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Nick Laird

From a rising British novelist, an artful meditation on love and life in contemporary LondonWhen David Pinner introduces his former teacher, the American artist Ruth Marks, to his friend and flatmate James Glover, he unwittingly sets in place a love triangle loaded with tension, guilt, and heartbreak. As David plays reluctant witness (and more) to James and Ruth's escalating love affair, he must come to terms with his own blighted emotional life. Set in the London art scene awash with new money and intellectual pretension, in the sleek galleries and posh restaurants of a Britannia resurgent with cultural and economic power, Nick Laird's insightful and drolly satirical novel vividly portrays three people whose world gradually fractures along the ineluctable fault lines of desire, truth, deceit, and jealousy. With wit, compassion, and acuity, Laird explores the very nature of contemporary romance—"The Death of Love in Modern Culture," as David puts it in one of his...

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Thomas Berger

"Since childhood, Sam Grandy and Roy Courtright have been best friends. They grew up in the same prosperous community, went to the same prep school, and later entered the same university. After Sam's father died, Roy's father looked after him. At one point Sam dated Roy's sister, Robin. As best friends, they share a close and loving bond, often stronger than the relationships other men share with their girlfriends, siblings, or wives.". "But in the twenty years since their friendship began, their fundamental differences have become more apparent and their relationship has grown strained. More and more often they realize they are opposites - one a womanizer, the other a devoted husband; one careless with money, the other frugal; one independent, the other needy. Do these differences threaten their friendship - or are the dissimilarities what make it possible? Can they escape the ties of their past, or are they intrinsically bound until death?" "When Sam's health begins to falter, he draws Roy into his life again - and into a chain of deceit, sex, delusion, death, and love such as only a best friend could."--BOOK JACKET.

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Mark O'Neal

Maurice Ousley and his beautiful wife Gabrielle are living well. Maurice had just retired from the NBA due to injury with his fortune intactl and Gabrielle is a successful restaurateur in St. Louis, Missouri. On the way to their friend Stephanie's wedding, terrorist tries to hijack the plane. Will they survive, or will the terrorist successfully fly the plane into the Willis Tower? Darius Clinton is still at large, will he be caught? Junior is on the cusp of being a rap superstar and life couldn't be sweeter. Until one night, he beats a guy half to death. Will he spend the rest of his life in jail?

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Beth Cruise

When a local television station sponsors a contest with a scholarship award to whoever makes the best promotional video for Palisades, several of the "Saved by the Bell" gang decide to enter.