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FOR ANYONE WHO'S EVER BEEN CALLED FUNNY AS AN INSULTFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things,…
a sparkling and funny new novel of entertainment, ambition, art, and love.Cherry Hendricks might be down on her luck, but she can write the book on what makes something funny: she's a professional clown who creates raucous, zany fun at gigs all over Orlando. Between clowning and her shifts at an aquarium store for extra cash, she's always hustling. Not to mention balancing her judgmental mother, her messy love life, and her equally messy community of fellow performers.Things start looking up when Cherry meets Margot the Magnificent - a much older lesbian magician - who seems to have worked out the lines between art, business, and life, and has a slick, successful career to prove it. With Margot's mentorship and industry connections, Cherry is sure to take her art to the next level. Plus, Margot is sexy as hell. It's not long before Cherry must decide how much she's willing to risk for Margot and for her own explosive new act - and what kind of clown she wants to be under her suit. Equal parts bravado, tenderness and humour, and bursting with misfits, magicians and mimes, Stop Me If You've Heard This One is a masterpiece of comedic fiction that asks big questions about art and performance, friendship and community, and the importance of timing in jokes and in life.
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Romance, Serious and literary fiction, LGBTQ+ fiction, Friendship stories
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A loose circle of lovers and friends encounter, confront, and provoke one another in a volatile year of self-discovery in…
Iowa City. A novel of friendship and chosen family, The Late Americans asks fresh questions about love and sex, ambition and precarity, and about how human beings can bruise one another while trying to find themselves. It is Brandon Taylor's richest and most involving work of fiction to date, confirming his position as one of our most perceptive chroniclers of contemporary life. Adult. Descriptions of sex. Strong language. Violence
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Family stories, Multi-cultural fiction, Serious and literary fiction, Historical fiction, General fiction
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In 1939, Tom Morton, a widower with a young son, met Mitsuko, a recent emigrant from Japan, and married her.…
Their marriage was torn apart by anti-Japanese sentiments in World War II that sent her to an internment camp. Twenty years later, his son Bill travels to Japan in search of answers to the mysteries of his childhood. Adult. Unrated
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Serious and literary fictionDisabilities
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A beguiling novel about a woman losing her hearing and an utterly original take on perception and self-perception. Since she…
was little, Louise has been not quite hearing and not quite deaf?her life with this invisible disability has been one of in-betweenness. After an audiology test shows that almost all her hearing is gone, her doctor suggests getting a cochlear implant. The operation will be irreversible, making the decision all the more fraught. The technology would give Louise a new sense of hearing?but it would be at the expense of her natural hearing, which, for all its weakness, has shaped her unique relationship with the world, full of whispers and shadows. Adult. Unrated
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Confronted by a family health crisis, Matt becomes more attuned to the needs of those he loves-and how he can…
best fit himself into the world-largely inspired by more passionate and ambitious young women in his life: his girlfriend, and public school teacher participating in the Oklahoma Teachers' strike of 2018, and his younger sister, and teenage idealist determined to make a difference. Throughout the novel, Rob Roensh raises the question of what we can see if we learn how to look. Some strong language
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Mysteries and crime stories, Women sleuths, Serious and literary fiction, Gentle mysteries
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"Fast-paced, suspenseful, and emotionally involving, this book is once again one that weaves a renowned fictional spell around the mysteries of the human heart."-- OCLC
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Vincent D'Orsi is a middle-aged widower who is not aging gracefully. He was forced into early retirement from his job…
at the World Bank after washing dirty laundry in public. After an unsettling meeting with someone who might be with the CIA, he tries to make sense of his life and his relationship with his daughter. Adult. Unrated
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Suspense and thrillers, Mysteries and crime stories, Serious and literary fiction, Legal stories, General fictionAnthologies
