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| Quirky Reads |
Save the big weighty bestsellers and serious
books for winter. Use summer to catch up on the lesser known pieces
of fiction. Not to imply that these books aren't serious, because
some of them are deadly so, intense and dripping with raw emotion.
But what all the books have in common is something that skews them
just to the left of mainstream fiction and centers them firmly in
the land of the edgy and hip.
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ARROYO
by Summer Wood
Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, blues singer Willie Lee Woolston
is drawn to the dusty mining town of Los Fuegos, New Mexico. Here
her dreams mingle with those of the townspeople, and when an accident
at the mine threatens disaster they all come together in a night of
terrible beauty.
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DON'T THINK TWICE
by Ruth Pennebaker
Anne Harper, a pregnant seventeen-year-old with a
sarcastic wit, is living in a group home for unwed
mothers. As the weeks pass, she trades insults and
secrets with the other wild teenagers in the home…and
ultimately discovers a new sense of self-awareness.
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FREUD'S MEGALOMANIA
by Israel Rosenfield
This intellectual spoof delivers a twist on history
when a "long-lost manuscript" is discovered in which
Freud outlines a preposterous new theory of human
behavior.
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LIFE ISN'T ALL HA HA HEE HEE
by Meera Syal
This is the story of a trio of close and somewhat
unlikely childhood friends living in London --- and
what happens when one of them makes a documentary,
starring the other two, about contemporary urban Indian
life.
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LILI: A NOVEL OF TIANANMEN
by Annie Wang
Lili, a young Chinese girl filled with cynicism and
self-loathing, embarks on a journey of emotional and
psychological discovery in the turbulent years leading
up to the Tiananmen Uprising.
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LOVE'S DEATH
by Oscar Van Den Boogaard
Seven years after the death of their eight-year-old
daughter, Oda and Paul are forced to not only confront
their loss once again…but the deception at the heart
of their marriage.
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PERV: A LOVE STORY
by Jerry Stahl
"Imagine Holden Caulfield on bad acid…. PERV: A LOVE STORY is the
definitive young outsider story, told only as Stahl can tell it."
—Ben Stiller
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SUNSET OVER CHOCOLATE MOUNTAINS
by Susan Elderkin
In the Arizona desert, the lives of an obese Englishman,
a Slovakian shoemaker, an ice-cream man, and a young
girl intersect with results that are both humorous
and profound.
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THE YOKOTA OFFICERS CLUB
by Sarah Bird
"Who else can write about dancing, music, JP-4 fuel, the military,
and strawberries, make it funny, and also make it about matters of
the heart? Only Sarah Bird." —Clyde Edgerton
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