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View Catapult's Winter/Spring 2019 Catalog
by Jane Alison
Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative
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By Maria Gainza, Translated by Thomas Bunstead
Optic Nerve: A Novel
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Humiliation: Stories by Paulina Flores (Pre-Order)
This debut story collection by Roberto Bolaño Prize winner Paulina Flores marks the arrival in the U.S. of one of Latin America’s most celebrated young writers
$ 16.95
Catapult | short stories
The Crying Book by Heather Christle (Pre-Order)
Why do we cry? How do we cry? And what does it mean?
$ 24
Catapult | social science
Here Until August: Stories by Josephine Rowe (Pre-Order)
A collection of stories full of heartbreak, travel, and seduction from the young Australian author of A LOVING, FAITHFUL ANIMAL
$ 16.95
Catapult | short stories
Eat Joy: Stories & Comfort Food from 31 Celebrated Writers, ed. by Natalie Eve Garrett (Pre-Order)
An illustrated anthology of essays about the comfort foods—and recipes—that helped writers survive painful times in their lives
$ 22
Catapult | essays
The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You by Dina Nayeri (Pre-Order)
Dina Nayeri examines what it means to be a refugee through her own story of childhood escape from Iran
$ 26
Catapult | memoir
PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2019 (Pre-Order)
The essential annual guide to the newest voices in short fiction
$ 16.95
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Black Card: A Novel by Chris L. Terry (Pre-Order)
The satirical story of a mixed-race punk rock musician determined to win back his coveted Black Card
$ 25
Catapult | fiction
In the Country of Women: A Memoir by Susan Straight (Pre-Order)
A valuable social history and a personal narrative that reads like a love song to America and the nation's indomitable women
$ 26
Catapult | memoir
The Summer Demands: A Novel by Deborah Shapiro (Pre-Order)
Emily inherits an abandoned summer camp in Massachusetts and discovers a magnetic young woman living undetected in a cabin whose presence will force her to q...
$ 25
Catapult | fiction
Floyd Harbor: Stories by Joel Mowdy (Pre-Order)
A debut collection of linked stories, about the lives of residents of Mastic Beach, an area of New York long afflicted with widespread poverty but blessed wi...
$ 16.95
Catapult | fiction
Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race by Lara Prior-Palmer (Pre-Order)
The extraordinary debut memoir of a young woman who competed in the world’s toughest horse race, and emerged as its first-ever female winner
$ 25
Catapult | memoir
Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative by Jane Alison
Novelist and writing teacher Jane Alison’s manifesto for new modes of narrative will appeal to serious readers and writers alike.
$ 16.95
Catapult | Creative Writing
Optic Nerve: A Novel by María Gainza
Blending fiction, personal essay, and art history, this sparkling debut explores one Argentinean woman's obsession with art.
$ 25
Catapult | fiction
The Story Prize: 15 Years of Great Short Fiction ed. by Larry Dark
A collection of winning stories celebrating the 15th anniversary of The Story Prize.
$ 16.95
anthology | Catapult
Sea Monsters: A Novel by Chloe Aridjis
In 1988 Mexico a drama unfurls, full of restlessness, mysterious men, Ukranian dwarves, and a father's search for his daughter.
$ 23
Catapult | fiction
To Keep the Sun Alive: A Novel by Rabeah Ghaffari
A cinematic novel about an Iranian family and their fruit orchard, caught up in the revolution of 1979.
$ 25
Catapult | fiction
Insomnia by Marina Benjamin
Marina Benjamin confronts both her sleeplessness and the worlds' in this insightful and incisive memoir
$ 18.95
Catapult | memoir
Northwood by Maryse Meijer
Part fairy tale, part horror story,
Northwood
is a genre-breaking novella told in short, brilliant, beautifully strange passages.
$ 18.95
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Riddance; or, The Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers & Hearing-Mouth Children by Shelley Jackson
In this unforgettable ghost story, the headmistress of a mysterious boarding school gathers students with speech "impediments" to speak with the dead.
$ 17.95
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All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir by Nicole Chung
"Chung writes her memoir as a transracial adoptee with honesty, wisdom, and love." - Min Jin Lee
$ 16.95
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Catapult | memoir
Ultraviolet: A Novel by Suzanne Matson
A sweeping novel following the lives of three singular generations of women, from 1930's India to a modern college campus.
$ 16.95
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Catapult | fiction
The Reservoir Tapes by Jon McGregor
A teenage girl is missing. A town tries hard to find her. Jon McGregor returns to the universe of
Reservoir 13
- with startling results.
