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The Convert

by Deborah Baker

*A 2011 National Book Award Finalist* A spellbinding story of renunciation, conversion, and radicalism from Pulitzer Prize-finalist biographer Deborah Baker What drives a young woman raised in a postwar New...

In Search of Civilization

by John Armstrong

“A self-effacing, humane and unparanoid call to change our wealthy yet often barbaric world for the better.” *

In this provocative cri de coeur, the philosopher John Armstrong rescues the idea of civilization...

Otherwise Known as the Human Condition

by Geoff Dyer

*Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism**A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice**A New York Times Top 10 Nonfiction Book of the Year, as selected by Dwight Garner* Geoff Dyer has...

Notes from No Man's Land

by Eula Biss

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism

Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize

A frank and fascinating exploration of race and racial identity

In a book that begins with a series of...

Volt

by Alan Heathcock

A blistering collection of stories from an exhilarating new voice

One man kills another after neither will move his pickup truck from the road. A female sheriff in a flooded town attempts to cover up a murder....

Picking Bones from Ash

by Marie Mutsuki Mockett

Ghosts lurk in the bamboo forest outside the tiny northern Japanese town where Satomi lives with her elusive mother, Atsuko. A preternaturally gifted pianist, Satomi wrestles with inner demons. Her fall from...

Mattaponi Queen

by Belle Boggs

Winner of the 2009 Bakeless Fiction Prize, a confident debut collection about life on and around the Mattaponi Indian Reservation

Set on the Mattaponi Indian Reservation and in its surrounding counties, the...

The Accordionist's Son

by Bernardo Atxaga & Margaret Jull Costa

A celebrated international author, listed among the “21 top writers for the 21st century” (The Observer, U.K.) As David Imaz, on the threshold of adulthood, divides his time between his uncle Juan’s ranch...

Obabakoak

by Bernardo Atxaga & Margaret Jull Costa

"A brilliantly inventive writer ... he understands the nature of storytelling and is at once terribly moving and wildy funny."—A.S. Byatt

Obabakoak is a shimmering, mercurial collection about life in Obaba,...

Essays from the Nick of Time

by Mark Slouka

A new collection of prophetic essays from one of the sharpest practitioners of the form

Mark Slouka writes from a particular vantage point, one invoked by Thoreau, who wished “to improve the nick of time ....

The Adderall Diaries

by Stephen Elliott

In this groundbreaking memoir, Stephen Elliott pursues parallel investigations: a gripping account of a notorious San Francisco murder trial, and an electric exploration of the self. Destined to be a classic,...

Refresh, Refresh

by Benjamin Percy

The war in Iraq empties the small town of Tumalo, Oregon, of men--of fathers--leaving their sons to fight among themselves. But the boys' bravado fades at home when, alone, they check e-mail again and again...

The Wilding

by Benjamin Percy

A powerful debut novel set in a threatened western landscape, from the award-winning author of Refresh, Refresh

Echo Canyon is a disappearing pocket of wilderness outside of Bend, Oregon, and the site of conflicting...

Castle

by J. Robert Lennon

“Castle tells a terrific story, dire and confusing and convincing.” —Scott Bradfield, The New York Times Book Review

Eric Loesch, a private man with a shadowy past, returns to his hometown in rural New...

The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards

by Robert Boswell

An exhilarating collection, as brash as it is wise, by one of our great storytellers

Set mainly in small, gritty American cities, each of these stories is a world unto itself. A man’s obsessive visits to a...

The Report

by Jessica Francis Kane

A stunning first novel that is an evocative reimagining of a World War II civilian disaster

On a March night in 1943, on the steps of a London Tube station, 173 people die in a crowd seeking shelter from what...

To Siberia

by Per Petterson & Anne Born

I was fourteen and a half when the Germans came. On that 9th April we woke to the roar of aeroplanes swooping so low over the roofs of the town that we could see the black iron crosses painted on the underside...

I Just Lately Started Buying Wings

by Kim Dana Kupperman

A finely crafted debut, winner of the 2009 Bakeless Nonfiction Prize

Kim Dana Kupperman’s essays plumb the emotional and spiritual depths of a transitory life. Her episodic “missives” cover territory from...

I Curse the River of Time

by Per Petterson & Charlotte Barslund

An enthralling novel of a mother and son's turbulent relationship from the author of Out Stealing Horses

Norway, 1989: Communism is unraveling all over Europe. Arvid Jansen, thirty-seven, is trying to bridge...

Wounded

by Percival Everett

Time Out Chicago, Top 10 Book of 2005

Winner of the 2006 PEN USA Literary Award for Fiction Training horses is dangerous—a head-to-head confrontation with 1,000 pounds of muscle and little sense takes courage,...