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So Big (P.S.) (Perennial Classics)
Harper Perennial Modern Classics

So Big (P.S.) (Perennial Classics)

Edna Ferber

Through the life of Selina Peake DeJong, who works the land and supports her family, the novel explores labor, poverty, ambition, and motherhood. At its center are a woman's hard-won independence and the practical weight of the American dream.

Stories: All-New Tales
William Morrow

Stories: All-New Tales

Neil Gaiman, Al Sarrantonio

An anthology of original tales curated by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio, ranging from literary fantasy to dark, uncanny fiction.

A Visit from the Goon Squad
Knopf

A Visit from the Goon Squad

Jennifer Egan

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER • With music pulsing on every page, this startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption “features characters about whom you come to care deeply as you watch them doing things they shouldn't, acting gloriously, infuriatingly human” ( The Chicago Tribune ) . One of the New York Times ’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of The Atlantic ’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years • A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century • A Los Angeles Times Best Fiction Book of the Last 30 Years Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs. “Pitch perfect . . . Darkly, rippingly funny . . . Egan possesses a satirist’s eye and a romance novelist’s heart.”— The New York Times Book Review

I Hotel
Coffee House Pr

I Hotel

Karen Tei Yamashita

A ten-part novel that traces Asian American activism and community memory in San Francisco during the 1960s and 1970s.

Ship Breaker
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Ship Breaker

Paolo Bacigalupi

On a coast devastated by rising seas, Nailer works ship-breaker crews and is forced into flight and hard choices after meeting the wealthy Nita. In a world of resource scarcity, the novel asks what courage looks like when survival is all that remains.