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1) Chevengur
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Language
English
Description
"Chevengur is a philosophical novel that is also rich in psychological, social, and sensuous detail. Although it was never publishable in the USSR, it now stands as one of the most celebrated of Soviet novels, and along with The Foundation Pit, it is the most ambitious and moving of Andrey Platonov's efforts to take the measure of a world undergoing revolutionary transformation. The full text of Chevengur is here translated into English for the first...
2) Gold
Author
Series
Plated prisoner volume 5
Publisher
[Raven Kennedy]
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Book 5 of this adult fantasy series continues in this epic story inspired by the myth of King Midas, fae, and fated romance -- Amazon.
"Auren and Slade have been ripped apart. They will have to face startling truths and unexpected enemies to get back to each other. But rot and gold are not the only forces at work"--Back cover.
3) Watershed
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"On a windswept landscape somewhere north of Denver, Robert Hawkes, a feisty and dangerously curious hydrologist, finds himself enmeshed in a fight over Native American treaty rights. What begins for Robert as a peaceful fishing interlude ends in murder and the disclosure of government secrets. Everett mines history for this one, focusing on the relationships between Native American activist and Black Panther groups who bonded over their shared enemies...
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Celtic mythology, Arthurian romance, and an intriguing interpretation of British history - these are just some of the themes embraced by the anonymous authors of the eleven tales that make up this Welsh medieval masterpiece.
5) Glow
Author
Series
Plated prisoner volume 4
Publisher
[Independently published]
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"I was nothing but a road to Midas. A means to get to where he wanted to go, and I paved that path in gold. My life as been made up of gilded lies. But death has been shaped from rot. Like a phoenix caught fire, I will need to rise from the ashes and learn to wield my own power. Because my wings may have been clipped, but I am not in a cage, and I'm finally free to fly from the frozen kingdoms I've been kept in. Yet the world doesn't want to let me....
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A sharp and hilariously relatable novel about the business of weddings, the toll they can take, and the lengths one exasperated bridesmaid will go to for the love of friends. Lily Weiss is her mother's worst nightmare: thirty-two and single--the horror! She's also a talented writer but hides behind a boring job at a science foundation. To her friends, she's reliable and selfless, which is how she winds up a bridesmaid in five weddings in six weeks....
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"By turns brutally funny and starkly real, these three classic American novels create a memorable portrait of a young working-class intellectual from the South and his misadventures with hair straightening, partying with the bohemian elite of Greenwich Village, male prostitution, and drug abuse"--
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