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  • The God of Nightmares by Fox, Paula
    Paula Fox

    The God of Nightmares

    In 1941, twenty-three-year-old Helen Bynum leaves home for the first time and sets out from rural New York to find her Aunt Lulu, an aging actress in New Orleans. There she finds a life of passion and adventure, possibilities and choices. Falling in with...
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  • Four Kinds of Shipwreck by Anabona Smith, Jill
    Jill Anabona Smith

    Four Kinds of Shipwreck

    With a successful career in the City and a great love life, she had everything.Then she got married.What happened?Her husband knows... and he won't say.Prize-winning author Jill Anabona Smith was born on the Isle of Thanet, worked in most parts of Kent and London...
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  • Naked Under the Lights by Peck, Judith
    Judith Peck

    Naked Under the Lights

    The novel is set in and around the iconic Art Students League in New York City where 20th Century stars of the art world studied and taught. Here, Bert Kossoff teaches painting when he is not cloistered in his studio. His wife Ruth defends...
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  • 53 Mulberry by Cooper, Neal
    Neal Cooper

    53 Mulberry

    As children, Minerva and her sister dreamed of opening a home where people could come and stay to find direction and catch their breath from the race of life. Their devotion to help others in need, and to assist them through the trials of...
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  • The Caretaker by Macfarland, Glenn
    Glenn Macfarland

    The Caretaker

    Basically, the book relates to how easily affluent people can be taken advantage of and the steps they take to survive.The Caretaker is written by Glenn MacFarland. Author: Glenn MacfarlandISBN-10: 1645319717ISBN-13: 9781645319719Publisher: Newman SpringsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/26/2020Pages: 40Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.16lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.10d
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  • Forever with Him by Travis, Stacy
    Stacy Travis

    Forever with Him

    Will vacation love survive in the real world? Or will life be our undoing?My French fling with Chris was only supposed to last two weeks... I was bad at relationships, worse at love. So I was leaving it all behind-the French wine, the sunsets,...
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  • I Am House: Walls Can Talk by Fowler, Madonna R.
    Madonna R. Fowler

    I Am House: Walls Can Talk

    Houses, it turns out, know everything. They see with their windows, hear with their roofs, and know their new owners before they come up the walk. They recognize the others, not in bodies anymore, who travel through their walls, hover near the living. Actually,...
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  • No Time for Detours by Gordon, Jean C.
    Jean C. Gordon

    No Time for Detours

    Ava Lewis can take care of herself. That's what she's determined to prove to herself, and to her well meaning, but sometimes overbearing family. And now that she's been provisionally accepted into NYU's law school, she's on her way to making all of her...
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  • Life Line: A Novel of Romance and Rebirth by Allen, James Sloan
    James Sloan Allen

    Life Line: A Novel of Romance and Rebirth

    Accomplished New York book editor Rebecca Winters, on the threshold of forty and recently yet amiably divorced, looks into herself one day as never before and finds--nothing. Her contented life has gone empty.Bewildered and fraught, she vacantly buries herself in work, trying to hide...
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  • Going Home by Appleby, Paula
    Paula Appleby

    Going Home

    Common Ground has been open one full year and is proving to be a successful and popular coffee shop. A group of misfits have become the cornerstone to Josie's success, which in turn, affords them opportunities to regain lost confidences. Josie keeps a journal...
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  • Shortest Day Longest Night by Potts, Cherry
    Cherry Potts

    Shortest Day Longest Night

    Featuring work from Abby Beckel, Bob Beagrie, Cherry Potts, David Mathews, David McVey, Frances Gapper, Neil Brosnan, Pauline Walker, Sarah Evans, Sarah James and Wendy Gill with themes as various as friendships betrayed, birth, atheism, searching space, strangers in the night... and genres from...
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  • The Papaya King by Pelzman, Adam
    Adam Pelzman

