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Baba Dunja's Last Love
by Alina BronskyA defiant woman and her colorful neighbors reclaim their homes in Chernobyl in this “enthralling story of humor, tragedy, and triumph” (World Literature Today).There may be government warnings about radiation levels in her hometown of Tschernowo—also known as Chernobyl—but Baba Dunja has returned. And she’s brought a motley bunch of her former neighbors with her. With the town largely to themselves, and lots of strangely misshapen fruit, they have everything they need to start anew.The terminally ill Petrov passes the time reading love poems in his hammock; Marja takes up with the almost 100-year-old Sidorow; Baba Dunja whiles away her days writing letters to her daughter. Life is beautiful. But then a stranger turns up in the village, and once again the little idyllic settlement faces annihilation.From Alina Bronsky, the acclaimed Russian-born German author of Broken Glass Park and The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine, comes the story of a post-meltdown settlement and an unusual woman who finds her version of paradise late in life.
Downward Dog: A Novel
by Edward Vilga&“What Karl Lagerfeld is to fashion, Edward Vilga is to yoga. He has poured his years of experience into this sexy, charming and well-written escapade&” (Simon Doonan, author of Soccer Style). A study in love, loss, and sexual misadventures in New York City, Downward Dog tells the tale of a handsome Bad Boy who becomes a yoga instructor while trying to redeem his womanizing ways and win the forgiveness of the only woman he&’s ever really loved. Down on his luck thanks to a failed nightlife venture which fell apart because of his womanizing, our hero&’s stuck with massive debt and broken dreams. His only safe haven is the yoga world, and when his well-connected best buddy launches his yoga career among NYC&’s elite, our working class hero becomes a guru to society&’s top 1%, a wolf let loose amongst a flock of comely sheep. &“Downward Dog is not only a sexy/funny page turner, it also shares the emotional journey of one Bad Boy&’s transformation and romantic redemption.&” —Chip Conley, New York Times–bestselling author of Peak
Taking Back Our Food Supply: How to Lead the Local Food Revolution to Reclaim a Healthy Future
by Michael BrownleeSeven steps you can take NOW to ignite a local food revolution and help reverse the devastation of the industrial food system! Our food supply has been hijacked by an unholy alliance of multinational corporations in big agriculture, big food, and big pharma. This industrial food complex is destroying our natural food supply, making us less healthy, and rapidly destroying the biosphere. Restoring food sovereignty and security is one of the most important causes of our time—requiring nothing less than a grassroots revolution. In Taking Back Our Food Supply, Michael Brownlee shows readers how to master the seven steps of building a resilient regional foodshed and illustrates how to ignite the local food revolution in their community to a radically increased impact, effectiveness, and scale.
Only in L.A. (The Ben Crandel Mysteries #2)
by Murray SinclairIn this sequel to the Edgar Award–nominated Tough Luck L.A., a Hollywood screenwriter searches for his kidnapped son in the dark underbelly of Los Angeles. Things are mostly looking up for Ben Crandel. The once down-on-his-luck screenwriter now has a steady job as a studio script doctor. But the transition from Big Brother to single father of an adopted teenager has been bumpy. So when his son, Petey, disappears with their basset hound, Stanley, after a confrontation, Ben assumes the kid&’s run away again. Then comes the ransom call. Ben&’s frantic search for his kidnapped boy soon has him mired in a morass of body snatchers and murder that involves a corpse dredged from the La Brea Tar Pits, a drunk and deranged Hollywood legend, and a mysterious and sexually voracious femme fatale. With the help of the cop who once charged him with murder, Ben follows a twisted trail of clues all over Los Angeles—from warehouse to funeral home, tanning parlor to bomb shelter—to bring his son home in one piece. Praise for the Ben Crandel Mysteries &“Sinclair has the unique ability to dish out hard-edged realism with—believe it or not—a touch of humor. Goodbye L.A. is a fine piece.&” —Gerald Petievich, author of To Live and Die in L.A.
