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Henry, a New Yorker left destitute by circumstance and obsession, is plucked from vagrancy by a shadowy outfit with a decidedly niche business. They arrange staged murders of anxiety-ridden clients unhinged by the "events downtown" and seeking to experience-and live through-their own carefully executed assassinations. When Henry joins this nefarious crew, which includes a beautiful blonde tattoo artist named Tulip, contortionist twins, and a woman...
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Cornelius Sky is a doorman in a posh Fifth Avenue apartment building that houses New York City's elite, including a former First Lady whose husband was assassinated while in office. It is 1974 and New York City is heading toward a financial crisis. At work, Connie prides himself on his ability to buff a marble floor better than anyone, a talent that so far has kept him from being fired for his drinking. He pushes the boundaries of his duties, partying...
3) Neon Green
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It's the summer of 1994 in suburban Chicago: Forrest Gump is still in theaters, teens are reeling from the recent death of Kurt Cobain, and you can enter a sweepstakes for a spaceship from Jupiter to land in your backyard. Welcome to Margaret Wappler's slightly altered 90s. Everything's pretty much the way you remember it, except for the aliens.
When a flying saucer lands in the Allens' backyard, family patriarch and environmental activist Ernest...
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On the far eastern borders of the Soviet Union, in the sunset of Stalin's reign, soldiers are training for a war that could end all wars, for in the atomic age man has sown the seeds of his own destruction. Among them is Pavel Gartsev, a reservist. Orphaned, scarred by the last great war and unlucky in love, he is an instant victim for the apparatchiks and ambitious careerists who thrive within the Red Army's ranks. Assigned to a search party composed...
5) The Fallen
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A powerful, unsettling portrait of family life in Cuba, Carlos Manuel Álvarez's first novel is a masterful portrayal of a society in free fall. Diego, the son, is disillusioned and bitter about the limited freedoms his country offers him as he endures compulsory military service. Mariana, the mother, is unwell, prone to mysterious seizures, and forced to relinquish control over the household to her daughter, Maria, who has left school and is working...
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How do you ask forgiveness for the unforgivable? When Annie Wolff's ex-husband dies unexpectedly, she breaks her self-imposed exile and returns home to Snohomish, Washington. Annie hasn't seen her children, Grace and Connor, in eight years, and now, her in-laws are making a bid to adopt them. She only hopes the depression that once sent her running will remain in check. Annie is quickly drawn back into the lives of her now-teenage kids, under the...
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A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2017
A young American woman arrives in Florence from Boston, knowing no one and speaking little Italian. But Hannah is isolated in a more profound way, estranged from her own identity after a bout with starvation that has left her life and body in ruins. She is determined to recover in Florence, a city saturated with beauty, vitality, and food—as well as a dangerous history of sainthood for women who starved...
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No one was prepared for the massive earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010, taking over a quarter-million lives, and leaving millions of others homeless. Three thousand miles away, Jacqueline Florestant mourns the presumed death of her parents, while her husband, a former US Marine and combat veteran, cares for their three-year-old daughter as he fights his own battles with acute PTSD. Horrified and guilt-ridden, Jacqueline returns to Haiti in search...
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This erotic tale of jealousy, obsession, and revenge is suffused with the rich flavors and intoxicating scents of Israel's Mediterranean coast. An unnamed narrator writes a letter to an old college friend, Adam, with whom he has been staying since his abrupt return to the States from Israel. Now that the narrator is moving on to a new location, he finally reveals the events that led him to Adam's door, set in motion by a chance encounter with Uzi,...
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For readers of Michael Ondaatje and Chris Cleave, this sweeping multigenerational novel centered around endless heartbreak and enduring love features the intertwined stories of three women who transcend three tragedies of the twentieth century with the aid of the greatest love poet of all time: Pablo Neruda.
London, England, September 1940. Thirteen-year-old Susan McEwan and her older brother, Phillip, a pilot, witness firsthand the initial Nazi...
