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His Name was Death By Rafael Bernal, Kit Schluter (Translated by) Cover Image
By Rafael Bernal, Kit Schluter (Translated by)
$15.95
ISBN: 9780811230834
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Published: New Directions - November 16th, 2021

This book broke my reading drought! A misanthropic drunk retreats to the jungles of Mexico and, by accident, learns the language of mosquitos. That discovery alone would be world-shifting, but the mosquitos have even more sinister surprises in store. Bernal's potent brew of magical realism, colonial allegory, and black-hearted satire hits hard and fast and FUNNY, if you're as sick as I am :P


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Crisis Zone (Megg, Mogg and Owl) By Simon Hanselmann Cover Image
$29.99
ISBN: 9781683964445
Availability: Not in Stock. Available to Order.
Published: Fantagraphics - August 17th, 2021

This is, to me, the definitive text of these COVID years. Hanselmann wrote, drew, painted, and posted a page to his Instagram every day during quarantine, and every day, I was equal parts horrified and delighted by the increasingly deranged antics of my favorite gang of supernatural slackers. Buy it for the reaction shots alone.


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Making Comics By Lynda Barry Cover Image
$22.95
ISBN: 9781770463691
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Drawn and Quarterly - November 5th, 2019

When I get stuck on some piece of art or writing, Lynda Barry’s wit and wisdom always pull me out of the swamp of self-pity. Her practice focuses on reconnecting the hand to the imagination, the way it worked when we were children, when our creations came instantly alive. No matter your next artistic adventure, you won’t regret making this guide your trusty companion.


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Heaven No Hell By Michael DeForge Cover Image
$24.95
ISBN: 9781770464353
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Published: Drawn and Quarterly - March 23rd, 2021

No one is doing it like DeForge.


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Bright Star By Yuyi Morales Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780823443284
Availability: Not in Stock. Available to Order.
Published: Neal Porter Books - September 7th, 2021

How does Yuyi Morales make such ferociously beautiful books!!! Kids and adults alike will find many delicious details, from hand-stitched end papers to hidden desert creatures. Most importantly, though, this book contains an urgent song of freedom. There are no borders in nature. No human is illegal.


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Lucero By Yuyi Morales Cover Image
$18.99
Possibly out of print. Email or call to check availability and price.
ISBN: 9780823447848
Published: Neal Porter Books - September 7th, 2021

How does Yuyi Morales make such ferociously beautiful books!!! Kids and adults alike will find many delicious details, from hand-stitched end papers to hidden desert creatures. Most importantly, though, this book contains an urgent song of freedom. There are no borders in nature. No human is illegal.


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Complete Stories By Clarice Lispector, Katrina Dodson (Translated by), Benjamin Moser (Editor) Cover Image
By Clarice Lispector, Katrina Dodson (Translated by), Benjamin Moser (Editor)
$21.95
ISBN: 9780811227933
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Published: New Directions - June 26th, 2018

Look at this book and tell me you aren’t instantly bewitched. The New York Times says there’s “a whiff of madness” to Lispector’s fiction, but I think reading her is more like receiving transmissions from the astral plane, or encountering a biblically accurate angel with its many flaming eyes. Give this to your loved ones and transcend.


$45.00
SKU: 9781838424817N
Availability: On Our Shelves Now

BIG BEAUTIFUL BABES SUFFOCATE SERVILE SWAINS - need I say more?


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The Woman in the Purple Skirt: A Novel By Natsuko Imamura, Lucy North (Translated by) Cover Image
By Natsuko Imamura, Lucy North (Translated by)
$23.00
ISBN: 9780143136026
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Published: Penguin Books - June 8th, 2021

A woman in a purple skirt goes about her day...and all the while, another woman in a yellow cardigan is observing her, evaluating her, trying to decide how her small life could be improved. For anyone who's yearned for someone they were too scared to talk to: this weird, thrilling little novel gets it.


