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Written by Philippe Claudel
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: July 2, 2013
Price: $16.95
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
The Investigator, a humble and ordinary man, has been ordered to conduct an Investigation into a series of suicides that have taken place at the Enterprise—a huge, sprawling complex in an unnamed Town. But the Investigator’s train is delayed. When he finally arrives, no... Read more >
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A Novel
Written by Mary McCarthy
Introduction by Vivian Gornick
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $15.00
A vicious and brilliant satire of human vanity from the author of the classic bestseller The Group.
Long out of print, Mary McCarthy's second novel is a bitingly funny satire set in the early years of the Cold War about a group of writers, editors, and intellectuals who retreat to rural New... Read more >
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Written by Saki
Illustrated by Edward Gorey
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: June 18, 2013
Price: $14.95
An NYRB Classics Original
The whimsical, macabre tales of British writer H. H. Munro—better known as Saki—skewer the banality and hypocrisy of polite English society between the end of the Victorian era and the beginning of World War I. Saki’s heroes are enfants terribles who marshal their considerable wit and imagination against... Read more >
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Written by Carl Hiaasen
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $26.95
Andrew Yancy—late of the Miami Police and soon-to-be-late of the Monroe County sheriff’s office—has a human arm in his freezer. There’s a logical (Hiaasenian) explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its shadowy owner. Yancy thinks the boating-accident/shark-luncheon explanation is full of holes, and if he...
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Written by Carl Hiaasen
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $12.99
Andrew Yancy—late of the Miami Police and soon-to-be-late of the Monroe County sheriff’s office—has a human arm in his freezer. There’s a logical (Hiaasenian) explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its shadowy owner. Yancy thinks the boating-accident/shark-luncheon explanation is full of holes, and if he...
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Written by Carl Hiaasen
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $27.00
Andrew Yancy—late of the Miami Police and soon-to-be-late of the Monroe County sheriff’s office—has a human arm in his freezer. There’s a logical (Hiaasenian) explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its shadowy owner. Yancy thinks the boating-accident/shark-luncheon explanation is full of holes, and if he...
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Written by Carl Hiaasen
Read by Arte Johnson
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $40.00
Andrew Yancy—late of the Miami Police and soon-to-be-late of the Monroe County sheriff’s office—has a human arm in his freezer. There’s a logical (Hiaasenian) explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its shadowy owner. Yancy thinks the boating-accident/shark-luncheon explanation is full of holes, and if he...
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Written by Carl Hiaasen
Read by Arte Johnson
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $20.00
Andrew Yancy—late of the Miami Police and soon-to-be-late of the Monroe County sheriff’s office—has a human arm in his freezer. There’s a logical (Hiaasenian) explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its shadowy owner. Yancy thinks the boating-accident/shark-luncheon explanation is full of holes, and if he...
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A Novel
Written by Mary McCarthy
Introduction by Vivian Gornick
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $15.00
A vicious and brilliant satire of human vanity from the author of the classic bestseller The Group.
Long out of print, Mary McCarthy's second novel is a bitingly funny satire set in the early years of the Cold War about a group of writers, editors, and intellectuals who retreat to rural New... Read more >
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Written by Kingsley Amis
Introduction by William Gibson
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $14.95
In Kingsley Amis’s virtuoso foray into virtual history it is 1976 but the modern world is a medieval relic, frozen in intellectual and spiritual time ever since Martin Luther was promoted to pope back in the sixteenth century. Stephen the Third, the king of England, has just died, and Mass (Mozart’s... Read more >
Written by Kingsley Amis
Introduction by William Gibson
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $14.95
In Kingsley Amis’s virtuoso foray into virtual history it is 1976 but the modern world is a medieval relic, frozen in intellectual and spiritual time ever since Martin Luther was promoted to pope back in the sixteenth century. Stephen the Third, the king of England, has just died, and Mass (Mozart’s... Read more >
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Written by Kingsley Amis
Introduction by Michael Dirda
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $14.95
Maurice Allington has reached middle age and is haunted by death. As he says, “I honestly can’t see why everybody who isn’t a child, everybody who’s theoretically old enough to have understood what death means, doesn’t spend all his time thinking about it. It’s a pretty arresting thought.” He also happens... Read more >
Written by Kingsley Amis
Introduction by Michael Dirda
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $14.95
Maurice Allington has reached middle age and is haunted by death. As he says, “I honestly can’t see why everybody who isn’t a child, everybody who’s theoretically old enough to have understood what death means, doesn’t spend all his time thinking about it. It’s a pretty arresting thought.” He also happens... Read more >
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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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Written by Carl Hiaasen
Read by George Newbern
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $20.00
Once a hotshot investigative reporter, Jack Tagger now bangs out obituaries for a South Florida daily, “plotting to resurrect my newspaper career by yoking my byline to some famous stiff.” Jimmy Stoma, the infamous front man of Jimmy and the Slut Puppies, dead in a fishy-smelling scuba “accident,” might be the... Read more >
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Written by Carl Hiaasen
Read by George Newbern
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $22.50
Grange, Florida, is famous for its miracles--the weeping fiberglass Madonna, the Road-Stain Jesus, the stigmata man. And now it has JoLayne Lucks, unlikely winner of the state lottery.