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An emerging master of the thriller pits brooding hero Phil Broker against the legendary Witness Protection Program, which has unwittingly…
hidden his ex-wife's killer. In The Big Law, Logan unfurls a sublime premise--The Fugitive in reverse--and graces it with ingenious plotting and fascinating explorations of the forces that drive men both to selfless heroism and murderous greed. The Big Law's intricate mechanics are set in motion by one fatal choice: Broker's naive ex-wife Caren decides to blow the whistle on her feckless husband, Keith Angland, a St. Paul cop who's moonlighting as an informant for the Chicago mob. Unwisely for her, she confides in Tom James, a disaffected reporter nursing dreams of the perfect crime. Seeing a way out of his dead-end life and into his dreams, Tom cajoles Caren into entrusting him with the suitcase full of greenbacks the mob has paid her informant husband. When Caren is killed, Tom frames Angland, absconds with the suitcase, runs to the FBI (known to its employees as the Big Law), and wangles himself a berth in the Witness Protection Program. Only Broker senses something amiss in Tom's testimony, and he sets out to find the truth. But to do that, he must find Tom, who has the Big Law and a big suitcase full of cash on his side
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General fiction, Science fiction, Mysteries and crime stories, Historical fiction, Suspense and thrillers, Serious and literary fiction
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A sweeping story of community, crime, and gentrification, tracing more than fifty years of life in one Brooklyn neighborhood. Adult. Descriptions of sex. Strong language. Violence
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Ghost and horror stories, Serious and literary fiction, Movie and television tie-ins, Suspense and thrillers
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The &“haunting…tender, intimate book that makes an epic interior journey&” (The New York Times), Lisey&’s Story is a literary masterpiece—an…
extraordinarily moving and haunting portrait of a marriage and its aftermath. *Also an Apple TV+ limited series starring Julianne Moore and Clive Owen*Lisey lost her husband Scott, after a twenty-five year marriage of profound and sometimes frightening intimacy. Scott was an award-winning, bestselling novelist and a very complicated man. Early in their relationship, Lisey knew there was a place Scott went that both terrified and healed him, could eat him alive or give him the ideas he needed in order to live. Now it&’s Lisey&’s turn to face Scott&’s demons, to go to that terrifying place known as Boo&’ya Moon. What begins as a widow&’s effort to sort through the papers of her celebrated husband becomes a nearly fatal journey into the darkness he inhabited. &“Intricate...exhilarating&” (The New Yorker), perhaps Stephen King&’s most personal and powerful novel ever, Lisey&’s Story is about the wellsprings of creativity, the temptations of madness, and the secret language of love. It is a beautiful, &“rich portrait of a marriage, and the complicated affection that outlives death&” (The Washington Post).
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Historical fiction, Science fiction, Serious and literary fiction, Suspense and thrillers
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A novel that imagines a future in which sweeping civil conflict has forced America's young people to flee its borders,…
into an unwelcoming world. Brimming with mystery, suspense, and Kalfus's distinctive comic irony, 2 A.M. in Little America poses several vital questions: What happens when privilege is reversed? Who is watching and why? How do tribalized politics disrupt our ability to distinguish what is true and what is not? This is a story for our time gripping, unsettling, prescient by one of our most acclaimed novelists. Adult. Unrated
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Family stories, Serious and literary fiction, Indigenous peoples fictionFamily and relationships
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A fifty-year-old mystery converges with a present-day struggle over family, land, and history. As the past returns to haunt those…
involved, Margie prepares her statement for the tribal government, defending her family's land from a casino development and sorting the truths of Half-Dime Hill from the facts that remain there. Throughout the narrative, a chorus of spirit women gather in lawn chairs with coffee and cookies to reminisce, reflect, and speculate, spinning the threads of family, myth, history, and humor much as Grover spins another tale of Mozhay Point, weaving together an intimate and complex novel of a place and its people. Adult
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A speech language pathologist falls in love with a non-verbal patient and endures the fallout. Adult. Strong language
