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History of Wolves

by Emily Fridlund

A BEA Buzz Book Selection and one of the most daring literary debuts of the season, a profound and propulsive novel from an urgent new voice in American fiction.

The Hidden Oasis

by Paul Sussman

The third novel from international best-selling author Paul Sussman, The Hidden Oasis is an action-packed thriller about an American mountain climber and a British professor who set out to solve…

Healing Earthquakes

by Jimmy Santiago Baca

“Jimmy Santiago Baca is a force in American poetry. Now, with Healing Earthquakes, he has accomplished its grand result in a book of brilliant passion. His words heal, inspire, and…

The Great Divorce

by Ilyon Woo

“Modern Americans, bombarded with stories of celebrity divorces, probably assume that the tabloid breakup is a recent phenomenon. This lively, well-written and engrossing tale proves them wrong.” —The New York…

A Flock of Fools

by Kazuaki Tanahashi

“Translator Kaz Tanahashi and storyteller Peter Levitt have given these stories a subtle American-Zen flavor, and although this collections has a 1500-year pedigree . . . its messages ring clear…

Disasters in the First World

by Olivia Clare Friedman

From a dazzling new American storyteller—who “writes with Carveresque clarity and bite” (Janet Fitch)—an arresting debut story collection that explores the fragility of troubled lives caught in disruptive turbulence….

Dogfight

by Michael Knight

“Ten stories cut like gems from American family life . . . [with] a gracious patina and a drawl of violence.” —Los Angeles Times…

Charlie Wilson’s War

by George Crile

“Americans often ask: ‘Where have all the heroes gone?’ Well a lot of them come roaring through in this tour de force of reporting and writing. Tom Clancy’s fiction pales…

Deviant Behavior

by Mike Sager

“Mike Sager’s keen, journalistic eye and unique voice transfer to fiction with highly entertaining results. Deviant Behavior is a street-level, symphonic portrait of an American city.” —George Pelecanos, author of…

Manson in His Own Words

by Nuel Emmons

“A glimpse of part of the American experience that is rarely described from the inside . . . It compels both interest and horror.” –The Washington Post…