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Mac's Problem

by Enrique Vila-Matas

Published: 2019-04-30

Paperback: 224 pages

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Enrique Vila-Matas’s new novel is perhaps his greatest: “playful and funny and among the best Spanish novelists” (Colm Tóibín) Mac is currently unemployed and lives on his wife’s earnings. An avid reader, he decides at the age of sixty to keep a diary. Mac’s wife, a dyslexic, t...

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True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny

by Daniel Topolski, Patrick Robinson

Published: 1989-05-01

Hardcover: 224 pages

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In the harsh winter of 1986/7, an event took place in the Oxford University Boat Club which shook the University, and the rowing establishment, to their foundations. It became known, simply, as the Oxford Mutiny. A group of American students, all former internationals, had arrived at Oxford hoping to...

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It Only Happens in the Movies

by Holly Bourne

Published: 2017-10-01

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The Secret Garden (Little Golden Book)

by Frances Gilbert, Frances Hodgson Burnett

Published: 2017-01-10

Hardcover: 24 pages

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A picture book retelling, perfect for the youngest readers, of the beloved classic children's story—and new movie starring Colin Firth, coming to theaters April 2020. “A key!” cried Mary. “Is it the key to the secret garden?”   This story of a key that leads a lonely girl to a s...

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We Are Still Here: Stories & A Novella

by Emily Koon

Published: 2019-07-01

Paperback: 248 pages

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We Are Still Here contains an eclectic mix of stories and fairy tales in which readers encounter ghosts, UPS drivers, Lizzie Borden, and goblins. In the title story, a family visiting an amusement park flees after a fatal roller coaster accident, only to find the real horror is on the chai...

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Tokyo Ueno Station

by Yu Miri

Published: 2019-03-04

Paperback: 180 pages

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As a work of post-tsunami literature and a protest against the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, this novel is of utmost importance to this moment, a powerful rebuke to the Imperial system and a sensitive, deeply felt depiction of the lives of Japan's most vulnerable people.Kazu is dead. Born in Fukush...

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The Vanishing Stair (Truly Devious)

by Maureen Johnson

Published: 2019-01-22

Hardcover: 384 pages

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New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller!In New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson’s second novel in the Truly Devious series, there are more twists and turns than Stevie Bell can imagine. No answer is given freely, and someone will pay for the truth with their life. T...

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We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Shirley Jackson

Published: 2006-10-31

Paperback: 146 pages

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Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secretTaking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the ...

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The Butterfly Girl: A Novel

by Rene Denfeld

Published: 2019-10-01

Hardcover: 272 pages

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The Butterfly Girl is a riveting novel that ripples with truth, exploring the depths of love and sacrifice in the face of a past that cannot be left dead and buried. A year ago, Naomi, the investigator with an uncanny ability for finding missing children, made a promise that she would not ...

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Loudermilk: Or, The Real Poet; Or, The Origin of the World

by Lucy Ives

Published: 2019-05-07

Paperback: 304 pages

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A tale of two idiots?the handsome, charismatic Troy Augustus Loudermilk and his unassuming, socially anxious friend Harry Rego?who, in the early days of the new millennium, scam their way into a fellowship at the most prestigious creative writing program in the country It’s the end of ...