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Summary: "The millions of readers of Amor Towles are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories set in New York City and a novella in Los Angeles. The New York stories, most of which are set around the turn of the millennium, take up everything from the death-defying acrobatics of the male ego, to the fateful consequences of brief encounters, and the delicate mechanics of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction towlesTowles, Amor
Summary: The millions of listeners of Amor Towles are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories set in New York City and a novella in Los Angeles. The New York stories, most of which are set around the turn of the millennium, take up everything from the death-defying acrobatics of the male ego, to the fateful consequences of brief encounters, and the delicate mechanics of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "The millions of readers of Amor Towles are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories set in New York City and a novella in Los Angeles. The New York stories, most of which are set around the turn of the millennium, take up everything from the death-defying acrobatics of the male ego, to the fateful consequences of brief encounters, and the delicate mechanics of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "The oldest mystery bookstore in the world, The Mysterious Bookshop, has for most of its forty-five-year history commissioned an original short story as a holiday gift for its customers, written exclusively for the store and never published elsewhere--before now. The prompt for the story requires three elements: that it be set at Christmastime, that it involve a crime of some kind, or the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2024
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Summary: Adelaide Forsythe doesn't regret marrying for love instead of wealth, but she feels woefully unprepared to run her own household. Then, on the first Sunday of Advent in 1901, winter winds bring surprising change, first through a young orphan boy and then a seasoned housekeeper who seems too good to be true. The boy, Jack, claims he isn't an orphan at all and is desperate to reunite his family....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Well past retirement age and feeling his years--but still staying sober one day at a time--Matthew Scudder learns that alcoholics aren't the only ones who count the days since their last slip. Matt's longtime partner, Elaine, tells him of a group of former sex workers who do something similar, helping each other stay out of the life. But when one young woman describes an abusive client who's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean Press 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Block 2019Duchovny, David
Summary: "The Reservoir follows an unexceptional man in an exceptional time. We see our present-day pandemic world and New York City through the eyes of a former Wall Street veteran, Ridley, as he looks back upon his life in his enforced quarantine solitude, wondering what it all means and who he really is. Sitting and brooding night after night, gazing out his huge picture window high above the Central...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2022