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The sorrow proper
The Sorrow Proper is a novel-length investigation of the anxiety that accompanies change. A group of aging librarians must decide whether to fight or flee from the end of print and the rise of electronic publications, while the parents of the young girl who died in front of the library struggle ...
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Year of fire
"The stories of this collection occupy the gray borderland where betrayal mixes with trust, violence with affection, humiliation with lust. The effect is quietly haunting."--Publishers Weekly"Lynn writes with virtuosity about angry people, the complexities of love and betrayal, and the effect of ...
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Teacha!
Gerry Albarelli's TEACHA! STORIES FROM A YESHIVA chronicls a year in the life of a non-Jewish teacher and his students at a wild Hasidic yeshiva in Brooklyn.
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Some girls
Claire moves from New Mexico to New York City hoping to find independence and some direction for her life. It's not until she meets her next door neighbor, the dazzling Jade, and begins to follow Jade's lifestyle that she feels connected to the city. As she continually needs to tweak herself to k...
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La syrena: visions of a syrian mermaid from space
Winner of the Dzanc Diverse Voices Prize LA SYRENA. For me home is in the water. When I go to the sea I want to swim forever and never look back. But I know I would die and the earth needs me on shore. My home is Syria and Syria for me is like the sea. I want nothing more than to jump in and swim...
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The festival of earthly delights
The Festival of Earthly Delights is a laugh out loud bildungsroman set in the fictional Southeast Asian country of Puchai.
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What to read (and not)
These essays and reviews are mostly about literary fiction published in the last ten years and are written from the perspective of a fan of the McElroy/Coover/DeLillo axis or, more recently, the Powers/Vollmann/Wallace axis. The review-essays include pieces on all of the National Book Award ficti...
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Bingo, bango, boingo
“A book to read slowly and to return to often, not just for its content but also its cheekily daring form." –Southern Review of BooksAward-winning author Alan Michael Parker displays his love for playful narrative and breaking all the rules in Bingo Bango Boingo, a collection of flash fiction and...
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History of cold seasons
An old fisherman recites his "sea-sorrow;" two sisters search for their runaway brother and the girl they believe he keeps tied to a tree; a mother recounts her son's rescue from a snowstorm. The landscape comes alive as these stories chart families broken apart and stitched back together over th...
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What comes next
Baumbach describes our grip on both the present and the future with What Comes Next. He brings alive the public and private faces of hostility and anxiety through Chris Steiner, a university student on the verge of losing everything, starting with his mind.
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Triangle ray
Triangle Ray is a collection of short stories linked by the character of Ray Fielding, introduced first as a young black man coming of age in the 1980s and infatuated with his schoolmate, Marie. Against the wishes of their families, the two marry just out of high school, but the marriage falls a...
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Ryan seacrest is famous
Mysterious, tender and sometimes frightening, these stories are fueled by the conviction that what moves us most in our lives are our deepest secrets, and that our most intense adventures in life are the ones we create within ourselves.
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Love and will
20 well-crafted tales. Highly charged, insistent, often expressing themselves in gritty urban vernacular, his narrators emerge as ironic, sensitive, self-deprecating losers and loners.
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Babble
Babble is a comic novel about entering and losing the world, an adult dream of lost childhood. Babble depicts our world through metaphors, using dreams, memory and cultural fantasy. Three sections of this were published in Esquire.
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In the middle of all this
Leebron's compelling third novel brings us into the world of domestic unease as two couples and their joined families wrestle with empathy's limitations in the uncompromising teeth of mortality.
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Money, love
Ever since sixteen-year-old Gabe Strickland can remember, his father, Roman, has believed in the sale: that magical moment on the customer’s porch, the deal about to close. But with each dizzying success comes an equally memorable failure, and Gabe’s mother, Gladys, has grown tired of waiting for...
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Jamestown, alaska
Jamestown, Alaska is the story of Aaron Jennings, a bestselling novelist bored by his life of suburban monotony and increasingly disturbed by the stories of violence in his newspaper, who wakes one morning to find a small red book on his doorstep. There is no title, no author’s name on the spine...
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The one you get
In The One You Get: Portrait of a Family Organism, Jason Tougaw marries neuroscience and family lore to tell his story of growing up gay in 1970s Southern California, raised by hippies who had “dropped out” in the late sixties and couldn’t seem to find their way back in. “There’s something wrong ...
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Offerings from a rust belt jockey
Long time jockey Carl Arvo knows the things he can have and the things he cannot. An unexpected turn of fortune gives him the chance to be with a woman, Christine Fleming, who in some ways is the person he's been looking for his entire life.
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The river, the town
“A deep and powerful work of literary climate fiction” —Independent Book ReviewA poignant and powerful first novel following the breakup of a Pakistani family in the face of climate disaster, and their indefatigable search for stability, love, and belonging.In the rural town in Pakistan where Baa...
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House of heroes
A collection of short stories populated with heroes great and small, outsiders and inmates, disfigured, disenchanted, and quietly triumphant
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Inside out
Eleven short stories told by a variety of first-person narrators roaming the United States from the West to Wisconsin.
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Nevers
“Megan Martin’s muscular, gleaming prose contends with how we as humans cope with the itchy banality of reality. Stuffed with imaginary men, future bathtub deaths, sick black jellies, meteor lettuce, and vaginas full of Jesus light, Nevers emerges from the tension between what is real, what is pe...
