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  • Cold for the Bastards of Pizzofalcone by de Giovanni, Maurizio
    Maurizio de Giovanni

    Cold for the Bastards of Pizzofalcone

    Book 3 in de Giovanni's bestselling "Bastards of Pizzofalcone" series is set in contemporary Naples during season of cold winds, political hijinks, and murder. A heinous, double murder in a squalid apartment on the wrong side of town pits Inspector Lojacono, Di Nardo and...
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  • Synapses by Brousseau, Simon
    Simon Brousseau

    Synapses

    Formally inventive, Simon Brousseau's Synapses orchestrates a series of beautifully crafted literary snapshots, each involving a different character, eloquently presented using a sole, twisting and turning, stylistically accomplished sentence written in the second-person singular. Brousseau depicts a vast society of differing psyches and souls,...
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  • Jenny in Corona by Ross, Stuart
    Stuart Ross

    Jenny in Corona

    Tyrone has a problem. Several problems, in fact: a girlfriend who sleeps around, a boss he's sleeping with, and various types of guilt (Catholic, Jewish, White) he can't live without. Plus, there's his deceased mother, his pill-popping father (who at least shares the good...
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  • What Makes a Man Run by Thompson, Mark
    Mark Thompson

    What Makes a Man Run

    Michael Donahue has it all: a satisfying career as a physical therapist and a loving wife (his college sweetheart) who is pregnant with their first child. In less than a minute, all collapses when she dies in a car accident with him at the...
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  • A Woman Like Her by Levy, Marc
    Marc Levy

    A Woman Like Her

    An unexpected love story from Marc Levy, international bestselling author of The Last of the Stanfields, and the most widely read French author in the world.It's been five years since fate upended resilient Chloe Bronstein's world. While she may be living with her father,...
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  • Perfectly Famous by Liebert, Emily
    Emily Liebert

    Perfectly Famous

    From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Pretty Revenge--a "gripping tale of subterfuge, betrayal, and retribution" (Liv Constantine, bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish)--comes the story of a journalist obsessed with finding a crime novelist who disappears after a deadly attack on her...
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  • The Landlord by Hunter, Kristin
    Kristin Hunter

    The Landlord

    "An elaborate spoof that somehow manages to combine touches of the absurd and intimations of the surreal, strokes of caricature, slapstick, and the grotesque, with an inherent down-to-earth sanity and realism." -- Saturday Review A wealthy white man and earnest do-gooder buys a building...
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  • Bandbox by Mallon, Thomas
    Thomas Mallon

    Bandbox

    From the author of Henry and Clara, a dazzling, hilarious novel that captures the heart and soul of New York in the Jazz Age. Bandbox is a hugely successful magazine, a glamorous monthly cocktail of 1920s obsessions from the stock market to radio to...
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  • Love, Death & Rare Books by Hellenga, Robert
    Robert Hellenga

    Love, Death & Rare Books

    Chas. Johnson & Sons has been a family operation for three generations--grandfather, father and son. But when it comes time for Gabe Johnson to take the reins of the business, the world of books has changed, and the combination of the internet and inner...
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  • Nightingale Point by Goldie, Luan
    Luan Goldie

    Nightingale Point

    LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2020A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK* * *THE DEBUT NOVEL FROM THE COSTA SHORT STORY AWARD WINNER'A sharp, funny, wonderful writer' Diana Evans, bestselling author of Ordinary People'A stunning debut...
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  • Ulysses by Joyce, James
    James Joyce

    Ulysses

    "I hold this book to be the most important expression which the present age has found; it is a book to which we are all indebted, and from which none of us can escape." T.S. EliotUlysses depicts a day in Leopold Bloom's life, broken...
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  • A Film (3,000 Meters) by Catala, Victor
    Victor Catala

    A Film (3,000 Meters)

    Turn-of-the-Century Barcelona comes to life in this rediscovered classic from one of Catalan's most beloved female authorsAuthor: Victor CatalaISBN-10: 1948830442ISBN-13: 9781948830447Publisher: Open LetterLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/29/2022Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.00d
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  • Franklin Evans: A Tale of the Times (Temperance Novel) by Whitman, Walt
    Walt Whitman

    Franklin Evans: A Tale of the Times (Temperance Novel)

