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In Girl With Curious Hair, David Foster Wallace bends reality until the familiar becomes strange and the absurd feels uncomfortably true.
Girl With Curious Hair
Literary Fiction
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In Girl With Curious Hair, David Foster Wallace bends reality until the familiar becomes strange and the absurd feels uncomfortably true. These stories move from eerily realistic portraits of public figures to surreal cultural collisions that expose modern anxieties with sharp intelligence and dark humor. Praised by The Washington Post and T. C. Boyle for its inventiveness and insight.
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Remarkable, hilarious, and unsettling re-imaginations of reality by the bestselling author of Infinite Jest, "a dynamic writer of extraordinary talent" (The New York Times Book Review).
David Foster Wallace was one of America's most prodigiously talented and original young writers, and Girl with Curious Hair displays the full range of his gifts. From the eerily "real," almost holographic evocations of historical figures such as Lyndon Johnson and overtelevised game-show hosts and late-night comedians to the title story, in which terminal punk nihilism meets Young Republicanism, Wallace renders the incredible comprehensible, the bizarre normal, the absurd hilarious, the familiar strange.
"These stories say something serious and sincere about the world that the rest of us have to live in." —The Washington Post Book World
"Turns the short story upside down and inside out, making the adjectives 'inventive,' 'unique,' and 'original' seem blasé." —T. C. Boyle, New York Times–bestselling author
"A collection of stories as varied in length and theme as they are imaginative, and downright bizarre as any collection by one author has a right to be . . . Truly funny surreal humor." —San Francisco Chronicle
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A long-buried past resurfaces when seven former friends reunite at a secluded lakehouse.
The Invite
Mystery · Literary Fiction · Thriller · Psychological Fiction · Psychological Thriller · Women's Fiction
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A long-buried past resurfaces when seven former friends reunite at a secluded lakehouse. Old loves, hidden grudges, and unresolved betrayals quickly turn a glamorous weekend deadly. When a body is found in the water, everyone becomes a suspect. Tense, twisty, and emotionally charged, this locked-room thriller proves some invitations should never be accepted.
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Seven college friends. One stunning lakehouse. A weekend reunion that ends in murder…
The email arrives at 2.47 pm on an overcast October afternoon. An invite to a reunion at a luxurious, isolated lakeside house. It’s from Lexie, my ex-fiancée. The first contact we’ve had in three years, since she ripped my heart out with a single text message. Why is she back?
My wife, Serena, insists we go. She and Lexie were best friends once, and I can tell she’s worried about her reappearance. But Serena’s strong, she won’t show weakness or allow Lexie to destroy the perfect life we’ve built. I’m not as confident. I can’t help but wonder if Lexie shares some of my regrets.
But as we gather with our friends to party on the deck, old resentments and ugly secrets immediately start to bubble up, and tensions are running high by the time we finally stumble to bed.
And the next morning, there is a body floating in the dark water…
A dark, deadly story that will consume you until the final perfect twist. Fans of Lucy Foley, Ruth Ware and Alice Feeney will be hooked.
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Over nine volatile days, a suspended beauty mogul waits to learn if her empire will survive.
Sheer
Literary Fiction · LGBTQIA+ · Women's Fiction
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Over nine volatile days, a suspended beauty mogul waits to learn if her empire will survive. Confined to her New York apartment, Maxine Thomas revisits decades of ambition, power, secrecy, and compromise. Sharp, provocative, and deeply introspective, this novel probes the uneasy line between empowerment and exploitation, asking what success truly costs when the spotlight turns inward.
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Told over nine charged days, Sheer is the gripping tale of a controversial beauty mogul’s insatiable ambition and the slippery ground between empowerment and abuse of power.
It’s 2015 and Maxine Thomas, the founder and creative director of the cult makeup company Reveal, has just been suspended by her own Board for a scandalous transgression. Housebound in her New York City apartment, where she awaits the verdict on her future, Max recounts her version of the events that have brought her to this moment.
From her start as a precocious suburban child in the eighties to her decades as a workaholic visionary, Max proselytizes a sheer, dewy look—cosmetics through a female gaze—all while battling sexist investors, the whiplash of cultural change, and the mounting pressure to keep her sexuality a secret. But when Max’s story catches up to her present, she must contend with the cost of true transparency. Who has she become in her relentless pursuit of success? And what will happen if she loses it all?
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Poppy never meant to fall in love pretending to be her dead sister.
Dandelion Is Dead
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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Poppy never meant to fall in love pretending to be her dead sister. But when grief, impulse, and a dating app collide, she finds herself living a borrowed life with a man who feels heartbreakingly real. Tender, funny, and quietly devastating, this modern romance explores love after loss and the terrifying bravery it takes to start living again.
