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New Fiction September 2024 |
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Colored Television
by Danzy Senna
If Jane can just finish her latest novel, she’ll have tenure and some semblance of stability and success within her grasp. But when things don't turn out as hoped, Jane turns her desperate gaze to Hollywood, teaming up with a hotshot producer who believes they can create the greatest biracial comedy ever to hit the small screen.
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Intermezzo : a novel
by Sally Rooney
In the wake of their father's death, two brothers—successful Dublin lawyer Peter and his younger brother Ivan, a competitive chess player—find different ways to deal with their grief, which affects not only their lives, but the lives of those they hold dear.
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The Life Impossible
by Matt Haig
When Grace Winters is left a house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, she arrives in Ibiza with no guidebook and no plan, in a novel by the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Midnight Library.
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The Booklover's Library: a novel
by Madeline Martin
Separated from her daughter in wartime England, widowed Emma seeks solace in the friendships she forms at Boots' Booklover's Library. But when the Blitz intensifies, she must fight to reunite with her daughter, learning to depend on her community and the power of literature to find hope in the darkest of times.
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The Wildes: a novel in five acts
by Louis Bayard
In September of 1892, Oscar Wilde and his family have retreated to the idyllic Norfolk countryside for a holiday. His wife, Constance, has every reason to be happy: two beautiful sons, her own work as an advocate for feminist causes, and a delightfully charming and affectionate husband and father to her children, who also happens to be the most sought-after author in England. But with the arrival of an unexpected houseguest, the aristocratic young poet Lord Alfred Douglas, Constance gradually—and then all at once—comes to see that her husband’s heart is elsewhere and that the growing intensity between the two men threatens the whole foundation of their lives.
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Creation Lake: a novel
by Rachel Kushner
Sadie Smith, a ruthless and cunning American secret agent, is dispatched to a rural France, where her mission is to keep tabs on a commune's activists and subversives where she becomes entranced with their mysterious mentor, Bruno Lacombe. Shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize.
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Small Rain: a novel
by Garth Greenwell
A poet's near-death experience brings him to the ICU and face-to-face with the impenetrable American health care system—and with the human connections that keep him alive. By the author of Cleanness. 50,000 first printing.
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Tell Me Everything: a novel
by Elizabeth Strout
While defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother, town lawyer Bob Burgess falls into a deep and abiding friendship with acclaimed writer, Lucy Barton. Together they meet the iconic Olive Kitteridge and spend afternoons in Olive's apartment, telling each other stories, which imbues their lives with meaning.
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The Best Short Stories 2024: The O. Henry Prize Winners
by Amor Towles
Featuring contributions from Kate DiCamillo, Dave Eggers, Allegra Goodman, Jai Chakrabarti and others, this prestigious annual short story anthology contains 20 prize-winning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year and are accompanied by observations from the writers on what inspired them.
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The Last Dream
by Pedro Almodóvar
A two-time Academy Award-winning writer and director offers a collection of 12 stories spanning memoir, comedy, autofiction, parody, pastiche and gothic fiction.
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