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81) A Precarious Man
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Nick Moran is one of that hapless tribe you hear about on occasion: an English PhD who can't find a job. Even when he does, years later and after a second career as a hack Hollywood screenwriter falls apart, the department at a university in Auckland, New Zealand, turns out to be a hornet's nest of paranoia, arbitrary power, and guilt by association. When his consensual relationship with a student leads not just to scandal and public disgrace but...
82) The Ride to Work
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An entire life compressed into a single hour.
For seven years, public servant Anthony Speed has commuted by bicycle to his inner-city office dreading the monotony and drudgery of his job. On an otherwise routine Monday morning, he sets out to do this one last time.
The ride forward to his destination coincides with a journey back through his past, as the people and places he crosses paths with draw him into recollections of the great traumas of his...
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Colección de treinta microrrelatos del autor conocido como PERICOYPICO. Hay algunos relatos temáticos que han sido presentados a diversos concursos y otros que fueron escritos ad hoc para servir como banda sonora original de sus guiones. El autor ha experimentado con el pequeño género, incluyendo aforismos, y jugado con las palabras y las extensiones reducidas del género "chico" que tan de moda está en la actualidad. Una incursión más en el...
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Parade's end volume 3
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As WWI ends, trauma and tragedy give way to a chance for new life and rekindled love in the third novel of the acclaimed Parade's End tetralogy.
Armistice Day, 1918. As fireworks proclaim the end of the Great War, Valentine Wannop learns that the man she loves, Christopher Tietjens, is back in London. He has survived the frontlines, but it has affected him profoundly. He is willing to give up everything to be with Valentine, but they are not yet free...
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A political thriller about sexual misconduct in the #MeToo era, one
victim's battle to survive and overcome trauma, and the cable news
machine that feeds off titillating scandal coverage and inflammatory
confrontation, Final Table draws upon Dan Schorr's firsthand
experience as a New York sex crimes prosecutor and sexual misconduct
investigator to tackle the worlds of political and media dysfunction.
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When her old friend Hannah doesn't show up at her house in the south of France, everyone assumes that Claudia, who has known Hannah since their shared years at boarding school, will know where she is and what has happened. But as Claudia travels from the United States to France to help her friend's husband and children conduct their search, she is forced to deal with her old jealousy of Hannah, as well as her own relationship in the present with her...
87) Forever Diamond
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The BRAND NEW gritty gangland thriller from Gillian Godden!
Friend or Foe?
Patsy Diamond thought she had her life and her business dealings under control…she was wrong.
Because just as Patsy is hoping for calm, chaos erupts, and Patsy is forced to make decisions that could cost her everything.
The only people Patsy can rely on are her inner circle – her family and her close friends. But with danger and threats seemingly lurking around every...
88) Hysteria
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In HYSTERIA, we meet a young woman an hour into yet another alcohol-fueled, masochistic, sexual bender at her local bar. There is a new bartender working this time, one she hasn't seen before, but who can properly make a drink. He looks familiar, and as she is consumed by shame from her behavior the previous week- hooking up with her parents' colleague and her roommate's brother- she also becomes convinced that her Brooklyn bartender is actually Sigmund...
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Falling for the matchmaker isn't part of the business plan...
Is Silicon Valley ready for the scandal?
Tech CEO Luke Dallas needs to save a business deal gone south at any cost-even if that means marriage! His solution is to hire executive recruiter Danica Novak to be his unconventional matchmaker. After all, marriage is just like business: a negotiation between two parties who have a mutual investment in a future outcome. Or so Luke thinks...
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A suspenseful family saga, love story, and gangster tale, wrapped into one great book club read . . .
Just before WWI, Golda comes to America yearning for independence, but she tosses aside her dreams of freedom and marries her widowed brother-in-law after her sister dies giving birth to their son, Morty.
In the crowded streets of Brooklyn where Jewish and Italian gangs demand protection money from local storekeepers and entice youngsters with the...
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The best people in life are worth the wait...
