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  • French exit : a novel
    Author:
    deWitt, Patrick
    Summary:

    Frances Price--tart widow, possessive mother, and Upper East Side force of nature--is in dire straits, beset by scandal and impending bankruptcy. Her adult son, Malcolm, is no help, mired in a permanent state of arrested development....
  • Forty rooms
    Author:
    Grushin, Olga
    Summary:

    This novel follows a young girl as she reaches adolescence and slowly discovers sexual happiness and love, until one day, near the end of her life, she finds herself alone.
  • Forest of the Pygmies
    Author:
    Allende, Isabel
    Summary:

    Alexander Cold's grandmother Kate is never far from an adventure. Days into the tour to write an article on the first elephant-led safaris in Africa, a Catholic missionary approaches them in search of his companions who have...
  • Foreign Gods, Inc. : a novel
    Author:
    Ndibe, Okey
    Summary:

    Ike, a New York-based Nigerian cab driver, is desperate. Despite having a degree in economics, his strong accent has barred him from the corporate world. With gambling debt mounting, he travels back to Nigeria to steal the statue of an...
  • Fishnet
    Author:
    Innes, Kirstin
    Summary:

    A "thoughtful, bruising, poignant, and poetic" (Ian Rankin) debut in which a woman's search for her missing sister leads her into the world of contemporary sex work. Rona Leonard was only twenty-years-old when she walked...
  • Family trust a novel
    Author:
    Wang, Kathy
    Summary:

    Some of us are more equal than others... Meet Stanley Huang: father, husband, ex-husband, man of unpredictable tastes and temper, aficionado of all-inclusive vacations and bargain luxury goods, newly diagnosed with pancreatic cancer....
  • Exhalation : stories
    Author:
    Chiang, Ted.
    Summary:

    "The universe began as an enormous breath being held." From the acclaimed author of Stories of Your Life and Others-the basis for the Academy Award -nominated film Arrival-comes a groundbreaking new collection of short fiction...
  • Every day is for the thief
    Author:
    Cole, Teju
    Summary:

    Every Day is for the Thief is an account of a Nigerian in the diaspora who returns home after many years abroad. The book gains its strength as much from its subject matter (contemporary Lagosian life as experienced by a visiting former...
  • Eight perfect murders : a novel
    Author:
    Swanson, Peter
    Summary:

    Bookseller and mystery aficionado Malcolm Kershaw compiled a list of the genre's most unsolvable murders. But no one is more surprised than Mal, now the owner of the Old Devils Bookshop in Boston, when an FBI agent comes looking...
  • Eat Your Heart Out
    Author:
    Boland, Katie
    Summary:

    With unsentimental prose and ironic dialogue, Katie Boland brings to life a variety of characters who all have one thing in common—a need for something more. A literary debut by a refreshing new voice in fiction, the stories...
  • Dominicana
    Author:
    Cruz, Angie
    Summary:

    From IMPAC Dublin Award finalist Angie Cruz, an urgent, beautifully told audiobook about a Dominican teenager's arranged marriage and immigration to New York City, set against the political turmoil of the 1960s. Fifteen-year-old...
  • Djinn patrol on the purple line : a novel
    Author:
    Anappara, Deepa
    Summary:

    Discover the “extraordinary” ( The Washington Post ) debut novel that “announces the arrival of a literary supernova” ( The New York Times Book Review ),“a drama of childhood that is as wild as it is intimate” (Chigozie Obioma)....
  • Deep river : a novel
    Author:
    Marlantes, Karl
    Summary:

    As the Koski siblings strive to rebuild lives and families in an America in flux, they also try to hold fast to the traditions of a home they left behind in Finland.
  • Deacon king kong : a novel
    Author:
    McBride, James
    Summary:

    Oprah's Book Club Pick A New York Times Bestseller One of The New York Times Top Ten Books of the Year A Washington Post Notable Novel One of TIME Magazine's Ten Best Novels of the Year From the author of the...
  • Dalva : a novel
    Author:
    Harrison, Jim
    Summary:

    Beautiful, fearless, and tormented, at forty-five Dalva has lived a life of adventures. Now, she begins a journey back to the Nebraska prairie where she was born and the son she gave up for adoption years ago.
  • Daddy : stories
    Author:
    Cline, Emma
    Summary:

    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls comes an eagerly anticipated story collection exploring the dark corners of human experience. " Daddy 's ten masterful, provocative stories confirm that Cline is a...
  • Crossing the lines
    Author:
    Gentill, Sulari
    Summary:

    "As one for whom certain story lines and characters have become as real as life itself, Crossing the Lines was a pure delight, a swift yet psychologically complex read, cleverly conceived and brilliantly executed." -Dean...
  • Copperhead : a novel
    Author:
    Zentner, Alexi
    Summary:

    What do we do when the people we love hold beliefs that are fundamentally incompatible with who we are? All Jessup wants is to enjoy his senior year at Cortaca High and get a scholarship to attend college. It doesn't seem...
  • Cop town : a novel
    Author:
    Slaughter, Karin
    Summary:

    Atlanta, 1974. It's Kate Murphy's first day on the job, and the Atlanta Police Department is seething after the murder of an officer. It's clear the APD doesn't welcome women, and when a move is made to keep Kate out...
  • Conjure women : a novel
    Author:
    Atakora, Afia
    Summary:

    A mother and daughter with a shared talent for healing—and for the conjuring of curses—are at the heart of this dazzling first novel LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE "Lush, irresistible ... It took me into...

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