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"A novel of rare emotional power that excavates the social intricacies of a late-summer weekend -- and a lifetime of buried pain. Almost everything about Wallace, an introverted African-American transplant from Alabama, is at odds with the lakeside Midwestern university town where he is working toward a biochem degree. For reasons of self-preservation, Wallace has enforced a wary distance even within his own circle of friends -- some dating each other, some dating women, some feigning straightness. But a series of confrontations with colleagues, and an unexpected encounter with a young straight man, conspire to fracture his defenses, while revealing hidden currents of resentment and desire that threaten the equilibrium of their community"--Provided by publisher.

"Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other 'Bunny,' and are often found entangled in a group hug so tight they become one. But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled 'Smut Salon,' and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door--ditching her only friend, Ava, a caustic art school dropout, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the sinister yet saccharine world of the Bunny cult and starts to take part in their ritualistic off-campus 'Workshop' where they magically conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur, and her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies are brought into deadly collision. A spellbinding, down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, creativity and agency, and friendship and desire, Bunny is the dazzlingly original second book from an author whose work has been described as 'honest, searing and necessary' (Elle)"--Provided by the publisher.

Tells the story of two star-crossed lovers, graduate students Julian Rose and Claire Marvel, spanning fourteen years of attempts at happiness while spouses, children, and misunderstandings block the way.

Tells the intersecting stories of a young William Shakespeare, teaching at Stratford-upon-Avon, and grad student Willie Shakespeare Greenberg, who finds himself an unwitting drug smuggler thanks to one bad choice.

Seth Borders has one of the world's highest IQs. Now he's suddenly struck by an incredible power, the ability to see multiple potential futures. Then Seth stumbles upon Miriam, a beautiful Saudi Arabian princess who has fled her veiled existence to escape a forced marriage. Cultures collide as Seth and Miriam are thrown together and forced to run from forces determined to kidnap or kill Miriam. An intoxicating tale set amidst the shifting sands of the Middle East and the back roads of America, Blink engages issues as ancient as the earth itself, and as current as today's headlines.

Jack Collier is a brilliant scientist who discovers a wonder cure, but the solution is stolen by his mentor, Jack gets expelled from Harvard and begins his cross country trek to find his girlfriend, leaving a wake of death in his tracks because something horrible has happened to his miracle cure.

The life of Nathaniel Mason, a graduate student in upstate New York, seems to not really be his own after he meets the cryptic, mysterious Jerome Coolberg and begins a dark spiral toward a nervous breakdown.

Thomas Bunting's marriage and academic career are in ruins, so when his father falls ill, Thomas agrees to return to his family home, thinking he has nothing to lose and not realizing he has everything to gain.