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<<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 >>>     sort list by title | author Sunset Park A Novel Paul Auster From the bestselling author of Invisible and The New York Trilogy comes a new novel set during the 2008 economic collapse. Sunset Park opens with twenty-eight-year-old Miles Heller trashing out foreclosed houses in Florida... Assumption A Novel Percival Everett A baffling triptych of murder mysteries by the author of I Am Not Sidney Poitier Ogden Walker, deputy sheriff of a small New Mexico town, is on the trail of an old woman's murderer. But at the crime scene, his are the only footprints leading up to... Damned Chuck Palahniuk “Are you there, Satan? It’s me, Madison,” declares the whip-tongued thirteen-year-old narrator of Damned, Chuck Palahniuk’s subversive new work of fiction. The daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire, Madison is abandoned at her Swiss... Damascus Joshua Mohr "[Mohr] has a generous understanding of his characters, whom he describes with an intelligence and sensitivity that pulls you in."—The New York Times Book Review (editors' choice) on Termite Parade It's 2003 and the country is divided evenly for and... Mary Ann in Autumn A Tales of the City Novel Armistead Maupin Twenty years have passed since Mary Ann Singleton left her husband and child in San Francisco to pursue her dream of a television career in New York. Now a pair of personal calamities has driven her back to the city of her youth and into the arms of... Fup Jim Dodge If you are looking for a book that takes about an hour to read, but will stay with you for much longer, Fup is the answer. It's a tall tale set in the wilds of Northern California, perched somewhere between Vonnegut and Brautigan, and involves a duck... Los Angeles Stories Ry Cooder Available Now: World-famous musician Ry Cooder publishes his first collection of stories. Freedom A Novel Jonathan Franzen In his first novel since The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of... Ether Ben Ehrenreich An Earth-bound god whose powers are reduced to petty acts of destruction attempts to reclaim his lost seat in the heavens. Great House A Novel Nicole Krauss "[An] elegiac novel . . . achieved through exquisitely chosen sensory details that reverberate with emotional intensity."-Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, The New York Times Book Review (front page)For twenty-five years, a reclusive American novelist has... Blueprints for Building Better Girls Fiction Elissa Schappell Elissa Schappell's Use Me introduced us to a writer of extraordinary talent, whose "sharp, beautiful, and off-kilter debut" (Jennifer Egan) garnered critical acclaim and captivated readers. In Blueprints for Building Better Girls, her highly... We the Animals A Novel Justin Torres An exquisite, blistering debut novel. Three brothers tear their way through childhood— smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from trash, hiding out when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off... Crimes in Southern Indiana Stories Frank Bill A ferocious debut that puts Frank Bill’s southern Indiana on the literary map next to Cormac McCarthy’s eastern Tennessee and Daniel Woodrell’s Missouri Ozarks Crimes in Southern Indiana is the most blistering, vivid, flat-out fearless debut to plow... More Notes of a Dirty Old Man The Uncollected Columns Charles Bukowski, David Stephen Calonne Sequel to his most famous book, "More Notes of a Dirty Old Man" features rare Bukowski columns unseen in decades. <<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 >>>