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The Boy Who Killed Caterpillars Joshua Kornreich
In a language all his own, a language driven by stutterance and repetition, Joshua Kornreich evokes and seduces the reader into a boyhood mythography where things are not always what they seem to be.… More
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The Clay That Breathes Catherine Browder
In this collection of six short stories and a novella, Browder explores the cross-cultural displacement of Americans in Asia and of Asians in America. Whether the immigrants are Asian or American, Browder captures… More
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The Feud Thomas Berger
Berger chronicles small-town America of the 1930s in his narrative of the feud between the Beelers of Hornbeck and the Bullards of Milville.… More
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The Hieroglyphics Michael Stewart
Horapollo Niliacus, who most likely never existed, wrote the original Hieroglyphica. It was a collection of some 189 interpretations of the Egyptian hieroglyphics, which were entirely, and unintentionally, fallacious.… More
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The Lemon Grove Ali Hosseini
The Lemon Grove is a story of love, redemption, and the courage to survive in the face of calamity and loss. Twin brothers Behruz and Ruzbeh are in love with Shireen. When Behruz leaves America and returns to Iran to help… More
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The Orange Suitcase Joseph Riippi
In the thirty-four stories filling The Orange Suitcase, Joseph Riippi packs an intimate and powerful portrait of a young man’s life. From a childhood spent snipering neighbors with BB guns, to adulthood grasping… More
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The Patch Boys Jay Parini
Fifteen-year-old Sammy di Cantini, resident of a mining region of Pennsylvania, is determined to rise above his class, falls disastrously in love with a Protestant, and visits his Mafia brother in New York where he … More
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The Return of Service Jonathan Baumbach
Part of the Illinois Short Fiction Series, a collection of short stories.… More
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The Salt Palace Darren Defrain
The marvel of this gritty and propulsive first novel is that Darren DeFrain, right out of the gates, has staked claim on a wild new territory of desperate love, alienation, heartbreak, and redemption. A stranger in his… More
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The Slow Air of Ewan MacPherson Thomas Averill
Though it’s not quite the motherland, Glasglow, Kansas, makes a fine home for Scotsman Rob MacPherson and his son Ewan. As the elder MacPherson blows up whiskey stills in his attempts to make a single-malt Scotch,… More
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The Son Andrej Nikolaidis
Danny is an orphan. He lives in Maimonides Home for Jewish Boys. Danny’ 12 years old decides to run away to find a former orphan. He wants to save the home from being closed… More
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The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Charles Johnson
Interweaving the real and the surreal, Charles Johnson spins eight extra-ordinary tales of transformations and metamorphoses. An Illinois farmer teaches a young slave everything he knows – with fatal consequences.… More
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The Weather and Women Treat Me Fair Percival Everett
These stories by Percival Everett, teacher at the University of Kentucky and author of Suder, Walk Me to the Distance and Cutting Lisa, are unified by spare dialogue, tight plot development and out.… More
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Theater State Jack Boettcher
“Even though the principal in Boettcher’s Theater-State has a white tiger slumbering in his office, the school that Janus and Katydid and Cassie attend, with Ms. Denton, TX as their teacher, is all too… More
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Theodore Roethke Jay Parini
A biography of Theodore Roethke… More
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This Semi-Perfect Universe William Seabrook
“I dreamed of a snake that was digesting its own head using only math and sleight of imaginary hand, and then I read this, and know now that I’m a gifted psychic.” – Stephen Graham Jones… More