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Temple Alley Summer By Sachiko Kashiwaba, Avery Fischer Udagawa (Translator), Miho Satake (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Sachiko Kashiwaba, Avery Fischer Udagawa (Translator), Miho Satake (Illustrator)
$18.00
ISBN: 9781632063038
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Yonder - July 6th, 2021

What do you do when you suspect your new best friend is actually a ghost? This lovely illustrated mystery is perfect for fans of Studio Ghibli - spooky & strange enough to thrill young readers, and sweet enough to capture just about anyone's heart.


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The Legend of Auntie Po By Shing Yin Khor Cover Image
$13.99
ISBN: 9780525554899
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Published: Kokila - June 15th, 2021

Shing Yin Khor's delightful graphic novel makes old tall tales new again and shows us the American frontier as it really was - lively, multicultural, and fiercely independent. While our hero Mei spends her days baking pies and dreaming of giant blue water buffaloes, the harsh realities of racism and xenophobia are never far away. But Mei's fantastic stories have a secret power. Maybe, if Mei tells them well enough, she can create a place where everyone is welcome to settle in and listen.


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Cyclopedia Exotica By Aminder Dhaliwal Cover Image
$24.95
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ISBN: 9781770464377
Published: Drawn and Quarterly - May 11th, 2021

Fans of Woman World rejoice! Aminder Dhaliwal is back with this sharp-eyed, compassionate meditation on the many ways the world measures and punishes difference. Dhaliwal's super-expressive cyclopean avatars devise creative strategies of humor, care and resistance that can help us all feel whole again.


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Bezoar: And Other Unsettling Stories By Guadalupe Nettel, Suzanne Jill Levine (Translated by) Cover Image
$15.95
ISBN: 9781609809584
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Published: Seven Stories Press - August 18th, 2020

Shimmering strange stories that stick in your throat. Is there anything more surreal than living in a body?


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Heaven No Hell By Michael DeForge Cover Image
$24.95
ISBN: 9781770464353
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Published: Drawn and Quarterly - March 23rd, 2021

No one is doing it like DeForge.


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Justine By Forsyth Harmon Cover Image
$19.95
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ISBN: 9781951142339
Published: Tin House Books - March 2nd, 2021

A delicately illustrated coming of age tale set in late-90s Long Island, Justine follows its young protagonist as she becomes romantically & platonically obsessed with an impossibly cool grocery store checkout girl. This book nails the tension of its central teenage friendship and the spiralling intensity of Justine's attraction.


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The Hole: A Novel By Hye-young Pyun, Sora Kim-Russell (Translated by) Cover Image
By Hye-young Pyun, Sora Kim-Russell (Translated by)
$16.99
ISBN: 9781628729917
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Arcade - October 23rd, 2018

Harrowing body horror shot through with glints of blackest humor. For fans of Parasite and Shirley Jackson. Gaze into the hole, but don't jump in...


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The Age of Skin By Dubravka Ugresic, Ellen Elias-Bursac (Translator) Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781948830225
Availability: Not in Stock. Available to Order.
Published: Open Letter - November 17th, 2020

Merciless critiques of nationalism, pop culture and the literary scene from a true original.


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I'm So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had on By Khadijah Queen Cover Image
$18.00
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ISBN: 9781936919468
Published: Yesyes Books - March 15th, 2017

These transfixing, hilarious prose poems give the whole read on beauty, what it means to carry it, and how to claim it for yourself instead of giving it away.


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Breasts and Eggs By Mieko Kawakami, Sam Bett (Translator), David Boyd (Translator) Cover Image
By Mieko Kawakami, Sam Bett (Translator), David Boyd (Translator)
$17.95
ISBN: 9781609456702
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Published: Europa Editions - March 23rd, 2021

A sprawling, deliciously messy treatise on feminity, natural and constructed, and the tenuous bonds between women: mothers, daughters, sisters, comrades. 


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Pizza Girl: A Novel By Jean Kyoung Frazier Cover Image
$24.95
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ISBN: 9780385545723
Published: Doubleday - June 9th, 2020

A perfect novel of aimless youth in Los Angeles. Pizza Girl will drive you nuts but you'll never stop rooting for her to find her way. She's impossible not to love. 


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That Time of Year By Marie Ndiaye, Jordan Stump (Translator) Cover Image
By Marie Ndiaye, Jordan Stump (Translator)
$19.95
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ISBN: 9781931883917
Published: Two Lines Press - September 8th, 2020

Elegant vacation horror: what you deserve for staying on after the season ends...


