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<<< 1 2 3 >>>     sort list by title | author Ghana Must Go A Novel Taiye Selasi Courageously and with great tenderness the people in this book are allowed rather than exposed. We get to know the sparkling fissures of where they have been broken, the beauty of their longing, and the tremendous strength of their love... The Accursed Joyce Carol Oates A major historical novel from "one of the great artistic forces of our time" (The Nation)—an eerie, unforgettable story of possession, power, and loss in early-twentieth-century Princeton, a cultural crossroads of the powerful and the damned. The Fun Parts Stories Sam Lipsyte A hilarious collection of stories from the writer The New York Times called "the novelist of his generation" Returning to the form in which he began, Sam Lipsyte, author of the New York Times bestseller The Ask, offers up The Fun Parts... Bad Sex on Speed Jerry Stahl Bad Sex On Speed is a savage, careening, hyper-real nightmare of a novel, taking us to the depths of Amphetamine America. Told with no concession to traditional narrative, in the voices of those in the grips and on the fringes, the stories that emerge... Tenth of December Stories George Saunders George saunders has this ability to pair the grim with the quirky, the brutal with the bizarrely hopeful, so that his stories never tip over completely into darkness. He captures the nastiness of violence, consumerism and sexism while keeping the tone... Rage is Back A Novel Adam Mansbach Number one New York Times bestselling author Adam Mansbach returns with a blockbuster tale of revenge, redemption, and the world's most beautiful crime. Dondi Vance is the son of two famous graffiti artists from New York City's "golden era" of subway... The Twelve Tribes of Hattie Ayana Mathis The arrival of a major new voice in contemporary fiction. A debut of extraordinary distinction: Ayana Mathis tells the story of the children of the Great Migration through the trials of one unforgettable family. Woes of the True Policeman A Novel Roberto Bolaño Begun in the 1980s and worked on until the author's death in 2003, Woes of the True Policeman is Roberto Bolaño’s last, unfinished novel. The novel follows Óscar Amalfitano—an exiled Chilean university professor and widower—through the maze of his... Real Man Adventures T. Cooper A few years ago, the novelist T Cooper wrote his parents a letter telling them he "wasn't their daughter anymore." And that was the "good news." Real Man Adventures is Cooper's brash, wildly inventive, and often comic exploration of the paradoxes... Silent House A Novel Orhan Pamuk Never before published in English, Orhan Pamuk's second novel is the story of a Turkish family gathering in the shadow of the impending military coup of 1980. In an old mansion in Cennethisar, a former fishing village near Istanbul, a widow, Fatma... Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore A Novel Robin Sloan A gleeful and exhilarating tale of global conspiracy, complex code-breaking, high-tech data visualization, young love, rollicking adventure, and the secret to eternal life—mostly set in a hole-in-the-wall San Francisco bookstore The Great Recession has Blasphemy New and Selected Stories Sherman Alexie A bold and irreverent observer of life among Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest, the daring, versatile, funny, and outrageous Alexie showcases all his talents in his newest collection, Blasphemy, where he unites fifteen beloved classics with... Telegraph Avenue Michael Chabon An intimate epic, a NorCal Middlemarch set to the funky beat of classic vinyl soul-jazz and pulsing with a virtuosic, pyrotechnical style all its own, Telegraph Avenue is the great American novel we've been waiting for. Generous, imaginative... This Is How You Lose Her A Novel Junot Díaz On a beach in the Dominican Republic, a doomed relationship flounders. In the heat of a hospital laundry room in New Jersey, a woman does her lover's washing and thinks about his wife. In Boston, a man buys his love child, his only son, a... <<< 1 2 3 >>>