Enter the Aardvark
By: Jessica Anthony
3.62
Format: 183 pages, Hardcover
A young congressman discovers a mysterious stuffed aardvark on his doorstep and sets out on a rip-r…
Want to Read $ 10.99"... explained to him how nature is not criminal. How common it was for certain African men on expedition to engage in what might be called "reciprocal sex." How it was common for these men to declare more love for their boy wives than their girl wives. And then why wouldn't Sir Richard Oslet, the hunter said, allow himself, as such to no longer feel pain. And that was the moment, Oslet explained, when hge realized he loved Sowning, that what he had always felt for Downing was love, and Oslet begged Downing's forgiveness. But how could he possibly have know any sooner when there was no language to describe how he felt, no currency, and to even attempt to speak of it would have smacked of revolt, but hopeless revolt, one toward a freedom that Oslet knew did not exist. For Britian, didn't Downing know was perfectly to content to ignore them, so long as there was ambiguity. And hadn't Downing grown up reading, as Oslet had, for decades about the thousands of souls who tried to love one another unambiguously, or those who got caught and were tried allover England at the Courts of Assize, the quarter sessions, and hung? Was Downing so think as to be unaware of the Offenses Against the Person Act, asnd risk the bopth of them landing locked up for years as men were in Redding Jail... Nature, Oslet said the hunter had said, ... unlike man does nothing in vain. God is Nature, and because God is Nature, he created nothing in vain. Therefore, the soul can never expire. It is immortal and in perpetual transit."-Jessica Anthony, Enter the Aardvark
"... explained to him how nature is not criminal. How common it was for certain African men on expedition to engage in what might be called "reciprocal sex." How it was common for these men to declare more love for their boy wives than their girl wives. And then why wouldn't Sir Richard Oslet, the hunter said, allow himself, as such to no longer feel pain. And that was the moment, Oslet explained, when hge realized he loved Sowning, that what he had always felt for Downing was love, and Oslet begged Downing's forgiveness. But how could he possibly have know any sooner when there was no language to describe how he felt, no currency, and to even attempt to speak of it would have smacked of revolt, but hopeless revolt, one toward a freedom that Oslet knew did not exist. For Britian, didn't Downing know was perfectly to content to ignore them, so long as there was ambiguity. And hadn't Downing grown up reading, as Oslet had, for decades about the thousands of souls who tried to love one another unambiguously, or those who got caught and were tried allover England at the Courts of Assize, the quarter sessions, and hung? Was Downing so think as to be unaware of the Offenses Against the Person Act, asnd risk the bopth of them landing locked up for years as men were in Redding Jail... Nature, Oslet said the hunter had said, ... unlike man does nothing in vain. God is Nature, and because God is Nature, he created nothing in vain. Therefore, the soul can never expire. It is immortal and in perpetual transit."-Jessica Anthony, Enter the Aardvark
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1. The Edwardians
By: Vita Sackville-West , Juliet Nicolson
3.80
Format: 285 pages, Paperback
At nineteen, Sebastian is a duke and heir to a vast country estate. A deep sense of tradition binds… read more
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"I wouldn’t commit murder for the sake of an allegory."-Vita Sackville-West, The Edwardians
"Only it won’t be an earthquake - not in England, England isn’t seismic - it will be a gradual crumbling."-Vita Sackville-West, The Edwardians
