Ma, Ling
Summary: Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. With the recent passing of her Chinese immigrant parents, she's had her fill of uncertainty. She's content just to carry on: She goes to work, troubleshoots the teen-targeted Gemstone Bible, watches movies in a Greenpoint basement with her boyfriend. So Candace barely notices when a plague of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATheroux, Paul
Summary: To escape his domineering brother Frank, Cal pursues life in the world's wild spaces, prospecting for gold. But to Frank, cash is king, and he seeks to influence Cal's growing wealth, and, ultimately, betray him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC THEHarkaway, Nick
Summary: "From the widely acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World and Tigerman, a virtuosic new novel and his most ambitious book yet--equal parts dark comedy, gripping detective story, and mind-bending philosophical puzzle--set in a not-too-distant-future, high-tech surveillance state. In the world of Gnomon, citizens are ceaselessly observed and democracy has reached a pinnacle of "transparency." When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARdeWitt, Patrick
Summary: Frances Price-- tart widow, possessive mother, and Upper East Side force of nature-- is in dire straits, beset by scandal and impending bankruptcy. Her adult son Malcolm is no help, mired in a permanent state of arrested development. And then there's the Price's aging cat, Small Frank, who Frances believes houses the spirit of her late husband, an infamously immoral litigator and world-class...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION DEWAshton, Edward
Summary: "The humans are fighting again. Go figure. As a free A.I., Mal finds the war between the modded and augmented Federals and the puritanical Humanists about as interesting as a battle between rival anthills. He's not above scouting the battlefield for salvage, though, and when the Humanists abruptly cut off access to infospace he finds himself trapped in the body of a cyborg mercenary, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024
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Summary: "A gripping, darkly comic novel from the national bestselling author of Bad Summer People about a team of wealthy and powerful executives on retreat in Miami when one of them goes missing . . . Every year, executives at the trendy tech startup Aurora gather the company's top employees for an exclusive retreat in Miami and this year, Caitlin Levy—Aurora's newest hire—is joining the team as Head...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: M ROSArgy, Julia
Summary: "A razor-sharp and seductively hypnotic debut novel about the very fantasy of falling in love"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARGBarry, Dave.
Summary: Astonished by his imminent marriage to a woman he believed out of his league, Seth flies to their destination wedding in Florida only to be swept up in a maelstrom of violence involving rioters, Russian gangsters, angry strippers, and a desperate python.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Publishing Group 2013
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Summary: "In this sly, surprising, and razor-sharp debut novel, a virtuoso pianist gives up her future as a musician to work at a high-end wellness store in New York City where the pursuit of beauty comes at a staggering cost. Our narrator is the youngest student at the Conservatory. She produces a sound from the piano no one else does, employing a special technique she learned from her parents-also...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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Summary: Luis Machi is an Argentinian oligarch who made his fortune collaborating with the worst elements of society. He has a cocaine habit, a collection of three hundred ties, ten million dollars in the bank, and a bloody corpse in the trunk of his BMW. As far as the body goes, he's completely innocent. He has no idea who the victim could be, or who among his many, many enemies might be trying to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FERGoldberg, Paul
Summary: Facing daunting prospects after losing a prestigious job, a once-successful science reporter investigates the suspicious death of his college roommate, a Miami Beach plastic surgeon, in an all-or-nothing case that is shaped by the schemes of the reporter's political dissident father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Goldberg 2018Kirkwood, James
Summary: Actor and fledgling writer Jimmy Zoole finds his life caught in downward spiral as his girlfriend leave him, he loses his job, his best friend is dead, and his apartment has been robbed twice, a situation that culiminates on New Year's Eve when Eddie, a bisexual burglar, returns once again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2003
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIRYoung, Skottie
Summary: As Gert navigates a fairy-tale netherworld with a capital "H," Fairyland's baddies brood and brew to revitalize a rotten ruler. Can Fairyland hope to survive the coming storm when the only people trying to save it are the mastermind tag team of Larry and Duncan Dragon? Are the fates of Gertrude and the land she loves to hate more intertwined than anyone expected?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 YOUFranzen, Jonathan
Summary: "A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of Freedom Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother-- her only family-- is hazardous. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRAPortis, Charles
Summary: "Charles Portis is now recognized as a singular American genius, a writer whose deadpan style, picaresque plots, and unforgettable characters have drawn a passionate following among readers and writers. 'His fiction,' Roy Blount Jr. has said, 'is the funniest I know.' Library of America now presents the definitive Portis collection, featuring all five of his novels -- Norwood (1966), The Dog...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2023
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PORJohnson, Chantal V.
