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  • Carnations

    Poems

    by Anthony Carelli ...
    Series series Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets
    In Anthony Carelli's remarkable debut, Carnations, the poems attempt to reanimate dead metaphors as blossoms: wild and lovely but also fleeting, mortal, and averse to the touch. Here, the poems are carnations, not only flowers, but also body-making words. Nodding to influences as varied as George Herbert, Francis Ponge, Fernando Pessoa, and D. H. Lawrence, Carelli asserts that the poet’s materials ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

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  • Damage Control

    Stories

    by Amber Dermont ...
    "Dermont's short story collection, which follows her debut novel ( The Starboard Sea, 2012), demonstrates the author's versatility and sardonic humor…Dermont delivers strong prose and intriguing characters who frequently defy stereotypical ideals…the overall effect is a tight collection that takes the reader in unexpected, often disconcerting, directions. Full of irony and contradictions, this ... Read more

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  • It's Not Love, It's Just Paris

    A Novel

    by Patricia Engel ...
    A spellbinding story of a young American abroad and a star-crossed relationship: "This is a novel to get lost in." — The Miami HeraldLita del Cielo is the daughter of two Colombian immigrants who arrived in America with nothing and made a fortune with their Latin food empire. Now Lita has been granted one year to pursue her studies in Paris before returning to work in the family business. She ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Elsewhere, California

    A Novel

    by Dana Johnson ...
    We first met Avery in two of the stories featured in Dana Johnson's awardwinning collection Break Any Woman Down. As a young girl, she and her family escape the violent streets of Los Angeles to a more gentrified existence in suburban West Covina. This average life, filled with school, trips to 7Eleven to gawk at Tiger Beat magazine, and family outings to Dodger Stadium, is soon interrupted by a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Searching for Zion

    The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora

    by Emily Raboteau ...
    From Jerusalem to Ghana to Katrina-ravaged New Orleans, a woman reclaims her history in a "beautifully written and thought-provoking" memoir (Dave Eggers, author of A Hologram for the King and Zeitoun).A biracial woman from a country still divided along racial lines, Emily Raboteau never felt at home in America. As the daughter of an African American religious historian, she understood the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Last Days of California

    A Novel

    by Mary Miller ...
    A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice SelectionLonglisted for the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance Book Prize“[A] terrific first novel. . . . Why worry about labeling a book this good? Just read it.” —Laurie Muchnick, New York Times Book ReviewJess is fifteen years old and waiting for the world to end. Her evangelical father has packed up the family to drive west to California, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Street Shadows

    A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Redemption

    by Jerald Walker ...
    Masterfully told, marked by irony and humor as well as outrage and a barely contained sadness, Jerald Walker’s Street Shadows is the story of a young man’s descent into the “thug life” and the wake-up call that led to his finding himself again.Walker was born in a Chicago housing project and raised, along with his six brothers and sisters, by blind parents of modest means but middle-class ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Rise

    Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery

    by Sarah Lewis ...
    From celebrated art historian, curator, and teacher Sarah Lewis, a fascinating examination of how our most iconic creative endeavors—from innovation to the arts—are not achievements but conversions, corrections after failed attempts.The gift of failure is a riddle: it will always be both the void and the start of infinite possibility. The Rise—part investigation into a psychological mystery, part ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Starboard Sea

    A Novel

    by Amber Dermont ...
    "A rich, quietly artful novel that is bound for deep water, with questions of beauty, power and spiritual navigation as its main concerns. The title refers not to the right side of a boat but to the right course through life, and the immense difficulty of finding and following it."--Janet Maslin, The New York TimesA powerful first novel about life and death, friendship and love, as one young man ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • What You Call Winter

    Stories

    by Nalini Jones ...
    Composed of interconnected stories that move within and around a small Catholic community in India, this debut collection heralds the arrival of a graceful, sparkling new voice.Nine-year-old Marian Almeida covets the green dress her parents have set aside for her birthday, but when her desire gets the best of her, dangerous events ensue. Roddy D'Souza sees his long-dead father bicycling down the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Enchanter

    Nabokov and Happiness

    by Lila Azam Zanganeh ...
    Discovering happiness in reading the work of an extraordinary writer.The protagonist of Vladimir Nabokov's The Gift playfully dreamed of writing "A Practical Handbook: How to Be Happy." Now, Nabokov's own creative reader Lila Azam Zanganeh lends life to this vision with sly sophistication and ebullient charm, as she shares the delirious joy to be found in reading the masterpieces of "the great ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Kingdom Animalia

    by Aracelis Girmay ...
    The poems in this highly anticipated second book are elegiac poems, as concerned with honoring our dead as they are with praising the living. Through Aracelis Girmay's lens, everything is animal: the sea, a jukebox, the desert. In these poems, everything possesses a system of desire, hunger, a set of teeth, and language. These are poems about what is both difficult and beautiful about our time ... Read more

    $8.69 USD