Ladies' Lunch: and Other Stories
By: Lore Segal
3.21
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
"For almost six decades Segal has quietly produced some of the best fiction and essays in American …
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1. And the Dark Sacred Night
By: Julia Glass
3.54
Format: 379 pages, Hardcover
Kit Noonan’s life is stalled: unemployed, twins to help support, a mortgage to pay—and a frustrated… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- audiobook
"I'd suffocate. From my own cowardice."-Julia Glass, And the Dark Sacred Night
"All that spring and summer, there were times when she felt as if she had no joints or muscles, no physical means with which to move about the world."-Julia Glass, And the Dark Sacred Night
"Americans refused to see accidents as accidental. They did not comprehend they while tragedy always exacts a formidable price, it rarely incurs a debt."-Julia Glass, And the Dark Sacred Night
"Once the world at large— or the media, to be more accurate— beatifies you, life is never the same. And because you cannot resist the stoking of your ego, no matter how hard you try, you begin to lose…"-Julia Glass, And the Dark Sacred Night
2. After Annie
By: Anna Quindlen
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
3. Roman Stories
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.80
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is … read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- audiobook
4. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
By: James McBride
4.00
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- book club
- audiobook
5. Day
By: Michael Cunningham
3.57
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, fallin… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"Here, then, is the answer. A degree of cruelty is necessary because Garth, like most men, can only deposit his needs at her feet, can only declare his love—that romantic hallucination, which would be…"-Michael Cunningham, Day
6. Absolution
By: Alice McDermott
3.81
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. In Saigon in 1963, two yo… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
7. The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
By: Dwight Garner
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Garner gathers a literary chorus to capture the joys of reading and eating in this comic, personal … read more
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- audiobook
"There's no verb for traveling while hopping from swimming pool to swimming pool. Perhaps "cheevering" would suffice."-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
"A friend once told her that he had seen graffiti in a restaurant's men's room that read, "Gael Greene uses a thesaurus."-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
8. So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
By: Claire Keegan
3.99
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Librarian's Note: This is the entry for the short story collection. Please don't combine it with th… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- literature
- short stories
- fiction
"You know what is at the heart of misogyny? When it comes down to it?’ ‘So I’m a misogynist now?’ ‘It’s simply about not giving,’ she said."-Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
9. Piglet
By: Lottie Hazell
3.47
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An elegant, razor-sharp debut about women's ambitions and appetites—and the truth about having it a… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
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- audiobook
"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"She opened the capers, green and freckled as amphibians, and with a teaspoon eased them from their brine. The olives were next, and she pushed pits from the aubergine-dark fruits, dropping their fles…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"On the platter before her there was a bowl of beef bourguignon, the sauce dark with merlot; the corner of dauphinoise potatoes, gruyère-crusted top browned, bubbled with heat; there was a small plate…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
10. Clear
By: Carys Davies
3.92
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
11. Old Crimes: and Other Stories
By: Jill McCorkle
3.65
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Beloved author Jill McCorkle delivers a collection of masterful stories that are as complex as nove… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
12. Float Up, Sing Down
By: Laird Hunt
3.45
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Laird Hunt's masterful story collection capturing one summer's day in the Indiana community where t… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- audiobook
13. Ladies' Lunch: and Other Stories
By: Lore Segal
3.21
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
"For almost six decades Segal has quietly produced some of the best fiction and essays in American … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- american
- new york
- short story collection
- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- book club
- audiobook
14. Practice
By: Rosalind Brown
3.71
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing first novel about a day in the life of a young student who experiences her thoughts,… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
15. I Have Your Back: How an American Soldier Became an International Hero
By: Tom Sileo
4.52
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The story of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Michael Ollis, who became an international hero for his courage a… read more
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16. The Hypocrite
By: Jo Hamya
3.55
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation’s Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a nove… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"No stories are entirely imaginary, cherub, he'd said then. Everything is always a little bit real. Sometimes you steal things from other stories and change them until they work how you like."-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite
"The contradiction of the time had been the heightened moral obligation to consider other people as a means to keeping one's own self-interest afloat. Showing other people care meant avoiding them."-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite
"In the theatre's dark, he weighs up what to do out of love. There have been enough divergences so far for him to believe that Sophia's play is a self-contained thing that may only tangentially concer…"-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite
17. Hippie Chick: Coming of Age in the '60s
By: Ilene English MA MFT
3.91
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
In Hippie Chick , a rebellious teenager finds her mother dead in the bathroom. To save her from liv… read more
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18. The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss
By: Margalit Fox
3.48
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A Jewish mother of four, a gracious society hostess, a beloved member of her community—and the firs… read more
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- new york
- audiobook
19. Peggy
By: Rebecca Godfrey
3.67
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling novel about Peggy Guggenheim—a story of art, family, love, and becoming oneself—by the a… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
20. The Most
By: Jessica Anthony
3.37
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
From “one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page” (Laura Van Den Berg), a tightl… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- audiobook
21. Wandering: ...a long way past the past
By: Sharon Kreider
3.15
Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition
It was the late 1970s... ...a time when mobiles, the internet, and more modern modes of touring we… read more
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