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Coast of Chicago

Coast of Chicago

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The stolid landscape of Chicago suddenly turns dreamlike and otherworldly in Stuart Dybek's classic story collection. A child's collection of bottle caps becomes the tombstones of a graveyard. A lowly rightfielder's inexplicable death turns him into a martyr to baseball. Strains of Chopin floating down the tenement airshaft are transformed into a mysterious anthem of loss. Combining homely detail and heartbreakingly familiar voices with grand leaps of imagination, The Coast of Chicago is a masterpiece from one of America's most highly regarded writers.

I Sailed with Magellan

I Sailed with Magellan

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Following his renowned The Coast of Chicago and Childhood, story writer Stuart Dybek returns with eleven masterful and masterfully linked stories about Chicago's fabled and harrowing South Side. United, they comprise the story of Perry Katzek and his widening, endearing clan. Through these streets walk butchers, hitmen, mothers and factory workers, boys turned men and men turned to urban myth. I Sailed With Magellan solidifies Dybek's standing as one of our finest chroniclers of urban America.

Joy School

Joy School

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In this exquisite new novel by best-selling writer Elizabeth Berg, a young woman falls in love - and learns how sorrow can lead to an understanding of joy. Katie, the narrator, has relocated to Missouri with her distant, occasionally abusive father, and she feels very much alone: her much-loved mother is dead; her new school is unaccepting of her; and her only friends fall far short of ideal companions. When she accidently falls through the ice while skating, she meets Jimmy. He is handsome, far older than she, and married, but she is entranced. As their relationship unfolds, so too does Katie's awareness of the pain and intensity first love can bring. Beautifully written in Berg's irresistible voice, Joy School portrays the soaring happiness one can feel at real love, the deep despair when it goes unrequited, and the stubbornness of hope that will not let us go. Here also is recognition that love can come in many forms and offer many different things. Joy School illuminates, too, how deep the things that hurt the most can sometimes teach us the lessons that really matter.

Our Life on the Run: A Story of Running 50 Marathons in 50 States

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Marlin Keesler entered his first marathon never imagining that it would become the first leg of a six and a half year race across America that he and his family would embark on one in which the benefits of travel would do far more for his two children afflicted with a rare learning disorder than any classroom could offer.
Spinster Sisters

Spinster Sisters

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Jodi and Jill Spingold are the Spinster Sisters...

With a radio show, speaking engagements, DVDs, and two bestselling books, they've built a thriving cottage industry helping other single women find happiness. Their futures have never been brighter-until Jill turns out the lights on Jodi by announcing her engagement.

Jodi is stunned. How can they be the Spinster Sisters if one of them is married? Complicating things is her own love life, involving three vastly different paramours offering three different kinds of happiness-none of which Jodi is sure she wants. And her ex-husband, backed by his lawyer girlfriend, may be angling for a piece of the Spinster Sisters empire.

Now, Jodi must make some tough decisions, keep the business afloat, and get to the altar to stand by her sister-even if means that from now on she'll be single all by herself.

Paperback Fiction

Kaikeyi
By: Patel, Vaishnavi
Vera Wongs Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
By: Sutanto, Jesse Q
Disorientation
By: Hsieh Chou, Elaine
One Italian Summer
By: Serle, Rebecca
Gospel of Orla
By: Walls, Eoghan
Cartographers
By: Shepherd, Peng
To Paradise
By: Yanagihara, Hanya
Lincoln Highway
By: Towles, Amor
Young Mungo
By: Stuart, Douglas

Hardcover Non-Fiction

Lapidarium
By: Judah, Hettie
Enchantment
By: May, Katherine
Still Life with Bones
By: Hagerty, Alexa
Saving Time
By: Odell, Jenny
Children of the State
By: Hobbs, Jeff
Devils Element
By: Egan, Dan
Angel Makers
By: McCracken, Patti
Other Family Doctor
By: Fine, Karen
Love and Work: How to Find What You Love, Love What You Do, and Do It for the Rest of Your Life
By: Buckingham, Marcus

Hardcover Fiction

Earths the Right Place for Love
Author: Berg, Elizabeth
Flaw in the Design
Author: Oates, Nathan
Hello Beautiful
Author: Napolitano, Ann
Y/N
Author: Yi, Esther
What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
Author: Jimenez, Claire
Foxglove King
Author: Whitten, Hannah
Broken Peoples Playlist
Author: Garricks, Chimeka
White Lady
Author: Winspear, Jacqueline
American Mermaid
Author: Langbein, Julia