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The Short Novels of John Steinbeck by John Steinbeck
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsCollected here for the first time in a deluxe paperback volume are six of John Steinbeck's most widely read and beloved novels...Categorized as:
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![Herb of Grace: Amish Romance by Adina Senft]()
Herb of Grace: Amish Romance by Adina Senft
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“Herb of Grace is filled with spiritual insights and multilayered storylines. At times readers will be chuckling and other times, misty eyed as the book unfolds... -
![Her First Palestinian by Saeed Teebi]()
Her First Palestinian by Saeed Teebi
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsElegant, surprising stories about Palestinian immigrants in Canada navigating their identities in circumstances that push them to the emotional brink.Saeed Teebi’s intense, engrossing stories plunge into the lives of characters grappling with their experiences as Palestinian immigrants to Canada...Categorized as:
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![Ticket to Childhood: A Novel by Nguyễn Nhật Ánh]()
Ticket to Childhood: A Novel by Nguyễn Nhật Ánh
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe best selling book in the history of modern Vietnam, Give Me a Ticket to Childhood has been nothing short of a sensation in its home country: it has sold over 350,000 copies and has gone through thirty-five printings. This, the novel’s first appearance outside Vietnam, marks the arrival, in English, of a hugely appealing and engaging author... -
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![Signals: New and Selected Stories by Tim Gautreaux]()
Signals: New and Selected Stories by Tim Gautreaux
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsONE OF THE WALL STREET JOURNAL AND NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF 2017Containing twelve new stories and nine classics from previous collections, Signals is Tim Gautreaux at his best. Effortlessly conjuring the heat and humidity of the author's beloved South, these stories of men and women grappling with faith, small town life, and blue-collar work are alternately ridiculous and sublime...Categorized as:
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![Hurt Others by Sam Pink]()
Hurt Others by Sam Pink
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOh man, it just had to happen. Someone had to be a bagger at a grocery store and fantasize about hitting children in the head with wine bottles. Someone had to fear a puddle floating at him from across the street. Someone had to celebrate beating up a pregnant woman. Someone just HAD to be a nanny, and stare at giant motorized spiders...Categorized as:
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![By My Side by Alice Peterson]()
By My Side by Alice Peterson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOne step can change everything... Cass Brooks wishes she could turn back time. She'd go back to that morning and retrace her steps. Her boyfriend, Sean, would still be with her. Her mother wouldn't be nagging her to plan a new future when all she wants is her old life back...Categorized as:
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![World Cup Wishes by Eshkol Nevo]()
World Cup Wishes by Eshkol Nevo
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFour friends get together to watch the 1998 World Cup final. One of them has an idea: let's write down our wishes for the next few years, put them away, and during the next final - four years from now - we'll get them out and see how many we've achieved. This is how World Cup Wishes opens, and from here we watch what happens to their wishes and their friendships as life marches on... -
![the truth about fragile things by Regina Sirois]()
the truth about fragile things by Regina Sirois
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBryon died fifty years before his time. Charlotte grew up angry. I grew up scared. And Phillip- well, he never grew up. And now we are all bound together into one painful heap of humanity. Broken, but bound. And maybe it is only the fact that we are tangled in one terrible knot that will hold us together until we heal. This is unfortunately, and miraculously, my story...Categorized as:
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![Wild Things by Jo Carnegie]()
Wild Things by Jo Carnegie
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen an A-list film set descends on the quiet village of Churchminster, so begins the village's most scandalous year... Meet the glamorous cast of Wild Things! Sophia - the leading lady who gets what she wants. And she wants...Jed - the village's gorgeous gardener, living with devoted girlfriend...Camilla - sweet-natured and desperate for a baby, unlike her sister.. -
![Honeybees and Distant Thunder by Riku Onda]()
Honeybees and Distant Thunder by Riku Onda
