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  • Life on the 64 Bus by Hodson, Brad
    Brad Hodson

    Life on the 64 Bus

    After being diagnosed with mental illness, Keats wants nothing more than to get away. His first day in Rome he falls in love - and she steals his wallet and passport. See, this isn't the Rome of La Dolce Vita. This is the Rome...
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  • I Hate the Internet by Kobek, Jarett
    Jarett Kobek

    I Hate the Internet

    What if you told the truth and the whole world heard you? Would you expect to be believed? What if you lived in a country swamped with Internet outrage? What if you were a woman living in a society that hated women? In this,...
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  • Clean Sweep by Lee, E. B.
    E. B. Lee

    Clean Sweep

    Retirement was supposed to bring her time to paint. Instead, she would find a purpose.Carli Morris is ready for her next chapter. Selling her Madison Avenue ad agency for billions, the self-assured career woman pursues her love of art and spends her spare hours...
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  • Buy Me Love by Cooley, Martha
    Martha Cooley

    Buy Me Love

    Described by Publishers Weekly as Cooley's "sharp latest", "Cooley has a sure hand in probing the intersection of artistic ambition and money. This hopeful take is sure to move readers." In Brooklyn, New York, in 2005, Ellen Portinari buys a lottery ticket on a...
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  • Love Songs for Skeptics by Pishiris, Christina
    Christina Pishiris

    Love Songs for Skeptics

    Voicy, heartfelt, hilarious, propulsive--this book is brilliant.--Christina Lauren, New York Times and USA Today bestselling authorFor fans of Josie Silver and Emily Henry comes a debut romcom about the life-changing magic of second chances. This charming and quirky debut has it all: childhood friends,...
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  • The Not Wives by Moore, Carley
    Carley Moore

    The Not Wives

    Set in Occupy-era New York City, this novel follows sex-positive awakening and burgeoning political resistance in the lives of three women: A provocative and well-told story about chosen community, friendship, and human frailty" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). The Not Wives traces the lives of...
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  • Go by Holmes, John Clellon
    John Clellon Holmes

    Go

    The novel that launched the Beat Generation's literary legacy describes the world of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Neil Cassady. Drafted two months before Jack Kerouac began On The Road, Go is the first and most accurate chronicle of the private lives lived by...
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  • Derelict by Aaron, Relentless
    Relentless Aaron

    Derelict

    From hip hop kingpin and #1 New York Times bestselling author 50 Cent comes a gritty novel that dares to tell the truth about the Life on the Street: One man did his time...but now he wants payback. Who's gonna hire an ex-con? That's...
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  • Nexus by Miller, Henry
    Henry Miller

    Nexus

    Nexus, the last book of Henry Miller's epic trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, is widely considered to be one of the landmarks of American fiction. In it, Miller vividly recalls his many years as a down-and-out writer in New York City, his friends, mistresses, and...
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  • The Joke by Kundera, Milan
    Milan Kundera

    The Joke

    "A thoughtful, intricate, ambivalent novel with the reach of greatness in it." --John Updike"It is impossible to do justice here to the subtleties, comedy, and wisdom of this very beautiful novel. Milan Kundera is an artist, clearly one of the best to be found...
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  • Figurines by Boud, Jamie
    Jamie Boud

    Figurines

    In 2011 New York, Rachel is one step away from becoming invisible. Half a century earlier, confined in the clean, white walls of a mental hospital, Anna wishes she could be.Rachel and Anna's lives are woven together-one desperate to be seen, to find out...
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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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  • Aviary by McNamer, Deirdre
    Deirdre McNamer

    Aviary

    A masterful novel illuminating the rich and hidden facets of human character among the residents of a senior residence in Montana--and "a cleansing antidote to the last few years of political and cultural turmoil . . . if you have anything in the way...
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  • The Gracie Allen Murder Case by Van Dine, S. S.
    S. S. Van Dine

    The Gracie Allen Murder Case

    Gracie Allen breaks the Philo Phormula in a number of ways. First is its title: this is the only book in the series to modify "Murder Case" with more than one word, much less with the name of a character. And then there's that...
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  • The Great Gatsby: Original 1925 Edition by Fitzgerald, F. Scott
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    The Great Gatsby: Original 1925 Edition

    Complete edition of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Written in and describing the decadent period of 1920's America, Fitzgerald's lyrical verse is a tragically simple love story that is strangely profound. This is a haunting classic that stays with the reader. "Only...
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  • Quotients by O'Neill, Tracy
    Tracy O'Neill

    Quotients

    Two people search for connection in a world of fractured identities and aliases, global finance, big data, intelligence bureaucracies, algorithmic logic, and terror. Jeremy Jordan and Alexandra Chen hope to make a quiet home together but struggle to find a space safe from their...
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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 - COMING SOON TO 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 the last...
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  • Maximum Bob by Leonard, Elmore
    Elmore Leonard

