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Autobiography of a Wardrobe
Written by Elizabeth Kendall

The wholly original story of a woman's life told from her wardrobe's point of view, in the wardrobe's own savvy, vibrant... Read More

The Corpse Walker
Written by Liao Yiwu

The Corpse Walker is a compilation of twenty-seven extraordinary oral histories that opens a window, unlike any other, onto the lives... Read More

The Crowd Sounds Happy
Written by Nicholas Dawidoff

From the author of the best-selling The Catcher Was a Spy, his most original work yet: a memoir of two cities... Read More

The Drunkard's Walk
Written by Leonard Mlodinow

In this irreverent and illuminating book, acclaimed writer and scientist Leonard Mlodinow shows us how randomness, change, and probability reveal a... Read More

The End of Manners
Written by Francesca Marciano

From the critically acclaimed author of Rules of the Wild, a thrilling, timely, and darkly funny story of friendship, human frailty... Read More

La Perdida
Written by Jessica Abel

From the Harvey and Lulu award–winning creator of Artbabe comes this riveting story of a young woman’s misadventures in Mexico City... Read More

Lambrusco
Written by Ellen Cooney

The extraordinary Resistance movement of the Italian people in the Second World War is brought to life in a captivating, deeply... Read More

Microcosm
Written by Carl Zimmer

Within days of being born, we are infected with billions of E. coli. They will inhabit each and every one of... Read More

Netherland
Written by Joseph O'Neill

In a New York City made phantasmagorical by the events of 9/11, Hans--a banker originally from the Netherlands--finds himself marooned among... Read More

On Empire
Written by Eric Hobsbawm

In there four incisive and keenly perceptive essays, one of out most celebrated and respected historians of modern Europe looks at... Read More

Patriot Pirates
Written by Robert H. Patton

They were legalized pirates empowered by the Continental Congress to raid and plunder, at their own considerable risk, as much enemy... Read More

The Rabbi's Cat 2
Written by Joann Sfar, Translated by Alexis Siegel

Joann Sfar's beloved, humorous, and wise talking cat is back for more beautifully illustrated adventures in Algiers and across Africa in... Read More

The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad
Written by John Stape

The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad is the first new biography in more than a decade of one of modern literature’s... Read More

The View from the Seventh Layer
Written by Kevin Brockmeier

Kevin Brockmeier--award -winning author of The Brief History of the Dead--has been widely praised for the richness of his imagination, the... Read More

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A Free Life
Written by Ha Jin

From Ha Jin, the widely-acclaimed, award-winning author of Waiting and War Trash, comes a novel that takes his fiction to a new setting: 1990s America. We follow the Wu family—father Nan, mother Pingping, and son Taotao—as they fully sever their ties with China in the aftermath of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre and begin a new, free life in the United States.

Ha Jin's prodigious talents are evident in this powerful new book, which brilliantly brings to life the struggles and successes that characterize the contemporary immigrant experience. With its lyrical prose and confident grace, A Free Life is a luminous addition to the works of one of the preeminent writers in America today.

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