Throughout mathematician Philip Masyrk's peripatetic life, there has been only one constant: Irma Arcuri. Their ongoing love affair has endured his two marriages and her countless travels. But now Irma has vanished, leaving Philip her library of 351 books, including five written by Irma herself. Buried somewhere within her luxuriously rebound volumes of Cervantes and Turgenev, Borges and Fowles, lies the secret to her disappearance-and Philip soon realizes that he is trapped within their narratives as well. Who is Irma Arcuri? What is really hidden in the library? And most importantly, whose story is this? Unapologetically sexy and brazenly intellectual, The 351 Books of Irma Arcuri is the impressive debut of a daring new literary talent.

The 351 Books of Irma Arcuri: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Bajo, David

United States

Penguin??Books

Left an extensive personal library when his long-time paramour disappears, genius mathematician Philip Mazyrk finds buried within the books puzzling clues about her disappearance, in a mystery that is further complicated by an enigmatic woman and his stepchildren's personal troubles. 25,000 first printing.

Viking Adult

With the summer heat just around the corner, Your Impossible Voice #4 is here to refresh and delight! Our latest issue brings new work from Fulbright Foundation fellow R. Zamora Linmark, National Endowment for the Arts fellow Geraldine Connolly, Norma Farber First Book Award winner Karen An-hwei Lee, Donald Hall Prize winner Kirsten Kaschock, David Bajo, Chris Yamashita, Racquel Goodison, Michael du Plessis, Sven Hansen-Löve, John Beckman, Christopher Kondrich, Sammy Greenspan, Peter Burzynski, Bryce Emley, Monica Macansantos, Sierra-Nicole Qualles. Cover art by Jason Trbovich.

Your Impossible Voice #4: Your Impossible Voice Journal

Linmark, R. Zamora

Beckman, John

Kaschock, Kirsten

Connolly, Geraldine

An-hwei Lee, Karen

Yamashita, Chris

Goodison, Racquel

du Plessis, Michael

Hansen-Löve, Sven

Literary

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

As the California borderland newspaper where they work prepares to close, three reporters are oddly given assignments to return to stories they’ve covered beforeeach one surprisingly personal. The first assignment takes reporter Aaron Klinsman and photographer Rita Valdez to an abandoned motel room where the mirrors are draped with towels, bits of black tape cover the doorknobs, and the perfect trace of a woman’s body is imprinted on the bed sheets. From this sexually charged beginningon land his family used to ownKlinsman, Rita, and their colleague, Oscar Medem understand that they are supposed to uncover something. They just don’t know what. Following the moonlit paths their assignments reveal through the bars, factories and complex streets of Tijuana and Otay, haunted by the femicides that have spread westward from Juarez, the reporters become more intimately entwined. Tracing the images they uncover, and those they cause and leave behind, they soon realize that every move they make is under surveillance. Beyond this, it seems their private lives and even their memories are being reconstructed by others. Panopticon is a novel of dreamlike appearances and almost supernatural memories, a world of hidden watchers that evokes the dark recognition of just how little we can protect even our most private moments. It is a shadowy, erotic novel only slightly speculative that opens into the world we all now occupy.

Panopticon

Unbridled Books

In Mercy 6, David Bajo’s courageous new medical thriller, four people collapse dead in the same instant within a newly renovated Los Angeles hospital. Dr. Mendenhall, the woman who is head of the emergency room, isn't convinced the cause of death is a contagion. But it's in the interests of the hospital administrators and of the world at large for people to think that it is. If the world knew the truth there could only be widespread panic. The hospital is immediately locked down. Information is suddenly being strictly controlled. Government troops encircle the hospital to enforce the quarantine, and other bodies arrive in ER. Working with an ally in pathology and a colleague outside the hospital, Mendenhall develops her understanding that what has taken these lives has global implications . . . and whatever it is, it’s not a virus.

Mercy 6

A novel by award-winning author David Bajo.

The Ensenada Public Library

Brighthorse Books

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