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Alexander Vvedensky: An Invitation for Me to Think An Invitation for Me to Think: Selected Poems of Vvedensky	Alexander Vvedensky Vvedensky	Vvedensky was co-founder with Daniil Kharms of one of the most obscure, yet fascinating, playful, and revolutionary Russian avant-garde literary movements, dubbed OBERIU. His avowed task was "the poetic critique of reason" and he claimed "time, death, and God" as the themes of his freewheeling poems. Contributors: Eugene Ostashevsky , Matvei Yankelevich
A Traveller in Time Traveller in Time	Alison Uttley Uttley	Unbeknownst to her, Emily’s ancient ancestral home is a portal to the past. Transported to Elizabethan times, she is swept up in attempts to free the imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots. Uttley is one of England’s most beloved storytellers for children. Here she mixes enchantment and intrigue with stunning descriptions of rural life. Contributors: Phyllis Bray
A Game of Hide and Seek Game of Hide and Seek	Elizabeth Taylor Taylor	Harriet comes of age between the wars. She’s not especially charming or attractive, but she has one passion in her life: Vesey. Nothing, not marriage to another man, or motherhood, will change that. “Taylor is finally being recognised as an important British author: an author of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth.”—Sarah Waters Contributors: Caleb Crain
Angel Angel	Elizabeth Taylor Taylor	Liar, fantasist, monster, writer: Taylor’s title character, who rises from working-class girl to wildly famous sentimental novelist, is all of these things. She is also Taylor’s greatest creation, a character who is terrible, poignantly sympathetic, and unforgettable. Contributors: Hilary Mantel
Alice James: A Biography Alice James	Jean Strouse Strouse	Alice James grew up in one of the most remarkable of 19th-century American families, and she was groomed to be no less remarkable than her brothers Henry and William. But a succession of poorly diagnosed ailments confined her to her bed for years at a time. Jean Strouse’s Bancroft Prize–winning biography is a portrait of a thwarted life, and a panoramic recreation of the particular intellectual world in which it came to be. Contributors: Colm Tóibín
The Judges of the Secret Court Judges of the Secret Court	David Stacton Stacton	Stacton’s historical recreation of John Wilkes Booth’s plot to assassinate Lincoln, its execution, and its aftermath (including the trials of the conspirators, Mary Surratt among them) is among the finest books ever written about the Civil War. “David Stacton is an original, finely pitched voice in American fiction.” —Larry McMurtry Contributors: John Crowley
Terrible, Horrible Edie Terrible, Horrible Edie	E. C. Spykman Spykman	Ten-year-old Edie Cares is not really horrible or terrible, she just has a lot to contend with this summer, including two snooty brothers, a fancy-pants sister, and two stepsisters who are no better than babies. But when it comes to getting out of scrapes—never mind getting into them—Edie can more than hold her own.
Ice Trilogy Ice Trilogy	Vladimir Sorokin Sorokin	"Out of whose womb came the ice? And the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?" Sorokin's Ice Trilogy, never before translated into English in its entirety, attempts to answer this biblical question, giving us an alternate history of the 20th century, in which a 1908 meteor passing by the Tunguska River in Siberia in fact gave rise to a race of superbeings, who will use any means necessary to reunite its 23,000 members. Contributors: Jamey Gambrell
Carbonel & Calidor Carbonel & Calidor	Barbara Sleigh Sleigh	When Carbonel's son decides to give up his birthright and apprentice himself to a witch, Rosemary and John must use all the magic within their power to save him. Contributors: Charles Front
Confessions of a Poet Laureate Confessions of a Poet	Charles Simic simic	The secret to our identities lies not in grand events, according to former US poet laureate Charles Simic, but in the parentheses between events. In these brief essays, we get a taste of this great poet's parenthetical observations and recollections.