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Imperial Bedrooms
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Bret Easton Ellis |
Clay, a successful screenwriter, has returned from New York to Los Angeles to help cast his new movie, and he's soon drifting through a long-familiar circle that will leave him no choice but to plumb… |
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Nothing happens until it happens to you
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T. M. Shine |
Hoping to make positive changes in spite of a layoff and limited employment opportunities, Jeffrey Reiner humbly submits to demeaning jobs while tackling the daunting realities of his dysfunctional f… |
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Bullfighting
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Roddy Doyle |
A collection of stories set in modern Ireland explores a theme of loss, from a man who remembers his early family life while taking daily prescribed walks to a father who considers the impact of his … |
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You & me
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Padgett Powell |
"A scabrous, Southern send-up of WAITING FOR GODOT by the novelist Sam Lipsyte hails as "one of the few truly important American writers of our time.""-- |
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There but for the
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Ali Smith |
There But For The is a 2011 novel by Scottish author Ali Smith, first published in the UK by Hamish Hamilton and in the US by Pantheon, and set in 2009 and 2010 in Greenwich, London. It was cited by … |
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Marrying the mistress
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Joanna Trollope |
Simon Stockdale spells it out for his son Jack; your grandfather is proposing to leave your grandmother to whom he has been married for forty years and marry a woman with whom he has been having an a… |
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One hit wonder
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Charles Carillo |
Mickey was once a teenage heartthrob with a number one hit single called "Sweet Days." Now, unable to get his act together, he returns home to Queens where he is reunited with Lynn, his former high s… |
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The Madman's Tale
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John Katzenbach |
It's been twenty years since Western State Hospital was closed down and the last of its inmates reintegrated into society. Francis Petrel was barely out of his teens when his family committed him to … |
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The Alibi Breakfast
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Larry Duberstein |
Eight years ago, readers were invited to accompany Maurice Locksley on his rounds, as he paid court to his wife, his ex-wife, and his mistress in dizzying succession. THE MARRIAGE HEARSE, his account… |
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My year of running dangerously
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Tom Foreman |
"CNN correspondent Tom Foreman's remarkable journey from half-hearted couch potato to ultra-marathon runner, with four half-marathons, three marathons, and 2,000 miles of training in between; a poign… |
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Mr. Wakefield's crusade
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Bernice Rubens |
From Library Journal
Luke Wakefield's business has gone bankrupt, his wife has left him (for another woman)his life, he thinks, has been one big failure. Then one day, as he is waiting in line at th… |
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An ambulance is on the way
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Jonathan Wilson |
National Jewish Book Award finalist Jonathan Wilson's uproariously funny stories showcase the neuroses of suburban men as they ruminate, self-medicate, and acclimate to the rhythms of middle age.From… |
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The Memory of Running
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Ron McLarty |
This debut novel is the story of Smithson Ide who grieves the death of his parents by getting on a Raleigh bicycle in his funeral suit and pedalling across America. |
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The song is you
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Phillips, Arthur |
Julian Donahue is in love with his iPod.Each song that shuffles through "that greatest of all human inventions" triggers a memory. There are songs for the girls from when he was single; there's the o… |
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