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What Lies Below: A Novel

by Barbara Taylor Sissel

Published: 2018-05-15

Paperback: 334 pages

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Everyone has nightmares. One woman is living hers…Gilly O’Connell’s nightmares aren’t just bad dreams; they’re glimpses of terrifying realities to come. Gilly has spent her entire life trying to suppress the foreboding visions. So when a dismissed premonition leads to her husband...

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Pond

by Claire-Louise Bennett

Published: 2017-07-11

Paperback: 208 pages

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“A sharp, funny, and eccentric debut … Pond makes the case for Bennett as an innovative writer of real talent. … [It]reminds us that small things have great depths.”–New York Times Book Review"Dazzling…exquisitely written and daring ." –O, the Oprah Magazine Immediately upon ...

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Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

by Andrea Lawlor

Published: 2019-04-23

Paperback: 352 pages

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“HOT” —Maggie Nelson “TIGHT” —Eileen Myles “DEEP” —Michelle TeaIt's 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with politics and partying. He studies queer theory, has a dyke best friend, makes zines, and is a flaneur with a rich...

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Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

by Silvia Federici

Published: 2018-10-01

Paperback: 120 pages

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The world is witnessing a new surge of interpersonal and institutional violence against women, including new witch hunts. This surge of violence has occurred alongside an expansion of capitalist social relation. In this new work, Silvia Federici examines the root causes of these developmen...

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This Wound is a World

by Billy-Ray Belcourt

Published: 2017-09-01

Paperback: 64 pages

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Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound is a World is an invitation to "cut a hole in the sky to world inside." Billy-Ray Belcourt issues a call to turn to love and sex to understand how Indigenous peoples shoulder sadness and pain like theirs without giving up on the future. His poems ups...

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Rabbits for Food

by Binnie Kirshenbaum

Published: 2019-05-07

Hardcover: 384 pages

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Master of razor-edged literary humor Binnie Kirshenbaum returns with her first novel in a decade, a devastating, laugh-out-loud funny story of a writer’s slide into depression and institutionalization.  It’s New Year’s Eve, the holiday of forced fellowship, mandatory fun, and paper ...

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Moan: Anonymous Essays on Female Orgasm

by Emma Koenig

Published: 2018-05-22

Paperback: 240 pages

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Imagine you could give an essay entitled "How to Make Me Come" to a past, present or future sex partner, free of judgment or repercussion. What would you want them to know? In this book inspired by Emma Koenig's wildly popular website, a diverse collective of women do just that. E...

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The Condition of Secrecy

by Inger Christensen

Published: 2018-11-27

Paperback: 144 pages

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The Condition of Secrecy is a poignant collection of essays by Inger Christensen, widely regarded as one of the most influential Scandinavian writers of the twentieth century. As The New York Times proclaimed, “Despite the rigorous structure that undergirds her work—or more likely, because of it—Ms....

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Paradise Rot: A Novel

by Jenny Hval

Published: 2018-10-02

Paperback: 160 pages

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A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imageryJo is in a strange new country for university and having a more peculiar time than most. In a house with no walls, shared with a woman who has no boundaries, she finds her strange home comin...

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Not Heaven, Somewhere Else

by Rebecca Brown

Published: 2018-10-02

Paperback: 76 pages

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If heaven is somewhere, it isn't with us, but somewhere we want to get--a state, a place, a turning to home. Novel- and essayist Rebecca Brown's thirteenth book is narrative cycle that revamps old fairy tales, movies, and myths, as it leads the reader from darkness to light, from harshness...