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As the days begin to gradually grow longer, we are excited to introduce our forthcoming titles for Spring 2025. From a dystopian future of procreation found in Sayaka Murata’s Vanishing World to long-forgotten stories of colonial greed unearthed in Sophy Roberts’ Training School for Elephants, you’ll be sure to find a book (or several) that you won’t be able to put down.
33 Place Brugmann by Alice Austen
Coming out 3/11.
As whispers of German occupation become a reality in Brussels, life for the residents of 33 Place Brugmann is about to change forever. An art student in apartment 4L witnesses the beloved family of 4R disappear to become refugees, nurses, and reluctant heroes, while the seamstress on the 5th floor deepens a dangerous affair with a wartime compatriot of a German general in 3R. When confronted with a cruel choice—submit to the regime or risk their lives to resist—every member of this community learns the truth about what, and who, matters to them the most.
Friends Helping Friends by Patrick Hoffman
Coming out 3/18.
In this fast-paced thriller, twenty-something Bunny Simpson is stuck at a dead-end job in Denver, while his best friend, Jerry LeClair, feels similarly trapped in a life of dim prospects and small-time drug dealing. Enter: Helen McCalla, an attorney who offers the boys a seemingly simple offer: beat up her ex-husband, who happens to be a judge in the local court, and she’ll pay them some money. Part crime novel, part portrait of working-class middle America, Bunny and Jerry find themselves on a tour of Denver’s underbelly—its courts, jails, criminals, and dirty cops—and put to the test whether or not friendship can truly survive it all.
The Reluctant Sheriff by Chris Offutt
Coming out 3/25.
In the latest addition to the critically acclaimed Mick Hardin series, Mick finds himself stepping in as interim sheriff of their small Kentucky town while his sister Linda recovers from a gunshot wound. When a series of bodies turn up in quick succession, Mick realizes that their mysterious circumstances make these cases not as open-and-shut as everyone believes. Especially as the police begin to suspect someone who threatens to fan the flames of his past. Meanwhile, a familiar business tycoon seems to have a vested interest in Linda returning as sheriff, making it difficult for her to remain on the sidelines.
Mr. Loverman by Bernardine Evaristo
Coming out 4/1.
At seventy-four years old, Barrington Jedidiah Walker is a husband, father, grandfather—and also secretly gay, lovers with his childhood friend, Morris. When Barry’s wife Carmel suspects he sleeps with other women and their marriage goes into meltdown, Barry wants to divorce his religious and disappointed wife and live with Morris. Yet after a lifetime of fear and deception, will he manage to break away?
The Impossible Thing by Belinda Bauer
Coming out 4/8.
On the cliffs of Yorkshire in 1926, a small girl—penniless and neglected by her family—retrieves one of the eggs of the sea birds who nest there, the most beautiful of which are sold for considerable sums. Its discovery will alter the course of her life. A century later in a remote Welsh cottage, Patrick finds his friend Nick and his mother tied up and robbed of their beloved scarlet egg. As the two friends attempt to retrieve it, they discover the cruel world of egg trafficking, uncovering a crime that has remained unsolved for a hundred years.
Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata
Coming out 4/15.
As a girl, Amane discovers with horror that her parents “copulated” to bring her into the world, rather than using artificial insemination as has become the norm in mid-twentieth century Japan. Despite her disdain for what she considers indoctrination into this strange “system” by her mother, Amane’s infatuations with anime characters and real people have an undeniable sexual force. As an adult in an appropriately sexless marriage, Amane and her husband Saku decide to go and live in a mysterious new town called Experiment City or Paradise-Eden, where all children are raised communally, and every person is considered a Mother to all children. Here, where men are pregnant by way of artificial wombs and all children remain nameless, Amane wonders if this new world will purify her of her strangeness once and for all.
The Fact Checker by Austin Kelley
Coming out 4/15.
It starts out like any other morning for the Fact Checker, who’s assigned to a light, breezy article on a local farm whose tomatoes have become the summer’s hottest produce. Yet one cryptic quote from a farm volunteer named Sylvia brings him pause, especially when she suddenly disappears. Did she discover an unsavory truth about the farm’s messianic owner and fear for her safety, or was it simply something the Fact Checker said? He becomes obsessed with finding Sylvia, leading him on a quixotic quest around New York City’s hidden corners. As the story develops, the Fact Checker begins to question his perception of what’s real and what’s not in an increasingly post-truth world.
A Training School for Elephants by Sophy Roberts
Coming out 4/22.
In 1879, King Leopold II of Belgium launched an ambitious plan to plunder Africa’s resources by way of elephants. Believing these creatures to be the key to cracking open the continent, Leopold commissioned the Irish adventurer Frederick Carter to help establish a training school for African elephants. In this detailed retracing of a long-forgotten expedition, Roberts follows in the footsteps of four elephants brought to the East African coast from India and brings to life a cast of historic characters and modern voices, set against rich descriptions of the landscapes travelled. In doing so, she digs deep into historic records to reckon with our broken relationship with animals, revealing an extraordinary—and enduring—story of colonial greed, ineptitude, hypocrisy, and folly.
