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The Best American Short Stories 2015
Victor Lodato, T.C. Boyle, Heidi Pitlor
What Light Can Do: Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World
Robert Hass
January 2016
23
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Muriel Barbery
January 2016
22
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Inspector Ghote Breaks an Egg
H.R.F. Keating
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Erasure
Percival Everett
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Lighthead (Poets, Penguin)
Terrance Hayes
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The Long Ships (New York Review Books Classics)
Frans G. Bengtsson
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Stuck
Oliver Jeffers
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The Fan Man
William Kotzwinkle
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Morality Play
Barry Unsworth
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The English Monster: or, The Melancholy Transactions of William Ablass
Lloyd Shepherd
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Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
Mary Ruefle
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The Kiss Murder
Mehmet Murat Somer
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Maidenhair
Mikhail Shishkin
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The Book of Ebenezer Le Page
G.B. Edwards
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Little Man, What Now?
Hans Fallada
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Artful
Ali Smith
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Your Face Tomorrow: Poison, Shadow, and Farewell (Vol. 3)
Javier Marías
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The Literary Conference (New Directions Pearls)
César Aira
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Nemesis (A Harry Hole Novel)
Jo Nesbo
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Three Bags Full
Leonie Swann
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Rare And Curious Gift
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The Laughing Policeman
Maj Sjöwall;Per Wahlöö
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The Locked Room (Martin Beck Series #8)
Maj Sjöwall
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Cooking for Gracie: The Making of a Parent from Scratch
Keith Dixon
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For Her Dark Skin
Percival L. Everett
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Men Without Bones
Gerald Kersh
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The Library: A World History
James W. P. Campbell
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Cutting Lisa (Voices of the South)
Percival Everett
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Animal Kingdom: Color Me, Draw Me
Millie Marotta
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The Musical Brain: And Other Stories
César Aira, Chris Andrews
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This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!
Jonathan Evison
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Hunting in Harlem
Mat Johnson
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Peerless Detective
Michael Raleigh
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Trout's Lie
Percival Everett
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Akogare no chiisana niwa : hyakushu no hana to hābu no zukan: Tiny embroidery, tiny garden
Kazuko Aoki
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Art Embroidery
Mary S. Lockwood, Elizabeth Glaister
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The Weather and Women Treat Me Fair: Stories
Percival Everett
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Lorna Doone
R.D. Blackmore
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To Embrace Sea Monsters
Jean-paul Pecqueur
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There Are No Names for Red
Chris Abani, Percival Everett
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Go West, Inspector Ghote
H.R.F. Keating
January 2016
21
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
John E. Woods, Patrick Süskind
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Life of Pi
Yann Martel
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The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler
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The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton, Nina Bawden
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The Pigeon
Patrick Süskind
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The Drawing of the Three
Stephen King
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The Gunslinger
Stephen King
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The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame, Margaret Hodges, Ernest H. Shepard
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Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
David Foster Wallace
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Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
David Foster Wallace
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Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
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Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov
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The Jefferson Bible
Thomas Jefferson, Percival Everett
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View With a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
Wisława Szymborska, Clare Cavanagh, Stanisław Barańczak
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The Intuitionist
Colson Whitehead
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The Colossus of New York
Colson Whitehead
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How Right You Are, Jeeves
P.G. Wodehouse
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Out of the Woods: Stories
Chris Offutt
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Death of a Charming Man
M.C. Beaton
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Life A User's Manual
Georges Perec, David Bellos
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A Frolic of His Own
William Gaddis
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The Girl in the Glass
Jeffrey Ford
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Going Postal
Terry Pratchett
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Pedro Páramo
Juan Rulfo, Margaret Sayers Peden, Susan Sontag
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GraceLand
Chris Abani
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Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler
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The Death Ship
B. Traven
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Bartleby & Co.
