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Man's 4th Best Hospital

by Samuel Shem

Published: 2019-11-12

Hardcover: 384 pages

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The sequel to the bestselling and highly acclaimed The House of GodYears after the events of The House of God, the Fat Man has been given leadership over a new Future of Medicine Clinic at what is now only Man's 4th Best Hospital, and has persuaded Dr. Roy Basch and some of his intern coho...

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Kraken: A Novel

by China Miéville

Published: 2011-03-15

Paperback: 528 pages

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With this outrageous new novel, China Miéville has written one of the strangest, funniest, and flat-out scariest books you will read this—or any other—year. The London that comes to life in Kraken is a weird metropolis awash in secret currents of myth and magic, where criminals, polic...

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The Dreamseller: The Calling: A Novel

by Augusto Cury

Published: 2011-10-11

Paperback: 256 pages

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Wherever he goes, the dreamseller enchants, stirs up trouble and inspires his listeners to search for the most important thing: the heart of the human soul. Every person he meets is someone who has abandoned their dreams and is struggling through life: a professor who has stopped pursuing ...

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Hollow Kingdom

by Kira Jane Buxton

Published: 2019-08-06

Hardcover: 320 pages

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One pet crow fights to save humanity from an apocalypse in this uniquely hilarious debut from a genre-bending literary author.S.T., a domesticated crow, is a bird of simple pleasures: hanging out with his owner Big Jim, trading insults with Seattle's wild crows (those idiots), and enjoying...

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Black Light: Stories

by Kimberly King Parsons

Published: 2019-08-13

Paperback: 224 pages

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“The stories in Black Light are grimy and weird, surprising, utterly lush. . . . I loved every moment of this book.” —Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other PartiesWith raw, poetic ferocity, Kimberly King Parsons exposes desire’s darkest hollows—those hidden places wh...

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Last Citadel: A Novel of the Battle of Kursk

by David L. Robbins

Published: 2007-12-18

Kindle Edition: 562 pages

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One nation taking a desperate gamble of war.Another fighting for survival.Two armies locked in a bloody cataclysm that will decide history. . .David L. Robbins has won widespread acclaim for his powerful and splendidly researched novels of World War II. Now he casts his brilliant vision on...

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The Family Upstairs: A Novel

by Lisa Jewell

Published: 2019-11-05

Hardcover: 320 pages

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone comes another page-turning look inside one familyâ??s past as buried secrets threaten to come to light. Be careful who you let in. Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter s...

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On Herring Cove Road: Mr. Rosen and His 43Lb Anxiety

by Michael Kroft

Published: 2018-08-20

Paperback: 252 pages

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"...an easy read with characters I fell in love with. It's a wonderful story, sometimes laugh-out-loud funny and sometimes sad, and the whole Mr Jew thing is sooo cute!"  -Julie S., NYAn extremely introverted old Jewish man, his doting but ill wife, his racist next-door neighbor's son w...

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The Night Watchman

by Louise Erdrich

Published: 2020-03-03

Hardcover: 464 pages

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Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s  grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C., this powerful novel explores themes of love and ...

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The Red Convertible: Selected and New Stories, 1978-2008

by Louise Erdrich

Published: 2010-01-19

Paperback: 512 pages

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Three decades of short fiction by one of the most innovative and exciting writers of our day In Louise Erdrich's fictional world, the mystical can emerge from the everyday, the comic can turn suddenly tragic, and violence and splendor inhabit a single emotional landscape. The fantastic ...