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“Dandelion is Dead is breathtakingly original. A brilliant premise, smart, funny and heartbreaking in equal measure. I adored it.”
—Clare Leslie Hall, New York Times bestselling author of Broken Country
Jake has fallen head over heels for Dandelion. The only problem? Dandelion is dead.
When Poppy discovers unanswered messages from a charming stranger in her late sister's dating app, she makes an impulsive choice: She'll meet him, just once, on what would have been Dandelion's fortieth birthday. It's exactly the kind of wild adventure her vivacious sister would have pushed her toward.
Jake is ready to find something real—and not least because his ex-wife's twentysomething boyfriend has moved into their old family home. When he meets the intriguing woman who calls herself Dandelion, their connection is undeniable, and he can think of little else.
As their relationship deepens, Poppy finds herself trapped in a double life she never meant to create. Every moment with Jake feels genuine, electric, and totally right—despite the fact they're tangled in deceit. As the lines between grief and love blur, Poppy faces a choice: keep her sister's memory alive through her lies, or risk everything for a chance at her own happiness?
With sparkling wit and aching tenderness, debut author Rosie Storey gives us a modern love story about the courage it takes to live again after loss and finding hope in the most unexpected places.
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Ten interconnected stories explore ambition, desire, and the longing to be seen in a culture obsessed with fame.
I Could Be Famous
Literary Fiction · Coming of Age · Women's Fiction
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Ten interconnected stories explore ambition, desire, and the longing to be seen in a culture obsessed with fame. As women chase validation across media, relationships, and performance, admiration turns uneasy. This debut collection offers sharp, unsettling insight into modern identity and dissatisfaction. Praised by George Saunders as fresh and surprising.
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"A terrific debut: fresh, original, and surprising." --George Saunders, Booker-Prize winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo
From a magnetic new voice in fiction "made for this moment and for those coming of age within it" (Jonathan Dee), a debut story collection following ten ambitious women and one male superstar as they pursue their desires--however deluded--for more.
A listless woman befriends an influencer at a rooftop party, only to discover her lifestyle is not as glamorous as it seems. A college freshman gives the world's longest blow job to a boy whose name she's forgotten. A fan-favorite reality TV star joins a dating app after an explosive breakup, ready to move on, but finds she's in control only when cameras are rolling. While working in a hot tub showroom, a struggling actress goes method so she can nail an audition for the role of High School Junkie Girlfriend. Threaded throughout these explorations of neuroses and aspirations is one Arlo Banks, a hotshot actor who faces his own downfall when he's accused of cannibalism.
From the dazzling to the mundane, Rende's unnervingly astute stories hold a mirror to our obsession with how we're perceived and our ache to be adored. Above all else, I Could Be Famous is a love letter to big ambitions and bigger dissatisfactions, belief in ourselves, and the fascination we hold with the idea that we could--somehow, someday--be famous.
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An atmospheric fit for readers who like historical mysteries, Chinese folklore, and supernatural characters.
The Fox Wife
Literary Fiction · Asian Fiction · Magical Realism
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Called “utterly captivating” by Oprah Daily, this historical fantasy follows Snow, a fox spirit seeking revenge for her child's death, and Bao, a detective investigating a mysterious woman's death in 1908 Manchuria. Their journeys cross a world shaped by ancient folklore, family secrets, and the uneasy relationship between humans and spirits. An atmospheric fit for readers who like historical mysteries, Chinese folklore, and supernatural characters.
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Some people think foxes are similar to ghosts because we go around collecting qi, but nothing could be further than the truth. We are living creatures, just like you, only usually better looking . . .
Manchuria, 1908.
In the last years of the dying Qing Empire, a courtesan is found frozen in a doorway. Her death is clouded by rumors of foxes, which are believed to lure people by transforming themselves into beautiful women and handsome men. Bao, a detective with an uncanny ability to sniff out the truth, is hired to uncover the dead woman’s identity. Since childhood, Bao has been intrigued by the fox gods, yet they’ve remained tantalizingly out of reach—until, perhaps, now.
Meanwhile, a family who owns a famous Chinese medicine shop can cure ailments but can’t escape the curse that afflicts them—their eldest sons die before their twenty-fourth birthdays. When a disruptively winsome servant named Snow enters their household, the family’s luck seems to change—or does it?
Snow is a creature of many secrets, but most of all she’s a mother seeking vengeance for her lost child. Hunting a murderer, she will follow the trail from northern China to Japan, while Bao follows doggedly behind. Navigating the myths and misconceptions of fox spirits, both Snow and Bao will encounter old friends and new foes, even as more deaths occur.
