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?Daphne Merkin meets the formidable challenge of describing female lust and romantic obsession with all the desired daring, candor, and skill. The result is a bracingly honest, keenly insightful,...

A National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" Honoree ?An enchanting, sparkling book about the many meanings of sisterhood.? ?Kristin Iversen, Refinery29 Claire Luchette's debut, Agatha of Little Neon, is...

A thought-provoking and penetrating account of the post-Cold war follies and delusions that culminated in the age of Donald Trump from the bestselling author of The Limits of Power. When the Cold War...

A guide to understanding the major story genres and how to write them--Author: John TrubyPublisher: Picador PaperPublication Date: Nov 29, 2022Number of Pages: 720 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

The highly anticipated new book of short fiction from the O. Henry Prize winner Alexander MacLeod?a magnificent collection about the needs, temptations, and tensions that exist just beneath the...

From the author of the New York Times-bestselling Four Thousand Weeks, a totally original approach to self-help: success through failure, calm through embracing anxiety. Self-help books don't seem to...

AphasiaAuthor: Mauro Javier CárdenasPublisher: Picador PaperPublication Date: Nov 02, 2021Number of Pages: 208 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1250800331ISBN-13: 9781250800336

Are You Somebody is a moving and fascinating portrait of both Ireland and one of its most popular and respected commentators. This gem of honesty and insight had its first life as the introduction to...

The story of the model, actress, and American icon Edie Sedgwick is told by her sister with empathy, insight, and firsthand observations of her meteoric life. As It Turns Out is a family story. Alice...

WINNER OF THE 2021 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction "Astonishingly good." ?Lily Meyer, NPR "So incantatory and visceral I don?t think I?ll ever forget...

Attention SeekingAuthor: Adam PhillipsPublisher: Picador PaperPublication Date: Jan 04, 2022Number of Pages: 144 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0374539278ISBN-13: 9780374539276

One of The Globe and Mail's Best Books of 2020 "A thoroughly authentic, smart and consoling account of one writer?s commitment to another." --The New York Times Book Review (editors' choice) "An...

Winner of the California Book Award for Fiction A Los Angeles Times bestseller Named a best book of the year by The New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and The...

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Beautiful World, Where Are You is a new novel by Sally Rooney, the bestselling author of Normal People and Conversations with Friends Alice, a novelist, meets...

Author: GILLIAN THOMASPublisher: Picador PaperPublication Date: August 08, 2017Number of Pages: 304 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1250138086ISBN-13: 9781250138088

In April 1586, Queen Elizabeth I acquired a new and exotic title. A tribe of Native Americans had made her their weroanza?a word that meant "big chief". The news was received with great joy, both by...

The beautifully written" first novel by Alice McDermott, winner of the National Book Award and "one of our finest novelists at work today.""--Author: Alice McdermottPublisher: Picador...

Haunting and transcendently twisted, this English-language debut from a Cuban literary star is a tale of race, magic, belief, and fate The Stuart family moves to a marginal neighborhood of...

Yemen, 1935. Jama is a ?market boy,? a half-feral child scavenging with his friends in the dusty streets of a great seaport. For Jama, life is a thrilling carnival, at least when he can fill his...

Winner of the 2021 Wolfson History Prize Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize | Finalist for the PEN / Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Named a best book of the year by the The...

A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 ?[A] sweeping and authoritative history" (The New York Times Book Review), Black Wave is an unprecedented and ambitious examination of how the modern Middle East...

Book CollectorsAuthor: Delphine MinouiPublisher: Picador PaperPublication Date: Oct 19, 2021Number of Pages: 224 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 125080017XISBN-13: 9781250800176

A book that begins before Adam and ends after us. In this magisterial work by the Italian intellectual superstar Roberto Calasso, figures of the Bible and its whole outline emerge in a new light: one...

Book Of Difficult FruitAuthor: Kate LeboPublisher: Picador PaperPublication Date: Apr 12, 2022Number of Pages: 416 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 125082947XISBN-13: 9781250829474

A propulsive, gripping new novel about fate, art, exploitation, and intimacy by the award-winning author of Where Reasons End.Author: Yiyun LiPublisher: Picador PaperPublication Date: Aug 08,...

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK A BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK For fans of The Hours and Fates and Furies, a bold, kaleidoscopic novel intertwining the lives of three women across three centuries...

?Astonishing . . . The Bradshaw Variations is a timely, necessary story.? ?Elle Thomas Bradshaw and Tonie Swann are experiencing the classic symptoms of marriage in its middle years: comfortable...

WINNER OF THE 2012 MAN BOOKER PRIZE The second novel in Hilary Mantel?s magnificent trilogy about Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII, in a gorgeous new edition to celebrate the trilogy?s completion with...

A New York Times Book Review Editors? Choice An innovative account of Abraham Lincoln, constitutional thinker and doer. When Abraham Lincoln assumed the presidency in 1861, the United States?...

A Los Angeles Times Bestseller "In The Cactus League [Emily Nemens] provides her readers with what amounts to a miniature, self-enclosed world that is funny and poignant and lovingly observed."...