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Tyler's Favorite Reads of 2019 |
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Last Exit to Brooklyn (An Evergreen book)
Hubert Selby Jr. - Grove Press
Format: Paperback
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Last Exit to Brooklyn remains undiminished in its awesome power and magnitude as the novel that first showed us the fierce, primal rage seething in America’s cities. Selby brings out the dope addicts, hoodlums, prostitutes, workers, and thieves brawling in the back alleys of Brooklyn.... |
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A Sand Book
Ariana Reines - Tantor Audio
Format: Audiobook
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A Sand Book is a poetry collection in 12 parts, a travel guide that migrates from wildfires to hurricanes, tweety bird to the president, lust to aridity, desertification to prophecy, and mother to daughter. It explores the negative space of what is happening to language and to consciousness... |
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How to Weep in Public: Feeble Offerings on Depression from One Who Knows
Jacqueline Novak - Three Rivers Press
Format: eBook
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In her hilarious memoir-meets-guide-to-life, comedian (and depressed person) Jacqueline Novak reveals depression's hidden pleasures, advises readers on how to make most of a cat hair-covered life, and helps them summon the strength to shed that bathrobe and face the world. Exhausted?... |
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It: A Novel
Stephen King - Scribner
Format: Paperback
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It: Chapter Two - soon to a major motion picture in 2019! Stephen King's terrifying, classic #1 New York Times bestseller, "a landmark in American literature" (Chicago Sun-Times) - about seven adults who return to their hometown to confront a nightmare they had first stumbled... |
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Adle: A Novel
Leila Slimani - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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From the bestselling author of The Perfect Nanny, her prizewinning novel about a sex-addicted woman in ParisShe wants only one thing: to be wanted.Adle appears to have the perfect life: She is a successful journalist in Paris who lives in a beautiful apartment with her surgeon... |
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The White Card: A Play
Claudia Rankine - Graywolf Press
Format: Paperback
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A play about the imagined fault line between black and white lives by Claudia Rankine, the author of CitizenThe White Card stages a conversation that is both informed and derailed by the black/white American drama. The scenes in this one-act play, for all the characters' disagreements,... |
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytellingOn Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths... |
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Girl in a Band: A Memoir
Kim Gordon - Dey Street Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth, fashion icon, and role model for a generation of women, now tells her story - a memoir of life as an artist, of music, marriage, motherhood, independence, and as one of the first women of rock and roll, written with the lyricism and haunting beauty... |
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