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Pitch Dark
Renata Adler
A strange, thrilling novel about desperate love, paranoia, and heartbreak by one of America's most singular writers. “What’s new. What...
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Love Marriage
V. V. Ganeshananthan
In this globe-scattered Sri Lankan family, we speak of only two kinds of marriage. The first is the Arranged Marriage....
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The Garbage Times/White Ibis
Sam Pink
“I love the pulse of Sam Pink’s sentences, the way they can hold the gorgeous and the grisly and the...
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The Rules of Attraction
Bret Easton Ellis
From the New York Times bestselling author or Less Than Zero and American Psycho—a startlingly funny, kaleidoscopic novel about three...
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Who You Might Be
Leigh N. Gallagher
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The Sacred Band
James Romm
"The story of the Sacred Band, an elite 300-man corps recruited from pairs of lovers, highlights a chaotic era of...
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All Boys Aren't Blue
George M. Johnson
A New York Times Bestseller! Optioned for television by Gabrielle Union Good Morning America, NBC Nightly News, Today Show, and...
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A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2015 An NBC Latino Selection for Ten Great Latino Books Published in 2015...
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