|
|
|
Opioid, Indiana
by Brian Allen Carr
A recently orphaned teen in rural Indiana finds himself suspended from school and searching for both a job and his drug-addled uncle, now his legal guardian, to get the rent paid in five days. Original.
|
|
|
The sisters of Summit Avenue
by Lynn Cullen
Raising four daughters and running her family’s Depression-era Indiana farm for eight years after her husband is infected by a devastating sleeping sickness, a woman reconnects with her estranged, childless sister amid dark family secrets. 50,000 first printing.
|
|
|
A little hatred
by Joe Abercrombie
A battlefield hero, a ruthless socialite and a woman with the ability to glimpse into the future find their world and prospects transformed by escalating tensions among the disparate supporters of magic and machine development. 100,000 first printing.
|
|
|
The Rabbit Girls by Anna ElloryBerlin, 1989. As the wall between East and West falls, Miriam Winter cares for her dying father, Henryk. When he cries out for someone named Frieda--and Miriam discovers an Auschwitz tattoo hidden under his watch strap--Henryks secret history begins to unravel.
|
|
|
Gamechanger
by L. X. Beckett
A late-21st-century public defender who helps individuals with anti-social behavior tries to figure out why her client, Luciano Pox, is wanted by world governments and why he is determined to stop the recovery of the planet.
|
|
|
Clear my name
by Paula Daly
A jaded investigator from a UK charity that helps exonerate wrongly convicted people teams up with a naïve trainee to follow leads related to a witness who could clear an innocent woman’s name. By the author of Open Your Eyes.
|
|
|
A pure heart
by Rajia Hassib
The author of In the Language of Miracles offers a novel about two Egyptian sisters, their divergent fates and the secrets of one family.
|
|
|
The shadow king : a novel
by Maaza Mengiste
Tending the wounded when her nation is invaded by Mussolini, an orphaned servant in 1935 Ethiopia helps disguise a gentle peasant as their exiled emperor to rally her fellow women in the fight against fascism.
|
|
|
Three flames : a novel
by Alan P. Lightman
A farmer’s wife in rural Cambodia fights haunting memories of the Khmer Rouge genocide to protect her daughters from the extreme patriarchal attitudes of her husband and community. By the author of the National Book Award finalist, The Diagnosis.
|
|
|
The memory police
by Yko Ogawa
An Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance finds a young novelist hiding her editor from mysterious authorities who would erase all memories of people who once existed. By the award-winning author of The Housekeeper and the Professor.
|
|
|
Lampedusa
by Steven Price
The award-winning author of By Gaslight reimagines the final years of Lampedusa’s last prince, Giuseppe Tomasi, who succumbs to a terminal illness while writing his only novel, The Leopard, amid the Italian aristocracy of the late 1950s.
|
|
|
Doxology : a novel
by Nell Zink
Two generations of an American family come of age on either side of the September 11 attacks, transforming their ambitions against a backdrop of dramatic political and environmental changes. By the author of Nicotine. 50,000 first printing.
|
|
|
Eyes to the wind : a memoir of love and death, hope and resistance
by Ady Barkan
A first book by the social-justice advocate behind the Local Progress network examines his life with ALS and how his diagnosis gave him profound new understandings about the importance of equality and human rights. 50,000 first printing. Illustrations.
|
|
|
An American sunrise : poems by Joy HarjoIn the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their original lands east of the Mississippi to Indian Territory, which is now part of Oklahoma. Two hundred years later, Joy Harjo returns to her family’s lands and opens a dialogue with history. In An American Sunrise, Harjo finds blessings in the abundance of her homeland and confronts the site where her people, and other indigenous families, essentially disappeared.
|
|
|
Fashionopolis : the price of fast fashion--and the future of clothes
by Dana Thomas
An investigation into the lesser-known consequences of the mass-clothing industry by the author of the best-selling Deluxe shares insights into the grassroots, global movement to reclaim traditional and sustainable means of clothing production. Illustrations.
|
|
|
When I was white : a memoir
by Sarah Valentine
A coming-of-age memoir traces the author’s childhood as a white girl in the suburbs of Pittsburgh before she discovered that her father was a black man, a revelation that transformed her sense of identity and raised questions about family choices. Illustrations.
|
|
|
The optimist's telescope : thinking ahead in a reckless age
by Bina Venkataraman
A Harvard and MIT global policy director and advisor to the Obama White House draws on myriad disciplines to explain why people typically do not plan for their futures, outlining counterintuitive approaches to making decisions that prove beneficial over time.
|
|
|
|
|
|