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  • A Gorgeous Excitement by Weiner, Cynthia
    Cynthia Weiner

    A Gorgeous Excitement

    A dazzling debut novel set in 1980s New York, when cocaine is as easy to get as ice cream, about one young woman's summer of infinite possibility--and looming danger. It was the summer of 1986, when the girl was found dead in Central Park...
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  • Pink Glass Houses by Elias, Asha
    Asha Elias

    Pink Glass Houses

    "Delicious, decadent, and utterly diabolical. No one serves up a scandal like Asha Elias."--Kirsten Miller, author of The ChangeA seductive social satire about the wealthy PTA moms of an elite elementary school in Miami Beach, Pink Glass Houses is very Big Little Lies and...
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  • Evenings and Weekends by McKenna, Ois?n
    Ois?n McKenna

    Evenings and Weekends

    "This is such a love story to cities & people & heartbreaks, death & loss. It's not at all corny, it's smart. But I just finished it & it made me cry." -- Eileen Myles ""A bit like the book version of a Richard...
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  • Rosa's Big Comeback by Barnett, Joyce L.
    Joyce L. Barnett

    Rosa's Big Comeback

    Rosa Brown was an educated sixty-year-old woman, who worked in the corporate world. Life was good until she was informed by her employer that her services were no longer needed. Devastated and confused, Rosa found herself living in a women's shelter in Washington, DC....
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  • Blue & Grey City by Douglas, C. L.
    C. L. Douglas

    Blue & Grey City

    "Look over your shoulder; Justice is coming...Hell has victories. I am at peace."These were the chilling final words of a white supremacist cop killer just before his execution. Hours later, Officer Reed Dixon's already precarious world spirals into chaos. The ominous last statement haunts...
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  • Blue & Grey City by Douglas, C. L.
    C. L. Douglas

    Blue & Grey City

    "Look over your shoulder; Justice is coming...Hell has victories. I am at peace."These were the chilling final words of a white supremacist cop killer just before his execution. Hours later, Officer Reed Dixon's already precarious world spirals into chaos. The ominous last statement haunts...
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  • Evenings and Weekends by McKenna, Ois?n
    Ois?n McKenna

    Evenings and Weekends

    "This is such a love story to cities & people & heartbreaks, death & loss. It's not at all corny, it's smart. But I just finished it & it made me cry." -- Eileen Myles ""A bit like the book version of a Richard...
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  • The One That I Want by Barker, Sandy
    Sandy Barker

    The One That I Want

    The BRAND NEW instalment in Sandy Barker's laugh-out-loud romantic comedy series Greta Davies, the features editor at a women's magazine, is accomplished and successful. That is, in all areas except her love life. Determined to help, Greta's boss - and friend - secretly enlists...
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  • The Summer Between by Raasch, Robert
    Robert Raasch

    The Summer Between

    So much can be lost and found in one summer ​Set against the backdrop of New York City's vibrant Greenwich Village in 1978, TheSummerBetween is the bittersweet, unsparingly honest coming-of-age saga of Andrew Jackson Pollock. Three days before high school graduation, Andy, a New...
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  • Pink Glass Houses by Elias, Asha
    Asha Elias

    Pink Glass Houses

    "Delicious, decadent, and utterly diabolical. No one serves up a scandal like Asha Elias."--Kirsten Miller, author of The ChangeA seductive social satire about the wealthy PTA moms of an elite elementary school in Miami Beach, Pink Glass Houses is very Big Little Lies and...
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  • Pick-Up by Dahlia, Nora
    Nora Dahlia

    Pick-Up

    Harkening to the witty and swoon-worthy rom-coms of Christina Lauren and Kate Clayborn, a new enemies-to-lovers romp whisking us from the stress of city life to lush Caribbean beaches. Sasha Rubinstein is not on her game. Parenting with an absent (and objectively douchey) ex...
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  • Let Me Love You Anyway by Barnes, Jordyn
    Jordyn Barnes

    Let Me Love You Anyway

    Welcome to Los Angeles! Home of Hollywood magic, high-rise buildings, and occasionally hope. For creatives, it's one of the best places to build a career, but not everyone can handle the city of angels.He needs a reason to stay. She needs a way.Falling into...
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  • Deep Rivers by Marshall, Sharon
    Sharon Marshall

