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by Brady Udall
Published May 2011
Read ReviewsBeautifully written, keenly observed, and ultimately redemptive, The Lonely Polygamist is an unforgettable story of an American familywith its inevitable dysfunctionality, heartbreak, and comedypushed to its outer limits.
by Margalit Fox
Published Aug 2008
Read ReviewsImagine a village where everyone "speaks" sign language. Just such a village -- an isolated Bedouin community in Israel with an unusually high rate of deafness -- really exists. There, an indigenous sign language has sprung up, used by deaf and hearing villagers alike. It is a language no outsider has been able to decode, until now.
by George Saunders
Published Mar 2007
Read ReviewsIn a series of short stories, George Saunders explores consumerism gone haywire in a country and era somewhat like our own.
by Frank W. Abagnale
Published Nov 2002
Read ReviewsA revealing look inside the predatory criminal mind from a former master of the con--the ultimate defense against even the craftiest crook.
by E.L. Doctorow
Published Jan 2001
Read ReviewsDaringly poised at the junction of the sacred and the profane, and filled with the sights and sounds of New York - a narrative of the twentieth century written for the twenty-first.
by Kurt Vonnegut
Published Aug 2000
Read ReviewsTwenty-four of Vonnegut's favorite stories - never published before in book form with a new preface for the occasion.
by Lorrie Moore
Published Sep 1999
Read ReviewsExplores the personal and the universal, the idiosyncratic and the mundane, with all the wit, brio, and verve that have made her one of the best storytellers of our time.
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