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Family stories, General fiction, Serious and literary fictionFamily and relationships
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A boldly honest meditation on the body, the hope of healing in the face of total loss, and what it means to be alive. Unrated
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"Harried, overworked architect Kate Benedict is heading to a remote island in the Seychelles, ready to de-stress and celebrate at…
a destination wedding. But she and her boyfriend have no sooner stepped off the ferry than she spots imminent danger - auras spinning above the heads of two people. One's a stranger, but the other's the groom. Unfortunately for her, she can predict death. When she sees the spinning circle of air above someone's head, her heart sinks. She calls it an aura, and unless she can locate the source of danger and intervene, the person is destined to die within a matter of days. It's hard to imagine a murderer lurking on the tranquil island, but, after a suspicious fire and another aura sighting, the evidence is mounting. Until they can find the murderer, Kate and Josh have to keep the groom safe and fend off the worst wedding crasher ever. Death."-- From publisher
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Short stories, Family stories, Suspense and thrillers, General fiction, Serious and literary fiction
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Telling and sometimes hilarious stories about struggling to live within the confines of society
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Décembre 2018. Anna, Nico et Mathis, trois jeunes pleins de vie, préparent ensemble les fêtes du Nouvel An. Inséparables, ils…
partagent leur quotidien entre les amis, les amours, et les études. Pourtant, l'année suivante débute au rythme des machines de l'hôpital où Anna s'accroche à la vie. Au fil des pages, l'auteure nous transporte dans un futur proche et inquiétant, et laisse deviner qu'une menace pèse sur la petite bande : pour eux, tout semble devoir changer. Quel drame va donc les frapper ? Demain le jour se lèvera met en scène des personnages touchants dont le courage et l'envie de vivre surpassent toutes les épreuves qu'ils ont à affronter. Un récit intense et émouvant ! PRIX DE LITTÉRATURE 2020 - Lions Club International (Ouest)
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Humourous fiction, Romance, Serious and literary fiction
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Avant de mourir, le père d'Indira lui a confié sa dernière volonté : que ses cendres soient répandues sur Mars...…
Une vocation secrète d'astronaute ? Pas du tout, juste le nom de son PMU favori au sommet des Pyrénées ! Indira prend alors une décision qu'elle regrette aussitôt : organiser un road trip en autocar avec les amis de son père. Direction Superbagnères, Haute-Garonne. De pannes en esclandres, avec force champagne en thermos, le voyage prend des allures d'odyssée tandis qu'Indira apprend à connaître ses compagnons de galère. Et à travers eux, ce père qu'elle avait renoncé à aimer... Humour ravageur, poésie folle, sensibilité à fleur de peau, un premier roman solaire
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Serious and literary fictionBiography
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C'est ton prénom que je voudrais donner à ce livre. C'est le silence autour de toi que je cherche à…
chambarder. Gaver de mots et d'images l'épouvante de l'effacement, jusqu'à effacer le mot effacement lui-même, car on dit que si un mot n'existe pas, la chose qu'il représente n'existe pas non plus. Toutefois, il est curieux de constater qu'il n'existe pas de mot pour définir un frère qui a perdu son frère ; et je t'ai perdu. Alors les hommes font des livres à leurs frères morts comme on érige des mémoriaux aux inconnus dans les villages pour retenir leurs cendres. La littérature est un vaste cimetière et j'y pioche ta place
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La vie d'une jeune fille italienne après la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Graziella Ponti naît dans les années 1930 en Italie,…
au sein d'une famille aimante, dans un petit village de Lombardie, Pieve Santa Clara. Ses parents ne sont pas riches, mais la petite fille connaît une vie douce, jusqu'à ce qu'un accident de chantier rende son père invalide, et que la guerre frappe à la porte. Réformé, son père ne part pas au front, contrairement aux autres hommes du village, mais l'arrivée de soldats nazis entraîne les adultes à prendre en 1944 une décision difficile. À la suite d'une fusillade ayant tué plusieurs jeunes de Pieve Santa Clara, dont le cousin de Graziella, les enfants sont emmenés hors du village, plus loin en Italie, dans un couvent, afin d'être protégés des barbaries de la guerre. Graziella y passera plusieurs mois, quasiment sans nouvelles de sa famille, jusqu'à la fin du conflit. À son retour à Paradiso, tout ce qu'elle a connu a changé. Le conflit est certes terminé, mais la vie n'est pas plus douce pour les Ponti