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  • French exit : a novel
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    Frances Price--tart widow, possessive mother, and Upper East Side force of nature--is in dire straits, beset by scandal and impending bankruptcy. Her adult son, Malcolm, is no help, mired in a permanent state of arrested development....
  • First person
    Author:
    Flanagan, Richard
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    From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, the hypnotic tale of a ghost writer writing the memoir of a notorious con man, and the chilling events that unfold as their lives become increasingly...
  • Family trust a novel
    Author:
    Wang, Kathy
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    Some of us are more equal than others... Meet Stanley Huang: father, husband, ex-husband, man of unpredictable tastes and temper, aficionado of all-inclusive vacations and bargain luxury goods, newly diagnosed with pancreatic cancer....
  • Every day is for the thief
    Author:
    Cole, Teju
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    Every Day is for the Thief is an account of a Nigerian in the diaspora who returns home after many years abroad. The book gains its strength as much from its subject matter (contemporary Lagosian life as experienced by a visiting former...
  • Edinburgh
    Author:
    Chee, Alexander
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    Twelve-year-old Fee is a shy Korean American boy and a newly named section leader of the first sopranos in his local boys' choir. But when Fee learns how the director treats his section leaders, he is so ashamed he says nothing of...
  • Eat Your Heart Out
    Author:
    Boland, Katie
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    With unsentimental prose and ironic dialogue, Katie Boland brings to life a variety of characters who all have one thing in common—a need for something more. A literary debut by a refreshing new voice in fiction, the stories...
  • Death of a rainmaker
    Author:
    Loewenstein, Laurie
    Summary:

    When a rainmaker is bludgeoned to death during a colossal dust storm, small-town sheriff Temple Jennings shoulders yet another burden in the hard times of the 1930s Dust Bowl.
  • Dante's dilemma : a Mark Angelotti novel
    Author:
    Raimondo, Lynne
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    Though Rachel Lazarus has confessed to her husband's murder, she's mounting a battered woman's defense. Forced into helping the prosecution, blind psychiatrist Mark Angelotti uncovers uncomfortable parallels between...
  • Crossing the lines
    Author:
    Gentill, Sulari
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    "As one for whom certain story lines and characters have become as real as life itself, Crossing the Lines was a pure delight, a swift yet psychologically complex read, cleverly conceived and brilliantly executed." -Dean...
  • Cast a cold eye stories
    Author:
    McCarthy, Mary
    Summary:

    Seven extraordinary stories from bestselling author Mary McCarthy that carry readers from the heartbreaking core of a broken family to the tourist sites of Italy and into the contemplative mind of a potential murderess Best known for...
  • Camanchaca
    Author:
    Zuniga, Diego
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    A long drive across Chile's Atacama desert, traversing "the worn-out puzzle" of a broken family-a young man's corrosive intimacy with his mother, the obtrusive cheer of his absentee father, his uncle's...
  • Buddwing a novel
    Author:
    Hunter, Evan
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    An amnesiac hunts for his lost life in every corner of New York City in this "brilliant" novel from the bestselling author of The Blackboard Jungle (Chicago Tribune). Sunrise in Central Park. A man wakes up on a park bench...
  • Bread of angels
    Author:
    Afshar, Tessa
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    Purple. The foundation of an influential trade in a Roman world dominated by men. One woman rises up to take the reins of success in an incredible journey of courage, grit, and friendship. And along the way, she changes the world.But...
  • Between here and the yellow sea
    Author:
    Pizzolatto, Nic.
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    A stained-glass artist struggles over his masterpiece for a castle in Southern Missouri and learns through great loss what his true subject will be. A schoolteacher searches for her missing son, her only clue a mysterious, paint-smeared...
  • Beautiful you
    Author:
    Palahniuk, Chuck
    Summary:

    BEAUTIFUL YOU is Palahniuk's much-anticipated satire of the emerging erotic thriller genre, a mash-up of mommy porn and chick lit ala Sex and the City, and fantasy lit ala Clan of the Cave Bear. Imagine if Ira Levin had a baby with...
  • As good as gone
    Author:
    Watson, Larry
    Summary:

    The American West is bestselling author Larry Watson's forte, and in this, his tenth novel, he has created his most vivid, genuine antihero yet in Calvin Sidey, a man stuck in a myth. Calvin Sidey, steely, hardened, with his own...
  • An orchestra of minorities
    Author:
    Obioma, Chigozie
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    Spanning continents, traversing the earth and cosmic spaces, this novel is a contemporary twist of Homer's Odyssey. Set on the outskirts of Umuahia, Nigeria, it tells the story of Chinonso, a young poultry farmer, who is separated...
  • All our wrong todays
    Author:
    Mastai, Elan
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    "A thrilling tale of time travel and alternate timelines with a refreshingly optimistic view of humanity's future."-Andy Weir, New York Times bestselling author of The Martian "Elan Mastai has conjured up a witty and freewheeling time-...
  • A line made by walking
    Author:
    Baume, Sara
    Summary:

    The author of the award-winning Spill Simmer Falter Wither returns with a stunning new novel about a young artist's search for meaning and healing in rural Ireland. Struggling to cope with urban life-and life in general-Frankie, a...
  • A floating life a novel
    Author:
    Crawford, Tad.
    Summary:

    A Floating Life will delight lovers of Kafka, Murakami, and the magic realism of Gabriel GarcIa MArquez. A nameless narrator awakens to the muddle of middle age, no longer certain who or what he is. He finds himself at a party talking...

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