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Need a Little Time by Adam Eccles
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSometimes, the strangest things can happen, right on your doorstep.When you find out your best friend and business partner is secretly sleeping with your wife, it may be time to move on… From your job and your marriage... Which is precisely what happened to Jamie Newgent... -
The Schopenhauer Cure by Irvin D. Yalom
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsSuddenly confronted with his own mortality after a routine checkup, eminent psychotherapist Julius Hertzfeld is forced to reexamine his life and work -- and seeks out Philip Slate, a sex addict whom he failed to help some twenty years earlier... -
Last Light by Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWith just a touch, Makani Hisoka-O’Brien can see the deepest secrets that others conceal—and it frightens her. There’s danger in the terrible knowledge that floods her mind and haunts her conscience.With just a touch, Rainer Sparks can learn the biggest problems that others bear—and it thrills him. There’s profit to be made making problems go away, by any means . . . including murder... -
Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLife: A User's Manual is an unclassified masterpiece, a sprawling compendium as encyclopedic as Dante's Commedia and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and, in its break with tradition, as inspiring as Joyce's Ulysses... -
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The Ferryman and His Wife by Frode Grytten
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the spirit of Amor Towles and George Saunders, the renowned, bestselling Norwegian author Frode Grytten takes listeners on a quietly epic ferry driver Nils Vik’s last route along the fjord, on what he knows will be his last day alive. Nils Vik wakes up on November the 18th and knows it will be the day he dies... -
とある魔術の禁書目録 19 by Kazuma Kamachi
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA certain unlikely hero...In the shadowy underbelly of Academy City, the problem-busting team known as Group (centered around Level Five esper Accelerator and the man who wields the powers of science and magic, Tsuchimikado) is investigating every lead they can related to the word dragon. This clue may be the key to finding their way out of a terrible situation... -
The Katie & Annalise Box Set : Three Full-Length Romantic Mysteries by Pamela Fagan Hutchins
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn alternate cover edition can be found here. All Three Full Length Novels In This Multiple Award-winning, Best-selling Romantic Mystery Series Saving Grace (#1): Katie Connell is a high-strung attorney whose sloppy drinking habits and stunted love life collide hilariously during a doomed celebrity case in Dallas... -
We of the Forsaken World... by Kiran Bhat
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn a distant corner of the globe, a man journeys to the birthplace of his mother, a tourist town destroyed by an industrial spill. In a nameless remote tribe, the chief’s second son is born, creating a scramble for succession as their jungles are being destroyed by loggers... -
The Fireballer by Mark Stevens
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA poignant story about hopes, dreams, and how far one man’s talent takes him before he realizes it’s about what you do—and how you do it.Frank Ryder is unstoppable on the baseball field—his pitches arrive faster than a batter can swing, giving his opponents no chance. He’s being heralded as a game-changing pitcher... -
Final Hour by Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Following Last Light comes Final Hour, the second of two standalone eBook original novellas leading in to Ashley Bell, the highly anticipated new novel of suspense from Dean Koontz! Just by touching others, Makani Hisoka-O’Brien can see the darkest secrets they keep. The troubling talent has made the Southern California surfer wary of casual contact... -
The Story Collector by Evie Gaughan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Evie Gaughan has skillfully created a magical, original novel. Beautifully written and steeped in folklore - this suspenseful story is told with warmth, wit and charm." Niamh Boyce (The Herbalist) A beautiful and mysterious tale from the author of The Heirloom and The Mysterious Bakery On Rue De Paris...Categorized as:
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A Certain Magical Index, Vol. 12 by Kazuma Kamachi
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThough he gave his all during the festival to save Academy City, Touma still spectacularly lost his bet with Mikoto. Now he's a slave to her every order until she's completely satisfied! But that's the least of his worries--a jealous Kuroko just might kill him, Little Misaka is about to explode, Index is nowhere to be found, and then there's this girl who seems totally lost.. -
Blackgentlemen.com by Zane, J.D. Mason
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBlackgentlemen.com is the premiere web site showcasing African American bachelors. Women from around the country search the site in hopes of finding true love. Step inside this exciting collection of novellas about women that meet men on the site, penned by some of the hottest female novelists on the scene today... -
The Empathy Problem: It's never too late to change your life by Gavin Extence
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPerfect for fans of Graeme Simsion's The Rosie Project and Gavin Extence's debut novel THE UNIVERSE VERSUS ALEX WOODS, comes a wild and witty, searing and true novel about life's ups and downs.Driven by money, power and success, Gabriel has worked ruthlessly to get to the very top of the banking game. He's not going to let the inconvenience of a terminal brain tumour get in his way... -
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A Certain Magical Index, Vol. 14 by Kazuma Kamachi
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings(Volume 12)September 30th. As the seasons change in Academy City, so do the seasonal clothes. Mikoto Misaka, talented esper student of the elite Tokiwadai Middle School that stands above the hustle and bustle of the city, waits in front of the concert hall for her companion. But...he never arrives... -
