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  • Tokyo Ueno Station by Miri, Yu
    Yu Miri

    Tokyo Ueno Station (National Book Award Winner)

    WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo's busiest train stations. Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the...
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  • Dark Hours by Connelly, Michael
    Michael Connelly

    The Dark Hours

    A Wall Street Journal and South Florida Sun-Sentinel Best Book of the Year "A masterpiece"--LAPD detective Ren馥 Ballard must join forces with Harry Bosch to find justice in a city scarred by fear and social unrest after a methodical killer strikes on New Year's...
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  • The Law of Innocence by Connelly, Michael
    Michael Connelly

    The Law of Innocence

    INSPIRATION FOR THE ORIGINAL SERIES THE LINCOLN LAWYER - THE #1 TV SHOW ON NETFLIX Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller is back on the job in this heart-stopping thriller from a renowned #1 New York Times bestselling author. "One of the finest legal thrillers of...
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  • Happy Hour by Granados, Marlowe
    Marlowe Granados

    Happy Hour

    With the verve and bite of Ottessa Moshfegh and the barbed charm of Nancy Mitford, this stunning debut about a young ing駭ue in the big city is "as refreshing as gin fizz . . . a wild careening joyride through a hot sultry summer...
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  • Carry the Dog by Gangi, Stephanie
    Stephanie Gangi

    Carry the Dog

    "Powered by insight and true wit." --Meg Wolitzer, New York Times bestselling author of The Female Persuasion "I can't remember the last time I was as completely bewitched by a fictional character as I was by Bea Seger . . . What a treat...
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  • Junky: The Definitive Text of Junk by Burroughs, William S.
    William S. Burroughs

    Junky: The Definitive Text of Junk

    Junk is not, like alcohol or a weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life. In his debut novel, Junky, Burroughs fictionalized his experiences using and peddling heroin and other drugs in the...
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  • The Strudlhof Steps: The Depth of the Years by Doderer, Heimito Von
    Heimito Von Doderer

    The Strudlhof Steps: The Depth of the Years

    The first English translation of an essential Austrian novel about life in early-twentieth-century Vienna, as seen through a wide and varied cast of characters.The Strudlhof Steps is an unsurpassed portrait of Vienna in the early twentieth century, a vast novel crowded with characters ranging...
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  • The Law of Innocence by Connelly, Michael
    Michael Connelly

    The Law of Innocence

    INSPIRATION FOR THE ORIGINAL SERIES THE LINCOLN LAWYER - THE #1 TV SHOW ON NETFLIX Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller is back on the job in this heart-stopping thriller from a renowned #1 New York Times bestselling author. "One of the finest legal thrillers of...
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  • There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Tsumura, Kikuko
    Kikuko Tsumura

    There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job

    "[A] 21st-century response to Herman Melville's 'Bartleby, the Scrivener.'"--NPR "A revelation."--Time A young woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that has the following traits: it is close to her home, and it requires no reading, no writing, and ideally, very...
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  • Desperate Characters by Fox, Paula
    Paula Fox

    Desperate Characters

    Otto and Sophie Bentwood live in a changing neighborhood in Brooklyn. Their stainless-steel kitchen is newly installed, and their Mercedes is parked curbside. After Sophie is bitten on the hand while trying to feed a stray, perhaps rabies-infected cat, a series of small and...
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  • Bread by de Giovanni, Maurizio
    Maurizio de Giovanni

    Bread

    The Bastards of Pizzofalcone Series In the fifth installment in Maurizio de Giovanni's bestselling series, the Bastards of Pizzofalcone face their hardest challenge yet: will they emerge stronger or will they succumb to Naples's darkest forces? Sometimes it takes facing a formidable adversary to...
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  • The Dark Hours by Connelly, Michael
    Michael Connelly

    The Dark Hours

    A Wall Street Journal and South Florida Sun-Sentinel Best Book of the Year "A masterpiece"--LAPD detective Renée Ballard must join forces with Harry Bosch to find justice in a city scarred by fear and social unrest after a methodical killer strikes on New Year's...
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  • Cover Story by Rigetti, Susan
    Susan Rigetti

