Alan Hollinghurst

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

California

A Novel

From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Booker Prize, “an engrossing tale of one man’s personal odyssey as he grows up, framed in exquisite language” (The New York Times Book Review) “The finest novel yet from one of the great writers of our time.”—The Guardian Did I have a grievance? Most of us, without looking far, could find something that had harmed us, and oppressed us, and unfairly held us back. I tried not to dwell on it, thought it healthier not to, though I’d lived my short life so far in a chaos of privilege and prejudice. Dave Win, the son of a Burmese man he’s never met and a British dressmaker, is thirteen years old when he gets a scholarship to a top boarding school. With the doors of elite English society cracked open for him, heady new possibilities emerge, even as Dave is exposed to the envy and viciousness of his wealthy classmates. Alan Hollinghurst’s new novel follows Dave from the 1960s on—through the possibilities that remained open for him, and others that proved to be illusory: as a working-class brown child in a decidedly white institution; a young man discovering queer culture and experiencing his first, formative love affairs; a talented but often overlooked actor, on the road with an experimental theater company; and an older Londoner whose late-in-life marriage fills his days with an unexpected sense of happiness and security. From “one of our most gifted writers” (The Boston Globe), Our Evenings sweeps readers from our past to our present through the beauty, pain, and joy of one deeply observed life.

Our Evenings

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Tyler Wetherall

Brand New Paperback with slight bent on bottom right

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Sissy has long lived an isolated itinerant existence with her single mother, Mou, who suffers from bouts of debilitating depression. The pair attempt a fresh start in a small town in the damp West Country of England, where Sissy strikes up a secret friendship with the charismatic Tegan. The two girls soon become so close that they feel like one being, wrapped around each other in bed at sleepovers, sending photographs to men they meet online in the MSN chat rooms of the 1990s, and scaring each other with reports of girls being snatched at night in their small town. Sissy and Tegan seek to shed their innocence with a "spell" that marks Sissy's passage from the mythic woods of childhood into a girlhood in which she is both in danger and deemed dangerous. In its aftermath, Sissy is confronted with past tragedies and present-day traumas, as her mother's mental illness escalates and Sissy's body beings to undergo strange changes, in a transformation that quickly turns from thrilling to harrowing. With deft notes of magical realism and a constant psychological acuity, Amphibian is a contemporary treasure for fans of Julie Buntin, Carmen Maria Machado and Melissa Febos.

Amphibian

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Aruni Kashyap

Short Stories

The Way You Want to Be Loved

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Beka Westrup

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Seldom Wings

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Willa Drew

The Complete Series, Books 1-5 (a Contemporary Romance)

Sarah and Nick are both looking for their big breaks . . . They just didn't expect to find each other along the way. On Christmas Eve, Nick, a student film director, uses his fake ID and an Old Fashioned cocktail to impress Sarah, an aspiring screenwriter working at a swanky LA bar. He drops the hockey-jock persona to win her over, but fails to reveal his true identity before they are pulled apart. What starts as a holiday crush grows into friendship then passion over a year's worth of holidays as Sarah and Nick learn what it takes to craft a true love story on and off the screen. The Falling for the Liar series is told from both Nick and Sarah's POVs across five parts, each centering on one holiday (Christmas, Valentine's Day, Independence Day, Halloween, and New Year's Eve). With swoon-worthy kisses, flawed characters, emotional storylines, and worth-the-wait romance, celebrate along with Sarah and Nick as they create their happily ever after. This is an omnibus that contains all 5 parts of the story that you can find individually as Kisses, Lies, & Us; Misses, Hearts, & Us; Crushes, Friends, &Us; Passions, Hopes, & Us; Distance, Love, & Us. It contains multiple bonus scenes from Nick's POV and an epilogue.

Falling for the Liar

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