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  • A HISTORY OF THE ISLAND
    A HISTORY OF THE ISLAND
    EUGENE VODOLAZKIN
    "A masterpiece by one of Europe's finest contemporary novelists." - Rowan WilliamsMonks devious and devout - and an age-defying royal pair - chronicle the history of their fictional island in this witty critique of Western civilization and history itself.Eugene Vodolazkin, internationally acclaimed novelist and scholar of medieval literature, returns with a satirical parable ab...
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  • BE MINE
    BE MINE
    RICHARD FORD
    From Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford: the final novel in the world of Frank Bascombe, one of the most indelible characters in American literature Over the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an ambitious, incisive, and singular view of American life as lived. Unconstrained, astute, provocative, often laugh-out-loud funn...
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  • STELLA MARIS
    STELLA MARIS
    CORMAC MCCARTHY
    The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second of a two-volume masterpiece: Stella Maris is an intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence.1972, BLACK RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits hers...
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  • THE EASY LIFE
    THE EASY LIFE
    DURAS, MARGUERITE
    u003cpu003eu003cbu003eFor the first time in English, literary icon Marguerite Duras's u003c/bu003eu003cbu003efoundational masterpiece about a young woman's existential u003c/bu003eu003cbu003ebreakdown in the deceptively peaceful French countryside.u003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003cbru003eu003ciu003eThe Easy Lifeu003c/iu003e is the story of Francine Veyrenattes, a twenty-five-year-ol...
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  • AT CERTAIN POINTS WE TOUCH
    AT CERTAIN POINTS WE TOUCH
    LAUREN JOHN JOSEPH
    "SEARING"-Harper's Bazaar"SMART, SPARKLING, TWISTED" -Attitude"SCREAMINGLY FUNNY, SCANDALOUSLY HOT, OPULENT, DEEP" -Jeremy Atherton Lin, author of Gay BarFrom an electrifying new voice, a "stone-cold masterpiece" (Olivia Laing) of queer friendship, first love, and unbridled youth.It's four in the morning, and our narrator is walking home from the club when they realize the date...
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  • BEFORE YOUR MEMORY FADES
    BEFORE YOUR MEMORY FADES
    TOSHIKAZU KAWAGUCHI
    The third novel in the international bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, following four new customers in a cafe where customers can travel back in time.On the hillside of Mount Hakodate in northern Japan, Cafe Donna Donna is fabled for its dazzling views of Hakodate port. But that's not all. Like the charming Tokyo cafe Funiculi Funicula, Cafe Donna Donna offers its...
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  • GALATEA
    GALATEA
    MADELINE MILLER
    An enchanting short story from Madeline Miller that boldly reimagines the myth of Galatea and Pygmalion, now in hardcover for the first time**A small hardcover edition featuring a new afterword by Madeline Miller**In ancient Greece, a skilled marble sculptor has been blessed by a goddess who has given his masterpiece--the most beautiful woman the town has ever seen--the gift of...
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  • ANON PLS
    ANON PLS
    DEUXMOI
    From the creator behind @DeuxMoi, the popular - and infamous - celebrity gossip Instagram account, comes a fun, charming debut novel that's a perfect combination of Devil Wears Prada, Gossip Girl, and Smile and Look Pretty. Anon Pls. is for those looking for a fun escape and anyone who wonders, "What's it really like to be DeuxMoi?"When Cricket Lopez, assistant to one of the mo...
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  • BETTER THAN FICTION
    BETTER THAN FICTION
    ALEXA MARTIN
    "If you think life is better than fiction, then you haven't read Alexa Martin's fiction."--NPROne of...Amazon's Best Romances of NovemberBuzzfeed's New Romances to Read This FallCosmopolitan's Best Books Coming Out In NovemberBustle's Most Anticipated Books of NovemberWomen's Health's Swooniest Romance Novels of 2022Love isn't always by the book in this charming romantic comedy...
