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Instantly immersive, beautifully imagined, this is an unflinching but inspiring story about some things we're going to lose, and other things we must never lose. --Lee Child, author of the Jack...

A beautiful spinning knife of a story that whirls back through the 1800s, the 1500s, the 4th century BC, and the age of myth to slice out an image of the pain and the power that women have inherited...

A varied collection of writing from Charles Portis, a prolific essayist, travel writer, newspaper reporter, and "America's least known great American novelist," (New York Times Book Review) ...

Prep meets The Secret History in Nash Jenkins's Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos, a searing debut novel about a tragic scandal at an American prep school, told in the form of a literary investigation...

Walter R. Brooks introduces Freddy the Pig in Freddy Goes to Florida, featuring illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Freddy and his friends from Bean Farm migrate south for the winter, with every mile of...

"The true fantasy classic of our time." --Washington Post Book World For generations of fantasy fans, this masterpiece ranks as one of the 20th century's most remarkable feats of imaginative writing...

Audacious, breathtaking, and inspiring. --GEORGE SAUNDERS "Madcap, delirious, exhilaratingly good." --KELLY LINK "A delightfully bizarre and unabashedly queer revelation." --TEGAN and SARA QUIN "A...

Bella Mackie's How to Kill Your Family is a darkly humorous debut novel that follows a cunning antihero as she gets her revenge. When I think about what I actually did, I feel somewhat sad that...

A BEST BOOK OF 2023 ACCORDING TO: NPR * Vanity Fair * The Paris Review * Vox James Frankie Thomas's novel Idlewild is a darkly funny story of two adults looking back on their intense teenage...

A true-crime obsessed young artist is drawn into the lives of an obscenely wealthy family in this fantastically entertaining thriller from Calla Henkel, author of Other People's Clothes Recently...

Welcome to the fantastic world of Zamonia, populated by all manner of extraordinary characters. This is book one of the series the Washington Post called "equal parts J. K. Rowling, Douglas Adams,...

In The City of Dreaming Books, Walter Moers transports us to a magical world where reading is a remarkable adventure. The search for the author's identity takes Yarnspinner to Bookholm--the...

A mysterious traveler intervenes in an epic holy war in this "impressive, challenging debut" of the critically acclaimed fantasy epic (Publishers Weekly, starred review). The first book in R. Scott...

Intoxicating, rich, and unique, The Gormenghast Trilogy is a tour de force that ranks as one of the 20th century's most remarkable feats of imaginative writing. This special illustrated edition is...

Masters of Atlantis is a cockeyed journey into an America of misfits and con men, oddballs, and innocents, by one of America's most respected novelists, #1New York Times bestselling author Charles...

Written with intelligence, compassion, and a knowing eye--in the tradition of the fabulous mysteries of Ruth Rendell and P.D. James--award-winning author Susan Hill's The Various Haunts of Men is an...

Dreamlike and macabre, Mervyn Peake's extraordinary novel Titus Groan--first in the Gormenghast Trilogy--is one of the most astonishing and fantastic works in modern fiction. As the novel opens,...

A major contribution for American readers and students of Russian literature and an exciting discovery for fans of contemporary writers as eclectic as George Saunders, John Ashbery, and Martin...

In this searing debut novel, a striving finance student confronts the line between ambition and greed and the disordered politics of his era Alistair McCabe comes to New York with a plan. Young,...

Winged Pharoah is "a book of fine idealism, deep compassion, and a spiritual quality pure and bright as flame" (New York Times). As a child, the astonishing Joan Grant became aware of her uncanny...