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTender and intense, Honeybees and Distant Thunder is the unflinching story of love, courage and rivalry as three young people come to understand what it means to truly be a friend.In a small coastal town just a stone's throw from Tokyo, a prestigious piano competition is underway...Categorized as:
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![The Service by Frankie Miren]()
The Service by Frankie Miren
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLori works illegally in a rented flat in central London, living in fear of police raids which could mean losing her small daughter and her dream of a new life.Freya is a student who finds she can make far more money as an escort than she could in an office; life, after all, is already a tangle of madness and dissociation...Categorized as:
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![Dawn: Stories by Selahattin Demirtaş, Maureen Freely]()
Dawn: Stories by Selahattin Demirtaş, Maureen Freely
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA new novel from Sarah Jessica Parker’s imprint, SJP for Hogarth: Written from behind bars, the unforgettable collection from one of Turkey’s leading politicians and most powerful storytellers.In this essential collection, Selahattin Demirtaş’s arresting stories capture the voices of ordinary people living through extraordinary times...Categorized as:
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![Travelling in a Strange Land by David Park]()
Travelling in a Strange Land by David Park
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSet in a frozen winter landscape, the new novel from the prize-winning, acclaimed author David Park is a psychologically astute, expertly crafted portrait of a father’s inner life and a family in crisisI am entering the frozen land, although to which country it belongs I cannot say.The world is hushed, cloaked in snow. Transport has ground to a halt, flights cancelled and roads treacherous...Categorized as:
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![The Few: A Novel by Hakan Günday]()
The Few: A Novel by Hakan Günday
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratings“I am here. Where are you?” These desperate words link the two protagonists of Hakan Günday’s raw and fearless novel The Few. Derdâ is an eleven-year-old girl pulled out of boarding school by her mother who, without telling her, plans to sell her as a wife to a conservative tribesman. She goes with her new husband to London, where for five years he abuses and all but imprisons her... -
![The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt]()
The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsMaman was exigeante—there is no English word–and I had the benefit of her training. Others may not be so fortunate. If some other young girl, with two million dollars at stake, finds this of use I shall count myself justified.Raised in Marrakech by a French mother and English father, a 17-year-old girl has learned above all to avoid mauvais ton ("bad taste" loses something in the translation)...Categorized as:
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![Can't Make This Up by Ali Parker]()
Can't Make This Up by Ali Parker
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPeople who still believe in love and happily-ever-afters these days?Brainwashed idiots. All of them.It’s a sham.What isn’t a sham is working hard and making an honest living.Like me.Not everyone respects what I do.Especially a certain congresswoman.Or her sexy daughter with curves to die for.Talk about brain washing.The best part?She wants me just as bad as I want her... -
![No Land to Light On by Yara Zgheib]()
No Land to Light On by Yara Zgheib
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsExit West meets An American Marriage in this breathtaking and evocative novel about a young Syrian couple in the throes of new love, on the cusp of their bright future…when a travel ban rips them apart on the eve of their son’s birth—from the author of The Girls at 17 Swann Street...Categorized as:
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![One on One by Tabitha King, Stephen King]()
One on One by Tabitha King, Stephen King
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA high school basketball star and a defiant outcast discover a profound love that sustains them through a triumphant but painful year... -
![Libellensommer by Antje Babendererde]()
Libellensommer by Antje Babendererde
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDie 15 jährige Jodie ist zutiefst frustriert: Weil ein Indianerstamm gegen die Abholzung der Wälder protestiert, verliert ihr Vater seinen Job in einer Pappfabrik. Die Eltern streiten nur noch und eines Tages kommt der Vater nicht mehr nach Hause. Als die Mutter dann auch noch Jodies Laptop verkauft, beschließt sie, ihren Eltern einen Denkzettel zu verpassen und abzuhauen...Categorized as:
