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  • Look at the Birdie: Short Fiction

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    “Relentlessly fun to read.”–Dave Eggers – A collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction

    In this series of perfectly re

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    • Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: September 07 2010
    • ISBN10: 0385343728
    • Language: English
  • Scoop

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    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century, Scoop is a “thoroughly enjoyable, uproariously funny” satire of the journalism business (New York Times).

    Lord Copper, new

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    • Author: Waugh, Evelyn
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: December 11 2012
    • ISBN10: 0316216372
    • Language: English
  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: The Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture

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    From one of the great voices in the history of American literature, a witty and fantastical satire about aging, and the inspiration for the 2008 blockbuster film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

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    • Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 64
    • Publish Date: August 14 2007
    • ISBN10: 1416556052
    • Language: English
  • Jameela Green Ruins Everything

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    • Author: Nawaz, Zarqa
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: May 09 2023
    • ISBN10: 0063271605
    • Language: English
  • Native Tongue

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    Now reissued–one of the most beloved novels by the New York Times bestselling author in which dedicated, if somewhat demented, environmentalists battle sleazy real estate developers in the Florida Ke… [more below]

    • Author: Hiaasen, Carl
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 448
    • Publish Date: May 09 2005
    • ISBN10: 044669570X
    • Language: English
  • The Story of a Goat

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    LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE

    From one of India’s best-known writers and the author of the National Book Award-longlisted One Part Woman comes a charming and surpris

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    • Author: Murugan, Perumal
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: December 10 2019
    • ISBN10: 0802147518
    • Language: English
  • Martin Chuzzlewit: Introduction by William Boyd

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    At the center of Martin Chuzzlewit–the novel Angus Wilson called “one of the most sheerly exciting of all Dickens stories”–is Martin himself, very old, very rich, very much on his guard. What he sus

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    • Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
    • Author: Dickens, Charles
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 988
    • Publish Date: March 20 1995
    • ISBN10: 067943884X
    • Language: English
  • Mermaids in Paradise

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    In this “comic masterpiece” (Salon), honeymooners Deb and Chip–our opinionated, skeptical narrator and her cheerful jock husband–befriend a marine biologist who discovers mermaids in a coral reef. A

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    • Author: Millet, Lydia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: October 13 2015
    • ISBN10: 0393351726
    • Language: English
  • Multiple Choice

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    A “brilliant, innovative, beautiful” (The Guardian) book from the acclaimed author of Chilean Poet

    “Dazzling . . . a work of parody, but also of poetry.” —The New York Times Book Review

    NAMED ONE OF

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    • Author: Zambra, Alejandro
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: July 19 2016
    • ISBN10: 143109197
    • Language: English
  • Against Nature

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    Joris-Karl Huysmans’s cult classic of deviance and decadence that inspired Oscar Wilde’s Picture of Dorian Gray, now in a new translation by Theo Cuffe

    A celebration of deviance, vanity, sensual abando

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    • Author: Huysmans, Joris Karl
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: February 22 2022
    • ISBN10: 1250787661
    • Language: English
  • Broken Glass

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    An irreverent, allusive, scatalogical, tragicomic masterpiece that centers on the patrons of a run-down bar as they try to document the details of their lives in a country that appears to have forgott[more below]

    • Author: Mabanckou, Alain
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: October 09 2018
    • ISBN10: 1593763077
    • Language: English
  • Glyph

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    In paperback for the first time, the much-beloved satirical novel The New York Times praised as “both a treatise and a romp”


    Baby Ralph has ways to pass the time in his crib–but they don’t include st

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    • Author: Everett, Percival
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 216
    • Publish Date: February 18 2014
    • ISBN10: 1555976670
    • Language: English
  • Taming the Divine Heron

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    The second novel in Pitol’s Carnival trilogy following The Love Parade continues his daring, genre-melding, picaresque style.

    From the famous Mexican author, Sergio Pitol, comes his 1988 classic transl

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    • Author: Pitol, Sergio
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 200
    • Publish Date: November 14 2023
    • ISBN10: 1646052765
    • Language: English
  • The Information

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    Fame, envy, lust, violence, intrigues literary and criminalthey’re all here in The Information, as one of the most gifted and innovative novelists of our time explores the question, How does one wri[more below]

    • Series: Vintage International
    • Author: Amis, Martin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: March 19 1996
    • ISBN10: 0679735739
    • Language: English
  • Oliver Twist

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    This darkest and most colorfully grotesque of Charles Dickens’s novels swirls around one of his most beloved and unsullied heroes, the orphan Oliver Twist.

    One of the most swiftly moving and unified o

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    • Series: Vintage Classics
    • Author: Dickens, Charles
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 432
    • Publish Date: January 10 2012
    • ISBN10: 0307947181
    • Language: English
  • Man, Underground

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    As neighborhoods have grown up around the subterranean home of the narrator of Man, Underground, the city has initiated a review of his dwelling. Intent on ignoring the review process, his life is int… [more below]

    • Author: Hummel, Mark
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 260
    • Publish Date: October 17 2023
    • ISBN10: 1646033884
    • Language: English
  • Sharp Teeth

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    “Barlow’s imagery is magnificent . . . [A] kooky combo of grit, goofiness, and gusto . . . demonstrates that fantasy . . . may just be the place to find true exuberance and stylistic innovation.” — L

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    • Series: P.S.
    • Author: Barlow, Toby
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: January 27 2009
    • ISBN10: 0061430242
    • Language: English
  • Should We Stay or Should We Go

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    “When her father dies, Kay Wilkinson can’t cry. Over ten years, Alzheimer’s had steadily eroded this erudite man into a paranoid lunatic. Surely one’s own father passing should never come as such a re… [more below]

    • Author: Shriver, Lionel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: June 07 2022
    • ISBN10: 63094258
    • Language: English
  • Schrodinger’s Cat Trilogy: The Universe Next Door, the Trick Top Hat, & the Homing Pigeons

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    The sequel to the cult classic The Illuminatus! Trilogy, this is an epic fantasy that offers a twisted look at our modern-day world–a reality that exists in another dimension of time and space that m… [more below]

    • Author: Wilson, Robert A.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 560
    • Publish Date: October 10 1988
    • ISBN10: 0440500702
    • Language: English
  • Road Dogs: A Suspenseful Mystery

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    Road Dogs is terrific, and Elmore Leonard is in a class of one.”
    –Dennis Lehane, author of Shutter Island and Mystic River

    “You know from the first sentence that you’re in the hands of the original

    • Author: Leonard, Elmore
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: May 04, 2010
    • ISBN10: 0061985708
    • Language: English
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