Lauren Groff
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"From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia, an exhilarating novel about marriage, creativity, art, and perception. Fates and Furies is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation. A dazzling examination of a marriage, it is also a portrait of creative partnership written by one of the best writers of her generation. Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes,...
2) Matrix
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"Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily...
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2023 Best Adult Fiction & Nonfiction (SCPL)
2023 Eisenhower Staff Favorites
Best of 2023 - Fiction
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"A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has taught her. Lauren Groff's new novel is at once a thrilling adventure story and a penetrating fable about trying to find a...
4) Florida
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A collection of stories spanning centuries of time in mercurial Florida examines the decisions and connections behind life-changing events in characters ranging from two abandoned sisters to a conflicted family woman.
5) Arcadia
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The lyrical and haunting story of a great American dream--the progress of a utopian community and its lasting impact on a gifted young man.
8) Wyspa kobiet
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"Siedemnastoletnia Marie de France, uznana za niepasującą do dworskiego życia i nienadającą się do małżeństwa, zostaje wygnana z królewskiego dworu przez Eleonorę Akwitańską i wysłana do Anglii, gdzie ma zostać nową przeoryszą zubożałego opactwa, w którym zakonnice umierają z głodu, dziesiątkowane chorobami. Początkowe zaskoczenie surowością nowego życia mija, gdy Marie znajduje sens i miłość w byciu z siostrami, we wspólnocie....
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From Lauren Groff, author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling novel Fates and Furies, comes Delicate Edible Birds, one of the most striking short fiction debuts in years. Here are nine stories of astonishing insight and variety, each revealing a resonant drama within the life of a twentieth-century American woman.
In "Sir Fleeting," a Midwestern farm girl on her honeymoon in Argentina falls into lifelong lust for a French playboy. In "Blythe,"...
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From the Publisher: The collection that established O'Connor's reputation as one of the American masters of the short story. The volume contains the celebrated title story, a tale of the murderous fugitive The Misfit, as well as "The Displaced Person" and eight other stories.
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"The Transit of Venus tells the story of two orphan sisters, Caroline and Grace Bell, as they leave Australia to start a new life in postwar England. What happens to these young women--seduction and abandonment, marriage and widowhood, love and betrayal--becomes as moving and wonderful and yet as predestined as the transits of the planets themselves"--
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"This abundance led to a volume of robust stories with the nerve to push against narrative expectations. The Best American Short Stories 2024 boasts a collection of twenty stories that "buzz with their own strange logic." A man becomes a tourist in his own hometown. An unemployed jeweler sails in an antique slave ship. A therapist decides to call an ex-patient years after their last session"--
13) Matrix
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Descendiente de una larga dinastía de guerreras y cruzadas, Marie es demasiado ruda y rebelde para la vida palaciega, por lo que acaba siendo expulsada de la corte y enviada a los lodazales de Inglaterra para que asuma el rol de priora de una abadía venida a menos. Al llegar, encuentra un panorama desolador donde reinan la inanición y el chismorreo. Marie añora la comodidad de la corte francesa, y también a su amante secreta, Cecily. Sin embargo,...
14) Matrix
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"Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily...
15) Arkadia
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Utopia never lasts forever, sometimes life verifies plans for us in the least expected moment - building it again in a completely different and strange place is not one of the simplest tasks ... Fourteen years have passed since Ridley came into the world. The boy, throughout his life, grew up in Arcadia - the place of liberated and independent people who always tried to draw life from their lives full of life. It was here that he discovered the taste...
16) Floryda
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"Dwie małe siostry, które nagle zostają same na przepięknej plaży, nie do końca rozumieją, co się wokół nich dzieje, ale przeczuwają, że trzeba szukać ratunku. Podczas wakacji matka z kilkuletnimi synkami zostają w domu na odludziu zdani tylko na siebie; muszą przeżyć, choć w bujnych zaroślach czai się niebezpieczeństwo. Malowniczy cypel zostaje zaatakowany przez huragan i tylko czas pokaże, czy samotna kobieta przetrwa atak...
17) Florida
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"En un mundo en el que el clima se ha vuelto impredecible, un lugar a la vez domesticado y salvaje en el que acechan los peligros feroces de la naturaleza, las mayores amenazas siguen siendo emocionales y psicológicas. Un refugio familiar puede ser destruido por una pantera que merodea o por un secreto sexual. Dos hermanas abandonadas, un hombre que crece rodeado de serpientes cazadas por su padre, una pareja inquieta y sin hijos, y una mujer casada...
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"Contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year. Guest editor Lauren Groff has selected an exciting and engaging variety of stories by an international array of both celebrated and emerging writers. The winning stories are accompanied by an introduction by Groff, fascinating observations from the winning writers on what inspired their work, and an extensive and useful directory of magazines...
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A collection of the year's best short stories, selected by National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee and series editor Heidi Pitlor. Min Jin Lee, author of the highly acclaimed National Book Award Finalist Pachinko, selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.