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The Bear Went Over the Mountain

William Kotzwinkle · 306 pages

Once upon a time in rural Maine, a big bear found a briefcase under a tree. Hoping for food, he dragged it into the woods, only to find that all it held was the manuscript of a novel. He couldn't eat it, but he did read it, and decided it wasn't bad. Borrowing some clothes from a local store, and the name Hal Jam from the labels of his favorite foods, he headed to New York to seek his fortune in t

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The Proof of My Innocence

Jonathan Coe · 326 pages

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The Assistants

Camille Perri · 296 pages

When a technical error at a multinational media conglomerate gives a financially strapped veteran employee a chance to pay off her student loans in ways the company will never notice, she embarks on a downward spiral involving other employees with crushing debts and fewer scruples.

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The Ivy Chronicles

Karen Quinn · 352 pages

A wicked pleasure for everyone who's graduated from The Nanny Diaries and is ready for admission to the savage underbelly of Manhattan's private kindergartensWhen turbocharged Park Avenue mom Ivy Ames finds that she’s been downsized from her platinum-card corporate job and her marriage, she swiftly realizes that she’s going to need a whole new way to support herself and her two private-school daug

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Bergdorf Blondes

Plum Sykes · 316 pages

Welcome to the world of Park Avenue Princesses, the girls who careen through Manhattan in search of perfect Fake Bake (tan acquired from Portofino Tanning Salon), a ride on a PJ (private jet) with the ATM rich boyfriend), and the ever elusive fiance.

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Timequake

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. · 219 pages

On February 13th, 2001, according to Vonnegut, the universe will tire momentarily of expanding forever. What's the point? Maybe it would be more fun to shrink for a change, and have a reunion of all the stuff back where it began. Then it could make a great big BANG again. It will shrink back to February 17th, 1991, but will then decide that expansion is the way to go, after all. As time marches o

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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

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Slaves of New York

Tama Janowitz · 288 pages

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Oreo

Fran Ross, Harryette Mullen · 240 pages

"Born to a Jewish father and black mother who divorce before she is two, Oreo grows up in Philadelphia with her maternal grandparents while her mother tours with a theatrical troupe. Soon after puberty, Oreo heads for New York with a pack on her back to search for her father, but in the big city she soon discovers that there are dozens of Sam Schwartzes in the phone book. Oreo's mission turns into

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The Nanny Diaries

Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus · 368 pages

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Answered Prayers

Truman Capote · 180 pages

RESUMEN: El protagonista de la novela ingenioso, encantador, bisexual, absolutamente amoral logró escaparse de un orfanato a los trece años, aprendió el oficio de masajista y se las ingenió para convertirse en un pícaro moderno y codearse con los ricos y los famosos, desempeñando unas veces el papel de confidente, otras el de bufón y, para los lectores de esta novela, el de divertidísimo cronista

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Good as Gold

Joseph Heller · 447 pages

Gold accepts a government post in Washington, considers leaving his wife, and all the while he is also searching for material to write his book on the Jewish experience in America, without realizing he is going through that experience.

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Truth in Advertising

John Kenney · 308 pages

Struggling with encroaching middle age and a broken engagement, advertising agent Finbar Dolan is forced to cancel his Christmas plans to tackle a last-minute work assignment only to learn that his estranged and abusive father has taken ill and that his siblings are unwilling to help, a situation that forces Fin to re-evaluate his choices.

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Everyone Worth Knowing

Lauren Weisberger · 435 pages

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Mike Nelson's Death Rat!

Michael J. Nelson · 325 pages

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Prospect Park West

Amy Sohn · 492 pages

Vier vrouwen in en rond een wijk in New York krijgen te maken met grote uitdagingen in liefde, werk en gezinsleven.

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The Clique

Lisi Harrison · 220 pages

Enter the world of the clique - where the only thing harder than getting in is staying in.

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Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters

Mark Dunn · 208 pages

An epistolary novel set on a fictional island off the South Carolina coastline, Ella Minnow Pea brings readers to the hometown of Nevin Nollop, inventor of the pangram "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog." Deified for his achievement in life, Nevin has been honored in death with a monument featuring his famous phrase. One day, however, the letter Z falls from the monument, and some of the

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Happiness

Will Ferguson · 354 pages

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Blood Is the New Black

Valerie Stivers · 304 pages

When nice-girl Kate McGraw finds herself working at Tasty, a magazine with its finger on the pulse of modern style, she's finally able to put her flair for fashion to good use. But can she keep up with the Tasty staffers? Ethereally beautiful and extremely emaciated, they stay out all night, never look the worse for wear, and are always dressed to kill.Like everyone else around the office, Kate fi

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Die for Love

Elizabeth Peters · 322 pages

The annual Historical Romance Writers of the World convention in New York City is calling to Jacqueline Kirby, a Nebraska librarian who desperately desires some excitement. But all is not love and kisses at this august gathering of starry-eyed eccentrics and sentimental scribes. As far as Jacqueline is concerned, the sudden "natural" death of a gossip columnist seems anything but. And when she's a

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American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis · 399 pages

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& Sons

David Gilbert · 442 pages

A famous reclusive writer and his three sons find their bond tested by the weight of long-held secrets and a cumbersome legacy shaped by boarding school, Hollywood, and the elite circles of the publishing world.

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The Mark and the Void

Paul Murray · 469 pages

This is a comic masterpiece about love, art, greed and the banking crisis, from the author of Skippy Dies. Workaholic French banker Claude is so busy making money from Ireland's economic crisis he has no time for romance. Then he meets mysterious writer Paul, who says he wants to put Claude in a book. Next thing Claude knows, he's falling in love with beautiful Greek waitress, Augustina. But can a

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