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Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A Nobel Prize-winning author, in this follow-up to his acclaimed semi-autobiographical novella Suspended Sentences, continues the story of Jean Bosmans, now in his early 20s, as he becomes aware of a set of disturbing coincidences that set him on a collision course with the past.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Seven hard-won months into her sobriety, sociology professor Maris Heilman has her first blackout. She chalks it up to exhaustion, though she fears that her husband and daughter will suspect she's drinking again. Whatever their cause, the glitches start becoming more frequent. Sometimes minutes, sometimes longer, but always leaving Maris with the same disorienting question: Where have I been? Then another blackout lands Maris in the ER, where she...
3) Asymmetry
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Told in three distinct and uniquely compelling sections, Asymmetry explores the imbalances that spark and sustain many of our most dramatic human relations: inequities in age, power, talent, wealth, fame, geography, and justice. The first section, "Folly," tells the story of Alice, a young American editor, and her relationship with the famous and much older writer Ezra Blazer. A tender and exquisite account of an unexpected romance that takes place...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Gallery books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Pushed into committing a murder that he covers up by burying the body in his backyard, mild-mannered Jason Getty finds his life completely unraveling when a landscaper discovers two other graves on his property.
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Part quirky love story, part philosophical manifesto, and part metaphysical mystery ... right at home with the works of Tom Robbins and Christopher Moore" ( Sacramento Book Review ). A prisoner spins a playing card into a somersault, stirring a whirlwind that becomes a tornado that takes the roof off a church in nearby Normal, Illinois. Elizabeth Wildhack is born in that church and someday she will meet that prisoner, a man named Diablo, on the streets...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"The Coincidence Makers tells the story of Guy, Emily & Eric, whose job is creating coincidences and initiating various events in other people's lives. The three graduated from a "coincidence creation course" that took place 2 years prior to the events in the book, in which they learned techniques for creating what look like random events which will cause people to change their own lives. Fate is nothing more than a well-executed mission. Coincidence...
Author
Series
New Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Hercule Poirot is traveling by luxury passenger coach from London to the exclusive Kingfisher Hill estate. Richard Devonport has summoned the renowned detective to prove that his fiancée, Helen, is innocent of the murder of his brother, Frank. Poirot will have only days to investigate before Helen is hanged, but there is one strange condition attached: he must conceal his true reason for being there from the rest of the Devonport family. The coach...
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Jason Priestley (no, not that Jason Priestley) is in a rut. He gave up his teaching job to write snarky reviews of cheap restaurants for the free newspaper you take but don't read. He lives above a video-game store, between a Polish newsstand and that place that everyone thinks is a brothel but isn't. His most recent Facebook status is 'Jason Priestley is...eating soup.' Jason's beginning to think he needs a change. So he uncharacteristically...
11) Let no one sleep
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"After the IT firm where she works shuts down, Lucía has a vision of her future career as a taxi driver, brought on by the intoxicating opera floating through her apartment's air vent. She obtains her taxi license and meets the neighbor responsible for the music. Calaf, he says, is his name, also the name of the character from Puccini's Turandot and the name of the bird Lucía received on her 10th birthday from her long-since-dead mother. When...
12) The divorce
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1501
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The Divorce tells about a recently divorced man on vacation in Buenos Aires. One afternoon he encounters a series of the most magical coincidences. While sitting at an outdoor cafae, absorbed in conversation with a talented video artist, he sees a youngman riding by on a bicycle get thoroughly drenched by a downpour of water-seemingly from rain caught the night before in the overhead awning. The video artist knows the cyclist, who knew a mad hermetic...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
After the death of Inis St. Erme, Dr. Henry Riddle retraces the man's final moments, searching for the moment of his fatal misstep. Was it when he and his bride-to-be first set out to elope in Vermont? Or did his deadly error occur later--perhaps when they picked up the strange, sharp-toothed hitch-hiker, or when the three stopped at "Dead Bridegroom's Pond" for a picnic? As he searches for answers, Riddle discovers a series of bizarre coincidences...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
"Hercule Poirot is traveling by luxury passenger coach from London to the exclusive Kingfisher Hill estate. Richard Devonport has summoned the renowned detective to prove that his fiancée, Helen, is innocent of the murder of his brother, Frank. Poirot will have only days to investigate before Helen is hanged, but there is one strange condition attached: he must conceal his true reason for being there from the rest of the Devonport family. The coach...
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