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Men Without Women
by Haruki Murakami
Collection of stories exploring the experiences of men coping with loneliness and isolation.
A dazzling new collection of short stories—the first major new work of fiction from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami since his #1 best-selling Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His ... (Goodreads)
Killing Commendatore
by Haruki Murakami
A painter's surreal journey of self-discovery as he confronts his past, present and future.
The protagonist is an unnamed portrait painter whose wife leaves him at the start of the book. Devastated, he quits portrait painting and goes on a long road trip. In the middle of his road trip he ... (Wikipedia)
1Q84 #1-2
by Haruki Murakami
A surreal and magical story of two people trying to find each other amidst a strange alternate universe.
The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, ... (Goodreads)
How to Be an American Housewife
by Margaret Dilloway
A Japanese woman marries an American soldier and moves to the US, where she struggles to adapt to a new culture while raising her daughter.
A lively and surprising novel about a Japanese woman with a closely guarded secret, the American daughter who strives to live up to her mother's standards, and the rejuvenating power of forgiveness. ... (Goodreads)
The Woman in the White Kimono
by Ana Johns
A forbidden love story set in post-WWII Japan, where a young woman must choose between tradition and her heart's desire.
Oceans and decades apart, two women are inextricably bound by the secrets between them. Japan, 1957 . Seventeen-year-old Naoko Nakamura’s prearranged marriage would secure her family’s status in ... (Barnes & Noble)
In the Miso Soup
by Ryū Murakami
A tour guide leads a mysterious foreigner through the neon-lit nightlife of Tokyo.
Twenty-year-old Kenji is a Japanese "nightlife" guide for foreigners—he navigates, gaijin, men around the sex clubs and hostess bars of Tokyo . On December 29 he receives a phone call from an ... (Wikipedia)
Lanny
by Max Porter
A young boy named Lanny disappears from a small English village, and the community comes together to search for him.
The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller and Booker Prize Longlisted novel Lanny by the author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers. There’s a village sixty miles outside London. It’s no different from ... (Goodreads)
Red Mountain
by Boo Walker
A man returns to his hometown in the mountains of Georgia to confront his past and find redemption.
***A Pulpwood Queens Book Club Selection How well do we really know each other? Red Mountain in eastern Washington is home to a community of eccentrics. Otis Till, the area's visionary winemaker, has ... (Goodreads)
The Association of Small Bombs
by Karan Mahajan
A bomb blast in Delhi changes the lives of two families forever. A poignant exploration of grief, guilt, and the aftermath of terrorism.
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2016 When brothers Tushar and Nakul Khurana, two Delhi schoolboys, go to pick up their family’s television set at a repair shop with their friend Mansoor Ahmed ... (Goodreads)
The High Mountains of Portugal
by Yann Martel
A spiritual journey of three stories across Portugal, spanning three different time periods.
In Lisbon in 1904, a young man named Tomás discovers an old journal. It hints at the existence of an extraordinary artifact that—if he can find it—would redefine history. Traveling in one of Europe’s ... (Goodreads)
Lost Children Archive
by Valeria Luiselli
A family road trip to the US-Mexico border becomes a journey of self-discovery and reflection on the refugee crisis and lost indigenous cultures.
From the two-time NBCC Finalist, an emotionally resonant, fiercely imaginative new novel about a family whose road trip across America collides with an immigration crisis at the southwestern ... (Goodreads)
Setting Free the Bears
by John Irving
Two young men release the animals from the Vienna Zoo, embarking on a journey of self-discovery and rebellion.
The book's central plot concerns a plan to liberate all the animals from the Vienna Zoo , as happened just after the conclusion of World War II . Irving's two protagonists—Graff, a young Austrian ... (Wikipedia)
Everything Under
by Daisy Johnson
A haunting story of a mother and daughter, their secrets, and the search for a lost person.
The dictionary doesn’t contain every word. Gretel, a lexicographer by trade, knows this better than most. She grew up on a houseboat with her mother, wandering the canals of Oxford and speaking a ... (Goodreads)
Frankenstein in Baghdad
by Ahmed Saadawi
A quest for justice in a war-torn Baghdad, as a supernatural creature stalks the city.
In the aftermath of the U.S. invasion of Iraq , a junk-dealer named Hadi al-Attag collects the scattered body parts of bomb victims with the intention of giving them a proper burial. Al-Attag first ... (Wikipedia)
The Gifted School
by Bruce Holsinger
The cutthroat competition among parents to get their children into a new gifted school leads to secrets, betrayals, and moral dilemmas.
Smart and juicy, a compulsively readable novel about a group of friends and families that is nearly destroyed by their own competitiveness when an exclusive school for gifted children opens in the ... (Goodreads)
Lady Oracle
by Margaret Atwood
A woman's journey of self-discovery, exploring her identity and place in the world.
