J.R. Moehringer grew up listening for a voice: It was the sound of his missing father, a disc jockey who disappeared before J.R. spoke his first words. As a boy, J.R. would press his ear to a...
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Auteur: Moehringer, J. R.Sommaire: -
Auteur: Hynes, JamesSommaire:
With a defeated sigh, ex-college professor Paul Trilby faces the downward spiral that is his existence. After his wife and three subsequent girlfriends dump him, and he loses just as many jobs, he...
Genre: Humorous fiction -
Auteur: Hynes, JamesSommaire:
This set of novellas from Austin, Texas resident James Hynes was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. As chilling as the best of Edgar Allan Poe...
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Auteur: Buckley, Susan WashburnSommaire:Experience 20 great moments in American history, from the 1631 quest of Christian libertarian Roger Williams to the 1988 ordeal of Sudanese refugee Peter Malual.
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Auteur: Millhauser, StevenSommaire:
A collection of darkly comic stories united by their obsession with obsession.
Genre: Short stories -
Auteur: Shteyngart, GarySommaire:
After returning to Russia to attend his father's funeral, 30-year-old Misha is subsequently denied a visa when he attempts to re-enter the United States. What follows is a series of misadventures...
Genre: Humorous fiction -
Auteur: Noonan, William Sylvester, Huber, RobertSommaire:
For 25 years William Noonan and John F. Kennedy, Jr. were best friends. Sharing an adolescence in Hyannisport, Massachusetts, the two frequented beach bonfires and the Monday-night yacht-club...
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Auteur: Shteyngart, GarySommaire:
In a novel set in the near future, when a beautiful, yet cruel, woman that Lenny Abramov met in Italy says she his coming to stay with him in New York, even the tanks and soldiers stationed in the...
Genre: Romance fiction -
Auteur: Shteyngart, GarySommaire:
In a novel about being an outsider in America and what it means to be an American, Vladimir, a young Russian-American immigrant, pursues his dreams of success, wealth, and a girlfriend, as his...
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Auteur: Browder, BillSommaire:
November 2009. An emaciated young lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, is led to a freezing isolation cell in a Moscow prison, handcuffed to a bed rail, and beaten to death by eight police officers. His...