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A Separation: A Novel
A Separation: A Novel

Katie M Kitamura · Riverhead Books
Pages: 240
Format: Book

Recommended by Karen in Riverside

A mesmerizing, psychologically taut novel about a marriage's end and the secrets we all carry. A young woman has agreed with her faithless husband: it's time for them to separate. For the moment it's a private matter,...

 
 
Thomas Murphy: A Novel
Thomas Murphy: A Novel

Roger Rosenblatt · Ecco, 2016.
Pages: 224
Format: Book

Recommended by Daria in Riverside

The acclaimed, award-winning essayist and memoirist returns to fiction with this reflective, bittersweet tale that introduces the irrepressible aging poet Thomas Murphy - a paean to the mystery, tragedy and wonder of life.

Trying...

 
 
You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life
You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life

Jen Sincero · Running Press Book Publishers
Pages: 254
Format: Paperback

Recommended by Laura in Falston

YOU ARE A BADASS IS THE SELF-HELP BOOK FOR PEOPLE WHO DESPERATELY WANT TO IMPROVE THEIR LIVES BUT DON'T WANT TO GET BUSTED DOING IT.In this refreshingly entertaining how-to guide, bestselling author and world-traveling success...

 
 
Behold the Dreamers: A Novel
Behold the Dreamers: A Novel

Imbolo Mbue · Random House
Pages: 382
Format: Book

Recommended by Carly in Bel Air

A compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream - the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession...

 
 
The Bear and the Nightingale: A Novel
The Bear and the Nightingale: A Novel

Katherine Arden · Del Rey
Pages: 322
Format: Book

Recommended by Lisa in Riverside

A magical debut novel for readers of Naomi Novik's Uprooted, Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus, and Neil Gaiman's myth-rich fantasies, The Bear and the Nightingale spins an irresistible...

 
 
The English Teacher: A Novel
The English Teacher: A Novel

Yiftach Reicher Atir · Penguin Books
Pages: 272
Format: Book

Recommended by Katie in Riverside

For readers of John Le Carré and viewers of Homeland, a slow-burning psychological spy-thriller by a former brigadier general of intelligence in the Israeli army

After attending her father's...

 
 
Homeward Bound: The Life of Paul Simon
Homeward Bound: The Life of Paul Simon

Peter Ames Carlin · Henry Holt
Pages: 432
Format: Book

Recommended by Betsy in Bel Air

A revelatory account of the life of beloved American music icon, Paul Simon, by the bestselling rock biographer Peter Ames Carlin

To have been alive during the last sixty years is to have lived with the music of Paul Simon....

 
 
Remember Me Like This: A Novel
Remember Me Like This: A Novel

Bret Anthony Johnston · Random House; First Edition edition
Format: Book

Recommended by Tracy in Abingdon

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review bull Esquire bull BookPageA gripping novel with the pace of a thriller but the nuanced characterization and deep empathy of some of the literary canonrsquos...