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All titles shelved in Fiction collection, except as noted: M=mystery, SF=science fiction.
- Bachelder, Chris
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(2001)After losing the first bout, Bear is back for the fight of his life against Shark. A family travels across country to the witness the battle, and is bombarded by the media covering it.
- Baer, Will Christopher
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(2004)Phineas Poe stumbles his way to San Francisco in search of ex-lover Jude who is under the spell of a wealthy sociopath who's helping her play out a revenge fantasy.
- Bogosian, Eric
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(2005)From the author of Mall comes a sprawling novel of urban desperation and desire that etches an unforgettable portrait of New York's drug and fashion worlds, and of the desperation running just beneath the surface glamour.
- Bolano, Roberto
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(2007)In this dazzling novel, the book that established Robert Bolano's international reputation, he tells the story of two modern-day Quixotes — the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of literature itself — on a tragicomic quest through their darkening, entropic world.
- Bonfiglioli, Kyril
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(2004)MA cult classic in the UK since its first publication in the 1970s, this hilarious and dark-humored crime thriller features the Honorable Charlie Mortdecai, degenerate aristocrat, amoral art dealer, seasoned epicurean, unwilling assassin and general knave-about-Piccadilly.
- Bruen, Ken
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(2005)MThe third explosive novel by Edgar-finalist Bruen, set in the streets of Galway, The Magdalen Martyrs is a gripping story that takes the Jack Taylor series to new heights.
- Chase, Clifford
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(2006)In Chase's scathingly funny and surprisingly humane debut novel, the zeitgeist assumes the form of a one-foot-tall ursine Everyman — a mild-mannered teddy bear named Winkie who comes to life and finds himself on the wrong side of America's war on terror.
- Clevenger, Craig
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(2005)Amnesiac Eric Norton wakes up in a police interrogation room burned from a meth lab explosion. As he tries to remember his past, his criminal employers and the police track his every move, and he learns that finding your past can be just as painful as losing it.
- Codrescu, Andrei
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(2004)In this rollicking deal-with-the devil novel, the popular NPR commentator and incisive observer of American life sums up the late 20th century.
- Coupland, Douglas
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(2003)In 1988, a catastrophic episode of teen violence changes a suburban community forever. Hey Nostradamus! is Coupland's keenly observant exploration of this tragic landscape.
- Doctorow, Cory
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(2005)SFOne of the leading voices of next-generation SF and author of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom returns with a miraculous novel of secrets, lies, magic and Internet connectivity, set on the streets of modern-day Toronto.
- Drake, Monica
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(2007)Drake has created a novel that blends the high comedy of early film stars — most notably Chaplin and W.C. Fields — to raise questions of class, gender, economics, and prejudice. Resisting easy classification, this debut novel blends the bizarre, the humorous, and the gritty with great skill.
- Ellis, Bret Easton
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(2005)From the author of Less Than Zero comes a work that confounds one expectation after another, passing through comedy and mounting psychological and supernatural horror toward an astonishing resolution. Lunar Park is a novel about love and loss, fathers and sons, in what is surely the most original and moving novel of an extraordinary career.
- Ellis, Warren
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(2007)Packed with mind-bending style and a wild cast of characters, this surprisingly surreal treat from a best-selling comic book writer infuses Robert B. Parker with Kurt Vonnegut, and the madness of the graphic novel world.
- Gattis, Ryan
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(2005)MLK High School has collapsed into Kung Fu High School where two gangs stand against the puppet principal and the drug kingpin who pulls his strings. Cousin Jimmy — a world champion martial arts master of mythic stature — arrives in town after swearing to his mother that he'll never fight again. Teachers flee, students break out full weaponry, and Jimmy must make a decision that will brand him a coward — or a hero.
- Lipsyte, Sam
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(2001)Steve is dying of boredom, literally. He's the first person ever to be diagnosed, and the world watches as he searches for a cure.
- Pierre, D. B. C.
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(2003)Vital, riotously funny and energetic, Pierre puts lust for vengeance, materialism and trial by media squarely in the dock. The main character emerges as the lovable upholder of love, truth and homespun wisdom in a world gone mad.
- Ruff, Matt
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(2007)Jane Charlotte claims to be a member of a secret organization — the Bad Monkeys — devoted to ridding the world of especially evil people. As Jane's tale grows increasingly bizarre, a psychiatrist tries to sort truth from lies. Is she lying or crazy, or is her tale unbelievably true?
- Scott, D. Travers
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(2005)Set in a dream-soaked reality one step removed from our own, One of These Things Is Not Like the Other is a darkly comic tale of masculine identity and relationships by celebrated and internationally acclaimed author D. Travers Scott.