    Deep Rivers

    It's the beginning of the 21st century and Charles Rivers, a Black college professor and Vietnam vet who came of age during the freedom struggles of the 60s, is worn down by the routine of teaching and grading at his New York City university....
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  • Hexing Harlots: 1-4 by Andrews, Jj
    Jj Andrews

    Hexing Harlots: 1-4

    Book One: Officer Wolfson knows he's not a real boy. His entire existence is product of a powerful hex-and he is prohibited from speaking about it. You'll enjoy this humorous urban fantasy embellished with real-life cop stories, a strong heroine and an aggressive squirrel....
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  • Three's a Crowd by McKellen, Christy
    Christy McKellen

    Three's a Crowd

    Three's a Crowd: The absolute must-have friends to lovers sexy read for fans of Christina Lauren and Tessa Bailey. Right guy, wrong time... Daisy's perfectly content with her life. She's got a job she likes, a nice enough flat, and in a relationship with...
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  • A New Day: Stories by Mell, Sue
    Sue Mell

    A New Day: Stories

    For fans of Lily King's Five Tuesdays in Winter, a contemporary short story collection that explores the depths of everyday humanity and the universal yearning for new beginnings. Linked by their personal and professional relationships, the characters in these thirteen stories--all set between 1982...
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  • Sun City by Jansson, Tove
    Tove Jansson

    Sun City

    From the author of The Summer Book and creator of the Moomins, an off-beat novel about a retirement community in sunny Florida. In works like The Summer Book and The True Deceiver, as well as in her many short stories, Tove Jansson was drawn...
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  • Environmental Trap by Ross, Al Wynn
    Al Wynn Ross

    Environmental Trap

    Environmental Trap is based on the life of a young man who was born in West Point Georgia and at the age of 8 years old, he moved to Chicago, Illinois with his family. He was pulled into the street life in the fast-paced...
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  • Friends of the Museum by McGowan, Heather
    Heather McGowan

    Friends of the Museum

    Coworkers at a legendary but troubled New York City museum struggle with issues large and small over the course of one extraordinary day in this whip-smart "marvel" (Mona Awad, bestselling author of Bunny) of a novel in the vein of The White Lotus. When...
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  • The Caf? with No Name by Seethaler, Robert
    Robert Seethaler

    The Caf? with No Name

    From one of Austria's most beloved and best-selling authors, comes this vibrant tale of love, companionship, and renewal set against the transformations of 1960s Vienna. Summer 1966. Robert Simon is in his early thirties and has a dream: to open a caf? that welcomes...
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  • Plays Well with Others by Brickman, Sophie
    Sophie Brickman

    Plays Well with Others

    In the vein of Where'd You Go, Bernadette and Fleishman Is in Trouble, a wickedly funny and incisive debut novel following a mother trapped in the rat race of NYC parenting as her life unravels.It takes a village...just not this one. Annie Lewin is...
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  • The Pornographer by McGahern, John
    John McGahern

    The Pornographer

    By "arguably the most important Irish writer since Samuel Beckett" (The Guardian), a character study of a young resident of Dublin who pens erotica for a living, making his money through fantasy while denying the realities of love and sex in his life. The...
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  • May Our Joy Endure by Lambert, Kevin
    Kevin Lambert

    May Our Joy Endure

    Winner of the 2023 Prix M?dicis, Prix D?cembre, and Prix RinguetC?line Wachowski, internationally renowned architect and accidental digital-culture icon, unveils her plans for the Webuy Complex, her first megaproject in Montreal, her hometown. But instead of the triumph she anticipates in finally bringing her...
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  • Royally Unexpected by Ashwood, Laura
    Laura Ashwood

    Royally Unexpected

    A romance fit for a fairy tale, or a royal disaster... Someday, Emmie Walker will open her own service dog training facility. Today, however, she can barely pay the bills. So, she'll take whatever work she can get-even handling the world's most pampered pooch....
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  • The One That I Want by Barker, Sandy
    Sandy Barker

    The One That I Want

    The BRAND NEW instalment in Sandy Barker's laugh-out-loud romantic comedy series Greta Davies, the features editor at a women's magazine, is accomplished and successful. That is, in all areas except her love life. Determined to help, Greta's boss - and friend - secretly enlists...
    $29.99
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  • The Future Was Color by Nathan, Patrick
    Patrick Nathan

