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Ann Patchett, at Powell’s in September 2016 during her Commonwealth tour, said she wants to read "a smart funny book that isn't tragic at the end but doesn't make you feel dumb. That book is one we can sell because everybody has already read Where'd You Go Bernadette ." Queen of Spades is exactly that type of book—accessible. The author has two Ph.Ds and has written a compelling, brilliantly constructed novel that appears deceptively simple. Its clean sentences, lack of terrible/dark acts, and sense of humor should make it an easy one to recommend. There are very few casino-set books that aren’t aggressively anti-gambling—although Queen of Spades doesn’t glorify the pursuit, either; consequences are explored. Multiple POVs introduce us to a crew boss dying of a mysterious brain ailment, a dealer who drifts from casino to casino, an ex-wife in a gambling recovery group, and the bookies who use their ill-gotten proceeds to open a fitness center/hair salon. A Seattle-area casino setting will connect with fans of the Seattle Seven authors, including Jamie Ford, Maria Semple, and Stephanie Kallos. Jonathan Lethem’s A Gambler’s Anatomy explores casinos through the eyes of a privileged male player; Queen of Spades explores the everyday people who work at one run-down establishment, and how their choices and belief in luck influence their fates. Author’s exemplary educational and teaching background will help with college course placement.
Sea Loves Me
New and selected fiction, over half in English for the first time, from the winner of the 2014 Neustadt Prize. Known internationally for his novels, Neustadt Prize-winner Mia Couto first became famous for his short stories. Sea Loves Me includes sixty-four of his best, thirty-six of which appear in English for the first time. Covering the entire arc of Couto's career, this collection displays the Mozambican author's inventiveness, sensitivity, and social range with greater richness than any previous collection—from early stories that reflect the harshness of life under Portuguese colonialism; to magical tales of rural Africa; to contemporary fables of the fluidity of race and gender, environmental disaster, and the clash between the countryside and the city. The title novella, long acclaimed as one of Couto's best works but never before available in English, caps this collection with the lyrical story of a search for a lost father that leads unexpectedly to love.
Villa Negativa
With less content in my life I am infinitely more content Against the backdrop of a sibling’s death, an eating disorder, and a few very dismal dating relationships, Villa Negativa looks for laughter behind darkness: the intruder who politely removes her shoes, the fabricator whose closest relationship is with fibreglass, the anorexic who sends the Diet Coke back because it tastes too good. Meditative and mischievous, confessional and philosophical, sincere and sly by turns, Sharon McCartney’s seventh collection articulates an essential truth of self-knowledge—that “to perceive something, we have to be able / to stand away from it.”
Now That We're Men
A rich resource with potential to support courageous exploration among high school and college students. — KIRKUS REVIEWS *EXCERPT FEATURED IN TEEN VOGUE * Following up Slut , her explosive 2015 play and guidebook for combating sexism and sexual violence, Katie Cappiello turns her perceptive eyes and ears to the lived experiences of young men as they try on sexuality and masculinity. Compassionate and piercingly insightful, this play and guidebook razes rape culture, interrogates traditional notions of masculinity, and breeds accountability—without sacrificing boys. The guidebook contains the play, an activist guide, and raw dispatches from teenagers and young men.
Banshee
Samantha Baxter has a full, sane life—creative job, lovely family, and all the trappings of middle-age happiness. But when she gets a diagnosis that terrifies her, a lifetime of polite pleasing and putting others first ignites in her a surprising, pure rage. Maybe Sam will survive the surgery, and maybe not, but either way, she’ll spend the next three weeks burning her life down: sleeping with a student her daughter’s age, speaking every truth she’s ever swallowed, and refusing to apologize for her wildest, most essential self. “Sexy and sad, dark and funny, ruthless and kind, this is Rachel DeWoskin’s ferociously feminist masterpiece. Every page of it glitters with rage and with love…It radiates with truth.” —CHERYL STRAYED, NYT-bestselling author of Wild , Tiny Beautiful Things , Brave Enough , and Torch “A wicked, delicious ride towards an ambivalent redemption—angry, hilarious, all too true.” —ALLY SHEEDY, actress and author“ Banshee is the kind of book every woman I know wishes she'd written. Fierce, necessary, honest, a burn-it-all-down scorched earth policy to the toxic masculinity of this Age of Terror.” —Emily Rapp-Black, author of Poster Child and The Still Point of the Turning World “Raucous, white-hot, and page-turning brilliance…A singular and vital reading experience.” —Gina Frangello, author of A Life in Men
Please Read This Leaflet Carefully
Please Read This Leaflet Carefully , the debut novel from Norwegian writer and translator Karen Havelin, is the story of a woman whose body has become her enemy. We meet Laura Fjellstad first as she works and cares for her young daughter, while struggling with debilitating pain and endometriosis, an invisible chronic illness. As the novel tracks backward, the reader meets Laura's younger and somewhat healthier selves (a hopeful bride in New York, a baby queer in Paris, a figure skater in Norway), and uncovers her tireless work to gain control of her identity, her illness and the conflicting demands made by doctors, friends, lovers and family. Havelin's debut novel etches details of daily life into a gripping and darkly humorous bildungsroman about the intricacies of love and life in a fragile body. Man Booker Prize-winning author Paul Beatty says, Most books about disease try to describe the pain; told in poetic whisper, Karen Havelin's debut novel lets pain speak for itself. It's a book that dares you be nosy, to eavesdrop and listen in to a stoic young woman whom no one noticed until she began to disappear, her body disintegrating from the inside out until there's nothing left but searing agony and almost impossibly—a burning triumph. Jarringly funny and perceptive; an intimate reckoning with the inner demons and precarity of everyday life, unpacked through the very specific lens of a woman with chronic pain.