$ 16.95
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Catapult | fiction
PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2018
Twelve debut stories by today's most talented new writers. Judged by Alexandra Kleeman, Lesley Nneka Arimah, and Jodi Angel.
$ 16.95
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Patient Care: Death and Life in the Emergency Room by Paul Seward, MD
"A volume brimming with humanitarian lessons in medicine and life alike.” —
Kirkus Reviews
$ 16.95
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Catapult | medicine
Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery and Murder edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto
Tales of villainy and intrigue told in a flash. Featuring Carmen Maria Machado, Amelia Gray, Yuri Herrera & many more.
$ 15.95
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Welcome to Lagos by Chibundu Onuzo
A high-spirited novel about a band of misfits, rebels, and refugees as they adventure through Lagos' sprawl. An official
Belletrist
book pick.
$ 16.95
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Catapult | novel
Cove by Cynan Jones
An extraordinary, visceral portrait of a man locked in a struggle with the forces of nature.
$ 19.95
Catapult | fiction
The Life to Come: A Novel by Michelle de Kretser
Set in Australia, France, and Sri Lanka,
The Life to Come
is about the stories we tell and don’t tell ourselves as individuals, as societies, and as n...
$ 16.95
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Catapult | novel
Vengeance: A Novel by Zachary Lazar
"Louisiana is the world’s incarceration capital and [Lazar]...is a world-class novelist, who brings humility and sensitivity to this new book." —Rachel Kushner
$ 16.95
Catapult | novel
Neon in Daylight: A Novel by Hermione Hoby
Set in a heatwave that feels like it will never break, this debut marries deep intelligence with captivating characters to offer us a joyful, unflinching exp...
$ 16.95
Catapult | novel
I, Parrot: A Graphic Novel by Deb Olin Unferth and Elizabeth Haidle
Parrots, pigeons, and a mother's fierce love;
I, Parrot
is a beautifully illustrated graphic novel.
$ 18.95
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Reservoir 13: A Novel by Jon McGregor
Long-listed for the
Man Booker
prize, McGregor brings us an intimate portrayal of a town reeling from unexplained loss.
$ 16.95
Catapult | novel
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$ 8.05
The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World by David Eagleman and Anthony Brandt
"A lively exploration of the software our brains run in search of the mother lode of invention" -
Nature
$ 19.95
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Catapult | Popular Science
As Lie Is to Grin: A Novel by Simeon Marsalis
A finalist for the
Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize
, this ambitious debut explores race, loss, and idenity by one of our finest young writers.
$ 16.95
Catapult | novel
Landslide: True Stories by Minna Zallman Proctor
These interconnected essays beautifully weave together expatriation, marriage, motherhood, and daughterhood.
$ 16.95
Catapult | short stories
A Loving, Faithful Animal: A Novel by Josephine Rowe
"Gorgeous, precise language encourages inner storms"—Samantha Hunt,
The New York Times Book Review
$ 16.95
Australian literature | Catapult
Montpelier Parade: A Novel by Karl Geary
Unfolding over a bright, rain-soaked Dublin spring,
Montpelier Parade
is an atmospheric, lush debut novel that lingers long after it’s over.
$ 16.95
Catapult | novel
PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2017
Debut short stories by 2017's best new writers. Judged by Marie-Helene Bertino, Kelly Link, and Nina McConigley.
$ 16.95
Catapult | PEN America
Edisto: A Novel by Padgett Powell
Return to acclaimed writer Padgett Powell's debut novel, a timeless coming-of-age classic.
$ 16.95
Catapult | novel
Beyond the High Blue Air: A Memoir by Lu Spinney
A heart-rending memoir about one family's support of their son, who drifts in and out of a coma, and what it means to choose between life and death.
$ 16.95
Catapult | death
Dirt Road: A Novel by James Kelman
A powerful story about the strength of family ties, the consolation of music, and one unforgettable journey from darkness to light.
$ 16.95
Alabama | American South
Large Animals: Stories by Jess Arndt
"Acerbic, ecstatic, hilarious, psychedelic, and affecting in turn, this is an electric debut.” —Maggie Nelson
$ 15.95
Catapult | dating
Exes: A Novel by Max Winter
In his quest to understand his brother's death, Clay Beckhall gathers the heart-breaking, hilarious stories of the people who knew him best.
