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  • Hotel Angeline: A Novel in 36 Voices

    A Novel in 36 Voices

    by Garth Stein, Jennie Shortridge, Erik Larson, Julia Quinn, Jamie Ford, Kevin O'Brien, Susan Wiggs, Erica Bauermeister, Carol Cassella, Mary Guterson, Elizabeth George, Deb Caletti, Kathleen Alcalá, William Dietrich, Karen Finneyfrock, Stephanie Kallos, Frances McCue, Suzanne Selfors, Craig Welch, Matthew Amster-Burton, Sean Beaudoin, Robert Dugoni, Jarret Middleton, Greg Stump, David Lasky, Kit Bakke, Dave Boling, Maria Dahvana Headley, Kevin Emerson, Clyde W. Ford, Teri Hein, Stacey Levine, Peter Mountford, Nancy Rawles, Ed Skoog, Indu Sundaresan ...
    Thirty-six of the most interesting writers in the Pacific Northwest came together for a week-long marathon of writing live on stage. The result? Hotel Angeline, a truly inventive novel that surprises at every turn of the page.Something is amiss at the Hotel Angeline, a rickety former mortuary perched atop Capitol Hill in rain-soaked Seattle. Fourteen-year-old Alexis Austin is fixing the plumbing, ... Read more

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  • A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism

    A Novel

    by Peter Mountford ...
    "A terrific debut novel . . . Mountford's parable of the voracious global economy reminds me of Graham Greene's The Quiet American." —Jess Walter, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Cold MillionsOn his first assignment for a rapacious hedge fund, Gabriel embarks to Bolivia at the end of 2005 to ferret out insider information about the plans of the controversial president-elect. If Gabriel ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Detonator

    Stories

    by Peter Mountford ...
    Sensorily rich and narratively captivating, the stories in Detonator are utterly addictive. Author Peter Mountford invites readers with a balance of humor, sensuality, and compassion while spanning continents, offering intimate portraits of flawed characters caught in the crosshairs of personal and political upheavals.In “One More Night Behind Walls,” set against the early 1980s-onset of Sri Lanka ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Ploughshares Summer 2024 Guest-edited by Rebecca Makkai

    by Rebecca Makkai, Molly Anders, Dur e Aziz Amna, Ramona Ausubel, Joy Deva Baglio, Drew Calvert, Diana Cao, Jane Delury, Janice Furlong, Tim Horvath, Juan Martinez, Khaddafina Mbabazi, Peter Mountford, Susan V. Meyers, DK Nnuro ...
    The Summer 2024 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Summer 2024 Issue, guest-edited ... Read more

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  • Maecenas

    by Peter Mountford ...
    While much has been written of the importance of Agrippa in Augustus’ rise to power as the first emperor of Rome, Maecenas remains a shadowy figure despite being a vital part in the success of Augustus. After the assassination of Julius Caesar, Maecenas was a vital negotiator between Octavian and Mark Antony in the years leading up to the battle of Actium, and a wise political advisor to Augustus ... Read more

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  • The Dismal Science

    A Novel

    by Peter Mountford ...
    Mountford's follow up to A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism is at once a cogent political drama and an acute meditation on the fragile nature of identity.The Dismal Science tells of a middle-aged vice president at the World Bank, Vincenzo D’Orsi, who publicly quits his job over a seemingly minor argument with a colleague. A scandal inevitably ensues, and he systematically burns every bridge to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Raven Stole the Moon

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  • Lethal Passage

    The Story of a Gun

    by Erik Larson ...
    **This devastating book illuminates America's gun culture -- its manufacturers, dealers, buffs, and propagandists -- but also offers concrete solutions to our national epidemic of death by firearm."Touches on all aspects of the gun issue in this country. Gives great voice to that feeling...that something real must be done." --San Diego Union-Tribune"One of the most readable anti-gun treatises in ... Read more

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  • Lady Whistledown Strikes Back

    by Julia Quinn, Karen Hawkins, Suzanne Enoch, Mia Ryan ...
    Join the Bridgertons, and the rest of the ton, as they pore over (and gossip about) Lady Whistledown’s latest musings. The elusive Regency-era gossip columnist -- popularized in # 1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton novels, now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix – reveals society’s most recent secrets in this second glittering anthology, following the New York ... Read more

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  • Songs of Willow Frost

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    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom Jamie Ford, author of the beloved Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, comes a much-anticipated second novel. Set against the backdrop of Depression-era Seattle, Songs of Willow Frost is a powerful tale of two souls—a boy with dreams for his future and a woman escaping her haunted past—both seeking love, hope, and forgiveness.Look for special features inside. Join ... Read more

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  • The Further Observations of Lady Whistledown

    by Julia Quinn, Suzanne Enoch, Karen Hawkins, Mia Ryan ...
    A New York Times BestsellerA sparkling anthology starring Lady Whistledown—the elusive Regency-era gossip columnist popularized in # 1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton novels, now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix.Lady Whistledown Tells All!Society is abuzz when the Season’s most promising debutante is jilted by her intended—only to be swept away by the deceitful ... Read more

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