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Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A wryly funny and moving novel that captures the complexities of marriage, art, friendship, and the fictions we create in order to become the people we wish to be. A creative writing professor at a third-tier college in upstate New York is on his way home from a summer fellowship in France, where he's spent the last three months loafing around Bordeaux, tasting the many varieties of French wine at his disposal, and doing just about anything but...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton and Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
''An ingenious, devastating, explosive novel about the ramifications of choice from "one of the most original and talented authors working today" (NPR). "How ought one to live?" This is the question that obsesses London-based publisher Ayush, driving him to question every act of consumption. He embarks on a radical experiment in his own life and the lives of those connected to him: his practical economist husband; their twins; and even the authors...
Author
Publisher
TorDotCom, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Given the opportunity to be educated at the ship's university alongside the elite, the boy, raised as one of the Chained, forms a bond with "the professor," and together they set off on a transformative journey to break free of the chains that fetter themboth.
"The boy was raised as one of the Chained, condemned to toil in the bowels of a mining ship out among the stars. His whole world changes—literally—when he is yanked "upstairs" and informed...
Author
Publisher
McClelland and Stewart
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Elmore Trent is a professor of Indigenous studies who finds himself entangled in an affair that's ruining his marriage; Paul North plays in the IHL (Indigenous Hockey League), struggling to keep up with the game that's passing him by; Detective Ruby Birch is chasing a string of gruesome murders, with clues that conspicuously lead her to both Elmore and Paul. And then there's Fabiola Halan, former journalist-turned-author and famed survivor of a plane...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In an alternative 2011, the Mental Parity movement takes hold. Americans now embrace the sacred, universal truth that there is no such thing as variable human intelligence. Because everyone is equally smart, discrimination against purportedly dumb peopleis 'the last great civil rights fight.' Tests, grades, and employment qualifications are all discarded. Children are expelled for saying the S-word ("stupid") and encouraged to report parents who...
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