Rebecca Makkai
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"A dazzling new novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris, by the acclaimed and award-winning author Rebecca Makkai. In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic...
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2023 Best Adult Fiction & Nonfiction (SCPL)
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"In the riveting new novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist The Great Believers. A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past-the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely miserable years at a New Hampshire boarding school, and the murder of her former roommate, Thalia Keith, in the spring of their senior year. Though the circumstances surrounding Thalia's...
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Lucy Hull, a young children's librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both a kidnapper and kidnapped when her favorite patron, ten-year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home. The precocious Ian is addicted to reading, but needs Lucy's help to smuggle books past his overbearing mother, who has enrolled Ian in weekly antigay classes with celebrity Pastor Bob. Lucy stumbles into a moral dilemma when she finds Ian camped out in the library after hours...
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Meet the Devohrs: Zee, a Marxist literary scholar who detests her parents' wealth but nevertheless finds herself living in their carriage house; Gracie, her mother, who claims she can tell your lot in life by looking at your teeth; and Bruce, her step-father, stockpiling supplies for the Y2K apocalypse and perpetually late for his tee time. Then there's Violet Devohr, Zee's great-grandmother, who they say took her own life somewhere in the vast house,...
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La Bodie Kane és la creadora d'un pòdcast d'èxit. Quan la conviden a fer classes a l'escola Granby, on va passar l'adolescència, es veu abocada a recordar l'episodi més terrible de la seva vida: l'assassinat de la seva companya d'habitació. Vint anys després passeja pels escenaris d'aquest crim que no ha sigut capaç de deixar enrere i del qual mai ha acabat d'aclarir la veritat. Quin paper hi van tenir, ella i la resta dels seus companys?...
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Yale Tishman es uno de los muchos amigos de Nico que se han reunido para honrar su memoria en una pequeña fiesta. A la misma hora, no muy lejos de allí, se celebra en una iglesia el funeral oficial, organizado por la familia, que ha dejado bien claro que sus amigos no son bienvenidos. Es Chicago, es 1985, y esos amigos son homosexuales. En otros tiempos, tal vez, Yale lo habría tenido todo para ser feliz: una relación estable, un grupo de amigos...
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"In the riveting new novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist The Great Believers. A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past-the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely miserable years at a New Hampshire boarding school, and the murder of her former roommate, Thalia Keith, in the spring of their senior year. Though the circumstances surrounding Thalia's...
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"In the riveting new novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist The Great Believers, a woman must reckon with her past when new details surface about a tragedy at her elite New England boarding school"--
"A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past--the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely miserable years at a New Hampshire boarding school, and the murder...
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Lucy Hull, una joven resignada a trabajar como bibliotecaria de libros infantiles en un remoto pueblo de Missouri, ayuda habitualmente a su lector preferido - Ian Drake, un niño de diez años obsesionado con la lectura - a escoger libros a escondidas de su madre, una mujer autoritaria que pasa por la censura todo lo que el niño quiere leer. La inercia existencial de Lucy la lleva a tener una vida de pocas emociones, hasta que se topa con un dilema...
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Book club discussion kit featuring the title, I have some questions for you: The riveting new novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist The Great Believers. A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past-the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely miserable years at a New Hampshire boarding school, and the murder of her former roommate, Thalia Keith, in the...
12) Anonymous sex
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"27 Authors. 27 Stories. No Names Attached. A bold collection of stories about sex that leaves you guessing who wrote what. Bestselling novelists Hillary Jordan and Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan present an elegant, international anthology of erotica that explores the diverse spectrum of desire, written by winners of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, PEN Awards, the Women's Prize for Fiction, Edgar Award, and more. There are stories of sexual obsession...