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  • Surrender

    by Jennifer Acker ...
    A woman retreats from academic life in New York City to manage a family goat farm in New England, a novel that Richard Russo calls “splendid and provides what I crave from all stories: vividly drawn characters worth spending time with and a richly rendered place for them to inhabit."Lucy Richard has enjoyed a two-decade-long, successful career in public relations in New York City when she feels ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett

    A Reader's Guide to His Works, Life, and Thought

    by C. J. Ackerly, S. E. Gontarski ...
    From A to Z, an indispensable guide to the works, life, and thought of one of the most important writers of our timeThe Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett is the most comprehensive reference to the concepts, characters, and biographical details mentioned by, or related to, the Nobel Prize–winning author Samuel Beckett. Painstakingly and lovingly compiled by acclaimed Beckett scholars C. J. Ackerley ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Leaving's Not the Only Way to Go

    by Kay Acker ...
    Lauren Ashburn left a promising job to help her family in Vermont take care of her dying father. Now that he’s gone, Lauren has every intention of returning to her old life—the vibrant, successful one her father had always expected her to have. But Lauren discovers that she feels adrift without his strict guidance.Georgia Solomon designs homes for others. But as a bisexual autistic woman, she ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • A Very Special Episode

    A Novel

    by Camille Acker ...
    In Washington, D.C.’s powerful Black elite, legacy is everything. When a young heir to one of the city’s most influential institutions seeks funding to cement her future, a shadowy organization offers to help—but it could cost her far more than she’s willing to give.“A biting satire about the ever-shifting ways to perform Blackness. This is a very special book.”—Bridgett M. Davis, author of The ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Blood and Guts in High School

    A Novel

    by Kathy Acker ...
    "Kathy Acker's writing is virtuoso, maddening, crazy, so sexy, so painful, and beaten out of a wild heart that nothing can tame. Acker is a landmark writer." —Jeanette Winterson, New York Times–bestselling authorA masterpiece of surrealist fiction, steeped in controversy upon its first publication in 1984, Blood and Guts in High School is the book that established Kathy Acker as the preeminent ... Read more

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  • Great Expectations

    A Novel

    by Kathy Acker ...
    The author of Empire of the Senseless gives the Dickens classic a punk twist, setting it in 1980s New York City.Kathy Acker's practice of literary appropriation and pastiche made her notorious—as a rebel and a groundbreaker—when Great Expectations was first published in 1982. Here, she begins rewriting Charles Dickens's classic—splicing it with passages from Pierre Guyotat's sexually violent Eden, ... Read more

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  • Empire of the Senseless

    A Novel

    by Kathy Acker ...
    A cyborg and her pirate lover travel through a violent Paris in this "apocalyptic tale that makes A Clockwork Orange look tame" ( Publishers Weekly).Originally published in 1988, Empire of the Senseless marked a turning point in Acker's wild, inimitable style. Considered one of her more accessible works, here Acker candidly addresses her lifelong obsessions: childhood and trauma, language and ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stories to Keep You Alive Despite Vampires

    by Ben Acker ...
    This fourth wall–breaking middle grade collection of spooky, scary, and spoopy stories for fans of Lemony Snicket and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark might just help you survive the night in a house full of vampires.If you are reading this book, then you must be trapped in that spooky house with those vampires. Sorry about that.But! You might just make it out if you manage to tell them one scary ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Training School for Negro Girls

    by Camille Acker ...
    "Funny, poignant, stirring and heartbreaking . . . This book is our collective coming-of-age story . . . required reading for your favorite Black girl." — EssenceIn her debut short story collection, Camille Acker unleashes the irony and tragic comedy of respectability onto a wide-ranging cast of characters, all of whom call Washington, DC, home. A "woke" millennial tries to fight gentrification, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Portrait of an Eye

    Three Novels

    by Kathy Acker ...
    A collection of three early, self-published novels by the author of Empire of the Senseless.Beginning with The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula in 1973, Kathy Acker set out on a brilliant journey toward the boundaries of modern fiction that has made her one of the most celebrated novelists of her generation.From the start, Kathy Acker created a brash and sexy female voice as shocking as the ... Read more

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  • Blood Brain Barrier

    A Medical Thriller

    by Peter Acker ...
    Hard-working, second year pediatric resident Dr. Egan is chronically exhausted, as are most residents at Malloy Medical Center, a very busy New York CIty hospital that is humming with activity 24 hours a day and renowned for both its transplant service and in vitro fertilization clinic. One day Egan is woken at 3 AM to see a baby who has arrived in the emergency room with early signs of bacterial ... Read more

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  • KAIAR ~ The Elder Amulets; Book One

    The Elder Amulets, #1

    by Sloan Ackers ...
    Series Book 1 - The Elder Amulets
    Jacob Harley is your average high schooler. That was before he discovered The Golden Amulet. Jacob was not prepared for the sudden change from being a normal teenager, to one with almost god-like abilities. Now, Jacob must figure out how to balance his powers, school, and avoiding being captured by Ember Industries. ... Read more

    $10.78 USD or Free with Kobo Plus