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<<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 >>>     sort list by author | publication date The Autograph Man Zadie Smith When Alex-Li Tandem is 12 years old, his father takes him and his friends Adam and Rubinfine to a wrestling match at the Albert Hall in London. By the end of the evening, the pivotal events of Alex-Li's youth have occurred: he has met Joseph Klein, a... Back to Blood A Novel Tom Wolfe A big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now. As a police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay-with officer Nestor Camacho on board-Tom Wolfe is off and running. Into the febrous landscape... 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... The Barbarian Nurseries Héctor Tobar A riveting tale of class, race, and social mores in contemporary Southern California. Araceli, the Mexican maid of the Torres-Thompson family, leads us on a Los Angeles odyssey that reveals the topography of a culture through Tobar's nuanced portrayal... Beatrice and Virgil A Novel Yann Martel When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler... 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... Beauty Salon Mario Bellatin Biting social allegory from one of Mexico's most exciting young authors: edgy, lyrical and cynically hopeful. Below the Line Sara Chin Whether it's an immigrant woman who loves to watch American action movies or a young American-born woman who joins a film crew in China, these stories are about Chinese Americans trying to make sense of their divided history and culture. As both the... The Best of Roald Dahl Roald Dahl Twenty-five stories spanning Dahl's writing career from 1945-1965, with an introduction by James... Big Machine A Novel Victor LaValle A hybrid of low-lifes and high ideals, his Big Machine runs on suicide cults and the voice of God taking you straight to the bowels of The Bay and the monsters that lurk without and withoin. Hard as a gun-muzzle to the jaw... Birds of America Stories Lorrie Moore A New York Times Book of the Year A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Winner of the Salon Book Award A Village Voice Book of the Year Birds of America is the celebrated collection of twelve stories from Lorrie Moore, one of the finest authors.. Black Swan Green A Novel David Mitchell From award-winning writer David Mitchell comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new. Black Swan tracks a single year in what is, for thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in... 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... The Blind Assassin A Novel Margaret Atwood The Blind Assassin opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge." They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister's death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report... <<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 >>>