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"The millions of readers of Amor Towles are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories set in New York City and a novella in Los Angeles. The New York stories, most of which are set around the turn of the millennium, take up everything from the death-defying acrobatics of the male ego, to the fateful consequences of brief encounters, and the delicate mechanics of comprise which operate at the heart of modern marriages. In...
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New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"On the Marble Cliffs (Auf den Marmorklippen) is a novella by Ernst Jünger published in 1939 describing the upheaval and ruin of a serene agricultural society. The peaceful and traditional people, located on the shores of a large bay, are surrounded by the rough pastoral folk in the surrounding hills, who feel increasing pressure from the unscrupulous and lowly followers of the dreaded head forester. The narrator and protagonist lives on the marble...
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Pushkin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"A young girl loses her mother, and her father blindly invites his secret lover into the family home to care for her. As she obsessively tries to curate a pristine life, this new interloper remains indifferent to the girl, who seems to record her every move - and she realises only too late all that she has failed to see. With masterful narrative control, Nails and Eyes--appearing in English for the first time--builds to a conclusion of disturbing...
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"From “master of language” (The New York Times) John Edgar Wideman, a reissue of the revered trilogy that launched his career—two novels and story collection all set in Wideman’s own hometown. Damballah, Hiding Place, and Sent for You Yesterday provide a stunning introduction to the uncompromising work of John Edgar Wideman, whose literary achievements have inspired The New York Times to name him “one of America’s premier writers of fiction.”...
5) Arboreality
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Stelliform Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"A novella-length expansion of the 2020 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award winning short story "An Important Failure," Arboreality is an intergenerational and interconnected story about the desettlement of British Columbia after climate change intensifies floods and wildfires. A professor in pandemic isolation rescues books from the flooded and collapsing McPherson Library. A man plants fireweed on the hillside of his depopulated Vancouver Island suburb....
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Scribner
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2016.
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English
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A "hypnotic" (The New York Times Book Review) collection of four novellas from Stephen King bound together by the changing of seasons, each taking on the theme of a journey with strikingly different tones and characters. "The wondrous readability of his work, as well as the instant sense of communication with his characters, are what make Stephen King the consummate storyteller that he is," hailed the Houston Chronicle about Different Seasons. This...
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Grijalbo, Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2023.
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Español
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"Cuando el papá de Abigail muere, ella y su mamá deciden comenzar una nueva vida en otra provincia y, aunque les duele alejarse del mundo que hasta entonces han conocido, descubren poco a poco que la vida les depara muchas sorpresas y que la felicidad siempre logra abrirse camino. La hacienda chocolatera Tunkuluchú será el escenario de las aventuras que protagonizarán Abigail y su nueva amiga, Justina, quienes gozan de la inocencia propia de...
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2024.
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"IRISH MILKSHAKE MURDER by CARLENE O'CONNOR: In advance of their St. Patrick's Day wedding, Tara Meehan and Danny O'Donnell are off to the Aran Islands with their bridesmaids and groomsmen for a joint hen and stag party. The weekend kicks off with the ferry trip to Inishmore, as the passengers enjoy boozy milkshakes on board and entertainment from a pair of famous Irish-dancing twin brothers. But faster than Tara can say 'Oh, Danny Boy,' a murder...
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Lumen
Pub. Date
2023.
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Español
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Dos niñas son obligadas a compartir habitación en un centro de acogida. Una blanca y otra negra. Ambas se rechazan de inmediato, pero poco a poco se dan cuenta de que tienen en común más de lo que esperaban. «La sal y la pimienta», como las empiezan a llamar los demás, se vuelven inseparables, y con el paso del tiempo se van encontrando en distintos lugares: un restaurante, un supermercado, una manifestación, siempre en lados opuestos de los...
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Amish mail order grooms volume 3
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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2024.
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English
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"In Easter Basket Murder by Leslie Meier, a shopping spree turns deadly, leaving part-time reporter Lucy Stone to stop a murderer from springing back into action. In Death by Easter Egg by Lee Hollis, restauranteur Hayley Powell is thrilled to introduce her grandson to local springtime traditions. But when a decadent peanut butter treat kills the Easter bunny himself, it's up to Hayley to crack the clues. In Hopped Along by Barbara Ross, Julia Snowden's...
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Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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In the City of Meat, Charles Swagger is on the hunt for notorious bank robber Baby Face Nelson when he traces a tip to the Chicago stock yards. While there, he's brutally assaulted and discovers that the madman who attacked him is involved in a nearby narcotics ring with plans to spread its new drug to the residents of the disenfranchised 7th District of Chicago. Worse, this is no ordinary drug, it makes some users happy, drives others insane, and...
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Workaholic Henrietta Wegner can feel her edge beginning to dull in middle age. Once the company's hottest mergers and acquisitions executive, Henri can see the ambitious and impossibly young up-and-comers gunning for her job. When her boss makes it clear she'll be starting the New Year unemployed unless she can close a big deal before the holidays, Henri impulsively tells him that she can convince her aging parents to sell Wegner's, their iconic Frankenmuth,...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Four blistering novellas, drawn together by themes of strife, violence, and humanity, from esteemed crime fiction writers, George Pelecanos" --Provided by Publisher.
"When the son of the Carusos is involved in a hold up, the family home comes under siege in the form of a no-knock warrant. Months after the cops destroyed their home, the Carusos struggle to return to normal. Elsewhere, two former inmates reunite by chance on the set of a TV production....
16) La promesa
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Lumen
Pub. Date
2023
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Español
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"Una mujer se inclina sobre la baranda de un transatlántico para recoger un broche y cae accidentalmente por la borda. Mientras el barco se aleja, hace una promesa a Santa Rita, la "abogada de lo imposible": si logra salvarse, escribirá la historia de su vida. Personas y lugares desfilan ante sus ojos formando un "diccionario de recuerdos" a menudo crueles o perturbadores, mientras el mar la rodea con toda su furia. Poco a poco, la imaginación...
17) The gift
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[Freida McFadden]
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"It's Christmas Eve and Stella Hansen is broke. She is so broke that despite working two jobs, she can't even afford a present for her husband on their first Christmas as man and wife. But then a mysterious storekeeper at a pawn shop offers Stella an intriguing trade. Stella wants more than anything to buy her husband the Christmas gift of his dreams. But will it come at a terrible price?" --
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Tor
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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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 he has been given an opportunity to be educated at the ship's university alongside the elite. Overwhelmed and alone, the boy forms a bond with the woman he comes to know as "the professor," a weary idealist and descendent of the Chained who has spent her career...
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Forever Desert volume 2
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Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Seventeen-year-old Osi is a Junior Peacekeeper in the city, and when the mysterious leader of the Cult, known only as the Aleke, commits a massacre in the capitol and steals the sacred God's Eyes, Osi steps forward to valiantly defend his home"--
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Rose Bend novels volume 5
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Canary Street Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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When her hot one-night-stand turns out to be the man leading the restoration project she's been hired to photograph, and his sweet little girl has decided she's her new bestie, Flo Dennison, as things become complicated, must decide if one wild night can become so much more.
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