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"An innovative literary thriller about a generation of children born unable to create or comprehend language"--
It begins as a statistical oddity: a spike in children born with acute speech delays. Physically normal in every way, these children never speak and do not respond to speech; they don't learn to read, don't learn to write. The number of cases grows to an epidemic level, and the so-called silent community is growing into an elusive, enigmatic...
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Maya is a 20-year-old with a graveyard shift at the post office, a ma whose temper rises even faster than the rent, and all of the million daily headaches of life as a young woman of color in New York in 2011. Her one saving grace is her local arcade, home of New York's feisty, burgeoning fighting game tournament scene. But that respite is taken away from her after she gets banned for standing up to a trash-talker who goes too far. To get back into...
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Zloty Kornblatt is the hapless ringmaster of an even more hapless circus troupe. But, one fateful night, Zloty makes a mistake: he accidentally makes his audience laugh. Here on the outskirts of Burford- where both the cuisine and the economy, such as they are, are highly dependent on pickled vegetables- laughter is a rare occasion. It draws the immediate attention of the local bureaucracy, and by morning Zloty has been branded an instigator, conspirator,...
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One billion Chinese pong fans can't be wrong.
With an all-star team of contributing writers-including Nick Hornby, Will Shortz, Davy Rothbart, Harold Evans, and Jonathan Safran Foer-and quirky, fascinating images of table tennis from around the world, editors Eli Horowitz (McSweeny's) and Roger Bennet (creator of Bar Mitzvah Disco and Camp Camp) deliver a humorous but heartfelt paean to ping pong, the world's most popular, yet least appreciated sport....
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An innovative story of love, decapitation, cryogenics, and memory by two of our most creative literary minds
Jorie has just received some terrible news. A phone full of missed calls and sympathetic text messages seem to indicate that her husband, Jim, a chaplain at the hospital where she works as a surgeon, is dead. Only, not quite-rather, his head has been removed from his body and cryogenically frozen. Jim awakes to find himself in an altogether...
