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Kristen Roupenian

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Aubrey Plaza, Jayme Mattler, Molly Pope, Will Damron, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Emily Tremaine, Finn Wittrock, Amy Ryan, Olivia Taylor Dudley, Corey Brill, Jacques Roy, Kristen Roupenian, Gibson Frazier

“These stories are sharp and perverse, dark and bizarre, unrelenting and utterly bananas. I love them so, so much.” —Carmen Maria Machado, National Book Award Finalist and author of Her Body and Other Parties*A compulsively readable collection of short stories that explore the complex—and often darkly funny—connections between gender, sex, and power across genres. I***ncludes the story “Cat Person”—now a major film.Previo...

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Amy Ryan

Shot is an intimate portrait of a young woman’s sudden transition to a chronic, life-threatening, auto-immune disease. Treatment for a routine infection one Monday morning yielded, with stunning speed, to a glucose monitor, test strips, insulin vials, and a diagnosis of type 1 diabetes. In Shot, Amy Ryan shows what it really takes to live with and manage an incurable disease. She charts the essential duties that keep her stable while revealing the daily concerns, the simple rewards and vic...

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Amy Ryan

As we approach the End Times and the return of our Messiah, one of the most central topics of interest today from Bible readers is the city of Jerusalem. It is the city our Creator chose to put His Name and will again be the city from which the Messiah will reign on this Earth.Few subjects invoke more passion, but also more confusion, than the role of Jerusalem in the Tribulation. What does the Scripture reveal to us about our role in relationship with this city and surrounding are...

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Colm Tóibín

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Elissa Schappell, Amy Ryan

Award-winning, bestselling author Colm Tóibín returns to the Thalia Book Club for a discussion on his latest novel with Elissa Schappell (Blueprints for Building Better Girls). With a performance from the novel by Amy Ryan (Birdman).

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Colm Tóibín

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Elissa Schappell, Amy Ryan

Award-winning, bestselling author Colm Tóibín returns to the Thalia Book Club for a discussion on his latest novel with Elissa Schappell (Blueprints for Building Better Girls). With a performance from the novel by Amy Ryan (Birdman).

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J. Ryan Stradal

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Amy Ryan, Michael Stuhlbarg

**“A sweet and savory treat.” —People“An impressive feat of narrative jujitsu . . . that keeps readers turning the pages too fast to realize just how ingenious they are.”—The New York Times Book Review, Editor’s Pick**From the New York Times bestselling author of The Lager Queen of Minnesota, Kitchens of the Great Midwest is a novel about a young woman with a once-in-a-generation palate who becomes the iconic chef behind the count...

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Amy Knupp

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Erin Mallon, Ryan West

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Single Dads of Dragonfly Lake

Sometimes all it takes to spark a second chance is one single wish. Especially in this small town…MagnoliaI’m not the spoiled rich girl I used to be. And if my new business succeeds, I’ll finally be able to prove it.Too bad my first job is planning a wedding…in my sworn enemy’s barn.There was a time when I cared about Luke Durham with my whole heart. But that died when he assumed the worst of me.Now, we’re s...

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Anne Enright

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Hannah Tinti, Amy Ryan

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Thalia Book Club

Anne Enright sits down with Hanna Tinti to discuss her book, The Forgotten Waltz. Amy Ryan reads an excerpt.

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Peter Hedges

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Allison Pill, Amy Ryan, Peter Hedges

Tim Welch is a popular history teacher at the Montague Academy, an exclusive private school in Brooklyn Heights. As he says, "I was an odd-looking, gawky kid but I like to think my rocky start forced me to develop empathy, kindness, and a tendency to be enthusiastic. All of this, I'm now convinced, helped in my quest to be worthy of Kate Oliver." Now, Kate is not inherently ordinary. But she aspires to be. She stays home with their two young sons in a modest apartment trying desperately to...

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Amy Gallo Ryan

You May Feel a Bit of Pressure: Observations from Infertility's Heart-Wrenching Ride tells the maddening, mysterious story of one woman's unexplained infertility through a spectrum of emotions that will be familiar to each of the millions of women fighting their way to motherhood. From Hope to Shame, Courage to Grief, Disappointment to Dread to Uncertainty, this book, with unflinching honesty, explores the many painful, palpable human truths at the heart of a most common experienc...

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Harper Jackson, Kait Nolan

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Amy McFadden, Ryan West

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Wayward Sons

I've spent my career searching for the missing.The irony isn't lost on me.When the investigative podcast I work for gets a request to look into a cold case off the Carolina coast, there are a hundred reasons I should say no. But some cases find you for a reason, and this one hits too close to home to refuse.Hatterwick Island is beautiful and insular and hiding something far deeper than one missing girl. The closer we get to the truth, the more dangerous it becomes—f...

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Ryan Graudin, Amie Kaufman

Bestselling authors Amie Kaufman and Ryan Graudin invite readers back to the wondrous world where lost things are found in this second book of an exciting, fast-paced middle-grade fantasy adventure series. Perfect for fans of Chris Colfer's Land of Stories and Margaret Peterson Haddix's The Missing!When Jake and Marisol return unexpectedly to the World Between Blinks, they find that nothing is as they left it. The Administrator is on an unstoppable mission, ordering his Curators to...