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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"A new collection of sixteen stories that explore disturbing, magical, and delightful phenomena in everyday American life, and the deepest and darkest desires that we keep hidden from even ourselves" -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Scribe Publications
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Seoul. On the outskirts of South Korea's glittering metropolis is a place few people know about: a vast landfill site called Flower Island. Home to those driven from the city by poverty, is it here that 14-year-old Bugeye and his mother arrive, following his father's internment in a government 're-education camp'. Living in a shack and supporting himself by weeding recyclables out of the refuse, at first Bugeye's life on Flower Island is hard. But...
5) Solar bones
Author
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"On All Souls Day, the late Marcus Conway returns home. Solar Bones captures in a single relentless sentence the life and death of this rural Irish engineer, and his place in the globally interconnected 21st century. The book takes in local municipal failures and global financial collapse, the quotidian pleasures of family, ancient history and the latest headlines, the living and the dead. A vital, tender, acerbic, warm, and death-haunted work one...
6) Sugar Land
Author
Publisher
Red Hen Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
It's 1923 in Midland, Texas, and Miss Dara falls in love with her best friend--who also happens to be a girl. Terrified, Miss Dara takes a job at the Imperial State Prison Farm for men. Once there, she befriends inmate and soon-to-be legendary blues singer Lead Belly, who sings his way out (true story)--but only after he makes her promise to free herself from her own prison.
Author
Series
Wayside School volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
Join Mrs. Jewls's class and try solving over fifty math puzzles and brainteasers.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"An urgent, propulsive novel about a woman learning to negotiate her ailment and its various after effects via the simulacrum of a perfect romantic relationship In Catherine Lacey's ambitious second novel we are introduced to Mary, a young woman living in New York City and struggling to cope with a body that has betrayed her. All but paralyzed with pain, Mary seeks relief from a New Agey treatment called Pneuma Adaptive Kinesthesia, PAKing for short....
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