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  • Drowned Boy

    Drowned Boy

    By Jerry Gabriel

    Jerry Gabriel's characters seem to spring from the cracks in the sidewalks, allowing the town's...

    $15.95
  • Hollow Out

    Hollow Out

    By Kelsea Habecker

    Surviving the arctic winter, dealing with a relationship pulling apart, and living in an Inupiat...

    $13.95
  • Eschaton

    Eschaton

    By Michael Heller

    Eschaton by Michael Heller, published by Talisman House, is a collection of largely philosophically discursive...

    $14.95
  • Anamnesis

    Anamnesis

    By Lucy Ives

    Maxine Chernoff asks an important question in her introduction to the Slope Editions Book Prize...

    $14.95
  • Grief Hut

    Grief Hut

    By Nancy Mitchell

    Despite the growing popularity of shows such as A&E’s Intervention, which seem to have the...

    $15.00
  • The Odds of Being

    The Odds of Being

    By Daneen Wardrop

    "Odds" are handicaps that offer a weaker player a chance of winning against a stronger...

    $14.95
  • Boris by the Sea

    Boris by the Sea

    By Matvei Yankelevich

    Matvei Yankelevich's Boris by the Sea is, as Rosemarie Waldrop says in her blurb on...

    $14.00
  • Prayers for Sale

    Prayers for Sale

    By Sandra Dallas

    Eighty-six-year-old Hennie Comfort has lived in the rugged mining town of Middle Swan since before...

    $13.99
  • Micrographia

    Micrographia

    By Emily Wilson

    Emily Wilson draws inspiration from Robert Hooke's seventeenth-century publication of the same name that...

    $16.00
  • The Last Dickens

    The Last Dickens

    By Matthew Pearl

    Matthew Pearl's first novel, The Dante Club (2003), surprised critics with its erudite blending of...

    $10.20