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  • The Skating Rink
    The Skating Rink
    Bolaño, Roberto
    “One of the greatest and most influential modern writers.” —James Wood, The New York Times Book ReviewIn the quiet Spanish seaside town of Z, a horrific crime has been committed: a coldblooded murder on a secret ice rink in the abandoned Palacio Benvingut. Who has been killed, by whom, and why? A tense, taut, utterly gripping narrative emerges from the jagged memories and whisp...

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  • Meditations for Mortals
    Meditations for Mortals
    Burkeman, Oliver
    A National BestsellerAddressing the fundamental questions about how to live, Meditations for Mortals offers a powerful new way to take action on what counts: a guiding philosophy of life Oliver Burkeman calls “imperfectionism.” It helps us tackle challenges as they crop up in our daily lives: our finite time, the lure of distraction, the impossibility of doing anything perfectl...

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  • Intermezzo
    Intermezzo
    Rooney, Sally
    An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family?but especially love?from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties?successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep...

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  • Revenge
    Revenge
    Ogawa, Yoko
    A collection of eleven eerie and harrowing interwoven tales from the award-winning author of Mina’s Matchbox and The Memory Police—now with a new introduction by Carmen Maria Machado.An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband. A bereft and grieving mother attempts to connect with her dead son. Elsewhere, an accomplishe...

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  • The Housekeeper and the Professor
    The Housekeeper and the Professor
    Ogawa, Yoko
    Yoko Ogawa’s The Housekeeper and the Professor is an enchanting story about what it means to live in the present, and about the curious equations that can create a family.He is a brilliant math professor with a peculiar problem—ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory.She is an astute young housekeeper, with a ten-year-old s...

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  • Monsieur Pain
    Monsieur Pain
    Bolaño, Roberto
    “The greatest writer to have appeared in Latin America since the so-called ‘boom’ . . . I’m tempted to call Bolaño the love child of David Lynch and Jorge Luis Borges—he’s that visceral and erudite—but this wouldn’t do justice to his ambition.” —John Powers, NPR’s Fresh Air/p>In 1938 Paris, Monsieur Pierre Pain, a beleaguered mesmerist and a lonely bachelor, receives a telegram...

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  • Right Stuff, The
    Right Stuff, The
    Wolfe, Tom / Sloan, Robin (intro.)
    “Tom Wolfe at his very best” (The New York Times Book Review), The Right Stuff is the basis for the 1983 Oscar-winning film of the same name and the eight-part Disney+ miniseries.Reissued for today’s reader with a cover by the renowned artist Seymour Chwast and an introduction by the New York Times bestselling author Robin Sloan.What does it take to be an astronaut?First publis...

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  • Blackouts
    Blackouts
    Torres, Justin
    Winner of the National Book Award – Winner of the California Book Award – Winner of Tournament of BooksOut in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly but who has haunted the edges of his life: Juan Gay. Playful raconteur, child lost and found and lost, guardian of the institutionalized, Juan has a project to pass ...

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  • Annihilation
    Annihilation
    VanderMeer, Jeff
    The Southern Reach Trilogy begins with Annihilation, the Nebula Award-winning novel that “reads as if Verne or Wellsian adventurers exploring a mysterious island had warped through into a Kafkaesque nightmare world” (Kim Stanley Robinson).Area X has been cut off from the rest of the world for years. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. Expeditions into ...

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  • God of That Summer, The
    God of That Summer, The
    Rothmann, Ralf
    ‘This book’s power lies in its depiction of civilians trying to lead ordinary lives during the horror of war . . . It is shattering stuff, but Rothmann is tender towards his characters and this book is as memorable as his last.’ - The Times, ‘Historical Fiction Book of the Month’As the Second World War enters its final stages, millions in Germany are forced from their homes by ...

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  • Austral
    Austral
    Fonseca, Carlos
    From Carlos Fonseca comes a dazzling novel about legacy, memory, and the desire to know and be known.Julio is a disillusioned professor of literature, a perpetual wanderer who has spent years away from his home, teaching in the United States. He receives a posthumous summons from an old friend, the writer Aliza Abravanel, to uncover the mysteries within her final novel. Aliza h...

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  • My Favorite Plant
    My Favorite Plant
    Kincaid, Jamaica
    Kincaid gathers a sparkling selection of new and beloved poetry and prose about each author’s favorite flora.The passion for gardening and the passion for words come together in this inspired anthology, a collection of essays and poems on topics as diverse as beans and roses, by writers who garden and gardeners who write.Among the contributors are Daniel Hinkley on hellebores; ...

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  • Book of Goose, The
    Book of Goose, The
    Li, Yiyun
    Winner of the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionLong-listed for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionA New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceA Slate Top Ten Book of the YearA TIME Best Fiction Book of 2022Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, NPR, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Los Angeles Review of Books, Financial Times, San Francisco Chro...

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  • Yoga
    Yoga
    Carrère, Emmanuel
    This is a book about yoga. Or at least it was.Emmanuel Carrère is a renowned writer. After decades of emotional upheaval, he has begun to live successfully?he is healthy; he works; he loves. He practices meditation, striving to observe the world without evaluating it. In this state of heightened awareness, he sets out for a ten-day silent retreat in the French heartland, leavin...

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  • Anatomy of Genres, The
    Anatomy of Genres, The
    Truby, John
    A guide to understanding the major genres of the story world by the legendary writing teacher and author of The Anatomy of Story, John Truby.Most people think genres are simply categories on Netflix or Amazon that provide a helpful guide to making entertainment choices. Most people are wrong. Genre stories aren’t just a small subset of the films, video games, TV shows, and book...

