Adult General Fiction

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What happened to the McCrays? : a novel / Tracey Lange.
"When Kyle McCray gets word his father has suffered a debilitating stroke, he returns to his hometown of Potsdam, New York, where he doesn’t expect a warm welcome. Kyle left suddenly two and a half years ago, abandoning people who depended on him: his fat…
The business trip : a novel / Jessie Garcia.
"Stephanie and Jasmine have nothing and everything in common. The two women don’t know each other but are on the same plane. Stephanie is on a business trip and Jasmine is fleeing an abusive relationship. After a few days, they text their friends the same…
Clever little thing:  a novel / Helena Echlin.
"Charlotte’s daughter Stella is sensitive and brilliant, perhaps even a genius, but a recent change in her behavior has alarmed her mother. Following the sudden death of Stella’s babysitter, Blanka, the once disruptive and anti-social child has become doc…
The favorites : a novel / Layne Fargo.
"She might not have a famous name, funding, or her family’s support, but Katarina Shaw has always known that she was destined to become an Olympic skater. When she meets Heath Rocha, a lonely kid stuck in the foster care system, their instant connection m…
Sweet fury / Sash Bischoff.
"Lila Crayne is America’s sweetheart: she’s generous and kind, gorgeous and magnetic. She and her fiancé, visionary filmmaker Kurt Royall, have settled into a stunning new West Village apartment and are set to begin filming their feminist adaptation of Fi…
Mothers and sons : a novel / Adam Haslett.
"At forty, Peter, an asylum lawyer in New York City, is overworked and isolated. He spends his days immersed in the struggles of immigrants only to return to an empty apartment and occasional hook-ups with a man who wants more than Peter can give. But whe…
More or less Maddy : a novel / Lisa Genova.
"Maddy Banks is just like any other stressed-out freshman at NYU. Between schoolwork, exams, navigating life in the city, and a recent breakup, it’s normal to be feeling overwhelmed. It doesn’t help that she’s always felt like the odd one out in her pictu…
After the ocean / Lauren E. Rico.
"Thirty years ago, musicians Emilia Oliveras and Paul Winstead were married in Puerto Rico. Forty-eight hours later, Paul vanished from their honeymoon cruise, leaving Emilia devastated—and the prime suspect in his disappearance. So, she ran for her life,…
The three lives of Cate Kay / Kate Fagan.
"Cate Kay knows how to craft a story. As the creator of a bestselling book trilogy that struck box office gold as a film series, she’s one of the most successful authors of her generation. The thing is, Cate Kay doesn’t really exist. She’s never attended …
Playworld : a novel / Adam Ross.
"A big and bighearted novel-one enthralling, transformative year in the life of a child actor coming of age in a bygone Manhattan. Griffin Hurt is in over his head. His role as Peter Proton on the hit TV show The Nuclear Family and high school at Boyd Pre…
A serial killer's guide to marriage : a novel / Asia MacKay.
Hazel and Fox, former vigilante killers turned suburban London parents, are adjusting to a quiet life with their baby until Hazel's boredom leads to an impulsive murder, threatening to unravel their carefully constructed family facade.
How to sleep at night : a novel / Elizabeth Harris.
"Ethan and Gabe's marriage is tested when Ethan announces his congressional run as a Republican, while Nicole rekindles a romance with Ethan's sister Kate, a political reporter whose life spirals as family and career collide" --Provided by publisher
A sea of unspoken things : a novel / Adrienne Young.
"James and Johnny Golden were once inseparable. For as long as she can remember, James shared an almost supernatural connection with her twin brother, Johnny, that went beyond intuition—she could feel what he was feeling. So, when Johnny is killed in a tr…
Never say never : a novel / Danielle Steel.
"Oona Kelly Webster has much to be grateful for. A striking woman with red hair and green eyes, she has a loving family and a job she adores, editing a prestigious line of books. To celebrate their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, she and her husband, Ch…
The life cycle of the common octopus : a novel / Emma Knight.
"Arriving at the University of Edinburgh for her first term, Pen knows her divorced parents back in Canada are hiding something from her. She believes she’ll find the answer here in Scotland, where an old friend of her father’s—now a famous writer known a…
Greco : a novel / C. G. Cooper.
