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Another Side of Paradise: A Novel

SALLY KOSLOW · Harper
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The author of the acclaimed international bestseller The Late, Lamented Molly Marx imaginatively brings to life the shocking affair of F. Scott Fitzgerald and his longtime lover, Sheilah Graham, in this dazzling novel of romance, celebrity, and Gatsby-esque self-creation in 1930s Hollywood.In...
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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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