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With a lucrative freelance career and a loving family, Deborah Earle has a life many women would envy. But her daughter, Amanda, is heading to college soon, and Deborah worries about having an empty nest. She thinks another child might be the answer. Her husband, Richard, however, may not be willing to start over so late in life. Amanda is excited about attending NYU next year, but she meets Graham, a handsome older boy, falls hard, and considers...
12) Caballo fantasma
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En una habitación de la ciudad de Oaxaca, una joven arquitecta escribe y lee los diarios que ha acumulado a lo largo de diez años. Hace seiscientos días que su madre murió. Lo único que Ka sabe de ella es que padecía una enfermedad de los nervios y amaba los caballos. Leonora, su madre, siempre ha sido un fantasma. Mientras se adapta a su regreso a la ciudad, su nuevo trabajo, las calles, el amor y las bibliotecas, Ka busca su propia historia...
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Included in The Rumpus's What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Women's History
Rowan Kelly knows she's lucky. After all, if she hadn't been adopted, she could have spent her days in a rice paddy, or a windowless warehouse assembling iPhones--they make iPhones in Korea, right? Either way, slowly dying of boredom on Long Island is surely better than the alternative. But as she matures, she realizes that she'll never know if she has her mother's eyes,...
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Luego de su exitosa primera novela, Kramp, que la New York Times Book Review calificó de "excepcional", María José Ferrada vuelve a la narrativa con El hombre del cartel.
Miguel, un niño de once años, describe la vida cotidiana en una población periférica y la tragedia que sufren los "sin casa", mientras trata de entender la decisión de su tío de abandonar la villa e irse a vivir, literalmente, a un cartel publicitario de Coca-Cola.
El resultado...
15) Diario pinchado
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Diario pinchado es una novela corta con formato de diario que narra la estancia en Berlín de una mujer que se siente extranjera en la ciudad: se orienta mal, no comprende el idioma y, además, el encuentro con su novio, un poeta becado que es la razón de su viaje, no sale como ella esperaba.
Este dietario de desencuentros y de un amor que se desinfla, sobre el extrañamiento y el arte de perderse, también encierra una reflexión sobre la poesía...
16) Rust
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An article in a random travel magazine - about coyotes freely roaming the banks of the Rio Grande right in the middle of the city of Albuquerque - compels talented but socially-isolated artist Margaret Shaw to pack up and move from New York City to New Mexico. She quickly settles into a Chicano/Mexican barrio near the river, spending long days at local junkyards attempting to satisfy another recent obsession - her determination to mover her art from...
18) Sensing Light
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A POWERFUL WORK OF FICTION THAT AUTHENTICALLY EVOKES THE BAD AND THE GOOD."-Eric Goosby, MD, US Global AIDS Coordinator, 2009-13 A MOVING STORY OF DOCTORS NAVIGATING THE INTERSECTIONS OF SUFFERING, AMBITION AND DISCOVERY."-Krista Bremer, My Accidental Jihad This breakout book by Mark A. Jacobson, a leading Bay Area HIV/AIDS physician, follows three people from vastly different backgrounds, who are thrown together by a shared urgency to find out what...
19) Los caídos
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«Todos tenemos un hogar», decía Philip Roth, «y siempre es ahí donde las cosas van mal». En Los caídos, novela ambientada en la Cuba contemporánea, asistimos al desmoronamiento de una familia cuyos miembros, sin saber realmente cómo, han acabado convirtiéndose en adversarios que comparten el territorio del hogar.
La enfermedad de la madre, Mariana, de origen incierto y consecuencias imprevisibles, la obliga a permanecer en casa, a solas...
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Growing up in a lush valley in the Andes mountains, sixteen-year-old Josie Wales is mostly isolated from the turbulence brewing in 1976 Colombia. As the daughter of missionaries, Josie feels torn between their beliefs and the need to choose for herself. She soon begins to hide things from her parents, like her new boyfriend and her explorations into different religions. Josie eventually discovers her parents' secrets are far more insidious. When she...
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