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  • Pretty Revenge by Liebert, Emily
    Emily Liebert

    Pretty Revenge

    The name of the game is revenge--no matter the cost--in this emotionally charged thriller reminiscent of The Wife Between Us and The Perfect Nanny. Kerrie O'Malley, jobless and in an unfulfilling relationship, can isolate the singular moment in her life when things veered off...
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  • Humiliation: Stories by Flores, Paulina
    Paulina Flores

    Humiliation: Stories

    "Humiliation is a brilliant book that captures the volatility of misunderstandings, the moment when failures matter less than the need to share them." --Alejandro Zambra, author of Multiple Choice The nine mesmerizing stories in Humiliation, translated from the Spanish by Man Booker International Prize...
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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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  • Shackling Water by Mansbach, Adam
    Adam Mansbach

    Shackling Water

    At the age of nineteen, saxophone prodigy Latif James-Pearson boards a bus to Manhattan to find his aging idol, the great Albert Van Horn. The centers of Latif's universe soon become a Harlem boarding house, where he spends his days practicing intensely, and the...
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  • Star by Anderson, Pamela
    Pamela Anderson

    Star

    Pamela Anderson's life is the stuff of fairy tales and centerfolds. A champagne blonde who was discovered by a beer company, she moved from model to Playmate, from actress to star...and now she can add New York Times bestselling author to her resum ....
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  • Life Without Children: Stories by Doyle, Roddy
    Roddy Doyle

    Life Without Children: Stories

    A brilliantly warm, witty and moving portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heart-rending and uplifting short stories. Love and marriage. Children and family. Death and grief. Life touches everyone the same. But living under lockdown, it changes us alone. In these ten,...
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  • A Case of Curiosities by Kurzweil, Allen
    Allen Kurzweil

    A Case of Curiosities

    In France, on the eve of the Revolution, a young man named Claude Page sets out to become the most ingenious and daring inventor of his time. In the course of a career filled with violence and passion, Claude learns the arts of enameling...
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  • Bright by Pimwana, Duanwad
    Duanwad Pimwana

    Bright

    When five-year-old Kampol is told by his father to wait for him in front of some run-down apartment buildings, the confused boy does as told-he waits, and waits, and waits, until he realizes his father isn't coming back anytime soon. Adopted by the community,...
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  • Promising Young Women by Scanlon, Suzanne
    Suzanne Scanlon

    Promising Young Women

    "Suzanne Scanlon enters the inverted space of grief and near-madness with courage, intelligence, and wit--and with a small, sharp light for us to follow." --Dawn Raffel A series of fragmentary tales tells the story of Lizzie, a young woman who, in her early twenties,...
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  • In the City of Shy Hunters by Spanbauer, Tom
    Tom Spanbauer

    In the City of Shy Hunters

    Tom Spanbauer is one of the most enchanting writers in America today, and In the City of Shy Hunters, his first novel in ten years, is a "rich and colorful" portrait of New York in the 1980s, told with "raw power" (David Wiegand, San...
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  • Sari Shop (Revised) by Bajwa, Rupa
    Rupa Bajwa

    Sari Shop (Revised)

    Ramchand, a tired shop assistant in Sevak Sari House in Amritsar, spends his days patiently showing yards of fabric to the women of "status families" and to the giggling girls who dream of dressing up in silk but can only afford cotton. When Ramchand...
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  • Neon Line by Thompson, Tom
    Tom Thompson

    Neon Line

    Thompson's city is Sydney, and perhaps the most impressive feature of his writing is the way the physical reality of the city is caught throughout the prose, and the power with which Thompson draws the skin of human relationships over this brutal and jagged...
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  • Make Believe by Epperson, Tom
    Tom Epperson

    Make Believe

    Make Believe is a light-hearted love story, set in the cynical, cutthroat world of Hollywood. Dustin Prewitt is a handsome screenwriter with a taste for women, money, big houses, and hot cars. His life is turned upside-down when Laura Keene, his beatiful but crazy...
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  • The Longcut by Hall, Emily
    Emily Hall

