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The Book of Love and Hate

Lauren Sanders

• Paperback | Engels
• "[A] thrilling tale of espionage, family ties, sex, love, and betrayal. If you're looking for an exciting and juicy read, look no further." -- The Adv... Lees meer

Out of Mesopotamia

Salar Abdoh

• Paperback | Engels
• "Abdoh's powerful novel follows an Iranian war reporter who is torn between his wearying job on the front lines and a civilian existence that he finds... Lees meer

Tales of the Out & the Gone

Amiri Baraka

• Paperback | Engels
• "Baraka is a poet down to his bones . . . [The stories] evoke a mood of revolutionary disorder, conjuring an alternative universe in which a dangerous... Lees meer

Providence Noir

• Hardcover | Engels | Akashic Noir
• "Even Providence's signature public art has a dark side in Providence Noir (Akashic), which includes a story called WaterFire's Smell Tonight by Pablo... Lees meer

A Darker Shade of Noir

• Paperback | Engels | Akashic Noir
• "In this haunting new collection, edited by Oates, fifteen women writers explore the manifold horrors of living (and dying) in a patriarchal society .... Lees meer

Office Girl

Joe Meno

• Hardcover | Engels
• "An off-kilter romance doubles as an art movement in Joe Meno's novel. The novel reads as a parody of art-school types . . . and as a tribute to their... Lees meer

Dallas Noir

• Paperback | Engels | Akashic Noir
• "This collection of crime stories takes its inspiration from the darker corners of everyday life in a city that many associate only with a historic as... Lees meer

Seriously, You Have to Eat

Adam Mansbach

• Hardcover | Engels
• "Parents and children alike will surely welcome a pause to bond over a shared recognition that their endless battles are not theirs alone--before they... Lees meer

Alice Fantastic

Maggie Estep

• Paperback | Engels
• "There is about Maggie Estep's work a directness, a clear determination--a drive to cut through, to break through, to claw through--that is impressive... Lees meer

Beulah Hill

William Heffernan

• Paperback | Engels
• "The whispered revelations that come spilling out of Beulah Hill are like ghostly voices you sometimes hear in the attic--soft, sad and disturbingly u... Lees meer

The Necessary Hunger

Nina Revoyr

• Paperback | Engels
• " The Necessary Hunger is the kind of irresistible read you start on the subway at six p.m. on the way home from work and keep plowing through until y... Lees meer

The Reservoir

David Duchovny

• Paperback | Engels
• The Reservoir follows an unexceptional man in an exceptional time. We see our present-day pandemic world and New York City through the eyes of a forme... Lees meer

The System of Dante's Hell

Amiri Baraka

• Paperback | Engels | Akashiclassics: Renegade Reprint
• "Much of the novel is an expression of the intellectual and moral lost motion of the age . . . the special agony of the American Negro." -- New York T... Lees meer

Bronx Biannual No. 2

Miles Marshall Lewis

• Paperback | Engels
• Bronx Biannual began in the summer of 2006, a literary journal edited by Miles Marshall Lewis dedicated to publishing urbane urban literature. The pre... Lees meer

The Wishing Pool and Other Stories

Tananarive Due

• Hardcover | Engels
• "In these 14 powerhouse stories, Due probes history, the grim present moment, and not so far-flung futures, delivering an expansive collection that st... Lees meer

Las Vegas Noir

Jarret Keene

• Paperback | Engels | Akashic Noir
• Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir . Each story is set in a distinct ... Lees meer

Hurricane Street

Ron Kovic

• Paperback | Engels
• "[A] compelling snapshot of early 1970s activism. . . . Without social media or cell phones to boost the signal, it was Kovic's flair for the dramatic... Lees meer

Lessons in Taxidermy

Bee Lavender

• Paperback | Engels | Punk Planet Books
• "[One of] the reigning mother superiors of the crowd [is] Bee Lavender." -- Time Magazine Diagnosed with cancer at age twelve and perilously pregnant ... Lees meer

Wingshooters

Nina Revoyr

• Paperback | Engels
• --A Booklist Book of the Year 2011 --Winner of the 2011 Midwest Booksellers Choice Award --Winner of the first annual Indie Booksellers Choice Award "... Lees meer

New Orleans Noir: The Classics

• Paperback | Engels | Akashic Noir
• "[An] irresistible sequel to Smith's New Orleans Noir . . . . Anyone who knows New Orleans even slightly will relish revisiting the city in story afte... Lees meer

Cervantes Street

Jaime Manrique

• Hardcover | Engels
• "A sprawling vivacious big-hearted novel. Manrique is fantastically talented and this is perhaps his masterpiece." --Junot Diaz, author of The Brief W... Lees meer

Montreal Noir

• Paperback | Engels | Akashic Noir
• "American crime fiction fans will welcome the opportunity to sample the short fiction of some worthy Canadian authors." -- Publishers Weekly Akashic B... Lees meer

Atlanta Noir

• Paperback | Engels | Akashic Noir
• "Atlanta has its share, maybe more than its share, of prosperity. But wealth is no safeguard against peril . . . Creepy as well as dark, grim in outlo... Lees meer

The Last Election

Andrew Yang, Stephen Marche

• Hardcover | Engels
• "In former presidential candidate Yang's first novel, doomsday looms for American democracy in the months leading up to the 2024 election . . . zingin... Lees meer