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![Unbroken Threads by Jennifer Klepper]()
Unbroken Threads by Jennifer Klepper
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJessica Donnelly’s life is beginning to unravel. When the attorney turned stay-at-home mom tentatively volunteers to represent Amina Hamid, a woman seeking asylum, Jessica must learn an unfamiliar area of the law. Soon, rising opposition to Muslim immigration and unexpected prejudices put her relationships on shaky ground... -
![Ironopolis by Glen James Brown]()
Ironopolis by Glen James Brown
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsStranded on the outskirts of Ironopolis — nickname to a lost industrial Middlesbrough — the Burn Council Estate is about to be torn down to make way for regeneration. For the future .. -
![Summer Dreams: Dual Image/Untamed by Nora Roberts]()
Summer Dreams: Dual Image/Untamed by Nora Roberts
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratings#1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Nora Roberts presents classic stories of two unlikely couples who choose…love!Dual ImagePlaying Booth DeWitt's cruel ex-wife in his semiautobiographical film is the chance of a lifetime for actor Ariel Kirkwood. Not only is it a giant boon for her career, but she also gets to work with the screenwriter himself... -
![Le Chant Du Bouc by Dermot Healy, Michel Lederer]()
Le Chant Du Bouc by Dermot Healy, Michel Lederer
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn a wind-battered cottage in western Ireland, playwright Jack Ferris tries to salvage something from his broken love affair with actress Catherine Adams. Misunderstandings, alcohol, religious differences, and despair have driven them apart. When Jack recreates Catherine in his imagination, the two world's of Catholic and Protestant run together back to the present... -
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![Georgetown Academy: Book Two by Jessica Koosed Etting, Alyssa Embree Schwartz]()
Georgetown Academy: Book Two by Jessica Koosed Etting, Alyssa Embree Schwartz
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the halls of Georgetown Academy, gossip and rumor abound. But when photographic proof shows up on the front page of The Huffington Post? Then it’s a national scandal. While Ellie tries to put her life back together, Evan just might get everything she’s ever wanted—the perfect boyfriend and her dream career... -
![Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix]()
Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn November 2021, an inflatable dinghy carrying migrants from France to the United Kingdom capsized in the Channel causing the death of 27 people on board. Despite receiving numerous calls for help, the French authorities wrongly told the migrants they were in British waters and had to call the British authorities for help...Categorized as:
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![Holler, Child: Stories by LaToya Watkins]()
Holler, Child: Stories by LaToya Watkins
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn extraordinary and unforgettable short story collection about community, home, betrayal, and forgiveness--from a writer whose "spellbinding, buoyant"* storytelling will break your heart as it tends to the wounds. *Texas Monthly In Holler, Child's eleven brilliant stories, LaToya Watkins presses at the bruises of guilt, love, and circumstance...Categorized as:
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![This Is Where I Am by Karen Campbell]()
This Is Where I Am by Karen Campbell
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA tender and eye-opening novel about loss and survival, and an unlikely friendship between a Glaswegian widow and a Somali asylum seekerWhen recently widowed Deborah Maxwell is assigned by the Scottish Refugee Council to act as mentor to Abdi Hassan, a Somali refugee, the two are drawn into an awkward friendship. They must spend a year together, meeting once a month in different parts of Glasgow...Categorized as:
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![England is Mine by Nicolas Padamsee]()
England is Mine by Nicolas Padamsee
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDavid hates school, where he has been bullied, and has reached sixth form without any friends. Music is the only thing that keeps him going. Inspired by his hero, Karl Williams, he becomes vegan, wears eyeliner and writes song lyrics. But one night onstage Karl Williams accuses Muslims of homophobia and is cancelled...Categorized as:
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![Jasmine Days by Benyamin]()
Jasmine Days by Benyamin
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSameera moves to an unnamed Middle Eastern city to live with her father and her relatives, when a revolution blooms. Set against the backdrop of the Arab Spring, this is the story of a young woman, whose happy world falls apart when the promise of revolution turns into destruction and division... -