101 Shots
by Kim HaasarudA gamut of shot recipes, from traditional shooters to grown-up shots made with market-fresh ingredients—from the author of 101 Tropical Drinks. Both classic and sophisticated shot recipes like you&’ve never seen before. Forget what you think you know about shots from your college years. In 101 Shots, cocktail aficionado Kim Haasarud elevates the lowly shot to heights never seen before in this collection of recipes just as she&’s done with her other books, including 101 Martinis and 101 Margaritas. For example, the Peach Fuzz Shooter, the Mini Bananas Foster, and the Archangel are made with fresh fruit purees. There are more traditional recipes as well, such as the Belfast Bomber made with Baileys and Irish whiskey dropped into a glass of Guinness, not to mention spicy offerings like the Yellow Sun Sangrita made with smoked paprika and Tabasco, and even savory ones like the Caprese Shooter made with tomatoes, basil, salt, pepper—and vodka, of course. What&’s perhaps best about shot recipes is that there is almost no occasion when they&’re not fun to serve and enjoy, from the Johnny Appleseed, a perfect drink for fall made with fresh cider, to the Red, White & Blue, a layered concoction ideal for Independence Day parties. With gelée shot recipes, too, this may be the last party cocktail book you&’ll ever need.
A Guide to the Birds of East Africa: A Novel
by Nicholas Drayson&“A charming love triangle in Nairobi, Kenya, forms the center of a novel that manages to be both sweet and gripping.&” —Publishers Weekly For the past three years, Mr. Malik, a widower and avid birdwatcher, has been secretly in love with Rose Mbikwa, the lovely woman who leads the Tuesday morning bird walk sponsored by the East African Ornithological Society. Beneath his unassuming exterior and carefully sculpted comb-over lies a warm and passionate heart. But just as he gets up the nerve to ask Rose to the annual Nairobi Hunt Club Ball—Nairobi&’s social event of the season—a boyhood nemesis arrives and becomes equally enraptured with Rose. Rather than force her to choose between them, the two men agree to a clever solution: whoever can identify the most species of birds in one week&’s time will win the privilege of asking Ms. Mbikwa to the ball. Set against a lush Kenyan landscape rich with wildlife and political intrigue, this humorous novel is a &“welcome respite from our crazy world&” (USA Today). &“This charming novel . . . If you are a fan of Alexander McCall Smith&’s, you&’ll find Drayson&’s knowing, sprightly writing just as entertaining.&” —People &“[This book is] a sheer delight for birders and nonbirders alike.&” —Minneapolis Star-Tribune &“As bright and perky as a purple-backed sunbird.&” —TheNew York Times Book Review
Time Is a Killer: From The Bestselling Author Of After The Crash
by Michel BussiFrom the acclaimed author of After the Crash— &“Harlan Coben fans will enjoy Bussi&’s . . . mystery with its intriguing characters and twisty conclusion&” (Library Journal). A fatal accident in the past, broken lives, family secrets . . . Michel Bussi serves up a gripping thriller, set amid the beautiful scenery of Corsica. In the summer of 2016, Clotilde is spending her vacation in Corsica with her husband, Franck, and her teenage daughter, Valentine. It is the first time she has been back to the island since the car accident in which her parents and her brother were killed decades earlier. She was in the car too, but miraculously escaped with her life. This return plunges Clotilde back into the deepest recesses of her adolescence. She reacquaints herself with her paternal grandparents, Lisabetta and Cassanu, members of a powerful Corsican family that reigns over the island. When a mysterious letter, signed &“Palma&”—Clotilde&’s mother—arrives, the truth about her family, her parents&’ death, and her childhood is called into question. Time Is a Killer is a voyage into the complexities of Corsican society, a compelling portrait of a woman&’s awakening, and a masterfully executed novel of psychological suspense. &“Michel Bussi&’s writing always rings true. His crime novel is a bomb.&” —Le Parisien &“Michel Bussi&’s psychological crime novels are beyond masterful.&” —Le Figaro Littéraire &“Bathed in the perfumes and flavors of Corsica . . . Time Is a Killer will be read with bated breath until the final twist!&” —Le Magazine des Livres &“Don&’t open these books if you have anything more pressing to do.&” —Elle (France) &“Gripping noir.&” —Publishers Weekly
