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1) Miraculum
Author
Publisher
Polis Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In 1922, two travelling carnival workers engage in a dangerous game of deception after a series of tragedies strike the company --
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Language
English
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Feverishly paging through a disturbing anonymous manuscript that she believes has world-changing potential, New York literary agent Isabel Reed catches the attention of Copenhagen veteran station chief Hayden Gray, who resolves to keep the book's secrets from being exposed.
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English
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"Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising half-caste children who will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the Empire. Her sister, Esi, will be imprisoned beneath...
Author
Publisher
Prospect Park Books
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
"Bertrand Place intertwines seventeen luminous narratives about the secrets of an unforgettable cast of politicos, filmmakers, and housewives, all tied to a suburban D.C. cul-de-sac. Linked through bloodlines and grocery lines, they respond to life's bruises by grabbing power, sex, or the family silver. As they atone and forgive, they unmask the love and truth that hop white picket fences"--
10) Rayuela
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Language
Español
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El amor turbulento de Oliveira y La Maga, los amigos del Club de la Serpiente, las impredecibles caminatas por París -la ciudad que promete el cielo pero puede conducir al infierno-, encuentran su contracara en la aventura protagonizada por Oliveira, Talita y Traveler en Buenos Aires.
"When La Maga, his mistress, disappears, Horacio Oliveira, an Argentinian writer living in Paris, decides to return home to Buenos Aires, in a novel in which the chapters...
11) Oops!
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Readers are invited to physically interact with the pages in this picture book of humorous before-and-after scenarios."--
Author
Publisher
FSG Originals
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In her debut story collection, Heartbreaker, Maryse Meijer, flashlight in hand, goes deep into the darkest rooms of the psyche. With gorgeously restrained and exacting prose that packs a cumulatively devastating punch, she unapologetically unmasks the violence we are willing to perform upon one another in the name of love and loneliness and the unremitting desire to survive. In doing so, she lights societal convention and reader expectation on fire,...
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Series
Corie Geller volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"Just a few years ago, Corie Geller was busting terrorists as an agent for the FBI. But at thirty-five, she traded in her badge for the stability of marriage and motherhood. Now Corie is married to the brilliant and remarkably handsome Judge Josh Geller and is the adoptive mother of his fourteen-year-old daughter. Corie fills her days scouting Arabic fiction for literary agencies and, every Wednesday, she joins a group of fellow Shorehaven freelancers...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
This collection of gothic short stories from the author of Trinity Fields features tales of a young man who becomes obsessed with his brother's girlfriend and a blind motivational speaker who regains his sight and discovers he was better off before.
15) Noah's ark
Author
Publisher
Highlights Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The beloved story of Noah's ark comes to life with Highlights Hidden Picture puzzles and a lyrical retelling of the timeless tale. Find more than 120 objects hidden in beautifully illustrated scenes as Noah and his family gather animals two-by-two and set sail into a raging storm aboard the ark.
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Young Edna Arkins lives in a neighborhood that is rapidly changing, thanks to white flight from urban Seattle in the late 1960s. As the world changes around her, Edna is exposed to the callous racism of adults; sometimes subtle and other times blatant, but always stinging. At the heart of The Good Times Are Killing Me is the forbidden friendship between Edna who is white and Bonna Willis who is black, and how the world around them forces them to...
Author
Publisher
Other Press LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"This critical edition of the epic 1968 Malian novel explores its enduring literary power and the plagiarism scandal that devastated its author, the first African winner of France's prestigious Renaudot Prize. An engrossing, tragic tale spanning the thirteenth to the twentieth century, Bound to Violence recounts the fate of the imaginary empire of Nakem and the dynasty of the Saïfs who reign there as devious masters. While the novel was initially...
18) Californium
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A coming-of-age crossover novel about growing up, selling out, and fitting in. It's late summer 1982 when the Houghton family uproots from Paterson, New Jersey and moves to Yorba Linda, California--the self-anointed "Land of Gracious Living." Fourteen year-old Reece is trying his best to believe his family has come to California for the opportunities it affords and not to outrun a shared family secret, but he's beginning to realize that even his...
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Publisher
British Library Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Sheridan Le Fanu was lauded by contemporaries such as M. R. James for his innovations in the ghost story and mystery genres, and his mastery of conjuring atmosphere and driving stories to thrilling narrative crescendos. And yet, aside from some regularly anthologized short stories and novellas, much of the writer's fiction remains unknown despite its quality. Aiming to firmly position Sheridan Le Fanu alongside other canonical horror writers published...
20) Vision
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A vision-impaired, Victorian spinster in need of primitive cataract surgery has little time for herself between needing to take care of her demanding invalid sister-in-law, and investigating her brother's mysterious nighttime activities. To escape it all, she engages in a sexual relationship with a haunted mirror in her bedroom. Julia Gfrörer's third graphic novel is another revitalizing and contemporary spin on the grand tradition of gothic storytelling,...
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