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I Love Me: Who Do You Love? by Gordon Legge Publisher Comments Gordon Legge's new novel, the hugely-entertaining follow-up to In Between Talking About the Football, serves up a slice of small-town life. Carol worries about her dad; Hazel worries about Andy; Deke is looking for the big contract; Dunx is looking for a... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $4.00 Sale - Trade Paper
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American Ghost by Lillien Waller Publisher Comments Poetry. Photography. African American Studies. Native American Studies. Poets and photographers reflect on the real costs of deindustrialization—community life, personal identity, cultural traditions, and the natural world—in... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $12.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Granta: The Magazine of New Writing #114: Granta 114: Aliens by Freeman John Synopsis This new issue of Granta features tales from the constantly shifting terrain of alien culture. Mark Gevisser writes of two closeted gay South African men, whose friendship has lasted five decades, dating back to a regime determined to keep black and... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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We're Getting On by James Kaelan Publisher Comments Fiction. WE'RE GETTING ON explores youth, dissolution, and the impact technology has on the modern world, and what happens when you try to live completely off the grid. The book follows five people, all in varying states of flux. This group of youth... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $8.40 Sale - Trade Paper
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Granta: The Magazine of New Writing #113: Granta 113: The Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists by John Freeman About the Author John Freemans criticism has appeared in more than 200 newspapers around the world, including the Guardian, the Independent, The Times and the Wall Street Journal. Between 2006 and 2008, he served as president of the National Book Critics Circle. His... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Jason Breedlove 1065131 by Jason Breedlove Synopsis The book covers from 1992-2010. Diagnosed with Klinefelter's Syndrome, alcoholism, meth use, violent crime and 3 prison sentences. Eighteen years later I'm clean and sober and I remain involved with the legal system until November 2012 (on parole).... (read more) Your price: $8.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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World Takes: Stories Designed to Amuse by Timmy Waldron Synopsis Timmy Waldron takes readers on a wild ride through American's interior landscape in his debut short story collection World Takes. Waldron's sardonic, quirky wit introduces you to a high school loser literally branded for life, a fiercely dedicated... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price: $4.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Best of Intentions: The Avow Anthology (2nd Ed.) by Keith Rosson Publisher Comments In the format of a graphic novel and using journalism as a narrative, the story of the 2001 Cincinnati riots—the largest urban unrest since the 1992 Los Angeles riots—is charted in this visual history. The book traces the riot's... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $5.57 Sale - Trade Paper
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Dogrun by Arthur Nersesian Publisher Comments Arthur Nersesian, who created a howling New York odyssey in his smash hit The Fuck-Up, captures the spirit of the city itself-jolting and full of endless surprises in this powerful new novel edged with black humour and poignancy. Mary Bellanova's life in... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Variations of a Brother War by J A Tyler Publisher Comments J. A. Tyler's Variations of a Brother War glimpses at the lives of two brothers, and the girl whom each of them loves. Against the background of the Civil War, these brothers become soldiers, engaging in the most desperate kind of battle. With ornate and... (read more) List Price $14.25 Your price: $8.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Tag by Jay Carlson Review "A koanesque romp in style and narrative that starts before you begin. I've never had to decide *how* to read a book. Only whether or not to read it. Carlson excels in character development, which makes the center hold, notwithstanding a blatant post... (read more) Your price: $6.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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The End Is the Beginning by Matt Briggs Synopsis In the end, I had seen the movies. I had read the books. I had dreamed of this moment, often. In the end, The Plague of Fur began, as such things do, with a faint smudge of peach fuzz. The fur, once invented, contained the capacity to grow and spread... (read more) List Price $17.25 Your price: $6.97 Sale - Trade Paper
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Shorts Are Wrong by Mike Topp Publisher Comments Mike Topp's irreducible art consists partly of recycling expandable parts of speech and revealing their unused genius. Other parts are fixed, like the sly orthography. Topp is the Andy Warhol and Ralph Nader of literature. — Andrei... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $9.00 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Time Before Slaughter by Paul E Nelson Synopsis In this epic poem, Nelson reenacts the history of Auburn, Washington, originally known as the town of Slaughter. He explores the history of this Northwestern place from the myths of Native people to the xenophobia toward Japanese-Americans.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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To Help With Sleep by Anselm Berrigan Publisher Comments Poetry. Anselm Berrigan gives us a fresh dose of his discordant mind music. TO HELL WITH SLEEP was written by the poet in the first months after the birth of his daughter, mostly during brief periods of time when he was half-awake or less so, letting the... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price: $7.00 Sale - Trade Paper
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An Island of Fifty by Ben Brooks Review "Ben Brooks is popping quarks with An Island of Fifty, spilling new flavors of literature on the swampy bookstacks of old. Call it new political, new ecological, new sociological, new poetic activism, or even new imaginary creationism. This book builds... (read more) Your price: $8.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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An Old Junker: A Senior Represents by Howard Junker Publisher Comments Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. AN OLD JUNKER is a rambling multi-genre first book—a blognovel, a proto-memoir, a novel of ideas, a coming-of-age narrative, a meta-parody whose rambling plot savages Dave Eggers and Jonathan Franzen and Richard... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price: $6.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Boy Who Killed Caterpillars by Joshua Kornreich Publisher Comments Fiction. 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 what they always seem to be. At the center of this world stands Kornreich... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Gowanus Atropolis by Julian Brolaski Publisher Comments Poetry. LGBT Studies. GOWANUS ATROPOLIS attempts to reconcile the toxicity of the titular Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn and the east river in "Manahatta" with the poet's search for the pastoral in New York City. A queer elegy for when language might have... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Monkeybicycle 7 by Steven Seighman Review The cover of Monkeybicycle7 features a sinuous, self-intersecting tangle of red-brown smoke coiling up the left edge of an otherwise blank white field, an image as classily textured as a MacBook desktop background. It is totally at odds with the tawdry... (read more) Your price: $8.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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