POND
"A sharp, funny, and eccentric debut ... Pond makes the case for Bennett as an innovative writer of real talent. ... [It]reminds us that small things...
CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS
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MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION
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Literature
EVERY SUMMER AFTER
Written by Fortune, Carley
"A radiant debut."--Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers
THINGS WE NEVER GOT OVER
Written by Score, Lucy
Bearded, bad-boy barber Knox prefers to live his life the way he takes his coffee: Alone. Unless you count his basset hound, Waylon.Knox doesn't tolerate drama, even when it comes in the form of a stranded runaway bride.
MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS
Written by Tarkington, Booth
Winner of the 1919 Pulitzer Prize, Booth Tarkington's The Magnificent Ambersons is a grand historical drama and social history of the United States that follows the story of the Amberson family's financial decline at the start of the Industrial Age.
SPRING IN SIBERIA
Written by Mozgovoy, Artem
"A work of earnest, grounded, and ultimately hopeful testimony of selfhood at the brink." --Ocean Vuong1985. Russia. As the Soviet Union disintegrates and Western capitalism spreads its grip across their land, the Morozov family finds itself consigned to the remote, icy wastes of Siberia. It is here that their only child, Alexey, is born.
HARD TIMES
Written by Dickens, Charles
Dickens's widely read satirical account of the Industrial Revolution.
BROWN GIRL
Written by Taneus-Miller, Leilani
Shelly Nacre is the brown face in a sea of white, washed up on the rocky shores of Long Island. Life changes suddenly when tragedy befalls her family, leaving Shelly to make sense of what has happened in the only way she knows how. Her father, an armchair activist, feeds her plenty by way of philosophical ruminations, but these words do not anchor her.
UNLIMITED DREAM COMPANY
Written by Ballard, J G
When a light aircraft crashes into the Thames at Shepperton, the young pilot who struggles to the surface minutes later seems to have come back from the dead. Within hours everything in the dormitory suburb is transformed.
HELLO AMERICA
Written by Ballard, J G
Following the energy crisis of the late twentieth century, America has been abandoned. Now, a century later, a small group of European explorers returns to the now climatically mutated continent. But America is unrecognizable--the Bering Strait has been dammed and much of the country has become a desert, populated by isolated natives and the bizarre remnants of a disintegrated culture.
MILLENNIUM PEOPLE
Written by Ballard, J G
Violent rebellion comes to London's middle classes in this "fascinating" (San Francisco Chronicle) novel from the same author of Crash and Empire of the Sun. Never more timely, Millennium People "seeks to illuminate our hearts of darkness while undermining our assumptions about what literature is meant to do" (Los Angeles Times).
DAY OF CREATION
Written by Ballard, J G
On the arid, war-plagued terrain of central Africa, a manic doctor is consumed with visions of transforming the Sahara into a land of abundance. But Dr. Mallory's obsession quickly spirals dangerously out of control. First published in 1987, this classic Ballard thriller continues to resonate "with dark implications for the future of humanity" (Publishers Weekly).