Fiction

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“Reid’s gradually building spookiness and plainspoken intellectualism make I’m Thinking of Ending Things a smart and unexpectedly fun book.”

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“rich, well-told, and memorable.”

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“Over 300 years the forests are raped, eco-systems destroyed, wealth generated, and the insatiable international desire and greed for wood exploited.”

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You can't judge a book by the superlatives on the cover.

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“warm and funny, touching in unpredictable chapters, and filled with McMillan’s signature snappy dialogue and salty inner monologue.”

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What a strange and wonderful book this is. Mashup is a collection of stories, as the title indicates, based on famous first lines. 

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Based on the memoirs of Frances Conway, Enchanted Islands is a fictionalized account of one woman’s struggle to find a balance between her real life and the secrets she knows but cannot ac

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Infomocracy is a high-concept political thriller from debut author Malka Older.

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

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On April 10, 2009, at a fair promising 1000 jobs held in a dying metropolis, hundreds of people desperately in need of work line up in the cold outside the city center when a crazed man, later term

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It’s pretty astonishing that an animal dubbed as “monstrous” and “frightful” could win the hearts of people from one end of Europe to the other, but that is exactly what happens in author Emily Arn

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Consuming fiction makes us social scientists better writers, better thinkers. We learn how to put together words in new ways, and we learn new worlds.

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A decade ago Israeli novelist A. B. Yehoshua caused a public brouhaha that highlighted a hitherto overlooked fault line in Israeli-diaspora relations.

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“she and her family are a fiction to each other as well as to the public. . . .”

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“Cathleen Schine has written a beautiful book that should be on every nightstand this summer.”

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Avi’s story collection The Most Important Thing brings to life seven very real family situations and experiences that are quite common today.

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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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One does not have to share blood to be a sister, for sometimes an emotional bond is greater than a biological one. Such is the case with Robin and Cecilia.

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One of the most significant pains of imprisonment is being cut off from the outside world. While this is very much a physical segregation, it is also a mental and informational one.

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There is a well-crafted tenderness in Jane Hamilton’s The Excellent Lombards that teases out the drama in ordinary life and quietly lulls the reader into Mary Frances “Frankie” Lombard’s w

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“Readers may be moved to stand up and cheer.”

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

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Mortal Fall unfolds against the powerful backdrop of Montana’s Glacier National Park, the same setting Christine Carbo used for her debut The Wild Inside.

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

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As a veteran movie and television producer, Tracy Barone knows how to tell a story on screens. Her debut novel Happy Family proves that she can also steer an engrossing plot in print.

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