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Midnight Timetable: A Novel in Ghost Stories
Algonquin Books, September 2025. Paper Back. *A FINALIST FOR THE LOCUS AWARD FOR BEST TRANSLATED NOVEL* "Like the objects collected in this deliciously haunting book, Midnight Timetable will absorb you in the shadows of its imagination, marvelous oddness, humor, and heart." --Gerardo Sámano Córdova From the author and translator of..... More
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Ubik
Mariner Books, April 2012. Trade Paperback. Named one of Time's 100 Best Books, Ubik is a mind-bending psychological thriller about the perception of reality from Philip K. Dick, the Hugo Award-winning author of The Man in the High Castle. "From the stuff of space opera, Dick spins a deeply unsettling..... More
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Jack the Modernist
New York Review of Books, October 2025. Paper Back. A cult classic now back in print, this novel about sex, obsession, and art is one of the defining works of 1980s gay fiction. A classic of postmodern fiction, Robert Glück's Jack the Modernist portrays the slow disintegration of a love..... More
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Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
Crash Course Books, March 2025. First Edition. Hardcover. #1 New York Times bestseller - #1 Washington Post bestseller - #1 Indie Bestseller - USA Today Bestseller John Green, award-winning author and passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world's deadliest infectious..... More
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Wind's Twelve Quarters: Stories
Harper Perennial, December 2004. Paper Back. "Splendidly intricate and hugely imaginative tales." --Newsweek A striking new 50th anniversary edition of Ursula K. Le Guin's extraordinary short story collection. The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin..... More
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Beowulf: A New Translation
MCD x FSG Originals, August 2020. Paper Back. Named one of the Best Poetry Books of 2021 by The Guardian Longlisted for the 2021 National Translation Award in Poetry. Picked for Kirkus Reviews' Best Fiction in Translation of 2020. Named a Book of the Year by NPR, Vox, and The..... More
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Open, Heaven
Vintage, March 2026. Paper Back. A stunning novel from the acclaimed young Irish poet Seán Hewitt, a luminous and intensely evocative portrayal of two teeneagers bonding with each other over one heady, transformative year. "[Open, Heaven] is a searching novel orbiting pleasure, loss, and the ecstatic release of both; which..... More
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Taste of Country Cooking: 50th Anniversary Edition: A Cookbook
Knopf Publishing Group, May 2026. Hardcover. The most beloved Southern cookbook of all time: a glorious celebration of seasonal eating that has shaped generations of home cooks, from "the first lady of Southern cooking" (NPR). Beautifully repackaged and redesigned, with a new foreword by Toni Tipton-Martin. "A classic, showing Americans..... More
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Mending with Sashiko: The Japanese Art of Visible Repair
Batsford, February 2026. Hardcover. Learn Sashiko, the timeless Japanese form of decorative stitch repair, to mend your clothes, bedsheets, and more. The Japanese art of Sashiko is a joyful and practical method of decorative repair. It is a hand sewing technique with a long and colorful history, based on simple..... More
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Drifting Life
Drawn & Quarterly, November 2025. Paper Back. The award-winning memoir translated by Taro Nettleton with a new design by Adrian Tomine In this memoir that won two Eisner Awards, the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize, a prize at the Festival de la BD d'Angoulême, and was adapted into a feature film..... More
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Days at the Torunka Café
Harper Perennial, November 2025. Paper Back. From the internationally bestselling author of the Morisaki Bookshop novels comes a charming and poignant story set at a quiet Tokyo café where customers find unexpected connection and experience everyday miracles. Tucked away on a narrow side street in Tokyo is the Torunka Café..... More
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