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  • The Broken Places by Peck, Frances
    Frances Peck

    The Broken Places

    Shortlisted for 2023 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize and a Globe and Mail Best Book of 2022! Vancouver. A day like any other. Kyle, a successful cosmetic surgeon, is punishing himself with a sprint up a mountain. Charlotte, wife of a tech tycoon, is...
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  • Life Without Children: Stories by Doyle, Roddy
    Roddy Doyle

    Life Without Children: Stories

    "[Doyle] imparts a sense of poignancy and glimpses of happiness, of grief and loss and small moments of connection . . . you're left feeling close to dazzled." --Daphne Merkin, New York Times Book Review A brilliantly warm and witty portrait of our pandemic...
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  • Ginger and Me by Soave, Elissa
    Elissa Soave

    Ginger and Me

    'Funny, touching and wise, I loved it' Kit de Waal, bestselling author of My Name Is LeonWendy is lonely, misunderstood but coping. After her mum died, all she wants is to drive the 255 bus around Uddingston with her regulars on board, remember to...
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  • The Night Shift by Burian, Natalka
    Natalka Burian

    The Night Shift

    Only by traveling into the past can Jean find a happy future... Hidden behind back doors of bars and restaurants and theaters and shops all over New York City are shortcuts--secret passageways that allow you to jump through time and space to emerge in...
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  • Links on a Chain: five days in October by Kofas, Jon
    Jon Kofas

    Links on a Chain: five days in October

    A third generation Norwegian, Freddie with a gambling addiction and nostalgic for the sixties counterculture, inherits the low-budget motel on the city's outskirts. As Freddie struggles with his own problems after leaving the motel maid pregnant, he is caught up in the lives of...
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  • Links on a Chain by Kofas, Jon
    Jon Kofas

    Links on a Chain

    A third generation Norwegian, Freddie with a gambling addiction and nostalgic for the sixties counterculture, inherits the low-budget motel on the city's outskirts. As Freddie struggles with his own problems after leaving the motel maid pregnant, he is caught up in the lives of...
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  • Ahead of the Shadows by Kyazze, A. B.
    A. B. Kyazze

    Ahead of the Shadows

    When a photographer witnesses war crimes, will she have to abandon her calling to save herself? As Lena and Kojo work in conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Darfur, Sudan and other places across East and Central Africa, there is immense psychological pressure,...
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  • Sojourn by Chaudhuri, Amit
    Amit Chaudhuri

    Sojourn

    In this haunting and noirish novel by a leading author and critic, an Indian writer travels to Berlin and soon finds himself slipping into a fragmented, fuguelike state. An Indian writer has come to Berlin as a visiting professor. This is his second sojourn...
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  • Oscar Hijuelos: The Mambo Kings & Other Novels (Loa #362): Our House in the Last World / The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love / Mr. Ives Christmas by Hijuelos, Oscar
    Oscar Hijuelos

    Oscar Hijuelos: The Mambo Kings & Other Novels (Loa #362): Our House in the Last World / The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love / Mr. Ives Christmas

    A legendary Cuban-American storyteller enters the Library of America series with a volume gathering three seductive and profound novels about family, desire, music, and loss Oscar Hijuelos (1951-2013) is one of the most acclaimed Latino writers of the last half century. Here are three...
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  • Inside Outside by Elkins, Jeff
    Jeff Elkins

    Inside Outside

    What do you do when being a part of the church makes it impossible to love like Jesus loved?Tim and Abby are called to leave their comfortable Christian community in Texas to help build a church in Baltimore. Tim is convinced they can help...
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  • The Mutual Friend by Bays, Carter
    Carter Bays

    The Mutual Friend

    From the co-creator of How I Met Your Mother, a hilarious and thought-provoking debut novel set in New York City, following a sprawling cast of characters as they navigate life, love, loss, ambition, and spirituality--without ever looking up from their phones. It's the summer...
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  • Lump by Whitlock, Nathan
    Nathan Whitlock

    Lump

    A dark, satiric novel about a woman whose attempt to escape crises in her health and marriage ends up causing more chaos.Cat's career has stalled, her marriage has gone flat, and being a stay-at-home mom for two young kids has become a grind. When...
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  • Pets of Park Avenue by London, Stefanie
    Stefanie London