Enrique Vila-Matas
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The Hour of the Star
Benjamin Moser, Clarice Lispector, Colm Tóibín
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Smoke: And Other Early Stories
Djuna Barnes
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All Souls
Javier Marías, Margaret Jull Costa
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Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me
Javier Marías, Margaret Jull Costa
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Your Face Tomorrow, Vol. 1: Fever and Spear
Javier Marías, Margaret Jull Costa
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Your Face Tomorrow, Vol. 2: Dance and Dream
Javier Marías, Margaret Jull Costa
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Adulthood Rites
Octavia E. Butler
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Kindred
Octavia E. Butler
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Fledgling
Octavia E. Butler
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Imago
Octavia E. Butler
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In the Best Families
Rex Stout, Patricia Sprinkle
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Pictures from an Institution
Randall Jarrell
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The Chess Garden or the Twilight Letters of Gustav Uyterhoeven
Brooks Hansen
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder
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Wittgenstein's Nephew
David McLintock, Thomas Bernhard
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Love in a Dry Season
Shelby Foote
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The Diviners
Margaret Laurence
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Beyond the Deepwoods
Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell
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The Modern Library Writer's Workshop: A Guide to the Craft of Fiction
Stephen Koch
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Hotel World
Ali Smith
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The Circus of Dr. Lao
John Marco, Boris Artzybasheff, Charles G Finney
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The Annotated "Here" and Selected Poems
Marjorie Welish
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The Hotel Majestic
Georges Simenon, David Watson
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The Small House at Allington
Julian Thompson, Anthony Trollope
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Star of the Sea
Joseph O'Connor
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The Warden
David Skilton, Anthony Trollope
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Glass, Irony and God
Anne Carson, Guy Davenport
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Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
Anne Carson
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If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
Sappho, Anne Carson
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The Last Chronicle of Barset
Anthony Trollope, Sophie Gilmartin
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The Hare
César Aira, Nick Caistor
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An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
César Aira, Chris Andrews, Roberto Bolaño
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The Man Who Was Thursday
G.K. Chesterton
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Pinocchio
Umberto Eco, Geoffrey Brock, Rebecca West, Carlo Collodi
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Troubles
J.G. Farrell, John Banville
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Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills
Latife Tekin, Ruth Christie, Salina Paker
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Varamo
César Aira
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My Pilgrim's Progress: Media Studies, 1950-1998
George W.S. Trow
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Crewel World
Monica Ferris
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Suder
Percival Everett
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Night rounds
Patrick Modiano
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Glyph
Percival Everett
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The Perfect Murder
H.R.F. Keating
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Une Semaine de Bonté
Max Ernst
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The Lesson of the Master
Henry James
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The Ballad of Dingus Magee
David Markson
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Doctor Thorne
Anthony Trollope
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Nightmare in Pink
John D. MacDonald
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The Blue Moon Circus
Michael Raleigh
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Wolf Whistle
Lewis Nordan
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The Case Of The General's Thumb
Andrey Kurkov
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Fear
Stefan Zweig, Anthea Bell
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A Purple Place for Dying
John D. MacDonald
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Roseanna (Martin Beck #1)
Lois Roth, Per Wahlöö, Maj Sjöwall
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The Time It Never Rained
Elmer Kelton
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Big Book of Cross-Stitch Design: Over 900 Simple-to-Sew Decorative Motifs
Reader's Digest Association, Reader's Digest Association
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Little Star
Mark Halliday
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Night of a Thousand Blossoms
Frank X. Gaspar
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Om on Ra
Victor Pelevin
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The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque
Jeffrey Ford
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The Löwensköld Ring
Selma Lagerlöf
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Kangaroo
Yuz Aleshkovsky, Tamara Glenny
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Berlin Stories
Robert Walser, Jochen Greven, Susan Bernofsky
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The True Deceiver
Tove Jansson, Thomas Teal, Ali Smith
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The Riverview Murders
Michael Raleigh
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The Seamstress and the Wind
César Aira, Rosalie Knecht
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The Most of It
Mary Ruefle
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Democracy and Poetry
Robert Penn Warren
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Six Suspects
Vikas Swarup
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Make Loneliness
J. Reuben Appelman
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The Drowned Life
Jeffrey Ford
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Fog & Car
Eugene Lim
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Don't Cry
Mary Gaitskill
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Family Planning
Karan Mahajan
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The Conversations
César Aira, Katherine Silver
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Everything Matters!
Ron Currie Jr.