    The Longcut

    From Museum of Modern Art editor Emily Hall, a debut novel in the first person about the place of art and the artist in the world.Author: Emily HallISBN-10: 1628973978ISBN-13: 9781628973976Publisher: Dalkey Archive PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/10/2022Pages: 120Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.60dReview Citation(s):...
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  • Yes, Daddy by Parks-Ramage, Jonathan
    Jonathan Parks-Ramage

    Yes, Daddy

    "A gut-churning, heart-wrenching, blockbuster of a first novel . . . Parks-Ramage is an extraordinary new talent and Yes, Daddy is truly something special." --Kristen Arnett, author of Mostly Dead ThingsA propulsive, scorching modern gothic, Yes, Daddy follows an ambitious young man who is...
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  • Bartleby & Benito Cereno: American Tales by Melville, Herman
    Herman Melville

    Bartleby & Benito Cereno: American Tales

    "Bartleby, the Scrivener" - An elderly Manhattan lawyer with a comfortable business in legal documents has two scriveners employed, but an increase in business leads him to advertise for a third. He hires the forlorn-looking Bartleby in the hope that his calmness will soothe...
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  • Three Rooms by Hamya, Jo
    Jo Hamya

    Three Rooms

    A piercing howl of a novel about one young woman's endless quest for an apartment of her own and the aspirations and challenges faced by the millennial generation as it finds its footing in the world, from a shockingly talented debut author "A woman...
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  • The Book of Reykjavik: A City in Short Fiction by Parkinson, Becca
    Becca Parkinson

    The Book of Reykjavik: A City in Short Fiction

    Iceland is a land of stories; from the epic sagas of its mythic past, to its claim today of being home to more writers, more published books and more avid readers, per head, than anywhere in the world. As its capital (and indeed only...
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  • The Archaeology of a Dream City by Raszewski, Monica
    Monica Raszewski

    The Archaeology of a Dream City

    Born and raised in Australia, Martha longs to return to Nadwodom, in a country called Czawa, where her parents and family grew up. As she stumbles upon the works of Marion Porter, an Australian photographer who once photographed the countryside in Czawa, Martha's own...
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  • Hello, Darling, Are You Working? by Everett, Rupert
    Rupert Everett

    Hello, Darling, Are You Working?

    British actor Rupert Everett charmed his way into moviegoers' affections with his scene-stealing performance in "My Best Friend's Wedding." Everett is also the gifted writer of this scathingly funny novel of a down-and-out actor's zany misadventures amid a wildly colorful menagerie of madcap trendsetters.Fame...
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  • How's Your Romance?: Concluding the Buddies Cycle by Mordden, Ethan
    Ethan Mordden

    How's Your Romance?: Concluding the Buddies Cycle

    For a generation, Ethan Mordden's tales about a tightly knit circle of friends who live within the shifting confines of gay Manhattan have entertained tens of thousands of readers and devoted fans. Now Mordden returns to his best-loved characters - the ultimate hunk Carlo;...
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  • Buddies: A Continuation of the Buddies Cycle by Mordden, Ethan
    Ethan Mordden

    Buddies

    What unites us, all of us, surely is brotherhood, a sense that our friendships are historic, designed to hold Stonewall together, muses on character in Ethan Mordden's Buddies. This need for friendship, for nonerotic affection, for buddies, shines forth as an American obsession from...
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  • Rose of No Man's Land by Tea, Michelle
    Michelle Tea

    Rose of No Man's Land

    Fourteen-year-old Trisha Driscoll is a gender-blurring, self-described loner whose family expects nothing of her. While her mother lies on the couch in a hypochondriac haze and her sister aspires to be on The Real World, Trisha struggles to find her own place among the...
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  • 86'd by Fante, Dan
    Dan Fante

    86'd

    In Los Angeles, struggling telemarketer-writer and part-time drunk Bruno Dante is jobless again. The publication of his book of short stories has been put off indefinitely. Searching the want ads for a gig, he finds a chauffeur job. When Bruno calls the number in...
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  • Elbowing the Seducer by Harlan, Wyatt
    Wyatt Harlan

    Elbowing the Seducer

    "The tangiest literary-world roman à clef to emerge from the '80s--it is almost certainly the best of the past four decades . . . Gertler has a high style, a feel for social comedy and a deadly eye for detail." --Dwight Garner, New York...
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  • Morningside Heights by Henkin, Joshua
    Joshua Henkin