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Bob, or man on boat
Debut novel from this well-regarded, established, story writer.
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Ghost dance
This haunting, often surreal first novel vividly captures the struggles of a young woman, Vanessa Turin, as she attempts to recover her family and her past
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Life is a strange place
Thirty-three year old Barry Munday is single minded in his pursuit of casual meaningless sex, but his life changes forever when an unfulfilled sexual encounter with a beautiful teenage girl meets with her angry, trumpet wielding father in a darkened theatre. Upon waking up in a hospital Barry dis...
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Hunters and gamblers
A sham pastor hires a cocaine-sniffing centaur to act as mascot for an Evangelical mega-church’s arena football team; Paul Revere flashes across a revolutionary sky on the back of a sunbird; an ammo-less infantry drummer and a bleeding medic are beat back to a Best Western parking lot in the Batt...
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Stealing the fire
This collection of stories by award-winning writer Jane Ciabattari introduces a strong, original voice with a wide-ranging understanding of human nature. In fierce lyrical language, she explores the aftershocks of life changesthe loss of a father, a husband, an unborn child, an all-consuming job...
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Moral tale and other moral tales, a
A Moral Tale, and Other Moral Tales presents a twist on the classic morality play, where rewards and punishments betray the classic fairytale logic and the greatest redemption is "to thine own self be true." A deluded mathematician spends the night with a recent divorcee who realizes his story d...
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Book of hours
Following an unnamed woman’s journey from mystical childhood experiences to fertility struggles and motherhood, Book of Hours examines spiritual doubt, bodily autonomy, and expectations of women in a passionate debut for fans of Jenny Offill and Jessamine Chan. As a child, the girl sees visions o...
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All gone
A collection of 18 short stories by a "very skillful storyteller (whose) grasp of the life of ordinary American city dwellers is such that he can shape it dramatically to meet the demands of his far from ordinary imagination
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Women i've known
These twenty-four stories, seven new and the rest selected from Johnson’s previous four collections, range from The Metamorphosis,’ in which a young female impersonator is torn to pieces by her fans, to Last Encounter with the Enemy,’ a battle of wills between Flannery O’Connor and a precocious...
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The god file
Gabriel Black is sentenced to prison for a murder he did not commit. In a twisted expression of honor, he takes responsibility for the action of a women he loves and pays with his freedom. Black stumbles upon a "proof" of God, one involving the solving of somebody's cancer. He decides a better "...
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Malcolm & jack (and other famous american criminals)
"An audaciously entertaining and insightful creation myth about the genesis of the late 20th century's counterculture and political liberation movements in the so-called birth of the cool in New York City jazz clubs at the end of World War II and dawn of the bebop era"--The Buffalo News
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A man of glass & all the ways we have failed
A Man of Glass & All the Ways We Have Failed is a man being so much other than. How the love falls out of him, replaced by beads, by water, by nails, by cardboard. Bent on a curb, blowing kisses to dead lips in that window above, a voice calling out a name, her not looking down at the wreckag...
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Unfinished acts of wild creation
“One of the funniest, truest novels I’ve read in years.” –Jess Row, author of The New Earth and Your Face in Mine Following a tight-knit, eccentric Jewish family, the Rosenbergs, over four decades, Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation combines the madness of motherhood with the manic absurdity of gri...
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Zan
In prose that is both unflinching and lyrical, Suzi Ehtesham-Zadeh presents Zan, a collection of fourteen stories that provide a deep and nuanced view of contemporary Iranian women as they navigate a crucial moment in their nation’s history.A university student strips off her hijab in the streets...
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The arson people
In a small, Midwest town on the Lake Michigan shoreline, Elsie Davis's young life is on the brink of disaster, and the problems of the injustices she witnesses feel insurmountable. The solution? Burn everything down. The Arson People is a novella of place, girlhood, and what it means to take j...
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Where the river bends
Richard Haddaway's novel is a warm-hearted, realistic, multi-generational story of the Beckwith clan, a Texas oil family dominated by a wealthy patriarch who does his best to hold his children and grandchildren to his narrow views of propriety and restraint. His grandson Stephen watches in grief ...
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Grim tales
Grim Tales is a mythological catalog of the peculiar, a string of strange, often murderous urban myths. It comes on fast and dirty, micro-moments on micro-moments, each wasting no time in lunging at the throat.” Blake ButlerPRAISEThis is book as turbulence disrupting the smooth sea, as anti-ma...
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The doctor's wife
A family's fictional history spun from memory, from interviews, and the blur between the two in many short bursts.
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Ahmed's revenge
Set in Kenya in the 1970s, a young coffee farmer believes her husband may have gotten into ivory smugglingbefore she can confront him, he is killed in what looks like an accident but may be a murder. Her investigation in this leads to a succession of people whose lives intertwine and intersect.
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The weight of nothing
Memory. Regret. Revenge. Forgiveness.Steven Gillis’s second novel, The Weight of Nothing, explores these issues through the eyes of Bailey Finne, a gifted pianist who has nonetheless forsaken his talent to become a perpetual graduate student in art history. Niles Kelly, his somnambulistic friend ...
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Open heart
The shared qualities of friendship and the healing arts are the subject of this riveting memoir of one man's battle with heart disease. When, in February 1999, Jay Neugeboren discovered he needed emergency quintuple-bypass surgery, he embarked on a journey that just began on the operating table. ...
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