A sweeping debut novel set in Paris in the 1930's about the love story between Vogue model turned photographer Lee Miller and the artist Man Ray. Their romance unfolds against the backdrop of bohemian Paris, with nights spent at...
FICTION / Literary
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Author:Scharer, WhitneySummary: - Author:Jonasson, JonasSummary:
It all begins with a hot air balloon trip and three bottles of champagne. Allan and Julius are ready for some spectacular views, but they're not expecting to land in the sea and be rescued by a North Korean ship carrying contraband...
- Author:Lowry, Malcolm, Doyen, Vik, Mota, Miguel, Ackerley, Chris, McCarthy, Patrick A., Tiessen, Paul, Surrey, PhilipSummary:
Swinging the Maelstrom is the story of a musician enduring existence in the Bellevue psychiatric hospital in New York. Written during his happiest and most fruitful years, this novella reveals the deep healing influence that the idyllic...
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Author:Hunter, EvanSummary:New York Times Bestseller: A passionate, "no-holds-barred" story of an illicit suburban love affair from the acclaimed author of The Blackboard Jungle (TheNew York Times). Larry Cole has everything a man could want. He loves...
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Author:Keener, JessicaSummary:"Jessica Keener has written a gorgeous, lyrical, and sweeping novel about the tangled web of past and present. Suspenseful, perceptive, fast-paced, and ultimately restorative." -Susan Henderson, author of Up from the Blue...
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Author:Favro, TerriSummary:A literary, genre-bending novel full of heart Cult comic book creator Debbie Reynolds Biondi has been riding the success of her Cold War era-inspired superhero series, Sputnik Chick: Girl with No Past, for more than 25 years. But with...
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Author:Masters, Edgar LeeSummary:From a cemetery in a fictional mid-American town, the dead speak the truths about their lives. Some speak of hardships and sordid affairs, while others speak of their simple, honest, happy lives. Some are elderly and others are...
- Author:Hillier, SuzanneSummary:
Sonja Danychuk, a serious and introverted student, takes pride in her intellect and academic achievements—essential skills when growing up in a dirt-poor family that struggles to survive in a small town. When her father is cut down by a...
- Author:McCormack, MikeSummary:
A vital, tender, death-haunted work by one of Ireland's most important contemporary writers, Solar Bones is a celebration of the unexpected beauty of life and of language, and our inescapable nearness to our last end. It is All...
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Author:Ruddock, JesseSummary:Rachel is a young single mother living with her son, Tristan, on a lake that borders the unchannelled north - remote, nearly inhospitable. She does what she has to do to keep them alive. But soon, and unexpectedly, Tristan will have to...
- Author:Alyan, HalaSummary:
From a dazzling new literary voice, a debut novel about a Palestinian family caught between present and past, between displacement and home On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of...
- Author:Warwick, SamanthaSummary:
It's the mid-1920s and New York is shimmering with the hope and vigour of a younger generation in headlong pursuit of greater freedoms and pleasures. Watching from the sidelines, nineteen-year-old Savanna Mason struggles with the...
- Author:Selecky, Sarah LucilleSummary:
Lilian moves to New York and enrolls in her cousin Eleven's signature empowerment program. In just three months, Lilian's life changes drastically, but can she trust everything Eleven says?
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Author:Ross, StuartSummary:Brilliant experimental, surrealist fiction from the award-winning author of Snowball, Dragonfly, Jew A wonderful dream and a horrific nightmare, a fuzzy consciousness of pain and family, Pockets is a novel of fragments-both literally...
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Author:Didion, JoanSummary:A harrowing tale of Hollywood, Las Vegas, and a young woman in pursuit of oblivion by the New York Times-bestselling author of The White Album. Spare, elegant, and terrifying, Play It as It Lays is the unforgettable story of a woman and...
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Author:Weinzweig, HelenSummary:In this brilliant debut novel by Helen Weinzweig, the award-winning author of Basic Black With Pearls, a wedding reception becomes a gothic dream in which the bride, groom, family, and guests struggle with private obsessions, guilty...
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Author:Grodstein, LaurenSummary:"Lauren Grodstein breaks your heart, then miraculously pieces it back together so it's bigger-and stronger-than before."-Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You How can a woman learn to let go of the people she...
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Author:Nissen, ThisbeSummary:A sharp and bitingly funny novel about a professor whose calm-ish midwestern life gives way to a vortex of crises-and her attempts to salvage the pieces without going to pieces herself In the space of a few torrid months on the Iowa...
- Author:Connealy, MarySummary:
Shannon Wilde is the middle sister--and the one who loves animals. She's established her own homestead and is raising sheep for their wool. Things are going fine...until Shannon gets swept over a cliff by Matthew Tucker! Tucker...
- Author:Collins, KathleenSummary:
A stunning collection of fiction, diary entries, screenplays, and scripts which spans genres to reveal the breadth and depth of the late author's talent. The compilation is anchored by Collins' short stories, which, striking...
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