Bandits & Bibles: Convict Literature in Nineteenth-Century America
What was life like for the gangs of New York and others thrown into the nineteenth-century slammer?
“About Time” Paperback Limited Edition Preorder
The Thinning
What You Should Worry About
Fame: The Hijacking of Reality (Paperback edition)
Go the Fuck to College
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Providential
Best-selling writer Colin Channer’s debut poetry collection tackles the unlikely literary figure of the Jamaican policeman.
Black Lotus
Finding the Black Lotus murderer is Detective Wolf’s chance to avoid an Internal Affairs investigation. That’s when things get personal.
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Meryl Branch-McTiernan — Head House Books (Philadelphia, PA)
6/16/26, 6:30pm
Meryl Branch-McTiernan presents What You Should Worry About, in conversation with Matthew Ochs-Kaplan.
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6/24/26, 7:00pm
Meryl Branch-McTiernan presents What You Should Worry About, in conversation with Chip Hooley.
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Exclusive David Duchovny Preorder Package
The new paperback edition of David Duchovny’s debut poetry collection, About Time, is now available for preorder.
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The preorder package for Robyn Hitchcock’s memoir Stranded in the Future is now available for preorder!
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