とある魔術の禁書目録 16 by Kazuma Kamachi
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA certain unlikely hero...Acqua of the Back, agent of the Roman Orthodox Church, has finallymade his move. The incredibly powerful saint and member of God's Right Seat is on the hunt for one thing: Touma Kamijou's right hand! After receiving a warning letter from Acqua, the English Puritan Church dispatches Itsuwa to serve as Touma's bodyguard... -
A Certain Magical Index, Vol. 10 by Kazuma Kamachi
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSeven days have passed since the start of the Daihasei Festival, one of the biggest events of Academy City. Everyone is participating--Seiri Fukiyose is helping coordinate the games, Komoe Tsukuyomi dresses for the part as she cheers for her students, and of course, famous Mikoto Misaka is blowing away the competition... -
Magie pro každého by Jiří Pavlovský
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsZcela nový seriál ve stylu Marka Stonea či Agenta JFK, tentokrát však v hlavní roli s týmem netradičních detektivů bojujících proti nadpřirozenu.Praha, rok 2012.Konec světa nemohl začít na příhodnějším místě... -
Rock 'n Roll Heaven by Shawn Inmon
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJimmy ‘Guitar’ Velvet isn't even a has-been; he’s a never-was. After a short trip to the bottom of a river, Jimmy is about to undertake the adventure of a lifetime. The celestial bureaucracy ships him to Rock ‘n Roll Heaven, where he meets the true icons of rock ‘n roll—and learns that even ‘heaven’ is relative... -
The Minotauress by Edward Lee
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHELL'S BITCH IN HEAT... Seething, slavering, and insane, it cringes, not wanting to slip forth from the noxious, bloated belly of its abyssal mother until the most hideous sexual atrocities beckon it from Hell's hot bowels: the dread monstrosity of unfathomable beauty and the most vile horror--revulsion and desire incarnated into one... PREGNANT TO BURSTING WITH ABOMINATIONS UNTOLD.. -
Christmas Bizarre by Lizz Lund
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat do Santa’s Sidekick, a dead lawyer and a geriatric vampire have in common? Meet Mina Kitchen – a forty-something single who finds trouble quicker than she can whip up a batch of breakfast breads. Plural. Her catering disorder runs neck-and-neck with her weird luck, and her cat’s weirder tendency toward gnawing elf gear... -
The Red Arrow: A novel by William Brewer
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen a once-promising young writer agrees to ghostwrite a famous physicist's memoir, his livelihood is already in jeopardy: Plagued by debt, he's grown distant from his wife--a successful AI designer--and is haunted by an overwhelming sense of dread he describes as "The Mist." Then, things get worse: The physicist vanishes, leaving everything in limbo, including our narrator's sanity...Categorized as:
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My Tomorrow, Your Yesterday by Jason Ayres
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen 54 year old Thomas Scott wakes up in a hospital bed on New Year’s Day he has no memory of who he is or why he is there. Racked with pain from a terminal illness, death swiftly follows. The next day he awakes to find himself alive again and confused, especially when he discovers that it is now New Year’s Eve...Categorized as:
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Corey Fah Does Social Mobility by Isabel Waidner
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsA novel that celebrates radical queer survival and gleefully takes a hammer to false notions of successThis is the story of Corey Fah, a writer who has hit the literary their novel has just won the prize for the Fictionalization of Social Evils. But the actual trophy, and with it the funds, hovers peskily out of reach... -
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A Certain Magical Index, Vol. 17 by Kazuma Kamachi
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratings(Volume 12)September 30th. As the seasons change in Academy City, so do the seasonal clothes. Mikoto Misaka, talented esper student of the elite Tokiwadai Middle School that stands above the hustle and bustle of the city, waits in front of the concert hall for her companion. But...he never arrives... -
American Desert by Percival Everett
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPart parable, part fantasy novel, part laugh-out-loud satire, American Desert is the story of Theodore Street, a college professor on the brink of committing suicide. When the decision is taken out of his hands--he's hit by a car and his head is severed from his body--he must come to terms with himself... -
The Human War by Noah Cicero
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis very funny, very bleak novella, "The Human War," is about the first hours of the 2003 war in Iraq, as experienced by a screwed-up kid in Ohio who feels the world is spinning out of his control. His reaction to the coming war? He drinks, has sex, goes to a strip club, he does anything that Youngstown, Ohio offers as human distraction--but this only makes his horror deepen...Categorized as:
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Samuel Johnson's Eternal Return by Martin Riker
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Summer/Fall 2018 Indies Introduce Debut Fiction Selection When Samuel Johnson dies, he finds himself in the body of the man who killed him, unable to depart this world but determined, at least, to return to the son he left behind... -
Crushing by Genevieve Novak
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhen do you stop starting over? The sparkling new novel from the author of No Hard Feelings. Getting over someone is not that difficult. All you have to do is focus on every negative thing about them for the rest of your life until you forget to stop actively hoping for their slow and painful death, then get a haircut ...Serial monogamist Marnie is running late to her own identity crisis... -
Notes From a Coma by Mike McCormack
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMerging sci-fi with an affectionate portrait of small-town Ireland, this cleverly imagined and constructed novel is both the story of a man cursed with guilt and genius and a look at how our identities are safeguarded and held in trust by those who love us... -