    Pets of Park Avenue

    "One of the year's most delightful rom-coms."--New York Times bestselling author Julia London on The Dachshund Wears PradaThe perfect romcom for dog lovers! Pets of Park Avenue is the story of a self-confessed hot mess who learns that life is more fun when things...
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  • Too Much is Never Enough by Xyion
    Xyion

    Too Much is Never Enough

    Sabrina and Greg are living the American dream. Young, successful, and madly in love, life couldn't be better. Storm clouds gather over their charmed life when Sabrina meets Shemar, a talented young artist who touches her in a way that shakes her world. She...
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  • Postal ll Redemption by McNeil, Peter
    Peter McNeil

    Postal ll Redemption

    McNeil's consequential and enlightening tale channels the colorful world within the postal environment. Making up this vividly essential yarn are six intriguing stories that provide a different yet necessary spin on life-related issues: Freeman Souls' alcoholism plight, coupled with struggling to choose between his...
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  • The Fatal Dance by Sellheim, Berndt
    Berndt Sellheim

    The Fatal Dance

    A compulsive work of fiction from an outstanding Australian writer. Redmond Campbell's luck has just taken a turn for the worse. His dog's dead, his wife, Bea, has landed in prison, and he has to look after Bea's sister, Lori - a wildly disinhibited...
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  • The Ride to Work by Page, C. R.
    C. R. Page

    The Ride to Work

    For seven years, public servant Anthony Speed has commuted by bicycle to his inner-city office dreading the monotony and drudgery of his job. On an otherwise routine Monday morning, he sets out to do this one last time. The ride forward to his destination...
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  • Endpapers by Kelly, Jennifer Savran
    Jennifer Savran Kelly

    Endpapers

    An accessible, character-driven story set in 2003 New York City about a genderqueer book conservator who feels trapped by her gender presentation, her ill-fitting relationship, and her artistic block, as she discovers a decades-old hidden queer love letter and becomes obsessed with tracking down...
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  • Off Broadway: A Marriage Drama by Glass, William A.
    William A. Glass

    Off Broadway: A Marriage Drama

    Cindy and Dave Knight got married too young. Several years later, they're trying to make the best of it. He's a salesman on the fast track with a prestigious corporation. She's the indispensable assistant to a prominent Broadway producer. They own an apartment in...
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  • The Last Single Woman in New York City by Merkl, Lorraine Duffy
    Lorraine Duffy Merkl

    The Last Single Woman in New York City

    Jilted a week before her wedding, a successful ad executive finds everyone around her is suddenly either engaged or getting married. Will her new anti-marriage guru be her savior-or something else? Samantha "Sam" Dennehy feels like the last single woman in New York City....
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  • My Best Gamble - Brianna's Story by Wolfe, Carole
    Carole Wolfe

    My Best Gamble - Brianna's Story

    She feels all alone. But with so many selfish jerks out to use her, can one feisty female make her mark on the world? Brianna Thompson desperately needs to start over. Fleeing her latest bad choice in men, she bets it all on a...
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  • My Best Gamble - Brianna's Story by Wolfe, Carole
    Carole Wolfe

    My Best Gamble - Brianna's Story

    She feels all alone. But with so many selfish jerks out to use her, can one feisty female make her mark on the world? Brianna Thompson desperately needs to start over. Fleeing her latest bad choice in men, she bets it all on a...
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  • Shaky Town by Mathews, Lou
    Lou Mathews

    Shaky Town

    -Engaging characters who live on the non-glamorous side of L.A. -Like Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place, and Pat Barker's Union Street, Shaky Town tells the stories of people linked by place -Compelling cover art from street artist Steve...
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  • Mind at Large by Frances, Oliver
    Oliver Frances

    Mind at Large

    Deivid is a young guy lost into, the fake pop tv studio stage set, so calle "American Reality", who through psychedelic trips gets into different realities that belong to other levels. All these experiences make him awaken spiritually, so that he can connect with...
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  • The Museum of Ordinary People by Gayle, Mike
    Mike Gayle

    The Museum of Ordinary People

    In this "pure, unadulterated feel-good" and warmhearted novel, an old set of encyclopedias leads a young woman to a curious museum and one profoundly moving lesson: that every life is an extraordinary life (Kirkus). BookRiot Most Anticipated Beach Reads of 2023 Shondaland Best Books...
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  • Friendship: Echoes of the City II by Christensen, Lars Saabye
    Lars Saabye Christensen

