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The interestings: A novel
Par Meg Wolitzer. 2023
Named a best book of the year by Entertainment Weekly , Time , and The Chicago Tribune , and named…
a notable book by The New York Times Book Review and The Washington Post “Remarkable . . . With this book [Wolitzer] has surpassed herself.”— The New York Times Book Review "A victory . . . The Interestings secures Wolitzer's place among the best novelists of her generation. . . . She's every bit as literary as Franzen or Eugenides. But the very human moments in her work hit you harder than the big ideas. This isn't women's fiction. It's everyone's."— Entertainment Weekly (A) From Meg Wolitzer, the New York Times –bestselling author of The Female Persuasion, a novel that has been called "genius" ( The Chicago Tribune ), “wonderful” ( Vanity Fair ), "ambitious" ( San Francisco Chronicle ), and a “page-turner” ( Cosmopolitan ). The summer that Nixon resigns, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts become inseparable. Decades later the bond remains powerful, but so much else has changed. In The Interestings , Wolitzer follows these characters from the height of youth through middle age, as their talents, fortunes, and degrees of satisfaction diverge. The kind of creativity that is rewarded at age fifteen is not always enough to propel someone through life at age thirty; not everyone can sustain, in adulthood, what seemed so special in adolescence. Jules Jacobson, an aspiring comic actress, eventually resigns herself to a more practical occupation and lifestyle. Her friend Jonah, a gifted musician, stops playing the guitar and becomes an engineer. But Ethan and Ash, Jules’s now-married best friends, become shockingly successful—true to their initial artistic dreams, with the wealth and access that allow those dreams to keep expanding. The friendships endure and even prosper, but also underscore the differences in their fates, in what their talents have become and the shapes their lives have taken. Wide in scope, ambitious, and populated by complex characters who come together and apart in a changing New York City, The Interestings explores the meaning of talent; the nature of envy; the roles of class, art, money, and power; and how all of it can shift and tilt precipitously over the course of a friendship and a lifeDandelion Daughter
Par Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay, Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch. 2023
A runaway bestseller in Québec, where it has captured the hearts of readers and pushed trans-identity into the mainstream conversationDandelion…
Daughter is an intimate, courageous portrait of what it's like to grow up having been assigned the wrong sex at birth. Set against the windswept countryside of the remote Charlevoix region some five hours north of Montreal, Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay's autobiographical novel immortalizes her early years as an alienated boy trapped in a world of small-town values and her parents' dissolving marriage, through complex adolescent years of self-discovery and first loves, to the harrowing episodes that fuel the growing realization that she must transition and give birth to her new self if she is to continue living at all. One of the first novels of its kind to appear in Québec, this inspiring story has already connected with a wide readership, and has been adopted by many schools to help expand worldviews and curriculums.The life of insects: a novel
Par Viktor Pelevin. 1998
A Russian novel set in a seaside resort where the characters change from human to insect form. In one episode…
two Russians, Arnold and Arthur, meet a visiting American businessman, Sam Sacker. They fly off as mosquitoes, and Sam insists on imbibing the blood of a man who is drunk on cologne, with unfortunate consequences for Sam. Some strong language and some descriptions of sexNo one prayed over their graves: A novel
Par Khaled Khalifa. 2023
On a December morning in 1907, two close friends, Hanna and Zakariya, return to their village near Aleppo after a…
night of drunken carousing in the city, only to discover that there has been a massive flood. Their neighbors, families, children-nearly all of them are dead. Their homes, shops, and places of worship are leveled. Their lives will never be the same. Hanna was once a wealthy libertine, a landowner who built a famed citadel devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and excess. But with the loss of his home, wife, and community, he transforms, becoming an ascetic mystic obsessed with death and the meaning of life. In No One Prayed Over Their Graves, we follow Hanna's life before and after the flood, tracing friendships, loves and lusts, family and business, until he is just one thread in the rich tapestry of Aleppo. Khaled Khalifa weaves a sweeping tale of life and death in the hubbub of Aleppine society at the turn of the twentieth century. No One Prayed Over Their Graves is a portrait of a people on the verge of great change-from provincial villages to the burgeoning modernity of the city, where Christians, Muslims, and Jews live and work together, united in their love for Aleppo and their dreams for the futureThe good lord bird (national book award winner): A novel
Par James McBride. 2023
Now a Showtime limited series starring Ethan Hawke and Daveed Diggs Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction From…
the bestselling author of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store , Deacon King Kong (an Oprah Book Club pick) and The Color of Water comes the story of a young boy born a slave who joins John Brown’s antislavery crusade—and who must pass as a girl to survive. Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1856-a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces-when legendary abolitionist John Brown arrives. When an argument between Brown and Henry's master turns violent, Henry is forced to leave town-along with Brown, who believes Henry to be a girl and his good luck charm. Over the ensuing months, Henry, whom Brown nicknames Little Onion, conceals his true identity to stay alive. Eventually Brown sweeps him into the historic raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859-one of the great catalysts for the Civil War. An absorbing mixture of history and imagination, and told with McBride's meticulous eye for detail and character, The Good Lord Bird is both a rousing adventure and a moving exploration of identity and survivalThe President
