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Geek Love: A Novel
Katherine Dunn - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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Geek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out-with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes-to breed their own exhibit of human oddities. There's Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy... |
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Blonde: A Novel
Joyce Carol Oates
Format: Print book
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"A lush-bodied girl in the prime of her physical beauty. In an ivory georgette crepe sundress with a halter top that gathers her breasts up in soft undulating folds of the fabric. She's standing with bare legs apart on a New York subway grating. Her blond head is thrown rapturously back... |
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A Little Life: A Novel
Hanya Yanagihara - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTSHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEBrace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest places fiction... |
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith - Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Format: Paperback
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The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century, Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a poignant and moving tale filled with compassion and cruelty, laughter and heartache, crowded with life and people and incident. The story of young, sensitive,... |
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson
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Merricat Blackwood lives on the family estate with her sister Constance and her uncle Julian. Not long ago there were seven Blackwoodsuntil a fatal dose of arsenic found its way into the sugar bowl one terrible night. Acquitted of the murders, Constance has returned home, where Merricat... |
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Everything I Never Told You
Celeste Ng - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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The acclaimed debut novel by the author of Little Fires Everywhere. "A deep, heartfelt portrait of a family." - Alexander Chee, The New York Times Book Review. "Wonderfully moving ... A beautifully crafted study of dysfunction and grief." - The Boston Globe "Lydia... |
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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Benjamin Alire Saenz - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A lyrical novel about family and friendship from critically acclaimed author Benjamin Alire Senz.Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When the two meet at the swimming pool, they seem to have nothing... |
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Middlesex: A Novel
Jeffrey Eugenides - Picador
Format: Paperback
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"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. . . My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent... |
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Fingersmith
Sarah Waters - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the New York Times Notable Book Tipping the Velvet and the award-winning Affinity: a spellbinding, twisting tale of a great swindle, of fortunes and hearts won and lost, set in Victorian London among a family of thieves. Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant... |
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The Enchanted: A Novel
Rene Denfeld - HarperTorch
Format: Hardcover
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A wondrous and redemptive debut novel, set in a stark world where evil and magic coincide, The Enchanted combines the empathy and lyricism of Alice Sebold with the dark, imaginative power of Stephen King."This is an enchanted place. Others don't see it, but I do." The enchanted... |
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Tell the Wolves I'm Home: A Novel
Carol Rifka Brunt - The Dial Press
Format: Hardcover
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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal O The Oprah Magazine BookPage Kirkus Reviews Booklist School Library Journal In this striking literary debut, Carol Rifka Brunt unfolds a moving story of love, grief, and renewal as two lonely people become the unlikeliest... |
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American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis - Vintage Books
Format: Paperback
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Now a major motion picture from Lion's Gate Films starring Christian Bale (Metroland) , Chloe Sevigny (The Last Days of Disco) , Jared Leto (My So Called Life) , and Reese Witherspoon (Cruel Intentions) , and directed by Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol) .In American Psycho, Bret Easton... |
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The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
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"They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. And how much. "The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with chrome tailfins is stranded on the highway amid a Marxist... |
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The Blind Assassin: A Novel
Margaret Atwood
Format: Paperback
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The Blind Assassin opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge." They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister's death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental. But just as the reader... |
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We Need to Talk About Kevin: A Novel
Lionel Shriver
Format: Print book
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Now a major motion picture by Lynne Ramsay, starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly,Lionel Shrivers resonant story of a mothers unsettling quest to understandher teenage sons deadly violence, her own ambivalence toward motherhood, andthe explosive link between them reverberates with the haunting... |
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Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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From the acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, a moving new novel that subtly reimagines our world and time in a haunting story of friendship and love.As a child, Kathy-now thirty-one years old-lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic... |
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