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1) Severance
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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A survivor of an apocalyptic plague maintains a blog about a decimated Manhattan before joining a motley group of survivors to search for a place to rebuild, a goal that is complicated by an unscrupulous group leader. -- NoveList
Maybe its the end of the world, but not for Candace Chen, a millennial, first-generation American and office drone meandering her way into adulthood in Ling Mas offbeat, wryly funny, apocalyptic satire, Severance. Candace...
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English
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"Master of razor-edged literary humor Binnie Kirshenbaum returns with her first novel in a decade, a devastating, laugh-out-loud funny story of a writer's slide into depression and institutionalization. It's New Year's Eve, the holiday of forced fellowship, mandatory fun, and paper hats. While dining out with her husband and their friends, Kirshenbaum's protagonist--an acerbic, mordantly witty, and clinically depressed writer--fully unravels. Her...
4) Amnesia
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English
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Writing the biography of a cyber criminal who released a virus into Australia's prison system and allowed hundreds of asylum seekers and prisoners to escape, left-wing journalist Felix Moore struggles to convey the hacker's intentions as a political protest against Australia's relationship with the United States. Includes reading-group guide.
"From the two-time Booker Prize winner: a masterful, exceedingly timely new novel--at once dark, suspenseful,...
5) Cherry
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English
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Rashly marrying his college girlfriend to keep their relationship active during his tour of duty, a college dropout-turned-army soldier is overwhelmed by the realities of war, PTSD, and opioid addiction before forging a desperate plan.
"Jesus' Son meets Reservoir Dogs in a breakneck-paced debut novel about love, war, bank robberies, and heroin. Cleveland, 2003. A young man is just a college freshman when he meets Emily. They share a passion for...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Imagines a New Russia of the near future that is ruled by a reconstituted nobility and which blends draconian codes with modern technology while locking down Western borders, a region in which a twenty-years-older Vladimir Putin has appropriated all freeenterprise.
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English
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The life of an old man who lives for sex. He is Morris Sabbath, 64, a New York puppeteer who made his name with lewd performances. Feeling death approaching, he relives his many amorous adventures in graphic detail. By the author of Portnoy's Complaint.
9) Beauty
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Series
Publisher
Mulholland Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Jamie Angelo, an artist and alchemist uses his skills in computer imaging and his knowledge of scientific engineering to reimagine and reinvent people into masterpieces of ageless beauty. To ambitious models like Jaishree Manglani, Jamie is the ultimate fantasy- a master illusionist who can turn her dream of eternal youth into reality... until the truth about Jamie's "art" and "science" is revealed, and a nightmare ensues.
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Publisher
AmazonEncore
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Since he was disfigured in a fire sixteen years ago, recluse Louis Malone has remained hidden from the prying eyes of his neighbors in the small town of Waverly. Across town, Iris Shula, a lonely and unlovely nurse, knows at thirty-seven it is unlikely that her Prince Charming will ever appear. But Iris is about to learn how wrong she is. When Louis accidentally falls out of his second-story window, these two kindred souls are brought together....
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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Mermaids, kidnappers, and mercenaries hijack a tropical vacation in this genre-bending sendup of the American honeymoon. On the grounds of a Caribbean island resort, newlyweds Deb and Chip—our opinionated, skeptical narrator and her cheerful jock husband who's friendly to a fault—meet a marine biologist who says she's sighted mermaids in a coral reef. As the resort's "parent company" swoops in to corner the market on mythological creatures,...
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English
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Sam Pulsifer, the hapless hero of this incendiary novel, has come to the end of a very long and unusual journey, and for the second time in his life he has the time to think about all the things that have and have not come to pass.
The truth is, a lot of remarkable things have happened in Sam’s life. He spent ten years in prison for accidentally burning down poet Emily Dickinson’s house–and unwittingly killing two people in the...
The truth is, a lot of remarkable things have happened in Sam’s life. He spent ten years in prison for accidentally burning down poet Emily Dickinson’s house–and unwittingly killing two people in the...
16) Purity
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English
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"A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of Freedom. Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother--her only family--is hazardous. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother has always concealed her own real name, or how she can ever have...
17) Noir
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
A mysterious young widow hires Philip M. Noir to find her husband's killer--if he was killed. She suddenly is killed and her body disappears. At once wry, absurd, and desolate--most people will think what's happening is pretty funny.
18) Raising the dad
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Navigating the challenges of a stale marriage, a hostile teen daughter, his brother's recent prison release, and his mother's progressive dementia, an overwhelmed family man stumbles on an incredible secret regarding his father's fate that changes his relationships in profound ways.
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In December 1992, three groups of teenagers head to the theater to see the movie version of the famed Eons & Empires comic books. For Adam it's a last ditch effort to connect with something (actually, someone, the girl he's had a crush on for years) in his sleepy Florida town before he leaves for good. Passionate fan Sharon skips school in Cincinnati so she can fully appreciate the flick without interruption from her vapid almost-friends a seemingly...
20) Bump and run
Author
Series
Jack Molloy novels volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2000
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IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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