    Cover Story

    Netflix's Inventing Anna and Hulu's The Dropout meets Catch Me If You Can in this captivating novel about an ambitious young woman who gets trapped in a charismatic con artist's scam.A Most Anticipated Book by Entertainment Weekly, Marie Claire, Parade, New York Post, Shondaland,...
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  • The Eleven Associates of Alma-Marceau by The Old School Writers Circle
    The Old School Writers Circle

    The Eleven Associates of Alma-Marceau

    Against a backdrop of late capitalism, globalization, media, and surveillance, The Eleven Associates of Alma-Marceau not only asks questions about how people's images, words, and lives are given a platform, used, and manipulated in the digital era, but also invites readers to question the...
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  • Short Line by Klekowski, James J.
    James J. Klekowski

    Short Line

    A young local journalist, haunted by his own past, along with syndicate hoods looking to gain power, corrupted politicians willing to forgo the public trust for their own personal advancement, and detectives determined to solve a homicide one way or another, all collide across...
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  • Stolen Moments of Joy by Baika, Hamour
    Hamour Baika

    Stolen Moments of Joy

    An "...engaging and readable tale about escaping the bonds of the past."Kirkus Reviews"Stolen Moments of Joy... offers far more social and political depth than many LGBTQ stories that focus on romance and sexual maturity alone... Readers gain solid insights into this culture and realistic...
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  • Laserwriter II by Shopsin, Tamara
    Tamara Shopsin

    Laserwriter II

    A WIRED Pick for the 7 Books You Need to Read This Winter and one of Vox's 11 Titles Not to Miss From the incomparable New York Times and New Yorker illustrator Tamara Shopsin comes a debut novel about a New York City printer...
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  • Waterbury Winter by Stewart Henley, Linda
    Linda Stewart Henley

    Waterbury Winter

    Barnaby Brown has had enough of freezing winters, insurmountable debt, a dead-end job, and his solitary life as a young widower with no one but his beloved parrot Popsicle. He yearns to move to California and reawaken his long-lost early life as an artist....
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  • Moxie by Poppe, Alex
    Alex Poppe

    Moxie

    Jax, a magazine model, has had half her face destroyed in a bomb blast. Drowning in whiskey and self-loathing, she must rebuild her life now that her beauty is gone. Part love letter to New York, part social justice commentary, Moxie is a timely...
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  • V. by Pynchon, Thomas
    Thomas Pynchon

    V.

    "This work may well stand as one of the very best works of the century." --Atlantic ReviewAcclaimed writer Thomas Pynchon's wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men--one looking for something he has lost, the other with nothing much to lose--and...
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  • Kings County by Goodwillie, David
    David Goodwillie

    Kings County

    A Brooklyn love story, set to music: Kings County "crystallizes how it feels to be young and in love in New York City" (Stephanie Danler).It's the early 2000s and like generations of ambitious young people before her, Audrey Benton arrives in New York City...
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  • The Confession of Copeland Cane by Norris, Keenan
    Keenan Norris

    The Confession of Copeland Cane

    WINNER OF THE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION"A significant new voice in fiction, Norris has written what may be one of the defining novels of the era..." --BuzzFeed One of Publishers Weekly's Best Novels of the Summer ∙ One of The Millions' Most...
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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 Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald, F. Scott
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    The Great Gatsby

    "Leaves the reader in a mood of chastened wonder . . . A revelation of life . . . A work of art." --Los Angeles Times Set in during the Roaring Twenties, this masterful story by F. Scott Fitzgerald is told through the eyes...
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  • Patsy by Dennis-Benn, Nicole
    Nicole Dennis-Benn

    Patsy

    Heralded for writing "deeply memorable . . . women" (Jennifer Senior, New York Times), Nicole Dennis-Benn introduces readers to an unforgettable heroine for our times: the eponymous Patsy, who leaves her young daughter behind in Jamaica to follow Cicely, her oldest friend, to New...
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  • The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The High Window: Introduction by Diane Johnson by Chandler, Raymond
    Raymond Chandler

    The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The High Window: Introduction by Diane Johnson

    Raymond Chandler's first three novels, published here in one volume, established his reputation as an unsurpassed master of hard-boiled detective fiction. The Big Sleep, Chandler's first novel, introduces Philip Marlowe, a private detective inhabiting the seamy side of Los Angeles in the 1930s, as...
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  • Tragic Magic: (Of the Diaspora - North America) by Brown, Wesley
    Wesley Brown

