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  • How to Kill Your Family

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    Bella Mackie’s How to Kill Your Family is a darkly humorous debut novel that follows a cunning antihero as she gets her revenge.

    When I think about what I actually did, I feel somewhat sad that nobody

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    • Author: MacKie, Bella
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: June 18 2024
    • ISBN10: 1419764195
    • Language: English
  • Blue Skies

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    Denied a dog, a baby, and even a faithful fiancé, Cat suddenly craves a snake: a glistening, writhing creature that can be worn like “jewelry, living jewelry” to match her black jeans. But when the b… [more below]

    • Author: Boyle, T. C.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: May 21 2024
    • ISBN10: 1324095180
    • Language: English
  • Little Tales of Misogyny

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    With an eerie simplicity of style, Highsmith turns our next-door neighbors into sadistic psychopaths, lying in wait among white picket fences and manicured lawns. In the darkly satiric, often mordantl

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    • Author: Highsmith, Patricia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: August 17 2002
    • ISBN10: 0393323374
    • Language: English
  • I Don’t Expect Anyone to Believe Me

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    Now a new feature film available on Netflix!

    Winner of the 2016 Herralde Prize

    The author of Down the Rabbit Hole delivers a hilarious and prize-winning tale of immigrants, students and gangsters in Bar

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    • Author: Villalobos, Juan Pablo
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 356
    • Publish Date: May 05 2020
    • ISBN10: 1911508482
    • Language: English
  • America Fantastica

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    “Tim O’Brien is the one American author whose works I look forward to the most. His new novel’s ironic depiction of a post-Iraq war, mid-COVID, and mid-Trump world is piercing and razor-sharp.” HARU

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    • Author: O’Brien, Tim
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 464
    • Publish Date: October 01 2024
    • ISBN10: 0063318512
    • Language: English
  • This Was Not the Plan

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    This Was Not the Plan starts out as a funny and sharply observed campus novel and then deepens into a thought-provoking examination of the complicated and always thorny politics of abortion. Daphne Uv

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    • Author: Uviller, Daphne
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: June 11 2024
    • ISBN10: 1662948174
    • Language: English
  • The Book of Losman

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    Meet Daniel Losman– an American in Copenhagen, translating books and living a solitary existence. His longtime girlfriend has left him, and the only highlights in his life are encounters with an offb… [more below]

    • Author: Semmel, K. E.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 206
    • Publish Date: October 01 2024
    • ISBN10: 1951631374
    • Language: English
  • Zombie Bake-Off

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    “[The] tale of a zombie horde reigning terror on the few humans left inside a building . . . a refreshing nod to the George Romero movies of old.” —Mourning Goats

    There’s not much rumbling during th

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    • Author: Jones, Stephen Graham
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 200
    • Publish Date: October 01 2024
    • ISBN10: 1504096339
    • Language: English
  • Double Blind

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    Double Blind follows three close friends and their circle through a year of extraordinary transformation. Set in London, Cap d’Antibes, Big Sur, and a rewilded corner of Sussex, this thrilling, ambiti

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    • Author: St Aubyn, Edward
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: May 31 2022
    • ISBN10: 1250849411
    • Language: English
  • The Maltese Iguana

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    Serge A. Storms is back on the road in the latest zany Florida caper from the “wickedly funny” (Entertainment Weekly) Tim Dorsey.

    After a long and arduous COVID-19 quarantine, Serge A. Storms is fully

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    • Series: Serge Storms #26
    • Author: Dorsey, Tim
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 480
    • Publish Date: February 28 2023
    • ISBN10: 0063297264
    • Language: English
  • Vamos a Morir Todos / Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

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    UNA NOVELA LLENA DE HUMOR Y TERNURA QUE NOS ENSE?A QUE EL MIEDO A LA MUERTE SE PUEDE CONVERTIR EN AMOR POR LA VIDA. REVELADORA Y RECONFORTANTE.

    Todo un bestseller independiente de Norte Am?rica: uno d
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    • Author: Austin, Emily
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 280
    • Publish Date: December 05 2023
    • ISBN10: 8419654744
    • Language: Spanish
  • The Nightly Disease

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    Sleep is just a myth created by mattress salesmen. Isaac, a night auditor of a hotel somewhere in the surreal void of Texas, is sick and tired of his guests. When he clocks in at night, he’s hoping fo

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    • Author: Booth, Max, III
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 412
    • Publish Date: September 15 2017
    • ISBN10: 194372024X
    • Language: English
  • Woman at 1,000 Degrees

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    “THE HOTTEST NEW BOOK FROM ICELAND IS WOMAN AT 1,000 DEGREES . . . What a story it is, one worth reading to further understand the complexity of World War II–and to enjoy the quick wit of a woman you[more below]

    • Author: Helgason, Hallgrímur
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 416
    • Publish Date: January 08 2019
    • ISBN10: 161620866X
    • Language: English
  • Anxious Pleasures: A Novel after Kafka

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    Anxious Pleasures takes Franz Kafka’s profoundly haunting and sad comic novella, The Metamorphosis, and reanimates it through the vantage points of those who surrounded Gregor Samsa during his plight… [more below]

    • Author: Olsen, Lance
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: February 01 2007
    • ISBN10: 159376135X
    • Language: English
  • The Language of Threads

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    Readers of Women of the Silk never forgot the moving, powerful story of Pei, brought to work in the silk house as a girl, grown into a quiet but determined young woman whose life is subject to cruel t

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    • Author: Tsukiyama, Gail
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: September 21 2000
    • ISBN10: 0312267568
    • Language: English
  • The Financial Lives of the Poets

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    “Darkly funny, surprisingly tender . . . witheringly dead-on.” — Los Angeles Times

    Named one of the year’s best novels by: TimeSalon.comLos Angeles TimesNPR/Fresh AirNew WestKansas City

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    • Series: P.S.
    • Author: Walter, Jess
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: September 01 2010
    • ISBN10: 0061916056
    • Language: English
  • Black No More: Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in the Land of the Free A.D. 1933-1940

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    What would happen if science gave Black Americans the choice to become white? Mirroring Wallace Thurman’s The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life, Black No More: Being an Account of the Strange a

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    • Series: Mint Editions (Black Narratives)
    • Author: Schuyler, George S.
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 152
    • Publish Date: August 16 2022
    • ISBN10: 1513138596
    • Language: English
  • Headlong

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    An unlikely con man wagers wife, wealth, and sanity in pursuit of an elusive Old Master.

    Invited to dinner by the boorish local landowner, Martin Clay, an easily distracted philosopher, and his art-hi

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    • Series: Bestselling Backlist
    • Author: Frayn, Michael
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: September 01 2000
    • ISBN10: 0312267460
    • Language: English
  • Good Men

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    Brilliant absurdist chronicle of a hapless outsider’s struggle to do the right thing.

    Arnon Grunberg’s fourteenth novel charts the downfall of Geniek Janowski, a Polish-German firefighter doing his be… [more below]

    • Author: Grunberg, Arnon
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 420
    • Publish Date: May 23 2023
    • ISBN10: 1948830655
    • 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: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 316
    • Publish Date: January 17 2023
    • ISBN10: 1646638492
    • Language: English
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