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Blackass: A Novel

A. Igoni Barrett

Furo Wariboko, a young Nigerian, awakes the morning before a job interview to find that he's been transformed into a white man. In this condition he plunges into the bustle of Lagos to make his fortune. With his red hair, green eye...

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Published: Mar 2016

The Truth According to Us

Annie Barrows

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BOOKPAGE • From the co-author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society comes a wise, witty, and exuberant novel, perfect for fans of Lee Smith, that illuminates the power of lo...

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Published: Jun 2016

City of Bohane: A Novel

Kevin Barry

"Extraordinary . . . Barry takes us on a roaring journey . . . Powerful, exuberant fiction." —The New York Times Book Review (front cover)Forty or so years in the future. The once-great city of Bohane on the west coast of ...

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Published: Jun 2013

Night Boat to Tangier

Kevin Barry

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR - THE ATLANTIC- THE MILLIONS- MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE - ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH- LIT HUB- LIBRARY JOURNAL - THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ...

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Published: Jul 2020

The Floating Opera and The End of the...

John Barth

The Floating Opera and The End Of The Road are John Barth's first two novels.  Their relationship to each other is evident not only in their ribald subject matter but in the eccentric characters and bitterly humorous tone of the nar...

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Published: Mar 1997

Tik-Tok of Oz

L. Frank Baum

The fun begins in an isolated corner of Oz, in the small country of Oogaboo. There Queen Ann Soforth musters an unlikely army and sets off to conquer the rest of Oz. Meanwhile, a girl from Oklahoma named Betsy Bobbin and her companion...

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Published: May 2019

Munich Airport: A Novel

Greg Baxter

"A masterwork of minimalism." --Entertainment Weekly From the critically acclaimed author of The Apartment comes a powerful, poetic, and haunting exploration of loss, love, and isolation, now available in paperback. An Ameri...

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Published: Jan 2016

Memories of a Marriage: A Novel

Louis Begley

By the author of the beloved Schmidt series, Memories of a Marriage is a penetrating look at class and privilege, shifting from Paris to Manhattan, Long Island to Newport. Mourning his wife and daughter, and on the edge of old age, Ph...

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Published: Sep 2014

What Happened to Sophie Wilder

Christopher Beha

Charlie Blakeman is living in New York, on Washington Square, struggling to write his second novel and floundering, when his college love, Sophie Wilder, returns to his life. Sophie, too, is struggling, though Charlie isn't sure why. ...

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Published: Jun 2012

In the House Upon the Dirt Between th...

Matt Bell

In this epic, mythical debut novel, a newly-wed couple escapes the busy confusion of their homeland for a distant and almost-uninhabited lakeshore. They plan to live there simply, to fish the lake, to trap the nearby woods, and build ...

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Published: May 2014

Wish Her Safe At Home

Stephen Benatar

Who hasn't imagined winning the lottery or coming into an inheritance? Wouldn't it be great to chuck your old workaday life and live it up somewhere else? At the start of Wish Her Safe at Home, Rachel Waring seems to be experiencing a...

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Published: Jan 2010

Smut

Alan Bennett

One of England's finest and most loved writers explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people's public appearance and their private desires in two tender and surprising stories. In The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson, a re...

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Published: Jan 2012

Checkout 19: A Novel

Claire-Louise Bennett

A NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR AND A NEW YORKER "ESSENTIAL READ" NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKERAND VOGUE “Bennett writes like no one else. She is a rare talent, and Checkout 19 is ...

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Published: Feb 2023

Queen Lucia & Miss Mapp: The Mapp & L...

E. F. Benson

E. F. Benson's beloved Mapp and Lucia novels are sparkling, classic comedies of manners set against the petty snobberies and competitive maneuverings of English village society in the 1920s and 1930s.Benson's series revolves around tw...

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Published: Nov 2015

Winter Loon: A Novel

Susan Bernhard

A haunting debut novel about family and sacrifice, Winter Loon reminds us of how great a burden the past can be, the toll it exacts, and the freedom that comes from letting it go.Abandoned by his father after his mother drowns in a fr...

