Posts Tagged ‘fiction’
Home from the Vinyl Cafe
Last Letter from Your Lover
More than forty years after a car accident causes Jennifer Stirling to lose her memory on the day she planned to leave her husband for a mysterious lover, journalist Ellie becomes obsessed by the story and seeks the truth in the hopes of revitalizing hercareer.
Read MoreA Little Life
When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they’re broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent…
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Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand
Oryx and Crake
A stunning and provocative new novel by the internationally celebrated author ofThe Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker Prize Margaret Atwood’s new novel is so utterly compelling, so prescient, so relevant, so terrifyingly-all-too-likely-to-be-true, that readers may find their view of the world forever changed after reading it. This is Margaret Atwood at the absolute peak…
Read MoreSetting Free the Kites
1976. Haverford, Maine, is a town easily overlooked. So is Robert Carter, an 8th grader who’s a ready target for the class bully. That is, until the first day of school when a new kid appears: Nathan Tilly. Nathan is fearless, impetuous and obsessed with kites and flying. As Robert and Nathan become friends, they’re…
Read MoreVinyl Cafe Notebooks
Selected from 15 years of radio-show archives and re-edited by the author, this wonderfully eclectic essay collection gives a glimpse into the thoughtful mind at work behind “The Vinyl Cafe.” From meditations on peacekeeping to praise for the toothpick, “The Vinyl Cafe Notebooks” runs the gamut from considered argument to light-hearted opinion. Whether McLean is…
Read MoreThe Year of the Flood
From the Booker Prize-winning author of Oryx and Crake, the first book in the MaddAddam Trilogy, and The Handmaid’s Tale. Internationally acclaimed as ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by, amongst others, the Globe and Mail, the New York Times, the New Yorker, and the Village Voice In a world driven by shadowy,…
Read MoreConfucius Jane
Confucius Jane by Katie Lynch is a lush and charming novel that vividly depicts New York City’s Chinatown while taking the reader on a touching journey of family, community, and love. On leave from college, Jane Morrow has a new job, helping out in her uncle’s fortune cookie factory, and a new roommate—her precocious 11-year-old…
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