    The Papaya King

    "An eccentric outsider is baffled by contemporary Manhattan in this engrossing second novel ... another entrancing, deeply memorable offering from Pelzman." -Kirkus Reviews"How could anyone who has ever spent time in Manhattan resist taking a peek at a book with this title? Happily, The...
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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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  • The Beautiful and Damned: With the Introductory Essay 'The Jazz Age Literature of the Lost Generation' (Read & Co. Classics Edition) by Fitzgerald, F. Scott
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    The Beautiful and Damned: With the Introductory Essay 'The Jazz Age Literature of the Lost Generation' (Read & Co. Classics Edition)

    F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, The Beautiful and Damned, is set at the dawn of the hedonistic Jazz Age, and presents the complex characters and lyrical prose the great American novelist is known for. Anthony Patch is young, handsome, wealthy, and the heir to...
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  • Bride For You by B, Skylar
    Skylar B

    Bride For You

    Jessica Hill is a pretty, spoiled rotten young woman. She's nosy, loud, annoying, a bit selfish. She's used to receiving everything and right away. A tornado of pink fabric, chestnut hair and the scent of strawberries and caramel. A beautiful, but hollow body that...
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  • Ghost Music by Yu, An
    An Yu

    Ghost Music

    From the author of the "original and electric" Braised Pork (Time), An Yu's enchanting and contemplative novel of music and mushrooms follows a former concert pianist searching for the truth about a vanished musicianFor three years, Song Yan has filled the emptiness of her...
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  • Just One Night by Melo, Heather
    Heather Melo

    Just One Night

    Liz, a paralegal from New York, has all but resigned herself to a life of mediocrity. When she is reluctantly accompanies her friends on a trip to Las Vegas, she decides that her life must change, and she breaks her engagement. Ben, a screenwriter...
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  • The Twilight Garden by Adams, Sara Nisha
    Sara Nisha Adams

    The Twilight Garden

    Two feuding neighbors unite to resurrect a neglected city garden in this uplifting and quietly joyful novel by Sara Nisha Adams, author of the beloved The Reading List.In a small pocket of London, between the houses of No.77 and No.79 Eastbourne Road, lies a...
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  • Venoans: A Series of Short Stories by Adams, Adam
    Adam Adams

    Venoans: A Series of Short Stories

    Venoans is a collection of stories interwoven by members of a community in Venoa Beach. From high school teenagers and grifters to mayors and policemen, Venoans live by a code only they truly understand-one of death and big risks. We follow characters like The...
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  • New York Valentine by Reid, Carmen
    Carmen Reid

    New York Valentine

    'I loved her then, I love her now. Annie's back and she's better than ever! Fun, feel good and feisty - Annie Valentine is the woman you want to share a cocktail with!' Portia MacIntoshCan she make it big in the big apple?When Annie...
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  • Ways and Means by Lefferts, Daniel
    Daniel Lefferts

    Ways and Means

    * A Most Anticipated Book of 2024 * Them * Debutiful * Literary Hub * Electric Literature * And Many More! * A searing debut novel about a striving finance student, the line between ambition and greed, and the disordered politics of our era...
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  • Nicolas Pages by Dustan, Guillaume
    Guillaume Dustan

    Nicolas Pages

    An ode to mad love, awarded the Prix de Flore in 1999. Published in 1999 and awarded that year's Prix de Flore, Nicolas Pages marks a departure from the Sadean preoccupations of Guillaume Dustan's first three novels; it is, in essence, a love story....
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  • Secret Turning by Siniari, Stephen N.
    Stephen N. Siniari

    Secret Turning

    "A collection of short stories about life in an inner-city Albanian Orthodox parish in Philadelphia"--Author: Stephen N. SiniariISBN-10: 195589017XISBN-13: 9781955890175Publisher: Ancient Faith PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/10/2022Pages: 296Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.67d
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  • Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Bo-Reum, Hwang
    Hwang Bo-Reum

    Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop

    INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER * NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER INDIE NEXT PICK * Debutiful Most Anticipated Book of 2024 * Powell's Pick of the Month The Korean smash hit available for the first time in English, a slice-of-life novel for readers of Matt Haig's The...
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  • The New Normal by Crighton, K. N.
    K. N. Crighton