Circular Motion by Alex Foster
Coming out 5/13.
As Earth’s days begin to mysteriously accelerate, Tanner decides to run away from his tiny Alaskan hometown and lands a job at CWC, the global operator of massive aircraft orbiting the Earth and transporting goods and people at record speeds. Meanwhile, high school outcast Winnie is swept up into a group of teen activists who blame CWC’s capitalist greed for the planet’s acceleration. As Tanner and Winnie’s stories spiral closer together, they meet a series of people—cynical executives, lobbyists and lovers, religious zealots—coping with a world that is literally spinning out of control.
Smoke and Embers by John Lawton
Coming out 5/13.
The ninth installment of the beloved Inspector Troy series opens in 1950, when Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Troy learns that his sergeant has been conducting an affair with the known mistress of infamous London racketeer Otto Ohnherz. Troy is immediately intrigued by the mysterious origins of Ohnherz’s second-in-command, Jay Fabian, who is a major contributor to all three British political parties and claims to have survived the concentration camps—yet he lacks proof beyond his word. Layers of duplicity emerge around Troy as people seek to reinvent themselves in the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust.
The American Game by S.L. Price
Coming out 5/20.
Nearly a millennium ago, Native Americans created lacrosse as a means of training warriors and settling disputes. Since then, it has been co-opted as an elite game by white America, becoming the fastest growing sport in the US in the last several decades while exposing the fault lines of prejudice and privilege that continue to dog its image. At the same time, the Haudenosaunee people are bringing lacrosse’s deep traditions and spiritual nature to the sport’s center stage, hoping for inclusion as a nation in the 2028 Olympics. In this masterful narrative, Price introduces the varied group of legendary individuals that have played a sport which, perhaps more than any other, captures the complexity of America in its ongoing effort to achieve a more perfect union.
The Surf House by Lucy Clarke
Coming out 5/20.
High on the cliffs of Morocco stands the Surf House, a sanctuary for travelers chasing sunshine and waves and that holds a dark mystery within. When Bea washes in, seeking refuge after a dangerous encounter in Marrakesh, she soon gets caught in the current. One year earlier, a woman her age—who stayed in the same area, walked the same beaches, met the same guests—disappeared, vanishing without trace. Somewhere inside The Surf House lies the truth—but there’ll be a price for uncovering it.
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Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai
Coming out 4/15.
Sampath Chawla was born in a time of drought into a family not quite like other families, in a town not quite like other towns. After years of failure and spending his days dreaming in tea stalls, it does not seem as if Sampath is going to amount to much—until one day he climbs a guava tree in search of peaceful contemplation and becomes unexpectedly famous as a holy man, sending his tiny town into turmoil. A syndicate of larcenous, alcoholic monkeys terrorizes the pilgrims who cluster around Sampath’s tree, spies and profiteers descend on the town, and none of Desai’s outrageous characters goes unaffected as events spin increasingly out of control. Originally printed in 1998, this hilarious story of life, love, and family established Kiran Desai as a vivid literary voice eight years before her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the Man Booker Prize.
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Coming out 4/15.
This 2006 winner of the Man Booker Prize takes us to a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, where an embittered judge wants only to retire in peace when his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, suddenly arrives on his doorstep. The judge’s cook watches over her distractedly, but his thoughts are usually on his son, Biju, who is hopscotching from one gritty New York restaurant to another. As her characters’ lives overlap and intertwine, Kiran Desai’s brilliant novel illuminates a story of joy and despair, as well as the pain of exile and the ambiguities of postcolonialism.
The Rituals of Dinner by Margaret Visser
Coming out 4/22.
In this cult classic first published in 1992, Margaret Visser takes us on a sweeping history of table manners, from the civilizations of ancient Greece and medieval Europe to the way that technology has altered, and continues to alter, our behavior over dinner. She writes of everything from cultural idiosyncrasies around preparation and consumption, to the surprising origins of tableware—forks took eight centuries to become common utensils, the plate began as a four-day-old slice of bread. Replete with a new foreword by British food journalist Bee Wilson, and a new introduction by Visser, The Rituals of Dinner blends folklore, history, and humor in this feast of fact and observation on one of our most primal rituals: the meal.
The Price of Experience by Randall Sullivan
Coming out 5/6.
When it first came to the public’s attention in the fall of 1986, the story of the Billionaire Boys Club and its leader, Joe Hunt, fascinated the American public. However, beyond the surface story of rich kids, flagrant excess, and multiple murders lay deeper truths buried beneath the intricate details of a saga so complex that neither its scope nor its implications could be clearly discerned—that is, until this landmark true-crime book was published a decade later. Soon to be featured in a miniseries on CNN and Max, Sullivan’s utterly gripping narrative reveals the diabolical, but almost irresistibly seductive, genius at the center of this notorious case.
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