Creatures
By: Crissy Van Meter
3.63
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
On the eve of Evangeline’s wedding, a dead whale is trapped in the harbor of Winter Island, the gro…
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1. How to Breathe Underwater
By: Julie Orringer
3.00
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
Nine brave, wise, and spellbinding stories make up this award-winning debut. In "When She is Old an… read more
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2. Chlorine
By: Jade Song
3.72
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between… read more
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"Nearly every human memory is corrupted by the fact that it is a memory of being human"-Jade Song, Chlorine
"Would a mermaid who stays at home, much-loved, with two beautiful parents and loving sisters who share everything, be worth memorializing? No."-Jade Song, Chlorine
"Humans break so easily. They break their bones, their bodies, their hearts. I, too, as a girl, once broke. My head. And when this happened, I, like many other humans, did not allow myself the time an…"-Jade Song, Chlorine
3. Death Valley
By: Melissa Broder
3.49
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has… read more
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"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"-Melissa Broder, Death Valley
4. Swim Home to the Vanished
By: Brendan Shay Basham
3.35
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
When the river swallowed Kai, Damien’s little brother didn’t die so much as vanish. As the unbea… read more
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5. Self-Portrait With Boy
By: Rachel Lyon
3.81
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
An ambitious young artist accidentally photographs a boy falling to his death—an image that could j… read more
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6. I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris
By: Glynnis MacNicol
3.59
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
When you’re a woman smack in so-called “middle age” you are not promised anything at all other than… read more
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7. Rabbits for Food
By: Binnie Kirshenbaum
3.59
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
It’s New Year’s Eve, the holiday of forced gaiety, mandatory fun, and paper hats. While dining out … read more
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8. Poor Deer
By: Claire Oshetsky
3.99
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A wondrous, tender novel about a young girl grappling with her role in a tragic loss—and attempting… read more
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- coming of age
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"She has just learned that some things are forever, and other things are never-again."-Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer
"On this day the girl feels so much love pouring out of her mother that she is certain her mother has the power to save her. Soon she will come to understand she can't be saved."-Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer
9. Devout: A Memoir of Doubt
By: Anna Gazmarian
3.63
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening memoir that reconciles the author’s bipolar disorder diagnosis and her Evangelical f… read more
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10. Creatures
By: Crissy Van Meter
3.63
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
On the eve of Evangeline’s wedding, a dead whale is trapped in the harbor of Winter Island, the gro… read more
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- nature
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11. Natural Beauty
By: Ling Ling Huang
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obs… read more
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"it is still more permitted for women to be mediocre than for them to be fat"-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty
"It’s unfortunate that I can undermine months of parental reassurance in just a few seconds, but it’s probably better for kids to learn early on that yes, monsters are real."-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty
"I had always assumed love carried itself easily through various permutations and disintegrations. Now I find myself disassociating them from the people I had known my parents to be. I can't decide wh…"-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty
12. Hot Stew
By: Fiona Mozley
3.51
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
London has changed a lot over the years. The Soho that Precious and Tabitha live and work in is bar… read more
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13. Your Guide to Forest Bathing: Experience the Healing Power of Nature
By: M. Amos Clifford
3.65
Format: 1 pages, Audio CD
Forest bathing is a gentle, meditative practice of connecting with nature. Simply being present wit… read more
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- audiobook
14. We Wish You Luck
By: Caroline Zancan
3.16
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating novel about a group of students who take revenge on a wunderkind professor after sh… read more
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"You seem to be someone who always wants a little more."-Caroline Zancan, We Wish You Luck
"People only seem to think something's a problem when it's a problem for them."-Caroline Zancan, We Wish You Luck
"There was always a haunted quality about the place, even before anything bad happened."-Caroline Zancan, We Wish You Luck
"He had the kind of shrunken posture that promised something terrible had happened to him."-Caroline Zancan, We Wish You Luck
15. The Lightness
By: Emily Temple
3.41
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A stylish, stunningly precise, and suspenseful meditation on adolescent desire, female friendship, … read more
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"Oh, but how could I believe in anything but this? It was right in front of me, and I could touch it."-Emily Temple, The Lightness
"Now I know that the American Dream can leave you in a coma or even kill you. But of course, we knew that back then too. It wouldn’t have been any fun otherwise."-Emily Temple, The Lightness
16. Daughter
By: Claudia Dey
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In Claudia Dey’s Daughter, a woman long caught in her father's web strives to make a life—and art—o… read more
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17. The Skunks
By: Fiona Warnick
3.75
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Reminiscent of Elif Batuman and Sally Rooney, Fiona Warnick’s precise and tender prose captures the… read more
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18. Desert Oracle: Volume 1: Strange True Tales from the American Southwest
By: Ken Layne
4.15
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The cult-y pocket-size field guide to the strange and intriguing secrets of the Mojave--its myths a… read more
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19. Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay
By: Lars Horn
4.29
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Lars Horn’s Voice of the Fish, the latest Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize winner, is an interwoven … read more
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"Where did they go, all the gods and the beasts? The jackals and winged horses, sphinxes and fish, all those creatures that weighed our organs in the afterlife, fed on years ill-lived? What do they to…"-Lars Horn, Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay
20. Impersonation
By: Heidi Pitlor
3.34
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“By turns revealing, hilarious, dishy, and razor-sharp, Impersonation lives in that rarest of sweet… read more
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"Sometimes people aren't nice,' I began. 'Then why are you always telling me to be nice?' Because someone has to break the cycle. Kindness can be contagious. And it has to start somewhere, right?"-Heidi Pitlor, Impersonation
21. Shoal Water
By: Kip Robinson Greenthal
4.12
Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition
Disillusioned by the Vietnam war and troubled by their own past, Kate and Andy leave New York City … read more
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