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Jean Hanff Korelitz
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Plot (a Tonight Show Summer Read pick) and You Should Have Known, adapted as HBO's The Undoing, Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Latecomer is the story of three siblings, desperate to escape one another, and the upending of their family by the late arrival of a fourth. The Oppenheimer triplets have been reared with every advantage: wealth, education, and the determined attention of at least one of their...
2) The sequel
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New Reads
OBD 100 Notable Books of 2024 New York Times Book Review - Adult
OBD Psychological Suspense - ADULT
New Reads
OBD 100 Notable Books of 2024 New York Times Book Review - Adult
OBD Psychological Suspense - ADULT
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"Anna Williams-Bonner has taken care of business. That is to say, she's taken care of her husband, bestselling novelist Jacob Finch Bonner, and solved the mystery of the anonymous plagiarism accusations that tormented him. Now she is living her life, content to enjoy her husband's royalty checks in perpetuity, but literary celebrity continues to beckon, and this time the book in question is her own debut novel, The Afterword. After all, how hard can...
3) The plot
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"Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he's teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what's left of his self-respect; he hasn't written--let alone published--anything decent in years. When Evan Parker, his most arrogant student, announces he doesn't need Jake's help because the plot of his book in progress is a sure thing, Jake is prepared to dismiss the boast...
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Grace Reinhart Sachs is living the only life she ever wanted, devoted to her husband, their young son, Henry, and the patients in her therapy practice. Grace is also the author of a forthcoming book in which she castigates women for not valuing their intuition about men. But weeks before the book is published, a chasm opens in her own life: a violent death, a missing husband, and, in the place of the man Grace thought she knew, only a chain of terrible...
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"Naomi Roth is the first female president of Webster College, a once conservative school now known for producing fired-up, progressive graduates. A former student radical herself, Naomi isn't alarmed when Webster students, including her own daughter, begin an outdoor encampment to protest a popular professor's denial of tenure, but when Omar Khayal, a charismatic Palestinian student with a devastating personal history, emerges as the group's leader,...
6) Admission
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Princeton University admissions officer Portia Nathan must suddenly confront a secret from her past just as thousands of the nation's brightest students await her decision regarding their academic admission.
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A legal thriller featuring Sybylla Muldoon of New York, defending a homeless man accused of slashing a schoolgirl. When an implant is discovered in his arm--he says it was inserted by people who abducted him--the lawyer sends it for tests. The tester is killed, the implant disappears. First novel by a poet.
10) Admission
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A Princeton admissions officer, Portia Nathan, who is up for a major promotion, takes a professional risk after she meets a college-bound alternative school kid who just might be the son she gave up years ago in a secret adoption.
11) La trama
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Jacob Finch Bonner fue una vez un joven novelista prometedor con un primer libro publicado respetablemente. Hoy, está enseñando en un programa MFA de tercer nivel y luchando por mantener lo que le queda de su autoestima; no ha escrito, y mucho menos publicado, nada decente en años. Cuando Evan Parker, su estudiante más arrogante, anuncia que no necesita la ayuda de Jake porque la trama de su libro en progreso es segura, Jake está preparado para...
12) Intryga
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Polish
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"Jake Finch Bonner jest pisarzem bez większych sukcesów i wykładowcą twórczego pisania na podrzędnej uczelni. Kiedy jeden z jego byłych studentów umiera przed ukończeniem swojej pierwszej powieści, Jake postanawia przejąć jego pomysł na fabułę. Bo ta intryga to miał być absolutny pewniak. Powieść osiąga niebywały sukces. Jake spełnia marzenia, jest sławny, bogaty i czytany na całym świecie. Ale co będzie, jeśli jednak ktoś...
14) Admission
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English
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A Princeton admissions officer, Portia Nathan, who is up for a major promotion, takes a professional risk after she meets a college-bound alternative school kid who just might be the son she gave up years ago in a secret adoption.