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Upstate: A Novel

James Wood · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

New Yorker book critic and award-winning author James Wood delivers a novel of a family struggling to connect with one another and find meaning in their own lives. In the years since his daughter Vanessa moved to America to become a professor of philosophy, Alan Querry has never been to visit....
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The Boatbuilder

DANIEL GUMBINER · McSweeney's
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

At 28 years old, Eli "Berg" Koenigsberg has never encountered a challenge he couldn't push through, until a head injury leaves him with lingering headaches and a weakness for opiates. Berg moves to a remote Northern California town, seeking space and time to recover, but soon...
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The New Order: Stories

Karen E Bender · Counterpoint
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

The New Order shows a singular writer at the top of her form dealing with contemporary themes and ideas, shining a spotlight on the dark corners of our nature, our instincts, and our country. The critically acclaimed author of Refund returns with a new collection of stories that boldly...
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The Feral Detective: A Novel

JONATHAN LETHEM · Ecco
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Jonathan Lethem's first detective novel since Motherless Brooklyn"One of America's greatest storytellers." - Washington PostPhoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer on the eastern edge of Los Angeles. She's looking for her friend's missing...
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Gone So Long: A Novel

ANDREIII DUBUS · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

Andre Dubus III's first novel in a decade is a masterpiece of thrilling tension and heartrending empathy.For as long as she can remember, Susan Dunn has been trying to escape. But peace and happiness have always eluded her -- now an adjunct professor, she is tortured by the novel she cannot...
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Trinity

LOUISA HALL · Ecco
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Speak comes a kaleidoscopic novel about Robert Oppenheimer - father of the atomic bomb - as told by seven fictional charactersJ. Robert Oppenheimer was a brilliant scientist, a champion of liberal causes, and a complex and often contradictory character. He loyally...
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The Boy at the Keyhole: A Novel

Stephen Giles · Hanover Square Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Nine-year-old Samuel lives alone in a once-great estate in Surrey with the family's housekeeper, Ruth. His father is dead and his mother has been abroad for months, purportedly tending to her late husband's faltering business. She left in a hurry one night while Samuel was sleeping...
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Brother

DAVID CHARIANDY · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

In luminous, incisive prose, a startling new literary talent explores masculinity, race, and sexuality against a backdrop of simmering violence during the summer of 1991.WINNER OF THE ROGERS WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEMichael and Francis are coming...
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Flight or Fright

Stephen King · Cemetery Dance Pubns
Format: Hardcover

Stephen King hates to fly.Now he and co-editor Bev Vincent would like to share this fear of flying with you.Welcome to Flight or Fright, an anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when you're suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed...
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Listen to the Marriage: A Novel

John Jay Osborn · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A riveting drama of marital therapyGretchen and Steve have been married for a long time. Living in San Francisco, recently separated, with two children and demanding jobs, they've started going to a marriage counselor. Unfolding over the course of ten months and taking place entirely...
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