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Published: Dec 2018

Under the Harrow

Flynn Berry

"A thriller for fans of The Girl on the Train and Gone Girl...[with] a striking, original voice all Berry's own." —The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)"An exquisitely taut and intense debut thriller."...

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Published: Jun 2016

Hothouse Flower: and the Nine Plants ...

Margot Berwin

Lila Nova is a thirty-two year-old advertising copyrighter who lives alone in a plain, white box of an apartment. Recovering from a heartbreaking divorce, Lila's mantra is simple: no pets, no plants, no people, no problems. But when L...

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Published: May 2010

Jamrach's Menagerie

Carol Birch

Nineteenth-century London comes vividly alive in this story a street urchin named Jaffy Brown. After a close call with an escaped tiger, Jaffy goes to work for Mr. Charles Jamrach, the famed importer of exotic animals. As the years pa...

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Published: Jun 2012

The Gap Year

Sarah Bird

Named a "Best Summer Read" by Good Housekeeping, Town & Country, and BookReporter, a witty and wise novel about the empty nest, a pitch perfect portrayal of a mother and daughter on the verge of a seismic change.Cam Lightsey...

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Published: Jul 2012

Mary Jane: A Novel

Jessica Anya Blau

"The best book of the summer." — InStyle "I LOVED this novel....If you have ever sung along to a hit on the radio, in any decade, then you will devour Mary Jane at 45 rpm." —Nick Hornby Almost Fam...

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Published: Apr 2022

Working Fire

Emily Bleeker

From the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of When I'm Gone comes a compelling novel of a bond between sisters, tested by tragedy…Ellie Brown thought she'd finally escaped her stifling hometown of Broadlands, Illinois; med scho...

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Published: Aug 2017

Alice & Oliver

Charles Bock

The award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Children has created an unflinching yet deeply humane portrait of a young family's journey through a medical crisis, laying bare a couple's love and fears as they ...

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Published: Apr 2017

A Beautiful Crime: A Novel

Christopher Bollen

An O Magazine Best Book of the Year “Stylish… a compelling take on the eternal question of how good people morph into criminals. Terrific.”—People,Book of the Week From the author of The Destro...

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Published: Jan 2021

The Destroyers

Christopher Bollen

An Esquire Best Book of the YearA Paste Best Novel of the YearRecommended by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, TIME, Vogue, Paste, New York Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Seattle Times, Yahoo!, Refinery29, BBC, Pop...

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Published: Jun 2018

The New Confessions

William Boyd

In this extraordinary novel, William Boyd presents the autobiography of John James Todd, whose uncanny and exhilarating life as one of the most unappreciated geniuses of the twentieth century is equal parts Laurence Stern, Charles Dic...

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Published: Oct 2000

Trio: A novel (Vintage International)...

William Boyd

A rollicking novel with a dark undertow, set around three unforgettable individuals and a doomed movie set—from the award-winning, best-selling author of Any Human Heart A producer. A novelist. An actress. It's summer 1968&md...

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Published: Mar 2022

A History of Loneliness: A Novel

John Boyne

Odran Yates enters Clonliffe Seminary in 1972 after his mother informs him that he has a vocation to the priesthood. He goes in full of ambition and hope, dedicated to his studies and keen to make friends. Forty years later, Odran's d...

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Published: May 2016

The Absolutist

John Boyne

A masterfully told tale of passion, jealousy, heroism and betrayal set in the gruesome trenches of World War I.It is September 1919: twenty-one-year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver a package of lette...

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Published: Jul 2012

Lamp Black, Wolf Grey: A Novel

Paula Brackston

Artist Laura Matthews finds her new home in the Welsh mountains to be a place so charged with tales and legends that she is able to reach through the gossamer-fine veil that separates her own world from that of myth and fable. She and...

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Published: Jun 2015

Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in ...

Richard Brautigan

A Brautigan omnibus, reissued in paperback in celebration of its twentieth anniversary, this one-volume edition includes three contemporary classics that embody the spirit of the 1960s.

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Published: Mar 1989
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