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The Memory of Love

by Aminatta Forna

From the award-winning author of The Devil That Danced on the Water and Ancestor Stones comes The Memory of Love, a beautiful and masterfully accomplished novel about the resilience of…

Leila

by J.P. Donleavy

This sequel to The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman finds Darcy desperately departing Dublin as a pauper. But once home amid the leaking, bat-infested halls of Andromeda Park and his…

In Another Place, Not Here

by Dionne Brand

“The remarkable poet Dionne Brand now gives us a fierce, sensuous novel of women in migration–political and emotional. Concrete and visionary as a dream, relentless as the history it reveals,…

How I Became a Famous Novelist

by Steve Hely

“If this book doesn’t make you laugh, you may need a new funny bone.” —Kyle Smith, People (4 stars)…

Goodnight, Nobody

by Michael Knight

“Arresting. Stylistically, Knight slaloms through old-fashioned noir and snarky postmodernism, and from Barthelmean set pieces to a riff on Stonewall Jackson that evokes one of Barry Hannah’s Civil War fever…

Easy in the Islands

by Bob Shacochis

“[Shacochis’s] stories have an unselfconscious narrative momentum–a linear drive toward an ending–that I associate with the easy ways of an old master . . . I think this boy’s been…

Clear My Name

by Paula Daly

A rising star in domestic suspense broadens her canvas in a brilliant new thriller in which a woman convicted of murdering her husband’s lover waits to be exonerated by a…

Blueprints of the Afterlife

by Ryan Boudinot

An audacious, hilarious, and compelling novel of future shock, overconsumption, social control, and human nature by Ryan Boudinot, whom Dave Eggers has called “Some kind of new and dangerous cross…

Vanilla

by Tim Ecott

“While the scientific information is plentiful, detailed and readable, as the title suggests it is a story of the author’s travels, his love affair with the exotic islands in the…

House Blood

by Mike Lawson

“Another page-turner brimming with authentic Washington, D.C., detail and distinctive, engaging characters.” —Library Journal…