    The New Normal

    New Orleans journalist Maggie McBride is fired from her job one hot summer afternoon for no apparent reason except being over fifty. As she struggles with her anger and tries to figure out her next move, a devastating hurricane threatens the city. In its...
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  • Lamentable Journey of Omaha Bigelow Into the Impenetrable Loisaida Jungle by Vega Yunque, Edgardo
    Edgardo Vega Yunque

    Lamentable Journey of Omaha Bigelow Into the Impenetrable Loisaida Jungle

    From one of the most powerful voices in contemporary fiction comes a fantastic adventure through the concrete jungle of New York CityFailed in all his career aspirations, recently laid off from Kinko's, and burdened with a frustrating anatomical shortcoming, Omaha Bigelow finds salvation on...
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  • On the Couch by Kwitney, Alisa
    Alisa Kwitney

    On the Couch

    After going for more than a year without a date -- a record in New York City -- Marlowe Riddle has finally met a broodingly sexy, sharply intelligent man who is clearly interested in making more than polite conversation. The only problem: Joseph Kain...
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  • American Posse by Walsh, Mary
    Mary Walsh

    American Posse

    One of the biggest unsolved crimes of the 20th century, one that has baffled the FBI for decades, has now landed in the hands of Wyatt Earp. In present-day Boston, the renowned lawman of the Old West and his posse of masterminds must solve...
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  • Not Proven: The Second Book in the Punanai Series by Elliott, David James
    David James Elliott

    Not Proven: The Second Book in the Punanai Series

    At thirty-five, Channing Hart was starting to reap the rewards of hard work and sound investing. He revelled in sitting around the big table at Clancy's Tavern. Talk radio without the microphones. The last place you could mouth off without being scolded. Weekends revolved...
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  • Mickey Collins by Forde, Kevin
    Kevin Forde

    Mickey Collins

    Mickey is aware from an early age that the world is against him. This is a fact.Armed with this information, nothing can defeat his devil-may-care attitude, nor stop him getting exactly what he needs. Except perhaps for the fact that he can do nothing...
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  • Ten Years by Hughes, Pernille
    Pernille Hughes

    Ten Years

    'Some days I feel like I've lived more than one lifetime, so, couldn't we be right for each other this time around?'Everyone is talking about this book: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'What an absolute page-turner!...keeps you guessing before pulling off THE PERFECT ending!' Anita'Such a warm, lovely read...
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  • Lying Down with Dogs by Pantaleo, Natalie
    Natalie Pantaleo

    Lying Down with Dogs

    A no-nonsense tale of a college girl, a celebrity encounter, a sexy restaurant, wealthy men, savvy women and many moments of self-discovery.Valerie Imparato's corporate career path is nearly sideswiped as she becomes indoctrinated into the racy lifestyles of the affluent and sometimes famous patrons...
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  • Storage Storeys by Black, Michelle
    Michelle Black

    Storage Storeys

    What is the value of an object once a person no longer uses it - that thing they once needed but now cannot seem to make space for? What makes a person relegate their belongings to a storage unit? Is it tragedy? Loss? Neurosis?...
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  • les Entraves de la Mémoire by Khelalfa, Sada
    Sada Khelalfa

    les Entraves de la Mémoire

    Je n'ai pas écrit ... parce qu'il fallait que quelqu'un d'autre prouve que l'obsession des stylos est une maladie incurable... et que les gens obsédés ne sont que des sages qui se rencontrent sur les navires de la folie. Mais j'ai écrit... pour dire...
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  • The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu by Oshiro, Augusto Higa
    Augusto Higa Oshiro

    The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu

    Reminiscent of Kurasawa's film Ikiru, Enlightenment explores the interior mindscape of a Japanese-Peruvian man and his luminous unraveling Katzuo Nakamatsu is having a recurring dream. He's strolling down the glinting avenues of Lima, branches crowning overhead, when he hears someone snickering from the shadows....
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  • Denison Avenue by Innes, Daniel
    Daniel Innes

