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  • Day of the Oprichnik

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    One of The Telegraph‘s Best Fiction Books of 2011

    “Vladimir Sorokin is one of Russia’s greatest writers, and this novel is one of his best . . . A joy to read–more entertaining, dynamic, engaging, an

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    • Author: Sorokin, Vladimir
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: February 28 2012
    • ISBN10: 0374533105
    • Language: English
  • The Motion Picture Teller

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    An enchanting new standalone novel from CWA Dagger winner Colin Cotterill, set in Bangkok: a mystery without a crime, where the line between fact and fiction blurs, and nothing is as simple as it appe[more below]

    • Author: Cotterill, Colin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: December 05 2023
    • ISBN10: 1641295309
    • Language: English
  • Company of Foos

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    Cameron Murphy just landed the ultimate dream job. Unfortunately, working at one of the world’s largest tech companies is a bit of a nightmare. Now, stuck in the Pacific Northwest with his family in t

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    • Author: Davidson, Paul
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 322
    • Publish Date: October 17 2023
    • ISBN10: 9798891450431
    • Language: English
  • Lobster Wars

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    Lobster Wars is a tight, fast-paced social satire about what happens when reality TV comes to a small fishing village in Maine. The locals think they’re going to get famous and rich. But it’s never th

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    • Author: Greene, Mark E.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 316
    • Publish Date: January 17 2023
    • ISBN10: 1646638476
    • Language: English
  • Here Goes Nothing

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    A Times (of London) Best Fiction Book of 2022

    “…Clever lines drop down on these pages like flowers thrown on a casket…[a] zany, increasingly dark comedy…” — The Washington Post

    A wildly inve

    • Author: Toltz, Steve
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: April 04, 2023
    • ISBN10: 1685890385
    • Language: English
  • Sweet Sweet Revenge Ltd

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    The beloved author of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared returns with an enchanting adventure that skewers the greed and hypocrisy that dominates our time and holds

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    • Author: Jonasson, Jonas
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: May 09 2023
    • ISBN10: 0063072165
    • Language: English
  • Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone: A Murdery Mystery Novel

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    Knives Out and Clue meet Agatha Christie and The Thursday Murder Club in this “utterly original” (Jane Harper), “not to be missed” (Karin Slaughter), fiendishly clever blend of classic and modern murd

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    • Author: Stevenson, Benjamin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 528
    • Publish Date: January 31 2023
    • ISBN10: 0063297191
    • Language: English
  • The Quail Who Wears the Shirt

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    Tuesday night is trivia night, a night for produce market owner Lee Hubbs to swing by the bar with his cop friend, a night to down a few shots and avoid all the folks who’ve mysteriously been turning [more below]

    • Author: Wilson, Jeremy T.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 284
    • Publish Date: November 07 2023
    • ISBN10: 1948954850
    • Language: English
  • The Family Fang

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    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME, PEOPLE, SALON, AND ESQUIRE

    The Family Fang is a comedy, a tragedy, and a tour-de-force examination of what it means to

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    • Author: Wilson, Kevin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: April 17 2012
    • ISBN10: 006157905X
    • Language: English
  • Every Crooked Nanny

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    “Fresh, confident, intelligent and amusing. Grab a cold drink, put your feet up, and enjoy yourself.”– Sue Grafton

    The first entry in a thoroughly original and witty series that sets Atlanta house cle

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    • Series: Callahan Garrity #1
    • Author: Andrews, Mary Kay
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: March 26 2013
    • ISBN10: 0062195085
    • Language: English
  • On the Edge of Reason

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    Until the age of fifty-two, the protagonist of On the Edge of Reason suffered a monotonous existence as a highly respected lawyer. He owned a carriage and wore a top hat. He lived the life of “an orde

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    • Author: Krleza, Miroslav
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: June 06 2023
    • ISBN10: 0811222047
    • Language: English
  • The Fur Hat

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    In this satire of Soviet life, an insecure but much-published novelist, Yefim Rakhlin, learns that the Writers’ Union is giving fur hats to its members based on their importance, and that he rates onl… [more below]

    • Author: Voinovich, Vladimir
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 132
    • Publish Date: March 28 1991
    • ISBN10: 0156340305
    • Language: English
  • Tandem

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    Mike Kovacs is an economics professor who’s trying to get over a bitter divorce. He’s barely on speaking terms with his only child. And he’s just killed two bicyclists in an inebriated hit-and-run at [more below]

    • Author: Mozina, Andy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 236
    • Publish Date: October 24 2023
    • ISBN10: 1948954834
    • Language: English
  • Pocketful of Poseys

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    When your dying mother has one last request, how can you say no?

    Grace Tingley and Brian Posey are forty-something twins whose lives have gone in very different directions. Grace, now a private school

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    • Author: Reed, Thomas
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 370
    • Publish Date: September 19 2023
    • ISBN10: 0825310261
    • Language: English
  • Supermarket

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    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    The stunning debut novel from one of the most creative artists of our generation, Bobby Hall, a.k.a. Logic.

    “Bobby Hall has crafted a mind-bending first novel, with prose

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    • Author: Hall, Bobby
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: March 26 2019
    • ISBN10: 1982127139
    • Language: English
  • A Star Is Bored

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    A Star is Bored is an absolute knockout. Riotously funny and wickedly tender.”
    — Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones and the Six

    “Wildly funny and irreverent… Lan

    • Author: Lane, Byron
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: June 15, 2021
    • ISBN10: 1250266505
    • Language: English
  • The New Me

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    “[A] definitive work of millennial literature . . . wretchedly riveting.” –Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker

    Girls + Office Space + My Year of Rest and Relaxation + anxious sweating = The New Me.” Ent

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    • Author: Butler, Halle
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: March 05 2019
    • ISBN10: 0143133608
    • Language: English
  • There’s a Hair in My Dirt!: A Worm’s Story

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    ” There’s a Hair in My Dirt! is hysterical . . . more entertaining than any science class I remember and the foreword by biologist Edward O. Wilson proves it’s legit.” — Washington Post

    Once upon a ti

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    • Author: Larson, Gary
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 64
    • Publish Date: October 06 1999
    • ISBN10: 0060932740
    • Language: English
  • Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings

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    &#8220Readers new to the work of Christopher Moore will want to know two things immediately. First: Where has this guy been hiding? (Answer: In plain sight, since he has a cult following.)…[H]e writ

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    • Author: Moore, Christopher
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 321
    • Publish Date: June 15 2004
    • ISBN10: 006056668X
    • Language: English
  • Black Buck: A Read with Jenna Pick

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    A New York Times Bestseller
    A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!
    Longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize

    “Askaripour closes the deal on the first page of this mesmerizing n

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    • Author: Askaripour, Mateo
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 416
    • Publish Date: January 18 2022
    • ISBN10: 0358627982
    • Language: English
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