    Maximum Bob

    A character so outrageous he could only have come from the ingenious imagination of Elmore Leonard, lewd, lecherous, law-bending Florida jurist Judge Robert "Maximum Bob" Gibbs has been judged guilty by a grudge-bearing malefactor and sentenced to death--by alligator, if necessary. Maximum Bob is...
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  • Old New York by Wharton, Edith
    Edith Wharton

    Old New York

    First published in 1924, "Old New York" is a collection of four short stories set in the New York of the 1840s, 50s, 60s, and 70s by American author Edith Wharton. These stories are often considered a companion to Wharton's celebrated novel "The Age...
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  • Through Thorns by Vulliamy, Mark
    Mark Vulliamy

    Through Thorns

    It's 2007, and Sandra Treming has just served 25 years in prison on a terrorism and murder conviction stemming from her involvement in the "Berkman Brigade," an early 1980s political activist group. Described by the media as "the mastermind behind a monstrous terrorist act...
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  • The Lonely Lady by Robbins, Harold
    Harold Robbins

    The Lonely Lady

    From the author of The New York Times #1 bestselling novel The Carpetbaggers comes the gutwrenching story of one woman's battle to break free of the male-dominated, sexual pay-to-play culture of Hollywood.... THE LONELY LADYJeriLee Randall is a young girl with dreams of being...
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  • The Lonely Lady by Robbins, Harold
    Harold Robbins

    The Lonely Lady

    From the author of The New York Times #1 bestselling novel The Carpetbaggers comes the gutwrenching story of one woman's battle to break free of the male-dominated, sexual pay-to-play culture of Hollywood.... THE LONELY LADYJeriLee Randall is a young girl with dreams of being...
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  • Secure the Shadow by Henson, Michael
    Michael Henson

    Secure the Shadow

    An interconnected web of lives in one midwestern city captures the surprising humanity of people searching for their authentic selves amid the 1990s drug crisis.Amy Taylor finds the inner-city streets around her high school vibrant and animated compared to the bland middle-class neighborhood where...
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  • Faultland by Vitello, Suzy
    Suzy Vitello

    Faultland

    The Sparrow family is falling apart, and now their city is too. When Portland is hit by the Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake, siblings Morgan, Olivia, and Sherman are tasked with keeping their family alive following one of the worst natural disasters in living memory....
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  • The Dishwasher by Larue, Stéphane
    Stéphane Larue

    The Dishwasher

    WINNER OF THE AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD - NOMINATED FOR CANADA READS - A NEW YORK TIMES NEW & NOTEWORTHY BOOK - A NOW MAGAZINE BEST BOOK TO READ FOR SUMMER 2019 - As heard on CBC's The Sunday Edition with Michael Enright...
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  • The Narcissism of Small Differences by Zadoorian, Michael
    Michael Zadoorian

    The Narcissism of Small Differences

    A hilarious and poignant novel about growing up, buying in, selling out, and the death of irony.The Narcissism of Small Differences is one of Zadoorian's] best. He has become an essential chronicler of the life in Detroit at the beginning of our century.--Stateside, Michigan...
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  • Numbers by Rechy, John
    John Rechy

    Numbers

    Book jacket/back: Johnny Rio, a handsome narcissist but no longer a pretty boy, travels to Los Angeles, the site of past sexual conquest and remembered youthful radiance, in a frenzied attempt to recreate his younger self. Johnny has ten precious days to draw the...
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  • Locas by Murray, Yxta Maya
    Yxta Maya Murray

    Locas

    A rhythmic, terrifying raw plunge into East L.A. gang life, Locas is the story of two teenage girls, Lucia and Cecilia-the girlfriend and sister of a rising young gangster whose gun trade is about to explode into the big business of drugs. When their...
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  • No Bones by Burns, Anna
    Anna Burns

    No Bones

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2002 A stunning debut novel about a little girl growing up in Belfast, from the author of the Man Booker Prize winning novel, Milkman. 'Marvellous: shocking, moving, evocative' Daily Mail Every single night and every single day...
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  • There Is Confusion by Fauset, Jessie Redmon
    Jessie Redmon Fauset

    There Is Confusion

    There Is Confusion (1924) is a novel by Jessie Redmon Fauset. Published to resounding acclaim from such critics as Alain Locke and Montgomery Gregory, There Is Confusion was largely forgotten by the 1930s as the Great Depression and the Second World War shifted national...
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  • The Sun Also Rises: Deluxe Illustrated Edition by Hemingway, Ernest
    Ernest Hemingway

    The Sun Also Rises: Deluxe Illustrated Edition

    New illustrations by Tim Foley and a new foreword by author Robert Wheeler catapult this timeless classic by Ernest Hemingway into the twenty-first century with vigor. For nearly a century, The Sun Also Rises has endured as one of Hemingway's masterworks, and is widely...
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  • Not You Again by Osburn, Terri
    Terri Osburn

