The institute : a novel —King, Stephen, 1947- author.

"In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis's parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake u...

Hustlers

When Wall Street got smacked by the '08 financial crisis, a lot of ancillary businesses felt the pinch as well ... such as the New York strip clubs frequented by frisky brokers. It got bad enough that the enterprising la...

Hustlers

When Wall Street got smacked by the '08 financial crisis, a lot of ancillary businesses felt the pinch as well ... such as the New York strip clubs frequented by frisky brokers. It got bad enough that the enterprising la...

Master class —Dalcher, Christina, author.

"From the critically acclaimed author of Vox comes a suspenseful new novel that explores a disturbing alternate reality where the government has legalized eugenics. Elena Fairchild is a teacher at one of the state's new ...

Muted —Charles, Tami, author.

"For seventeen-year-old Denver, music is everything. Writing, performing, and her ultimate goal: escaping her very small, very white hometown. So Denver is more than ready on the day she and her best friends Dali and Sha...

The curiosity —Kiernan, Stephen.

After discovering the body of a man buried deep in the Arctic ice, Dr. Kate Philo and her team bring him back to life in their Boston lab, igniting a media firestorm that forces them to decide how far they are willing to...

Hard cash valley —Panowich, Brian, author.

"Return to McFalls County and Bull Mountain in Hard Cash Valley, where Brian Panowich weaves another masterful tale of Southern Noir. Dane Kirby is a broken man and no stranger to tragedy. As a life-long resident and ex-...

Still life —Wicomb, Zoë, author.

"Wicomb's majestic new novel Still Life juggles with our perception of time and reality as Wicomb tells the story of an author struggling to write a biography of long-forgotten Scottish poet Thomas Pringle, whose only le...

They called me Red —Kilbourne, Christina, 1967-

Fox and his friends

A lottery win leads not to financial and emotional freedom but to social captivity in this wildly cynical classic about love and exploitation. A suggestible working-class innocent lets himself be taken advantage of by hi...

The institute a novel —King, Stephen, 1947- author.

"In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis's parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake u...

Hard cash valley —Panowich, Brian, author.

"Return to McFalls County and Bull Mountain in Hard Cash Valley, where Brian Panowich weaves another masterful tale of Southern Noir. Dane Kirby is a broken man and no stranger to tragedy. As a life-long resident and ex-...

Cardboard boxer

Willy, who struggles on the gritty streets of the skid row district, is exploited by a privileged college kid who entices the homeless by offering money in exchange for street fighting.

White tears —Kunzru, Hari, 1969- author.

Song of the shank : a novel —Allen, Jeffery Renard, 1962-

"In 1866 as Tom and his guardian, Eliza Bethune, struggle to adjust to their fashionable apartment in the city in the aftermath of riots that had driven them away a few years before. But soon a stranger arrives from the ...

Putney —Zinovieff, Sofka, author.

"In the spirit of Notes on a scandal and Zoe Whittall's The best kind of people, an explosive, powerful and timely novel about the far-reaching repercussions of an illicit relationship between a young girl and a man twen...

Life for sale : a novel —Mishima, Yukio, 1925-1970, author.

"After botching a suicide attempt, salaryman Hanio Yamada decides to put his life up for sale in the classifieds section of a Tokyo newspaper. But what begins as mere nihilism takes a turn for the unexpected as intereste...

Morning star —Brown, Pierce, 1988-

Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people. But Darrow is determined to fight back. Risking everything to transf...

São Bernardo —Ramos, Graciliano, 1892-1953, author.

"A masterwork about backcountry life by one of Brazil's most celebrated novelists. In 1941, a national literary poll in Brazil named Graciliano Ramos one of that country's ten greatest novelists--one of only four living ...

Hottentot Venus a novel —Chase-Riboud, Barbara.

Sarah Baartman has lost her family in the Dutch and English massacres of 1810 South Africa, and faces certain death by staying. She ends up in London, dancing in a cage and displayed as a primitive oddity. Alice, Sarah's...