A House Is a Body
By: Shruti Swamy
3.60
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
INTRODUCING A DAZZLING NEW LITERARY VOICE In two-time O. Henry-prize winner Swamy's debut collectio…
Want to Read $ 10.99"The house is a body, a body houses souls."-Shruti Swamy, A House Is a Body
"The house is a body, a body houses souls."-Shruti Swamy, A House Is a Body
"Sometimes, when you lose - when people die - it is very hard to make tears. You feel like you want to make tears but something inside you stops them and they press your chest. Like something sitting on it."-Shruti Swamy, A House Is a Body
"Sometimes, when you lose - when people die - it is very hard to make tears. You feel like you want to make tears but something inside you stops them and they press your chest. Like something sitting on it."-Shruti Swamy, A House Is a Body
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1. A Daughter's Deadly Deception: The Jennifer Pan Story
By: Jeremy Grimaldi
3.45
Format: 336 pages, ebook
2017 Arthur Ellis Award, Best Nonfiction Book — WinnerA sinister plot by a young woman left her mot… read more
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2. Sharks in the Rivers
By: Ada Limon
3.95
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood … read more
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3. The Sweet Hereafter
By: Russell Banks
4.23
Format: 128 pages,
When fourteen children from the small town of Sam Dent are lost in a tragic accident, its citizens … read more
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4. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
By: Daniyal Mueenuddin
4.10
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
A major literary debut that explores class, culture, power, and desire among the ruling and servant… read more
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6. A Death in the Family
By: James Agee , None
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The classic American novel, re-published for the 100th anniversary of James Agee's birth Published … read more
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7. Exhibit
By: R.O. Kwon
3.24
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author R. O. Kwon, an exhilarating, blazing-hot novel about a woman caught between… read more
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8. El libro de Tamar
By: Tamara Kamenszain
4.02
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Después de dejarlo olvidado durante quince años en el fondo de un cajón, Tamar, la narradora, se re… read more
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9. The Faraway World: Stories
By: Patricia Engel
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
* A New York Times Editors’ Choice * From Patricia Engel, whose novel Infinite Country was a New… read more
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10. Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees
By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays abou… read more
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11. Last Tang Standing
By: Lauren Ho
3.52
Format: 403 pages, Paperback
Crazy Rich Asians meets Bridget Jones’s Diary in this funny and irresistible debut novel about the … read more
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"That's what I like about Linda: she might look like Harrods on the outside but on the inside Linda's straight-up TJ MAXX-hobo without the chic."-Lauren Ho, Last Tang Standing
12. A House Is a Body
By: Shruti Swamy
3.60
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
INTRODUCING A DAZZLING NEW LITERARY VOICE In two-time O. Henry-prize winner Swamy's debut collectio… read more
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"The house is a body, a body houses souls."-Shruti Swamy, A House Is a Body
"Sometimes, when you lose - when people die - it is very hard to make tears. You feel like you want to make tears but something inside you stops them and they press your chest. Like something sitting …"-Shruti Swamy, A House Is a Body
13. The Owl and the Nightingale
By: Unknown
4.09
Format: 100 pages, Hardcover
Following his acclaimed translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl , Simon Armitage … read more
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"Who speaks well ... fights well,' goes the song; she'd wage war with her voice instead. 'To fight well, speak well,' Alfred said."-Unknown, The Owl and the Nightingale
"If Beauty called it didn't stay, & Virtue looked the other way. Another charge that I will file: your habits, like your looks, are vile."-Unknown, The Owl and the Nightingale
"The wise have noted more than once that he who argues with a dunce might just as well compare his jaw against an oven's yawning door. And now a saying comes to mind, a proverb that King Alfred coined…"-Unknown, The Owl and the Nightingale
"Through pity, then, I can't resist delivering a song of bliss when witnessing the painful trace that love leaves in a young girl's face. I try to teach them, through my song, love of that kind will n…"-Unknown, The Owl and the Nightingale
14. River Spirit
By: Leila Aboulela
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The spellbinding new novel from New York Times Notable Author and Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela… read more
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"Keep your faith within your heart even if your tongue is forced to say otherwise."-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit
"I wish I could say she looked like her old self. Suffice to say she looked well. None of us look like our old selves. War is not kind to a woman’s beauty."-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit
"She was part of his youth and their love stretched from her village to his town. She must not feel lost or untethered. And there now was his son in her arms."-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit
"Free, heart tight, expectant, in love, she was not sure what her position would be in the household, not sure about much except that she did not want to be anywhere else."-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit
15. The Memory Monster
By: Yishai Sarid
4.06
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2020 2020 National Jewish Book Awards Finalist “… read more
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16. The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
By: Hala Alyan
4.22
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
From the author of The Arsonists’ City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that t… read more
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"My favorite house is my mother."-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
"I don’t have time to write about the soul. There are bodies to count. There’s a man wearing his wedding tuxedo to sleep in case I meet God and there’s a brick of light before each bombing."-Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
17. Scout's Honor
By: Lily Anderson
3.79
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Prudence Perry is a third-generation Ladybird Scout who must battle literal (and figurative) monste… read more
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18. The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Featuring a new introduction by Ken Liu, this revised edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s first full-len… read more
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"In many college English courses the words “myth"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
"I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
"The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
"Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
19. Inundación: El lenguaje secreto del que estamos hechos
By: Eugenia Almeida
4.49
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
Un alfabeto personal, que procura hallar el sentido de la escritura en un enjambre de historias que… read more
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20. Guli kafbáturinn
By: Jón Kalman Stefánsson
3.93
Format: 333 pages, Hardcover
Miðaldra rithöfundur staddur í almenningsgarði í London á brýnt erindi við Paul McCartney sem situr… read more
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21. Halsey Street
By: Naima Coster
3.54
Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition
A modern-day story of family, loss, and renewal, Halsey Street captures the deeply human need to be… read more
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"They smoked and drank as if they were already defeated, hardened, and long out of art school."-Naima Coster, Halsey Street
