs

Written by Claire Messud


Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $25.95

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Emperor’s Children, a masterly new novel: the riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed and betrayed by a desire for a world beyond her own.

Nora Eldridge, an elementary school teacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts, long ago compromised her dream to be a...

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The Woman Upstairs
The Woman Upstairs
Written by Claire Messud
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307962409
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The Woman Upstairs

Written by Claire Messud


Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $12.99

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Emperor’s Children, a masterly new novel: the riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed and betrayed by a desire for a world beyond her own.

Nora Eldridge, an elementary school teacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts, long ago compromised her dream to be a...

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The Woman Upstairs
The Woman Upstairs
Written by Claire Messud, Read by Cassandra Campbell
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
ISBN: 9780307913609
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The Woman Upstairs

Written by Claire Messud
Read by Cassandra Campbell


Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $40.00

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Emperor’s Children, a masterly new novel: the riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed and betrayed by a desire for a world beyond her own.

Nora Eldridge, an elementary school teacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts, long ago compromised her dream to be a...

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The Woman Upstairs
The Woman Upstairs
Written by Claire Messud, Read by Cassandra Campbell
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
ISBN: 9780307913616
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The Woman Upstairs

Written by Claire Messud
Read by Cassandra Campbell


Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $20.00

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Emperor’s Children, a masterly new novel: the riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed and betrayed by a desire for a world beyond her own.

Nora Eldridge, an elementary school teacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts, long ago compromised her dream to be a...

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All That Is
All That Is
Written by James Salter
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781400043132
Our Price: $26.95
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All That Is

Written by James Salter


Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $26.95

An extraordinary literary event, a major new novel by the PEN/Faulkner winner and acclaimed master: a sweeping, seductive, deeply moving story set in the years after World War II.

From his experiences as a young naval officer in battles off Okinawa, Philip Bowman returns to America and finds a position as...

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All That Is
All That Is
Written by James Salter
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307961099
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All That Is

Written by James Salter


Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $12.99

An extraordinary literary event, a major new novel by the PEN/Faulkner winner and acclaimed master: a sweeping, seductive, deeply moving story set in the years after World War II.

From his experiences as a young naval officer in battles off Okinawa, Philip Bowman returns to America and finds a position as...

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GTO 14 Days in Shonan, volume 8
GTO 14 Days in Shonan, volume 8
Written by Toru Fujisawa
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781935654629
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GTO 14 Days in Shonan, volume 8

Written by Toru Fujisawa


Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $10.95

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Speedboat
Speedboat
Written by Renata Adler, Afterword by Guy Trebay
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781590176139
Our Price: $14.00
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Speedboat

Written by Renata Adler
Afterword by Guy Trebay


Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $14.00

When Speedboat burst on the scene in the late ’70s it was like nothing readers had encountered before. It seemed to disregard the rules of the novel, but it wore its unconventionality with ease. Reading it was a pleasure of a new, unexpected kind. Above all, there was its voice, ambivalent... Read more >
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Speedboat

Written by Renata Adler
Afterword by Guy Trebay


Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $14.00

When Speedboat burst on the scene in the late ’70s it was like nothing readers had encountered before. It seemed to disregard the rules of the novel, but it wore its unconventionality with ease. Reading it was a pleasure of a new, unexpected kind. Above all, there was its voice, ambivalent... Read more >
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Por Fin En Casa
Por Fin En Casa
Written by Julia Llewellyn
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9788499898667
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Por Fin En Casa

Written by Julia Llewellyn


Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $13.00

La vida de varios personajes se entrecruza inevitablemente cuando deciden vender su casa para cambiar de residencia… y de vida.

Arriésgate...
Grace ha puesto a la venta la mansión Chadlicote, una bella casona rural, para pagar las deudas familiares. Perder el hogar en el que creció ¿le romperá el corazón o será su... Read more >
The Commitments
The Commitments
Written by Roddy Doyle
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307833082
Our Price: $11.99
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The Commitments

Written by Roddy Doyle


Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: February 6, 2013
Price: $11.99

This funky, rude, unpretentious first novel traces the short, funny, and furious career of a group of working-class Irish kids who form a band, The Commitments. Their mission: to bring soul to Dublin! Read more >
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The Invisible City
The Invisible City
Written by Pete Hamill
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307829146
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The Invisible City
A New York Sketchbook
Written by Pete Hamill


Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: February 6, 2013
Price: $9.99

In this collection of thirty-four sketches, the author captures the extraordinary range of people, experiences, places and feelings that is New York City -- the city behind the glamorous facade of Manhattan, inhabited by people who remember when this was "a great big wonderful town and they were young in its... Read more >
GTO: 14 Days in Shonan, Volume 7
GTO: 14 Days in Shonan, Volume 7
Written by Tohru Fujisawa
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781935654513
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GTO: 14 Days in Shonan, Volume 7

Written by Tohru Fujisawa


Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $10.95

Eikichi Onizuka is a 23-year-old ex-gang member. He is also the World's Greatest Teacher! As he began his quest to become the ultimate educator The young Onizuka discovers two principles of teaching - a social conscience and a sense of morality. So while he cannot use his strength on his kids... Read more >
WHORES FOR GLORIA
WHORES FOR GLORIA
Written by William T. Vollmann
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307827722
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WHORES FOR GLORIA

Written by William T. Vollmann


Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: January 2, 2013
Price: $11.99

With his first three works of fiction—the novels You Bright and Risen Angels and The Ice-Shirt, and the collection The Rainbow Stories—William T. Vollmann announced himself as a writer of rare and ferocious talent, with critics comparing him to William Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, and T.C. Boyle.
 
His new novel is the story... Read more >
Three Burke Novels, 3-Book Bundle
Three Burke Novels, 3-Book Bundle
Written by Andrew Vachss
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780345805720
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Three Burke Novels, 3-Book Bundle
Flood, Strega, Blue Belle
Written by Andrew Vachss


Format: eBook, 768 pages
On Sale: January 1, 2013
Price: $14.99

Andrew Vachss's Burke is one of the most cold-blooded yet strangely honorable protagonists in the history of crime fiction, an outlaw who makes his living by preying on the most vicious of New York City's bottom-feeders, those who thrive on the suffering of the defenseless. In these three thrillers, Vachss gives us... Read more >
Parishioner
Parishioner
Written by Walter Mosley
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780345804440
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Parishioner

Written by Walter Mosley


Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2012
Price: $9.99

A brand-new, eBook original crime novel from bestselling author Walter Mosley, Parishioner is a portrait of a hardened criminal who regrets his past, but whose only hope for redemption is to sin again.
 
In a small town situated between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, a simple church of white stone... Read more >
GTO: 14 Days in Shonan, Volume 6
GTO: 14 Days in Shonan, Volume 6
Written by Tohru Fujisawa
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781932234992
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GTO: 14 Days in Shonan, Volume 6

Written by Tohru Fujisawa


Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: November 27, 2012
Price: $10.95

Eikichi Onizuka is a 23-year-old ex-gang member. He is also the World's Greatest Teacher! As he began his quest to become the ultimate educator The young Onizuka discovers two principles of teaching - a social conscience and a sense of morality. So while he cannot use his strength on his kids... Read more >
The Boys and Their Baby
The Boys and Their Baby
Written by Larry Wolff
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307818997
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The Boys and Their Baby

Written by Larry Wolff


Format: eBook
On Sale: November 14, 2012
Price: $13.99

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