Ivyland
10 best books like Ivyland (Miles Klee): Building Stories, The Dictionary of Animal Languages, HHhH, Pleasure Bound: Victorian Sex Rebels and the New Eroticism, May We Be Forgiven, Hill William, Mermaids on the Golf Course: Stories, Fobbit, Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 71 (Clarkesworld Magazine, #71), Wren Journeymage
| Author | Chris Ware |
| ISBN | 0375424334 |
After years of sporadic work on other books and projects and following the almost complete loss of his virility, it's here: a new graphic novel by Chris Ware.
Building Stories imagines the inhabitants of a three-story Chicago apartment building: a 30-something woman who has yet to find...
| Author | Heidi Sopinka |
| ISBN | 0143196421 |
A novel of love, longing, and art set in interwar Paris, The Dictionary of Animal Languages will appeal to readers of All the Light We Cannot See and The Disappeared.
Ivory Frame is a renowned artist. Now in her nineties, the famously reclusive painter remains devoted to her work. She has never...
| Author | Laurent Binet |
| ISBN | 2246760011 |
Deux parachutistes tchécoslovaques envoyés par Londres sont chargés d’assassiner Reinhard Heydrich, chef de la Gestapo, chef des services secrets nazis, planificateur de la solution finale, protecteur de Bohème-Moravie, surnommé "le bourreau", "la bête blonde", "l’homme le plus...
| Author | Deborah Lutz |
| ISBN | 0393068323 |
A smart, provocative account of the erotic current running just beneath the surface of a stuffy and stifling Victorian London.
At the height of the Victorian era, a daring group of artists and thinkers defied the reigning obsession with propriety, testing the boundaries of sexual decorum in their...
| Author | A.M. Homes |
| ISBN | 0670025488 |
A darkly comic novel of twenty-first-century domestic life and the possibility of personal transformation
Harold Silver has spent a lifetime watching his younger brother, George, a taller, smarter, and more successful high-flying TV executive, acquire a covetable wife, two kids, and...
| Author | Scott McClanahan |
| ISBN | 0985023554 |
"You can tell McClanahan feels something when he writes and when he lives. He wants you to feel something too."—The Huffington Post
I walked up to the side of the mountain like I used to do when I was a little boy. I looked out over Rainelle and watched it shine. The coal trucks and the logging trucks...
Mermaids on the Golf Course: Stories
| Author | Patricia Highsmith |
| ISBN | 0393324567 |
The great revival of interest in Patricia Highsmith continues with this work that reveals the chilling reality behind the idyllic facade of American suburban life.
The stories collected in Mermaids on the Golf Course, first published in 1985, are among Highsmith's most mature, psychologically...
| Author | David Abrams |
| ISBN | 0802120326 |
Fobbit \’fä-bit\, noun. Definition: A U.S. soldier stationed at a Forward Operating Base who avoids combat by remaining at the base, esp. during Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003-2011). Pejorative.
In the satirical tradition of Catch-22 and M*A*S*H, Fobbit takes us into the chaotic world...
FICTION
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NON-FICTION
“The Spell of History: Magic Systems and Real-World Zeitgeists” by Jeff Seymour
“In a Carapace of Light: A Conversation with...
The first summer of peace brings Wren on her weekly visit to the young Queen Teressa, where she encounters the derisive, upsetting Hawk Rhiscarlan riding in! Wren races to warn Teressa, to discover he's expected, which causes the girls' first argument. Tyron gives Wren a chance to leave Meldreth by...
