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The Barrowfields
by Phillip Lewis
Just before Henry Aster’s birth, his father—outsized literary ambition and pregnant wife in tow—reluctantly returns to the small Appalachian town in which he was raised and installs his young family in an immense house of iron and glass perched high on the side of a mountain. There, Henry grows up under the writing desk of this fiercely brilliant man. But when tragedy tips his father toward a fearsome unraveling, what was once a young son’s reverence is poisoned and Henry flees, not to return until years later when he, too, must go home again.
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Lincoln in the bardo : a novel
by George Saunders
A long-awaited first novel by the National Book Award-nominated, New York Times best-selling author of Tenth of December traces a night of solitary mourning and reflection as experienced by the 16th President after the death of his 11-year-old son at the dawn of the Civil War.
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The Keeper of Lost Things
by Ruth Hogan
Having collected a lifetime of lost objects in order to deal with the loss of his fiancée, Anthony Peardew bequeaths his secret life's mission to his unsuspecting assistant, Laura, leaving her his house and all its lost treasures—and the responsibility to return each one to its owner.
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The clay girl
by Heather Tucker
After her father's suicide Ari goes to live with her aunt in Cape Breton who provides an unexpected refuge, but Ari returns to Toronto and comes of age during the sexual revolution and drug culture of the 1960s.
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The Color of Our Sky
by Amita Trasi
India, 1986: Mukta, a ten-year-old village girl from the lower caste Yellama cult has come of age and must fulfill her destiny of becoming a temple prostitute, as her mother and grandmother did before her. In an attempt to escape her fate, Mukta is sent to be a house girl for an upper-middle class family in Mumbai. There she discovers a friend in the daughter of the family, high spirited eight-year-old Tara, who helps her recover from the wounds of her past. Tara introduces Mukta to an entirely different world—one of ice cream, reading, and a friendship that soon becomes a sisterhood. But one night in 1993, Mukta is kidnapped from Tara’s family home and disappears. Shortly thereafter, Tara and her father move to America. A new life in Los Angeles awaits them but Tara never recovers from the loss of her best friend, or stops wondering if she was somehow responsible for Mukta's abduction. Eleven years later, Tara, now an adult, returns to India determined to find Mukta. As her search takes her into the brutal underground world of human trafficking, Tara begins to uncover long-buried secrets in her own family that might explain what happened to Mukta—and why she came to live with Tara’s family in the first place.
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| In Sunlight or in Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper by Lawrence Block, editorWith offerings from authors like Stephen King, Megan Abbott, and Joyce Carol Oates, this collection is sure to please fans of dark and macabre stories, as well as those who appreciate painter Edward Hopper's lonely canvases. Complemented by the paintings that inspired them, the stories collected here cover many topics and are "searing and ensnaring, clever, erotic, and disquieting" (Booklist). In particular, look for unrequited love in "The Projectionist," clever schemes to survive the Great Depression in "Still Life, 1931," and Cold War surveillance in "The Incident of 10 November." |
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White tears
by Hari Kunzru
Two twenty-something New Yorkers. Seth is awkward and shy. Carter is the glamorous heir to one of America's great fortunes. They have one thing in common: an obsession with music. Seth is desperate to reach for the future. Carter is slipping back into the past. When Seth accidentally records an unknown singer in a park, Carter sends it out over the Internet, claiming it's a long lost 1920s blues recording by a musician called Charlie Shaw. When an old collector contacts them to say that their fake record and their fake bluesman are actually real, the two young white men, accompanied by Carter's troubled sister Leonie, spiral down into the heart of the nation's darkness, encountering a suppressed history of greed, envy, revenge, and exploitation.
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The shadow land : a novel
by Elizabeth Kostova
A young American woman, Alexandra Boyd, has traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria, hoping that life abroad will salve the wounds left by the loss of her beloved brother. Soon after arriving in this elegant East European city, however, she helps an elderly couple into a taxi—and realizes too late that she has accidentally kept one of their bags. Inside she finds an ornately carved wooden box engraved with a name: Stoyan Lazarov. Raising the hinged lid, she discovers that she is holding an urn filled with human ashes. As Alexandra sets out to locate the family and return this precious item, she will first have to uncover the secrets of a talented musician who was shattered by political oppression—and she will find out all too quickly that this knowledge is fraught with its own danger.
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Eggshells : a novel
by Caitriona Lally
Vivian doesn't feel like she fits in - and never has. As a child, she was so whimsical that her parents told her she was "left by fairies." Now, living alone in Dublin, the neighbors treat her like she's crazy, her older sister condescends to her, social workers seem to have registered her as troubled, and she hasn't a friend in the world. So, she decides it's time to change her life: She begins by advertising for a friend. Not just any friend. She wants one named Penelope. Meanwhile, she roams the city, mapping out a new neighborhood every day, seeking her escape route to a better world, the other world her parents told her she came from. And then one day someone named Penelope answers her ad for a friend. And from that moment on, Vivian's life begins to change.
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Be my Wolff : a novel
by Emma Richler
Falling scandalously in love after an inseparable shared childhood, the daughter of Russian-English parents and her adopted brother invent a fictitious backstory in the face of growing troubles in their real lives. By the author of Feed My Dear Dogs. Illustrations.
