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• Sunset Park

  a Novel

  Auster, Paul, 1947-2024-

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  After falling in love with an underage girl and stirring the wrath of her older sister, New York native Miles Heller flees to Brooklyn and shacks up with a group of artists squatting in the borough's Sunset Park neighborhood. Author is said to write…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All the Names

  Saramago, José

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  Senhor José is determined to find out more about a woman he only knows from the birth certificate he discovered at his job as a clerk in the Central Registry. Similarities to Haruki Murakami exist with this author.

• The Night Piece

  Collected Short Fiction

  Alexis, André, 1957-

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  Drawing from Alexis's acclaimed debut collection, Despair and Other Stories of Ottawa, and the highly original Beauty and Sadness, and including previously uncollected stories, here is the surreal and brilliant short fiction of André Alexis -- one…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Ocean at the End of the Lane

  Gaiman, Neil

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  It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Big Sleep

  Chandler, Raymond, 1888-1959

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  A dying millionaire hires private eye Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, and Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Blood on Snow

  Nesbø, Jo, 1960-

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  Olav lives the lonely life of a fixer. When you 'fix' people for a living--terminally--it's hard to get close to anyone. Now he's finally met the woman of his dreams. But there are two problems. She's his boss's wife. And Olav's just been hired to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Little Red Chairs

  O'Brien, Edna

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  Disgraced when her village's mysterious healer, who she loved and begged to help her have a child, is arrested as a war criminal, Fidelma flees to England to take migrant work, only to confront her nemesis at a tribunal in The Hague. Similarities to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• His Bloody Project

  Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae

  Macrae Burnet, Graeme 1967-

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  A brutal triple murder in a remote northwestern crofting community in 1869 leads to the arrest of a young man by the name of Roderick Macrae. There's no question that Macrae is guilty, but the police and courts must uncover what drove him to murder…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Master and Margarita

  Bulgakov, Mikhail, 1891-1940

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  One hot spring, the devil arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and an immense talking black cat with a fondness for chess and vodka. The visitors quickly wreak havoc in a city that refuses to believe in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Captain's Daughter and Other Stories

  Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837

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  A fantastic collection of moving and inspiring short works by one of the masters of Russian fiction. Author has similarities to Nikolai Gogol.

• My Name Is Red

  Pamuk, Orhan, 1952-

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  At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My Name Is Red is a transporting tale set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of sixteenth-century Istanbul, from one of the most…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Horrorstör /

  Hendrix, Grady

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  After strange things start happening at the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland, three employees volunteer to work an overnight shift to investigate, but what they discover is more horrifying than they could have imagined.

• The Need

  Phillips, Helen, 1981-

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  When Molly, home alone with her two young children, hears footsteps in the living room, she tries to convince herself it's the sleep deprivation. She's been hearing things these days. Startling at loud noises. Imagining the worst-case scenario. It's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Only Good Indians

  Jones, Stephen Graham, 1972-

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  They were introduced to their culture but never identified with it, never believed in its power. During an elk hunt, a disturbing event occurs. Ten years later, tracked by an entity bent on revenge, these childhood friends are helpless as the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Stepford Wives

  Levin, Ira, 1929-2007

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  Something strange is happening in the town of Stepford where the men spend their nights doing something secret and the women act like every man's dream of a perfect wife. One young woman watches the dream turn into a nightmare which engulfs her best…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Aosawa Murders

  Onda, Riku, 1964-

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  Japanese Mystery in Translation and a New York Times' Notable Book. Onda’s strange novel — patched together from scraps of interviews, letters, newspaper articles — explores the day that 17 members of the Aosawa family died after drinking poisoned…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Good Son

  a Novel

  Chŏng, Yu-jŏng, 1966-

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  This thriller of a mystery has Yu-jin, the good son of the title, waking up to find the dead body of his mother in their expensive Seoul apartment.

• Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

  Anappara, Deepa,

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  A band of young kids investigate the death of a classmate in an unnamed Indian city slum.