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Released: Jan. 12, 2012
"Brutal, irreverent and very funny. An honest-to-goodness heir to Portnoy's Complaint."
A family man suffers from money woes, a judgmental spouse and a hectoring mother. But things don't get really funny until he discovers Anne Frank living in his attic.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2012
"Whether recent or from his earliest period, these pieces show Alexie at his best: as an interpreter and observer, always funny if sometimes angry, and someone, as a cop says of one of his characters, who doesn't "fit the profile of the neighborhood.""
Sterling collection of short stories by Alexie (
Ten Little Indians, 2003, etc.), a master of the form.
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FICTION
Released: March 5, 2012
"Ballard writes brilliantly about the nightmarish underside of modern life, and this novel makes us poignantly aware of the loss of his voice. "
Ballard (1930–2009) creates a world reminiscent of
A Clockwork Orange and
V for Vendetta in this novel of suburban fascism.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 25, 2012
"Beard's take on Lazarus is nothing less than astonishing--and he respects the reader by taking religion and religious questions seriously. "
In this alternative theological novel Jesus does more than weep...and Lazarus does more than die.
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FICTION
Released: July 17, 2012
"A gruesome, unforgettable exposition of the still too-little-known facts of the Armenian genocide and its multigenerational consequences."
The granddaughter of an Armenian and a Bostonian investigates the Armenian genocide, discovering that her grandmother took a guilty secret to her grave.
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FICTION
Released: June 19, 2012
"There is much to admire in this novel. The subtle insight on sibling rivalry and the examination of love make for a poignant debut."
Brunt's first novel elegantly pictures the New York art world of the 1980s, suburban Westchester and the isolation of AIDS.
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