When Liv finds herself locked in a shed with handsome stranger Ben (after they try to rescue a cat together), the instant connection they make feels like fate had a hand in it. Has Liv finally found her perfect match?
But everything about the timing means there's no way they can be together. Not least because Ben has a girlfriend and Liv is moving from London to Paris the next day.
Over the coming years...
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From the incomparable New York Times and New Yorker illustrator Tamara Shopsin, a debut novel about a NYC printer repair technician who comes of age alongside the Apple computer-featuring original artistic designs by the author.
LaserWriter II is a coming-of-age tale set in the legendary 90s indie NYC Mac repair shop TekServe-a voyage back in time to when the internet was new, when New York City was gritty, and when Apple made quirky computers for...
93) Aviary
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From Deirdre McNamer, a masterful exploration of the rich and hidden facets of human character, as illuminated by the mysterious connections among the residents of a senior residence in Montana.
At the deteriorating Pheasant Run, the occupants keep their secrets and sadnesses locked tight behind closed apartment doors. Kind Leo Umberti, formerly an insurance agent, now quietly spends his days painting abstract landscapes and mourning a long-ago loss....
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It's 2015 in New York City, and three women all known as Mrs. Tobias--Veronika, the matriarch, her daughter-in-law Mel, and Mel's daughter-in-law Birdie--are trying to navigate personal difficulties, some of which are with one another.Veronika and Mel, despite having little in common, are both psychotherapists who are more skilled at helping other people than solving their own problems. Birdie, still dealing with the culture shock of moving to New...
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Meredith Altman's engagement to Wesley Latner ended in spectacular disaster-one that shattered her completely. Years have passed since then, and now she's about to marry Aaron Rapp, a former Ivy League football player and baby-saving doctor. As they celebrate their engagement at a new TriBeCa hotspot, Meredith is stunned to find the restaurant owner is none other than Wesley, the man she is still secretly trying to forget.
When Meredith learns that...
96) The New Atlantis
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In New Atlantis, Francis Bacon portrayed a vision of the future of human discovery and knowledge, expressing his aspirations and ideals for humankind. The novel depicts the creation of a utopian land where "generosity and enlightenment, dignity and splendour, piety and public spirit" are the commonly held qualities of the inhabitants of the mythical Bensalem. The plan and organisation of his ideal college, Salomon's House (or Solomon's House), envisioned...
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"Eleanor Henderson is in possession of an enormous talent which she has matched up with skill, ambition, and a fierce imagination. The resulting novel, Ten Thousand Saints, is the best thing I've read in a long time."
-Ann Patchett, bestselling author of Bel Canto and State of Wonder
A sweeping, multigenerational drama, set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring New York City during the late 1980s, Ten Thousand Saints triumphantly heralds the...
98) Bread Givers
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First published in 1925, Anzia Yezierska's "Bread Givers" is the tale of a young Jewish-American immigrant woman and her struggle to control her own destiny in Manhattan's Lower East Side at the turn of the century. The novel is based in large part on Yezierska's own life experiences immigrating from Poland as a child and growing up in New York City in an Orthodox Jewish family. "Bread Givers" centers on the story of its main character, Sara Smolinsky,...
99) After Before
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'Rich, haunted, gripping, painful and beautifully entwined' Ruth Padel'A powerful novel. Its characters will haunt you long after their stories have been told.' Naomi Gryn"That was the day that Mama made the rules: If they come, run. Be quiet and run. But not together. Never together. If one is found, at least the other survives...." During a cold, British winter, three women reach crisis point. Emily, an immigrant survivor of the Rwandan genocide...
100) A plague of mercies
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A lethal plague sweeps the globe. Millions have died. Survivors are confined to their homes. Gabriel passes his time in a small New York apartment on the city's Upper West Side. During the plodding solitude of the lockdown, he observes several strangers in their nearby apartments. As he watches them struggle to survive a world at risk of extinction, he wonders about their lives--where they're from, what they value, how they're coping with a deadly...
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