The novel's protagonist , Joan Foster, is a romance novelist who has spent her life running away from difficult situations. The novel alternates between flashbacks from the past and scenes from the ... (Wikipedia)
The Commitments
by Roddy Doyle
A group of Irish youths form a soul band, learning lessons of friendship and responsibility.
Two friends — Derek Scully and "Outspan" Foster — get together to form a band, but soon realise that they don't know enough about the music business to get much further than their small neighbourhood ... (Wikipedia)
Almost Midnight
by Rainbow Rowell
Two short stories about New Year's Eve, one about a girl stuck in a broken elevator and the other about two best friends who realize their feelings for each other.
Midnights is the story of Noel and Mags, who meet at the same New Year's Eve party every year and fall a little more in love each time . . .Kindred Spirits is about Elena, who decides to queue to see ... (Goodreads)
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
by Joshua Ferris
A successful dentist questions his identity and purpose after discovering a fake website impersonating him.
A big, brilliant, profoundly observed novel about the mysteries of modern life by National Book Award Finalist Joshua Ferris, one of the most exciting voices of his generation Paul O'Rourke is a man ... (Goodreads)
Déjame que te cuente
by Jorge Bucay
A collection of short stories that offer life lessons and insights into human nature, encouraging readers to reflect on their own experiences.
From the master of self-help in Spanish,, Déjame que te cuente, is one of the top bestselling titles on Argentinean psychologist Jorge Bucay's backlist, and has sold over 2 million copies worldwide ... (Barnes & Noble)
The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul
by Deborah Rodriguez
Five women from different backgrounds find solace and friendship in a coffee shop in war-torn Kabul.
From the author of the memoir Kabul Beauty School comes a fiction debut as compelling as real life: the story of a remarkable coffee shop in the heart of Afghanistan, and the men and women who meet ... (Goodreads)
The Contortionist's Handbook
by Craig Clevenger
A forger with a rare medical condition navigates through a world of drugs, crime, and love.
John Dolan Vincent is a talented young forger with a proclivity for mathematics and drug addiction. In the face of his impending institutionalization, he continually reinvents himself to escape the ... (Wikipedia)
Reservoir 13
by Jon McGregor
A village's search for the truth behind a young girl's disappearance, uncovering secrets along the way.
Midwinter in an English village. A teenage girl has gone missing. Everyone is called upon to join the search. The villagers fan out across the moors as the police set up roadblocks and a crowd of ... (Goodreads)
Imagine Me Gone
by Adam Haslett
A family learns to cope with mental illness and depression as they navigate their lives.
From a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, a ferociously intimate story of a family facing the ultimate question: how far will we go to save the people we love the most? When Margaret's ... (Goodreads)
Half a World Away
by Mike Gayle
A man discovers he has a teenage daughter he never knew existed, and must navigate the challenges of building a relationship with her.
Strangers living worlds apart.,Strangers with nothing in common.,But it wasn’t always that way…,Kerry Hayes is single mum, living on a tough south London estate. She provides for her son by cleaning ... (Goodreads)
Rabbit Redux
by John Updike
A man's mid-life crisis leads him to grapple with the moral and social issues of his time.
Rabbit Redux finds former high-school basketball star Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom working a dead-end job as a Linotype operator at the local printing plant. Thirty-six, he feels that he is quickly ... (Wikipedia)
The Women of Brewster Place
by Gloria Naylor
The interconnected lives of seven African American women living in a run-down housing project. A powerful portrayal of the struggles and triumphs of black women.
The women of Brewster Place are "hard-edged, soft-centered, brutally demanding, and easily pleased". Their names are Mattie Michael, Etta Mae Johnson, Lucielia "Ciel" Turner, Melanie "Kiswana" ... (Wikipedia)
Son of a Trickster
by Eden Robinson
A coming-of-age story of a teenage boy, Jared, who navigates his dysfunctional family and supernatural experiences.
With striking originality and precision, Eden Robinson, the Giller-shortlisted author of the classic Monkey Beach and winner of the Writers Trust Engel/Findley Award, blends humour with heartbreak in ... (Goodreads)
Beach Rental
by Grace Greene
A woman rents a beach house to escape her troubled life, but finds unexpected love and healing.
On the Crystal Coast of North Carolina, in the small town of Emerald Isle... Juli Cooke, hard-working and getting nowhere fast, marries a dying man, Ben Bradshaw, for a financial settlement, not ... (Barnes & Noble)
Opposite of Always
by Justin A. Reynolds
Jack meets Kate and falls in love, but when she dies, he finds himself stuck in a time loop trying to save her.
“One of the best love stories I’ve ever read.” —Angie Thomas, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hate U Give “Read this one, reread it, and then hug it to your chest.” —Becky Albertalli, #1, ... (Barnes & Noble)
