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Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
301 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Worst. Person. Ever. is a deeply unworthy book about a dreadful human being with absolutely no redeeming social value. Raymond Gunt, in the words of the author, is a living, walking, talking, hot steaming pile of pure id.
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Physical Desc
277 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A tale set in a near-future coastal Ireland finds the long-time rule of dapper godfather Logan Hartnett threatened by the return of an old nemesis, the ambitions of once-trusted henchmen, and his wife's request for him to abandon his life of crime.
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xv, 200 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Scalping Columbus is a collection of short stories that are in part autobiographical and in part fictional. Narrated in a style reminiscent of Indian oral tradition, Fortunate Eagle employs humor and satire to entertain and challenge society. The stories range from author's experiences as an activist in the Bay Area to his encounter with the Pope in Rome and back to his childhood. Most of the stories are short and easy to read--
4) Losing it
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A poignant, hilarious novel about a woman who still has her virginity at the age of twenty-six, and the summer she's determined to lose it and find herself. Julia Greenfield has a problem: she's twenty-six years old and she's still a virgin. Sex ought to be easy. People have it all the time! But, without meaning to, she made it through college and into adulthood with her virginity intact. Something's got to change. To re-route herself from her stalled...
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
416 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After being together for ten years, Sylvie and Dan have all the trimmings of a happy life and marriage; they have a comfortable home, fulfilling jobs, beautiful twin girls, and communicate so seamlessly, they finish each other's sentences. However, a trip to the doctor projects they will live another 68 years together and panic sets in. They never expected until death do us part to mean seven decades. In the name of marriage survival, they quickly...
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
279 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Entrepreneur and mom Julia Bailey tries to get her fledgling company making organic toddler meals off the ground while taking care of her family and balancing the needs of her two sons, in a text that includes recipes.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
623 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
From the author of the acclaimed, PEN/Bingham Prize-winning A Naked Singularity; a shockingly hilarious novel that tackles, with equal aplomb, both America's most popular sport and its criminal justice system. From Paterson, New Jersey to Rikers Island to the streets of New York City, Sergio De La Pava's Lost Empress introduces readers to a cast of characters unlike any other in modern fiction: dreamers and exiles, immigrants and night-shift workers,...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
198 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Reginald Edward Morse is one of the top reviewers on RateYourLodging.com, where his many posts do more than just evaluate hotels around the globe--they tell his life story ... The puzzle of Reginald's life comes together through writings that comment upon his motivational-speaking career, the dissolution of his marriage, the separation from his daughter, his struggles with alcohol, and his devotion to a paramour known only as 'K.' But when Reginald...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's 1973, and David Leveraux is a young and ambitious flavor chemist working at a world-renowned flavor-production house. While testing a new artificial sweetener--Sweetness #9--he notices some unsettling side effects in the laboratory rats and monkeys: anxiety, obesity, mutism, and a general dissatisfaction with life. Years later, Sweetness #9 is America's most popular sweetener--and David's family is changing. His wife is gaining weight, his son...
13) Candy
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xvi, 222 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Originally banned in Paris and published by the Olympia Press under the pseudonym Maxwell Kenton, Candy is the scandalous 1958 novel cowritten by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg, now reissued with an introduction by B. J. Novak. Candy was greeted in America by white-hot controversy, becoming a bestseller and helping to cement Southern's reputation as a legendary absurdist comic. The book centers on the sexual misadventures of a young girl named...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The celebrated author of Single, Carefree, Mellow, returns with her debut novel--a rueful, funny examination of love, marriage, infidelity, and origami. Divorcing his wife to marry his girlfriend, Audra, is the one impulsive thing Graham Cavanaugh has ever done. Audra is charming and spontaneous and fun, but life with her can be exhausting, constantly interrupted by phone calls, burdened by houseguests, and populated by old men with backpacks full...
Author
Series
[Serge Storms novel volume 16
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
294 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
While treating themselves to a modest vacation in sunny Florida, newly unemployed Wisconsinites Patrick and Barbara McDougal get the ride of a lifetime when they, after being robbed of everything, are rescued by bighearted psychopath and happy tour guideSerge Storms.
16) Bad teeth
Author
Publisher
New Harvest
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Four interlocking narratives unfurl in four American cities, creating a richly comic feast about love, academia, an elusive Tibetan novelist who might be a plagiarist, and SOFA, a protest group so mysterious its very initials are open to interpretation. Bad Teeth follows a cast of young literary men and women in four very American cities--Brooklyn, Bloomington, Berkeley, and Bakersfield. It's four (or more) books in one, a Pynchonesque treat: a bohemian...
18) The dog
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
241 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
19) Eres hermosa
Author
Publisher
Literatura Random House
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
302 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A deliciously smart comedy about a famously widowed young New Yorker hell-bent on recapturing a kind of passionate love she never really hadClaire Byrne is a quirky and glamorous 34-year-old Manhattanite and the wife of a famous, slightly older man. Her husband, Charlie, is a renowned sexologist and writer. Equal parts Alfred Kinsey and Warren Beatty, Charlie is pompous yet charming, supportive yet unfaithful; he's a firm believer that sex and love...
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