The Sword of Bedwyr (The Crimson Shadow #1)
by R. A. SalvatoreThe first adventure in the New York Times–bestselling fantasy trilogy from the legendary million-selling author and creator of Drizzt Do&’Urden. In the once-stable land of Eriador, young fighter Luthien Bedwyr is too naive to grasp the consequences of the evil new reign of Wizard-King Greensparrow—until Luthien&’s best friend is slain by one of the despot&’s cyclopean soldiers. Publicly vowing revenge, Luthien becomes not only the wizard&’s most-wanted adversary, but also a fugitive embarking on a grand scheme to restore peace to the kingdom. His mettle tested, Luthien crosses paths with highwayhalfling Oliver deBurrows. The irrepressible thief is game to join him. But at the behest of an ancient mage, Luthien must first secure two ancient weapons from a dragon&’s lair: a legendary sword and a mystical blood-red cape that renders its wearer invisible. Rumors soon begin to swirl of a freedom fighter preparing to strike against Greensparrow and his monstrous minions, affording a tenuous hope for liberation among Eriador&’s oppressed—especially a beautiful Fairborn elf slave risking everything to support the coming insurgency of the hero they call the Crimson Shadow. This first tale of the Crimson Shadow trilogy is &“a fine adventure filled with memorable characters and compelling action&” (Terry Brooks). New York Times–bestselling author R. A. Salvatore once again proves he &“choreographs battle scenes better than any other contemporary fantasist&” (Publishers Weekly).
High Jinx (The Paws and Pose Mysteries #2)
by Shannon EspositoFlorida&’s only doggie-yoga coach and part-time sleuth is back to shake loose a Halloween curse and a killer in this &“quirky, charming&” mystery (Publishers Weekly). When doga instructor Elle Pressley&’s eccentric new Greek client tells her she&’s been cursed by the evil eye, Elle shrugs it off. The wealthy old woman is paying her an insane amount for a thirty-minute private puppy session, Elle&’s Pampered Pup Spa & Resort is booming, and her romance with sexy Irish PI Devon Burke is as hot as the Moon Key island sun. What curse? Then Elle is invited back to the client&’s mansion for a Halloween bash and finds a body hanging from the kitchen rafters. Elle thinks that it&’s much more than a scary prank gone wrong. With Devon distracted by new evidence in his parents&’ murder case, Elle and her seventy-pound bulldog mix, Buddha, have to tread the investigative waters themselves—and every new bit of bad luck along the way. While Elle&’s begins to wonder if she really is cursed. A very determined killer is going to make sure of it.
Headless
by Benjamin WeissmanA collection of short fiction that&’s &“fearless, fun, and sometimes filthy&” (Alice Sebold, bestselling author of The Lovely Bones). Called &“wildly inventive, profane, and hilarious&” by Bret Easton Ellis, these short stories from the author of the cult classic Dear Dead Person head in countess surprising directions—from a skiing Hitler on the bunny slope, to a man dealing with dubbing porn tapes and cleaning up an overflowing toilet, to the sex lives of bears. &“Surprising, rollicking and clever, but not for the faint of heart . . . Truly original stories.&” —Publishers Weekly &“[A] playful mélange of erotic black comedy and domestic pathos, dysfunctional families and all-too-functional men, dictators and lumberjacks. Weissman is an expert juggler of tone.&” —Los Angeles Times
Sugar and Spice
by Ruth HamiltonFrom the bestselling author of the Liverpool Trilogy: An &“honest look at family dynamics&” and &“that unique relationship that exists between sisters&” (Booklist). During the winter of 1940, five-year-old Anna MacRae is left with twin baby sisters when she loses her mother during their birth. Anna is a gifted child, with a warm personality to match, but not so her sisters—and as they grow, their pranks turn to stealing, bullying and worse, creating an even more difficult life for a motherless daughter. Later in life, much to her dismay, Anna becomes a mother to twins herself. Living with depression in a loveless marriage, she feels like a slave to the two babies. But, even more so, she worries that they will grow to be like the terrible sisters she escaped. While at a new mothers clinic, she meets a young woman who reminds her of herself—alone and unhappy—and she impulsively decides to take her in. It is a reckless act of caring that alters the course of her life and ultimately forces her to make peace with the sisters she left behind.
