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Flowercrash Stephen Palmer
Zaïdmouth is a far-future paradise. Its five communities are intertwined by artificial flower networks so complex they combine to create the virtual realities through which Zaïdmouth is run. Yet into … More
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Hairy London Stephen Palmer
What is love?
One evening at the Suicide Club three gentlemen discuss this age-old problem, and thus a wager is made. Dissolute fop Sheremy Pantomile, veteran philosopher Kornukope Wetherbee and down-on-his-luck… More
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Tomorrow Nick Gifford
Tomorrow: a future only you can see; a future only you can save…
When fifteen-year-old Luke’s father dies, his eccentric family threatens to descend into chaos. Luke distracts himself by helping to sort… More
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Gerald’s Party Robert Coover
Robert Coover’s wicked and surreally comic novel takes place at a chilling, ribald, and absolutely fascinating party. Amid the drunken guests, a woman turns up murdered on the living room floor. Around the corpse,… More
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The Origin of the Brunists Robert Coover
Originally published in 1969 and now back in print after over a decade, Robert Coover’s first novel instantly established his mastery. A coal-mine explosion in a small mid-American town claims ninety-seven… More
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Whatever Happened to Gloomy Gus of the Chicago Bears? Robert Coover
Interweaves the fate of a cast of passionate–and lunatic–idealists of the Depression Era Left, and the rise and fall of a poet, womanizer, actor, union sympathizer and All-American football star known… More
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A Man of Glass and All the Ways We Have Failed Jason Tyler
A Man of Glass & All the Ways We Have Failed is a man being so much other than. How the love falls out of him, replaced by beads, by water, by nails, by cardboard. Bent on a curb, blowing kisses to dead lips in that window… More
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Ahmed’s Revenge Richard Wiley
Set in Kenya in the 1970s, a young coffee farmer believes her husband may have gotten into ivory smuggling – before she can confront him, he is killed in what looks like an accident but may be a murder. Her investigation… More
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Alison’s Automotive Repair Manual Brad Barkley
A widow in her mid-thirties, Alison has been mourning for two years. Now living in small town West Virginia with her sister Sarah and brother-in-law Bill, Alison is unable to move on with her life. Finally, she promises… More
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An Island of Fifty Ben Brooks
“An Island of Fifty is a new literary bomb, resulting in the shrapnel of gold, ships, ocean, chandeliers, dreams, blood, and flame. Old and stale literature won’t know what just hit. This is something new… More
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Axeman’s Jazz Tracy Daugherty
A stunning tour de force, Tracy Daugherty’s fourth novel explores the volatility of race, class, and economics as they affect three generations of a Houston, Texas, family, and traces the rise and decline of … More
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Black God Ben Spivey
“Ben Spivey’s Black God is a surreal dreamscape of a book. To borrow from the book itself, �There’s something black in that place like it was untouched by God himself . . . Or herself.’ At its … More
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Cutting Lisa Percival Everett
Retired Virginia obstetrician John Livesey, recently widowed and discouraged by the world’s crumbling morals, meets a man who has just performed an unnecessary cesarean section on his wife so as to be the one… More
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Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall Ken Sparling
From Ken Sparling’s intro: “When someone asked me what Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall was about, it felt like I’d seen a beautiful tree and struggled to describe it to someone, only to have that someone… More
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Family Caroline Leavitt
Leavitt’s extraordinary novel is the story of orphan Nick Austen’s lifelong search for love and family with the three women in his life: his first love, his wife, and his teenaged daughter.… More
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30 Pieces of a Novel Stephen Dixon
In 30 Dixon presents us with life according to Gould, his brilliant fictional narrator who shares with us his thoroughly examined life from start to several finishes, encompassing his real past, imagined future, mundane… More