Psychological Thriller

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“an homage to political cartoonists and their ability to define a moment or mood in a few pen strokes.”

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Back in March 2010, when Teddy Wayne took the podium at McNally Jackson bookstore to read from his debut novel Kapitoil, someone in the crowd leaned over and whispered, “He’s so smart—he w

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Patrick Modiano goes beyond the checklist accuracies of historical fiction, fashioning a lush fever dream filled with glamor, mystery, and despair.”

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“a well-written story by an inventive writer.”

“She thought about secrets and the damage they did.”

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From the margins of society arise a unique cast of characters who take turns narrating the tale in The Sunlight Pilgrims.

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Veterinarian Maggie is not herself after being attacked near her Chicago home nine months ago.

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“[a] remarkable novel.”

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“rich, well-told, and memorable.”

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“She’s all things bright and beautiful,” Kian Bright whispered at his daughter Daisy’s birth.

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Arsénie Negovan doesn't get out much. For the past 20-odd years, he's maintained a series of properties in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

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“. . . a powerful story of sacrifice and secrecy and a poignant love surviving over half a century.”

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“a frightening and accurate portrait of a teenager in the grip of a devastating mental illness . . .”

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“The Fireman is a lit fuse of tension that explodes in ever-increasing intervals as the novel progresses . . .”

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“a finely-crafted thriller.”

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Anna, married to Ned, a charismatic workaholic who is never home, gets pregnant and Ned demands she abort it, but she refuses.

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Bohman’s prose is the literary equivalent of an undertow.”

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“for a lie to become truth, the past only needs to be rewritten . . .”

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The couple at the heart of this novel—Rob Beauman and Ellie Larrabee—appear on the surface to have everything.

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Kaitlyn Greenidge’s debut about family, race, and eugenics is a haunting coming-of-age novel.

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Jane Mendelsohn’s Burning Down the House is a soap opera of a novel that aspires to be a Greek tragedy, an epic, or a saga of the fall of a family empire . . .

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“especially relevant in this present age of religious violence and moral bankruptcy.”

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Many girls grow up dreaming of marriage and a family and most times their dreams come true.

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The psychological tortures that  Roberto Arlt puts his main protagonist through are on a par with those endured by Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment or Dmitri Karamazov.

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The title of the novel comes from a Charles Atlas slogan. This book is for the reader who enjoys experimental or postmodern fiction. This is a book to think about.

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It’s 1978 and John Lennon has taken off from everyone and everything he knows to find peace in his soul and songs in his psyche.

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