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The Book of Formation
ROSS SIMONINI · Melville House
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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This debut novel - told in interviews - spans 20 years in the rise and fall of the charismatic leader of a seductive self-help movement.In the 1990s, a talk show host leads the "personality movement," an integrative approach to radical self-transformation. Mayah, the movement's... |
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Strange Is the Night
S P Miskowski · JournalStone
Pages: 254
Format: Paperback
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Over cocktails an executive describes to a friend the disturbing history of a strangely potent guardian angel. A young mom tries to perfect and prolong her daughter's childhood with obsessive parenting. A critic's petty denouncement of an ingEnue's performance leads to a theatrical... |
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Liars
Steven Gillis · Rare Bird Books, A Vireo Book
Pages: 322
Format: Hardcover
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Eric McCanus is a novelist with the misfortune of having written his one great book when he was young. Struggling to write more, recently divorced, while still missing his ex-wife, Eric becomes convinced that happy relationships are unsustainable. Determined to prove the accuracy of his theory,... |
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The Savage: A Novel
Frank Bill · FSG Originals
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
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In the raucous and action-packed follow-up to Donnybrook, mayhem is still the order of the day -- only more soThe dollar has failed; the grid is wiped out. Walmarts are looted and homes are abandoned as common folk flee and bloodthirsty militias fight for power. In a twenty-first century... |
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Mrs. Osmond: A novel
John Banville · Knopf
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea, a dazzling and audacious new novel that extends the story of Isabel Archer, the heroine of Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady, into unexpected territory.Isabel Archer is a young American woman, swept off to Europe in the late nineteenth... |
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Radio Free Vermont: A Fable of Resistance
Bill McKibben · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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"I hope no one secedes, but I also hope that Americans figure out creative ways to resist injustice and create communities where everybody counts. We've got a long history of resistance in Vermont and this book is testimony to that fact." -Bernie SandersA book that's... |
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Displaced: A Novel
Stephan Abarbanell · Harper
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Echoing the fiction of Joseph Kanon, Alan Furst, and Daniel Silva, this deeply intelligent debut literary thriller - set within a world still reeling from World War II - explores how the actions of a few can change the course of history.British-occupied Palestine, 1946: Elderly writer Elias... |
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Charlatan: New and Selected Stories
Cris Mazza · Curbside Splendor Publishing
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
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Cris Mazza's work has often been regarded as "disturbing" for its exploration of sexual politics, victimhood, personal accountability, and acts of sexual violence. With an introduction by Gina Frangello and a foreword by Rick Moody, Charlatan charts the development of a dynamic... |
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The Ruined House: A Novel
RUBY NAMDAR · Harper
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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"In The Ruined House a 'small harmless modicum of vanity' turns into an apocalyptic bonfire. Shot through with humor and mystery and insight, Ruby Namdar's wonderful first novel examines how the real and the unreal merge. It's a daring study of madness, masculinity,... |
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Catalina: A Novel
Liska Jacobs · FSG Originals
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
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A magnetic, provocative debut novel chronicling a young woman's downward spiral following the end of an affairElsa Fisher is headed for rock bottom. At least, that's her plan. She has just been fired from MoMA on the heels of an affair with her married boss, and she retreats to Los Angeles... |
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