    Franklin Evans or The Inebriate: A Tale of the Times, is the rag-to-riches story of Franklin Evans. Franklin starts as an innocent young man, leaving Long Island to come to New York City for the opportunity to better himself. Being young and na ve,...
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  • The Troll Garden and Other Stories by Cather, Willa
    Willa Cather

    The Troll Garden and Other Stories

    With seven short stories, The Troll Garden is a comprehensive exploration of American artists, and the trials they face. In Flavia and Her Artists, a young woman named Imogen goes to visit her friend Flavia, who is a patron of artists. Joining Flavia's group...
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  • Ragged Dick by Alger, Horatio
    Horatio Alger

    Ragged Dick

    Ragged Dick (1868) is the first in a series of six novels by American author Horatio Alger. In each, Alger uses the Protestant work ethic as a template to not only examine the harsh realities of urban poverty, but provide a hopeful, concrete moral...
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  • Terminalian Drift by Gordon, Jerry
    Jerry Gordon

    Terminalian Drift

    "Water only knows how to flow. It never ceases. Even glaciers thousands of years old are not a stilling of water. A chilling, but not a stilling. The city is likewise, imposing its own flows of seep and sink and evaporation." Our man has...
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  • Blue Sky Gone by Farmer, J. S.
    J. S. Farmer

    Blue Sky Gone

    Audrey Moretti always knew she wanted to be a police officer, but she never expected it would take her on the most harrowing venture of her life-the search for her sister on September 11th, 2001... Audrey has made it to the final weeks of...
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  • Sonny's Vendetta: Suspense and Spaghetti in South Philly by Attiani, Michael
    Michael Attiani

    Sonny's Vendetta: Suspense and Spaghetti in South Philly

    In 1915 Italy, a teenaged girl believed she had conjured the perfect lie to protect herself. Even though she deserved the full weight of responsibility for her foolish recklessness, the lie deftly deflected all blame to her innocent, oblivious best friend, Fredo, who was...
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  • The Wonders Lib/E by Medel, Elena
    Elena Medel

    The Wonders Lib/E

    A mesmerizing read . . . I was completely engrossed in this story, in the shadow each generation casts on the one that comes after it, in the tension between caring for oneself and caring for others. --Avni Doshi, author of the Booker Prize...
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  • Monkey Business by Eastlake, Carleton
    Carleton Eastlake

    Monkey Business

    When William Fox, a TV writer on location in Florida, is dragged by his show's toxic producers to a "gentleman's club" that's just appeared outside town, he meets Nicole, a mysterious dancer who claims to be an anthropologist searching for signs of rational life...
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  • Tabloid City by Hamill, Pete
    Pete Hamill

    Tabloid City

    In a stately West Village town house, a wealthy socialite and her secretary are murdered. In the 24 hours that follow, a flurry of activity surrounds their shocking deaths: The head of one of the city's last tabloids stops the presses. A cop investigates...
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  • Everybody Loves You: A Continuation of the Buddies Cycle by Mordden, Ethan
    Ethan Mordden

    Everybody Loves You

    A gay ghost, a talking dog, and a street kid who thinks he's an elf-child join our narrator Bud, best friend Dennis Savage, eternally young Little Kiwi, devastating hunk Carlo, and the other characters from I've a Feeling We're Not in Kansas Anymore and...
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  • Chinese Takeout by Nersesian, Arthur
    Arthur Nersesian

    Chinese Takeout

    From the author of the cult classic The Fuck-Up comes a vicious new tale of art, drugs, love, and death on the Lower East Side.Orloff Trenchant is a painter who sells books on West 4th Street in Manhattan and is obsessed with mastering his...
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  • How to Be a Revolutionary by Davids, C. a.
    C. a. Davids

    How to Be a Revolutionary

    Named one of Essence's 9 South African Entertainers You Should KnowAn extraordinary, ambitious, globe-spanning novel about what we owe our consciencesFleeing her moribund marriage in Cape Town, Beth accepts a diplomatic posting to Shanghai. In this anonymous city, she hopes to lose herself in...
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  • The Twelve Topsy-Turvy, Very Messy Days of Christmas: The New Holiday Classic People Will Be Reading for Generations by Patterson, James
    James Patterson

    The Twelve Topsy-Turvy, Very Messy Days of Christmas: Inspiration for the Emmy-Winning Holiday Special

