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The mars room
by Rachel Kushner
"From twice National Book Award-nominated Rachel Kushner, whose Flamethrowers was called "the best, most brazen, most interesting book of the year" (Kathryn Schulz, New York magazine), comes a spectacularly compelling, heart-stopping novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary America. It's 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility, deep in California's Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: the San Francisco of her youth and her young son, Jackson. Inside is a new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive; the bluffing and pageantry and casual acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike; and the deadpan absurdities of institutional living, which Kushner evokes with great humor and precision. Stunning and unsentimental, The Mars Room demonstrates new levels of mastery and depth in Kushner's work. It is audacious and tragic, propulsive and yet beautifullyrefined."
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The great alone
by Kristin Hannah
When her volatile, former POW father impulsively moves the family to mid-1970s Alaska to live off the land, young Leni and her mother are forced to confront the dangers of their lack of preparedness in the wake of a dangerous winter season. By the best-selling author of The Nightingale.
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Circe
by Madeline Miller
A highly anticipated follow-up to the award-winning The Song of Achilles follows the banished witch daughter of Titans as she hones her powers and interacts with famous mythological beings before a conflict with one of the most vengeful Olympians forces her to choose between the worlds of the gods and mortals. 75,000 first printing
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The sandman
by Lars Kepler
The internationally best-selling author of The Hypnotist presents the chilling story of a manipulative serial killer and two brilliant police agents who must hold fast to their sanity to beat him at his own game and rescue a girl who went missing 13 years earlier.
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Gun Love
by Jennifer Clement
Growing up in the front seat of the car she shares with her mother in a lot beside a trailer park, Pearl suffers a terrible tragedy stemming from her mother's gun-toting boyfriend and is forced to survive on her own as she comes of age. By the award-winning author of Prayers for the Stolen.
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Blackfish City : a novel
by Sam J Miller
When a climate-wars project involving the construction of a sophisticated floating city in the Arctic Circle begins to succumb to corruption and crime, the arrival of a woman riding an orca at the side of a polar-bear companion subtly brings together four marginalized people to stage strategic acts of resistance. By the award-winning author of the young-adult novel, The Art of Starving. 40,000 first printing
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Country dark
by Chris Offutt
A long-awaited new novel by the award-winning author of The Good Brother is set in rural Kentucky between the Korean War and 1970 and follows the efforts of a young veteran and bootlegger who is pushed into a life-altering act of violence by threats against his family
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Pride and Prometheus
by John Kessel
In a fusion of two popular classics—Pride and Prejudice and Frankenstein—Victor Frankenstein, who must make a bride for his Creature or face a certain death, meets and falls in love with Mary Bennet, who hopes he will save her from approaching spinsterhood, while wondering what dark secret he is keeping from her.
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The saint of wolves and butchers
by Alex Grecian
An enigmatic hunter and his highly skilled dog track a Nazi concentration-camp administrator who has been hiding in the United States, a case that is complicated by the man's secret ongoing work and his band of fanatical followers, who reveal a violent willingness to go to any length to protect him. By the best-selling author of The Yard
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