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<<< 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 >>>     sort list by title | author 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 Santa Claus tends bar as a stage 4 cancer patient, an artist, war vets, hipsters, and alcoholics collide in the San Francisco Mission bar Damascus. Mohr's pitch perfect, simmering, almost hard-boiled novel contains my favorite Hitler reference since.. 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... 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. 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. Leaving the Atocha Station Ben Lerner Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. What is actual when our experiences are mediated by language... Flashfire A Parker Novel Richard Stark Between Parker’s 1961 debut and his return in the late 1990s, the world of crime changed considerably. Now fake IDs and credit cards had to be purchased from specialists; increasingly sophisticated policing made escape and evasion tougher; and, worst... ATTA plus The Whitman of Tikrit Jarett Kobek Ours is a century of fear. Governments and mass media bombard us with words and images: desert radicals, "rogue states," jihadists, WMDs, existential enemies of freedom. We labor beneath myths that neither address... Swamplandia! Karen Russell Nominated for the Orange Prize Thirteen-year-old Ava Bigtree has lived her entire life at Swamplandia!, her family's island home and gator-wrestling theme park in the Florida Everglades. But when illness fells Ava’s mother, the park’s indomitable... The Instructions Adam Levin Beginning with a chance encounter with the beautiful Eliza June Watermark and ending, four days and 900 pages later, with the Events of November 17, this is the story of Gurion Maccabee, age ten: a lover, a fighter, a scholar, and a truly spectacular... Death Is Not an Option Stories Suzanne Rivecca “Ruthlessly frank. . . . Recalls Holden Caulfield by way of John Hughes.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)In these stories, a teacher obsesses over a student who comes to class with scratch marks on his face; a Catholic girl... Room A Novel Emma Donoghue To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world. . . . It's where he was born, it's where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits. Room is home to... <<< 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 >>>