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Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World’s Most Infamous Prison By Sarah Mirk, Various (Illustrator), Omar El Akkad (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Sarah Mirk, Various (Illustrator), Omar El Akkad (Introduction by)
$24.99
ISBN: 9781419746901
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Published: Abrams ComicArts - September 8th, 2020

Mirk and contributors use the medium of comics to create arresting, visually stunning arguments against the long-ignored abuses of America's secret prison, and share the stories of the detainees who are still fighting for their freedom. 


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The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays By Elisa Gabbert Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780374538347
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Published: FSG Originals - August 11th, 2020

When I'm looking to understand some aspect of our horrible reality I often turn to the writing of Elisa Gabbert, a fabulous poet and one of our best contemporary cultural critics. Gabbert's writings on disease, disaster and the madness of crowds illuminate the ways the irrational still shapes our so-called rational institutions and rules our individual lives.


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Fiebre Tropical By Julián Delgado Lopera Cover Image
$17.95
ISBN: 9781936932757
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Published: Amethyst Editions - March 4th, 2020

A stunning bilingual debut novel, Fiebre Tropical crackles with the electricity of living language, and characters who grab you by the hair and won't let go. 


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Tentacle By Rita Indiana, Achy Obejas (Translator) Cover Image
By Rita Indiana, Achy Obejas (Translator)
$13.95
ISBN: 9781911508342
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Published: And Other Stories - January 15th, 2019

Tentacle is a strange and gorgeous beast. Tthis book is constantly shifting: protagonists, alliances, genders, sexualities, countries, time periods, histories, realities. Go with the flow and you'll wind up places you've never seen before. 


On a Sunbeam By Tillie Walden Cover Image
$22.99
ISBN: 9781250178138
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Published: First Second - October 2nd, 2018

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In the Distance By Hernan Diaz Cover Image
$18.00
Possibly out of print. Email or call to check availability and price.
ISBN: 9781566894883
Published: Coffee House Press - October 10th, 2017

The Milk of Dreams By Leonora Carrington Cover Image
$18.95
ISBN: 9781681370941
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Published: NYR Children's Collection - May 16th, 2017

We Were Witches By Ariel Gore Cover Image
$18.95
ISBN: 9781558614338
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Published: Amethyst Editions - September 5th, 2017

The New Me By Halle Butler Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780143133605
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Published: Penguin Books - March 5th, 2019

Solaris By Stanislaw Lem Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780156027601
Availability: Not in Stock. Available to Order.
Published: Harper Voyager - November 20th, 2002

Mostly Dead Things By Kristen Arnett Cover Image
$15.95
ISBN: 9781947793835
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Published: Tin House Books - April 21st, 2020

The Book of X By Sarah Rose Etter Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781937512811
Availability: Backordered
Published: Two Dollar Radio - July 16th, 2019

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Socialist Realism (Emily Books) By Trisha Low Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781566895514
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Published: Coffee House Press - August 13th, 2019

Song for the Unraveling of the World By Brian Evenson Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781566895484
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Published: Coffee House Press - June 11th, 2019

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In a Lonely Place By Dorothy B. Hughes, Megan Abbott (Afterword by) Cover Image
By Dorothy B. Hughes, Megan Abbott (Afterword by)
$15.95
ISBN: 9781681371474
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Published: NYRB Classics - August 15th, 2017

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Another By Christian Robinson, Christian Robinson (Illustrator) Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781534421677
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Published: Atheneum Books for Young Readers - March 5th, 2019

In the Dream House: A Memoir By Carmen Maria Machado Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781644450383
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Published: Graywolf Press - December 1st, 2020

D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths By Ingri d'Aulaire, Edgar Parin d'Aulaire Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9780440406945
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Published: Delacorte Press - March 1st, 1992

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead: A Novel By Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translated by) Cover Image
By Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translated by)
$18.00
ISBN: 9780525541349
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Published: Riverhead Books - August 11th, 2020

Real Life: A Novel By Brandon Taylor Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780525538899
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Published: Riverhead Books - February 16th, 2021