Genesis: A Novel
by Bernard BeckettA thought-provoking tale of the future set on an isolated island fortress: &“The ending is an absolute mind-blower&” (Booklist). Anax thinks she knows history. She has studied the stories of the distant twenty-first century very diligently. Her grueling all-day examination has just begun, and if she passes, she&’ll be admitted into the Academy—the elite governing institution of her utopian society. But Anax is about to discover that for all her learning, the history she&’s been taught isn&’t the whole story. And the Academy isn&’t what she believes it to be. In this brilliant and suspenseful novel, Anax&’s examination leads us into a future where we are confronted with unresolved questions about technology and humanity, artificial intelligence and the nature of consciousness. &“A philosophical inquiry of sorts into a favorite and time-tested conundrum: Can a machine achieve consciousness, and if so, what should its relationship with its creators be?&” —The Wall Street Journal
Cover-Up Story (The Perkins & Tate Mysteries #1)
by Marian BabsonIt&’s curtains for an interfering stage mother in this &“frothy, funny&” mystery from an Agatha Award–winning author (Kirkus Reviews). London public relations firm Perkins & Tate has a potentially lucrative new client: the American country singer known as Black Bart. Unfortunately, the Nashville sensation comes with a reputation for chasing underage groupies—and an entourage that includes both his comedienne wife and her driven, controlling stage mother . . . who soon dies under highly suspicious circumstances. Now Douglas Perkins and his partner, Gerry Tate, need to put the best face on the chaos—but it&’s hard to focus on PR when you&’ve got to play PI . . . &“Rollicking . . . Babson has a coolly amused, ironic voice . . . [A] fast-paced mystery.&” —Publishers Weekly &“A vivid cast of characters.&” —Kirkus Reviews
The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought
by Susan Jacoby&“Jacoby writes with wit and vigor, affectionately resurrecting a man whose life and work are due for reconsideration&” (The Boston Globe). During the Gilded Age, which saw the dawn of America&’s enduring culture wars, Robert Green Ingersoll was known as &“the Great Agnostic.&” The nation&’s most famous orator, he raised his voice on behalf of Enlightenment reason, secularism, and the separation of church and state with a power unmatched since America&’s revolutionary generation. When he died in 1899, even his religious enemies acknowledged that he might have aspired to the US presidency had he been willing to mask his opposition to religion. To the question that retains its controversial power today—was the United States founded as a Christian nation?—Ingersoll answered an emphatic no. In this provocative biography, Susan Jacoby, author of Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism, restores Ingersoll to his rightful place in an American intellectual tradition extending from Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine to the current generation of &“new atheists.&” Jacoby illuminates the ways in which America&’s often-denigrated and forgotten secular history encompasses issues, ranging from women&’s rights to evolution, as potent and divisive today as they were in Ingersoll&’s time. Ingersoll emerges in this portrait as an indispensable public figure who devoted his life to that greatest secular idea of all—liberty of conscience belonging to the religious and nonreligious alike. &“Jacoby&’s goal of elucidating the life and work of Robert Ingersoll is admirably accomplished. She offers a host of well-chosen quotations from his work, and she deftly displays the effect he had on others. For instance: after a young Eugene V. Debs heard Ingersoll talk, Debs accompanied him to the train station and then—just so he could continue the conversation—bought himself a ticket and rode all the way from Terre Haute to Cincinnati. Readers today may well find Ingersoll&’s company equally entrancing.&” —Jennifer Michael Hecht, The New York Times Book Review
A People's History of the Civil War: Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom (A\new Press People's History Ser.)
