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Up With the Sun: A novel By Thomas Mallon Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9781524748197
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Published: Knopf - February 7th, 2023

Through the curious life of Dick Kallman—a real-life celebrity striver, poisonously charming actor, and eventual murder victim—the unforgiving worlds of postwar showbiz and down-low gay sexuality are thrown into stark relief in this “page-turning blast” (James Ellroy, author of Widespread Panic)


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Mercy Street: A Novel By Jennifer Haigh Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780061763328
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Published: Ecco - February 7th, 2023

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Named a Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post, the New Yorker, and the Boston Globe


Make Me a City By Jonathan Carr Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781250260666
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Published: St. Martins Press-3PL - March 17th, 2023

A propulsive debut of visionary scale, Make Me a City embroiders fact with fiction to tell the story of Chicago's 19th century, tracing its rise from frontier settlement to industrial colossus.


The Forgotten Bookshop in Paris By Daisy Wood Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9780008525248
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Published: Avon Books - March 7th, 2023

From an exciting new voice in WWII historical fiction comes a tale of love, loss and a betrayal that echoes through generations...


The Best of Everything By Rona Jaffe, Rachel Syme (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Rona Jaffe, Rachel Syme (Introduction by)
$20.00
ISBN: 9780143137313
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Published: Penguin Classics - March 14th, 2023

Rona Jaffe's beloved novel about 1950s NYC women in the workplace that paved the way for the #MeToo movement and iconic cultural touchstones like Sex and the City and Mad Men, now for the first time in Penguin Classics, in a 65th anniversary edition with an introduction by New Yorker staff writer Rachel Syme
 
A Penguin Classic
 


Nightcrawling: A novel By Leila Mottley Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780593312605
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Published: Vintage - April 11th, 2023

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK • A dazzling novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system. This debut of a blazingly original voice “bursts at the seams of every page and swallows you whole” (Tommy Orange, author of There There).


Always Unique: The Unique Stories By Nikki Turner Cover Image
$9.99
ISBN: 9781250875365
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Published: St. Martin's Griffin - January 10th, 2023

Always Unique gathers together three popular Unique novellas from the New York Times bestselling, African-American powerhouse author Nikki Turner.


Higehiro: After Being Rejected, I Shaved and Took in a High School Runaway, Vol. 3 (light novel) By Shimesaba, booota (By (artist)), Marcus Shauer (Translated by), MediBang Inc. (Translated by) Cover Image
By Shimesaba, booota (By (artist)), Marcus Shauer (Translated by), MediBang Inc. (Translated by)
$15.00
ISBN: 9781975344238
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Published: Yen On - March 21st, 2023

As Sayu begins to feel more and more at ease with Yoshida, she finally works up the courage to face her future and, for the first time, considers going back to Hokkaido. Meanwhile, the newest employee at Yoshida’s workplace turns out to be his highschool girlfriend Kanda, throwing Sayu’s heart into chaos.


Wifey's Next Come Up By Kiki Swinson Cover Image
$12.95
ISBN: 9781496743572
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Published: Dafina - May 23rd, 2023

In this sizzling, high-octane new series, the national bestselling author and urban lit superstar brings back the unforgettable Kira from her gritty bestselling Wifey novels. Now, from drug king pin’s wife to streetwise widow and back again, along with all the danger and sexy action in between, Kira’s back on the come up.


The Storyteller: Tales out of Loneliness By Walter Benjamin, Sam Dolbear (Editor), Esther Leslie (Editor), Sebastian Truskolaski (Editor), Paul Klee (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Walter Benjamin, Sam Dolbear (Editor), Esther Leslie (Editor), Sebastian Truskolaski (Editor), Paul Klee (Illustrator)
$19.95
ISBN: 9781804290415
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Published: Verso - March 21st, 2023

A beautiful collection of the legendary thinker’s short stories


New City: A Story about Race-Baiting and Hope on the South Side of Chicago By Patrick Girondi Cover Image
$26.99
ISBN: 9781510776845
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Published: Skyhorse - February 14th, 2023

Danny is a Polack with a heart of gold. He grew up in New City, home of what was once the world’s largest slaughterhouse, the Chicago Stockyards. 

After Danny’s wife’s infidelity, he stepped out of what the US calls the “white man's” world.


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Mrs. Dalloway (Signature Classics) By Virginia Woolf Cover Image
$8.99
ISBN: 9781435172593
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Published: Union Square & Co. - April 4th, 2023

In the wake of World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic, Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell shock and is on the brink of madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge as the party reaches its glittering climax.