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Happy Family

by Wendy Lee

“Rich and multilayered, Lee’s novel explores what it means to be a part of something, whether it’s a family or a culture. Told in Hua’s sparse, somber voice, the story…

Ghosts from the Nursery

by Robin Karr-Morse

“Karr-Morse and Wiley boldly raise some tough issues. . . . [They] start with a grim question—why are children violent?—and they forge a passionate and cogent argument for focusing our…

The Fighter’s Mind

by Sam Sheridan

From the author of the critically-acclaimed best-seller A Fighter’s Heart comes an unprecedented look inside the minds of the world’s top fighters and trainers….

Deep River

by Karl Marlantes

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Matterhorn and What It Is Like to Go to War, a rich family saga about Finnish immigrants who settle and tame the Pacific…

The Beholder’s Eye

by Walt Harrington

“Aims to dispel the old journalistic clich”: that a journalist writing about him/herself is always ‘self-indulgent and, quite likely, narcissistic.” He couldn’t have put together a better lineup of writers…

The Flowers

by Dagoberto Gilb

“The prospect of reading a novel narrated in run-on sentences, fragments, Spanish phrases and street slang might seem daunting, but not when you meet the precocious, Holden Caufieldesque narrator of…

Vida

by Patricia Engel

“Gloriously gifted and alarmingly intelligent, Patricia Engel writes with an almost fable-like intensity. . . . Here, friends, is the debut I have been waiting for.” —Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning…

Son of the Old West

by Nathan Ward

An epic narrative of the Old West through the vivid, outsized life of cowboy, detective, and chronicler Charlie Siringo

The Blues Brothers

by Daniel de Visé

The story of the epic friendship between John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the golden era of improv, and the making of a comedic film classic that helped shape our popular…

The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gómez

by John Rechy

“A gritty picture of life on the cusp . . . vividly rendered.”—Kirkus Reviews…