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  Everyone’s Reading Bastard

  By Nick Hornby

  Newspaper columnist Elaine Harris has always written about her life with husband Charlie. Her readers count on full disclosure from her, but what no one—especially Charlie—anticipates, only a week after the couple decide to divorce, is the speed with which she crucifies him in print. Only a storyteller like Hornby—who’s given us so many unforgettable novels of comedy and heartbreak (High Fidelity, About a Boy, Juliet, Naked)—could conceive of an average guy trying to survive an ex’s wrath gone viral. His latest rollicking account of love’s fallout should be instructive: Sometimes no one wins. Sorry, Charlie.

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  You Were Never Really Here

  By Jonathan Ames

  A hero whose favorite weapon is a hammer clearly has issues. Meet Joe, an ass-kicking and psychologically tormented guardian angel who rescues others but refuses to save himself. A former Marine and ex–FBI agent, he has seen one too many crime scenes and known too much trauma. Solitary and haunted, Joe prefers to be invisible, making his living rescuing young girls from the deadly clutches of the sex trade. But when a high-ranking New York politician hires him to extricate his teenage daughter from a Manhattan brothel, he uncovers a web of corruption that even he may not be able to unravel. In this shocking and suspenseful new novella, Ames—novelist, essayist, and creator of the HBO series Bored to Death—goes darker than noir.

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