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Quintet David Blum
Quintet presents compelling portraits of five artists known and loved by aficionados of classical music: the cellist Yo-Yo Ma, the conductor Jeffrey Tate, the violinist Josef Gingold, the pianist Richard Goode, … More
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Secret Lives Catherine Browder
Browder’s second collection is characterized by the wide range of narrative voices she brings forth–a bilingual Hispanic social worker, an immigrant Russian Jewish chemical engineer, a young Japanese… More
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Separate Hours Jonathan Baumbach
An honest and elegant (if not slightly disturbing) imagining of the way truth becomes elusive in long-term relationships. Separate Hours is a love story about the betrayal of love.… More
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Singing on the Titanic Perry Glasser
A collection of short stories published in the Illinois Short Fiction Series… More
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Still Pitching Michael Steinberg
Still Pitching is the coming-of-age story of growing up in New York in the ’50s revolving around Steinberg’s passion for baseball.… More
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Suder Percival Everett
Suder, Percival Everett’s acclaimed first novel, follows the exploits and ordeals of Craig Suder, a struggling black third baseman for the Seattle Mariners. In the midst of a humiliating career slump and difficulties… More
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The Body in Four Parts Janet Kauffman
A non-linear passion play; an eloquent demand for a return to the roots of our being, our most ancient and elemental nature – air, earth, fire, water.… More
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The Boy Orator Tracy Daugherty
In Tracy Daugherty’s third novel, childhood innocence and political ambition meet just prior to the First World War in the person of Harry Shaughnessy, an Oklahoma farmer’ son. Gifted with a booming speaking… More
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The Boy Who Killed Caterpillars Joshua Kornreich
In a language all his own, a language driven by stutterance and repetition, Joshua Kornreich evokes and seduces the reader into a boyhood mythography where things are not always what they seem to be.… More
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The Clay That Breathes Catherine Browder
In this collection of six short stories and a novella, Browder explores the cross-cultural displacement of Americans in Asia and of Asians in America. Whether the immigrants are Asian or American, Browder captures… More
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The Feud Thomas Berger
Berger chronicles small-town America of the 1930s in his narrative of the feud between the Beelers of Hornbeck and the Bullards of Milville.… More
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The Hieroglyphics Michael Stewart
Horapollo Niliacus, who most likely never existed, wrote the original Hieroglyphica. It was a collection of some 189 interpretations of the Egyptian hieroglyphics, which were entirely, and unintentionally, fallacious.… More
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The Lemon Grove Ali Hosseini
The Lemon Grove is a story of love, redemption, and the courage to survive in the face of calamity and loss. Twin brothers Behruz and Ruzbeh are in love with Shireen. When Behruz leaves America and returns to Iran to help… More
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The Orange Suitcase Joseph Riippi
In the thirty-four stories filling The Orange Suitcase, Joseph Riippi packs an intimate and powerful portrait of a young man’s life. From a childhood spent snipering neighbors with BB guns, to adulthood grasping… More
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The Patch Boys Jay Parini
Fifteen-year-old Sammy di Cantini, resident of a mining region of Pennsylvania, is determined to rise above his class, falls disastrously in love with a Protestant, and visits his Mafia brother in New York where he … More
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The Return of Service Jonathan Baumbach
Part of the Illinois Short Fiction Series, a collection of short stories.… More