Ramona Ausubel

Signs of rips onboth sides of cover. Stamps on edges and inside of book. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

California

Stories

A riveting collection from a major new literary talent that combines the fantastical ambition of her debut novel No One Is Here Except All of Uswith the clear precision of the short story form. Divided into three sections, A Guide to Being Borncharts the cycle of transformation from love to conception to gestation to birth. In each of her eleven stories, Ausubel uses her inimitable style and her gift for the imaginative to expose the fundamentals of the human condition.

In 'Atria,' a teenage girl gets pregnant and believes she will give birth to any number of strange animals rather than a human baby; in 'Safe Passage,' an old woman finds herself on a freighter full of grandmothers, far from shore on an unknown sea; and in 'Chest of Drawers,' the husband of a pregnant wife wakes to discover that small drawers have appeared in the center of his chest. 'Tributaries' is set in a world where people sprout a new arm when they fall in love; 'Catch and Release' introduces a girl to the ghost of a Civil War hero living in the woods behind her house, and 'Snow Remote' is about two siblings who take their places in a family story that is mostly ficitonal.

As we read A Guide to Being Born, we travel through the stages of life and all the transformations that occur- we become parents, we lose our own parents and become orphans, we fall in love and are transformed. These stories are about the moments when we pass from one part of life into an other, about the love that finds us in the dark and pulls us, finally through.

Praise for A Guide to Being Born

'These stories reminded me of branches full of cherry blossoms- fresh, delicate, beautiful, expressive, otherworldly. I eagerly read from one story to the next.' Aimee Bender

Praise for No One Is Here Except All of Us

'Fantastical and ambitious . . . Infused with faith in the power of storytelling.' The New York TimesBook Review

'An absorbing and unpredictable novel . . . Ausubel's original voice combines fresh, clear observation and Old Testament grandeur.' The New Yorker

'No One Is Here Except All of Uscontains so many achingly beautiful passages, it's as if language itself is continually striving to be a refuge . . . If a book can be said to have a consciousness, the consciousness here is infinitely tender and soulful, magical and true.' San Francisco Chronicle

A Guide to Being Born

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Yoko Tawada

Margaret Mitsutani

Tiny rip near spine, very small stains on edges 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as "the land of sushi." Hiruko, its former citizen and a climate refugee herself, has a job teaching immigrant children in Denmark with her invented language Panska (Pan-Scandinavian): "homemade language. no country to stay in. three countries I experienced. insufficient space in brain. so made new language. homemade language."

As she searches for anyone who can still speak her mother tongue, Hiruko soon makes new friends. Her troupe travels to France, encountering an umami cooking competition; a dead whale; an ultra-nationalist named Breivik; unrequited love; Kakuzo robots; red herrings; uranium; an Andalusian matador. Episodic and mesmerizing scenes flash vividly along, and soon they're all next off to Stockholm.

With its intrepid band of companions, Scattered All Over the Earth (the first novel of a trilogy) may bring to mind Alice's Adventures in Wonderland or a surreal Wind in the Willows, but really is just another sui generis Yoko Tawada masterwork.

Scattered All over the Earth

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Andrew Kaufman

Tom marries the Perfectionist, who, hypnotized by her ex-boyfriend to not see Tom, boards a plane to return to Vancouver, while Tom, also on the plane, has to convince her he is there or lose her forever.

All My Friends Are Superheroes

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Loung Ung

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Until the age of five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of a high-ranking government official. She was a precocious child who loved the open city markets, fried crickets, chicken fights, and sassing her parents. When Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army stormed into Phnom Penh in April 1975, Ung's family was forced to flee their home and hide their previous life of privilege. Eventually, they dispersed in order to survive. Loung was trained as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans while her other siblings were sent to labor camps. Only after the Vietnamese destroyed the Khmer Rouge were Loung and her surviving siblings slowly reunited. Bolstered by the shocking bravery of one brother and sustained by her sister's gentle kindness amid brutality, Loung forged ahead to create a courageous new life. Harrowing yet hopeful, insightful and compelling, this family's story is truly unforgettable.