by David Williams&“Does for the Civil War period what Howard Zinn&’s A People&’s History of the United States did for the study of American history in general.&” —Library Journal Historian David Williams has written the first account of the American Civil War as viewed though the eyes of ordinary people—foot soldiers, slaves, women, prisoners of war, draft resisters, Native Americans, and others. Richly illustrated with little-known anecdotes and firsthand testimony, this path-breaking narrative moves beyond presidents and generals to tell a new and powerful story about America&’s most destructive conflict. A People&’s History of the Civil War is a &“readable social history&” that &“sheds fascinating light&” on this crucial period. In so doing, it recovers the long-overlooked perspectives and forgotten voices of one of the defining chapters of American history (Publishers Weekly). &“Meticulously researched and persuasively argued.&” —The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Alfa Romeo 1300 and Other Miracles
by Fabio BartolomeiA raucous debut novel of organized—and unorganized—crime. “A story that takes itself unseriously enough to be funny” (The Daily Beast, “This Week’s Hot Reads”).Diego is a forty-something car salesman with a talent for telling half-truths. Fausto sells watches over the phone. Claudio manages (barely) his family-owned neighborhood supermarket. The characteristic common to each of these three men is their abject mediocrity. Yet, mediocrity being the mother of outrageous invention, they embark on a project that would be too ambitious in scope for any single one of them, let alone all three together. They decide to flee the city and to open a rustic holiday farmhouse in the Italian countryside outside Naples.Their misconceived endeavor would have been challenging enough for these three unlikely entrepreneurs, but when a local mobster arrives and demands they pay him protection money, things go from bad to worse. Now their ordinary (if wrongheaded) attempt to run a small business in an area that organized crime syndicates consider their own becomes a quixotic act of defiance.A “miraculous” Italian comedy that will have readers laughing out loud, Alfa Romeo 1300 and Other Miracles marks Fabio Bartolomei’s vivid debut.“An entertaining and humorous debut.” —La Repubblica“A melancholy yet hopeful fable told with a smile.” —Internazionale“Left the kind of smile on my face that doesn’t go unnoticed and which people often mistake for a kind of facial paralysis.” —Valentina Aversano, Setteperuno
A Walker in the City
by Alfred KazinA literary icon&’s &“singular and beautiful&” memoir of growing up as a first-generation Jewish American in Brownsville, Brooklyn (The New Yorker). A classic portrait of immigrant life in the early decades of the twentieth century, A Walker in the City is a tour of tenements, subways, and synagogues—but also a universal story of the desires and fears we experience as we try to leave our small, familiar neighborhoods for something new. With vivid imagery and sensual detail—the smell of half-sour pickles, the dry rattle of newspapers, the women in their shapeless flowered housedresses—Alfred Kazin recounts his boyhood walks through this working-class community, and his eventual foray across the river to &“the city,&” the mysterious, compelling Manhattan, where treasures like the New York Public Library and the Metropolitan Museum beckoned. Eventually, he would travel even farther, building a life around books and language and literature and exploring all that the world had to offer. &“The whole texture, color, and sound of life in this tenement realm . . . is revealed as tapestried, as dazzling, as full of lush and varied richness as an Arabian bazaar.&” —The New York Times
Too Close to Me: The Middle-Aged Consequences of Revealing A Child Called "It"
by Dave PelzerThe #1 New York Times–bestselling author and child abuse survivor reveals the challenges that he still faces as an adult, as a husband, and as a father. In the blockbuster autobiography A Child Called &“It&”, Dave Pelzer shared the story of his childhood—one of the most dramatic and extreme stories of child abuse ever prosecuted in the state of California. As a child, Pelzer was beaten, starved, and abused both emotionally and physically by his alcoholic and mentally unstable mother. As a man, Pelzer went on to have love, happiness, a fulfilling career, and a family of his own. To many, Pelzer seemed to have found his happy ending. But for a child abuse survivor, living a normal adult life carries challenges and complications above and beyond those faced by most people. This book, the fifth in Pelzer&’s nonfiction series, provides an honest and courageous look at the difficulties inherent in marriage, parenthood, work, and life from the perspective of someone who survived horrific physical and emotional terrors as a child—and who seeks to meet the responsibilities and complications of adult life with love, strength, and an open heart.