![The Call-Out by Cat Fitzpatrick]()
The Call-Out by Cat Fitzpatrick
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA fast-paced, debut tragicomedy of manners written in verse about queer (mostly trans) women that is funny, literary, philosophical, witty, sometimes bitchy and sometimes heartbreaking. Anvi, Kate, Bette, Keiko, Gaia, and Day are six queer, mostly trans women surviving and thriving in Brooklyn... -
![Before the Wind by Jim Lynch]()
Before the Wind by Jim Lynch
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFollowing The Highest Tide, Border Songs, and Truth Like the Sun, Jim Lynch now gives us a grand and idiosyncratic family saga that will stand alongside Ken Kesey’s Sometimes a Great Notion.Joshua Johannssen has spent all of his life surrounded by sailboats. His grandfather designed them, his father built and raced them, his Einstein-obsessed mother knows why and how they work (or not)... -
![The Devil You Know by Louise Bagshawe]()
The Devil You Know by Louise Bagshawe
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNew York ...Smart, sexy Rose Fiorello grows up poor with nothing but a blistering hatred of Rothstein Realty, the developer that crushed her father's business...and a shocking plan to get even. Los Angeles ...Pampered society princess Poppy Allen wants to escape the smothering cocoon of her parents' privileged life to embrace the excitement of becoming a rock star...or rock star maker... -
![The Many Colours of Us by Rachel Burton]()
The Many Colours of Us by Rachel Burton
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratings‘A gloriously romantic tale of family secrets’ – Rachael Lucas ‘This wonderfully warm debut is full of heart – I defy you not to devour it in a day!’ – Ali Harris Fall in love with Rachel Burton’s stunning debut novel, perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell, Adele Parks and Sheila O’Flanagan What if your life was built on lies? Julia Simmonds had never been bothered about not knowing who her father... -
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![Homebody/Kabul by Tony Kushner]()
Homebody/Kabul by Tony Kushner
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn Homebody/Kabul, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner, author of Angels in America, has turned his penetrating gaze to the arena of global politics to create this suspenseful portrait of a dangerous collision between cultures... -
![Country Pursuits: Churchminister series 1 by Jo Carnegie]()
Country Pursuits: Churchminister series 1 by Jo Carnegie
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe gorgeous women of Churchminster know exactly what they want - a constant flow of champagne (on tap at the local pub) and the love of a good man. But faced with the likes of braying, beer-guzzling farmer Angus, foul-tempered Lord Fraser and suave banker Sebastian (devoted only to himself), their attentions are increasingly drawn to more attractive possibilities . . -
![Atusparia by Gabriela Wiener]()
Atusparia by Gabriela Wiener
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsUna política de izquierda víctima del lawfare se encuentra prisionera en una cárcel de alta seguridad en las entrañas de la selva amazónica.Se hace llamar Atusparia, como el líder de la resistencia indígena peruana del siglo XIX y como el delirante colegio comunista donde estudió en los estertores de la guerra fría... -
![Palestine +100: Stories from a Century after the Nakba by Basma Ghalayini, Mazen Maarouf]()
Palestine +100: Stories from a Century after the Nakba by Basma Ghalayini, Mazen Maarouf
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPalestine + 100 poses a question to twelve Palestinian writers: what might your country look like in the year 2048 – a century after the tragedies and trauma of what has come to be called the Nakba? How might this event – which, in 1948, saw the expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinian Arabs from their homes – reach across a century of occupation, oppression, and political isolation, to shape the...Categorized as:
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![Disappearing Home by Deborah Morgan]()
Disappearing Home by Deborah Morgan
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn unsentimental, beautifully written, Raymond Carver-esque tale of a childhood in jeopardyto face up once and for all to the twisted violence in her home and engineer a way out of this childhood to reach a place of safety and freedom... -
![Circle in the Sand by Lia Fairchild]()
Circle in the Sand by Lia Fairchild
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFour life-long friends bound by two decades of laughter, love, promises, and secrets. Once inseparable, the four grow into independent adults pursuing very different paths. Sage, raised by career-driven parents, follows a carefully laid out future of success that leaves her wondering what she’s missed out on. Emily, the college drop-out, now has three children that have become her whole life... -
