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The Lovebird

(Available June 18, 2013)
The Lovebird
Written by Natalie Brown
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385536752
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The Lovebird

Written by Natalie Brown


Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $24.95

A spectacularly vibrant, original debut, The Lovebird takes us from the orange-scented streets of Southern California to the vast prairie landscape of Montana, and introduces us to Margie Fitzgerald, a spirited and unforgettable heroine for our times.

Margie has always had a soft spot for helpless creatures. Her warm heart breaks... Read more >
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The Lovebird

Written by Natalie Brown


Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $11.99

A spectacularly vibrant, original debut, The Lovebird takes us from the orange-scented streets of Southern California to the vast prairie landscape of Montana, and introduces us to Margie Fitzgerald, a spirited and unforgettable heroine for our times.

Margie has always had a soft spot for helpless creatures. Her warm heart breaks... Read more >
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The Lullaby of Polish Girls
A Novel
Written by Dagmara Dominczyk


Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $12.99

A vibrant, engaging debut novel that follows the friendship of three women from their youthful days in Poland to their complicated, not-quite-successful adult lives
 
Because of her father’s role in the Solidarity movement, Anna and her parents immigrate to the United States in the 1980s as political refugees from Poland... Read more >
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The Lullaby of Polish Girls

(Available June 4, 2013)
The Lullaby of Polish Girls
Written by Dagmara Dominczyk
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780812993554
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The Lullaby of Polish Girls
A Novel
Written by Dagmara Dominczyk


Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $25.00

A vibrant, engaging debut novel that follows the friendship of three women from their youthful days in Poland to their complicated, not-quite-successful adult lives
 
Because of her father’s role in the Solidarity movement, Anna and her parents immigrate to the United States in the 1980s as political refugees from Poland... Read more >
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The Sweet Girl

(Available June 4, 2013)
The Sweet Girl
Written by Annabel Lyon
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307962553
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The Sweet Girl

Written by Annabel Lyon


Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $24.95

From the award-winning author of The Golden Mean, a captivating, wholly transporting new novel that follows Aristotle’s strong-willed daughter as she shapes her own destiny: an unexpected love story, a tender portrait of a girl and her father, and an astonishing journey through the underbelly of a supposedly enlightened society.

Aristotle...

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The Sweet Girl

Written by Annabel Lyon


Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $12.99

From the award-winning author of The Golden Mean, a captivating, wholly transporting new novel that follows Aristotle’s strong-willed daughter as she shapes her own destiny: an unexpected love story, a tender portrait of a girl and her father, and an astonishing journey through the underbelly of a supposedly enlightened society.

Aristotle...

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Tell the Wolves I'm Home

(Available June 4, 2013)
Tell the Wolves I'm Home
Written by Carol Rifka Brunt
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780812982855
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Tell the Wolves I'm Home
A Novel
Written by Carol Rifka Brunt


Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $15.00

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The Wall Street Journal • O: The Oprah Magazine • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews • Booklist • School Library Journal
 
NAMED A FAVORITE READ BY GILLIAN FLYNN
 
WINNER OF THE ALEX AWARD

In this striking literary debut, Carol Rifka Brunt unfolds... Read more >
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Noughties
Noughties
Written by Ben Masters
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307955685
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Noughties
A Novel
Written by Ben Masters


Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $14.00

Eliot Lamb has had countless nights like this before. He's out with his mates, pint in hand, shots at the ready.  They're at the King's Arms and will soon be making their familiar descent: pub, bar, club. But this time it's different.  When the night ends and tomorrow begins, he'll graduate... Read more >
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NOT THE END OF THE WORLD
NOT THE END OF THE WORLD
Written by Rebecca Stowe
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307832160
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NOT THE END OF THE WORLD

Written by Rebecca Stowe


Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: May 8, 2013
Price: $12.99

Not the End of the World signals the arrival of a major new voice in contemporary American fiction. In much the same way that Kaye Gibbons burst upon the growing literary scene with her first novel about growing up, Ellen Foster, so has Rebecca Stowe, who has already been compared to... Read more >
Lionel Asbo
Lionel Asbo
Written by Martin Amis
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307948083
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Lionel Asbo
State of England
Written by Martin Amis


Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $15.00

Des Pepperdine is a boy out of place. He lives on the thirty-third floor of a London housing project; while his peers pick fights, Des retreats to the public library. What’s more, Des’s uncle and guardian, Lionel Asbo, is one of the most notorious petty criminals in the city. Yet Lionel...

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The Dragon's Village
The Dragon's Village
Written by Yuan-Tsung Chen
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307831941
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The Dragon's Village
An Autobiographical Novel of Revolutionary China
Written by Yuan-Tsung Chen


Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2013
Price: $10.99

This extraordinary autobiographical story, compelling, candid, and deeply personal, plunges us into that tumultuous moment in China out of which the modern People’s Republic finally emerged. It is the first time a novelist has ever described that distant world in words that open it up to Western readers in the clearest... Read more >
The House on Mango Street
The House on Mango Street
Written by Sandra Cisneros
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780345807199
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The House on Mango Street

Written by Sandra Cisneros


Format: eBook
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $8.99

NOW AVAILABLE IN EBOOK FOR THE FIRST TIME

Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, The House on Mango Street is the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero. Told in a series of vignettes – sometimes... Read more >
La Casa en Mango Street
La Casa en Mango Street
Written by Sandra Cisneros
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780345807205
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La Casa en Mango Street