New York Times bestselling author Yangsze Choo brilliantly explores a world of mortals and spirits, humans and beasts, and their dazzling intersection. Epic in scope and full of singular, unforgettable characters, The Fox Wife is a stunning novel about old loves and second chances, the depths of maternal love, and ancient folktales that may very well be true.
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The Flynn family is coming apart at the seams.
Lost Lambs
Literary Fiction · Mystery · Thriller · Suspense
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The Flynn family is coming apart at the seams. An open marriage falters, daughters spiral into dangerous fixations, and a powerful billionaire casts a shadow over their coastal town. When a mysterious shipping container draws them into a conspiracy, chaos becomes connection. Lost Lambs is a darkly funny, tender portrait of family dysfunction from a striking new literary voice.
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“I can’t remember the last time a novel made me laugh so hard or feel so much tenderness for its characters.” —Leslie Jamison, author of Splinters
“Madeline Cash is a voice like no other.” —Lena Dunham
“I’ve read entire books that contain less wit and inventiveness than a single one of Cash’s sentences.” —Eric Puchner, New York Times-bestselling author of Dream State
“With a big surge of energy, Lost Lambs splits the nucleus of the American family.” —Tony Tulathimutte, author of Rejection
Rippling with humor, warmth, and style, Lost Lambs is a new vision of the charms and pitfalls of family dysfunction.
The Flynn family is coming undone. Catherine and Bud's open marriage has reached its breaking point as their daughters spiral in their own chaotic orbits: Abigail, the eldest, is dating a man in his twenties nicknamed War Crime Wes; Louise, the middle child, maintains a secret correspondence with an online terrorist; the brilliant youngest, Harper, is being sent to wilderness reform camp due to her insistence that someone—or something—is monitoring the town’s citizens.
Casting a shadow across their lives, and their small coastal town, is Paul Alabaster, a billionaire shipping magnate. Rumors of corruption circulate, but no one dares dig too deep. No one except Harper, whose obsession with a mysterious shipping container sends the family hurtling into a criminal conspiracy—one that may just bring them closer together.
Irreverent and addictive, pinging between the voices of the Flynn family and those of the panorama of characters around them, Madeline Cash’s Lost Lambs is a debut novel of quick-witted observation and surprising tenderness. With it, Cash has crafted a family saga for the twenty-first century, all held together with crazy glue.
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For decades, the Newmans played America’s perfect TV family.
Meet the Newmans
Literary Fiction · LGBTQIA+
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For decades, the Newmans played America’s perfect TV family. In 1964, the illusion begins to unravel. As secrets surface and roles shift, Dinah Newman fights to reclaim her voice and reshape her family’s legacy. Meet the Newmans is a heartfelt, incisive novel about image, truth, and the lives we live behind the scenes.
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Niven, a novel about America’s favorite TV family, whose perfect façade cracks, for fans of Lessons in Chemistry and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.
“I loved Meet the Newmans!” —Judy Blume, #1 New York Times bestselling author
"Warm, witty, and wise." —Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, New York Times bestselling author
For two decades, Del and Dinah Newman and their sons, Guy and Shep, have ruled television as America’s Favorite Family. Millions of viewers tune in every week to watch them play flawless, black-and-white versions of themselves. But now it’s 1964, and the Newmans’ idealized apple-pie perfection suddenly feels woefully out of touch. Ratings are in free fall, as are the Newmans themselves. Del is keeping an explosive secret from his wife, and Dinah is slowly going numb—literally. Steady, stable Guy is hiding the truth about his love life, and the charmed luck of rock ‘n roll idol Shep may have finally run out.
When Del—the creative motor behind the show—is in a mysterious car accident, Dinah decides to take matters into her own hands. She hires Juliet Dunne, an outspoken, impassioned young reporter, to help her write the final episode. But Dinah and Juliet have wildly different perspectives about what it means to be a woman, and a family, in 1964. Can the Newmans hold it together to change television history? Or will they be canceled before they ever have the chance?
Funny, big-hearted, and deeply moving, Meet the Newmans is a rich family story about the dual lives we lead. Because even when our lives aren’t televised weekly, we all have a behind-the-scenes.
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Darcy’s life once felt perfectly balanced until grief shattered it.
Is This a Cry for Help?
Literary Fiction · LGBTQIA+
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Darcy’s life once felt perfectly balanced until grief shattered it. After a mental breakdown, she returns to her library job just as book bans and protests erupt in her community. As she heals, Darcy learns to reclaim her voice, her agency, and her sense of self. Is This a Cry for Help? is a compassionate novel about loss, identity, and resilience.