    Morningside Heights

    A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Book - When Ohio-born Pru Steiner arrives in New York in 1976, she follows in a long tradition of young people determined to take the city by storm. But when she falls in love with and...
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  • A Shot of Malaria by Souby, Charles
    Charles Souby

    A Shot of Malaria

    In a Shot of Malaria, Charles Souby unfolds the twisted story of a young man, Daniel Martin, desperately hooked on heroin, alcohol and his own delusions. Set in San Francisco in the nineties and written as a deadpan, first-person narrative, the novel captures and...
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  • The Company She Keeps by McCarthy, Mary
    Mary McCarthy

    The Company She Keeps

    This is the author's first novel, which relates the experiences of a young bohemian intellectual. The six episodes create a fascinating portrait of a New York social circle of the 1930s. McCarthy's bold insight and virtuoso style won her immediate recognition as one of...
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  • City Children, Country Summer by Wright, Lawrence
    Lawrence Wright

    City Children, Country Summer

    An up-close account of the experience of inner city New York kids--black and Latino, from ghettos and projects--who spent a summer in an Amish and Mennonite farm community in Central Pennsylvania in the late 1970s, sponsored by the Fresh Air Fund. City Chidren, Country...
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  • Sacrifice Fly: A Mystery by O'Mara, Tim
    Tim O'Mara

    Sacrifice Fly: A Mystery

    Raymond Donne wasn't always a schoolteacher. Not only did he patrol the streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, as one of New York's Finest, but being the nephew of the chief of detectives, he was expected to go on to bigger things. At least he was...
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  • Seven Nights by Strauss, Simon
    Simon Strauss

    Seven Nights

    It's night time, and a young man sits writing at a table. He's afraid. Afraid of having to decide--on a woman, a group of friends, an annual holiday destination. He's afraid of becoming numb to emotion. Afraid of growing up. But all of that...
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  • Life, Only Better by Gavalda, Anna
    Anna Gavalda

    Life, Only Better

    Two lost young Parisians discover new paths for their lives in this charming pair of novellas by the international-bestselling author of Billie. Twenty-four-year-old Mathilde has abandoned her studies in art history for a job leaving anonymous negative comments on websites. One day she loses...
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  • The Last Fair Deal Going Down by Rhodes, David
    David Rhodes

    The Last Fair Deal Going Down

    This novel from the acclaimed author of Driftless is "an arresting work about the salvation of a disintegrating Iowa family" (The New York Times).Survival has been the Sledge way since Reuben Sledge's father first moved to Des Moines. Yet the family seems cursed, and...
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  • A City Happens in Love (Ishq Mein Shahar Hona) by Kumar, Ravish
    Ravish Kumar

    A City Happens in Love (Ishq Mein Shahar Hona)

    Sparkling stories of love, longing and heartbreak in the city by Ravish Kumar, journalist, TV anchor and bestselling author of The Free VoiceA boy from Bihar living in Lajpat Nagar likes a momo-seller from the Northeast; she likes him too, but when he gifts...
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  • If You Can Get It by Hodge, Brendan
    Brendan Hodge

    If You Can Get It

    Jen Nilsson has an MBA, a nice condo, and a fast-track job at a tech start-up in Silicon Valley. If her big product launch goes well next month, she may finally land the marketing director job she's been gunning for. But then her younger...
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  • Notice by Cole, Dustin
    Dustin Cole

    Notice

    The context is Summer 2017, Vancouver, British Columbia, where economic imperatives are making space less and less accessible to lower-income individuals. The rental crisis is intensifying, ravenous real estate development is thriving and there is a province-wide forest fire emergency, which blankets the city...
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  • Tatouine by Hastings, Katherine
    Katherine Hastings

    Tatouine

    It's a long way from a basement apartment in a Montreal suburb to a new life on a fictional planet, but that's the destination our unnamed narrator has set his sights on, bringing readers with him on an off-beat and often hilarious journey. Along...
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  • A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories by Cohen, Leonard
    Leonard Cohen

    A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories

    A never-before-published early novel and stories by the legendary musician, songwriter, and poet Leonard CohenBefore Leonard Cohen's worldwide fame expanded to fourteen studio albums, Grammy awards, and late-career global tours, he yearned for literary stardom. The Canadian songwriter of iconic hits like "Hallelujah," "Suzanne,"...
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  • Mid-Air: Two Novellas by Shorr, Victoria
    Victoria Shorr

