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From acclaimed novelist and short story writer (“A virtuoso . . . ”—Donna Seaman, Booklist), a deft, somewhat shocking, memoir—a 21st-century Lolita turned upside down, told from the point of view of the girl, the author, seen in the context of the current discourse on sexual harassment and abuse in the era of #MeToo.“Few writers can tackle the bedroom—or female libido . . . but Ciment is a master: in exquisitely spare prose, she nails it.” — ...

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Ein bildstarker literarischer Thriller voller unerwarteter Wendungen um einen spektakulären Prozess und eine verhängnisvolle Affäre. Florida. Eine Teenagerin ist angeklagt, ihren Babybruder verbrannt zu haben, fraglich ist jedoch, ob sie als Autistin überhaupt schuldfähig und ihre Zwillingsschwester als Hauptzeugin glaubwürdig ist. In der Jury sitzen Hannah, eine 52-jährige Fotojournalistin, und Graham, ein 42-jähriger Anatomieprofessor. Als...

*** NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR ***From the author of Heroic Measures ("Smart and funny and completely surprising . . . I loved every page" -Ann Patchett), Act of God ("A feat of literary magic"-Booklist) and, with Amy Hempel, The Hand That Feeds You ("An unnerving, elegant page-turner" -Vanity Fair), a spare, masterful novel. The place: central Florida. The situation: a sensational murder trial, set in a courthouse more Sovie...

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From the author of Heroic Measures ("Brave, generous, nearly perfect"--L.A. Times), Act of God, and (with Amy Hempel), The Hand That Feeds You ("An unnerving, elegant page-turner"--Vanity Fair), a spare, masterful novel about a shocking murder trial, a sequestered jury, and an affair between two of the jurors--the woman, in free fall in her life and marriage to a much older man.The place: central Florida. The situation: a sensational murder tr...

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It's the summer of 2015, Brooklyn, and the city is sweltering from another record-breaking heat wave, this one accompanied by biblical rains. Edith, a recently retired legal librarian, and her identical twin sister, Kat, have discovered something ominous in their hall closet: it's shaped like a mushroom, it's phosphorescent, and it's rapidly consuming their wall. But that's only the beginning … Part suspense, part screwball comedy, Jill Cime...

An unlikely, utterly beguiling love story, by the author of the highly praised Small Claims. Gloria is a modern-day "snake-oil" saleswoman, a quixotic entrepreneur who sells everything from metal detectors to aphrodisiac perfumes but whose real stock in trade is hope. She and her teenage daughter, Kim, move from town to town, until Kim falls in love with a widower 30 years her senior.

In 1970, Sara Ehrenreich boards a small plane and returns to New York City with much fanfare, she will be featured in "Life "magazine. She has not left Ta'un'uu-the South Seas island upon which she and her husband, Philip, were marooned during a storm-in more than thirty years. Sara doesn't know that man has landed on the moon. She has never seen a ballpoint pen. Her body is covered, head to toe, in tattoos. Flashback: it's 1918 and Sara, a sh...

The basis for the major motion picture 5 Flights Up starring Diane Keaton and Morgan Freeman.New York City is on high alert-a gasoline truck is "stuck" in the Midtown tunnel and the driver has fled. Through panic and gridlock, Alex and Ruth must transport their beloved old dachshund-whose back legs are suddenly paralyzed-to the animal hospital, using a cutting board as a stretcher. But this is also the weekend when Alex and Ruth must sell the ...

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Unflinchingly honest, moving, and funny, Half a Life shows how a girl without means or promise and with only a loving mother, chutzpah, a bit of fraud, and a lot of luck turned into somebody. In 1964 the Ciment family left middle-class Montreal for the fringe desert communities of Los Angeles, where their always unstable father lost the last vestiges of his sanity. Terrified and broke, in a world he could neither understand nor control, he cam...