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<<< 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 >>>     sort list by title | author Border Songs Jim Lynch It is one of the particular pleasures of being a bookseller that every now and then I read a book that brings the world into sharper focus and ontological shadows into light. A book that creates a penumbra of perception that allows the world to shimmer wi The Vulture Gil Scott-Heron Digging the rhythms of the street, where the biggest deal life has to offer is getting high, this hip, fast-moving thriller relates the strange story of the murder of a teenage boy called John Lee... 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... 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... Love and Obstacles Stories Aleksandar Hemon From the celebrated author of the bestselling Lazarus Project-"a dazzling collection of stories...further cementing [Hemon's] position among the finest fiction writers working in English" (GQ). The stories of Love and Obstacles are united by their... 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... 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... Islanders Ammiel Alcalay Seen through the prism of personal history, an evocative, unsettling view of a world falling apart Venus Drive Stories Sam Lipsyte An intense, mordantly funny collection of short fiction from the author of Home Land and The Ask. A man with an "old soul" finds himself at a Times Square peep show, looking for more than just a little action. A young man goes into some serious... Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese Recommended by Paul, City Lights Books. Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother's death and their father’s disappearance, bound together by a... Trout Fishing in America Richard Brautigan Richard Brautigan was a literary idol of the 1960s and 1970s whose comic genius and iconoclastic vision of American life caught the imagination of young people everywhere. He came of age during the Haight-Ashbury period and has been called “the last... Let the Great World Spin A Novel Colum McCann In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a... Ulysses James Joyce Originally damned as obscure and obscene, Joyce's masterpiece now stands as one of the great literary achievements of the 20th century. Loosely based on the Odyssey, it follows Leopold Bloom and other Dubliners through a seemingly ordinary summer day... What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us Laura van den Berg There is a monster in every one of these stories. Some are imaginary: like the Sasquatch and the Loch Ness Monster. Some are real: like snakes, global warming, and divorce. A beautiful and exciting debut from a young writer who is one to watch. <<< 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 >>>