Unfortunately, JoLayne's winning ticket isn't the only one. The other belongs to Bodean Gazzer and his raunchy sidekick, Chub, who believe they're entitled to... Read more >
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Written by Carl Hiaasen
Read by George Newbern
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $22.50
When Palmer Stoat notices the black pickup truck following him on the highway, he fears his precious Range Rover is about to be carjacked. But Twilly Spree, the man tailing Stoat, has vengeance, not sport-utility vehicles, on his mind. Idealistic, independently wealthy and pathologically short-tempered, Twilly has dedicated himself to saving... Read more >
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Written by Monica Drake
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $25.00
A sharp-edged satire of contemporary motherhood from a comic novelist on the rise
In the hip haven of Portland, Oregon, a pack of unsteady but loyal friends asks what it means to bring babies into an already crowded world.
Sarah studies animal behavior at the zoo. She’s well versed in the... Read more >
Written by Monica Drake
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $12.99
A sharp-edged satire of contemporary motherhood from a comic novelist on the rise
In the hip haven of Portland, Oregon, a pack of unsteady but loyal friends asks what it means to bring babies into an already crowded world.
Sarah studies animal behavior at the zoo. She’s well versed in the... Read more >
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Stories
Written by Luis Negron
Translated by Suzanne Jill Levine
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $13.95
"Hilarious and heart-wrenching, provocative and pitch-perfect, each story is a tiny, transgressive explosion. I feel inadequate to the task of expressing just how wonderful this book is...read it slowly, and listen close; here is a master storyteller at his finest."—Justin Torres, author of We the Animals
"Slender but never slight, and often extremely... Read more >
Stories
Written by Luis Negron
Translated by Suzanne Jill Levine
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $13.95
Luis Negrón’s debut collection reveals the intimate world of a small community in Puerto Rico joined together by its transgressive sexuality. The writing straddles the shifting line between pure, unadorned storytelling and satire, exploring the sometimes hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking nature of survival in a decidedly cruel world. Read more >
A Novel
Written by M. Henderson Ellis
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $14.95
Not long ago, John Shirting--quiet young Chicagoan, wizard of self-medication--held down a beloved job as a barista at Capo Coffee Family, a coffee chain and global business powerhouse. When he is deemed "too passionate" about his job, he is let go. Shirting makes it his mission to return to the frothy... Read more >
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Written by Mohammed Hanif
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $15.00
Mohammed Hanif delivers a shockingly funny new novel set in steaming Karachi, about second chances, thwarted ambitions and love found in the most unlikely places.
The patients of the Sacred Heart Hospital for All Ailments need a miracle. Alice Bhatti may be just what they’re looking for. She’s the daughter of a...
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A Novel
Written by M. Henderson Ellis
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $14.95
Not long ago, John Shirting--quiet young Chicagoan, wizard of self-medication--held down a beloved job as a barista at Capo Coffee Family, a coffee chain and global business powerhouse. When he is deemed "too passionate" about his job, he is let go. Shirting makes it his mission to return to the frothy... Read more >
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Written by Annalena McAfee
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $15.95
A deft and impressive debut novel—a dark hyper-comedy—set in London in the late 1990s during the height of the newspaper wars just before the dot-com tidal wave.
Honor Tait, a legendary prize-winning war correspondent (called in her day "The Newsroom Dietrich" because of her luminescent beauty) is now in her eighties and...
