Brattleboro Literary Festival 2020 - FICTION

The 2020 Brattleboro Literary Festival  is coming faster than you think this year, and while all events are online (register here), you of course can still order what books take your fancy directly through us. Here's a separate list for non-fiction!

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A Burning: A novel (Hardcover)

By Megha Majumdar
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ISBN: 9780525658696
Availability: Backordered
Published: Knopf - June 2nd, 2020

A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK!
A New York Times Notable Book

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The Yellow Bird Sings: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Jennifer Rosner
$25.99
ISBN: 9781250179760
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Published: Flatiron Books - March 3rd, 2020

"Rosner’s exquisite, heart-rending debut novel is proof that there’s always going to be room for another story about World War II....This is an absolutely beautiful and necessary novel, full of heartbreak but also hope, about the bond between mother and daughter, and the sacrifices made for love." —The New York Times

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Witches' Dance (Paperback)

By Erin Almond
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ISBN: 9781941360293
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Published: Lanternfish Press - October 22nd, 2019

Hilda Greer's love affair with the violin began at the age of seven, when she attended a performance by the virtuoso Phillip Manns. She believed him with a child's faith when he declared himself the reincarnation of Niccol Paganini and then dashed from the stage, his mind in ruins.

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Then the Fish Swallowed Him: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Amir Ahmadi Arian
$25.99
ISBN: 9780062946294
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Published: HarperVia - March 24th, 2020

An critically-acclaimed Iranian author makes his American literary debut with this powerful and harrowing psychological portrait of modern Iran—an unprecedented and urgent work of fiction with echoes of The Stranger, 1984, and The Orphan Master’s Son—that exposes the oppressive and corrosive power of the state to bend individual lives.
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Northernmost: A novel (Hardcover)

By Peter Geye
$26.95
ISBN: 9780525655756
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Published: Knopf - August 18th, 2020

ONE OF HOUSTON CHRONICLE'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR

From the acclaimed author of Wintering: a thrilling ode to the spirit of adventure and the vagaries of loss and love.

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Disappearing Earth (Paperback)

By Julia Phillips
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ISBN: 9780525436225
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Published: Vintage - April 7th, 2020

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST

Finalist for The New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award

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The Secret Lives of Church Ladies (Paperback)

By Deesha Philyaw
$18.99
ISBN: 9781949199734
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Published: West Virginia University Press - September 1st, 2020

***2020 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction***
“Tender, fierce, proudly black and beautiful, these stories will sneak inside you and take root.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Triumphant.” —Publishers Weekly
“Cheeky, insightful, and irresistible.” —​​​​​​

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Crooked Hallelujah (Hardcover)

By Kelli Jo Ford
$26.00
ISBN: 9780802149121
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Published: Grove Press - July 14th, 2020

"A book that you want to share with everyone you know and one that you are desperate to keep in your own possession.

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The Only Good Indians (Hardcover)

By Stephen Graham Jones
$26.99
ISBN: 9781982136451
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Published: Gallery / Saga Press - July 14th, 2020

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
“One of 2020’s buzziest horror novels.” —Entertainment Weekly
A “Most Anticipated Books of Summer” selection in Esquire, Elle, Vulture, Time, AV Club, Bustle, and Literary Hub

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Winter Counts: A Novel (Hardcover)

By David Heska Wanbli Weiden
$27.99
ISBN: 9780062968944
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Published: Ecco - August 25th, 2020

“Winter Counts is a marvel. It’s a thriller with a beating heart and jagged teeth. This book is a brilliant meditation on power and violence, and a testament to just how much a crime novel can achieve. Weiden is a powerful new voice. I couldn’t put it down.”  
—Tommy Orange, author of There There

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Maggie Brown & Others: Stories (Paperback)

By Peter Orner
$16.99
ISBN: 9780316516129
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Published: Back Bay Books - July 28th, 2020

In this powerful and virtuosic collection of interlocking stories, each one "a marvel of concision and compassion" (Washington Post), a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and "master of his form" (New York Times) takes the short story to new heights.
 
Through forty-four compressed gems, Peter Orner, a writer who

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Why I Don't Write: And Other Stories (Hardcover)

By Susan Minot
$25.00
ISBN: 9780525658245
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Published: Knopf - August 4th, 2020

A superb collection of short fiction--her first in thirty years and spanning many geographies--from the critically acclaimed author of Monkeys, Evening, and Thirty Girls

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A Wild Winter Swan: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Gregory Maguire
$27.99
ISBN: 9780062980786
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Published: William Morrow - October 6th, 2020

After brilliantly reimagining the worlds of Oz, Wonderland, Dickensian London, and the Nutcracker, the New York Times bestselling author of Wicked turns his unconventional genius to Hans Christian Andersen's "The Wild Swans," transforming this classic tale into an Italian-American girl's poignant coming-of-age story, set amid the magic of Christmas in 1960s New York.

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The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales: Expanded Edition (Princeton Classics #39) (Paperback)

By Maria Tatar, Maria Tatar (Preface by)
$22.95
ISBN: 9780691182995
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Published: Princeton University Press - January 22nd, 2019

Murder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales is the subject of this groundbreaking and intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's Nursery and Household Tales. This expanded edition includes a new preface and an appendix featuring translations of six tales with commentary by Maria Tatar.

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The Bear (Paperback)

By Andrew Krivak
$16.99
ISBN: 9781942658702
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Published: Bellevue Literary Press - February 11th, 2020

From National Book Award in Fiction finalist Andrew Krivak comes a gorgeous fable of Earth's last two human inhabitants, and a girl's journey home

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Waiting for the Night Song (Hardcover)

By Julie Carrick Dalton
$26.99
ISBN: 9781250269188
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Published: Forge Books - January 12th, 2021

A startling and timely debut, Julie Carrick Dalton's Waiting for the Night Song is a moving, brilliant novel about friendships forged in childhood magic and ruptured by the high price of secrets that leave you forever changed.

Cadie Kessler has spent decades trying to cover up one truth. One moment. But deep down, didn’t she always know her secret would surface?

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Sea Wife: A novel (Hardcover)

By Amity Gaige
$26.95
ISBN: 9780525656494
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Published: Knopf - April 28th, 2020

A New York Times Notable Book

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With or Without You: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Caroline Leavitt
$26.95
ISBN: 9781616207793
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Published: Algonquin Books - August 4th, 2020

“Leavitt has crafted an irresistible portrait of midlife ennui and the magic of breaking free.”
—People

“With or Without You is a moving novel about twists of fate, the shifting terrain of love, and coming into your own.

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The New Wilderness (Hardcover)

By Diane Cook
$27.99
ISBN: 9780062333131
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Published: Harper - August 11th, 2020

WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF FICTION OF 2020

AMAZON BEST BOOK OF LITERATURE AND FICTION OF 2020

NPR BEST BOOK OF 2020

BUZZFEED BEST BOOK OF 2020

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020

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Temporary (Emily Books) (Paperback)

By Hilary Leichter
$16.95
ISBN: 9781566895668
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Published: Coffee House Press - March 3rd, 2020

In Temporary, a young woman's workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre placements in search of steadiness, connection, and something, at last, to call her own.

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Hieroglyphics (Hardcover)

By Jill McCorkle
$26.95
ISBN: 9781616209728
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Published: Algonquin Books - July 28th, 2020

“Hieroglyphics is a novel that tugs at the deepest places of the human soul—a beautiful, heart-piercing meditation on life and death and the marks we leave on this world.