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Particular snowflakes fall on your head as you stand outside your home so as to see the sky darken and the first ones spiral down, and the snow that reminds you of the beauty and brevity of life, how ...
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Zell Boyette made her way gingerly down the stairs, gripping the handrail, grateful for it. She used to just fly down those steps, her feet barely lighting on them as she rushed from one activity to t...
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"Extraordinary...beautifully precise...[an] earnestly ambitious debut." -The New York Times Book Review
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The modern classic that inspired the beloved movie starring Tom Hanks.
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Let me say this: bein a idiot is no box of chocolates. People laugh, lose patience, treat you shabby. Now they says folks sposed to be kind to the afflicted, but let me tell you—it ain’t always that w...
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Aimee Bender's stunning debut collection, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, proved her to be one of the freshest voices in American fiction. Now, in her first novel, she builds on that early promise.
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On my seventeenth, I made myself a chocolate cake, but since I didn’t really want to eat it, stirred bug poison in with the mix. It rose beautifully, the best ever, and when I took it out of the oven,...
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" Stranger Things meets the South. Chilling, hilarious, and suspenseful-I loved it!"-Felicia Day
From the authors of Rhett & Link's Book of Mythicality and creators of Good Mythical Morning . . .
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THOUGH REX MCCLENDON knew that he and his best friends were about to attempt something audacious, he never could have anticipated the category-five suckstorm that would spin out from the next hour of ...
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What if the Second Coming didn't quite come off as advertised? What if "the Corpse" on display in that funky roadside zoo is really who they say it is-what do... View details
THE MAGICIAN'S UNDERWEAR has just been found in a cardboard suitcase floating in a stagnant pond on the outskirts of Miami. However significant that discovery may be—and there is the possibility that ...
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EACH DAY ARTHUR got out of bed at precisely 7:30 a.m. just as he did when his wife, Miriam, was alive. He showered and got dressed in the gray slacks, pale blue shirt and mustard sweater-vest that he ...
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WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction; $60,000 Amazon Canada First Novel Award
In this extraordinary debut novel by the author of the Lambda Literary Award-winning story collection A Safe Girl to Love, Wendy Reimer is a thirt... View details
“Is there a point?” said Wendy. “Look, you know. He was probably a girl; it probably sucked. I’ll bet a million fuckin’ Mennonites were trans. They probably all killed themselves or they lived stoical...
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