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| How Will I Know You? by Jessica TreadwayOn a cold December day, the body of high school senior Joy Enright is discovered in the woods at the edge of a frozen pond. Her death looks like a tragic drowning accident at first, but an autopsy reveals something sinister -- the teenager's body shows unmistakable signs of strangulation. The discovery upends an otherwise uneventful small town, as police grapple with a rare homicide case and those closest to Joy wonder how she could have been taken from them -- and by whom. Susanne, Joy's mother, tries to reconcile past betrayals with their wrenching consequences. Martin, an African-American graduate student, faces ostracism when blame is cast on him. Tom, a rescue diver and son-in-law of the town's police chief, doubts both the police's methods and his own perceptions. And Harper, Joy's best friend, tries to figure out why she disappeared from Harper's life months before she actually went missing. In a close-knit community where everyone knows someone else's secret, it's only a matter of time before the truth is exposed. In this gripping novel, author Jessica Treadway explore the ways in which families both thrive and falter, and how seemingly small bad choices can escalate - with fatal consequences. |
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A horse walks into a bar
by David Grossman
An Israeli comedian a bit past his prime conveys with semi-questionable humor anecdotes from his violence-stricken youth during a night of standup, while a judge in the audience wrestles with his own part in the comedian's losses. By the author of To the End of the Land
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Castle of water : a novel
by Dane Huckelbridge
For Sophie Ducel, her honeymoon in French Polynesia was intended as a celebration of life. The proud owner of a thriving Parisian architecture firm, co-founded with her brilliant new husband, Sophie had much to look forward to--including a visit to the island home of her favorite singer, Jacques Brel. For Barry Bleecker, the same trip was meant to mark a new beginning. Turning away from his dreary existence in Manhattan finance, Barry had set his sights on fine art, seeking creative inspiration on the other side of the world--just like his idol, Paul Gauguin. But when their small plane is downed in the middle of the South Pacific, the sole survivors of the wreck are left with one common goal: to survive.Stranded hundreds of miles from civilization, on an island the size of a large city block, the two castaways must reconcile their differences and learn to draw on one another's strengths if they are to have any hope of making it home.
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Pachinko
by Min Jin Lee
In early 1900s Korea, prized daughter Sunja finds herself pregnant and alone, bringing shame on her family until a young tubercular minister offers to marry her and move with her to Japan, in the saga of one family bound together as their faith and identity are called into question.
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The Hearts of Men
by Nickolas Butler
Camp Chippewa, 1962. Nelson Doughty, age thirteen, social outcast and overachiever, is the Bugler, sounding the reveille proudly each morning. Yet this particular summer marks the beginning of an uncertain and tenuous friendship with a popular boy named Jonathan. Over the years, Nelson, irrevocably scarred from the Vietnam War, becomes Scoutmaster of Camp Chippewa, while Jonathan marries, divorces, and turns his father’s business into a highly profitable company. And when something unthinkable happens at a camp get-together with Nelson as Scoutmaster and Jonathan’s teenage grandson and daughter-in-law as campers, the aftermath demonstrates the depths—and the limits—of Nelson’s selflessness and bravery.
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| Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara BaumeOn a Tuesday, solitary 57-year-old misfit Ray's life changes forever. In the corner of a junk shop's window, he sees a flyer advertising a scarred dog who needs a home. At the shelter, he's brought to see the one-eyed mongrel who's as unloved as he is -- and while their start together is somewhat inauspicious, the two of them form a relationship that transforms them both. Poetic and unsparing, this debut novel from award-winning Irish author Sara Baume will be followed in April by a second novel, A Line Made by Walking. |
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| Youngblood: A Novel by Matt GallagherWhile Youngblood is author Matt Gallagher's first novel, he's no stranger to writing. As a U.S. Army captain deployed to Iraq, he wrote for a popular blog that eventually formed the basis of his memoir, Kaboom. For this novel, he once again draws on his military experience to tell the story of Army lieutenant Jack Porter, who becomes dangerously obsessed with the story of a missing American soldier who had a love affair with the daughter of a local sheikh, while at the same time battling a confrontational new sergeant for command of his own men. Combining the trials of war with a mystery, this powerful debut is "one of the best modern war novels since Tim O’Brien’s Vietnam classic, The Things They Carried" (Booklist). |
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| Nine Women, One Dress by Jane L. RosenEvery girl needs a little black dress -- versatile, affordable, essential. And in the case of the nine women of the title, it's the same little black dress. Whether they're modeling it, borrowing it, buying and returning it, or simply trying it on, their stories are told through their association with the LBD of the season. Most of the action swirls through Manhattan landmarks such as Bloomingdales, but it expands beyond the women to the men in their lives, and beyond present-day NYC to events that took place decades ago. Quickly paced, charming, and humorous, this debut is sure to please fans looking for a grown-up version of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. |
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| Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist by Sunil YapaThis gripping novel takes readers through Seattle's 1999 World Trade Organization protests through the perspectives of seven different people, all involved in different ways. There's an idealistic protester, the protective police chief, and a WTO delegate from a small and relatively powerless country, as well as a runaway pot dealer, a self-appointed medic, and a couple of cops with very different views of the protesters. Though the riots happened more than 15 years ago, this novel's take on police responsiveness to public protest is just as relevant in today's political climate. |
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| Shelter by Jung YunThough Kyung Cho makes decent money as a tenure-track professor, he and his wife Gillian have always spent more than they earned. They're now in a tough situation that may necessitate renting out their over-mortgaged house and moving in with his wealthy parents, whom Kyung holds at arm's length despite their physical proximity. But a shocking act of violence committed against his parents changes things in an instant, forcing Kyung to come to terms with the anger, resentment, and distrust he feels towards them. Emotionally complex and deftly plotted, this debut novel also addresses aspects of race and culture in modern-day America. |
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