Author Wil Wheaton says, "Sunken Treasure is a short collection of my favorite pieces from my books and blog, including a production diary from my 2008 role in Criminal Minds, and excerpts from a collaborative fiction I took part in called Ficlets. As a bonus feature, it also includes the never-before-seen...
| Author | Teddy Wayne |
| ISBN | 0061873217 |
“Sometimes you do not truly observe something until you study it in reverse,” writes Karim Issar upon arrival to New York City from Qatar in 1999. Fluent in numbers, logic, and business jargon yet often baffled by human connection, the young financial wizard soon creates a computer program named...
| Author | Joseph McElroy |
| ISBN | 1938604229 |
Troubled or still, water is always water… the sameness of the Ocean suffers no change. - McElroy, Annals of Plagiary
The recent war between the United States and Iraq took much criticism both internationally, and from within the US. Growing up during these times of turmoil, with any side...
| Author | Jeff Ragsdale |
| ISBN | 1612183247 |
In October 2011, Jeff Ragsdale, a down-and-out actor and stand-up comedian, posted a flyer around Lower Manhattan, asking people to call him if they wanted to talk. He thought he’d get a dozen calls; instead, he got hundreds, then thousands once pictures of the flyer went viral on the net. They came...
| Author | Jane Middelton-Moz |
| ISBN | 0757315135 |
Adult children of alcoholics have learned how to "survive," but often have difficulty "living" their lives. The trauma and grief of childhood losses affect every aspect of the life of an adult child of an alcoholic (ACoA). Now the authors of the bestselling After the Tears offer further insight into...
| Author | Stuart Nadler |
| ISBN | 0316126470 |
Forced together on a trip from Manhattan to Rhode Island, a father and son attempt to renew their bond over lobster, cigarettes, and a buried secret. A pure-hearted artist finds his devotion cruelly tested, while his true love tries to repent for the biggest mistake of her life. Unwittingly thrust into...
| Author | Franz Wright |
| ISBN | 1400043514 |
In this luminous new collection of poems, Franz Wright expands on the spiritual joy he found in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Walking to Martha’s Vineyard. Wright, whom we know as a poet of exquisite miniatures, opens God’s Silence with “East Boston, 1996,” a powerful long poem that looks back...
| Author | Jon Evans |
| ISBN | 0060782366 |
The Barnes & Noble Review
In The Blood Price, a sequel of sorts to Jon Evans's award-winning debut novel, Dark Places, continent-hopping backpacker and wanderlust-afflicted computer programmer Balthazar "Paul" Wood breaks the Prime Directive of trekking: Don't get involved.
The...
| Author | Darin Bradley |
| ISBN | 0553386220 |
This haunting debut from a brilliant new voice is sure to be as captivating as it is controversial, a shocking look at the imminent collapse of American civilization—and what will succeed it.
In the aftermath of the switch from analog to digital TV, an anarchic movement known as Salvage...
| Author | Mia Couto |
| ISBN | 1926845951 |
Mwanito Vitalício was eleven when he saw a woman for the first time, and the sight so surprised him he burst into tears. Mwanito's been living in a big-game park for eight years. The only people he knows are his father, his brother, an uncle, and a servant. He's been told that the rest of the world is dead,...
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0983632723 |
Thrills and chills! ZOOMIDDY ZOOOOM!!! Space chases! BLAMMO!!! Laser blasts! All this excitement and more is promised on the back of this book:
"You are an ace starfighter pilot in the Galactic Space Force. Shot down over a mysterious planet, you have been taken captive by a race of giant, super...
| Author | Chris Adrian |
| ISBN | 1937894320 |
What is the purpose of life?
If you could send a message to the future what would it be?
Why do you deserve, not desire, to live forever?
Acclaimed author Chris Adrian (The Children’s Hospital, The Great Night) joins the award-winning creators of The Silent History – Eli Horowitz...
| Author | Douglas Rushkoff |
| ISBN | 1401210635 |
From the imagination of best-selling author Douglas Rushkoff, one of the most iconoclastic and acclaimed minds of our era, comes a graphic novel series that exposes the "real" Bible as it was actually written, and reveals how its mythic tales are repeated today. Grad student Jake Stern leads an underground...
| Author | Susan Coll |
| ISBN | 0374268819 |
The Stager is a comedy of rabbits and real estate in the D.C. suburbs from Susan Coll, the author of Acceptance and Beach Week
Dominique is one very bitter rabbit. His owner, Lars Jorgenson, is a former tennis pro who has blown out both knees, become obese, and is now addicted to a cocktail of prescription...