    Denison Avenue

    Shortlisted for 2024 Canada Reads Finalist for the 2024 Carnegie Medals for Excellence through the American Library Association A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vulnerable Chinese Canadian elders Bringing together ink artwork and fiction,...
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  • Children of the Ghetto: Large Print Edition - A Study of a Peculiar People by Zangwill, Israel
    Israel Zangwill

    Children of the Ghetto: Large Print Edition - A Study of a Peculiar People

    LARGE PRINT EDITION. 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...
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  • Cult Classic by Crosley, Sloane
    Sloane Crosley

    Cult Classic

    Hilariously insightful and delightfully suspenseful, Cult Classic is an original: a masterfully crafted tale of love, memory, morality, and mind control, as well as a fresh foray into the philosophy of romance. A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK of 2022 at Glamour, W, Nylon, Fortune, Literary...
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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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  • Prophecy of the Emerald Tablet by Fletcher, T. L.
    T. L. Fletcher

    Prophecy of the Emerald Tablet

    "Man is only what he believeth, a brother of darkness or a child of light." (Emerald Tablet of Thoth) An evolving immortal bloodline has now become something the supernatural world fears. Many in their world want their destruction, unwilling to execute the threat themselves...
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  • Dreams Under Glass by Szilágyi, Anca L.
    Anca L. Szil疊yi

    Dreams Under Glass

    As the economy collapses around her in 2008 New York City, recent art school graduate Binnie takes a job as a paralegal to pay the bills. As her art projects languish on the back burner, she begins to obsessively imagine her daily grind expressed...
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  • Tick and the Tock of the Crocodile Clock by Boyle, Kenny
    Boyle Kenny

    The Tick and the Tock of the Crocodile Clock

    Wendy just wants to be a poet. So how comes she's on the run after an art heist?]'May well be the best book I've read in years' - Peter MayAn aspiring writer from the Southside of Glasgow, Wendy is in a rut. She tries...
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  • All Women Are Mortal by Raposo, Peter
    Peter Raposo

    All Women Are Mortal

    Michael Ferreira is a failed poet, not to mention depressed as hell. Mentally abused as a child, he spends his time travelling between England and Portugal, with a brief stop in Spain, wondering when he will find his own home, a place he belongs....
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  • Pussy Foot by Raposo, Peter
    Peter Raposo

    Pussy Foot

    The end is arriving, or maybe not. Meanwhile, the poet Joanne Vanderberg, author of Semen and other classics, is worried about her age and decides to get lots of tattoos and have plenty of sex while reclusive author Seth Wolf finally decides to come...
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  • Talk About Proust by Raposo, Peter
    Peter Raposo

    Talk About Proust

    A young poet travels to Lisbon and finds himself being pursued by an old widow without even knowing why. A man goes crazy and is hospitalized only to discover that his madness can make him rich. A security guard falls asleep at work and...
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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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  • New City: A Story about Race-Baiting and Hope on the South Side of Chicago by Girondi, Patrick
    Patrick Girondi

    New City: A Story about Race-Baiting and Hope on the South Side of Chicago

    Danny is a Polack with a heart of gold. He grew up in New City, home of what was once the world's largest slaughterhouse, the Chicago Stockyards. After Danny's wife's infidelity, he stepped out of what the US calls the "white man's" world. Standing...
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  • American Arcadia by Scalzo, Laura
    Laura Scalzo

    American Arcadia

    "A gorgeous riff of a New York City novel." --Wayne Johnson, Multiple Pulitzer Prize-nominated author of The Red Canoe, Don't Think Twice, and Six Crooked HighwaysNew York City, 1985, the scaffolded and torchless Statue of Liberty is under reconstruction, the Twin Towers hum with...
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  • Chaplin & Company by Fellowes, Mave
    Mave Fellowes

    Chaplin & Company

    When eighteen-year-old Odeline Milk is left orphaned by her mother, she takes her small inheritance and leaves her sleepy hometown behind in search of a lifestyle better suited to her artistic temperament. She moves to London to pursue her single-minded dream of becoming, of...
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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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