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Four sisters, all queens Four sisters, all queens Sherry Jones "From the award-winning author of the controversial international bestseller The Jewel of Medina, a historical novel that chronicles the lives of four sisters, all daughters of Beatrice of Provence--… OL16298929W
A country road, a tree A country road, a tree Jo Baker "From the best-selling author of Longbourn, a stunning new novel that follows an unnamed writer--Samuel Beckett--whose life and extraordinary literary gift are permanently shaped in the forge of war.… OL17880660W
Plus One Plus One Christopher Noxon "Christopher Noxon's debut novel Plus One is a comedic take on bread-winning women and caretaking men in contemporary Los Angeles. Alex Sherman-Zicklin is a mid-level marketing executive whose wife's… OL17884984W
hippie hippie Paulo Coelho "Inspirado en la experiencia de su propia vida, Paulo Coelho nos lleva al pasado para revivir los sueños de una generación que anhelaba la paz y que se atrevió a desafiar el orden social establecido.… OL17917962W
Our spoons came from Woolworths Our spoons came from Woolworths Barbara Comyns "I told Helen my story and she went home and cried" begins Our Spoons Came from Woolworths. But Barbara Comyns's beguiling novel is far from maudlin, despite the ostensibly harrowing ordeals its hero… OL19670711W
I Always Loved You I Always Loved You Robin Oliveira "A novel of Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas's great romance from the New York Times bestselling author of My Name Is Mary Sutter The young Mary Cassatt never thought moving to Paris after the Civil War … OL19704979W
The moment of truth The moment of truth Damian McNicholl Texan art student Kathleen Boyd has been dreaming about becoming a matador since her beloved father took her to the bullfighting ring when she was just a child. Now a young woman, her disapproving fi… OL19710812W
Love and ruin Love and ruin Paula McLain After meeting and falling in love while she covered the Spanish Civil War in Madrid, Martha Gellhorn is forced to choose between her marriage to Ernest Hemingway and her career as a war correspondent. OL19747411W
Incest Incest Christine Angot "A daring novel that made Christine Angot one of the most controversial figures in contemporary France recounts the narrator's incestuous relationship with her father. Tess Lewis's forceful translati… OL19755207W
The secret life of William Shakespeare The secret life of William Shakespeare Jude Morgan A sumptuously detailed imagining of the private world of the master bard chronicles the transformation of an unwilling craftsman and resentful son into a husband, father and genius playwright in Rena… OL19977817W
The fortune hunter The fortune hunter Daisy Goodwin "Empress Elizabeth of Austria, known as "Sisi," is the Princess Diana of nineteenth-century Europe. Famously beautiful, as captured in a portrait with diamond stars in her hair, she is unfulfilled in… OL19980440W
The lotus and the storm The lotus and the storm Lan Cao "An epic tale of love, loyalty, and war from the acclaimed author of Monkey Bridge Half a century after it began, the Vietnam War still has a hold on our national psyche. Lan Cao's now-classic debut,… OL19984422W
Dirty rush Dirty rush Taylor Bell "In this shockingly true-to-life novel written by an all-star team of Internet phenoms from the Total Frat Move generation, you'll get the first true glimpse of "real" sorority life in all its f**ked… OL19998955W
Memory Theater Memory Theater Simon Critchley "A French philosopher dies during a savage summer heat wave. Boxes carrying his unpublished papers mysteriously appear in Simon Critchley's office. Rooting through them, Critchley discovers a brillia… OL20013026W
Sisi Sisi Allison Pataki "In imperial Vienna, where the court halls buzzed with waltzes and champagne, as well as temptation, rivals, and cutthroat intrigue, the intensely personal tale of Empress Sisi unraveled. Infamously … OL20020548W
Paris vagabond Paris vagabond Jean-Paul Clébert "Paris Vagabond is an unclassifiable masterpiece, a book that purports to be a novel but, accompanied as it is by the photographs of Patrice Molinard, is as much a brilliant documentary as a work of … OL20026609W
Screamin' Jay Hawkins' all-time greatest hits Screamin' Jay Hawkins' all-time greatest hits Mark Binelli "The R & B wildman Screamin' Jay Hawkins only had a single hit, the classic "I Put a Spell On You," and was often written off as a clownish novelty act -- or worse, an offense to his race -- but his … OL20028012W
The cauliflower The cauliflower Nicola Barker "From Man Booker-shortlisted, IMPAC Award-winning author Nicola Barker comes an exuberant, multi-voiced new novel mapping the extraordinary life and legacy of a 19th-century Hindu saint. He is only f… OL20038324W
Leading Men Leading Men Christopher Castellani An expansive yet intimate story of desire, artistic ambition, and fidelity, set in the glamorous literary and film circles of 1950s Italy In July of 1953, at a glittering party thrown by Truman Ca… OL20161279W
Augustus Augustus John Williams A compelling fictional portrait of Augustus Caesar follows the ancient Roman leader from his youth to his rise to power following the murder of his uncle, Julius Caesar, in the midst of fierce compet… OL3511458W
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