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Little Children
A group of young suburban parents, including a stay-at-home dad, a former feminist, and an over-structured mom, finds its sleepy existence shattered when a convicted child molester moves back into …
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Everything Changes
As his wedding day approaches, Zachary King begins to wonder if his entire life might be a big mistake, doubts that are only enhanced by the arrival of Norm, Zack's …
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Alternative Atlanta
"For thirty-year-old Gerald Brinkman, life in Atlanta in the year 1996 - the summer of the Olympics - doesn't feel half bad. Writing reviews of basement rock bands for an …
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Please Don't Come Back from the Moon
When his father disappears along with several other men from their blue-collar Detroit neighborhood, sixteen-year-old Michael Smolij witnesses the effects of large-scale abandonment on the community's wives and mothers and, …
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Sideways
Sideways is the story of two friends-Miles and Jack-going away together for the last time to steep themselves in everything that makes it good to be young and single: pinot, …
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House of Sand and Fog
A cloth bag containing ten copies of the title, that may also include a folder with miscellaneous notes, dicussion questions, biographical information, and reading lists to assist book group dicussion …
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Aloft
Lee burst on the scene with "Native Speaker," which won numerous awards, including the PEN/Hemingway Award. Now, with "Aloft," Lee has expanded his range and proves himself a master storyteller, …
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Lit Life
Set in Manhattan and the Hamptons, Lit Life is a wickedly funny and provocative debut novel about the passions and perils of the writing life that the Los Angeles Times …
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The Book of Ralph
From the award-winning author of "Troublemakers" comes this dazzling coming-of-age tale that speaks volumes about the wondrous and antic lives of teenage boys.
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Love Monkey
Many men aim high; Tom Farrell dares to be average. While his friends accumulate wedding rings, mortgages, and even, alarmingly, babies, Tom still lives alone in his rented apartment with …
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The Monk Downstairs
Rebecca Martin is a single mother with an apartment to rent and a sense that she has used up her illusions. I had the romantic thing with my first husband, …
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The Obituary Writer
In 1989, twenty-two-year-old Gordie Hatch takes a job as an obituary writer for the St. Louis Independent, but an encounter with young widow Alice Whiting leads him on an obsessive …
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After Lucy
Porter Ellis once believed he would be a famous painter -- until a decade of eking out a living as a graphic designer crushed his dreams. Suddenly his wife, Lucy, …
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The Organ Builder
"Disillusioned with his life and troubled by a mysterious past, corporate lawyer Hesh Freeman agrees to help two filmmakers with their project about his long-lost father, who helped build the …
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Man and Boy
Harry Silver has it all: a beautiful wife, a wonderful son, a great job in the media--but in one night he throws it all away. Just yesterday Harry gave himself …
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Motherless Brooklyn
When Lionel's friend is killed, he is forced to delve into the complex, shadowy web of relationships, threats, and favors that make up the Brooklyn world he thought he knew …
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The Muse Asylum
“An ingeniously plotted postmodernist mystery. . . . David Czuchlewski writes with imagination, vision, and style.”—Joyce Carol Oates Who is Horace Jacob Little, and what is he trying to hide? …
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The Sleep-Over Artist: Fiction
Beller's stories trace the life of Alex Fader, New Yorker, from age six to age 30. He drifts in and out of relationships. goes to London after losing his job …
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A Certain Chemistry
Brooding, self-loathing Tom Cartwright is a modestly successful ghostwriter whose ability to spell correctly and meet his deadlines has landed him the job of writing the autobiography of the wildly …
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Waxwings
A novel set in Seattle at the turn of the millennium follows two immigrants as they struggle to achieve the American dream in the midst of terrorism, economic fireworks, and …
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Sorrow Floats
After a frightening accident while she's in another drunken stupor, Maurey decides to set off on a road trip with two recovering alcoholics to get her life together once and …
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Officer Friendly and Other Stories
The stories in this sparkling debut collection all take place in the state of Maine -- which, in the hands of this madly talented young writer, quickly comes to stand …
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Political Animal
A young speechwriter meets the unlikely woman of his dreams during campaign season in Mizner's sharp, very funny novel.
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Heaven Lake
"Vincent Saunders has graduated from college, left his small hometown in Illinois, and arrived in Taiwan as a Christian volunteer. After opening a ministry house, he meets a wealthy Taiwanese …
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Too Beautiful for You
A collection of stories chronicles the lives and fortunes of an array of misfit and miscreant characters whose sexual frustrations and deviant desires draw them to the edge of acceptable …