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Akashic Books

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Subject: Forthcoming

Rain Breaks No Bones

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Forthcoming: 5/7/23

Set in 1955, this final installment in Taylor’s best-selling Scranton Trilogy explores a family’s legacy of loss and a sometimes mystical vision of a better tomorrow

Now available for preorder. All preorders will ship on or before May 7, 2024.

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West Jerusalem Noir

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Forthcoming: 11/7/23

In West Jerusalem Noir—published simultaneously with East Jerusalem Noir—the Akashic Noir Series visits one of the world’s most complex locales, in this volume from the perspective of Israeli writers (translated from Hebrew by Yardenne Greenspan)

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Tender Headed

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Forthcoming: 12/5/23

Tender Headed, selected by Camille Rankine as a winner of the 2022 National Poetry Series, is a musical and formally playful meditation on Black identity and masculinity

Now available for preorder. All preorders will ship on or before December 05, 2023.

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The Reservoir (Paperback Edition)

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Forthcoming: 1/30/24

Now in paperback, a former Wall Street veteran, quarantined by the coronavirus, becomes consumed with madness—or the fulfillment of his own mythic fate; from author, actor, and musician David Duchovny

The paperback edition (including the bonus short story “The Scare Owl”) is now available for preorder. All preorders will ship on or before January 30, 2024.

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Swanna in Love

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Forthcoming: 1/30/24

Best-selling author Belle (High Maintenance, Going Down) unleashes her first new novel in over ten years

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A Dangerous Country: An American Elegy

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Forthcoming: 2/13/24

Ron Kovic, author of Born on the Fourth of July and one of the country’s most powerful and passionate antiwar voices, completes his Vietnam Trilogy with this poignant, inspiring, and deeply personal elegy to America.

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Now available for preorders. All preorders will be shipped on or before February 13, 2024

Joyce Carol Oates: Letters to a Biographer

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Forthcoming: 3/5/24

This rich compilation of Joyce Carol Oates’s letters across four decades displays her warmth and generosity, her droll and sometimes wicked sense of humor, her phenomenal energy, and most of all, her mastery of the lost art of letter writing

Now available for preorder. All preorders will ship on or before March 5, 2024.

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So You Wanna Run a Country?

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Forthcoming: 3/5/24

A satirical cyberpunk romp pitting fascist feudalism against rampant reality television corruption, with the future of humanity at stake

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I Disappeared Them

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Forthcoming: 4/2/24

A serial killer’s desire to protect children fuels a parallel drive to murder other sadistic men in this immersive and literary psychological thriller

Now available for preorder. All preorders will ship on or before April 2, 2024.

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Buster: A Dog

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Forthcoming: 5/7/24

Pelecanos breaks new literary ground with the story of a dog’s life—from the dog’s perspective—on the streets of Washington, DC

Now available for preorder. All preorders will ship on or before May 7, 2024.

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False Idols: A Reluctant King Novel

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Forthcoming: 7/2/24

In this gripping follow-up to The Reluctant King, the “Monarchy” of New York City’s Five Points is in total disarray, giving way to a bloody battle for the crown

Now available for preorder. All preorders will ship on or before July 2, 2024.

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Hamburg Noir

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Forthcoming: TBA

The historic northern port city Hamburg joins Berlin as the Akashic Noir Series continues its foray into one of Western Europe’s most storied nations

Pinnacle: The Lost Paradise of Rasta

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Forthcoming: 8/6/24

A fascinating first-person origin story of Rastafari ideology, culture, and philosophy, capturing a crucial and little-known chapter in Jamaican history

Now available for preorder. All preorders will ship on or before August 8, 2024.

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The Wishing Pool and Other Stories (Paperback Edition)

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Forthcoming: 8/6/24

Now in paperback, this blockbuster story collection further cements Tananarive Due’s status as a leading innovator in Black horror and Afrofuturism; featuring the 2023 World Fantasy Award–winning story, “Incident at Bear Creek Lodge,” and two new stories!

The paperback edition is now available for preorder. All preorders will ship on or before August 6, 2024.

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THIS PAGE IS FOR THE PAPERBACK EDITION OF THE WISHING POOL; IF YOU’RE LOOKING TO PURCHASE A HARDCOVER COPY, PLEASE CLICK HERE.