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  • Redhead by the side of the road : a novel
    Author:
    Tyler, Anne
    Summary:

    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE “Tyler's novels are always worth scooping up—but especially this gently amusing soother, right now.” —NPR From the beloved Anne Tyler, a sparkling new novel...
  • Red pill : a novel
    Author:
    Kunzru, Hari
    Summary:

    From the widely acclaimed author of White Tears, a bold new novel about searching for order in a world that frames madness as truth. After receiving a prestigious writing fellowship in Germany, the narrator of Red Pill arrives in the...
  • Real life : a novel
    Author:
    Taylor, Brandon
    Summary:

    A FINALIST FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A  NEW YORK TIMES  EDITORS' CHOICE “A blistering coming of age story” — O: The Oprah Magazine   Named a Best Book of the Year by  The Washington Post...
  • Raft of stars : a novel
    Author:
    Graff, Andrew J.
    Summary:

    It's the summer of 1994 in Claypot, Wisconsin, and the lives of ten-year-old Fischer "Fish" Branson and Dale "Bread" Breadwin are shaped by the two fathers they don't talk about. Tired of seeing his best...
  • Radiant angel
    Author:
    DeMille, Nelson
    Summary:

    Corey has left the Anti-Terrorist Task Force and taken a job following Russian diplomats working at the UN Mission. But Corey realizes something the US government doesn't: the all-too-real threat of a newly resurgent Russia.
  • Racing the rain : a novel
    Author:
    Parker, John L.
    Summary:

    This prequel to Once a Runner is the story of a world-class athlete growing up in the 1950s and '60s on Florida's Gold Coast.
  • Portnoy's complaint
    Author:
    Roth, Philip
    Summary:

    Told in a continuous monologue from patient to psychoanalyst, this novel draws us into the turbulent mind of one lust-ridden young Jewish bachelor named Alexander Portnoy.
  • Pockets a novel
    Author:
    Ross, Stuart
    Summary:

    Brilliant experimental, surrealist fiction from the award-winning author of Snowball, Dragonfly, Jew A wonderful dream and a horrific nightmare, a fuzzy consciousness of pain and family, Pockets is a novel of fragments-both literally...
  • Play it as it lays a novel
    Author:
    Didion, Joan
    Summary:

    A harrowing tale of Hollywood, Las Vegas, and a young woman in pursuit of oblivion by the New York Times-bestselling author of The White Album. Spare, elegant, and terrifying, Play It as It Lays is the unforgettable story of a woman and...
  • Passing ceremony
    Author:
    Weinzweig, Helen
    Summary:

    In this brilliant debut novel by Helen Weinzweig, the award-winning author of Basic Black With Pearls, a wedding reception becomes a gothic dream in which the bride, groom, family, and guests struggle with private obsessions, guilty...
  • Our short history a novel
    Author:
    Grodstein, Lauren
    Summary:

    "Lauren Grodstein breaks your heart, then miraculously pieces it back together so it's bigger-and stronger-than before."-Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You How can a woman learn to let go of the people she...
  • Orange world and other stories
    Author:
    Russell, Karen
    Summary:

    From the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases Karen Russell's extraordinary,...
  • One by one
    Author:
    Ware, Ruth
    Summary:

    From Ruth Ware, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood , The Woman in Cabin 10 , The Lying Game , The Death of Mrs. Westaway , and The Turn of the Key , comes her highly anticipated sixth novel. Getting...
  • On swift horses : a novel
    Author:
    Pufahl, Shannon
    Summary:

    A lonely newlywed and her wayward brother-in-law follow divergent and dangerous paths through the postwar American West. Muriel is newly married and restless, transplanted from her rural Kansas hometown to life in a dusty bungalow in...
  • On Earth we're briefly gorgeous : a novel
    Author:
    Vuong, Ocean
    Summary:

    Named one of the most anticipated books of 2019 by Vulture, Entertainment Weekly, Buzzfeed, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Oprah.com, Huffington Post, The A.V. Club, Nylon, The Week, The Rumpus, The Millions, The Guardian, Publishers...
  • Nowhere is a place
    Author:
    McFadden, Bernice L.
    Summary:

    Sherry has struggled all her life to understand who she is, where she comes from, and, most importantly, why her mother slapped her cheek one summer afternoon. The incident has haunted Sherry, and it causes her to dig into her family...
  • Now and forever : wild at heart book #2
    Author:
    Connealy, Mary
    Summary:

    Shannon Wilde is the middle sister--and the one who loves animals. She's established her own homestead and is raising sheep for their wool. Things are going fine...until Shannon gets swept over a cliff by Matthew Tucker! Tucker seizes...
  • Night, sleep, death, the stars : a novel
    Author:
    Oates, Joyce Carol
    Summary:

    When a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways, and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all.
  • Night boat to Tangier : a novel
    Author:
    Barry, Kevin
    Summary:

    From the acclaimed author of the international sensations City of Bohane and Beatlebone, a striking and gorgeous new novel of two aging criminals at the butt ends of their damage-filled careers. A superbly melancholic melody of a novel...
  • Nick and jake an epistolary novel
    Author:
    Richards, Jonathan
    Summary:

    America in 1953 seems hell-bent on squandering the flood tide of international goodwill earned in WWII. Senator Joe McCarthy is on a red-hunting rampage in Washington, and the fledgling CIA under Allen Dulles is starting to dabble in...

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