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Small press or indie publishers publish titles that are not solely driven by commercial success. They have a passion to introduce literary works that connect authors that might not be published by one of the large commercial publishing houses to readers. Often these works are of the highest literary quality. Many small press publishers support works in translation and are a great source of introducing readers to international authors. Small press books should are not the same as self-published books.
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Night sky with exit wounds
by Ocean Vuong
A debut collection of poems draws from personal traumas to offer observations on such themes as violence, poverty, depression, and queer sexuality.
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The accidental alchemist
by Gigi Pandian
Former alchemist Zoe, hoping to leave her old life behind her, is instead forced back into it when she discovers a dead man on her porch and a gargoyle stow-away in her new house.
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A girl returned
by Donatella Di Pietrantonio
A 13 year old girl is sent away from the only family she's ever known to begin a new life of struggle, tension and conflict in Abruzzo in central Italy in the English-language debut of the award-winning Italian novelist.
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Heaven's crooked finger
by Hank Early
Receiving an ominous recent photograph of the fundamentalist father he believed long dead, Earl Marcus returns to the Georgia mountains of his childhood to confront his father's fanatical supporters and unravel the truth about the sinister disappearances of local teens.
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Maids
by Katie Skelly
The scandalous true crime story about the Papin Sisters, as told by one of comics' most stylized talents.
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Raising Expectations and Raising Hell : My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement
by Jane McAlevey
The famed labor and environmental justice activist presents a cautionary assessment of the American union movement that notes the current low membership of unionized private-sector workers while sharing the stories of her victories, revealing current conflicts in organized labor and making recommendations for how labor can be revived.
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The collected schizophrenias : essays
by Esmé Weijun Wang
The award-wining author of The Border of Paradise presents a collection of evocative essays on mental illness that build on her own experiences with schizoaffective disorder while examining the vulnerabilities of institutionalization, PTSD and Lyme disease.
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Storeyville
by Frank Santoro
A perfect match of form and content, Storeyville was originally published in 1995 as a 40-page tabloid newspaper. Now rare, it was printed in black and white, along with a set of three muted tones ranging from sandy yellow to deep sepia, and it described the arc of a youthful adventure that took its protagonist, Will, from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Montreal, Quebec at the opening of the twentieth century. Rendered with humor, pathos and a gentle graphic flair, this story brings Will to terms with himself and his fate. It is a sprawling story that gives Santoro ample opportunity to showcase his love of drawing through dramatic cityscapes, landscapes and seascapes rendered in a unique combination of pencils, inks and grey-scale markers. Hugely influential on the likes of Chris Ware, Seth and many others, this long out-of-print cult work finally gets a proper release with this deluxe new hardcover edition.
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Our Andromeda
by Brenda Shaughnessy
Collects the author's poems about a parallel existence in the Andromeda galaxy in which people can relive their lives, correcting mistakes and avoiding pain.
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Fifteen dogs : an apologue
by André Alexis
Gods Apollo and Hermes grant human intelligence and consciousness to fifteen dogs who wrestle with the challenges that arise as the result of their elevated thinking.
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Cassandra at the wedding
by Dorothy Baker
A lesbian graduate student from Berkeley tries to sabotage her twin sister's wedding to a young doctor from Connecticut.
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Stamped : racism, antiracism, and you
by Jason Reynolds
A timely reimagining of Dr. Ibram X. Kendi’s National Book Award-winning Stamped From the Beginning reveals the history of racist ideas in America while explaining their endurance and capacity for being discredited.
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Goddess of anarchy : the life and times of Lucy Parsons, American radical
by Jacqueline Jones
A portrait of 19th-century activist Lucy Parsons discusses her birth to a slave, her Texas upbringing, her marriage to Haymarket "martyr" Albert Parsons, her self-reinvention, the contradictions that riddled her life and her fearless advocacy of First Amendment rights and the working classes.
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Darker edge of desire : Gothic tales of romance
by Mitzi Szereto
Presents a collection of sensual Gothic stories that incorporate paranormal elements, including the editor's own "The Dracula Club," in which a Dracula-obsessed American travels to Transylvania and gets more than she bargained for.
