Archive for the ‘New fiction’ Category
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012 - Amy Watts
How It All Began by Penelope Lively
PR6062.I89 H69 2012
When Charlotte Rainsford, a retired schoolteacher, is accosted by a petty thief on a London street, the consequences ripple across the lives of acquaintances and strangers alike. A marriage unravels after an illicit love affair is revealed through an ...
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Friday, March 2nd, 2012 - Amy Watts
Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life by Ann Beattie
PS3552.E177 M77 2011
Pat Nixon remains one of our most mysterious and intriguing public figures, the only modern First Lady who never wrote a memoir. Beattie, like many of her generation, dismissed Richard Nixon’s wife: “interchangeable ...
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Friday, February 24th, 2012 - Amy Watts
Love and Shame and Love: A novel by Peter Orner
PS3615.R58 L68 2011
Alexander Popper can't stop remembering. Four years old when his father tossed him into Lake Michigan, he was told, Sink or swim, kid. In his mind, he's still bobbing in that frigid water. ...
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Thursday, February 16th, 2012 - Amy Watts
Lightning Rods by Helen DeWitt
PS3554.E92945 L54 2011
“All I want is to be a success. That’s all I ask.” Joe fails to sell a single set of the Encyclopedia Britannica in six months. Then fails to sell a single Electrolux and must eat 126 pieces ...
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Thursday, October 13th, 2011 - Amy Watts
Leeches by David Albahari
translated from the Serbian by Ellen Elias-Bursać
PG1419.1.L335 P5813 2011
The place is Serbia, the time is the late nineteen-nineties. Our protagonist, a single man, writes a regular column for Minut, a Belgrade newspaper, and spends the rest of his time with his best friend smoking pot and ...
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Thursday, September 8th, 2011 - Amy Watts
Ladies and Gentlemen by Adam Ross
PS3618.O84515 L33 2011
Following his celebrated debut novel, Mr. Peanut, Adam Ross presents a stunning collection of stories about brothers, loners, lovers, and young people navigating lives full of good intentions, misunderstandings, and obscured motives.
A hotshot young lawyer, ...
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Friday, August 26th, 2011 - Amy Watts
Please Look After Mom: A novel by Kyung-sook Shin
translated from the Korean by Chi-Young Kim
PL992.73.K94 O4613 2011
A million-plus-copy best seller in South Korea and poised to become an international sensation—Please Look After Mom is the stunning, deeply moving story of a family’s search for their mother, and of the ...
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Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011 - Amy Watts
Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman by Friedrich Christian Delius
translated by Jamie Bulloch
PT2664.E4 B5513 2010
Rome, one January afternoon in 1943. A young German woman is on her way to listen to a Bach concert at the Lutheran church. Innocent and naive, the war is for her little more ...
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Friday, August 5th, 2011 - Amy Watts
The Coffeehouse by Naguib Mahfouz
translated by Raymond Stock
PJ7846.A46 Q8713 2010
A novel of loss and memory from the Egyptian Nobel laureate. On a school playground in the stylish Cairo suburb of Abbasiya, five young boys become friends for life, making a nearby café, Qushtumur, their favorite gathering spot forever. One is ...
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Tuesday, April 26th, 2011 - Amy Watts
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
PR6113.U78 S55 2010
Ruprecht Van Doren is an overweight genius whose hobbies include very difficult maths and the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. Daniel 'Skippy' Juster is his roommate. In the grand old Dublin institution that is Seabrook College for Boys, nobody ...
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