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In Pieces

Sally Field · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

In this intimate, haunting literary memoir, an American icon tells her story for the first time, and in her own gorgeous words--about a challenging and lonely childhood, the craft that helped her find her voice, and a powerful emotional legacy that shaped her journey as a daughter and a mother....
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Cherry: A novel

Nico Walker · Knopf
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Jesus' Son meets Reservoir Dogs in a breakneck-paced debut novel about love, war, bank robberies, and heroin.Cleveland, 2003. A young man is just a college freshman when he meets Emily. They share a passion for Edward Albee and Ecstasy and fall hard and fast in love. But soon Emily...
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Hits and Misses: Stories

SIMON RICH · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

A sharp new collection from "one of the funniest writers in America" -- The Daily BeastSimon Rich is the "hilarious" (Washington Post) humorist who draws comparisons to Douglas Adams (The New York Times Book Review) , James Thurber, and P.G. Wodehouse (The Guardian)...
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Last Looks: A Novel

Howard Michael Gould · Dutton
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A razor-sharp, exquisitely paced, madly fun debut thriller that gleefully lampoons Hollywood culture and introduces the highly eccentric yet brilliant ex-detective gone rogue: Charlie Waldo.There are run-of-the-mill eccentric Californians, and then there's former detective Charlie Waldo.Waldo,...
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Inappropriation: A Novel

Lexi Freiman · Ecco
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"This is a daring book, thrillingly of our moment." -- Emma Cline, author of The GirlsA wildly irreverent take on the coming-of-age story that turns a search for belonging into a riotous satire of identity politicsStarting at a prestigious private Australian girls' school,...
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Live Long And . . .: What I Learned Along the Way

William Shatner · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Star Trek legend and veteran author William Shatner discusses the meaning of life, finding value in work, and living well whatever your age."I have always felt," William Shatner says early in his newest memoir, that "like the great comedian George Burns, who lived to 100,...
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Lake Success: A Novel

Gary Shteyngart · Random House
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

When his dream of the perfect marriage, the perfect son, and the perfect life implodes, a Wall Street millionaire takes a cross-country bus trip in search of his college sweetheart and ideals of youth in the long-awaited novel, his first in seven years, from the acclaimed, bestselling author...
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This Body's Not Big Enough for Both of Us: A Novel

Edgar Cantero · Doubleday
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Meddling Kids comes a brilliantly subversive and comic thriller celebrating noir detectives, Die Hard, Fast & Furious, and the worst case of sibling rivalry. In a dingy office in Fisherman's Wharf, the glass panel in the door bears...
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The Shakespeare Requirement: A Novel

Julie Schumacher · Doubleday
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune keep hitting beleaguered English professor Jason Fitger right between the eyes in this hilarious and eagerly awaited sequel to the cult classic of anhedonic academe, the Thurber Prize-winning Dear Committee Members. Once more into the breach...Now...
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A Terrible Country: A Novel

KEITH GESSEN · Viking
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

"A cause for celebration: big-hearted, witty, warm, compulsively readable, earnest, funny, full of that kind of joyful sadness I associate with Russia and its writers." - George Saunders, Man Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the BardoA literary triumph about Russia,...
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