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A Strange Kind of Comfort

Gaylene Dutchyshen

A Strange Kind of Comfort

Secrets cannot stay buried forever In the town of Ross Prairie, Caroline Webb and Sarah Bilyk are bound by family, duty, and a decades-old act of betrayal. On opposing sides of a long-simmering feud between their husbands’ families, the two women meet again after years of estrangement when Caroline moves into the same nursing home as Sarah’s father. Seeing each other sparks memories – of young love and the path to a fateful summer day that changed everything. Together, Caroline and Sarah...

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Gaylene Dutchyshen

Many Mansions

Isabel Bolton

Many Mansions

A finalist for the National Book Award, Many Mansions was originally published in 1952 and received raves upon its debut. Now available for the first time in a paperback edition, the novel recounts an elderly woman's difficult decision to reread an unpublished memoir. Her poignant story of forbidden love and sacrifice, which begins during the Victorian era and concludes in the years following World War II, recalls the aristocratic elegance and psychological insights of works by Edith...

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Isabel Bolton

The Landlord

Kristin Hunter

The Landlord

"An elaborate spoof that somehow manages to combine touches of the absurd and intimations of the surreal, strokes of caricature, slapstick, and the grotesque, with an inherent down-to-earth sanity and realism." — Saturday Review A wealthy white man and earnest do-gooder buys a building in a ghetto neighborhood in this warmly comic novel. Elgar Enders, having been expelled from eight Ivy League schools, is eager to make something of himself. He begins by...

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Kristin Hunter

Treatise on Elegant Living

Honoré De Balzac

Treatise on Elegant Living

Honoré de Balzac's 1830 Treatise on Elegant Living was a keystone text on dandyism, preceding Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly's Anatomy of Dandyism (1845) and Charles Baudelaire's “The Dandy” (in The Painter of Modern Life, 1863), and marking an important shift from the early dandyism of the British Regency to the intellectual and artistic dandyism of nineteenth-century France. The Treatise is the first true...

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Honoré De Balzac

Entangled Objects

Susanne Paola Antonetta

Entangled Objects

Entangled Objects is a contemporary pilgrim's progress, the story of three very different yet interconnected women. As the story advances, their overlapping lives reveal the mysterious entanglement of quantum behavior. Fan is a struggling adjunct professor. When she and her husband move to Korea so he can investigate the cloning of human cells, she finds herself having an affair, even as her husband gets caught trying to publish falsified research. Filomena is a maid who begins to...

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Susanne Paola Antonetta

Zmyślenia

Eliza Segiet

Zmyślenia

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Eliza Segiet

The Hour of Daydreams

Renee Macalino Rutledge

The Hour of Daydreams

Set in the Philippines, a country that is vastly underrepresented in fiction The “he said, she said” theme resonates with the best-selling novels Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff and by Gillian Flynn A fabulist love story about a woman with wings that twists into a darker, more ominous tale as a husband misinterprets his wife’s secrets Fans of small-town fiction will sink into the lush rural landscape and the mix of village voices that take turns narrating the story of two people’s lives Magical...

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Renee Macalino Rutledge

Seeds of Corruption

Sabri Moussa

Seeds of Corruption

Set in the harsh desert of eastern Egypt, Seeds of Corruption is the tale of a Ulysses-like hero in search of himself and his ultimate salvation. The novel becomes a singularly compelling play between the peace and desolation of the desert, the corruption of the dissolute Egyptian king and his court, the purity of the hero's daughter, and the simple dignity of the fishermen and desert Bedouins. Seeds of Corruption eloquently portrays the corruption of the Egyptian monarchy and the...

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Sabri Moussa

The Bleeding of the Stone

Ibrahim al-Koni

The Bleeding of the Stone

The moufflon, a wild sheep prized for its meat, continues to survive in the remote mountain desert of southern Libya.[/b] Only Asouf, a lone bedouin who cherishes the desert and identifies with its creatures, knows exactly where it is to be found. Now he and the moufflon together come under threat from hunters who have already slaughtered the once numerous desert gazelles. The novel combines pertinent ecological issues with a moving portrayal of traditional desert life and of the power of the...

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Ibrahim al-Koni

Bana Fine Irish Pizza

T. STRAHS

Bana Fine Irish Pizza

Adventures, and misadventures, with eccentric characters, fill this quirky read about two brothers, abandoned by their mother (a convent novitiate nun). Luigi and Guido grow up with an adopted father who rubbed pigs and an Irish mother who danced for a living. When their professions died out, they started an Irish pizza restaurant in the pork capital of Italy. The green dough and unique flavors made it a hit. After their 5th year of high school, the formally conjoined twins make their way...

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T. STRAHS

The Encampment

Stephen Davenport

The Encampment

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Stephen Davenport

Anthology

Robert Deshaies

Anthology

Fear consumes all. It eats away at the deep and shadowed crevices of your mind until your body becomes frail and broken. Once the fear burrows between your hopes and nightmares, you’ll pray to know the difference… Mr. Jacket awaits. Prepare for his arrival, for he will reveal what lies beneath.

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Robert Deshaies

Beyond Christianity

Darnise C. Martin

Beyond Christianity

Beyond Christianity draws on rich ethnographic work in a Religious Science church in Oakland, California, to illuminate the ways a group of African Americans has adapted a religion typically thought of as white to fit their needs and circumstances.This predominantly African American congregation is an anomalous phenomenon for both Religious Science and African American religious studies. It stands at the intersection of New Thought doctrine, characterized by personal empowerment teachings,and a...