    Tragic Magic: (Of the Diaspora - North America)

    Foreword by Ismail Muhammad Tragic Magic is the story of Melvin Ellington, a.k.a. Mouth, a Black, twenty-something, ex-college radical who has just been released from a five-year prison stretch after being a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War. Brown structures this first-person tale around...
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  • Body Grammar by Ohman, Jules
    Jules Ohman

    Body Grammar

    A coming-of-age queer love story set in the glamorous but grueling world of international modeling--a "terrific debut ... roiling with deep questions of identity and art, love, and the irrepressible need for meaning in life" (Jess Walter, bestselling author of The Cold Millions) By...
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  • Shufflers by Haberle, Frank
    Frank Haberle

    Shufflers

    In the tradition of Denis Johnson and Charles Bukowski, author Frank Haberle's 48 interwoven stories will take you to minimum wage America of the 1980s, where opportunities are few and situations are precarious. Sometimes funny but always honest, Shufflers is a grand tour of...
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  • Ann Petry: The Street, the Narrows (Loa #314) by Petry, Ann
    Ann Petry

    Ann Petry: The Street, the Narrows (Loa #314)

    In one volume, two landmark novels about the terrible power of race in America from one of the foremost African American writers of the past century. Ann Petry is increasingly recognized as one of the essential American novelists of the twentieth century. Now, she...
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  • Bullseye by Patterson, James
    James Patterson

    Bullseye

    In a stunning thriller from the world's #1 bestselling writer, New York Detective Michael Bennett is caught in the crossfire of a deadly standoff, and he must kill . . . or be killed. Snow blankets the avenues of Manhattan's exclusive Upper West Side....
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  • Carousel Square by Gangelhoff, Richard
    Richard Gangelhoff

    Carousel Square

    Dear reader: It's 2009, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Chitchee Chichester works in a used bookstore called BookSmart at Lake & Hennepin in Uptown. By working there as an apprentice, Chitchee intends to open his own used bookstore, Ulysses & Sons. He quickly grasps the inner workings...
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  • Manhattan Transfer by Dos Passos, John
    John Dos Passos

    Manhattan Transfer

    A masterpiece of modernist fiction that creates a vividly impressionistic portrait of a teeming and multi-faceted New York City In a series of overlapping stories, John Dos Passos's Manhattan Transfer takes us from the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age in a narrative collage...
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  • Aviary by McNamer, Deirdre
    Deirdre McNamer

    Aviary

    Winner of the 2022 Governor's Arts AwardA 2022 Reading the West Award FinalistA Refinery29 Best New Book to Read in 2021From Deirdre McNamer, a masterful exploration of the rich and hidden facets of human character, as illuminated by the mysterious connections among the residents...
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  • Last Exit to Brooklyn by Selby, Hubert
    Hubert Selby

    Last Exit to Brooklyn

    Last Exit to Brooklyn remains undiminished in its awesome power and magnitude as the novel that first showed us the fierce, primal rage seething in America's cities. Selby brings out the dope addicts, hoodlums, prostitutes, workers, and thieves brawling in the back alleys of...
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  • The Blackmailer's Guide to Love by Thurm, Marian
    Marian Thurm

    The Blackmailer's Guide to Love

    Chosen by Kirkus Reviews as one of the best books of fiction of 2021One of the many well-educated Ivy League graduates with literary ambitions who flock to New York City every year, 25-year-old Melissa Fleischer has the great fortune to work as the assistant...
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  • Ragged Company by Wagamese, Richard
    Richard Wagamese

    Ragged Company

    Four chronically homeless people-Amelia One Sky, Timber, Double Dick and Digger-seek refuge in a warm movie theatre when a severe Arctic Front descends on the city. During what is supposed to be a one-time event, this temporary refuge transfixes them. They fall in love...
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  • How to Be a Revolutionary by Davids, C. a.
    C. a. Davids

