Fall 2010 Featured Titles
A tour de force through America's most transformative decade.

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Fall 2009 Featured Titles
The four-month odyssey of a literary lowlife.

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Spring 2009 Featured Titles
A full-throttle joyride on the highway of love, adolescence, and enlightenment.

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Fall 2008 Featured Titles
A sweeping tale of fathers and sons, of secrets and shame, and of unsung heroism.

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Spring 2008 Featured Titles
“The best account of the Hmong experience I’ve ever read—powerful, heartbreaking, and unforgettable.”—Anne Fadiman

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Fall 2007 Featured Titles
The Meat and Spirit Plan is a searing coming-of-age novel set to the music of chance.

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Spring 2007 Featured Titles
A girl reaches across an ocean to heal three generations from the aftermath of war in The Ocean in the Closet.

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Winter 2007 Featured Titles
Publisher's Weekly says The Exquisite is "Intensely cerebral . . . this noir labyrinth captures the post-9/11 gestalt."

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Spring 2006 Featured Titles
"A direct descendent of Orwell's Animal Farm , Savage's Firmin . . . expose[s] our flaws, fractures, and infinite follies." — Poets & Writers

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Fall 2005 Featured Titles
From Baghdad to Brooklyn is a stirring portrait of personal and artistic awakening in midcentury New York's Arabic-speaking Sephardic Jewish community.

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Spring 2005 Featured Titles
Lunar Follies is richly entertaining journey through the art world, narrated by an acutely insightful raconteur.

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Fall 2004 Featured Titles
Autopsy of an Engine and Other Stories from the Cadillac Plant is a soulful, explosive debut celebrating the grit, passion, and bravado at Detroit's last Cadillac factory.

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Spring 2004 Featured Titles
The Moon in Its Flight is a collection of short stories from a master of American avant-garde fiction and two-time PEN/Faulkner Award finalist, Gilbert Sorrentino.

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Fall 2003/Winter 2004 Featured Titles
Echo Tree features penetrating, mythical stories by Henry Dumas that transport us from the Deep South to the simmering streets of Harlem.

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Spring 2003 Featured Titles
In The Grasshopper King, his debut novel about treachery, death, academia, marriage, mythology, history, and truly horrible poetry, Jordan Ellenberg creates a world complete with its own geography, obscene folklore, endless games of checkers, and wonderfully endearing characters. Welcome to Chandler State University. Now that its basketball program has fallen apart, CSU's only claim to fame is its Gravinics Department, dedicated to the study of the most obscure and difficult language on earth and the unlucky writers who had to use it. Chief among these is the bizarre and infamous poet Henderson, who is either a no-talent hack or the secret key to world history.

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Fall 2002 Featured Titles
Tara Barlow, a young, small-town employment agency scout in White Palazzo, and Signora Guida Santucci, the local professional psychic, have always done things their own way. When Tara's dream wedding venue burns down, she leaves town and her fiancé to head West in her prize Mustang. Tara's alarmed family sends Guida to find her. The last thing they expect to happen is to meet and fall in love-but Fate has other plans, and their attraction to each other is like a force of nature, like gravity. With their destinies sealed but their pasts encroaching, they attempt escape, and live out the happy ending Thelma and Louise only dreamed about. Magic happens.

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Spring 2002 Featured Titles
In Little Casino, a superb novel composed of fragments of memory, Gilbert Sorrentino captures the unconventional nuances of a conventional world amidst the grit of golden-era Brooklyn.

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Fall 2001 Featured Titles
Funny, smart, and perfectly pitched, Laird Hunt's extraordinary debut The Impossibly follows the amusing but deadly debacles of its narrator, an anonymous secret operative embroiled in the dark underworld of transnational organized crime. When he botches an assignment for the clandestine organization that employs him, everyone in his life - including his new girlfriend - is revealed to be either true-blue or double operative.

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Spring 2001 Featured Titles
When second-generation Japanese-Brazilians emigrate to Japan to assume the manual work its citizens no longer want, their need for cultural belonging, along with their homesickness for the food, culture, and language they left behind is exacerbated by Japan’s reverence for all things "purely Japanese." Circle K Cycles merges fiction, essay, and pop culture to illustrate a global society that resists heritage-by-hyphenation.

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Fall 2000 Featured Titles
Madame Deluxe is all things loud and leopard-print. Inspired by years of watching drag shows, Darlington evokes a persona who wanders the periphery of femininity, catcalling paradigms from Venus to Victoria's Secret. Striking out against artifice, staging her own myth, Madame Deluxe is a she-male Vesuvius.

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Spring 2000 Featured Titles
A must-have for all film buffs, Girl Reel is a book about our relationship to popular culture- how media images both preview and rerun our own lives. By surveying images of women and lesbians in television and film over the seventies, eighties, and nineties, Bonnie Morris offers her own images of strong women, for a new generation of readers.

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Fall 1999 Featured Titles
One of the first black poets to become involved in surrealism and a first generation Beat, Ted Joans is an expatriate poet whose work is enjoying renewed interest. Teducation is the first single-volume collection of poems representing the life’s work of Joans.

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Spring 1999 Featured Titles
The edgy, obsessive characters in Sleep revise themselves as they speak, in sentences that cross themselves out and start over.

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