"Its 1989, and college freshman Michael Greco is ready to leave his dreary small townand the grief of his fathers deathbehind. He has everything he needs for a great year: a starting spot on the football team, new friends, and a promising flirtation with …
Statistically speaking : a novel / Debbie Johnson.
"As a high school history teacher, Gemma Jones loves the certainty of the past--specific names, solid dates, proven statistics. Maybe that's because her own past resembles a jumbled-up sock drawer, one where it's impossible to find a match. On paper, Gemm…
Eddie Winston is looking for love : a novel / Marianne Cronin
"Eddie Winston is 90 years old. He has lived and he has loved, but he has never been kissed. A true gentleman and incurable romantic, Eddie spends his days volunteering at a charity shop, where he sorts through the donations of the living and the dead, p…
Homeseeking / Karissa Chen.
"An epic and intimate tale of one couple across sixty years as world events pull them together and apart, illuminating the Chinese diaspora and exploring what it means to find home far from your homeland"--Provided by publisher.
The heart of winter : a novel / Jonathan Evison.
"Abe Winter and Ruth Warneke were never meant to be together—at least if you ask Ruth. Yet their catastrophic blind date in college evolved into a seventy-year marriage and a life on a farm on Bainbridge Island with their hens and beloved Labrador, Megs. …
How we know our time travelers : stories / Anita Felicelli.
"How We Know Our Time Travelers is a dark, intellectual, and surreal collection that explores themes of technology, climate change, reality, love and loss. These stories examine our contemporary reality of balancing a pre- and post-pandemic life, and the …
Definitely better now : a novel / Ava Robinson
"The very last person anyone should worry about is Emma. Yes, hi, she’s an alcoholic. But she’s officially been sober for one entire year. That’s twelve months of better health. Fifty-two whole weeks of focusing on nothing but her nine-to-five office job,…
Time of the child / Niall Williams.
Doctor Jack Troy was born and raised in Faha, but his responsibilities for the sick and his care for the dying mean he has always been set apart from the town. His eldest daughter, Ronnie, has grown up in her father's shadow, and remains there, having mis…
This plague of souls / Mike McCormack.
"After a period of imprisonment, Nealon returns to an empty house in the west of Ireland to find his wife and young son missing. Then he gets a call from a man who claims to know what's happened to them--a man who'll tell Nealon all he needs to know in re…
Clean sweep : a novel / E.B. Lee.
"Retirement was supposed to bring her time to paint. Instead, she would find a purpose. Selling her Madison Avenue ad agency for billions, Carli Morris, the self-assured career woman, pursues her love of art and spends her spare hours volunteering. But h…
Watch your back / Terri Parlato.
"Accidents happen, no matter how careful or well-intentioned you are. Psychiatrist Eve Thayer frequently reassures her patients of that fact. There are even times when accidents have good consequences—like when Eve met her now-husband, Nathan, at his coll…
Sensitive anatomy / by Andrés Neuman ; translated by Nick Caistor & Lorenza Garcia.
"In the era of compulsive touch-ups and digital poses, perhaps it is time to re-read our body in order to rescue perhaps it is time to re-read our body in order to rescue it and embrace it with joy. it and embrace it with joy. The thirty brief chapters o…
No place to bury the dead : a novel / Karina Sainz Borgo ; translated from the Spanish by Elizabeth Bryer.
"In an unnamed Latin American country, a mysterious plague quickly spreads, erasing the memory of anyone infected. Angustias Romero flees with her family, but their flight is tragically cut short when she loses both her children. Consumed by grief, she fi…
The Penguin book of Korean short stories / edited and with notes by Bruce Fulton ; introduced by Kwon Youngmin.
"A revelatory and richly varied collection of Korea's greatest short stories This eclectic, moving and wonderfully enjoyable collection is the essential introduction to Korean literature. Journeying through Korea's dramatic twentieth century, from the Jap…
What we tried to bury grows here / Julian Zabalbeascoa.
"In late 1936, eighteen-year-old Isidro Elejalde leaves his Basque village in Northern Spain, spurred to join the fight to preserve his country's democracy from the insurrectionists by the rousing words of a political essayist. Months earlier, Spanish gen…
Daughters of the Nile / Zahra Barri.