$ 16.95
black humor | Catapult
Guesswork: A Reckoning with Loss by Martha Cooley
Having lost eight friends in ten years, Cooley retreats to an Italian village in order to cope with her losses in this loving, generous memoir.
$ 16.95
autobiography | Catapult
The Middlepause: On Life After Youth by Marina Benjamin
“Women do a lot of things to mark turning fifty. Go to a resort! Have a bang-up party! Far, far better: read
The Middlepause
.” —Jill Lepore
$ 16.95
aging | autobiography
Am I Alone Here? Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live by Peter Orner
This collection of essays about reading, writing, and living, show us how words can change a life, and how a life can create words.
$ 16.95
Catapult | essays
Nine Island by Jane Alison
"A crackling incantation, brittle and brilliant and hot and sad and full of sideways humor that devastates and illuminates all at once." —Lauren Groff
$ 16.95
autobiography | Catapult
Flying Couch: A Graphic Memoir by Amy Kurzweil
A graphic memoir that tells the stories of three unstoppable woman; an artist, a psychologist, and a survivor of trauma and genocide.
$ 18.95
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Watchlist: 32 Stories by Persons of Interest Ed. Bryan Hurt
Etgar Keret, T.C. Boyle, Robert Coover & more come together in this anthology that asks: what does it mean to be watched?
$ 10.99
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Catapult | fiction
Springtime: A Ghost Story by Michelle de Kretser
A ghost story set in sunny suburban Australia, this slender novel is not what it seems.
$ 7.99
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Catapult | ghost story
Black Balloon Books
Flying Couch: A Graphic Memoir by Amy Kurzweil
A graphic memoir that tells the stories of three unstoppable woman; an artist, a psychologist, and a survivor of trauma and genocide.
$ 18.95
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$ 55.05
And Every Day Was Overcast by Paul Kwiatkowski
“This illustrated novel about growing up poor near the swamps of South Florida has a lurid vibrancy" —
The New York Times
$ 29.95
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black balloon | fiction
Come Here Often? 53 Writers Raise a Glass to Their Favorite Bar Ed. Sean Manning
53 writers answer one question: what makes your favorite bar better than all the rest?
$ 16
anthology | black balloon
Fat Man and Little Boy by Mike Meginnis
Winner of the
2013 Horatio Nelson Fiction Prize
!
$ 10
black balloon | fiction
We Were Flying to Chicago: Stories by Kevin Clouther
Short stories that reveal unexpectedly profound insights in moments of daily life.
$ 14
black balloon | fiction
Our Man in Iraq by Robert Perišic
A gripping novel about war, reporting, and highly peculiar family members from one of Croatia's top writers.
$ 14
black balloon | fiction
Nine Rabbits by Virginia Zaharieva
Translated for the first time into English, this celebrated Bulgarian novel explores trauma, survival, and the resilience of joy.
$ 6.99
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black balloon | fiction
Maverick Jetpants in the City of Quality by Bill Peters
"So be ready, everybody. Here comes the Vomit Cruiser to rescue your sense of humor, and Bill Peters to rescue your heart.” - Sam Lipsyte
$ 14
black balloon | fiction
Louise: Amended by Louise Krug
"A page-turner in which a person's very soul deepens before your eyes." —Mary Karr
$ 14
black balloon | memoir
The Recipe Project: A Delectable Extravaganza of Food and Music by One Ring Zero
A true multimedia project, within these pages you can find recipes, music, and personal interviews from famous chefs.
$ 24.95
black balloon | food
Clementine Classics: Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
Timeless classics, annotated by Clementine the Hedgehog.
$ 2.99
black balloon | fiction
I, Parrot: A Graphic Novel by Deb Olin Unferth and Elizabeth Haidle
Parrots, pigeons, and a mother's fierce love;
I, Parrot
is a beautifully illustrated graphic novel.
$ 18.95
black balloon | Catapult
Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery and Murder edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto
Tales of villainy and intrigue told in a flash. Featuring Carmen Maria Machado, Amelia Gray, Yuri Herrera & many more.
$ 15.95
black balloon | Catapult
Northwood by Maryse Meijer
Part fairy tale, part horror story,
Northwood
is a genre-breaking novella told in short, brilliant, beautifully strange passages.
$ 18.95
black balloon | Catapult
Riddance; or, The Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers & Hearing-Mouth Children by Shelley Jackson
In this unforgettable ghost story, the headmistress of a mysterious boarding school gathers students with speech "impediments" to speak with the dead.
$ 17.95
+
black balloon | Catapult
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