    Friendship: Echoes of the City II

    Set in post-war Oslo and following on from Echoes of a City, by an author who understands the city like no other. "One of Norway's finest writers" GUARDIAN "Profoundly resonant" TLS In Kirkeveien, Oslo, in the year 1956, forty-year-old Maj is worn down by...
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  • Mysterious Martin by Robbins, Tod
    Tod Robbins

    Mysterious Martin

    The brilliant and sinister Martin writes a novel from the perspective of a murderer-and if you read it you just might turn into one. Set in both the art world and the demimonde of New York City, Tod Robbins's 1912 horror novella Mysterious Martin...
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  • After Tonight, Everything Will Be Different by Gnade, Adam
    Adam Gnade

    After Tonight, Everything Will Be Different

    Falling somewhere between Trainspotting and Like Water for Chocolate, Adam Gnade's self-described food novel frames each chapter around a meal, and from there moves wild in all directions. After Tonight, Everything Will Be Different takes place in San Diego taco shops and rundown beach...
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  • Casablanca Blues by Shah, Tahir
    Tahir Shah

    Casablanca Blues

    Blaine Williams lives and breathes Casablanca. He's trapped in a make-believe world of Bogart and Bergman, of smoke-filled caf駸, of fugitives and hit men. And he's having a mid-life crisis. Having lost his girlfriend, his job, and his home, he flees to the one...
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  • This Weightless World by Soto, Adam
    Adam Soto

    This Weightless World

    "It's precisely Soto's refusal to be 'weighted' down by decades of genre tradition, to instead turn the trope on its head and in doing so remind us that no-one but ourselves is coming to save us, that makes This Weightless World such an exciting...
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  • The Former Things by Steadham, Allen
    Allen Steadham

    The Former Things

    Sean Winter is burdened by a heartrending past he can't share. As a result, Sean doesn't believe there are any good Christian examples in the world. Any faith he had has been eroded. He depends on facts, reason, and experience alone. At twenty-four-years-old, he...
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  • The Fairlane Incidents by Savage, Nick
    Nick Savage

    The Fairlane Incidents

    Once you find your muse, never let them go. Finn Fairlane is a music producer who has lost his inspiration to create. While jumping from one one-night stand to the next, his focus unexpectedly shifts when he crosses paths with his former college girlfriend,...
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  • The Acting MD - The greatest skill an Indian businessman needs is acting by Mankal, Vikram
    Vikram Mankal

    The Acting MD - The greatest skill an Indian businessman needs is acting

    Pranav Rai never wanted to take over his father's company, Pyramid Housing. He wanted to be an actor. But little does he know that he is about to perform the role of a lifetime. The Acting MD is the story of a na?e young...
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  • Nothing Is Lost by Medhi, Cloé
    Cloé Medhi

    Nothing Is Lost

    From one of France's most talented young authors, an urban thriller full of rage and raw emotion In a small town just like any other, a police identity check goes wrong. The victim, Saïd, was fifteen years old. And now he is dead.Mattia is...
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  • Autodrive by Crandall, Jordan
    Jordan Crandall

    Autodrive

    A literary odyssey along the highways at a time when a new form of superintelligence has emerged. Autodrive is a work of literary fiction that melds techno-scientific inquiry and storytelling, critical theory and comedy, speculative fiction and satire. It is a road novel of...
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  • Oranges for Magellan by Martin, Richard
    Richard Martin

    Oranges for Magellan

    Everything good in Joe Magellan's life--family, teaching career, sanity--has been undermined by his baffling compulsion: breaking the world record for flagpole-sitting. Through the years Joe has made seven attempts at the record, his best effort a measly eleven days. Oranges begins on January 20,...
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  • The Wonders by Medel, Elena
    Elena Medel

    The Wonders

    "Rhythmic, incantatory . . . Vivid and painfully intimate." --The New York Times Book Review Winner of the Francisco Umbral Prize for Best Book of the Year A Finalist for the Finestres Award Now Translated into Fifteen Languages An international sensation, The Wonders follows...
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  • Carry the Dog by Gangi, Stephanie
    Stephanie Gangi

    Carry the Dog

    "WITTY, STARTLINGLY ASTUTUE." --People Bea Seger has spent a lifetime running from her childhood. The daughter of a famous photographer, she and her brothers were the subjects of an explosive series of images in the 1960s known as the Marx Nudes. Disturbing and provocative,...
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  • Endpapers by Savran Kelly, Jennifer
    Jennifer Savran Kelly

