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A Novel
by Aimee Bender
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by Heidi Julavits
Published Mar 2016
Read ReviewsA raucous, stunningly candid, deliriously smart diary of two years in the life of the incomparable Heidi Julavits
Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain
by Lucia Perillo
Published May 2013
Read ReviewsSet in a small town in the Pacific Northwest, Lucia Perillo's story collection is a sharp-edged, witty testament to the ambivalence of emotions, the way they pull in directions that often cancel one another out or twist their subjects into knots.
by Eowyn Ivey
Published Nov 2012
Read ReviewsAlaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart. In a moment of levity they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone--but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees.
by Allegra Goodman
Published Jul 2011
Read ReviewsGoodman weaves together the worlds of Silicon Valley and rare book collecting in a delicious novel about appetite, temptation, and fulfillment.
by Victor LaValle
Published Mar 2010
Read ReviewsA fiendishly imaginative comic novel about doubt, faith, and the monsters we carry within us.
by Jane Mendelsohn
Published May 2001
Read ReviewsThe acclaimed author of I Was Amelia Earhart returns with a modern gothic tale about a New York schoolgirl.
Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
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