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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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  • 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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  • The Book of Second Chances by Slee, Katherine
    Katherine Slee

    The Book of Second Chances

    A charming, uplifting novel about love, loss, and finding your way in the world, perfect for fans of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine and The Keeper of Lost Things.Emily can't remember the last time she left the house. Or spoke to anyone besides her...
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  • In Our Mad and Furious City by Gunaratne, Guy
    Guy Gunaratne

    In Our Mad and Furious City

    Long-listed for the 2018 Man Booker PrizeShort-listed for the 2018 Gordon Burn PrizeShort-listed for the 2018 Goldsmiths Prize Inspired by the real-life murder of a British army soldier by religious fanatics, Guy Gunaratne's In Our Mad and Furious City is a snapshot of the...
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  • Bread Alone by Hendricks, Judith R.
    Judith R. Hendricks

    Bread Alone

    For fans of Like Water for Chocolate and Woman on Top comes a deliciously magical and mouth watering story, filled with wonder, discovery, and new beginnings. Thirty-one-year-old Wynter Morrison long ago gave up on finding a suitable career and drifted into the role of...
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  • Arbutus Manor by Darren, James
    James Darren

    Arbutus Manor

    Escape with a dynamic group of young adults that meet at a Vancouver West End room and board house named Arbutus Manor. Follow Matt the "lovable scoundrel", Mina the beautiful runaway bride, Carol the physically challenged woman with a zest for life and Jordie...
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  • The Valedictorian by Elliott, David James
    David James Elliott

    The Valedictorian

    High school was child's play for Arthur Wilberforce Cardel. But now the valedictorian is back home after his first term at Queens, and something is terribly wrong. Once perceived as destined for great things, he's now inexplicably sullen. His parents are frantic. Why won't...
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  • Bellamonia by Schertzer, John
    John Schertzer

    Bellamonia

    An ominous, uncanny, and darkly hilarious descent into a paranoid, disaffected, and entirely relatable consciousness. Both a great New York novel, and a great novel about the myriad modern tensions between self and society, reason and unreason, boredom and transcendence, and, ultimately, sanity and...
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  • Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People by Zangwill, Israel
    Israel Zangwill

    Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People

    Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People (1892) is a novel by Israel Zangwill. Raised in London by parents from Latvia and Poland, Zangwill understood the plight of the city's Jewish community firsthand. Having risen through poverty to become an educator...
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  • Panic Years by Difranco, Daniel
    Daniel Difranco

    Panic Years

    "I'd be twenty-nine at the end of the year," the narrator of Panic Years announces, "and playing bass was the only thing I was good at." Fueled by positive online reviews and a minimum of introspection, Paul and his bickering bandmates--beautiful Laney, hard-drinking Jeff,...
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  • Eighty-Sixed by Feinberg, David B.
    David B. Feinberg

    Eighty-Sixed

    In 1980, B. J. Rosenthal's only mission is to find himself a boyfriend and avoid setbacks like bad haircuts, bad sex, and Jewish guilt. In post-AIDS 1986, B.J.'s world has changed dramatically -- his friends and lovers are getting sick, everyone is at risk,...
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  • The Likely World by Conroy-Goldman, Melanie
    Melanie Conroy-Goldman

    The Likely World

    Twenty years of addiction to cloud, a drug which wipes the user's short-term memory, have left single mom Mellie with her mind in fragments. With the help of a tough-minded sponsor, and motivated by her own medically-challenged daughter, Mellie clings to a fragile sobriety....
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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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  • Saturn's Return to New York by Gran, Sara
    Sara Gran

    Saturn's Return to New York

    Elegiac, elegant, and more relevant than ever, this new edition of Sara Gran's debut novel is a modern literary classic. Cities and families make up our lives in equal measure: both never stop changing, and both can protect us, hold us--or cut us to...
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  • Somewhere Along the Way by Knowles, Kathleen
    Kathleen Knowles

    Somewhere Along the Way

    In the summer of 1981, Maxine Cooper moves from the Midwest to San Francisco with her gay best friend, Chris, where she hopes to find love and community. But gay life in a big city is much more complicated than either of them ever...
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  • The Night of Rome by Bonini, Carlo
    Carlo Bonini

    The Night of Rome

    "Razor-sharp political thriller set in Berlusconi's Rome."--The New Statesman Things are changing in Rome. The new Pope, determined to bring radical reform to the Vatican, proclaims an extraordinary Jubilee year, one "of Mercy." A new center-left government replaces its disgraced predecessor. And with crime...
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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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