Par Miguel Asturias. 1963
The president of the republic, an unnamed Latin American country, plots against his political enemy, General Eusebio Canales. The president's…
assistant Miguel Angel Face is involved in the dictator's intrigues but is redeemed by his love for a young woman. Originally published in Mexico in 1946 by the Nobel laureateWild hope: A novel
Par Joan Thomas. 2023
From the Governor General's Award–winning author of Five Wives, a thrilling contemporary novel about how the past never lets us…
go Isla and Jake are a couple drifting apart. She is a chef and co-owner of a farm-to-table restaurant on the brink of closing; he is a visual artist tormented by the oil-and-gas legacy of his late father. A looming figure in both their lives is Reg Bevaqua, Jake's childhood friend-turned-enemy, turned bottled-water baron. Reg is a demanding regular at Isla's restaurant and a man with a seething resentment toward Jake. With good reason, the feeling is mutual, but Jake keeps their past from Isla as he follows a devastating trail to the source of Reg's wealth. When Jake disappears following a winter camping trip, Isla starts to connect the dots, with all roads leading to Reg and his magnificent property on Georgian Bay. Seamlessly weaving together observations on the entitlements of the wealthy, the monetization of water and the politics of art, Joan Thomas has created a layered, page-turning read about how far we will go to hold on to power and what we will do to avenge old woundsAway from the dead
Par David Bergen. 2023
From Giller Prize-winning novelist David Bergen, an electrifying novel set in early-twentieth century Ukraine amidst the chaos of revolution. As…
anarchists, Bolsheviks, and the White Army come and go, each claiming freedom and justice, David Bergen tells a deceptively stunning story of the restorative power of love amidst the destruction of warEva's man (Black women writers series)
Par Gayl Jones. 1976
An African American woman, forty-three and in prison, is on the edge of insanity and searching for her lost innocence.…
Eva Medina tells how she landed behind bars a second time and about the men who put her there. Violence, strong language, and explicit descriptions of sexThe winter of our discontent
Par John Steinbeck. 1961
The town
Par William Faulkner. 1957
More of the Snopes family has moved to Jefferson, Mississippi, increasing their clan. Determined to own the county, Flem Snopes…
maneuvers his family to run businesses and farm the land. Sequel to The Hamlet (BR 11482). Some strong languageThe roman spring of Mrs. Stone
Par Tennessee Williams. 1950
American Mrs. Stone--former actress, wealthy, middle-aged, and widowed--is biding her time in Rome when the Contessa, a female pimp, introduces…
her to Paolo, a handsome young gigolo. At first, Mrs. Stone laments her fading beauty and the end of her stage career. Then she muses on the demise of her way of life and of her husband, and enjoys her current affair. Finally, Mrs. Stone must deal with her attempt to replace real life with fantasyThe complete stories (Schocken classics)
Par Franz Kafka. 1988
Twenty of Kafka's longer stories make up most of this collection, followed by fifty-five short stories and sketches. Included are…
all the stories published during his lifetime (1883-1924) and several others selected from his literary estateThe hamlet: the corrected text
Par William Faulkner. 1940
Portrait of a decaying South after the Civil War set in a fictional county in Mississippi. The story deals with…
the shrewd Snopes family, one of the author's notable creations. Prequel to The Town (BR 11470). Some strong languageFirst love, and other stories
Par Ivan Turgenev. 1994
These three stories by the nineteenth-century Russian author are somewhat autobiographical. In "First Love," written in 1860, a father and…
son fall in love with the same woman. Written in 1872, "Spring Torrents" portrays a middle-aged person looking back on the folly of youth. "A Fire at Sea," written in 1883, tells of Turgenev's personal experienceMaggie, a girl of the streets: and selected stories
Par Stephen Crane. 1991
Six stories by the author of the Red Badge of Courage (BR 1449). In "Maggie," written in 1893, Crane portrays…
the sordid life and downfall of a poor Irish girl from the Bowery. Other selections depict small-town life and the experiences of young men in battle. For senior high and older readersTobacco road
Par Erskine Caldwell. 1995
The famous saga, first published in 1932, of Jeeter Lester and his shiftless family. Their ribald adventures along Tobacco Road,…
once a flourishing plantation, attract a lusty preacher, Sister Bessie. Explicit descriptions of sexThe powwow highway: A novel
Par David Seals. 2023
Philbert Bono and Buddy Red Bird are about to prove that the spirit of the great warriors is still alive…
and kicking. Their "war pony," a burned-out, rusty 1964 Buick LeSabre, has left a trail of dust from Montana's Lame Deer Reservation halfway down Interstate 25 as they take off to bail Buddy's sister out of jail. The basis for the great movie of the same name, this quiet debut novel, first published in 1979, has become a classic of Native American literatureAmerika
Par Franz Kafka. 1946
First written in German in 1927, this novel expresses the author's rejection of the capitalist system. Karl Rossmann, a young…
immigrant to America, is snubbed by his relatives, robbed by tramps, and ridiculed in his attempt to find work. Includes an introduction by E.L. DoctorowTransparent things (Vintage international)
Par Vladimir Nabokov. 1972
American Hugh Person retraces an itinerary in Switzerland where he first met Armande Chamar, as if he could find the…
past shining through the objects he had encountered previously. Person's woeful tale gradually unfolds as his memories are evoked