"Paris, 1940. The course of Fatiha Bin-Khalid's life is changed forever when she befriends the Muslim feminist Doria Shafik. But after returning to Egypt and dedicating years to the fight for women's rights, she struggles to reconcile her political ideals…
End of the world and hard-boiled wonderland : a new translation / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin ; with an introduction by the author.
"Hyperkinetic and relentlessly inventive, The End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland is Haruki Murakami's deep dive into the very nature of consciousness. Across two parallel narratives, Murakami draws readers into a mind-bending universe in which La…
The world with its mouth open : stories / Zahid Rafiq.
"In eleven stories, The World With Its Mouth Open follows the inner lives of people in Kashmir as they navigate the uncertain terrain of their days, fractured from years of war. From a shopkeeper's encounter with a mannequin, to an expectant mother walkin…
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde & other stories / by Robert Louis Stevenson.
"Dr. Henry Jekyll is a respectable man, sociable and well-liked, so his friends Mr. Utterson and Mr. Enfield are concerned when Dr. Jekyll appears linked to Edward Hyde. Mr. Hyde’s outbursts of violence have their small community on edge; he may be small …
Annihilation : a novel / Michel Houellebecq ; translated from the French by Shaun Whiteside.
"It is 2027. France is in a state of economic decline and moral decay. As the country plunges into a contentious presidential race, the government falls victim to a series of mysterious and unsettling cyberattacks in which videos of brutal decapitations a…
Dirty Diana : a novel / Jen Besser and Shana Feste.
The first installment in a trilogy "about Diana Wood, a financial advisor and mother who struggles in a sexless marriage while leading a secret double-life in which she records real women describing their erotic fantasies for her successful website"--Prov…
The patron saint of liars : a novel / Ann Patchett.
"St. Elizabeth’s, a home for unwed mothers in Habit, Kentucky, usually harbors its residents for only a little while. Not so Rose Clinton, a beautiful, mysterious woman who comes to the home pregnant but not unwed, and stays. She plans to give up her chil…
Maurice : a novel / E.M. Forster.
Set in the elegant Edwardian world of Cambridge undergraduate life, this story by a master novelist introduces us to Maurice Hall when he is fourteen. We follow him through public school and Cambridge, and on into his father's firm, Hill and Hall, Stock B…
The third temple / Yishai Sarid ; translated from the Hebrew by Yardenne Greenspan.
"In a near-future Jerusalem, harrowing omens plague the city: a desecrated altar, an unbearable stench, a rampant famine. Shaken but devout, Jonathan, the royal family’s third son, continues to hold services and offer animal sacrifices at the prophesied T…
The odd women / George Gissing.
"When their father’s death leaves them with no money and a dim future, the Madden sisters, Alice, Virginia, and Monica, must negotiate the gender roles and class constraints of 1890s Victorian London. Virginia and Alice have aged out of the possibility of…
Monsieur Teste / by Paul Valéry ; translated by Charlotte Mandell.
"Middle-aged Monsieur Teste lives on modest speculations on the stock market. He resides in a greenish room smelling of mint, takes a daily stroll with his wife, and would be entirely unremarkable, were it not for the fact that he is a being made up of pu…
Mater 2-10 / Hwang Sok-yong ; translated by Sora Kim-Russell and Youngjae Josephnie Bae.
"In contemporary Seoul, a laid-off worker stages a months-long sit-in atop a sixteen-story factory chimney. During the long and lonely nights, he talks to his ancestors, chewing on the meaning of life, on wisdom passed down the generations. Through the l…
Void corporation / Black Butler.
"Alice Knott lives alone, a reclusive heiress haunted by memories of her deceased parents and mysterious near-identical brother. Much of her family’s fortune has been spent on a world-class collection of artwork, which she stores in a vault in her lonely,…
Leaving time : a novel / Jodi Picoult.
"For more than a decade, Jenna Metcalf has never stopped thinking about her mother, Alice, who mysteriously disappeared in the wake of a tragic accident. Refusing to believe she was abandoned, Jenna searches for her mother regularly online and pores over …