Following The Highest Tide, Border Songs, and Truth Like the Sun, Jim Lynch now gives us a grand and idiosyncratic family saga that will stand alongside Ken Kesey’s Sometimes a Great Notion.Joshua Joh
A dazzling collection of stories from internationally acclaimed writer Helen Simpson, touching on everything from global warming and technology to health and aging to marriage and family life. Whether
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Some might say that Crumbtown isn’t a place. It’s a state of mind. And for the residents of this sinking, stinking, carcinogenic, potholed neighborhood, “There’s bad luck in the world, and then there’
"One minute, Oliver "Boo" Dalrymple is next to his locker at school reciting the periodic table from heart; the next he finds himself in "Town," an afterlife exclusively for thirteen year-olds. As Boo
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An award-nominated debut is set in a Jesuit school-dominated community over the course of a Halloween weekend and follows the tragedies of its residents, from a doomed quarterback who questions his fa
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The questions, author biography, and suggested reading list that follow are intended to enhance your group's reading and discussion of Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn , winner of the National Bo
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