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<<< 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 >>>     sort list by title | author Look at the Birdie Short Fiction Kurt Vonnegut   Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen short stories from one of the most original writers in American fiction. This series of perfectly rendered vignettes, never before published in Kurt Vonnegut's lifetime, reveals a warm, wise, and funny... The Unnamed Joshua Ferris Recommended by Paul, City Lights Books He was going to lose the house and everything in it. The rare pleasure of a bath, the copper pots hanging above the kitchen island, his family-again he would lose his family. He stood inside the house... Quiet As They Come Angie Chau Quiet As They Come is a beautiful and at times brutal portrait of a people caught between two cultures. Set in San Francisco from the 1980s to the present day, this debut collection explores the lives of several families of Vietnamese immigrants as... Chronic City Jonathan Lethem The bestselling and beloved author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude delivers a searing love letter to the city that has inspired his finest work.  Chase Insteadman, former child television star, has a new role in life—permanent... Tales of the Jazz Age F. Scott Fitzgerald F. Scott Fitzgerald's second collection of short stories contains some of his best-known tales of the glittering era he gave a name to.  Published in 1922, Tales of the Jazz Age featured not only the flappers and lost young men Fitzgerald had made... The Beautiful and Damned F. Scott Fitzgerald F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel brilliantly satirizes a glamorous and doomed marriage in the decadent high society of New York City in the 1920s.  Inspired in part by Fitzgerald's own tumultuous union with his wife, Zelda, The Beautiful and Damned... The Lacuna A Novel Barbara Kingsolver In this powerfully imagined, provocative novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover. The Lacuna is the poignant story of a... Invisible Paul Auster Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Paul Auster's fifteenth novel opens in New York City in the spring of 1967, when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University, meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf... Sag Harbor Colson Whitehead From the award-winning author of John Henry Days and The Intuitionist: a tender, hilarious, and supremely original novel about coming-of-age in the 80s.  Benji Cooper is one of the few black students at an elite prep school in Manhattan. But every... The Magicians A Novel Lev Grossman A wonderfully-written novel of fantasy for adults. For any of fan of Narnia, Harry Potter or The Lord of the Rings, but with a drunken, drugged-out edge. The true-to-life characters take you through the whirlwind of going to a university for magic... Termite Parade Joshua Mohr “Mohr’s prose roams with chimerical liquidity.”—Boston’s Weekly Dig “Mohr uses punchy, tightly wound prose to pull readers into a nightmarish landscape, but he never loses the heart of his story; it’s as touching as it is shocking.”—Publishers... Black Water Rising A Novel Attica Locke Recommended by Paul, City Lights Books Jay Porter has long since made peace with not living the American Dream. He runs his fledgling law practice out of a dingy Houston strip mall—where his most promising client is a low-rent call girl—and he's... Ablutions Notes for a Novel Patrick deWitt A drug-addled bartender serves up strong booze to his loathsome customers in a filthy bar in Hollywood. In less skilled hands, this story could have turned out like a tired retread of Bukowski; instead, it's a head-spinning surreal portrait of a... Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass Lewis Carroll, Hugh Haughton 'I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole without the least idea what was to happen afterwards', wrote Dodgson, describing how Alice was conjured up one 'golden afternoon' in 1862 to entertain his child-friend Alice Liddell. In the magical... <<< 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 >>>