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FINALIST for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
A BEST BOOK OF 2022
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Bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs Mieko Kawakami invites readers back into her immediately recognizable fictional world with this new, extraordinary
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First published in 1925, "Manhattan Transfer" by American author John Dos Passos is an engrossing portrayal of urban life in New York City from the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age. Critically acclaimed and widely considered to be his most important work, Dos Passos tells the story of the city as it grows and changes through the perspectives of many of its inhabitants. The city itself is a central character of the novel. It is exciting and glamorous, but...
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For fans of Lily King’s Writers & Lovers comes a captivating debut novel about the complexities of love and the unpredictable bonds that change our lives
Maggie Hoyt is a quick-witted, house-sitting LA actress who’s dated one too many DJs for her liking. An incorrigible insomniac, she desperately needs more than four hours of sleep, according to her therapist.
One night, while still grieving the death of her ex-boyfriend, Maggie reluctantly...
5) Memories
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The main character, Ann, is born into poverty in 1947. It shows how her family controls her and keeps her in poverty through their attitudes regarding gender inequality, immigrants, and minorities. We learn from her how to break this cycle to get out of poverty.
She grows up in Brooklyn with a single mother and an absentee father and tells the story through her memories.
You hear about the three generations of women who were chained to poverty because...
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A group of Chinese rural women who want to get rid of difficulties, after entering the city, something unexpected happened...
It takes Zheng Jinhua, a rural woman in Fujian and eastern Fujian as the main line. It tells about her experiences when she was young, after marriage and "working in the city", and describes her tragic childhood, humiliating youth, difficult marriage, and emotional life. At the same time, it depicts the fate of 12 rural...
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Oakland, California, 1983: a city churning with violent crime and racial conflict. Officer Hanson, a Vietnam veteran, has abandoned academia for the life-and-death clarity of police work, a way to live with the demons that followed him home from the war. But Hanson knows that justice requires more than simply enforcing the penal code. He believes in becoming a part of the community he serves--which is why, unlike most officers, he chooses to live...
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From debut novelist Eugene Havens, Marble on a Table is an unexpected love story between two wounded outsiders seeking redemption in dazzling, heartless New York City.
Rasmus Smith is a shrewd New Yorker who believes lofty ideals are for other people. That is until a sudden moral dilemma makes him listen to his conscience. Rasmus tries to raise his standards but watches his life spin out of control.
It leads him to Alli. A captivating stranger,...
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Meredith Altman's engagement to Wesley Latner ended in spectacular disaster—one that shattered her completely. Years have passed since then, and now she's about to marry Aaron Rapp, a former Ivy League football player and baby-saving doctor. As they celebrate their engagement at a new TriBeCa hotspot, Meredith is stunned to find the restaurant owner is none other than Wesley, the man she is still secretly trying to forget. When Meredith learns...
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Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People (1892) is a novel by Israel Zangwill. Raised in London by parents from Latvia and Poland, Zangwill understood the plight of the city's Jewish community firsthand. Having risen through poverty to become an educator and author, he dedicated his career to the voiceless, the oppressed, and the needy, advocating for their rights and bearing witness to their suffering in some of the most powerful novels...
11) Riley
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When Riley Cotswald, a writer at work on her second novel, finally leaves her husband, she gets way, more than she bargained for. Her characters' lives echo her own dilemmas, and she feels a kinship to them as they come alive on her desktop. Her best friend Jennifer does not understand this but loves Riley. Maybe too much.
After a particularly infuriating conversation with her husband Cameron, Riley impulsively gets involved with Edward, a socially,...
12) Black and Whites
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Meet Lenny Bird. He's in his mid-twenties, big and burly, with a ravenous appetite. He's a larger-than-life, eccentric, impetuous, exuberant photographer who has recently relocated from Oklahoma to Los Angeles. Travel with him through various jobs, relationships and experiences as he confronts life head-on. In his job as a photojournalist, Lenny is obsessed with getting perfect, unique photographs. He is an unconventional employee who dislikes bureaucrats...
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Nobody rides for free.Not even a talented opera singer . . .My initial encounter with the diva had been on a Hollywood Blvd bus in the mid-70s. I was sitting in the middle somewhere on my way to another nothing job interview that I doubted I had a chance to land. Nam vet, you see. With a case of PTSD.She had boarded and claimed the bench seat across from the driver. Next thing we knew, she was squatting. . . . Well, let's just say the air suddenly...
14) Latchkey Ladies
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Latchkey Ladies opens in 1918 in the Mimosa Club, a women's hostel in central London where young women office workers and ladies on declining incomes find refuge from the tedium of war work and the chilliness of impending poverty. Anne Carey is twenty-five. She is engaged to a young lieutenant in the army, but she is bored of him and bored of the war. When she meets Dampier, a man unlike anyone she has ever met before, they begin an affair, and then,...
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New York City is unique, vibrant, exciting and a melting pot of cultures and values. But sometimes, living in the Big Apple can lead to twists, turns, and unexpected outcomes.
The Big Apple Bites Back portrays life in NYC-the people, neighborhoods, the workplace, dashed dreams, and life on the street.
The stories attempt to capture the city's spirit, with tales about how things occasionally go awry and how even the unexpected can enliven...
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The Pleasure Cats of Nova Playa is a story of sex, drugs, alcohol, violence and techno music. Set in the fictional sun soaked Mediterranean resort of Playa Nova where underground, under town, cats mirror the excesses of the sunseekers above. Into this bustling, vibrant underground city arrives the beautiful Napoleona, a charming and cunning cat with a past, but with her eyes fixed squarely on the future, and in particular the coming winter. In the...
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"Un ir y venir (las vueltas de la vida)" es una novela autobiográfica, con una narración sencilla, pero significativa. A lo largo de la vida del personaje, se desarrolla la historia del país donde habita, cuyos hechos nos impactan a todos. Los lectores lo acompañamos desde su infancia en el campo, pasando por su etapa de conscripto y, luego, durante sus años como carabinero y, ahora, en su rol de guardia de banco. Conocemos de su amor por su...
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Han pasado muchos años desde que el protagonista de este relato, que escribe desde una mazmorra en la que, sin saber cómo ni por quién, ha sido confinado, observaba desde su ventana el deprimente espectáculo de la existencia en el Barrio Viejo, e imaginaba una vida emocionante en los extramuros, alejado de sus hermanos, de su abnegada e inexpresiva madre y de una niñera sumida en la desesperanza.
La llegada intempestiva de una extraña joven...
19) Dotted Lines
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Between the years of 2003 and 2018, the number of working women in India fell from 42.7% to a staggering 23.3%.
When novice journalist Neha learns of this mind-boggling statistic, she is determined to do something about it. Neha knows how best to communicate the issue at hand - through her first article series with Arkaa magazine. But when Neha's assignment on Artificial Intelligence proves more than she bargained for, she finds herself trapped...
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Can you love a city? Yes, and Lisbon is a great example. This European capital city is a bustling metropolis that averages 300 days of sunshine a year. Tourists flock here in ever-increasing numbers for the history, culture, great food, and people that have inspired this short anthology of Lisbon stories. The authors in this book come from all corners of the world. Some live here, while others have visited and fallen in love. Each of their tales shines...
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