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Commodore Perry’s Minstrel Show Richard Wiley
In 1854, Commodore Matthew Perry steamed into Edo Bay and “opened” Japan to trade with America. As entertainment for the treaty-signing ceremony, Perry brought a white-men-in-black-face minstrel … More
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Do Something! Do Something! Do Something! Joseph Riippi
In this fragmented, nontraditional narrative, debut author Joseph Riippi explores the aftermath of stories, rather than simply telling them: A music critic chants Susan Sontag quotes in a mental institution; a young… More
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Festival for Three Thousand Women Richard Wiley
Festival for Three Thousand Maidens is set in the 1960s, the era of war in Vietnam and riots and assassinations in the US; however, neither of these places figure directly in the story, but both reverberate like distant… More
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Fog and Car Eugene Lim
Marooned in a small Midwest town shortly after his divorce, Jim Fog succumbs to purposelessness and nostalgia while his ex, Sarah Car, has moved to New York City with the ambition of skipping over any mourning for their… More
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Fools’ Gold Richard Wiley
Wiley brings together a variegated cast of characters in one of the last outposts of the American frontier, Alaska, during the gold rush of the 1890s.… More
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For Her Dark Skin Percival Everett
For Her Dark Skin is a tightly crafted exploration of the story of Jason and Medea weaving both traditional and contemporary fictional and thematic elements into a sharply ironic tale of revenge, ambition, passion … More
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Frog Stephen Dixon
Frog is a complex and paradoxical character: petulant, compulsive, overbearing, hostile, and self-righteous, but also imaginative, loving, kind, and strong. No matter how exasperating he gets, it’s still… More
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Garden of Fools Greg Logsted
A Garden of Fools, a comic novel set in 1970, introduces the over-the-top character of Bartholomew W. Prickett, a larger-than-life thirty-something native of Atlanta who has transplanted himself to New York City.… More
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Ghost Dance Carole Maso
This haunting, often surreal first novel vividly captures the struggles of a young woman, Vanessa Turin, as she attempts to recover her family and her past… More
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Glimmering Girls Merrill Gerber
Glimmering Girls tells the story of three extraordinary American women during a time of sexual and cultural repression.
Francie and her friends Liz and Amanda are college students, coming of age intellectually, emotionally,… More
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Gould Stephen Dixon
Draws a portrait of an American man through a collection of shorter stories documenting his romantic and sexual encounters over the course of forty years, showing the pain and wonder of love that are such a part of life… More
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Harry Kaplan’s Adventures Underground Steve Stern
Harry finds himself transplanted from staid and steady Brooklyn in the 1930s and discovers a world that eclipses anything that the Scarlet Pimpernel or Captain Horatio Hornblower could conjure before his inexperienced… More
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Hitting into the Wind William Meissner
A collection of stories about baseball, Hitting Into the Wind contains the tale of a minor league player who fears that he will never make it, an umpire experiencing marital problems, and a man who collects old baseballs.… More
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How to Read and Unwritten Language Phillip Graham
When Michael Kirby’s mother begins to create strangely unsettling personalities before the private audience of her three children, she bestows upon Michael a double-edged gift: the ability to see past the … More
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In the Middle of All This Fred Leebron
Leebron’s compelling third novel brings us into the world of domestic unease as two couples and their joined families wrestle with empathy’s limitations in the uncompromising teeth of mortality.… More
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Inconceivable Wilson Jason Tyler
Wilson goes: planes, boats, walking until the sun quits rising, until the sun stops existing, and there he begins, there he becomes. A place where the trees change shape and purpose, the environment lost to nothingness,… More