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Emily Austin, the bestselling “queen of darkly quirky, endearingly flawed heroines” (Sarah Haywood, author of The Cactus), returns with a luminous new novel following a librarian who comes back to work after a mental breakdown only to confront book-banning crusaders in an empowering story of grief, love, and the power of libraries.
Darcy’s life turned out better than she could have ever imagined. She is a librarian at the local branch, while her wife Joy runs a book binding service. Between the two of them, there is no more room on their shelves with their ample book collections, various knickknacks and bobbles, and dried bouquets. Rounding out their ideal life is two cats and a sun-soaked house by the lake.
But when Darcy receives the news that her ex-boyfriend, Ben, has passed away, she spirals into a pit of guilt and regret, resulting in a mental breakdown and medical leave from the library. When she returns to work, she is met by unrest in her community and protests surrounding intellectual freedom, resulting in a call for book bans and a second look at the branch’s upcoming DEI programs.
Through the support of her community, colleagues, and the personal growth that results from examining her previous relationships, Darcy comes into her own agency and the truest version of herself. Is This a Cry for Help? not only offers a moving portrait of queer life after coming of age but also powerfully explores questions about sexuality, community, and the importance of libraries.
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In two eras of occupied Paris, courage takes different forms.
Skylark: A Novel
Literary Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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In two eras of occupied Paris, courage takes different forms. In 1664, an aspiring artist fights imprisonment and injustice. In 1939, a young doctor risks everything to protect his Jewish neighbors. Skylark weaves these parallel lives into a haunting story of resistance, survival, and the hidden bonds that transcend time from a New York Times bestselling author.
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Five years after her husband vanished, Hannah Hall finally has peace.
The First Time I Saw Him
Women's Fiction · Literary Fiction · Psychological Fiction
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Five years after her husband vanished, Hannah Hall finally has peace. When Owen suddenly reappears, that fragile life shatters. Forced to flee with her stepdaughter, Hannah must outrun buried secrets and decide whether forgiveness is worth the risk. The First Time I Saw Him is a tense, emotional sequel from a #1 New York Times bestselling author.
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Laura Dave continues Hannah Hall’s pulse-pounding journey in the riveting and deeply moving sequel to the #1 New York Times bestselling blockbuster and Apple TV+ show, The Last Thing He Told Me.
How far would you go for a second chance?
Five years after her husband, Owen, disappeared, Hannah Hall and her stepdaughter, Bailey, have settled into a new life in Southern California. Together, they’ve forged a relationship with Bailey’s grandfather Nicholas and are putting the past behind them.
But when Owen shows up at Hannah’s new exhibition, she knows that she and Bailey are in danger again.
Hannah and Bailey are forced to go on the run in a relentless race to keep their past from catching up with them. As a thrilling drama unfolds, Hannah risks everything to get Bailey to safety—and finds there just might be a way back to Owen and their long-awaited second chance.
A gripping, rich, and deeply moving novel about the power of forgiveness, The First Time I Saw Him picks up right where the epilogue for the “genuinely moving” (The New York Times) The Last Thing He Told Me left off, giving readers the eagerly awaited and absolutely exhilarating sequel to Dave’s global blockbuster.
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A sharp fit for readers who enjoy feminist fairy tale retellings, dark humor, and contemporary literary fiction.
How to Be Eaten
Literary Fiction · Magical Realism
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One of NPR's Best Books of the Year, this darkly funny novel follows five women whose experiences resemble familiar fairy tales as they meet in a New York City trauma support group. As they share their stories, they begin questioning what happened to them and why they've been brought together. A sharp fit for readers who enjoy feminist fairy tale retellings, dark humor, and contemporary literary fiction.
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One of NPR's Best Books of the Year: This darkly funny and provocative novel reimagines classic fairy tale characters as modern women in a support group for trauma.
In present-day New York City, five women meet in a basement support group to process their traumas. Bernice grapples with the fallout of dating a psychopathic, blue-bearded billionaire. Ruby, once devoured by a wolf, now wears him as a coat. Gretel questions her memory of being held captive in a house made of candy. Ashlee, the winner of a Bachelor-esque dating show, wonders if she really got her promised fairy tale ending. And Raina's love story will shock them all.
Though the women start out wary of one another, judging each other’s stories, gradually they begin to realize that they may have more in common than they supposed . . . What really brought them here? What secrets will they reveal? And is it too late for them to rescue each other?
Dark, edgy, and wickedly funny, this debut for readers of Carmen Maria Machado, Kristen Arnett, and Kelly Link takes our coziest, most beloved childhood stories, exposes them as anti-feminist nightmares, and transforms them into a new kind of myth for grown-up women.
*Belletrist June Book Club Pick*
Named a Best Book of May by TIME Magazine & Glamour One of NPR’s Best Books of the Year
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