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Accidental: A Novel
Smith, Ali
Shortlisted for the 2005 Man Booker Prize!

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A chance encounter forever alters a family’s understanding of itself. An exhilaratingly inventive, thought-provoking novel from the author of Hotel World

Barefoot, thirtysomething Amber shows up at the... (more)

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After: Poems
Hirshfield, Jane

"Words are not the end of thought, they are where it begins," ends the first poem in After, Jane Hirshfield’s extended investigation into incarnation, transience, and our intimate connection with others and with all existence. These alert, incisive, and compassionate poems examine th... (more)

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Anna of All the Russias: The Life of Anna Akhmatova
Feinstein, Elaine
The subject of Feinstein's engaging biography is recognised as the greatest woman poet of Russian literature. Her stubborn loyalty to friends in danger -- Shostakovich, Mandelstam, Pasternak, and Bulgakov -- showed a courage few possess, and she became an iconic figure for those whom the Soviet regi... (more)

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Arthur and George
Barnes, Julian
Brilliantly imagined and irresistibly readable, Arthur & George is a major new novel from Julian Barnes, a wonderful combination of playfulness, pathos and wisdom. Searching for clues, no one would ever guess that the lives of Arthur and George might intersect. Growing up in shabby-genteel nineteen... (more)

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Brooklyn Follies
Auster, Paul
Nathan Glass has come to Brooklyn to die. Divorced, estranged from his daughter, the retired salesman seeks only solitude and anonymity. Then Nathan finds his long-lost nephew working in a local bookstore -- a far cry from the brilliant academic career he’d begun when Nathan saw him last. This is Au... (more)

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Cutty, One Rock: Low Characters and Strange Places, Gently Explained
Kleinzahler, August
Cutty, One Rock takes the reader on a wild journey by airplane, bus, ferry, and foot from childhood to early manhood in the company of a New Jersey family in equal measures cultivated and deranged. We witness scenes of passionate, even violent intensity that give rise to meditations on eros and lite... (more)

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Dream Life of Sukhanov
Grushin, Olga
A brilliantly crafted novel about one man's betrayal of his talent, his friends, and his principles-a work of demon energy, startling imagery, and utter originality.

At fifty-six, Anatoly Sukhanov has everything a man could want. Nearly twenty-five years ago, he traded his precarious existe... (more)

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For Dust Thou Art
Liu, Timothy
Running the gamut from traditional to radical forms, Timothy Liu’s sixth collection of poems, For Dust Thou Art, continues the trajectory of his previous books but extends his lyrical range. The centerpiece of the volume’s tripartite structure is a meditation on the events surroundi... (more)

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Gate of the Sun: Bab Al-Shams
Khoury, Elias & Humphrey Davies, trans.
Gate of the Sun: Bab al-Shams is the first magnum opus of the Palestinian saga. Through the passing of the beloved midwife of the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, the reader enters a world of displacement, fear, and tenuous hope. A realigned 1001 Nights, a makeshift doctor tells stories to his comato... (more)

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Inheritance of Loss: A Novel
Desai, Kiran
Kiran Desai's first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published to unanimous acclaim in over twenty-two countries. Now Desai takes us to the northeastern Himalayas where a rising insurgency challenges the old way of life. In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga liv... (more)

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John Crow's Devil
James, Marlon
In the village of Gibbeah - where certain women fly and certain men protect secrets with their lives - magic coexists with religion and good and evil are never as they seem. In this town, a battle is fought between two men of God. This stunning debut novel is about religious mania, redemption, sexua... (more)

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Poems of Charles Reznikoff 1918-1975
Cooney, Seamus, ed.
Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976) was born in Brooklyn, the son of Russian immigrants. He was an original, a blood-and-bone New Yorker who walked the city's waterfronts and breathed the life of the Jewish tenements into a lifetime of remarkable poetry. Black Sparrow Books is proud to publish his complet... (more)

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Pursuit
Garcia-Roza, Luiz Alfredo
When his daughter disappears and a patient emerges as the prime suspect, a troubled psychiatrist comes to Espinosa for help, in the fifth novel in the beguiling Brazilian crime series nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; A hospital psychiatrist feels he’s being stalked by a young patient. For as long as pos... (more)

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Sightseeing: Stories
Lapcharoensap, Rattawut
One of the most widely reviewed debuts of the year, Sightseeing is a masterful story collection by an award-winning young author. Set in contemporary Thailand, these are generous, radiant tales of family bonds, youthful romance, generational conflicts and cultural shiftings beneath the glossy surfac... (more)

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Strivers Row
Baker, Kevin

Summer, 1943. Harlem is a never-ending carnival. Soldiers and sailors, hustlers and glamour girls fill its streets, looking for excitement. Every night, dance halls like the Savoy Ballroom are filled with frenzied jitterbuggers, and the best jazz musicians in the world face off in rent parties a... (more)

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Yacoubian Building
Aswany, Ala Al & Humphrey Davies, trans.
The Yacoubian Building holds all that Egypt was and has become over the 75 years since its namesake was built on one of downtown Cairo’s main boulevards. From the pious son of the building’s doorkeeper and the raucous, impoverished squatters on its roof, via the tattered aristocrat and the... (more)

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