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  • Harsh Times
    Harsh Times
    Vargas Llosa, Mario
    Guatemala, 1954. The military coup perpetrated by Carlos Castillo Armas and supported by the CIA topples the democratic government of Jacobo Árbenz. Behind this violent act is a lie that will have drastic consequences for the entire region: the accusation by the Eisenhower administration, determined to protect American commercial interests in Central America, that Árbenz encour...

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  • Transparency of Time, The
    Transparency of Time, The
    Padura, Leonardo / Kushner, Anna
    From Leonardo Padura--whose crime novels featuring Detective Mario Conde form the basis of Netflix's Four Seasons in Havana--The Transparency of Time sees the Cuban investigator pursuing a mystery spanning centuries of occult history.Mario Conde is facing down his sixtieth birthday. What does he have to show for his decades on the planet? A failing body, a slower mind, and a de...

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  • Beautiful World, Where Are You
    Beautiful World, Where Are You
    Rooney, Sally
    Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a breakup, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood.Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young?but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each othe...

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  • Mona
    Mona
    Oloixarac, Pola
    From Pola Oloixarac, the critically acclaimed author of Savage Theories and Dark Constellations, comes Mona, in which success as a “writer of color” proves to be a fresh hell for a young Latin American woman at a literary conference in Sweden.Mona, a Peruvian writer based in California, presents a tough and sardonic exterior. She likes drugs and cigarettes, and when she learns ...

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  • Right to Sex, The
    Right to Sex, The
    Srinivasan, Amia
    How should we think about sex? It is a thing we have and also a thing we do, a supposedly private act laden with public meaning, a personal preference shaped by outside forces, a place where pleasure and ethics can pull wildly apart.How should we talk about sex? Since #MeToo, many have fixed on consent as the key framework for achieving sexual justice. Yet consent is a blunt to...

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  • Last Supper, The
    Last Supper, The
    Cusk, Rachel
    A vivid and elegant memoir of a family’s season abroad by the author of the Outline trilogy.When Rachel Cusk decides to travel to Italy for a summer with her husband and two young children, she has no idea of the trials and wonders that lie in store. Their journey, chronicled in The Last Supper, leads them to both the expected and the surprising, all seen through Cusk’s sharp a...

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  • Corrections, The
    Corrections, The
    Franzen, Jonathan
    After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson’s disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of their own lives.The oldest, Gary, a once--stable portfolio manager and family man, is trying to convince his wife and himself that, ...

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  • A Feather on the Breath of God
    A Feather on the Breath of God
    Nunez, Sigrid
    From the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend, A Feather on the Breath of God, is a mesmerizing story about the tangled nature of relationships between parents and children, between language and love.With a new introduction by Susan Choi, the National Book Award-winning author of Trust ExercisesA young woman looks back to the world of her immigrant parents: a Chines...

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  • Pew
    Pew
    Lacey, Catherine
    A figure with no discernible identity appears in a small, religious town, throwing its inhabitants into a frenzyIn a small, unnamed town in the American South, a church congregation arrives for a service and finds a figure asleep on a pew. The person is genderless and racially ambiguous and refuses to speak. One family takes in the strange visitor and nicknames them Pew.As the ...

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  • Life's Work
    Life's Work
    Cusk, Rachel
    A Life’s Work: On Becoming a Mother is Rachel Cusk’s funny, moving, brutally honest account of her early experiences of motherhood. When it was published it 2001, it divided critics and readers. One famous columnist wrote a piece demanding that Cusk’s children be taken into care, saying she was unfit to look after them, and Oprah Winfrey invited her on the show to defend hersel...

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  • Hundred Years' War on Palestine, The
    Hundred Years' War on Palestine, The
    Khalidi, Rashid
    A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family historyIn 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country had an indigenous people w...

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  • Serotonin
    Serotonin
    Houellebecq, Michel
    Michel Houellebecq's Serotonin is a caustic, frightening, hilarious, raunchy, offensive, and politically incorrect novel about the decline of Europe, Western civilization, and humanity in general.Deeply depressed by his romantic and professional failures, the aging hedonist and agricultural engineer Florent-Claude Labrouste feels he is "dying of sadness." He hates his young gir...

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  • The Bells of Old Tokyo
    The Bells of Old Tokyo
    Sherman, Anna
    An elegant and absorbing tour of Tokyo and its residentsFrom 1632 until 1854, Japan’s rulers restricted contact with foreign countries, a near isolation that fostered a remarkable and unique culture that endures to this day. In hypnotic prose and sensual detail, Anna Sherman describes searching for the great bells by which the inhabitants of Edo, later called Tokyo, kept the ho...

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  • Mutations
    Mutations
    Comensal, Jorge
    Ramón Martinez is a militant atheist, successful lawyer, and conventional family man. But all of that changes when cancer of the tongue deprives him of the source of his power and livelihood: speech.The Mutations, by Jorge Comensal, is a comedy tracing the metastasis of Ramón’s cancer through his body and in the lives of his family members, colleagues, and doctors, dissecting t...

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  • 4 3 2 1
    4 3 2 1
    Auster, Paul
    * * * Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize * * *New York Times Bestseller, Los Angeles Times Bestseller, Boston Globe Bestseller, National Indiebound Bestseller"An epic bildungsroman . . . . Original and complex . . . . A monumental assemblage of competing and complementary fictions, a novel that contains multitudes."--Tom Perrotta, The New York Times Book Review "A stunningly ...

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