Dreszcz by Jakub Ćwiek
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOto Dreszcz! Rock N’Roll is Not Dead!Keith Richards na osiedlu Tysiąclecia? Why not?! Rychu Zwierzchowski wiedzie żywot pasożyta-luzaka – sex drugs and rock n’roll. Pije, pali, gra na streecie i usilnie stara się nie znaleźć poważnej, regularnej pracy. Utrzymuje go córka, która co jakiś czas dba o uzupełnienie jego finansowych potrzeb.Całe życie „Dreszcza” to koncerty i AC/DC ponad wszystko...Categorized as:
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The Lemon Table by Julian Barnes
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn his widely acclaimed new collection of stories, Julian Barnes addresses what is perhaps the most poignant aspect of the human condition: growing old. The characters in The Lemon Table are facing the ends of their lives–some with bitter regret, others with resignation, and others still with defiant rage. Their circumstances are just as varied as their responses... -
The Goddess of Fried Okra by Jean Brashear
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGrief. Hope. Love. Sword fights. And the crisp glory of fried okra. Ex-cocktail waitress and "convenience story professional" Eudora "Pea" O'Brien is filled with grief and regret, low on cash and all alone. Headed down the hot, dusty back roads of central Texas, Pea is convinced she'll find a sign leading her to the reincarnated soul of the sister who raised her... -
The Girl On The Landing by Paul Torday
Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIs Michael ill, or could the disturbing events he is witnessing possibly be real? A thrilling novel about identity and love from the author of 'Salmon Fishing in the Yemen'... -
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UFO in Her Eyes by Xiaolu Guo
Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSilver Hill Village, 2012. On the twentieth day of the seventh moon Kwok Yun is making her way across the rice fields on her Flying Pigeon bicycle. Her world is turned upside down when she sights a UFThing - a spinning plate in the sky - and helps the Westerner in distress whom she discovers in the shadow of the alien craft... -
Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla, Luis Gaspar Labarga
Rated: 3.65 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsFor lovers of timeless classics, this series of beautifully packaged and affordably priced editions of world literature encompasses a variety of literary genres, including theater, novels, poems, and essays. Los lectores tomarán un gran placer en descubrir los clásicos con estas bellas y económicas ediciones de las grandes obras literarias... -
The Brightest Star in the Sky by Marian Keyes
Rated: 3.68 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsA wry and life-affirming tale-and the Irish literary star's latest New York Times bestseller. Marian Keyes's inimitable blend of rollicking humor, effervescent prose, and captivating stories that deal with real-life issues have won readers around the globe... -
Wakefield by Andrei Codrescu
Rated: 3.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPicture Wakefield: He's divorced, lives alone in a comfortable, book-filled apartment in a sophisticated city. A motivational speaker, his talks leave audiences dispirited and anxious. But for this peculiar talent, he's nicely paid by corporate America, and he's in demand. Then one day the Devil shows up, walks right into Wakefield's tasteful living room, and says, "Time's up... -
The Irresistible Henry House by Lisa Grunwald
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIt is the middle of the 20th century, and in a home economics program at a prominent university, real babies are being used to teach mothering skills to young women. For a young man raised in these unlikely circumstances, finding real love and learning to trust will prove to be the work of a lifetime... -
My Name Is Russell Fink by Michael Snyder
Rated: 3.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsRussell Fink is twenty-six years old and determined to salvage a job he hates so he can finally move out of his parents' house for good. He's convinced he gave his twin sister cancer when they were nine years old. And his crazy fiancée refuses to accept the fact that their engagement really is over.Then Sonny, his allegedly clairvoyant basset hound, is found murdered... -
Hunting Unicorns by Bella Pollen
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA stylish, screamingly funny, razor-sharp look at the British aristocracy in decline, Hunting Unicorns introduces us to the owners of the vast Bevan estate: the Earl and Countess-charming and possibly round the bend; Daniel, their eldest son-funny and clever, but a hopeless alcoholic; and Rory-the younger brother mired in the tidying up of his family's well-meaning schemes... -
The Inn by William Patterson
Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIf you're very lucky. . .The ramshackle B&B in western Massachusetts isn't just an inheritance--it seems like the best chance for Jack and Annabel Devlin to save their marriage and start over. But Annabel's first impressions of the remote inn don't ease her nerves. In fact, everything about the gloomy Victorian draws Annabel back into childhood nightmares. . .They might let you leave. . -
Hotels of North America by Rick Moody
Rated: 3.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the acclaimed Rick Moody, a darkly comic portrait of a man who comes to life in the most unexpected of ways: through his online reviews. Reginald Edward Morse is one of the top reviewers on RateYourLodging.com, where his many reviews reveal more than just details of hotels around the globe -- they tell his life story...Categorized as:
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Cut and Thirst by Margaret Atwood
Rated: 3.15 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThree women scheme to avenge an old friend in a darkly witty short story about loyalty, ambition, and delicious retribution by Margaret Atwood, the #1 bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale.Myrna, Leonie, and Chrissy meet every Thursday to sample fine cheeses, to reminisce about their former lives as professors, and lately, to muse about murder... -
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