With a defeated sigh, ex-college professor Paul Trilby faces the downward spiral that is his existence. After his wife and three subsequent girlfriends dump him, and he loses just as many jobs, he...
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Author: Hynes, JamesSummary:Genre: Humorous fiction -
Author: Hynes, JamesSummary:
This set of novellas from Austin, Texas resident James Hynes was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. As chilling as the best of Edgar Allan Poe...
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Author: Connelly, MichaelSummary:
Mickey Haller is a Lincoln lawyer, a criminal defense attorney who operates out of the back seat of his Lincoln Town Car. When someone close to him is murdered, Haller discovers that his search...
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Author: Moehringer, J. R.Summary:
J.R. Moehringer grew up listening for a voice: It was the sound of his missing father, a disc jockey who disappeared before J.R. spoke his first words. As a boy, J.R. would press his ear to a...
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Author: Carlin, Peter AmesSummary:
A revelatory account of the life of beloved American music icon, Paul Simon, by the bestselling rock biographer Peter Ames CarlinTo have been alive during the last sixty years is to have lived...
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Author: Buckley, Susan WashburnSummary:Experience 20 great moments in American history, from the 1631 quest of Christian libertarian Roger Williams to the 1988 ordeal of Sudanese refugee Peter Malual.
Genre: Juvenile nonfiction, History -
Author: Shteyngart, GarySummary:
After returning to Russia to attend his father's funeral, 30-year-old Misha is subsequently denied a visa when he attempts to re-enter the United States. What follows is a series of misadventures...
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Author: Noonan, William Sylvester, Huber, RobertSummary:
For 25 years William Noonan and John F. Kennedy, Jr. were best friends. Sharing an adolescence in Hyannisport, Massachusetts, the two frequented beach bonfires and the Monday-night yacht-club...
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Author: Browder, BillSummary:
November 2009. An emaciated young lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, is led to a freezing isolation cell in a Moscow prison, handcuffed to a bed rail, and beaten to death by eight police officers. His...
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Author: Rabinowitz, AlanSummary:Alan loves animals, but the great cat house at the Bronx Zoo makes him sad. Why are they all alone in empty cages' Are they being punished' More than anything, he wants to be their champion--their...
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Author: Rothstein, RichardSummary:
In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided...
Genre: Social science, History -
Author: Smith, StarrSummary:Of all the celebrities who served their country during World War II-and they were legion-Jimmy Stewart was unique. Jimmy Stewart, Bomber Pilot chronicles his long journey to become a bomber pilot...
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Author: Freedman, DeborahSummary:From the often Caldecott-buzzed Deborah Freedman, a sweet and funny story about finding your place in the world. Carl is an earthworm. He spends his days happily tunneling in the soil until a...
Genre: Juvenile fiction, Picture books -
Author: Shteyngart, GarySummary:
In a novel set in the near future, when a beautiful, yet cruel, woman that Lenny Abramov met in Italy says she his coming to stay with him in New York, even the tanks and soldiers stationed in the...
Genre: Romance fiction -
Author: Shteyngart, GarySummary:
In a novel about being an outsider in America and what it means to be an American, Vladimir, a young Russian-American immigrant, pursues his dreams of success, wealth, and a girlfriend, as his...
Genre: Bildungsromans