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1) Wild houses
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The riotous, raucous, and deeply resonant debut novel from "one of the best story writers in the English language today" (Financial Times), Wild Houses follows two outsiders caught in the crosshairs of a small-town revenge kidnapping gone awry. With his acclaimed and award-winning collections Young Skins and Homesickness Colin Barrett cemented his reputation as one of contemporary Irish literature's most daring stylists. Praised by Oprah Daily as...
2) Big time
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
What if time could be taken from us—the minutes, the hours, the years of our lives, extracted like organs taken for transplant? What would it mean for the world? And what would it do to the person from whom it’s taken?
Grace Berney is a mid-level bureaucrat in the Food and Drug Administration, a woman who once brimmed with purpose but somehow turned into a middle-aged single mom with a dull government job and a melancholy sense that life has...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xix, 430 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Great Depression was a time of incomparable financial desperation in America. Thugs with submachine guns and square-jawed G-men have long dominated the vernacular images of fear, lawlessness, and corruption set against the decimating poverty of that decade. But little known-until now-are the many serial dramas that played out in homes and hideouts, courtrooms and cold cases across the country. In a time of panic, legal lethargy, corruption, and...
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