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  • THE SINGULARITIES
    THE SINGULARITIES
    BANVILLE, JOHN
    From the revered, Booker Prize-winning author comes a playful, multi-layered novel of nostalgia, life and death, and quantum theory, which opens with the return of one of his most celebrated characters—Freddie Montgomery from The Book of Evidence—as he is released from prison.A man with a borrowed name steps from a flashy red sportscar—also borrowed—onto the estate of his youth...
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  • GETTING LOST
    GETTING LOST
    ERNAUX, ANNIE
    The diary of one of France's most important, award-winning writers during the year she had a passionate and secret love affair with a Russian diplomat.Getting Lost is the diary Annie Ernaux kept during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, a Russian diplomat. Her novel, Simple Passion, was based on this affair, but here her writing is imm...
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  • THE PASSENGER
    THE PASSENGER
    CORMAC MCCARTHY
    A SUNKEN JET. NINE PASSENGERS. A MISSING BODY.1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wetsuit and plunges from the Coast Guard tender into darkness. His divelight illuminates the sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats, hair floating, eyes devoid of speculation. Missing from the crash site are the pilo...
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  • THE CAT WHO SAVED BOOKS
    THE CAT WHO SAVED BOOKS
    NATSUKAWA, SOSUKE
    AN INDIE NEXT PICK!From the #1 bestselling author in Japan comes a celebration of books, cats, and the people who love them, infused with the heartwarming spirit of The Guest Cat and The Travelling Cat Chronicles.Bookish high school student Rintaro Natsuki is about to close the secondhand bookstore he inherited from his beloved bookworm grandfather. Then, a talking cat appears ...
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  • TRILOGY
    TRILOGY
    FOSSE, JON
    Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023Trilogy is Jon Fosse's critically acclaimed, luminous love story about Asle and Alida, two lovers trying to find their place in this world. Homeless and sleepless, they wander around Bergen in the rain, trying to make a life for themselves and the child they expect. Through a rich web of historical, cultural, and theological allus...
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  • WE ARE TAKING ONLY WHAT WE NEED
    WE ARE TAKING ONLY WHAT WE NEED
    STEPHANIE POWELL WATTS
    “Lorrie Moore meets Eudora Welty.” —The New Yorker“Watts shows us people, real souls like the people we sit next to on the bus, people who live down the hall, people who could be relatives.” —Edward P. Jones, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for FictionIn these powerfully rendered, prizewinning stories, working-class African Americans across the South strive for meaning and search ...
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  • MATRIX
    MATRIX
    LAUREN GROFF
    Lauren Groff returns with her exhilarating first new novel since the groundbreaking Fates and Furies.Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, 17-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. At first ...
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  • THE STORIED LIFE OF A. J. FIKRY (MOVIE TIE-IN)
    THE STORIED LIFE OF A. J. FIKRY (MOVIE TIE-IN)
    GABRIELLE ZEVIN
    When his most prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, is stolen, bookstore owner A. J. Fikry begins isolating himself from his friends, family and associates before receiving a mysterious package that compels him to remake his life. The irascible A. J. Fikry, owner of Island Books, the only bookstore on Alice Island, has already lost his wife. Now, a rare book, has b...
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  • AFTERLIVES
    AFTERLIVES
    GURNAH, ABDULRAZAK
    From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, a sweeping, multi-generational saga of displacement, loss, and love, set against the brutal colonization of east Africa.When he was just a boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents on the coast of east Africa by German colonial troops. After years away, fighting against his own people, he returns home to find his parents gone ...
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  • RELUCTANT IMMORTALS
    RELUCTANT IMMORTALS
    GWENDOLYN KISTE
    2023 Lambda Literary Award Winner 2023 Bram Stoker Award Finalist for Superior Achievement in a Novel For fans of Mexican Gothic, from three-time Bram Stoker Award–winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a novel inspired by the untold stories of forgotten women in classic literature—from Lucy Westnera, a victim of Stoker’s Dracula, and Bertha Mason, Mr. Rochester’s attic-bound wif...