Virga & Bone
From the author of <i>The Secret Knowledge of Water</i> and <i>Atlas of a Lost World</i> comes a deeply felt essay collection focusing upon a vivid series of desert icons—a half–blind bighorn ram, a sheet of virga over Monument Valley, solitude on the Green River. Craig Childs delves into the primacy of the land and the profound nature of the more–than–human.
Monarchs of the Northeast Kingdom
"Lush and evocative…A highly satisfying, delicately woven story about loss, loneliness, life, and death." <br>—<b><i>KIRKUS REVIEWS</i></b> <br><br>"Infused with the hypnotic tone of a dream and the rich evocation of place…utterly affecting." <br>—<b>LIAM DURCAN</b>, author of <i>The Measure of Darkness</i> <br><br>"<i>Monarchs of the Northeast Kingdom</i> is particularly memorable for its close reading of the ways of animals, and for its evocation of place: a would–be pristine winter kingdom continually threatened by human arrogance, carelessness, and greed. This is an astonishingly mature first novel, suspenseful, haunted—and haunting—from start to finish." <br>—<b>A. G. MOJTABAI</b>, author of <i>Shine on Me</i> <br><br>"Ominous from its opening image, <i>Monarchs of the Northeast Kingdom</i> is a haunting beauty. Hammons' prose is tight as tripwire. A quiet madness unfolds and the narrative forces the reader to look and see what the most fragile among us are capable of. Her characters, both human and not, will be with me a long time." <br>—<b>KELLY SOKOL</b>, author of <i>The Unprotected</i> <br><br>"Chera Hammons writes fiction with the same lyricism that makes her poetry shine. Every sentence sings with grace and music. <i>Monarchs of the Northeast Kingdom</i> is a book you don't read so much as savor." <br>—<b>RICHARD KRAWIEC</b>, author of <i>Time Sharing</i> <br><br>Anna and her husband John, a master saddlemaker, have created a quiet existence for themselves in rural Vermont. When John disappears in the woods near their home, Anna hides what she finds there in a desperate effort to ensure her own survival. She must learn to live alone in a landscape where poachers trespass, coyotes roam, bears menace livestock, and winter starves the wild animals—while debilitating illness and long–buried secrets threaten to upturn her life.
Shaped by Snow
The author's family played a key role in the development of today's ski industry; author has an intimate perspective of the industry and is unafraid to criticize it.The book touches upon several critical current events, including designation and slashing of Bears Ears National Monument, the California wildfires, and droughts in the American West.Debut writer under thirty voicing her concerns about community, the ski industry, and her own decision of whether or not to have children in the face of climate change.The author is well–connected in environmental literature and outdoor recreation circles; we will explore these connections for review coverage and promotion.
Hawks Rest
"Among the many pleasures of re–reading Gary Ferguson's Hawks Rest, is finding the prose even more accomplished than remembered, the wit more agile, the observations more revelatory, its stance in the world proved once again so precisely wise. Hawks Rest is a book I will return to again and again."—MARK SPRAGG, author of Where Rivers Change Direction and An Unfinished Life"Gary Ferguson is one of the preeminent historians of the American West, and of the place and value of wilderness within that history. Hawk's Rest is an intense journal of the politics and ecology of one of America's wildest cores, in Yellowstone National Park. In many ways, this book is an important portrait of one of the foundations of our country's democracy, and of the struggles to hold on to that idea."—RICK BASS, author of All the Land to Hold Us"Hawks Rest is a long step toward a user's guide to wilderness, and a reverential and beautifully said hymn to the wild."—TIM CAHILL, author of Hold the Enlightenment and Jaguars Ripped My Flesh"A lyrical and often tough–minded evocation of a summer spent in the Yellowstone backcountry, a place that is, unexpectedly, full of larger-than-life characters, some of whom are admirable and some of whom are not.”—WILLIAM KITTREDGE, author of Hole in the Sky and The Nature of Generosity"Dazzling…an Edward Abbey–esque book, full of snappy vignettes and chiseled writing."—SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE"A sharp and ironic sense of what it's like to live in the American outback, twenty–first–century style."—NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE"A well-written work…if you love Yellowstone, a great treat."—DESERET NEWS"Ferguson evoke(s) feelings of solitude, timelessness and aching beauty in the smallest details…"—THE OREGONIAN"Mournful and defiant as a wolf howl…an eloquent tribute to a threatened place and its lone protectors."—LOS ANGELES TIMESHawks Rest brings the wonder, politics, and wildness of one of America’s most vast and popular national parks to readers everywhere. With a new introduction by the author, this edition offers fresh insight into the condition of parks nationwide, while reintroducing readers to Ferguson's timeless tales and unique wisdom.Gary Ferguson is the author of twenty–two books including Through the Woods and, most recently, The Carry Home. He lives with his wife, Mary, in Montana's Beartooth Mountains, and in Portland, Oregon.