![Still Life with Monkey by Katharine Weber]()
Still Life with Monkey by Katharine Weber
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDuncan Wheeler is a successful architect who savors the quotidian pleasures in life until a car accident leaves him severely paralyzed and haunted by the death of his young assistant. Now, Duncan isn't sure what there is left to live for, when every day has become "a broken series of unsuccessful gestures."Duncan and his wife, Laura, find themselves in conflict as Duncan's will to live falters... -
![Mit barn by Cecilie Lind, Lærke Posselt]()
Mit barn by Cecilie Lind, Lærke Posselt
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMit barn er vanvid og hverdag, sødme og raseri. Et smukt og grumt digt om moderskabets mørke; om træthedens monstrøsitet, om utætte kroppe og stille vold. Om skrøbelige amninger og sultens dæmoni. Om i moderskabet at blive et ekko af sin egen mor, genkende hende i sig selv; hende, som man ellers så indædt har forsøgt at frigøre sig fra... -
![Dominoes by Phoebe Mcintosh]()
Dominoes by Phoebe Mcintosh
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA tender and provocative debut novel about a mixed-race British woman who makes the shocking discovery in the days leading up to her wedding that her fiancé's family may have enslaved her ancestorsDominoes opens in London, twenty-nine days before the wedding of a young couple... -
![House of Cards: A Novel by Sudha Murty]()
House of Cards: A Novel by Sudha Murty
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHouse of Cards is the story of Mridula, a bright young woman with enormous enthusiasm for life who hails from a Karnataka village. A chance meeting with Sanjay, a talented but impoverished doctor, leads to love—and the couple marry and settle in Bangalore.The more Mridula sees of the world, the more she realizes how selfish and materialistic people can be... -
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![Exile by Jakob Ejersbo]()
Exile by Jakob Ejersbo
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFor the vagabond pack of ex-pat Europeans, Indian Tanzanians and wealthy Africans at Moshi's International School, it's all about getting high, getting drunk and getting laid. Their parents - drug dealers, mercenaries and farmers gone to seed - are too dead inside to give a damn. Outwardly free but empty at heart, privileged but out of place, these kids are lost, trapped in a land without hope... -
![A Door in the Earth by Amy Waldman]()
A Door in the Earth by Amy Waldman
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFor readers of Cutting for Stone and The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a "breathtaking and achingly nuanced" (Kirkus, starred review) new novel from the author of the national bestseller The Submission about the journey of a young Afghan-American woman trapped between her ideals and the complicated truth...Categorized as:
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![The Crystal Frontier by Carlos Fuentes]()
The Crystal Frontier by Carlos Fuentes
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom Mexico’s preeminent man of letters, “a Balzacian novel in nine masterly stories” (Vanity Fair) that explores the “uneven and painful meshing of two North american cultures” (Washington Post Book World). A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. Translated by Alfred Mac Adam...Categorized as:
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![There's Something I Want You to Do by Charles Baxter]()
There's Something I Want You to Do by Charles Baxter
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"There’s something I want you to do.” This request—sometimes simple, sometimes not—forms the basis for the ten interrelated short stories that comprise this latest penetrating and prophetic collection from the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and “one of our most gifted writers” ( Chicago Tribune )...Categorized as:
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![Russische Spezialitäten by Dmitrij Kapitelman]()
Russische Spezialitäten by Dmitrij Kapitelman
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEine Familie aus Kyjiw verkauft russische Spezialitäten in Leipzig. Wodka, Pelmeni, SIM-Karten, Matrosenshirts – und ein irgendwie osteuropäisches Zusammengehörigkeitsgefühl. Wobei, Letzteres ist seit dem russischen Überfall auf die Ukraine nicht mehr zu haben. Die Mutter steht an der Seite Putins... -
![The Liberated Bride by A.B. Yehoshua]()
The Liberated Bride by A.B. Yehoshua
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsYochanan Rivlin, a professor of Near Eastern Studies at Haifa University, is equally determined to understand the causes of the Algerian civil war of the 1990s and the mystery of his son's divorce...
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