    Move over, Dickens--America's favorite storyteller has written a gift, "a delightful Christmas story to be shared by the whole family" (Kirkus), destined to become as treasured as A Christmas Carol. At Christmastime, a family of three are missing someone dear to them. Until unexpected...
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  • Red 1-2-3 by Katzenbach, John
    John Katzenbach

    Red 1-2-3

    Three ordinary women with nothing in common. They are different ages, come from different backgrounds, and lead drastically different lives. The only thing that binds them together is their red hair--and that each of them has been targeted for murder. When these women receive...
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  • What Comes Next by Katzenbach, John
    John Katzenbach

    What Comes Next

    A retired university professor is diagnosed with a rare degenerative disease that will lead him to lose his memory and die within a few years. On his way home from the doctor's office, he witnesses a pretty young girl being kidnapped right off the...
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  • Pacific by Drury, Tom
    Tom Drury

    Pacific

    "Reading Pacific makes me once again fall in love with Drury's words, and his perception of a world that is full of dangers and passions and mysteries and graces."--Yiyun Li In Pacific, Tom Drury revisits the community of Grouse County, the setting of his...
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  • Capital by Lanchester, John
    John Lanchester

    Capital

    Each house on Pepys Road, an ordinary street in London, has seen its fair share of first steps and last breaths, and plenty of laughter in between. But each of the street's residents--a rich banker and his shopaholic wife, a soccer prodigy from Senegal,...
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  • Kensington Quartet by Ghose, Zulfikar
    Zulfikar Ghose

    Kensington Quartet

    Zulfikar Ghose has both ranked with and outranked several of the best English language writers in England and America." - Review of Contemporary FictionLayers of images captured in fractured time rather than a linear narrative of events, the core of experience illuminated by imagistic...
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  • Time Present and Time Past by Madden, Deirdre
    Deirdre Madden

    Time Present and Time Past

    This Orange Prize Finalist novel is both a meditation on time and memory and "a deeply moving portrait of domestic and family life" in Ireland (The Sunday Telegraph). Ireland, 2006. The economic miracle known as the Celtic Tiger has swept the country into a...
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  • The Wayward Daughter: A Kathmandu Story by Ghale, Shradha
    Shradha Ghale

    The Wayward Daughter: A Kathmandu Story

    Set against the backdrop of approaching civil war, the story of a young girl's coming of age by one of Nepal's newest, strongest voices writing in English Sumnima Tamule is in a crisis. Her friends at Rhododendron High School--all girls from semi-royal and other...
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  • Up in the Main House & Other Stories by Zaman, Nadeem
    Nadeem Zaman

    Up in the Main House & Other Stories

    "Meticulously constructed in both language and emotion, Zaman's stories sneak up on the reader and consistently deliver." -Publishers Weekly, Starred Review Up in the main house, servants have worked for decades watching the city rise around it, feeling like part of the family but...
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  • Theft by Brown, Luke
    Luke Brown

    Theft

    Love, envy and revenge in divided BritainAuthor: Luke BrownISBN-10: 191150858XISBN-13: 9781911508588Publisher: And Other StoriesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/07/2020Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.10w x 1.20dReview Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2020Publishers Weekly 04/06/2020
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  • Karoo by Tesich, Steve
    Steve Tesich

    Karoo

    Saul Karoo is a memorable creation. He is a successful Hollywood script doctor, a fixer of flawed films. He is fifty, overweight, a heavy drinker and chain smoker. He is at an age when things break down, but he has no health insurance. His...
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  • The Limits of the World by Acker, Jennifer
    Jennifer Acker

    The Limits of the World

    The Chandaria family--emigrants from the Indian-enclave of Nairobi--have managed to flourish in America. Premchand, the father, is a doctor who has worked doggedly to grow his practice and give his family security; his wife, Urmila, runs a business importing artisanal Kenyan crafts; and their...
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  • Loudmouth by Duncan, Robert
    Robert Duncan

    Loudmouth

    "Read this book immediately if you like truth, drugs, generation gaps, guitars, and lifelong quests for freedom and kicks." --Craig Finn, The Hold Steady Thomas Ransom, born to a severely dysfunctional southern family transplanted to New York City, is left to his own devices...
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  • The Divine Boys by Restrepo, Laura
    Laura Restrepo