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A tall history of sugar
by Curdella Forbes
Tells the story of Moshe Fisher, a man who was “born without skin,” so that no one is able to tell what race he belongs to; and Arrienne Christie, his quixotic soul mate who makes it her duty in life to protect Moshe from the social and emotional consequences of his strange appearance.
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The remainder
by Alia Trabucco Zerán
Santiago, Chile. The city is covered in ash. Three children of ex-militants are facing a past they can neither remember nor forget. Felipe sees dead bodies on every corner in the city, counting them up in an obsessive quest to square these figures with the official death toll. He is searching for the perfect zero, a life with no remainder. Iquela and Paloma, too, are searching for a way to live on. When the body of Paloma's mother is lost in transit, the three take a hearse and a bottle of pisco up the cordillera for a road trip with a difference. Intense, intelligent, and extraordinarily sensitive to the shape and weight of words, this remarkable debut presents a new way to count the cost of a pain that stretches across generations.
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Last of her name : a novella & stories
by Mimi Lok
Winner of the 2020 PEN America Literary Award for Debut Short Story Collection, Mimi Lok's Last of Her Name narrates the interconnected lives of diasporic women from ’80s UK suburbia to WWII Hong Kong and contemporary California Mimi Lok’s Last of Her Name is an eye-opening story collection about the intimate, interconnected lives of diasporic women and the histories they are born into. Set in a wide range of time periods and locales, including ’80s UK suburbia, WWII Hong Kong and contemporary urban California, the book features an eclectic cast of outsiders: among them, an elderly housebreaker, wounded lovers and kung-fu fighting teenage girls. Last of Her Name offers a meditation on female desire and resilience, family and the nature of memory.
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Oval
by Elvia Wilk
After moving into a community on an artificial mountain outside Berlin and living rent-free in return for keeping quiet about its massively malfunctioning infrastructure, Louis invents a pill that rewires the user's brain to be more generous. .
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Saudade
by Suneeta Peres Da Costa
1960s Angola. A Goan immigrant family finds itself caught between their complicity in Portuguese rule and their own outsider status in the period leading up to independence. Looking back on her childhood, the narrator of Suneeta Peres da Costa’s novel captures with intense lyricism the difficult relationship between her and her mother, and the ways in which their intimate world is shaken by domestic violence, the legacies of slavery, and the end of empire. Her story unfolds into a growing awareness of the lies of colonialism and the political ruptures that ultimately lead to their exile.
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The book of X : a novel
by Sarah Rose Etter
*Winner of the 2019 Shirley Jackson Awards for Novel *The Believer Book Awards, 2019: Editors' Longlists in Fiction *The Northern California ‘Golden Poppy’ Book Awards 2019, Fiction longlist *2020 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award Longlist *A Best Book of 2019 —Vulture, Entropy, Buzzfeed, Thrillist
The Book of X tells the tale of Cassie, a girl born with her stomach twisted in the shape of a knot. From childhood with her parents on the family meat farm, to a desk job in the city, to finally experiencing love, she grapples with her body, men, and society, all the while imagining a softer world than the one she is in. Twining the drama of the everyday — school-age crushes, paying bills, the sickness of parents — with the surreal — rivers of thighs, men for sale, and fields of throats — Cassie’s realities alternate to create a blurred, fantastic world of haunting beauty.
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A door behind a door : a novel
by Yelena Moskovich
"In Yelena Moskovich's spellbinding new novel, A Door Behind A Door, we meet Olga, who immigrates as part of the Soviet diaspora of '91 to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. There she grows up and meets a girl and falls in love, beginning to believe that she can settle down. But a phone call from a bad man from her past brings to life a haunted childhood in an apartment building in the Soviet Union: an unexplained murder in her block, a supernatural stray dog, and the mystery of her beloved brother Moshe, who lost aneye and later vanished. We get pulled into Olga's past as she puzzles her way through an underground Midwestern Russian mafia, in pursuit of a string of mathematical stabbings.
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The magical language of others : a memoir
by EJ Koh
Left behind when work requires her parents to return to Korea, a teen poet reconnects with family history to manage the impact of absent caregivers on her sense of self. By the award-winning author of A Lesser Love.
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Fiebre tropical
by Juliana Delgado Lopera
Lit by the hormonal neon glow of Miami, this heady, multilingual debut novel follows a Colombian teenager's coming-of-age and coming out as she plunges headfirst into lust and evangelism.
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