A gritty and gorgeous debut that follows a cast of gay and transgender club kids navigating the Harlem ball scene of the 1980s and '90s, inspired by the real House of Xtravaganza made famous by the seminal documentary Paris Is Burning...
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Author:Cassara, JosephSummary: - Author:Wharton, EdithSummary:
Lily Bart enjoys an equitable standing within the New York City elite. Although she desires a comfortable life and has received generous proposals from wealthy suitors, Lily remains single with hope for an honest and loving marriage....
- Author:Hugo, VictorSummary:
Written in 1831 before Hugo was forced to flee from Louis Napoleon's France. In this novel, Hugo paints a vivid portrait of medieval Paris. Quasimodo, the one-eyed, hunchbacked refugee; Esmeralda, the dancing gypsy girl, threatened by...
- Author:Kowalski, WilliamSummary:
On April 7, 2005, an I. E. D. blast in Afghanistan alters the course of Jeremy Merkin's life forever. Still grieving the loss of his best friend, who was killed by the explosion, and nursing the physical and psychological wounds of the...
- Author:de Nikolits, LisaSummary:
The Hungry Mirror is the fictional tale of a young woman overwhelmed. Lured by false promise and seeking fickle social acceptability, she starves herself and fast becomes trapped when seeming-sanctuary proves a cage of...
- Author:Dostoyevsky, FyodorSummary:
Prince Myshkin, the last of his royal bloodline, suffers from epilepsy and a trusting nature. His saintlike purity of soul makes him suspect in the eyes of sinful St. Petersburg, but he finds a friend in passionate Rogozhin, and through...
- Author:Leggat, AlexandraSummary:
The Incomparables is the debut novel from the Trillium nominated author of Animal. Lydia Templar is obsessed with fabric, the texture and weight of cloth. Through fabrics, curtains, costumes, she expresses herself in a way she feels...
- Author:Tolstoy, LeoSummary:
A man condemns love and marriage and then gets married with predictably unfortunate results in what Tolstoy intended to be a persuasive argument for abstinence. Immediately censored by Russian authorities and banned by the U.S. Postal...
- Author:Bijan, DoniaSummary:
"A glorious treat awaits you at the literary table of Donia Bijan."-Adriana Trigiani Set against the backdrop of Iran's rich, turbulent history, this exquisite debut novel is a powerful story of food, family, and a...
- Author:Hadley, TessaSummary:
Paul leaves his family to search for Pia, his daughter from his first marriage. He finds her pregnant and living in less than ideal conditions--but with an outlook on life that's strangely compelling. Paul decides to start a new life...
- Author:L'Engle, MadeleineSummary:
Past and present collide in this heartfelt novel of love and loss from the National Book Award-winning author of A Wrinkle in Time. After the tragic death of her son and the seeming collapse of her marriage, Charlotte Napier flees to...
- Author:Kushner, RachelSummary:
It's 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility, deep in California's Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: the San...
- Author:Hodgins, JackSummary:
The Master of Happy Endings is a powerful new novel about memory, belonging, helping others, and the vagaries of the human heart. It is also a compelling story about how a man in his late seventies manages to conjure one more great...
- Author:Cinnamon, BruceSummary:
Every year since 1904, when the ice breaks up on the North Saskatchewan River, Edmonton has crowned a Melting Queen-a woman who presides over the Melting Day spring carnival and who must keep the city's spirits up over the following...
- Author:Monkman, KentSummary:
From global art superstar Kent Monkman and his long-time collaborator Gisèle Gordon, a transformational work of true stories and imagined history that will remake readers’ understanding of the land called North America. For decades, the...
- Author:Monkman, KentSummary:
From global art superstar Kent Monkman and his long-time collaborator Gisèle Gordon, a transformational work of true stories and imagined history that will remake readers' understanding of the land called North America. For decades, the...
- Author:OvidSummary:
Through Mandelbaum's poetic artistry, this gloriously entertaining achievement of literature-classical myths filtered through the worldly and far from reverent sensibility of the Roman poet Ovid-is revealed anew. "[An]...
- Author:Kafka, FranzSummary:
Described by Nobel laureate Elias Canetti as, "one of the few great and perfect works of the poetic imagination," this short fable about a man who wakes up one morning transformed into a giant insect is deeply funny in its tragedy and...
- Author:Wedderburn, AndrewSummary:
Longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Shortlisted for the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award The kid sells lemonade. Not a lot of people buy lemonade, especially now that it’s winter, but the kid makes good lemonade,...
- Author:Watmough, DavidSummary:
After decades in Canada, Davey Bryant returns to Cornwall, England, for the funeral of a mysterious relative and lands in the middle of a property-inheritance squabble that threatens to escalate into something far worse. Distraught by...
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