Coffee House Press
Kind One
Laird Hunt
A tense antebellum novel in which enslaved girls and their white mistress become entangled in violence, dependency, and shifting power on a Kentucky farm.
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The Secret City
Hugh Walpole, Bridget Kendall
Set in Petrograd in 1916, this novel follows the young Englishman Henry Bohun as he is drawn into the upheaval of the Russian Revolution. It is as much about the city's unease and the shifting ties between its inhabitants as it is about politics, with vanity, isolation, and desire slowly coming to the surface.
Henery Press
Lowcountry Boil
Susan M Boyer
Set on a South Carolina island, this cozy mystery follows a bookstore-cafe owner pulled into her family’s death and the island’s hidden secrets. Local relationships and brisk dialogue keep the story moving while softening the case’s darker edges.
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
G.
John Berger
Set in Europe in the years before the First World War, this unusual novel follows G., a young man drifting through an energetic sexual life while politics, revolution, and the first signs of modernity press in around him. Its fragmented movement turns desire and history into a single, uneasy field of vision.
Minotaur Books
The Beautiful Mystery: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Chief Inspector Gamache, 8)
Louise Penny
In the eighth Chief Inspector Gamache novel, a murder at a secluded Canadian monastery draws Gamache into a case shaped by silence, sacred music, and the pressure of a closed community. The setting gives the mystery an unusually concentrated atmosphere.
Farrar Straus & Giroux
Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power
Seth Rosenfeld
A work of nonfiction that tracks the FBI’s surveillance and infiltration in Berkeley through exhaustive reporting. Political history around Ronald Reagan and the student movement comes alive through investigative journalism.
Harper
The Orchardist: A Novel
Amanda Coplin
A story of an isolated orchardist whose life shifts when he encounters two wounded sisters. Violence, protection, loss, and repair accumulate quietly.
Gill & Macmillan
Eat Like an Italian: Recipes for the Good Life
Catherine Fulvio
A recipe book built around Italian food culture and family cooking. It combines accessible recipes with the idea that good food is part of a slower, more attentive way of living.
Grove Pr
Vernon God Little: A 21st Century Comedy in the Presence of Death
D. B. C. Pierre
A satirical novel in which Vernon, a boy insisting on his innocence after a school shooting, is cornered by the media and the justice system. Using black humor, it sharply examines a society that consumes violence, distorted reporting, and the isolation of the young.
William Morrow Paperbacks
Crackpot Palace
Jeffrey Ford
“Jeffrey Ford is one of the few writers who uses wonder instead of ink in his pen….A rare and wonderful talent.” —Jonathan Carroll, author of The Wooden Sea Eclectic is certainly an adjective that can be used to describe the work of the phenomenal Jeffrey Ford—along with imaginative, provocative, mesmerizing, and brilliant. His powerful dark fantasy, The Physiognomy , was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; his novel, The Girl in the Glass , won the Edgar® Award, mystery and crime fiction’s most prestigious prize. Crackpot Palace is Ford’s fourth superb collection of short fiction, and in it, his prodigious talent shines as brightly as ever. Here are twenty tales both strange and wonderful, filled with mad scientists, vampires, lost souls, and Native American secrets, from an author who has been glowingly compared to Kafka, Dante, and Caleb Carr ( The Alienist ).
Berkley
Naughty in Nice (A Royal Spyness Mystery)
Rhys Bowen
In 1930s Nice, Georgie takes on a secret royal assignment that quickly entangles her in theft, fashion, and murder.
Faber & Faber
81 Austerities
Sam Riviere
Against the atmosphere of austerity, short sharp poems capture social pressure and the instability of self-awareness. Wit and unease coexist, and the form itself carries a sense of reduction.