HARDCOVER FICTION
City of Savages by Lee Kelly
After the Red Allies turn New York City into a POW camp, two sisters must decipher the past in order to protect the future in this action-packed thriller with a dual narrative. Hungry for the truth, the sisters set a series of events in motion that end in the death of one of Rolladin’s guards. Now they’re outlaws, forced to join the strange Englishmen on an escape mission through Manhattan. Their flight takes them into subways haunted by cannibals, into the arms of a sadistic cult in the city’s Meatpacking District and, through the pages of their mom’s old journal, into the island’s dark and shocking past.
There’s Something I Want You to Do: Stories by Charles Baxter
From one of the great masters of the contemporary short story, here is an astonishing collection that showcases Charles Baxter’s unique ability to unveil the remarkable in the seemingly inconsequential moments of an eerie yet familiar life. Readers will be stunned by his uncanny understanding of human attraction and left to puzzle over the meaning of virtue and the unpredictable and mysterious ways in which we behave.
Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman
Here is a rich cornucopia of horror and ghosts stories, science fiction and fairy tales, fabulism and poetry that explore the realm of experience and emotion. Trigger Warning includes previously published pieces of short fiction—stories, verse, and a very special Doctor Who story that was written for the fiftieth anniversary of the beloved series in 2013—as well “Black Dog,” a new tale that revisits the world of American Gods, exclusive to this collection.
The Scapegoat by Sophia Nikolaidou
“Nikolaidou’s novel is a beautiful and tragic work that embraces the violence and corruption inherent in Greek society and creates vibrant characters that survive and thrive despite their circumstances. Magisterial and all encompassing, her writing will make you laugh, cry and stir with a deep sense of discomfort at the experience of injustice that is illustrated in this wonderful novel.” –Raul
The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins by Irvine Welsh
The famed—some would say notorious—author of Trainspotting and many other brilliant offenses against common literary decency comes at last to America, with a dark and twisted tale of personal training and abject codependency in the fading glitter of Miami’s South Beach, with a novel that asks the provocative question: Why would you want to be “the Biggest Loser” anyway?
The Marauders by Tom Cooper
“Not many first novels illustrate such a familiarity with the soul and substance of a living community as Marauders does for southern Louisiana. Evocative and brilliantly paced, the dreamers and schemers here are everyday joes woven into a diverse landscape embracing culture and society – sure to be in the queue for all the major book awards in 2015.” –Raul
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
The Man Who Touched His Own Heart: True Tales of Science, Surgery, and Mystery by Rob Dunn
The Man Who Touched His Own Heart tells the raucous, gory, mesmerizing story of the heart, from the first “explorers” who dug up cadavers and plumbed their hearts’ chambers, through the first heart surgeries-which had to be completed in three minutes before death arrived-to heart transplants and the latest medical efforts to prolong our hearts’ lives, almost defying nature in the process.
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
What does “feminism” mean today? That is the question at the heart of We Should All Be Feminists, a personal, eloquently-argued essay—adapted from her much-viewed Tedx talk of the same name—by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the award-winning author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun. With humor and levity, here Adichie offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century—one rooted in inclusion and awareness.
PAPERBACK FICTION
One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories by B.J. Novac
Across a dazzling range of subjects, themes, tones, and narrative voices, the many pieces in this collection are like nothing else, but they have one thing in common: they share the playful humor, deep heart, sharp eye, inquisitive mind, and altogether electrifying spirit of a writer with a fierce devotion to the entertainment of the reader.
Remember Me Like This by Bret Anthony Johnston
A gripping novel with the pace of a thriller but the nuanced characterization and deep empathy of some of the literary canon’s most beloved novels… With his sophisticated and emotionally taut plot and his shimmering prose, Johnston reveals that only in caring for one another can we save ourselves.
PAPERBACK NONFICTION
New Life, No Instructions: A Memoir by Gail Caldwell
A stunning, exquisitely written memoir about a dramatic turning point in her life, which unexpectedly opened up a world of understanding, possibility, and connection. New Life, No Instructions is about the surprising way life can begin again, at any age.
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