Bayou Underground: Tracing the Mythical Roots of American Popular Music
by Dave ThompsonA veteran music journalist explores rock-n-roll&’s bayou roots in &“a jolting 18-track joy ride [that] unlocks secrets and back-stories worth savoring&” (The Wall Street Journal). The bayou of the American south—stretching from Houston, Texas, to Mobile, Alabama—is a world all its own, with a rich cultural heritage that has had an outsized influence on musicians across the globe. In this unique study of marsh music, Dave Thompson goes beyond the storied stomping grounds of New Orleans to discover secret legends and vivid mythology in the surrounding wilderness. In Bayou Underground, the people who have called the bayou home—such as Bob Dylan, Jerry Reed, Nick Cave, Bo Didley, a one-armed Cajun backwoodsman, and gator hunter named Amos Moses—are unearthed through their own words, their lives and music, and interviews with residents from the region. Included interviews with legendary musicians like Jerry Reed and Bo Didley, Bayou Underground is part travelogue, part social history, and part lament for a way of life that has now all but disappeared.
Double Negative: A Novel (Felony And Mayhem Mysteries Ser.)
by David CarkeetA linguist tries to solve a murder mystery in this Edgar Award–nominated novel: &“Intelligent, unpredictable . . . and extraordinarily funny&” (San Francisco Chronicle). Dedicated to the study of toddlers and their development of verbal skills, the Wabash Institute should be staffed by kind, gentle scholars. Instead, the center is home to a nest of supremely cranky academics. When one of them is bludgeoned to death, Jeremy Cook—the institute&’s premier scholar and this novel&’s socially clueless hero—becomes the prime suspect. To clear his name, Cook resolves to solve the case, even if it means taking time off from his hobby of teaching imaginary words to the Institute&’s tiny &“subjects.&” While gleefully skewering academia, the author—a professor of linguistics himself—also provides a spectacularly ingenious puzzle and, in the words of Publishers Weekly, &“a first-rate thriller.&” &“The dialogue is crisp and witty, and the plot as unusual and engaging as any from the Golden Age of the classic detective story.&” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch &“An engaging oddball of a hero.&” —Kirkus Reviews &“Mystery stories that have a really original solution to a crime are very rare, but Dr. Carkeet has found one . . . a thoroughly enjoyable piece of work.&” —The New York Times Book Review
Eye Opener: An Albert Samson Mystery (The Albert Samson Mysteries #8)
by Michael Z. LewinIndianapolis PI Albert Samson gets his license back just in time to take on a high-profile case in the latest from the Shamus Award–winning author of Missing Woman. After a confrontation with a cop cost him his PI license, Albert Samson is thrilled to be reinstated. Within hours, he has two new clients and can leave his day job at his mother&’s diner behind. But the real payday arrives when he is brought onto the defense team for a man accused of being Indiana&’s most notorious serial killer. Of all the private eyes in town, why have the lawyers handpicked Samson for the biggest case to hit Indianapolis in decades? With cash in hand, Samson starts investigating. And what he finds isn&’t pretty . . . &“Bemused chuckles follow closely on the heels of horrified gasps&” in in this humorous crime novel that concludes the adventures of the charming, smart-mouthed midwestern detective (Booklist). Eye Opener is the 8th book in the Albert Samson Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Lyndon: An Oral Biography
by Merle MillerThe bestselling author of Plain Speaking crafts a candid portrait of one of the most complex, fascinating, difficult, and colorful American presidents. From his birth in 1908 to his death in 1973, the story of Lyndon B. Johnson is told without sparing his personal excesses and contentious public image—while also highlighting the strength of his greatest accomplishments in Washington. Interlaced with interviews from Lady Bird Johnson, John Kenneth Galbraith, J. William Fulbright, Larry O&’Brien, Hubert H. Humphrey, and hundreds of others, Miller provides an extensive and objective image of the life of LBJ. &“No secret remains. This is Lyndon Johnson true, lunging through life, pouring &‘every ounce of his energy&’ into whatever he did, ranting, raving, shouting, &‘screaming at the universe,&’ flogging system, staff and self to achieve what others pronounced unachievable . . . Miller allows his posse of turncoats—336 in all, myself among them—to lead him to the Johnson few ever knew: at his best, magnificent; at his worst, outrageous.&” —Horace Busby, The Washington Post &“The domestic triumphs and the Johnson style come across like the Fourth of July . . . page-by-page, this is the low-down up to the Presidency—and one long book that never flags.&” —Kirkus Reviews
A People's History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence (A\new Press People's History Ser.)
