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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the International Booker Prize-winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, an utterly beguiling novel about eight translators and their search for a world-renowned author who goes missing in a primeval Polish forest. Eight translators arrive at a house in a primeval Polish forest on the border of Belarus. It belongs to the world-renowned author Irena Rey, and they are there to translate her magnum opus, Gray Eminence. But within days of their...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"How far would you go to keep your family safe? Lorraine Henry is generally content to keep her head down and get on with her work as a records clerk at the Masterton police station. But when children start going missing in her small town, Lo can't help but pay attention. After all, she has Bradley, her young nephew, to worry about, and the cops don't seem to be putting much effort into finding the kids. And then the unthinkable happens: Bradley disappears....
Author
Series
Sean O'Brian volume 14
Publisher
Kingsbridge Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
411 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"As Sean O'Brien and his fianče are planning their wedding day, someone from Sean's past appears, and plans change. The visitor is an old friend, and he comes with bad news. His only son mysteriously died. Sean's friend is desperate for help. Why would a healthy college student die? And who is responsible?" -- amazon.com
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A new novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American community in Baltimore--from young activists in conflict with their traditional parents to the poor who clean for the rich--shows lives which intersect across divides of class, generation and religion"--
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
236 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Today's Athens is a city of contradictions and complexity--it is grand and scruffy, ancient and modern, full of strivers, refugees and old-timers--and nowhere more so than the neighborhood of Plaka, where the Parthenon looms overhead and two women grapple with what is right and what is true, and how to live your life when you are running out of time. Searching for connection to her parents' heritage, Greek-American Anna works at an Athens gallery...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A confession, a lament, a mad gush of grief and obsession, My Heavenly Favorite is the remarkable and chilling successor to Lucas Rijneveld's international sensation, The Discomfort of Evening. It tells the story of a veterinarian who visits a farm in the Dutch countryside where he becomes enraptured by his 'Favorite'--the farmer's daughter. She hovers on the precipice of adolescence, and longs to have a boy's body. The veterinarian seems to be a...
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
203 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Although Loin de Rueil (1944) was Raymond Queneau's ninth novel, it was the first to appear in English when New Directions published it in a translation by H. J. Kaplan in 1948. Nearly eighty years later, Queneau is justly celebrated worldwide for his experimental vision and lexical creativity. Alas, unaware of Queneau's proclivities in the late 40s, Mr. Kaplan approached the novel as one would any old book, focusing on dramatic content and ignoring...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On a cold, gloomy night, twenty-three-year-old Kyoko stands in the rain with a knife in her hoodie's pocket. Her target is Daniel, who seduced Kyoko's mother then callously dropped her, leading to her death. But tonight, there will be repercussions. Following the unsuspecting Daniel home, Kyoko manages to get a rash kidnapping plot off the ground . . . and then nothing goes as planned. The Fetishist is the story of three people--Kyoko, a Japanese...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
349 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Roommates since college, Jess and Ren have built a strong--if at times codependent--friendship. Now navigating their late thirties, the women co-own a weathered beachfront home, comother a rescued shelter pup and have inadvertently centered their lives around each other. Jess is clever and driven with a lucrative career running her own real estate brokerage. Magnetic but aimless, Ren has been making margaritas at the same local dive and teaching dance...
11) The folly
Author
Publisher
Polis Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
192 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Morgan always knew her father, Owen, never murdered her mother...Finally he is set free, but they can no longer live in the house that was last decorated by her mother's blood. Salvation comes in the form of a tall, dark and notorious decorative granite tower on the Cornish coastline known only as 'The Folly'...At first the Folly is idyllic, but soon a stranger arrives who acts like Morgan's mother, talks like her mother, and wears her dead mother's...
12) Forgetting
Author
Publisher
Deep Vellum Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
178 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Forgetting is a brief but searing sojourn inside the mind of Alma as she navigates the complexity of the past and future within her identity. On her nighttime wanderings through a Paris saturated with cultural and historical meaning, she begins the slow work of grieving for her grandfather, a Holocaust survivor, and starts to unravel the ways that his experience continues to reverberate across generations. The journey, both inward and outward, simple...
Author
Publisher
Gillian Flynn Books, a Zando imprint
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Two young women vanish in a seaside town. At the cliff's edge, nobody is who they seem. Desperate to escape the ghosts of his failed marriage, Cole upends his life. He leaves London behind for a remote stretch of coast, relishing the respite from the noise, drama, and relentless careerism that curdled his relationship and mental health. Leonora has made the same move for similar reasons. She's living a short walk from Cole's seaside cottage, preparing...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Avenue
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Everyone believes Adam to be something he's not. Sometimes that's because he's told them a story. Sometimes he's told himself one. But when Adam joins an Alaskan fishing crew that's promising quick money, the dangerous work and harsh lifestyle strip away all fabrications and force a dark-hearted exploration of who he really is. On the unforgiving Bering Sea, Adam finds the adventure and authenticity of a fisherman's life revelatory. The labor required...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A Maine librarian is fired after a teen accuses her of spying on her romantic romps in the bathroom and reaches out to her favorite author to speak at their library and help her clear her name. A novel that confronts the limits of empathy and the perils of appropriation through the eyes of a disgraced small-town librarian. Now that her brilliant botanist daughter is off at college, buttoned-up Maeve Cosgrove loves her job at a quiet Maine public...
16) The glass woman
Author
Publisher
Datura
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Iris Henderson wakes up in a hospital bed alone, with no memory of why or how she got there. Moments later, she is introduced to her husband Marcus, a man she does not even recognise. And things only get stranger from there. Iris is told that she volunteered to be the first test-subject for a ground-breaking AI therapy, and that she is the pioneering scientist behind the experimental treatment. Whilst everyone warns her to leave it alone, a confused...
17) Happy: a novel
Author
Publisher
Astra House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
262 pages : black and white illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In a rural village of Punjab, India, a moony young man crouches over his phone in a rapeseed field near his family's cabbage farm. His name is Happy Singh Soni, and he's watching YouTube clips of his favorite film, Bande à Part by Jean-Luc Godard. In fact, Happy is often compared to a young Sami Frey by the imaginary journalists that keep him company while he uses the outhouse. Pooing, as he says, "en plein air." When he's not sleeping among the...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
173 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Given a second chance with an old love, a coolly detached archivist questions the life he could have had, and whether it's not too late to live it. A poignant, ingeniously constructed new novel from "one of Europe's most exciting writers" (New York Times Book Review). Forty years ago-almost a lifetime-he confessed his love to a classmate and close friend, Franziska. Now, living in his late mother's house with the obsolete archive of the newspaper...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kingsbridge Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
477 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Sean O'Brien watches a girl darting through traffic to pick up money she dropped, he stops to help. The next time he sees her face it's during a TV newscast. She's vanished. As the case grows cold, Sean can't forget the touching story she shared with him. To find her, he must enter the dark web, infiltrate a global criminal ring, outwit one of the sharpest and most inhuman minds he's ever faced in a battle where the girl's life is reduced to...
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"When beautiful and successful Susan Harris jumps from the roof of her apartment building, she sets a tremor through her New York City mothers' group that forces them all to look at one another with new cynicism: How could this have happened right under their noses? To one of them? Between her death and the harrowing private school admission season on the horizon, these women are forced to explore the hard truths about themselves"--
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