    How to Be a Revolutionary

    Winner of the 2023 UJ PrizeWinner of the 2023 Sunday Times Literary Award An extraordinary, ambitious, globe-spanning novel about what we owe our consciences Fleeing her moribund marriage in Cape Town, Beth accepts a diplomatic posting to Shanghai. In this anonymous city she hopes...
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  • The Sun Collective by Baxter, Charles
    Charles Baxter

    The Sun Collective

    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - A timely and unsettling novel about the people drawn to--and unmoored by--a local activist group more dangerous than it appears. From the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and "one of our most gifted writers"...
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  • Life of David Hockney by Cusset, Catherine
    Catherine Cusset

    Life of David Hockney

    Named a Best Book of the Year by The Advocate "Catherine Cusset's book caught a lot of me. I could recognize myself." --David Hockney With clear, vivid prose, this meticulously researched novel draws an intimate, moving portrait of the most famous living English painter....
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  • The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald, F. Scott
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    The Great Gatsby

    "One of the most important works in American literature -- and, to many, the great American novel." -- Time. "I want to write something new, " F. Scott Fitzgerald told his editor, Maxwell Perkins, "something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned." A...
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  • Metropolitan Stories by Coulson, Christine
    Christine Coulson

    Metropolitan Stories

    "Only someone who deeply loves and understands the Metropolitan Museum could deliver such madcap, funny, magical, tender, intimate fables and stories." --Maira Kalman, artist and bestselling author of The Principles of Uncertainty From a writer who worked at the Metropolitan Museum for more than...
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  • Jane of Battery Park by Viner, Jaye
    Jaye Viner

    Jane of Battery Park

    Jane is a Los Angeles nurse who grew up in a Christian cult that puts celebrities on trial for their sins. Daniel is a has-been actor whose career ended when the cult family members nearly killed him for flirting with her. Eight years after...
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  • Tropic of Capricorn by Miller, Henry
    Henry Miller

    Tropic of Capricorn

    Banned in America for almost thirty years because of its explicit sexual content, this companion volume to Miller's Tropic of Cancer chronicles his life in 1920s New York City. Famous for its frank portrayal of life in Brooklyn's ethnic neighborhoods and Miller's outrageous sexual...
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  • The Wedding Party by Xinwu, Liu
    Liu Xinwu

    The Wedding Party

    In this sprawling, award-winning novel, celebrated Chinese writer Liu Xinwu cordially invites you to an epic, riotous, and moving neighborhood feast.On a December morning in 1982, the courtyard of a Beijing siheyuan--a lively quadrangle of homes--begins to stir. Auntie Xue's son Jiyue is getting...
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  • Boston Adventure by Stafford, Jean
    Jean Stafford

    Boston Adventure

    A provocative story of class struggle, privilege, and poverty that put American author Jean Stafford on the map. Growing up in a fishing village north of Boston between the wars, Sonie, the child of immigrants, is so poor that she must "sleep on a...
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  • Flowers of Mold & Other Stories by Ha, Seong-Nan
    Ha Seong-Nan

    Flowers of Mold & Other Stories

    On the surface, Ha Seong-nan's stories seem pleasant enough, yet there's something disturbing just below the surface, ready to permanently disrupt the characters' lives. A woman meets her next-door neighbor and loans her a spatula, then starts suffering horrific gaps in her memory. A...
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  • Frying Plantain by Reid-Benta, Zalika
    Zalika Reid-Benta

    Frying Plantain

    Set in the neighbourhood of "Little Jamaica," Frying Plantain follows a girl from elementary school to high school graduation as she navigates the tensions between mothers and daughters, second-generation immigrants experiencing first-generation cultural expectations, and Black identity in a predominantly white society.Kara Davis is...
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  • Shaky Town by Mathews, Lou
    Lou Mathews

    Shaky Town

    In Shaky Town, Lou Mathews has written a timeless novel of working-class Los Angeles. A former mechanic and street racer, he tells his story in cool and panoramic style, weaving together the tragedies and glories of one of L.A.'s eastside neighborhoods. From a teenage...
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  • The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald, F. Scott
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    The Great Gatsby

    *LARGE PRINT EDITION* "Leaves the reader in a mood of chastened wonder . . . A revelation of life . . . A work of art." --Los Angeles Times Set in during the Roaring Twenties, this masterful story by F. Scott Fitzgerald is told...
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