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1) The sellout
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction Named one of the best books of 2015 by The New York Times Book Review and the Wall Street Journal Born in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens?on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles?the narrator of The Sellout resigns himself to the fate of lower-middle-class Californians: "I'd die in the same bedroom I'd grown up in, looking up at the cracks in the stucco ceiling that've been there since...
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Description
Micah Mortimer isn?t the most polished person you?ll ever meet. His numerous sisters and in-laws regard him oddly but very fondly, but he has his ways and means of navigating the world. He measures out his days running errands for work - his TECH HERMIT sign cheerily displayed on the roof of his car - maintaining an impeccable cleaning regime and going for runs (7:15, every morning). He is content with the steady balance of his life. But then the...
3) Past tense
Author
Series
Jack Reacher volume 23
Description
The most hotly anticipated thriller of 2018 follows our hero Jack Reacher on a quest into his father's past, and climaxes in the most blood-curdling ticking time bomb of an adventure yet. The present can be tense . . . A young couple trying to get to New York City are stranded at a lonely motel in the middle of nowhere. Before long they?re trapped in an ominous game of life and death. But the past can be worse . . . Meanwhile, Jack Reacher sets out...
4) Steal
Author
Series
Instinct volume 3
Pub. Date
2022
Description
For Dr Dylan Reinhart, the stakes are sky high. When Carter von Oehson, a student in Reinhart's psychology class, threatens to kill himself, everyone hopes it's a hoax. But when Carter isn't found after 24 hours, it seems the worst is confirmed. Did he really do it? Carter's father, a powerful hedge fund CEO, is convinced he didn't. He has his own secrets to hide and can't go to the police. But there's still someone he can turn to. Reinhart is now...
5) Intermezzo
Author
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2024
Description
Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties - successful, competent and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father's death, he's medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women - his enduring first love Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke. Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old...
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