Idaho Winter begins as the story of a boy with an extraordinarily painful existence. He is, through no fault of his own, loathed by everyone in the town where he lives. His father, Early Winter, feeds him roadkill for breakfast...
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Author:Burgess, TonySummary: -
Author:Flower, AmandaSummary:When a literary icon stays with the Dickinson family, Emily and her housemaid Willa find themselves embroiled in a shocking murder in this new mystery from USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning author Amanda Flower. August 1856...
- Author:Apostolides, MarianneSummary:
What does it mean to say "I love you"? Ariadne is a single, forty-something writer and mother embroiled in an affair with a married man. At the core of her current work, a manuscript about the declaration of love, is the need...
- Author:Kuang, YulinSummary:
A special dual narration by Katharine Chin and Andrew Eiden! "Emotional, relatable and binge-worthy." – Tessa Bailey "I'll read anything she writes. An absolute star." –Emily Henry "I was hooked on the...
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Author:Keillor, GarrisonSummary:The latest in a line of bestselling collections that began with News from Lake Wobegon, this set selects monologues from four years (1999-2002) of live radio programs. Some were broadcast from the Fitzgerald Theatre, the show's St. Paul...
- Author:Sager, RileySummary:
Every house has a story to tell and a secret to share. Twenty-five years ago, Maggie Holt and her parents moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. Three weeks later they fled in the dead of night, an...
- Author:Thornton, Stephanie MarieSummary:
From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman to Frankenstein, a tale of two literary legends--a mother and daughter--discovering each other and finding themselves along the way, from USA Today bestselling author Stephanie Marie Thornton....
- Author:Mott, JasonSummary:
In Jason Mott's Hell of a Book, a Black author sets out on a cross-country publicity tour to promote his bestselling novel. That storyline drives Hell of a Book and is the scaffolding of something much larger and urgent: since Mott...
- Author:McDonald, CraigSummary:
When Senator Prescott Bush demands the mummified head of Pancho Villa for Yale's Skull & Bones Society's trophy case, a pulp writer named Lassiter winds up holding the bag.
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Author:Naipaul, V. S.Summary:Half a Life is the story of Willie Chandran, whose father, heeding the call of Mahatma Gandhi, turned his back on his brahmin heritage and married a woman of low caste
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Author:Crane, Dede, Moore, LisaSummary:Edited by master storyteller Dede Crane and award-winning author Lisa Moore, both of whom contribute their own stories, Great Expectations is a must-have collection for parents and parents-to-be. Uniquely honest and transformative,...
- Author:Wenzel, KurtSummary:
An author who writes about his conversion to Islam has a fatwa declared against him, and a doorman at a restaurant decides he wants to carry it out. Also, the author's former lover, a waitress there, thinks her aunt has a manuscript...
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Author:Leyner, MarkSummary:In this utterly unconventional, autobiographical novel, Mark Leyner gives a reading in the food court of a mall. Besides Mark's mother, who's driven him to the mall and introduces him before he begins, and a few employees of fast food...
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Author:Arvin, EricSummary:Fiction writer Logan Brandish is perfectly happy in his peaceful small-town routine with his best friend, his cat, and his boyfriend—until he meets the editor of his next book, the handsome Brock Kimble, and the lazy quiet of everyday...
- Author:Sauriol, Louise-Michelle, Therrien, Joanne, Le Gall, Huguette, Girardin, BrigitteSummary:
Gabrielle Roy a consacré sa vie à l’écriture. Qui était-elle? Comment a-t-elle découvert sa vocation? Comment a-t-elle vécu? À travers des extraits de ses œuvres, des dialogues et des textes quelque peu romancés, Petite Gabrielle...
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Author:Page, KathySummary:When Liz Meredith and her new baby move into the middle row-house on Onley Street - Liza having lived for years off-grid in an old railcar - there's more to get used to than electricity and proper plumbing. She's desperate to avoid her...
- Author:Angelo, MeganSummary:
Orla Cadden dreams of literary success, but has no idea how to change her life, until her new roommate Floss comes up with a plan for launching them both into high-profile lives. Thirty-five years later, in a village where government-...
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Author:Brukz, LaraSummary:Gay romance author Cade Montgomery is so thrilled when his latest book is given an excellent review by Eric Carillo that he sends Eric a personal e-mail thanking him for the rating. Occasional e-mails become frequent, and soon Cade and...
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Author:Bernhard, JimSummary:"Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case." -William Saroyan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Famous authors, like everybody else, know that one day they will die. Final Chapters tells the...
- Author:Bernstein, JamieSummary:
The oldest daughter of revered composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein offers a rare look at her father on the centennial of his birth in a deeply intimate and broadly evocative memoir. The composer of On the Town and West Side Story,...
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