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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"An exuberant black comedy about love, grief, sex, guilt, and one woman's hairbrained scheme to tranquilize her voraciously amorous girlfriend for a few days so that she might pay off her drug dealer, make some soup and finally get some peace and quiet"--
2) Hit man
Author
Series
John Keller novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
A sharp assassin who has always been cool, confident, and remote finds himself struggling with a mid-life crisis that plunges him into loneliness, and as he continues with his work, he begins to question his choice of careers.
3) Purity
Author
Language
English
Description
"A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of Freedom Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother--her only family--is hazardous. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother has always concealed her own real name, or how she can ever have...
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Language
English
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Description
"Master of razor-edged literary humor Binnie Kirshenbaum returns with her first novel in a decade, a devastating, laugh-out-loud funny story of a writer's slide into depression and institutionalization. It's New Year's Eve, the holiday of forced fellowship, mandatory fun, and paper hats. While dining out with her husband and their friends, Kirshenbaum's protagonist--an acerbic, mordantly witty, and clinically depressed writer--fully unravels. Her...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 28
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
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Description
When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty facade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils, Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the town's council...
6) Mother night
Author
Language
English
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Description
Truth and justice are blurred when American spy Howard Campbell is tried in Israel as a Nazi war criminal after World War II.
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Nine comedians of various acclaim arrive on the deserted island retreat of a legendary Hollywood funnyman, where they discover that they are marooned without cell phones or wifi and that someone in the group is killing the others.
9) Insane city
Author
Language
English
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Description
Astonished by his imminent marriage to a woman he believed out of his league, Seth flies to their destination wedding in Florida only to be swept up in a maelstrom of violence involving rioters, Russian gangsters, angry strippers, and a desperate python.
Author
Series
Dexter books volume 7
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
With 1.7 million copies of the Dexter novels sold, and ever-increasing critical acclaim, Jeff Lindsay returns to his groundbreaking and beloved character with his most entertaining book yet. Get ready for a grisly send-up of Hollywood, and a full dose of dark Dexter wit. Lights. Camera. Mayhem. You won't find this story on television.
11) Double Dexter
Author
Series
Dexter books volume 6
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Dexter Morgan is not your average serial killer. He enjoys his day job as a blood spatter analyst for the Miami Police Department, but he lives for his nighttime hobby of hunting other killers. Dexter is therefore not pleased to discover that someone is shadowing him, observing him, and copying his methods. Dexter is not one to tolerate displeasure; in fact, he has a knack for extricating himself from trouble in his own pleasurable way.
Author
Series
Dexter books volume 5
Publisher
Books on Tape
Language
English
Formats
Description
America’s most-read, most-watched, and most beloved serial killer—Dexter Morgan—is back. After selling more than one million copies and inspiring the wildly popular #1 Showtime series and top-rated crime drama on pay-cable television, New York Times bestselling author Jeff Lindsay returns with his most hilarious, macabre, and purely entertaining novel yet.
Dexter Morgan has always lived a happy homicidal...
Dexter Morgan has always lived a happy homicidal...
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