    The Future Was Color

    As a Hungarian immigrant working as a studio hack writing monster movies in 1950s Hollywood, George Curtis must navigate the McCarthy-era studio system filled with possible communists and spies, the life of closeted men along Sunset Boulevard, and the inability of the era to...
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  • Me That You See by Freeman, Anne
    Anne Freeman

    Me That You See

    The only good thing about Lexi's barista job is her work wife, Linh. Even her burgeoning relationship with single father, Ethan, is growing cold before it's had time to sizzle. And why can't Lexi shake the feeling that Ethan's not over his wife? When...
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  • Clickbait by Baxter, Holly
    Holly Baxter

    Clickbait

    With the dark comedy and sharp observations of Monica Heisey and Dolly Alderton, a whip-smart and laugh-out-loud funny debut novel about a disgraced, newly divorced journalist demoted to a "clickbait" job at a Manhattan tabloid.The first thing they tell you when you begin your...
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  • Clickbait by Baxter, Holly
    Holly Baxter

    Clickbait

    With the dark comedy and sharp observations of Monica Heisey and Dolly Alderton, a whip-smart and laugh-out-loud funny debut novel about a disgraced, newly divorced journalist demoted to a "clickbait" job at a Manhattan tabloid.The first thing they tell you when you begin your...
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  • Plays Well with Others by Brickman, Sophie
    Sophie Brickman

    Plays Well with Others

    In the vein of Where'd You Go, Bernadette and Fleishman Is in Trouble, a wickedly funny and incisive debut novel following a mother trapped in the rat race of NYC parenting as her life unravels.It takes a village...just not this one. Annie Lewin is...
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  • Two Novels from the Caucasus: Daur Nachkebia's the Shore of the Night and Guram Odisharia's the President's Cat by Odisharia, Guram
    Guram Odisharia

    Two Novels from the Caucasus: Daur Nachkebia's the Shore of the Night and Guram Odisharia's the President's Cat

    In this joint volume of Caucausian fiction, two friends from opposing sides of the unresolved Georgian-Abkhaz conflict join forces to craft a poignant anti-war narrative that spans borders and transcends political divides.After finding themselves on opposing sides of a war-torn region, Guram Odisharia and...
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  • Loves And Entanglements: Stories by Bogaty, Lewis
    Lewis Bogaty

    Loves And Entanglements: Stories

    Loves And Entanglements is a collection of thirteen moving stories about relationships - men and women caught in emotions they struggle to understand and control. Literary fiction from award-winning author Lewis Bogaty.Obsessed: A woman confronts her terror at the fragility of her marriage as...
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  • New Grub Street by Gissing, George
    George Gissing

    New Grub Street

    Enter the cutthroat world of Victorian London's literary scene in George Gissing's New Grub Street. Follow struggling authors and the pursuit of fame andfortune amidst the harsh realities of poverty, ambition and the compromises demanded by society. A timeless portrayal of the perils and...
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  • Maya Nagari: Bombay- Mumbai A City in Stories: Bombay- Mumbai A city in stories by Pinto, Jerry
    Jerry Pinto

    Maya Nagari: Bombay- Mumbai A City in Stories: Bombay- Mumbai A city in stories

    'You cannot catch a city in words. You cannot catch a city at all, ' write the editorsof this anthology. So how do you get the spirit of India's great metropolis, theMaya Nagari, the city of dreams, between the covers of a book? Shanta...
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  • High Noon at Starbucks: And Other Stories by Freadman, Richard
    Richard Freadman

    High Noon at Starbucks: And Other Stories

    High Noon at Starbucks is an eloquent and compelling exploration of human particularity in diverse cultural settings: the author's hometown of Melbourne, Trumpite Florida, post-handover Hong Kong, and Switzerland. Its themes include mid-life experience, identity, mental and physical illness, gender, colonialism and the Holocaust....
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  • A Change of Heart at the Vintage Dress Shop: A Heartwarming and Hilarious Romantic Read by Darling, Annie
    Annie Darling

    A Change of Heart at the Vintage Dress Shop: A Heartwarming and Hilarious Romantic Read

    Another endearing feel-good romance from Annie Darling has readers returning to The Vintage Dress Shop in London's Primrose Hill. Praise for Annie Darling: 'Funny and heartwarming' Reader review 5 stars 'Absolutely gorgeous, swoon worthy romance' Reader review 5 stars 'Heartwarming and compelling' Reader review...
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  • Five Ladies Go Skiing by Aldous, Karen
    Karen Aldous

