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We Love You, Charlie Freeman: A Novel (Paperback)

By Kaitlyn Greenidge

$16.95

ISBN: 9781616206444

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Published: Algonquin Books - January 31st, 2017

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A salty teenager. A rowdy chimp. A queer teen romance. All amidst a backdrop of questionable science and racial tension in this debut novel from local author Kaitlyn Greenidge (whose acclaimed new novel Libertie is now out in paperback). Spanning multiple time periods, Greenidge explores themes of loneliness, betrayal, and racist pseudoscience with humor, hurt, and insight.

Rachael

Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts (Paperback)

By Matt Bell

$15.95

ISBN: 9781641293419

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Published: Soho Press - March 8th, 2022

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I've read a ton of craft books. This is the first one about novel writing that fully acknowledges how messy a process it is, while also giving concrete steps to navigate the hard parts. Buried within these tips is a philosophy that the act of creation is in itself, beautiful. It hasn't left my desk since I finished it.

Dave

The Sirens of Titan: A Novel (Paperback)

By Kurt Vonnegut

$18.00

ISBN: 9780385333498

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Published: Dial Press Trade Paperback - September 8th, 1998

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Someone once said to me that Kurt Vonnegut writes children's books for adults. They meant it as a compliment, and I totally agree. His stories are often fantastical and funny, with a ton of heart at the center. This is my favorite of his books, and in my top 5 of all time. It's the story of Malachi Constant, who wanders into a vast conspiracy that takes him from Earth, to Mars, back to Earth, and to a moon of Saturn. 

Dave

Fullmetal Alchemist: Fullmetal Edition, Vol. 1 (Hardcover)

By Hiromu Arakawa

$19.99

ISBN: 9781421599779

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Published: VIZ Media LLC - May 8th, 2018

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Experience the delight, horror, humor, and tragedy of this classic tale of two brothers who tried to raise the dead and ended up losing an arm, a leg, and an entire body. That's just the beginning of their story!

Shana

Cleopatra and Frankenstein (Hardcover)

By Coco Mellors

$28.00

ISBN: 9781635576818

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Published: Bloomsbury Publishing - February 8th, 2022

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For fellow fans of Sally Rooney, Coco Mellor’s is a new writer to keep an eye on. Her debut novel Cleopatra and Frankenstein depicts the course of a tumultuous marriage between Cleo, a young artist from the UK wanting to extend her stay in NYC by obtaining a green card, and Frank, a much older American advertiser. Mellors deals with complex and heavy topics with a refreshing hand and creates a cast of characters that you are sure to have complicated feelings about.

Morgan

Manhunt (Paperback)

By Gretchen Felker-Martin

$17.99

ISBN: 9781250794642

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Published: Tor Nightfire - February 22nd, 2022

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A horror book that centers around gender politics in a way that doesn't use trauma in the queer community as its only crutch! A wildly entertaining read that also makes you think about the world around us and the horror that exists today. Side note: if you are also angry with J.K. Rowling because.. duh... there is a moment in this book specifically for you. CW: transphobia, mental health, mentions of self harm, graphic violence
 

Jane

The Super Age: Decoding Our Demographic Destiny (Hardcover)

By Bradley Schurman

$29.99

ISBN: 9780063048751

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Published: Harper Business - January 18th, 2022

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Over the next few years, The workforce will have more workers aged 60 then aged 20. And If we all play are cards right, that might not be a bad thing.

John

A Year & Other Poems (Hardcover)

By Jos Charles

$22.00

ISBN: 9781571315472

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Published: Milkweed Editions - March 15th, 2022

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There is a hum to this collection, an intensity that feels quiet at first but grows as you spend time balancing your own thoughts & feelings on the poise and precision of Charles’s poems. Like walking through a bee-loud glade & then putting your ear against the hive. Think of Merwin. Think of Ocean Vuong. Think of Ilya Kaminsky. 

Josh

Garbo (Hardcover)

By Robert Gottlieb

$40.00

ISBN: 9780374298357

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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - December 7th, 2021

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Famed editor (The New Yorker, Simon and Schuster) Robert Gottlieb takes a valiant stab at the life of the illusive film actress Greta Garbo (1905-1990).   With a luminous face loved by the camera, Garbo was discovered working as a model and part-time actress in her native Sweden. She came to Hollywood in 1926, made 26 movies for M-G-M and promptly quit the business in 1942 only to the spend the rest of her life walking the streets of New York, traveling the world and living very much alone.  Her beauty and talent were never questioned, but Garbo was, as Gottlieb implies, one of the most uninteresting interesting people to grace Hollywood. 

Nathan

How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain (Paperback)

By Lisa Feldman Barrett

$18.99

ISBN: 9781328915436

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Published: Harper Paperbacks - March 13th, 2018

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If you've ever wanted an owner's manual for your brain, this book is for you. Barrett busts common myths about "universal" emotions that everyone experiences, and she bases her arguments in excellent critiques of classic studies, as well as her own research. For skeptics of freudian & pop psychology, her theory of human emotion is a (mindbending) breath of fresh air! This book gave me a way to love my biology and changed my life in a way that many self-help books promise but few deliver.

Murphy