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"The mouth is a weird place." ~ from Joshua Ferris' To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
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| The Snow Queen by Michael CunninghamFiction. At the heart of this lyrical, descriptive story are Brooklyn-based brothers Barrett and Tyler Meeks. Barrett, a retail sales associate recently dumped by his boyfriend, experiences a "celestial light" while walking through Central Park and interprets it as a sign. Meanwhile, struggling musician Tyler reflects on his "difficult but interesting life," in which his increasing dependence on drugs becomes a means of coping with his girlfriend Beth's cancer. Moving and heartfelt, The Snow Queen presents an intimate character study of three individuals seeking redemption and second chances by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours. |
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Strange bodies : a novel
by Marcel Theroux
Locked in a notorious psychiatric hospital, a man claiming to be the deceased Dr. Nicholas Slopen eventually uncovers a dark conspiracy between Silicon Valley and Russia that created new technology known as the Malevin Procedure. 30,000 first printing.
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| To Rise Again at a Decent Hour: A Novel by Joshua FerrisFiction. Why would anyone steal the identity of Dr. Paul C. O'Rourke, DDS? Especially the Ulms, a sect claiming to be descended from the Amalekites, a tribe briefly mentioned in the Bible as the defeated enemy of the ancient Israelites. Although Paul is a staunch atheist whose devotion to the Red Sox is the closest thing he's got to a religion, he can't help but seek answers from the mysterious strangers who have hijacked his online presence in order to proselytize via their holy book, the possibly ersatz Cantaveticles. Is this a cult? An elaborate hoax? Or something even stranger? Don't miss this humorous, thought-provoking story by the author of And Then We Came to the End and The Unnamed. |
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| The Farm by Tom Rob SmithPsychological Suspense. Three long-distance phone calls in 24 hours change Daniel's life forever. His father calls twice, first to inform Daniel that his mother has been committed to a mental hospital, and then later to explain that she has discharged herself and gone missing. While Daniel is reeling from this revelation, his mother contacts him with the news that she's coming to visit him in London, where she'll tell Daniel the truth about everything -- including his father. Daniel, caught between his parents' conflicting versions of events (and concealing some secrets of his own), must decide who and what to believe in this compelling, intricately plotted psychological suspense story. |
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| That Summer by Lauren WilligFiction. Having just inherited a house in London, former stock broker Julia, still reeling from the loss of her job, travels from New York to England to examine the property and discovers a hidden painting depicting legendary doomed lovers Tristan and Isolde. In a parallel narrative, set in the 1840s, beautiful and intelligent heiress Imogene Hadley is imprisoned in an unhappy marriage to aristocratic Arthur Grantham, who treats his wife more like a possession than a partner. As Julia works with antiques dealer Nick to discover the origins of the painting, she unearths the secret history of Imogene and Gavin Thorne, the portrait painter commissioned to capture Imogene's likeness but destined to steal her heart. An artful combination of mystery, multi-generational family drama, star-crossed romance, and tragedy make That Summer a compelling listening experience. |
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| The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie by Wendy McClureMemoir. "I was born in a log cabin in Wisconsin in 1867 and maybe you were, too," declares Wendy McClure at the outset of this irreverent yet movingly introspective tour of the literary life and landscape of Laura Ingalls Wilder, whose autobiographical novels -- beginning with 1932's Little House in the Big Woods -- fired the imaginations of generations of readers. Between visiting Laura's birthplace in Pepin, Wisconsin, and paying her respects at Wilder's final resting place at Rocky Ridge Farm in Missouri, McClure also dips her toes in the actual Plum Creek and even takes a side trip to the boyhood home of Almanzo "Farmer Boy" Wilder. In the process, she reflects on the perennial appeal of the Little House books and their enduring legacy. |
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Cambridge : a novel
by Susanna Kaysen
Two family sabbaticals across the Atlantic and a brilliant orchestra conductor shape the perspectives of a young woman from 1950s Harvard Square, who develops new ways of thinking about music, love, and art while struggling with feelings of being a perpetual outsider
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A man came out of a door in the mountain
by Adrianne Harun
Fiction. "The seductive and chilling debut novel from the critically acclaimed author of The King of Limbo. In isolated British Columbia, girls, mostly native, are vanishing from the sides of a notorious highway. Leo Kreutzer and his four friends are barely touched by these disappearances-until a series of mysterious and troublesome outsiders come to town. Then it seems as if the devil himself has appeared among them. In this intoxicatingly lush debut novel, Adrianne Harun weaves together folklore, mythology, and elements of magical realism to create a compelling and unsettling portrait of life in a dead-end town. A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain is atmospheric and evocative of place and a group of people, much in the way that Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones conjures the South, or Charles Bock's Beautiful Children provides a glimpse of the Las Vegas underworld: kids left to fend for themselves in a broken world-rendered with grit and poetry in equal measure"-- Provided by publisher.
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Rex Regis
by L. E Modesitt Jr.
Fantasy. The saga of Imager Quaeryt, commander in the forces of Lord Bhayar, reaches a new climax as the great struggle to unify the continent of Lydar enters its final phase. Only the land of Khel remains uncommitted to Bhayar's rule. Awaiting emissaries to arrive with news of Khel's decision, other weighty matters occupy Bhayar. But before the dream of an Imager Academy may be realized, or Khel's decision known, treason and confrontation with military leaders threaten all that Quaeryt has worked for.
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