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Marcy Dermansky · 212 pages
After serving six years for harboring a fugitive Marie is released and finds work as a live-in nanny for the daughter of her childhood best friend, Ellen, with whom she has a rocky, competitive relationship. Ellen is married to a French author, whose book Marie read repeatedly while in prison. Benoît and Marie kick off an affair and decide to run away to Paris together with Caitlin.
One Day
David Nicholls · 437 pages
‘I can imagine you at forty,’ she said, a hint of malice in her voice. ‘I can picture it right now.’ He smiled without opening his eyes. ‘Go on then.’ 15th July 1988. Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew meet for the first time on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways. So where will they be on this one day next year? And the year after that? And every year whic
Yellowface
R F Kuang · 331 pages
White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn’t write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American—in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel from R.F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel. Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars. But At
Almost Life
Kiran Millwood Hargrave · 384 pages
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
Therese Anne Fowler · 375 pages
A tale inspired by the marriage of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald follows their union in defiance of her father's opposition and her abandonment of the provincial finery of her upbringing in favor of a scandalous flapper identity that gains her entry into the literary party scenes of New York, Paris and the French Riviera.
Delicacy
David Foenkinos · 250 pages
When François dies suddenly only seven years into their blissful marriage, the widowed Natalie erects a fortress around her emotions. Can Markus, her Swedish, geeky, and unassuming coworker, connect with her?
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Paulo Coelho · 210 pages
"The story of a young Spanish woman, Pilar, and her encounter with her lost love, an unnamed spiritual seeker who comes to worship the feminine face of God. Clarke's translation is, as usual, somewhat hurried and condensed as if he's impatient with Coelho's admittedly belabored and self-consciously poetical style"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
The Gambler
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 162 pages
In the fictional town of Roulettenberg, Germany, a Russian tutor to the children of a seemingly wealthy general is enticed to play roulette at the local casino. First playing for others (including his beloved Polina Alexandrovna), he soon gets a taste for the experience himself, which can lead in only one direction. Dostoevsky wrote this story based at least partially on personal experience. Aft
The Coldest Winter Ever
Sister Souljah · 360 pages
A New York Times and USA TODAY Bestseller “50 Most Impactful Black Books of the Last 50 Years.” —Essence Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read The instant classic from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Life After Death brings the streets of New York to life in a powerful and utterly unforgettable first novel. I came busting into the worl
The Robber Bride
Margaret Atwood · 528 pages
Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride is inspired by "The Robber Bridegroom," a wonderfully grisly tale from the Brothers Grimm in which an evil groom lures three maidens into his lair and devours them, one by one. But in her version, Atwood brilliantly recasts the monster as Zenia, a villainess of demonic proportions, and sets her loose in the lives of three friends, Tony, Charis, and Roz. All three
To Die For
Joyce Maynard · 368 pages
Behind her facade of a high achievment, attractive middle-class newlywed Suzanne Maretto nurtures her true desires, which include violent heavy metal music, the manipulation, sexual and otherwise, of teenagers, and murder.
Katabasis
R. F. Kuang · 560 pages
Dante’s Inferno meets Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from R. F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface, in which two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor’s soul—perhaps at the cost of their own. Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek:The story of a hero’s descent to the underworldAlice L
Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell · 864 pages
Margaret Mitchell's monumental epic of the South won a Pulitzer Prize, gave rise to the most popular motion picture of our time, and inspired a sequel that became the fastest selling novel of the century. It is one of the most popular books ever written: more than 28 million copies of the book have been sold in more than 37 countries. Today, more than 60 years after its initial publication, its ac
Ask the Dust
John Fante · 165 pages
Alys, Always
Harriet Lane · 213 pages
Comforting a dying car crash victim before being invited to meet the woman's privileged family, Frances is transformed through her friendships with two family members from an unknown editor to a sought-after figure in literary society.
Unbecoming
Rebecca Scherm · 320 pages
After a heist she planned lands two men she loves in prison, a woman flees Paris and assumes a new identity, furtively checking news from her hometown as her web of deception unravels.
Rosario tijeras: una novela
Jorge Franco · 173 pages
La Dame aux Camélias
Alexandre Dumas fils · 215 pages
- Mon avis est qu'on ne peut creer des personnages que lorsque l'on a beaucoup etudie les hommes, comme on ne peut parler une langue qu'a la condition de l'avoir serieusement apprise.
The Lifeboat
Charlotte Rogan · 278 pages
In the summer of 1914, the transatlantic ocean liner carrying Grace Winter, 22 and her new husband Henry suffers a mysterious explosion. Forced into an overcrowded lifeboat, newly widowed Grace Winter battles the elements and her fellow survivors and remembers her husband, Henry, who set his own safety aside to ensure Grace's. The survivors quickly realise the boat is over capacity. For any to liv
Indiana
George Sand · 302 pages
J'ai ecrit Indiana durant l'automne de 1831. C'est mon premier roman; je l'ai fait sans aucun plan, sans aucune theorie d'art ou de philosophie dans l'esprit. J'etais dans l'age ou l'on ecrit avec ses instincts et ou la reflexion ne nous sert qu'a nous confirmer dans nos tendances naturelles. On voulut y voir un plaidoyer bien premedite contre le mariage. Je n'en cherchais pas si long, et je fus e
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
V E Schwab · 544 pages
This is a story about hunger. 1532. Santo Domingo de la Calzada. A young girl grows up wild and wily—her beauty is only outmatched by her dreams of escape. But María knows she can only ever be a prize, or a pawn, in the games played by men. When an alluring stranger offers an alternate path, María makes a desperate choice. She vows to have no regrets. This is a story about love. 1827. London
The Rules of Attraction
Bret Easton Ellis · 283 pages
First Sentence: “And it’s a story that might bore you, but you don’t have to listen, she told me, because she always knew it was going to be like that, and it was, she thinks, her first year, or actually weekend, really a Friday, in September, and Camden, and this was three or four years ago, and she got so drunk that she ended up in bed, lost her virginity (late, she was eighteen) in Lorna Slavin