    Endpapers

    A queer book conservator finds a mysterious old love letter, setting off a search for the author who wrote it and for a meaningful life beyond the binary in early-2000s New York City. It's 2003, and artist Dawn Levit is stuck. A bookbinder who...
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  • The Bookseller's Notebooks by Barjas, Jalal
    Jalal Barjas

    The Bookseller's Notebooks

    Winner of the 2021 International Prize for Arabic Fiction--known as the "Arabic Booker Prize"-- this novel explores themes of loneliness, homelessness, and mental illness. After losing his job and refuge, Ibrahim al-Warraq, a bookseller, decides to live with the homeless people in his city...
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  • Hollywood Boulevard by Gilmore, John
    John Gilmore

    Hollywood Boulevard

    In a psychosomatic masterpiece, John Gilmore explores the dichotomy of a young man and woman's wants and desires as opposed to harsh reality. What starts as a simple photo shoot with a beautiful girl, leads Eli Woodrow into a world he never dreamed of,...
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  • Happy Family by Lee, Wendy
    Wendy Lee

    Happy Family

    When Hua Wu arrives in New York City, her life seems destined to resemble that of countless immigrants before her. She spends her hectic days in a restaurant in Chinatown, and her lonesome nights in a noisy, crowded tenement, yearning for those she left...
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  • The Trouble with Exes by Taíno, Sera
    Sera Taíno

    The Trouble with Exes

    A prescription for love... Or disaster? Fighting for funding for her local clinic, Dr. Natalía Navarro never expected her ex--surgeon Leo Espinoza--to show up in her ER! Five years earlier, Nati knew the only way to compel Leo toward the prestigious future he'd been...
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  • Slow Motion Ghosts by Noon, Jeff
    Jeff Noon

    Slow Motion Ghosts

    Noon's storytelling is assured and compelling ... it's a belter' --Guardian 'Constantly surprising' --Spectator A viciously occult murder. A curious clue left on the body. The soundtrack to the murder still playing... It is 1981 and Detective Inspector Henry Hobbes is still reeling in...
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  • Ahead of the Shadows - Large Print Edition by Kyazze, A. B.
    A. B. Kyazze

    Ahead of the Shadows - Large Print Edition

    When a photographer witnesses war crimes, will she have to abandon her calling to save herself? As Lena and Kojo work in conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Darfur, Sudan and other places across East and Central Africa, there is immense psychological pressure,...
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  • Manhattan Transfer by Dos Passos, John
    John Dos Passos

    Manhattan Transfer

    A tale of ambition, politics, and power, Manhattan Transfer is a masterpiece of modernist fiction and urban realism. From the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age, John Dos Passos takes readers through a collage of characters chasing the American Dream, engulfed by the frenetic...
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  • Say Nice Things about Detroit by Lasser, Scott
    Scott Lasser

    Say Nice Things about Detroit

    Twenty-five years after his high school graduation, David Halpert returns to a place that most people flee. But David is making his own escape--from his divorce and the death of his son. In Detroit, David learns about the double shooting of his high school...
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  • Soldiers, Hunters, Not Cowboys by Tucker, Aaron
    Aaron Tucker

    Soldiers, Hunters, Not Cowboys

    CBC BOOKS WORKS OF CANADIAN FICTION TO READ IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2023THE TORONTO STAR 'MUST READ, HANDS DOWN BEST BOOKS OF 2023 SO FAR''Cat Person' meets Station Eleven in this apocalyptic depiction of toxic masculinity.An unnamed man is spending the evening with...
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  • Lovers and Gamblers by Collins, Jackie
    Jackie Collins

    Lovers and Gamblers

    A book that left burn marks on night tables across continents, 'Lovers And Gamblers 'has become a Collins classic. It features two of her most memorable characters: Al King, the rock-and-roll superstud who is everything any sex-crazed groupie ever imagined her hero to be;...
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  • An Experiment in Leisure by Glendenning, Anna
    Anna Glendenning

    An Experiment in Leisure

    "A dizzying yet powerful read." --Claire-Louise Bennett, author, Pond A sharp and witty debut novel that is at once a tender portrait of youth and an exploration of the emotional costs of social mobility, the possibilities of leaving and returning, the meanings of work...
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