Captioning the Archives: A Conversation in Photographs and Texts
By: Lester Sloan
4.45
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Lester Sloan began his photography career as cameraman for the CBS affiliate in Detroit, then worke…
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1. Beyond the Archives: Research as a Lived Process
By: Gesa E. Kirsch , Liz Rohan , Lucille M. Schultz , David Gold , Christine Mason Sutherland , Alicia Nitecki , Wendy B. Sharer , None , Kathleen Wider , Barry E. Rohan , Victor Villanueva , Gail Y. Okawa , W. Ralph Eubanks , Malea Powell , Kate Davy , Elizabeth Birmingham , Anca Vlasopolos , Lisa Mastrangelo , Barbara L'Eplattenier
3.77
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
This collection of highly readable essays reveals that research is not restricted to library archiv… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
2. The Guardians: An Elegy for a Friend
By: Sarah Manguso
3.99
Format: 111 pages, Hardcover
The Guardians opens with a story from the July 24, 2008, edition of the Riverdale Press that begins… read more
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- nonfiction
"I read obituaries every day to learn what sorts of lives are available to us, to see an entire life compressed into a few column inches, to fit the whole story in my eye at once."-Sarah Manguso, The Guardians: An Elegy for a Friend
3. Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry
By: Leanne Shapton
3.92
Format: 129 pages, Paperback
Lenore Doolan, a food writer for the New York Times, meets Harold Morris, a photographer, at a hall… read more
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- photography
4. The Sympathizer
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
3.83
Format: 28 pages, Hardcover
The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as five other awards, The Sympathizeris … read more
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5. Drinking: A Love Story
By: Caroline Knapp
4.09
Format: 286 pages, Paperback
The roots of alcoholism in the life of a brilliant daughter of an upper-class family are explored i… read more
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- nonfiction
"When you quit drinking you stop waiting."-Caroline Knapp, Drinking: A Love Story
"That was my favorite line: I'll drink less when things get better."-Caroline Knapp, Drinking: A Love Story
"The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind."-Caroline Knapp, Drinking: A Love Story
"To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find."-Caroline Knapp, Drinking: A Love Story
6. Lithium for Medea
By: Rick Moody , Kate Braverman
3.23
Format: 218 pages,
Lithium for Medea is a tale of addiction: to drugs, physical love, and dysfunctional family chains.… read more
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7. Splinters
By: Leslie Jamison
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more
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- nonfiction
8. The Grief of Stones (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #2)
By: Katherine Addison
4.32
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
In The Grief of Stones, Katherine Addison returns to the world of The Goblin Emperor with a direct … read more
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9. Grief Is for People
By: Sloane Crosley
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more
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- nonfiction
"Grief is for people, not things."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
10. If I Survive You
By: Jonathan Escoffery
3.69
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
In the 1970s, Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. … read more
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"What does Whiteness feel like?... I imagine it's like walking barefoot…"-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
"Why don't stars make any sounds in the winter? What sounds? Ethan said."-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
"Every boy deserves to believe him father is good, but if each father were good, we’d be living in a different kind of world."-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
"I imagined I could have begged an old girlfriend from college to send money; enough of them had expressed ambivalence about their trust funds that this seemed a plausible path down which I might drag…"-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You
11. Dinosaurs
By: Lydia Millet
3.88
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
A man named Gil walks from New York to Arizona to recover from a failed love. After he arrives, new… read more
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"They say those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, but don’t we all?"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
"You gotta be a generalist, in the new climate. But that’s not enough either. If there’s too much poison around. We’re talking pesticides, mostly. Agrochemicals everywhere. Take the sparrows. So anywa…"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
"Good news. Maybe the insects would handle it. Since the dinosaurs didn’t have it in them. The insects might be naturals at revolution, with their hive minds. Their brainless, decentralized intelligen…"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
"And freedom, that sacred cow that was always invoked as an excuse for bad behavior, all manner of atrocity—what was it, even? They told you to love it, in the schools and the songs, but never said wh…"-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs
12. A Shining
By: Jon Fosse
3.49
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and lef… read more
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"but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty"-Jon Fosse, A Shining
"Es ist auch nicht zu begreifen, es ist etwas anderes, vielleicht etwas, das man nur erlebt und das nicht wirklich geschieht. Aber geht es an, dass man so etwas einfach erlebt. Alles, was man erlebt, …"-Jon Fosse, A Shining