2. They Eat Puppies, Don't They?
By: Christopher Buckley
4.01
Format: 205 pages,
In an attempt to gain Congressional approval for a top secret weapons system, Washington lobbyist "… read more
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3. Mislaid
By: Nell Zink
3.81
Format: 215 pages, ebook
Stillwater College in Virginia, 1966: Freshman Peggy, an ingenue with literary pretensions, falls u… read more
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5. No Safe Place (Kerry Kilcannon, #1)
By: Richard North Patterson
3.83
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
No Safe Placecenters on seven days in a closely contested Presidential primary, in which political … read more
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6. The Liars' Gospel
By: Naomi Alderman
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning writer re-imagines the life of Jesus, from the points of view of four people close… read more
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7. The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History
By: Jonathan Franzen
4.10
Format: 64 pages,
Jonathan Franzen arrived late, and last, in a family of boys in Webster Groves, Missouri. The Disco… read more
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8. The Emerald Light in the Air: Stories
By: Donald Antrim
4.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Nothing is simple for the men and women in Donald Antrim's stories. As they do the things we all do… read more
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9. The Glorious Heresies
By: Lisa McInerney
3.69
Format: 47 pages, Hardcover
One messy murder affects the lives of five misfits who exist on the fringes of Ireland's post-crash… read more
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10. Telex from Cuba
By: Rachel Kushner
3.69
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
RACHEL KUSHNER HAS WRITTEN AN ASTONISHINGLY wise, ambitious, and riveting novel set in the American… read more
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11. Loner
By: Teddy Wayne
3.42
Format: None pages,
An Indie Next Selection of Independent Booksellers * One of the most anticipated novels of the fall… read more
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12. Fat Ham
By: James Ijames
4.06
Format: None pages, None
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13. Open Throat
By: Henry Hoke
4.01
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more
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14. Brooklyn Crime Novel
By: Jonathan Lethem
3.52
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping story of community, crime, and gentrification, tracing over fifty years of life in one B… read more
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15. Butcher
By: Joyce Carol Oates
3.81
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From one of our most accomplished storytellers, an extraordinary and arresting novel about a women’… read more
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16. A Lucky Man
By: Jamel Brinkley
3.91
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
In the nine expansive, searching stories of A Lucky Man, fathers and sons attempt to salvage relati… read more
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17. Conversazioni dopo un funerale
By: Yasmina Reza
3.27
Format: 89 pages, Kindle Edition
Aveva venticinque anni, Yasmina Reza, quando ha scritto questa pièce, e ci si stupisce, rileggendol… read more
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18. Parallel Hells
By: Leon Craig
3.31
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this deliciously strange debut collection, Leon Craig draws on folklore and gothic horror in ref… read more
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19. High Vaultage
By: Chris Sugden
4.25
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
EVEN GREATER LONDON, 1887. An uninterrupted urban plane encompassing the entire lower half of En… read more
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20. The New American
By: Micheline Aharonian Marcom
3.94
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The epic journey of a young Guatemalan American college student, a “dreamer,” who gets deported and… read more
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21. Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass
By: Ramin Setoodeh
3.66
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the editor in chief of Variety and author of the New York Times bestseller Ladies Who Punch, t… read more
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22. They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms
By: Mike Hixenbaugh
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas subu… read more
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23. The Lede: Dispatches from a Life in the Press
By: Calvin Trillin
3.80
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating, opinionated portrait of journalism and the people who make it, told through pieces c… read more
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24. In Universes
By: Emet North
3.95
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Raffi works in an observational cosmology lab, searching for dark matter and trying to hide how lit… read more
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25. Disorderly Men
By: Edward Cahill
4.29
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Three gay men in pre-Stonewall NYC find their fates thrown together in the police raid of a Village… read more
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26. Apartment
By: Teddy Wayne
3.78
Format: 199 pages, Hardcover
Longlisted for the 2020 Simpson / Joyce Carol Oates Literary PrizeOne of Vogue.com’s “Best Books of… read more
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"Though I suppose each experience like this, just like everyone's loneliness, feels uniquely uncategorizable—the particular contours of another person's borders that collide with your own before leavi…"-Teddy Wayne, Apartment
"Until that point, I'd assumed that nearly everyone bore a certain amount of loneliness within them, it was just the human condition of being trapped inside one mind and body for a lifetime, so that w…"-Teddy Wayne, Apartment
27. Lurking: How a Person Became a User
By: Joanne McNeil
3.77
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A concise but wide-ranging personal history of the internet from—for the first time—the point of vi… read more
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28. Enter the Aardvark
By: Jessica Anthony
3.62
Format: 183 pages, Hardcover
A young congressman discovers a mysterious stuffed aardvark on his doorstep and sets out on a rip-r… read more
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- adult
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29. The Sweetest Fruits
By: Monique Truong
3.24
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
"A sublime, many-voiced novel of voyage and reinvention" (Anthony Marra) "[Truong] imagines the ex… read more
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30. What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
By: Damon Young
4.14
Format: 9 pages, Audiobook
From the cofounder of VerySmartBrothas.com, and one of the most read writers on race and culture at… read more
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"I thought [...] of all the negotiating and navigating it requires to exist while black and relatively sane. And how, for the rest of them, for my [white] teammates and the [white] guys we just played…"-Damon Young, What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
"White privilege--the idea that whiteness, for white Americans, provides an imperishable benefit of the doubt and a flexible and perpetually renewable get-out-of-jail-free card-- is often dismissed by…"-Damon Young, What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
31. Sherlock Holmes and the Telegram from Hell
By: Nicholas Meyer
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson cross the Atlantic at the height of World War I in pursuit of a myst… read more
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