    Five Ladies Go Skiing

    Five ladies, one unforgettable trip... Escape to gorgeous Switzerland this winter with the brand new, uplifting read from Karen Aldous. When Ginny Watts' husband passes away, she is left grief-stricken, not only over her husband's death but the secrets he has left behind... Luckily...
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  • Crossing the Hudson by Jungk, Peter Stephan
    Peter Stephan Jungk

    Crossing the Hudson

    Gustav Rubin, a fur dealer in Vienna, flies to New York to spend the summer with his wife and two young children in a lake house north of the city. When he arrives late at JFK, he is met by his opinionated, unrelenting mother,...
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  • Queen for a Day by Rosaler, Maxine
    Maxine Rosaler

    Queen for a Day

    The reader knows by page one of Queen for a Day that Mimi Slavitt's three-year-old son is autistic, but if anyone told her, she wouldn't listen, because she doesn't want to know--until at last Danny's behavior becomes so strange even she can't ignore it....
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  • Mood Swings by Barnet, Frankie
    Frankie Barnet

    Mood Swings

    In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, a young Instagram poet starts an affair with a California billionaire who's promised a time machine that will make everything normal again--whatever that means.A whip-smart, absurdly funny debut novel for fans of Patricia Lockwood and Marlowe...
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  • Office Politics by Sheed, Wilfrid
    Wilfrid Sheed

    Office Politics

    "A masterpiece . . . One of the few genuinely comic novels since Lucky Jim." --Elaine Dundy Ever since college, George Wren has dreamed of working at The Outsider, the prestigious weekly edited by his hero, the suave English expat Gilbert Twining. So when...
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  • London Falling by Cleeton, Chanel
    Chanel Cleeton

    London Falling

    "I cried, I laughed and I swooned from beginning to end. I didn't want the book to end." A Life Bound by Books It wasn't exactly a relationship, but they had a connection even more intense When Maggie Carpenter left the seductive glitz of...
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  • Lake City by Kohnstamm, Thomas
    Thomas Kohnstamm

    Lake City

    "Lake City is a darkly funny and extremely relevant debut novel about American inequality and moral authority, featuring a sad-sack antihero who takes way too long to grow up. When he finally does, the results are beautiful, and the book ultimately becomes an elegy...
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  • Another Marvelous Thing by Colwin, Laurie
    Laurie Colwin

    Another Marvelous Thing

    The acclaimed author of Happy All the Time charts the story of a whirlwind love affair of two people who are happily married (just not to each other)--from its fabulous inception to its inevitable end. - "Virtually flawless.... A tour de force." --Los Angeles...
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  • South B's Finest by Maganjo, Makena
    Makena Maganjo

    South B's Finest

    "... Some came running down from the highlands, afraid of a life of endless farming. Others came by way of the Great Rift Valley, hungry for a chance to become Nation Builders. Others still, crossed borders, desirous of a new life in the metropolitan...
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  • Searching for Happy by Knight, Venus
    Venus Knight

    Searching for Happy

    Happy Williams struggles to get out of bed. She's constantly late for work and lies to hide her truth and shame. Are her toxic relationships with her mother, boyfriend, and a hateful coworker the reason for her sadness and loneliness?After a reluctant confrontation, she...
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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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  • Chasing Your Tail by Taylor, Scott
    Scott Taylor

    Chasing Your Tail

    CHASING YOUR TAIL is both humorous and sobering. It's the story of a young man getting nowhere fast in life, who is growing more disillusioned by the minute and has become so fed up with the situation he's about ready to explode. Jim works...
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  • 12 Hours by Wood, L. Marie
    L. Marie Wood

    12 Hours

    The cabbie only remembers taking a break, pulling over in an alley to catch both his breath and the sunrise. His windshield shatters, and two people dash away. He tries to scream, to move, but his neck won't turn. He can only stare at...
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  • The Blooming Of Alison Brennan by Engebretson, Kath
    Kath Engebretson

    The Blooming Of Alison Brennan

    A family full of secrets...and one girl who must survive.Sixteen-year-old Alison Brennan's mother, Bernadette, is an agoraphobic hoarder, and her father Harry seems to have no past. Struggling every day, Alison seeks the help of a school counsellor.When an old homeless man is found...
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