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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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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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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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 FERArmstrong, Jesse
Summary: A young man, Andrew, follows his romantic interest, a wealthy young socialite named Penny, across Bosnia in a van, performing an unfinished peace play that they hope will stop the bombings in Sarajevo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARMWayne, Teddy
Summary: Shy, witty David Federman arrives at Harvard fully expecting to embrace, and be welcomed by, a new tribe of like-minded peers. But at first, beyond the friendly advances of a plain-looking Sara, his social status seems devastatingly unlikely to change. Then he meets Veronica Morgan Wells. Struck by both her beauty and her brains, David falls feverishly in love and is determined to stop at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAYCoe, Jonathan
Summary: "From the acclaimed author of The Rotters' Club and The Closed Circle comes the novel for our strange contemporary times. Beginning nine years ago on the outskirts of Birmingham, where car factories have been replaced by chain retail, and London, where both frenzied riots and Olympic fever plague the streets, Middle England tracks a brilliantly vivid cast of characters through the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COEMcInerney, Jay.
Summary: Written entirely in the second person, McInerney's first novel is a vivid account of cocaine addiction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Contemporaries 1984
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Summary: "Un viajero enigmático. Una ciudad en forma de laberinto de la que parece imposible salir. Cuando el viajero está a punto de marcharse, un insólito personaje lo detiene, cambiando para siempre su destino. Lo demás será amor y literatura: un amor memorable, que agitará por igual camas y libros; y un mundo imaginario que condensará, a pequeña escala, los conflictos de la Europa moderna."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Debolsillo 2016
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Summary: "Una historia de amor entre dos outsiders lo bastante inteligentes como para saber que el primer amor nunca es para siempre, pero lo suficientemente valientes y desesperados como para intentarlo."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfaguara 2014