Summary: A dedicated lawyer who advocates for mentally ill patients, Vivian, contending with the memories and aftereffects of her own bad childhood, makes a bold move during a family reunion that leaves her alone in new and terrifying ways, causing her to unravel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction JohnsonWeaver, Brynne
Summary: "When a chance encounter sparks an unlikely bond between rival murderers Sloane and Rowan, they find something elusive -- the friendship of two like-minded, pitch-black souls who just happen to enjoy killing other serial killers. From small-town West Virginia to upscale California, and from downtown Boston to rural Texas, the two hunters collide in an annual game of blood and suffering, one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zando 2023
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Summary: When a reclusive billionaire offers Dr. Peter Brown, a.k.a. Pietro Brnwa, a job accompanying a sexy but self-destructive paleontologist on the world's worst field assignment, Brown has no real choice but to say yes. Even if it means that an army of murderers, mobsters, and international drug dealers--not to mention a lake monster--are about to have a serious Pietro Brnwa problem.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAZGuns, Priya
Summary: "In this spiky and hilarious 21st century reboot of the iconic film Taxi Driver, a ride share driver is barely holding it together on the hunt for love, dignity and a living wage . . . until she decides she's done waiting. Damani is tired. Her father just passed away and now she lives paycheck to paycheck in the basement of her parents' old house, caring for her mom, and driving for an app to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUNMcMurtry, Larry.
Summary: Auroray Greenway is now dealing with the trials of her grandchildren, whom she raised after the death of her daughter. Tommy is in prison for killing a girl during a drug deal, Mealanie, a disobediant troublemaker, is pregnant with her second fatherless child, and Teddy is mentally unstable. Aurora's many suitors have helped her with her grandchildren, but she is still living with Hector, her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMWillett, Jincy
Summary: "Jincy Willett's beloved characters return in Amy Among the Serial Killers, a wickedly smart and funny take on the thriller genre by one of our most acclaimed literary humorists. Carla Karolac is doing just fine. Having escaped the clutches of her controlling mother and founded a successful writing retreat in which participants are confined to windowless cells until they hit their daily word...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILBeauman, Ned
Summary: "It's the near future, and tens of thousands of species are going extinct every year. The loss is not total, though: the DNA sequences of many species are being digitized and uploaded to a global network of "biobanks," together with brain and body scans, recordings of behavior in the wild, microbiota profiles, and so forth, in the hope that the extinct victims of humanity's destructiveness...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEACotterill, Colin
Summary: "Thailand, 1996: Supot, a postman with the Royal Thai Postal Service, hates his job. The only bright light in his life is watching classic movies with his best friend, Ali, the owner of a video store. These cinephiles adore the charisma of the old Western stars, particularly the actresses, and bemoan the state of modern Thai cinema-until a mysterious cassette, entitled Bangkok 2010, arrives at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COTDuchovny, David
Summary: "The Reservoir follows an unexceptional man in an exceptional time. We see our present-day pandemic world and New York City through the eyes of a former Wall Street veteran, Ridley, as he looks back upon his life in his enforced quarantine solitude, wondering what it all means and who he really is. Sitting and brooding night after night, gazing out his huge picture window high above the Central...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2022