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  • The last days of café leila
    Author:
    Bijan, Donia
    Summary:

    "A glorious treat awaits you at the literary table of Donia Bijan."-Adriana Trigiani Set against the backdrop of Iran's rich, turbulent history, this exquisite debut novel is a powerful story of food, family, and a...
  • The kingdom
    Author:
    Nakamura, Fuminori
    Summary:

    Yurika is a freelancer in the Tokyo underworld. She poses as a prostitute, carefully targeting potential Johns, selecting powerful and high-profile men. When she is alone with them, she drugs them and takes incriminating photos to sell...
  • The jezebel remedy
    Author:
    Clark, Martin
    Summary:

    Lisa and Joe Stone, married for twenty years and sole partners in their small law firm in Henry County, Virginia, handle less than glamorous cases, whether domestic disputes, personal injury settlements, or a plethora of complaints from...
  • The help
    Author:
    Stockett, Kathryn
    Summary:

    "With more than 3 million copies sold, the #1 New York Times bestseller is now available in a special gift edition. A modern classic, The Help has been a cultural touchstone for the millions of readers who have cheered on Skeeter...
  • The Hawkline monster : a Gothic western
    Author:
    Brautigan, Richard
    Summary:

    Eastern Oregon, 1902. Magic Child, a fifteen-year-old Native American girl, wanders into a whorehouse looking for the right men to kill the monster that lives in the ice caves under the basement of Miss Hawkline's yellow house....
  • The groves of academe a novel
    Author:
    McCarthy, Mary
    Summary:

    A college instructor embarks on a fanatical quest to save his job-and enact righteous revenge-in this brilliantly acerbic satire of university politics during the early Cold War years Henry Mulcahy's future is in question. An...
  • The girl of the lake stories
    Author:
    Roorbach, Bill
    Summary:

    Nine richly varied, often funny, always moving stories that reveal the complex workings of the human heart. Bill Roorbach conjures vivid characters whose layered interior worlds feel at once familiar and extraordinary. He first...
  • The gilded life of Matilda Duplaine
    Author:
    Brunkhorst, Alex
    Summary:

    The story begins with a dinner party invitation. When young journalist Thomas Cleary is sent to dig up quotes for the obituary of a legendary film producer, the man's eccentric daughter offers him entrEe into the exclusive upper...
  • The floating world
    Author:
    Babst, C. Morgan
    Summary:

    A dazzling debut about family, home, and grief, The Floating World takes readers into the heart of Hurricane Katrina with the story of the Boisdores, whose roots stretch back nearly to the foundation of New Orleans. Though the storm is...
  • The first day
    Author:
    Harrison, Phil
    Summary:

    Set in Ireland and New York, a debut novel about an affair and its explosive consequences-the sins of the father visited on the son in unexpected and irreversible ways Outside an east Belfast mission hall, pastor and family man Samuel...
  • The fall of saints a novel
    Author:
    Ngugi, Wanjiku wa.
    Summary:

    Mugure and Zack seem to have the picture-perfect family: a young, healthy son, a beautiful home in Riverdale, New York, and a bright future. But one night, as Mugure is rummaging through an old drawer, she comes across a piece of paper...
  • The evening star
    Author:
    McMurtry, Larry
    Summary:

    Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry delivers the sequel to his enormously popular novel Terms of Endearment (RB# 90067), also an Academy Award-winning motion picture. Aurora Greenway is now dealing with the trials and...
  • The dhow house
    Author:
    McNeil, Jean
    Summary:

    A lushly imagined novel that asks, "When do we ever really know ourselves'" When Rebecca Laurelson is forced to leave her post as a trauma surgeon in an east African field hospital, she arrives at her aunt's house on...
  • The days when birds come back
    Author:
    Reed, Deborah
    Summary:

    An emotionally searing novel of second chances from an author whose "gorgeous and wise prose" (Cheryl Strayed) will stay with you long after you're done June is in transition, reeling from her divorce, trying to stay...
  • The dark net
    Author:
    Percy, Benjamin
    Summary:

    Hell on earth is only one click of a mouse away in acclaimed writer Benjamin Percy's terrifying new horror novel The Dark Net is real. An anonymous and often criminal arena that exists in the secret, far reaches of the Web, some...
  • The Cuckoo's Child
    Author:
    Thompson, Margaret
    Summary:

    In her forties, Livvy Alvarsson hopes to be a bone marrow donor for her much-loved younger brother, Stephen. Instead, she discovers she has no idea who she is. This is the second great loss she has suffered, for eleven years earlier her...
  • The clay girl
    Author:
    Tucker, Heather
    Summary:

    Vincent Appleton smiles at his daughters, raises a gun, and blows off his head. For the Appleton sisters, life had unravelled many times before. This time it explodes. Eight-year-old Hariet, known to all as Ari, is dispatched to Cape...
  • The Canterbury Trail
    Author:
    Abdou, Angie
    Summary:

    It’s the last ski weekend of the season and a mishmash of snow-enthusiasts is on its way to a remote backwoods cabin. In an odd pilgrimage through the mountains, the townsfolk of Coalton—from the ski bum to the urbanite—embark on a...
  • The bone clocks
    Author:
    Mitchell, David
    Summary:

    Following a scalding row with her mother, fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her old life. But Holly is no typical teenage runaway: A sensitive child once contacted by voices she knew only as "the radio people,"...
  • The black prince and other stories
    Author:
    Grau, Shirley Ann.
    Summary:

    National Book Award Finalist: A stunning collection of Southern short fiction by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Keepers of the House. A family hides its poverty behind a facade of gentility. A mysterious stranger sows discord...

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