First They Killed My Father

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Fonda Lee

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

In this epic saga of magic and kungfu, four siblings battle rival clans for honor and power in an Asia-inspired fantasy metropolis. * World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, winner* Aurora Award for Best Novel, winner* Nebula Award for Best Novel, nominee* Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, finalist Jade is the lifeblood of the island of Kekon. It has been mined, traded, stolen, and killed for -- and for centuries, honorable Green Bone warriors like the Kaul family have used it to enhance their magical abilities and defend the island from foreign invasion. Now, the war is over and a new generation of Kauls vies for control of Kekon's bustling capital city. They care about nothing but protecting their own, cornering the jade market, and defending the districts under their protection. Ancient tradition has little place in this rapidly changing nation. When a powerful new drug emerges that lets anyone -- even foreigners -- wield jade, the simmering tension between the Kauls and the rival Ayt family erupts into open violence. The outcome of this clan war will determine the fate of all Green Bones -- from their grandest patriarch to the lowliest motorcycle runner on the streets -- and of Kekon itself. Jade City is the first novel in an epic trilogy about family, honor, and those who live and die by the ancient laws of blood and jade.

Jade City

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Tom Barbash

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The stories in Tom Barbash's wondrous and evocative collection explore the myriad ways we try to connect with one another and with the sometimes cruel world around us. The newly single mother in "The Break" interferes in her son's love life over his Christmas vacation from college. The anxious young man in "Balloon Night" persists in hosting his and his wife's annual watch-the-Macy's-Thanksgiving-Day-Parade-floats-be-inflated party while trying to keep the myth of his marriage equally afloat. "Somebody's Son" tells the story of a young man guiltily conning an elderly couple out of their home in the Adirondacks, and the narrator in "The Women" watches his widowed father become the toast of Manhattan's midlife dating scene, as he struggles to find his own footing in life. The characters in Stay Up with Me find new truths when the old ones have given out or shifted course. In the tradition of classic story writers like John Cheever and Tobias Wolff, Barbash laces his narratives with sharp humor, psychological acuity, and pathos, creating deeply resonant and engaging stories that pierce the heart and linger in the imagination.

Stay up with Me

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Samantha Shannon

Some scratches on cover jacket, pen marking.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

A Novel

A first entry in a planned seven-part series is set in the mid-21st century where major world cities are controlled by a formidable security force and where clairvoyant underworld cell member Paige commits acts of psychic treason before being captured by an otherworldly race that would make her a part of their supernatural army.

The Bone Season

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Alina Bronsky

Tim Mohr

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In this "riveting debut" a Russian teenager living in Berlin dreams of taking revenge on the man who killed her mother--"A stark, moving tale of resiliency" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

A finalist for the prestigious Ingeborg Bachmann Prize

Now an award-winning motion pictureSeventeen-year-old Sascha Naimann was born in Moscow, but now lives in Berlin with her two younger siblings. She is precocious, independent, streetwise, and ever since her stepfather Vadim murdered her mother several months ago, an orphan. Unlike most of her peers, Sascha doesn't dream of escaping the grim housing project where they live. Sascha's dreams of writing a novel about her beautiful but naïve mother . . . and of taking Vadim's life.
In a voice that is candid and self-confident, by turns childlike and mature, Sascha relates the internal struggle between those forces that can destroy us, and those that lead us out of sorrow and back to life.Broken Glass Park goes straight to the heart of what it means to be young, alive, and conscious in these first decades of the new millenium.

"A gripping portrayal of life on the margins of society."--Freundin magazine(Germany)