Written by Sandra Cisneros


Format: eBook
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $8.99

DISPONIBLE POR PRIMERA VEZ EN EBOOK

Elogiado por la crítica, admirado por lectores de todas las edades, en escuelas y universidades de todo el país y traducido a una multitud de idiomas, La casa en Mango Street es la extraordinaria historia de Esperanza Cordero. Contado a través de una serie de viñetas —a veces... Read more >
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Railsea
Railsea
Written by China Mieville
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780345524539
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Railsea

Written by China Mieville


Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $10.99

“Other names besides [Herman] Melville’s will surely come to mind as you read this thrilling tale—there’s Dune’s Frank Herbert. . . . But in this, as in all of his works, Miéville has that special knack for evoking other writers even while making the story wholly his own.”—Los Angeles Times
 
... Read more >
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The Natural Order of Things
The Natural Order of Things
Written by Kevin Keating
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780804169264
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The Natural Order of Things

Written by Kevin Keating


Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $9.99

From a startling new voice in American fiction comes a dark, powerful novel about a tragic city and its inhabitants over the course of one Halloween weekend.

Set in a decaying Midwestern urban landscape, with its goings-on and entire atmosphere dominated and charged by one Jesuit prep school and its students, parents... Read more >
Second Chance Boyfriend
Second Chance Boyfriend
Written by Monica Murphy
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780988369450
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Second Chance Boyfriend
A Novel
Written by Monica Murphy


Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: April 5, 2013
Price: $3.99

From breakout New Adult author Monica Murphy comes the exhilarating conclusion to Drew and Fable’s story—the star-crossed young romance that began in One Week Girlfriend.
 
Lost. Everything in my life can be summed up by that one sickening word. My football coach blames me for our season-ending losses. So does... Read more >
The Albino Album
The Albino Album
Written by Chavisa Woods
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781609804763
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The Albino Album
A Novel
Written by Chavisa Woods


Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $19.95

"Devoid of pretense or fear, Woods tells a not so “normal” coming-of-age story set in the stretched-out underbelly of rural America. Smart but unworldly, Woods creates a new world for the contemporary misfit where circus performers, Catholic workers, fire jugglers, and power wives sit at the same table. A “gooble gobble&rdquo...

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The Albino Album
A Novel
Written by Chavisa Woods


Format: eBook
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $19.95

Emerging author Chavisa Woods has been noted for capturing a "strange, troubling vision of domestic life in the rural U.S." (Go Magazine). Here she presents a techno-colored vision of rural adolescence, the story of a girl with an unpronounceable name—a fiery, unhinged, growling, big-hearted country girl in a dirty black tutu... Read more >
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La Edad De Los Milagros
La Edad De Los Milagros
Written by Karen Thompson Walker
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9788425347818
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La Edad De Los Milagros

Written by Karen Thompson Walker


Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $18.00

Julia tiene once años y vive una plácida existencia en la soleada California con su familia cuando las noticias informan de algo que cambiará el mundo por completo: es, simplemente, el principio del fin del mundo visto a través de los ojos de una niña.
"No había imágenes que mostrar en televisión... Read more >
Elders
Elders
Written by Ryan McIlvain
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307955692
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Elders
A Novel
Written by Ryan McIlvain


Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $26.00

A glorious debut that T.C. Boyle calls "powerful and deeply moving" that follows two young Mormon missionaries in Brazil and their tense, peculiar friendship.

Elder McLeod—outspoken, surly, a brash American—is nearing the end of his mission in Brazil. For nearly two years he has spent his days studying the Bible and the... Read more >
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Elders
Elders
Written by Ryan McIlvain
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307955708
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Elders
A Novel
Written by Ryan McIlvain


Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $12.99

A glorious debut that T.C. Boyle calls "powerful and deeply moving" that follows two young Mormon missionaries in Brazil and their tense, peculiar friendship.

Elder McLeod—outspoken, surly, a brash American—is nearing the end of his mission in Brazil. For nearly two years he has spent his days studying the Bible and the... Read more >
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An Enlarged Heart
An Enlarged Heart
Written by Cynthia Zarin
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781400042715
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An Enlarged Heart
A Personal History
Written by Cynthia Zarin


Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $24.95

An Enlarged Heart, the exquisitely written prose debut from prize-winning poet Cynthia Zarin, is a poignantly understated exploration of the author’s experiences with love, work, and the surprise of time’s passage. In these intertwined episodes from her New York world and beyond, she charts the shifting and complicated parameters of contemporary...

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An Enlarged Heart
An Enlarged Heart
Written by Cynthia Zarin
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ISBN: 9780307962195
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An Enlarged Heart
A Personal History
Written by Cynthia Zarin


Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $12.99

An Enlarged Heart, the exquisitely written prose debut from prize-winning poet Cynthia Zarin, is a poignantly understated exploration of the author’s experiences with love, work, and the surprise of time’s passage. In these intertwined episodes from her New York world and beyond, she charts the shifting and complicated parameters of contemporary...

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Perla
Perla
Written by Carolina De Robertis
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307744173
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Perla

Written by Carolina De Robertis


Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $15.00

From the author of the international bestseller, The Invisible Mountain, comes Perla, a coming-of-age story based on one of the darkest chapters in Argentinean history.

Growing up as a privileged only child in Buenos Aires, Perla Correa learned early on not to discuss the profession of her naval officer father... Read more >
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The Antagonist
The Antagonist
Written by Lynn Coady
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307961358
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The Antagonist

Written by Lynn Coady


Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $25.95

A piercing epistolary novel, The Antagonist explores, with wit and compassion, how the impressions of others shape, pervert, and flummox both our perceptions of ourselves and our very nature.

Gordon Rankin Jr., aka “Rank,” thinks of himself as “King Midas in reverse”—and indeed misfortune seems to follow him at every...

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