    The Divine Boys

    From acclaimed Colombian author Laura Restrepo comes a prize-winning novel inspired by a true crime that shattered a community and exposed the dark recesses of toxic masculinity and privilege.Immune to the consequences of immorality, five privileged young men in Bogot bond over a shared...
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  • The Wild One by Burgess, Gemma
    Gemma Burgess

    The Wild One

    Sweet, innocent Coco has always been the good one. But when she catches her boyfriend cheating on her, she decides it's time to break bad. Coco swiftly goes from spending all her time baking and reading to working nights in (and dancing on) a...
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  • Carnival by Antoni, Robert
    Robert Antoni

    Carnival

    Robert Antoni has established himself as one of the most innovative voices to emerge from the Caribbean and the Americas. His ambitious third novel, Carnival, takes us on an expedition that stretches from contemporary New York City to the glitter of Trinidadian Carnival, and...
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  • The Long Night of White Chickens by Goldman, Francisco
    Francisco Goldman

    The Long Night of White Chickens

    Winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, The Long Night of White Chickens marked the brilliant debut of Francisco Goldman's internationally acclaimed writing career. The Long Night of White Chickens is a novel born of...
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  • A Peculiar Grace by Lent, Jeffrey
    Jeffrey Lent

    A Peculiar Grace

    An unforgettable tale of love, family secrets, and the hold of the past in a family of New England artists, A Peculiar Grace is the latest triumph from the author of In the Fall, hailed by The Christian Science Monitor and The New York...
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  • No Saints or Angels by Klíma, Ivan
    Ivan Kl?a

    No Saints or Angels

    Ivan Klima has been acclaimed by The Boston Globe as "a literary gem who is too little appreciated in the West" and a "Czech master at the top of his game." In No Saints or Angels, a Washington Post Best Book of 2001, Klima...
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  • Crawling at Night by Power, Nani
    Nani Power

    Crawling at Night

    Hailed by The New York Times as a formidable young writer ... one who unpacks her characters' emotions with a firm, graceful hand, Nani Power garnered impressive acclaim for her profound debut last year. A darkly lyrical, charged exploration of the double-edged sword of...
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  • Galahad and I Thought of Daisy by Wilson, Edmund
    Edmund Wilson

    Galahad and I Thought of Daisy

    From one of the leading literary critics of his generation comes the first of Edmund Wilson's three novels, I thought of Daisy, published together with his short story "Galahad." Set in Greenwich Village in the 1920s, Edmund Wilson's I Thought of Daisy tells the...
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  • I've a Feeling We're Not in Kansas Anymore: The Buddies Cycle by Mordden, Ethan
    Ethan Mordden

    I've a Feeling We're Not in Kansas Anymore: The Buddies Cycle

    "We have traded tales, my buddies and I; of affairs, encounters, secrets, fears, self-promotion-of fantasies that we make real in the telling." In this, the first volume in Ethan Mordden's acclaimed trilogy on Manhattan gay life, he introduces a small group of friends-Dennis Savage,...
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  • Goodnight Steve McQueen by Wener, Louise
    Louise Wener

    Goodnight Steve McQueen

    From the author of The Perfect Play comes a charminglyromantic-yet very edgy-novel set in the music industry about friendship, love, growing up, and always following your dreams. Danny McQueen has dreamed of being a pop star since he was thirteen-years-old. Now he's twenty-nine and...
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  • Careering by Buchanan, Daisy
    Daisy Buchanan

    Careering

    Hilarious and unflinchingly honest, Careering takes a hard look at the often toxic relationship working women have with their dream jobs. careering (verb) 1. working endlessly for a job you used to love and now resent entirely 2. moving in a way that feels...
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  • The Wonders by Medel, Elena
    Elena Medel

    The Wonders

    A mesmerizing read . . . I was completely engrossed in this story, in the shadow each generation casts on the one that comes after it, in the tension between caring for oneself and caring for others. --Avni Doshi, author of the Booker Prize...
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  • The Blooming Of Alison Brennan by Engebretson, Kath
    Kath Engebretson

    The Blooming Of Alison Brennan

    A family full of secrets...and one girl who must survive.Sixteen-year-old Alison Brennan's mother, Bernadette, is an agoraphobic hoarder, and her father Harry seems to have no past. Struggling every day, Alison seeks the help of a school counsellor.When an old homeless man is found...
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