Broken Glass Park

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Laura Hillenbrand

A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more. In boyhood, Louis Zamperini was an incorrigible delinquent. As a teenager, he channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics. But when World War II began, the athlete became an airman, embarking on a journey that led to a doomed flight on a May afternoon in 1943. When his Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean, against all odds, Zamperini survived, adrift on a foundering life raft. Ahead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater. Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor; brutality with rebellion. His fate, whether triumph or tragedy, would be suspended on the fraying wire of his will. Appearing in paperback for the first time—with twenty arresting new photos and an extensive Q&A with the author—Unbroken is an unforgettable testament to the resilience of the human mind, body, and spirit, brought vividly to life by Seabiscuit author Laura Hillenbrand. Hailed as the top nonfiction book of the year by Time magazine • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography and the Indies Choice Adult Nonfiction Book of the Year award “Extraordinarily moving . . . a powerfully drawn survival epic.”—The Wall Street Journal “[A] one-in-a-billion story . . . designed to wrench from self-respecting critics all the blurby adjectives we normally try to avoid: It is amazing, unforgettable, gripping, harrowing, chilling, and inspiring.”—New York “Staggering . . . mesmerizing . . . Hillenbrand’s writing is so ferociously cinematic, the events she describes so incredible, you don’t dare take your eyes off the page.”—People “A meticulous, soaring and beautifully written account of an extraordinary life.”—The Washington Post “Ambitious and powerful . . . a startling narrative and an inspirational book.”—The New York Times Book Review “Magnificent . . . incredible . . . [Hillenbrand] has crafted another masterful blend of sports, history and overcoming terrific odds; this is biography taken to the nth degree, a chronicle of a remarkable life lived through extraordinary times.”—The Dallas Morning News “An astonishing testament to the superhuman power of tenacity.”—Entertainment Weekly “A tale of triumph and redemption . . . astonishingly detailed.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “[A] masterfully told true story . . . nothing less than a marvel.”—Washingtonian “[Hillenbrand tells this] story with cool elegance but at a thrilling sprinter’s pace.”—Time “Hillenbrand [is] one of our best writers of narrative history. You don’t have to be a sports fan or a war-history buff to devour this book—you just have to love great storytelling.”—Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Unbroken

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Marjane Satrapi

Some peeling, stamp inside book, stained/dented spine.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

The Story of a Return

The great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor and the daughter of ardent Marxists continues her description of growing up in Tehran, a country plagued by political upheaval and vast contradictions between public and private life, in a memoir told in the form of a graphic novel. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

Persepolis 2

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Matt Taylor

Lee Loughridge

Ales Kot

Tom Muller

Bestselling new star writer ALES KOT teams up with white-hot artist MATT TAYLOR and the Deadly Class colorist extraordinaire LEE LOUGHRIDGE for an all-new SERIES! The crime noir thrills and characters reminiscent of True Detective meet with mythical stakes worthy of Neil Gaiman's Sandman in this original fantasy/horror/crime saga for mature readers. Antoine Wolfe, a hard-boiled paranormal detective with a death wish, has to cope with sudden responsibility for an orphaned teenage girl who might be the key to the impending apocalypse--California style. The road to hell and back begins in our first volume, priced at just $9.99!

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Ramona Ausubel

A Guide to Being Born

Yoko Tawada; Margaret Mitsutani

Scattered All over the Earth

Andrew Kaufman

All My Friends Are Superheroes

Loung Ung

First They Killed My Father

Fonda Lee

Jade City

Tom Barbash

Stay up with Me

Samantha Shannon

The Bone Season

Alina Bronsky; Tim Mohr

Broken Glass Park

Laura Hillenbrand

Unbroken

Marjane Satrapi

Persepolis 2

Matt Taylor; Lee Loughridge; Ales Kot; Tom Muller

Blood and Magic

Art Spiegelman

Maus I: a Survivor's Tale

Steven Cummings; John Rauch; Tamra Bonvillain; Jim Zub

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Ramona Ausubel

A Guide to Being Born

Yoko Tawada; Margaret Mitsutani

Scattered All over the Earth

Andrew Kaufman

All My Friends Are Superheroes

Loung Ung

First They Killed My Father

Fonda Lee

Jade City

Tom Barbash

Stay up with Me

Samantha Shannon

The Bone Season

Alina Bronsky; Tim Mohr

Broken Glass Park

Laura Hillenbrand

Unbroken

Marjane Satrapi

Persepolis 2

Matt Taylor; Lee Loughridge; Ales Kot; Tom Muller

Blood and Magic

Art Spiegelman

Maus I: a Survivor's Tale

Steven Cummings; John Rauch; Tamra Bonvillain; Jim Zub

Wayward Volume 1: String Theory

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