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Darnise C. Martin

The Wig My Father Wore

Anne Enright

The Wig My Father Wore

The second novel to be published in America by widely acclaimed Irish author Anne Enright, The Wig My Father Wore is a spry, hilarious novel about parents, love, religion, and the absurdities of them all. Grace is a young Dubliner who works on a television show called Love Quiz. Her father is going benignly senile, but her life otherwise seems fairly solid. When Stephen arrives on her doorstep, however, Grace has no idea what she's in for. Stephen explains that he is an angel, a former...

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Anne Enright

Bird-Self Accumulated

Don Judson

Bird-Self Accumulated

"When BooBoo stabs Morris Boyle I am reading a news magazine that someone has smuggled into the wing." Thus, the protagonist of this novella introduces us to prison, one of the several worlds he inhabits, worlds most of us would rather ignore but which inexorably, through what we see and hear and read and live on uncountable American streets, has become the one world we can no longer avoid. It seduces us with the voice of drugs and violence. Of the disenfranchised. Of those both at once...

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Don Judson

After Elias

Eddy Boudel Tan

After Elias

A modern queer tragedy about a pilot's last words, an interrupted celebration, and the fear of losing everything. “Utterly engrossing. Coen is a hero for our era, darkly struggling amid the aftershocks of loss, but doing so with dignity, humanity, and passion.” – Timothy Taylor, author of The Rule of Stephens When the airplane piloted by Elias Santos crashes one week before their wedding day, Coen Caraway loses the man he loves and the illusion of happiness he has worked so hard to...

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Eddy Boudel Tan

Street Banditz

CJ Hudson

Street Banditz

C-Town. The Land. Believe Land. No matter what you call it, for years Cleveland has been known to bring the drama. Follow the lives of seven deadly sinners as they struggle to weave their way through the hardened streets of the 216!Michael "Red" Roberts and "Bulletproof" Bobby Walker form a deadly combination&#61630;making money and holding down their territory. But when Bobby meets a girl that captures his heart, it causes a rift between him and his...

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CJ Hudson

Now You Wanna Come Back 2

Anna Black

Now You Wanna Come Back 2

Leila, Rayshon, and Devon have been in a warped love triangle ever since Devon's cold heart and neglect left Leila seeking comfort in Rayshon's arms.It was a battle for her heart, but Rayshon won, and now he and Leila are happily expecting their second child. The marriage is a little shaky because now that Leila is losing her business, the strain is almost too much for the relationship to bear. Feeling alone again, Leila turns to Devon, who is more than happy to be a shoulder for...

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Anna Black

The Queen's Diamond

Niyah Moore

The Queen's Diamond

Desirae Fernandez is kicked out of her parents' home in Little Havana on her eighteenth birthday. She has only one plan, and that is to be grown.When her best friend gives her the opportunity to make fast money at Miami's Queen of Diamonds gentlemen's club, Desirae dives head first into the business and meets a handsome, hoodrich, up and coming rap label CEO by the name of Luxury. Their attraction to one another is undeniable, but he plays her cool until she turns...

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Niyah Moore

And Then

Donald Breckenridge

And Then

Breckenridge takes readers on a hypnotically broken journey, chronicling his fathers slow and deliberate death, interweaving the stories of others: a young woman's hopeful arrival in New York City, a young man's voyeuristic summer spent housesitting for his professor, and a soldier who never made it out of Vietnam. What they all have in common is a deep preoccupation with the way lives resonate and connect, an emotionally honest love story about how we relate to others and ourselves....

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Donald Breckenridge

Track Changes

Sayed Kashua

Track Changes

From Bernstein Award-winner Sayed Kashua comes his fourth and most daring, intimate novel yet—a searing exploration of the stories Palestinians and Israelis tell themselves about their lives, their histories, and the blurred lines between personal and national memory. Hailed as “an unusually gifted storyteller with exceptional insight” ( Jewish Tribune ), Bernstein award-winning writer Sayed Kashua presents his masterful fourth novel Track Changes which follows an...

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Sayed Kashua

The Fifth Wall

Rachel Nagelberg

The Fifth Wall

In this debut novel, conceptual artist Sheila B. Ackerman heeds a mysterious urge to return to her estranged family home and arrives at the exact moment of her mother’s suicide. In an attempt to cope with and understand her own self destructive tendencies, Sheila plants a camera on the lawn outside the house to film 24/7 while workers deconstruct the physical object that encases so many of her memories. Meanwhile, as she begins to experience frequent blackouts, she finds herself hunting a robot...

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Rachel Nagelberg

Blutige Verlockung

Victory Storm

Blutige Verlockung

Wenn alle deine Gewissheiten zusammenbrechen und du nicht mehr weißt, wer du bist, bleibt dir nur noch die Flucht. Die Flucht vor ihnen und ihrer Blutgier… nach deinem Blut! Vera hat gerade die Existenz von Vampiren entdeckt und muss nun flüchten. Auf einer Flucht zwischen Dublin und London wird Vera zur Beute einer blutigen und wilden Spezies, denn in ihrem Blut verbirgt sich die Waffe, um alle Vampire zu vernichten. Blake, einer der ältesten und stärksten Vampire der Welt, ist ihr auf der...

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Victory Storm

Son Loup Captif

Kristen Strassel

Son Loup Captif

Un chef face à l’extinction de sa meute. Une femme brisée par un tragique accident. Ensemble, ils pourraient survivre – s'ils apprennent à se faire confiance. En tant que directrice du refuge pour animaux Forever Home, Trina ne peut ignorer les rumeurs sur un cercle vicieux de combat de chiens à Granger Falls, dans l'Idaho, et se précipite pour les sauver. Elle ne recule devant rien pour assurer la sécurité de ses amis à fourrure, même si cela met sa vie en danger. Avec sa meute prise et piégée...

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Kristen Strassel

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