    Mid-Air: Two Novellas

    Victoria Shorr's remarkable gift for depicting the inner lives of complex characters shines in two powerful explorations of family, ambition, class, and status.In "Great Uncle Edward," a family gathers for dinner. At ninety-three, Great Uncle Edward commands the table in his three-piece suit; Cousin...
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  • The Reading List by Adams, Sara Nisha
    Sara Nisha Adams

    The Reading List

    A BEST OF SUMMER READ ACCORDING TO NEWSWEEK, PARADE MAGAZINE, NBC NEWS, LITHUB, AND POPSUGAR!An unforgettable and heartwarming debut about how a chance encounter with a list of library books helps forge an unlikely friendship between two very different people in a London suburb.Widower...
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  • The Ordinary Seaman by Goldman, Francisco
    Francisco Goldman

    The Ordinary Seaman

    The Ordinary Seaman, the second novel from acclaimed writer Francisco Goldman is a lyrical and spellbinding story of hope, despair, and the promise of love. The ordinary seaman is Esteban, a 19-year-old veteran of the war in Nicaragua, who has come to America with...
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  • Moloch by Miller, Henry
    Henry Miller

    Moloch

    Uncovered along with Crazy Cock in 1988 by Miller biographer Mary V. Dearborn, Moloch emerged from the misery of Miller's years at Western Union and from the squalor of his first marriage. Set in the rapidly changing New York City of the early twenties,...
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  • Two Cities: A Love Story by Wideman, John Edgar
    John Edgar Wideman

    Two Cities: A Love Story

    A redemptive, healing novel, Two Cities brings to brilliant culmination the themes John Edgar Wideman has developed in fourteen previous acclaimed books. It is a story of bridges -- bridges spanning the rivers of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, bridges arching over the rifts that have...
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  • Yesterday by Kristóf, Ágota
    ﾁgota Krist

    Yesterday

    ﾁgota Krist packs volumes into this elegant shape-shifting novella. It's simultaneously a sly exploration of storytelling and a powerful narrative about immigration and the pitfalls of starting over in a new country. Yesterday is a necessary and uncannily timely work by one of the...
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  • Candy by Mian, Mian
    Mian Mian

    Candy

    An international literary phenomenon -- now available for the first time in English translation -- Candy is a hip, harrowing tale of risk and desire, the story of a young Chinese woman forging a life for herself in a world seemingly devoid of guidelines....
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  • The Flirt by Tessaro, Kathleen
    Kathleen Tessaro

    The Flirt

    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Perfume Collector comes this charming, witty novel about a "professional" flirt."Unique situation for an attractive, well-mannered, morally flexible young man. Hours irregular. Pay generous. Discretion a must..."When struggling, out-of-work actor, Hughie Venables-Smythe sees the mysterious...
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  • The Incompletes by Chejfec, Sergio
    Sergio Chejfec

    The Incompletes

    "Now I am going to tell the story of something that happened one night years ago, and the events of the morning and afternoon that followed."The Incompletes begins with this simple promise. But to try to get at the complete meaning of the day's...
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  • Here Until August: Stories by Rowe, Josephine
    Josephine Rowe

    Here Until August: Stories

    "Here Until August tracks the shimmer of precarious moments and transient moods with devastating precision. In their steady excavation of intimacy, these spacious stories bring Alice Munro to mind. I underlined sentence after sentence as I read: for their beauty, their clarity, and their...
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  • The Schrödinger Girl by Brett, Laurel
    Laurel Brett

    The Schringer Girl

    "The Schringer Girl illuminates, explains, and juggles complex concepts with ease, leaving readers pondering the multiple realities after the book is finished." --Electric LiteratureGarrett Adams, an uptight behavioral psychology professor who refuses to embrace the 1960s, is in a slump. The dispirited rats in...
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  • The Beautiful and Damned by Fitzgerald, F. Scott
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    The Beautiful and Damned

    Rich, beautiful and free to do as they please, Anthony Patch and Gloria Gilbert seem made for one another and the carefree world of Jazz Age America. But if the good times, the money and even the love run out, what remains?First published in...
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