Penguin Books Ltd
King Solomon's Carpet
Barbara Vine
King Solomon's Carpet is a 1991 novel that follows the motives and relationships behind a crime while steadily building tension.
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Impetus Pr
Midnight Picnic
Nick Antosca
A novella that follows Bram through a haunted, dreamlike search for a murdered child, balancing road-trip unease with uncanny horror.
Harper
Lake Overturn: A Novel
Vestal McIntyre
A novel set in a small Idaho town where rumors of catastrophe, family secrets, and adolescent friendship become entangled. Rather than a single big event, the story is driven by the frail connections among lonely people.
Open Letter Books
The Mighty Angel
Jerzy Pilch, Bill Johnston
A novel about alcoholism and recovery that folds delirium, dark humor, and self-mythologizing into the voice of its narrator. The result is both satirical and unsettling.
Univ of Illinois Pr
A New Language, A New World: Italian Immigrants in the United States, 1890-1945 (Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Centennial Series)
Nancy C. Carnevale
A historical study of how Italian immigrants in the United States lost, preserved, and negotiated language. It shows how language shaped ethnic identity.
Pacific Raven Press
Pacific Raven: Hawaii Poems
Kathryn Waddell Takara
A poetry collection shaped by Hawaiian land, memory, and cultural inheritance. It carries the pride and pain of island life with quiet force.
Harvill Secker
Dark Times in the City
Gene Kerrigan
Danny Callaghan is having a quiet drink in a Dublin pub when two men with guns walk in. They're here to take care of a minor problem - petty criminal Walter Bennett. On impulse, Callaghan intervenes to save Walter's life. Soon, his own survival is in question. With a troubled past and an uncertain future, Danny finds himself drawn into a vicious scheme of revenge. "Dark Times in the City" depicts an edgy city where affluence and cocaine fuel a ruthless gang culture, and a man's fleeting impulse may cost the lives of those who matter most to him. Kerrigan's new novel is his finest yet; gripping from start to finish, powerful, original and impossible to put down.
Wings Pr
Crazy Love
Pamela Uschuk
A poetry collection that gives forceful voice to love, family, politics, and nature. Its directness and vivid imagery stand out throughout.
House of Anansi Pr
Pigeon
Karen Solie
Karen Solie launched to prominence with her first collection of poems, Short Haul Engine (2001), finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize and winner of many other awards and citations. She continued her upward trajectory with Modern and Normal (2005), and is now considered one of Canada's best poets. Pigeon is yet another leap forward for this singer of existential bewilderment. These poems are X-rays of our delusions and mistaken perceptions, explorations of violence, bad luck, fate, creeping catastrophe, love, and the eros of danger. Once again, Solie shows that her ear is impeccable, her poetic intelligence rare and razor-sharp.
Penguin Books
Wolf Totem: A Novel
Jiang Rong, Howard Goldblatt
Set on the Inner Mongolian grasslands during the Cultural Revolution, the novel follows a Beijing intellectual drawn into nomadic life and the world of wolves, where ecological balance collides with human development. It combines the energy of an adventure story with a warning about the damage brought by modernization.
Harper Perennial
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories (P.S.)
Kevin Wilson
A debut story collection full of sharply drawn characters, odd obsessions, and uneasy turns into the uncanny.
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Burnt Shadows
Kamila Shamsie
An epic novel that moves from Hiroshima to Delhi, New York, and Afghanistan across generations. The history of war and migration folds into family life.