    Not You Again

    Four blind dates in five days. I can't believe I agreed to this.Actually, I can. That's what I do. I agree to things I don't want to do to make other people happy. In this case, my four best friends. They're worried about me...
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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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  • Another Kind of Madness by Pavlic, Ed
    Ed Pavlic

    Another Kind of Madness

    "A full-bodied literary achievement bustling with sweat, regret, and sound." --KIESE LAYMONNdiya Grayson returns to her childhood home of Chicago as a young professional, but even her high-end job in a law office can't protect her from half-repressed memories of childhood trauma. One evening,...
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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 the...
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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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  • 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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  • Moscodelphia by Rafferty, Charles
    Charles Rafferty

    Moscodelphia

    "Moscodelphia is extraordinary. Terrifyingly spare in its language and pace, this debut novel by one of our best poets unfolds into a tale that holds dystopic caution and the hunger of love in two steady hands. Readers of Rafferty's poetry will know he is...
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  • The Book of Shanghai: A City in Short Fiction by Danyan, Chen
    Chen Danyan

    The Book of Shanghai: A City in Short Fiction

    As the end of the world arrives in downtown Shanghai, one man's only wish is to return a library book... When a publisher agrees to let a star author use his company's attic to write in, little does he suspect this will become the...
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  • Private Means by Lefavour, Cree
    Cree Lefavour

    Private Means

    "This feels like an Ian McEwan novel. Served on a bed of Cheever. I can't offer higher praise than that. But written by a woman. Which is even better."-- Elizabeth Gilbert Spanning the course of a single summer, Private Means is acclaimed memoirist Cree...
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  • Through the Wall by Corcoran, Caroline
    Caroline Corcoran

    Through the Wall

    Pre-order Five Days Missing now! The gripping new thriller from the bestselling author Caroline Corcoran, coming February 2022.'A rival to Gone Girl for its addictive, twisted plot.' STYLISTLexie's got the perfect life. And someone else wants it...Lexie loves her home. She feels safe and...
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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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  • No Thoroughfare by Dickens, Charles
    Charles Dickens

    No Thoroughfare

    A distraught mother is forced to abandon her baby to a foundling hospital and begs to know the name that the authorities have given her child. She's told that his name is Walter Wilding, and upon her returns a dozen years later, it's Walter...
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  • Green Sun by Anderson, Kent
    Kent Anderson

    Green Sun

    "One of the unsung legends of crime fiction" (Chicago Tribune), Kent Anderson, returns after two decades with this dazzling novel about justice, character and fate, set against the backdrop of an American city at war with itself. Oakland, California, 1983: a city churning with...
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  • I Heart New York by Kelk, Lindsey
    Lindsey Kelk

    I Heart New York

    "I'll read anything she writes" -- Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling authorThe perfect book for Sex and the City and Emily in Paris fans, I Heart New York by Lindsey Kelk truly celebrates the city that never sleeps.It's official. Angela Clarke is...
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  • Here Comes Trouble by Macomber, Debbie
    Debbie Macomber

    Here Comes Trouble

    On Christmas Eve, Maryanne and Nolan Adams tell their kids the story they most want to hear - how Mom and Dad met and fell in love. It all started when they were reporters on rival Seattle papers . . . Maryanne Simpson is...
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  • There Is Confusion by Fauset, Jessie Redmon
    Jessie Redmon Fauset

    There Is Confusion

    There Is Confusion (1924) is a novel by Jessie Redmon Fauset. Published to resounding acclaim from such critics as Alain Locke and Montgomery Gregory, There Is Confusion was largely forgotten by the 1930s as the Great Depression and the Second World War shifted national...
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  • The Hated Ones by Fiorito, Mike
    Mike Fiorito

    The Hated Ones

    "The Hated Ones" is a vivid and elegant collection about coming of age in the rough-and-tumble world of New York City.Brimming with grit and vulnerability, The Hated Ones offers characters coming to terms with the expectations of masculinity in a distinctly urban world.Angela Mitchell,...
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  • The Book of Jakarta: A City in Short Fiction by Fransisca, Hanna
    Hanna Fransisca

    The Book of Jakarta: A City in Short Fiction

    A young woman takes a driverless taxi through the streets of Jakarta, only to discover that the destination she is hurtling towards is now entirely submerged... A group of elderly women visit a famous amusement park for one last ride, but things don't go...
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  • Closure by Todd, Lindsey
    Lindsey Todd

    Closure

    "I hope, after this extremely long love letter, that you can appreciate the way all of our little moments fell together in the type of perfection I had once believed I'd only read about in books."For Morgan, Philadelphia isn't "just" a city. It can...
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