by Ray Raphael&“The best single-volume history of the Revolution I have read.&” —Howard Zinn Upon its initial publication, Ray Raphael&’s magisterial A People&’s History of the American Revolution was hailed by NPR&’s Fresh Air as &“relentlessly aggressive and unsentimental.&” With impeccable skill, Raphael presented a wide array of fascinating scholarship within a single volume, employing a bottom-up approach that has served as a revelation. A People&’s History of the American Revolution draws upon diaries, personal letters, and other Revolutionary-era treasures, weaving a thrilling &“you are there&” narrative—&“a tapestry that uses individual experiences to illustrate the larger stories&”. Raphael shifts the focus away from George Washington and Thomas Jefferson to the slaves they owned, the Indians they displaced, and the men and boys who did the fighting (Los Angeles Times Book Review). This &“remarkable perspective on a familiar part of American history&” helps us appreciate more fully the incredible diversity of the American Revolution (Kirkus Reviews). &“Through letters, diaries, and other accounts, Raphael shows these individuals—white women and men of the farming and laboring classes, free and enslaved African Americans, Native Americans, loyalists, and religious pacifists—acting for or against the Revolution and enduring a war that compounded the difficulties of everyday life.&” —Library Journal &“A tour de force . . . Ray Raphael has probably altered the way in which future historians will see events.&” —The Sunday Times
All Backs Were Turned (Rebel Lit Ser.)
by Marek Hlasko&“An existential fable&” from the uncompromising Polish author of Killing the Second Dog, known as the James Dean of Eastern Europe (The New York Times). In this novel of breathtaking tension and sweltering love, two desperate friends on the edge of the law—one of them tough and gutsy, the other small and scared—travel to the southern Israeli city of Eilat to find work. There, Dov Ben Dov, the handsome native Israeli with a reputation for causing trouble, and Israel, his sidekick, stay with Ben Dov&’s recently married younger brother, Little Dov, who has enough trouble of his own. Local toughs are encroaching on Little Dov&’s business, and he enlists his older brother to drive them away. It doesn&’t help that a beautiful German widow named Ursula is rooming next door. What follows is a story of passion, deception, violence, and betrayal, all conveyed in hardboiled prose reminiscent of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, with a cinematic style that would make Humphrey Bogart and Marlon Brando green with envy. &“[A] blowtorch of a novel . . . Matchless and prescient.&” —Publishers Weekly &“A story as bleak and unrelenting as its setting, in which no one escapes the past or themselves. Nihilistic but compelling.&” —Kirkus Reviews Praise for Marek Hlasko &“Hlasko was an original. His novels were fearless, his vision unsparing, and decades later, his darkly brilliant work has lost none of its power to unsettle. He achieved what few other writers ever have: he turned the literary landscape into a much more interesting place than it was when he found it.&” ––Emily St. John Mandel, author of National Book Award finalist Station Eleven
Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar
by Richard BrautiganCollected in one volume, three counterculture classics that embody the spirit of the 1960s. Included here are three great works by the incomparable Richard Brautigan: Trout Fishing in America is by turns a hilarious, playful, and melancholy novel that wanders from San Francisco through the country&’s rural waterways—a book &“that has very little to do with trout fishing and a lot to do with the lamenting of a passing pastoral America . . . An instant cult classic&” (Financial Times). The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster is a collection of nearly one hundred poems, first published in 1968. And In Watermelon Sugar expresses the mood of a new generation, revealing death as a place where people travel the length of their dreams, rejecting violence and hate. During his lifetime, Look magazine observed, &“Brautigan is joining Hesse, Golding, Salinger, and Vonnegut as a literary magus to the literate young.&” A uniquely imaginative writer of the Beat movement who became an icon of the hippie era, he is still a favorite of readers today.