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  • THE RABBIT HUTCH
    THE RABBIT HUTCH
    GUNTY, TESS
    NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - The standout literary debut that everyone is talking about - Inventive, heartbreaking and acutely funny.--The GuardianBlandine isn't like the other residents of her building.An online obituary writer. A young mother with a dark secret. A woman waging a solo campaign against rodents -- neighbors, separated only by the thin walls of a low-cost housi...
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  • SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SUN
    SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SUN
    KLEEMAN, ALEXANDRA
    NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - A novelist discovers the dark side of Hollywood and reckons with ambition, corruption, and environmental collapse in "a darkly satirical reflection of ecological reality" (Time)LONGLISTED FOR THE JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Time, Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Vultur...
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  • A TIDY ENDING
    A TIDY ENDING
    CANNON, JOANNA
    “A darkly funny tale with a gloriously sinister twist.” —The Observer (London)The bestselling author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep delivers a “compellingly creepy” (The Guardian, UK) novel filled with unexpected twists about mysterious murders in a quiet neighborhood.Linda has lived in a quiet neighborhood since fleeing the dark events of her childhood in Wales. Now she s...
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  • KALEIDOSCOPE
    KALEIDOSCOPE
    CECILY WONG
    A dazzling and heartfelt novel about two sisters caught in their parents’ ambition, the accident that brings it all crashing down, and the journey that follows.Everybody’s heard of The Brightons.From rags to riches, sleepy Oregon to haute New York, they are the biracial Chinese American family that built Kaleidoscope, a glittering, ‘global bohemian’ shopping empire sourcing lux...
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  • THE STARTUP WIFE
    THE STARTUP WIFE
    TAHMIMA ANAM
    *"A whip-smart, funny, and searing look at the wild world of startups." —Good Morning America Book Club Buzz Pick *Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR In this “wise and wickedly funny novel about love, creativity, and the limitations of the tech-verse” (Vogue) newlyweds Asha and Cyrus find themselves running one of the most popular social media platforms in the world.Meet Ash...
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  • A SUMMER BIRD-CAGE
    A SUMMER BIRD-CAGE
    MARGARET DRABBLE
    Sarah had come home from Paris to be a bridesmaid for her sister Louise. When a child, Sarah had adored her elder sister, but Louise had grown up to be an arrogant, selfish, cold and extravagant woman. She was also breath-takingly beautiful. The man she was to marry, Stephen Halifax, was a successful novelist, very rich and snobbishly unpleasant. From Sarah's first night at hom...
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  • THE MILLSTONE
    THE MILLSTONE
    MARGARET DRABBLE
    An award-winning novel about the perils of motherhood in a failing healthcare system and a woman's fight against the social stigma of the Sixties. ...
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  • NIGHTCRAWLING : A NOVEL
    NIGHTCRAWLING : A NOVEL
    MOTTLEY, LEILA
    BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE - NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - A dazzling novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system--the debut of a blazingly original voice and a soul-searching portrait of survival and hope (Oprah Winfrey)"Nightcrawling bursts at the seams of every page and swallo...
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  • NERUDA ON THE PARK
    NERUDA ON THE PARK
    CLEYVIS NATERA
    NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • An exhilarating debut novel following members of a Dominican family in New York City who take radically different paths when faced with encroaching gentrification“Strikes all the right notes—captivating characters, lyrical language, and a storyline that captures your imagination and refuses to let go . . . an unforgettable debut!”—Tayari Jones, ...
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  • SOLO DANCE
    SOLO DANCE
    LI KOTOMI
    A powerful novel about the LGBTQ rights movement and gay love in Japan and Taiwan, from the most important queer voice of East Asia's millennial generation. Cho Norie, twenty-seven and originally from Taiwan, is working an office job in Tokyo. While her colleagues worry about the economy, life-insurance policies, marriage, and children, she is forced to keep her unconventional ...
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  • MALIBU RISING
    MALIBU RISING
    REID, TAYLOR JENKINS
    Four famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate the end of the summer. But over the course of twenty-four hours, the family drama that ensues will change their lives will change forever.Malibu: August 1983. It’s the day of Nina Riva’s annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer a...
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