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God Says No
James Hannaham
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The Chicken Thief
Béatrice Rodriguez
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A Kid for Two Farthings
Wolf Mankowitz
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Holy Water
James P. Othmer
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The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing (Vish Puri #2)
Tarquin Hall
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$20,000
Bill Drummond
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The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
Edmund de Waal
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West of Here
Jonathan Evison
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Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems
Thomas Sayers Ellis
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The Legend of Pradeep Mathew: A Novel
Shehan Karunatilaka
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Swimming Swimmers Swimming
Percival Everett
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Idaho Winter
Tony Burgess
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A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon: New (Soma)tics
C.A. Conrad
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That Smell and Notes from Prison
Sonallah Ibrahim, Robyn Creswell
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The Graphic Designer's Digital Toolkit: A Project-Based Introduction to Adobe Photoshop Cs6, Illustrator Cs6 & Indesign Cs6
Allan Wood
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Percival Everett by Virgil Russell
Percival Everett
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Grit Lit: A Rough South Reader
Brian Carpenter, Tom Franklin
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An Embroidery Pattern Book
Mary E. Waring
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The Day the Crayons Quit
Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers
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The Short Fiction of Flann O'Brien
Flann O'Brien, Neil Murphy, Keith Hopper
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Through the Second Skin
Derek Sheffield
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This Is How You Fall
Keith Dixon
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McSweeney's #45
Dave Eggers
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Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer
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McSweeney's #46
Dave Eggers
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The Secret History of Las Vegas: A Novel
Chris Abani
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McSweeney's #47
Dave Eggers
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The Body of Martin Aguilera
Percival Everett
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The Albertine Workout
Anne Carson
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The Finest Story in the World
Rudyard Kipling
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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami
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McSweeney's #43
Dave Eggers, Charles Baxter, T.C. Boyle, Catherine Lacey
December 2015
26
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The Hare
The story is about some almost aimless men meandering around flat terrain and occassionally having confusing conversations wi...
December 2015
14
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Trout's Lie
Loved it.
December 2015
12
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How To Both
I love Ali Smith, but this one was a real slow starter for me. The second half is much more engaging than the first, at least...
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How To Both
Ali Smith
December 2015
10
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The Imaginations
Jean-paul Pecqueur
November 2015
28
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Wolf Whistle
I finished this a few days ago, but can't decide what I think. It was very well written, but maybe a little too cartoonish fo...
November 2015
13
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Out of the Woods: Stories
The best story in the book is the one I had already read, and the reason I picked up the book. Some of these stories don't qu...
November 2015
09
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Winter's Bone
Just wow. This is a great book. I can't begin to describe Ree, but she's one of the toughest characters I've ever read. And...
November 2015
08
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Welding with Children: Stories
Some of the stories really knocked my socks off. Sorry Blood and Easy Pickings were my favorites, and I imagine I'll read the...
October 2015
30
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This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!
For a novel about a woman in her seventies on an alaskan cruise, this novel is surprisingly fast-paced. And although I wouldn...
October 2015
22
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Peerless Detective
This is straight realism, and although it's pretty noir-ish, I wouldn't probably put it in the mystery genre. It's literary f...
October 2015
18
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Grit Lit: A Rough South Reader
excellent collection
October 2015
1
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Hoopla: The Art of Unexpected Embroidery
Leanne Prain, Jeff Christenson
September 2015
18
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The Weather and Women Treat Me Fair: Stories
Many of these earlier stories lack the subtlety that I love so much in his more recent work. Some of them that don't have it ...
September 2015
11
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Winter's Bone
Daniel Woodrell
August 2015
11
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Welding with Children: Stories
Tim Gautreaux
August 2015
08
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Half an Inch of Water
Excellent stories. I wish there were 50 more.
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Half an Inch of Water
Percival Everett
August 2015
3
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The Doctor's Dilemma
Hesba Stretton
August 2015
2
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1Q84 (3 Volume Box)
Haruki Murakami
July 2015
9
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McSweeney's #44
Dave Eggers
June 2015
8
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A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
Eimear McBride
May 2015
7
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Acceptance: A Novel
Jeff VanderMeer
April 2015
23
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Night rounds
What a bizarre book! I've never read anything like it. It starts out as almost incomprehensible surrealism, and gradually evo...
April 2015
3
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On Weaving
Anni Albers
March 2015
7
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Authority: A Novel
Jeff VanderMeer
March 2015
1
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Breath, Eyes, Memory
Edwidge Danticat
February 2015
9
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Bloodchild and Other Stories
Octavia E. Butler
February 2015
8
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Jurgen
James Branch Cabell
February 2015
4
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McSweeney's #48
Dave Eggers
January 2015
22
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Hotel World
I liked it, but not nearly as good as most of her other books.
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