13. Martyr!
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more
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14. Enter Ghost
By: Isabella Hammad
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more
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15. The Friend
By: Sigrid Nunez
3.77
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her do… read more
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"I like that the Aborigines say dogs make people human"-Sigrid Nunez, The Friend
"I know this is all moronically anthropomorphic, but sometimes that is the form love takes."-Sigrid Nunez, The Friend
"Anthropomorphism, I've decided, is inescapable, and though I might try to hide it I no longer fight it."-Sigrid Nunez, The Friend
"There's a certain type of person who, having read this far, is anxiously wondering: Does something bad happen to the dog?"-Sigrid Nunez, The Friend
16. 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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17. Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story
By: Julia Wertz
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In her keenly observed graphic memoir, Impossible People, celebrated cartoonist Julia Wertz chronic… read more
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- nonfiction
"Go fuck yourself, melted spatula!"-Julia Wertz, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story
"Do the stepwork and don't give me any of your excuses. We both know they're bullshit."-Julia Wertz, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story
"It's the fantasy of a life gone wrong. You've been doing the best you can, but it's hard and you're tired. Then something horrible happens and you get to give up and go be sad somewhere. There's some…"-Julia Wertz, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story
"...you're at a place in your life where you're trying to let people in, so you should have called someone to spend the afternoon with you instead of being a weirdo alone in a theater crying at a come…"-Julia Wertz, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story
18. Milk Blood Heat
By: Dantiel W. Moniz
4.04
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Set among the cities and suburbs of Florida, each story in Milk Blood Heat delves into the ordinary… read more
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"She vomited casually into the toilet…"-Dantiel W. Moniz, Milk Blood Heat
"Sometimes you must consume the damaged body, digest it cell by cell, to taste the new beginning."-Dantiel W. Moniz, Milk Blood Heat
"Three days ago the doctor had put her at six weeks and no one knew except Liam and her best friend Pia. Maybe the dog."-Dantiel W. Moniz, Milk Blood Heat
"Love requires a bareness, a certain pliability, and I didn't thrill at the possibility of being transformed or wiped away."-Dantiel W. Moniz, Milk Blood Heat
19. Molly
By: Blake Butler
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more
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- nonfiction
20. Land of Milk and Honey
By: C Pam Zhang
3.54
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory… read more
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" Real food is whatever cooks are proud to make. "-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"We all die. We have only the choice, if we are privileged, of whether death comes with a whimper or a bang; of what worlds we taste before we go."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"My employer was attuned to patterns of human behavior in which he could not take part; because he failed to be swept up in their currents, he could, from his remove, map the tides."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
"What sustains in the end are doomed romances, and nicotine, and crappy peanut butter, damn the additives and cholesterol because life is finite and not all nourishment can be measured."-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey
21. A New Name: Septology VI-VII
By: Jon Fosse
4.49
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only fr… read more
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"God is so far away that no one can say anything about him and that’s why all ideas about God are wrong, and at the same time he is so close that we almost can’t notice him, because he is the foundati…"-Jon Fosse, A New Name: Septology VI-VII
22. Dr. No
By: Percival Everett
3.71
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
A sly, madcap novel about supervillains and nothing, really, from an American novelist whose star k… read more
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"You sound like a physicist," she said. "There's no need to be insulting."-Percival Everett, Dr. No
"When you step on the gas, do it gently, softly, slowly. Okay? All right, let's try it again. Gently. Treat it like you would a woman." "I would never step on a woman."-Percival Everett, Dr. No
"And like my BIPDIP husband, it's never been out of the state, not even to Boston." "BIPDIP?" "Born in Providence, died in Providence. We actually honeymooned in Newport. I hate him so much."-Percival Everett, Dr. No
"Now here he was, tailored iron-gray suit, thin maroon tie, a maroon handkerchief peeking out from his breast pocket. His oxblood wing tips gleamed. He looked like a supervillain or, worse, an upper-c…"-Percival Everett, Dr. No
23. Bitter Water Opera
By: Nicolette Polek
4.03
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
An electrifying debut novel about art, solitude, family, and faith in a world without it In 1967, … read more
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24. The Deluge
By: Stephen Markley
4.23
Format: 896 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Ohio, a masterful American epic charting a near future approaching c… read more
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"Yeah, well, time marches on. Getting caught up in causes don’t interest me. Not anymore. Especially when you see the scope of what this is."-Stephen Markley, The Deluge
25. My Pinup
By: Hilton Als
3.66
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
In this brilliant two-part memoir, the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Hilton Als distills into one c… read more
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- nonfiction
26. Borealis
By: Aisha Sabatini Sloan
4.03
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
An intimate essay on the art of Alaskan glaciers, memory, loneliness, and blackness in wild spaces.… read more
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- nonfiction
27. Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit: Essays
By: Aisha Sabatini Sloan
4.35
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
An electric essay collection about Blackness, art, and dreaming of new possibilities in a time of c… read more
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- nonfiction
28. McSweeney's Issue 69 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)
By: Claire Boyle
3.65
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Just in time for the holidays, the sixty-ninth issue of our National Magazine Award-winning McSween… read more
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29. Captioning the Archives: A Conversation in Photographs and Texts
By: Lester Sloan
4.45
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Lester Sloan began his photography career as cameraman for the CBS affiliate in Detroit, then worke… read more
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- history
- photography
- nonfiction
30. Earth Room
By: Rachel Mannheimer
4.33
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
Selected by Nobel Laureate Louise Glück as Winner of the inaugural Bergman Prize, Rachel Mannheimer… read more
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31. One Hundred Shadows
By: Hwang Jungeun
3.58
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER! Han Kang’s Human Acts meets Yōko Ogawa’s The Memory Police in this und… read more
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"Are we ghosts? we wondered. Who could tell, this late at night. We might be ghosts seeking others of our kind, walking under a pale moon."-Hwang Jungeun, One Hundred Shadows
"More than anything else, Nana's not sure if she wants to open up Sora and Aeja and Nana herself to Moseh ssi, not so much the actual Sora, Aeja, and Nana, but as they exist for her, inside her. Betwe…"-Hwang Jungeun, One Hundred Shadows
