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Early Warning: A novel

Jane Smiley

From the best-selling author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize: a riveting, emotionally engaging journey through mid-century America, as lived by a remarkable family with roots in the heartland of IowaEarly Warning opens in 1953 with t...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2015

In America

Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag's new novel is a brilliant and profound investigation into the fate of thought and culture in America. Like her last novel, THE VOLCANO LOVER, IN AMERICA masquerades as historical fiction, flaunting the stuff of drama and...

Paperback
Published: May 2001

Nightwoods

Charles Frazier

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  Charles Frazier, the acclaimed author of Cold Mountain and Thirteen Moons, returns with a dazzling novel set in small-town North Carolina in the early 1960s. With his brilliant portrait of Luce, a young wom...

Paperback
Published: Jun 2012

The Keeper of Lost Things: A Novel

Ruth Hogan

A charming, clever, and quietly moving debut novel of of endless possibilities and joyful discoveries that explores the promises we make and break, losing and finding ourselves, the objects that hold magic and meaning for our lives, a...

Paperback
Published: Nov 2017

The Double Bind

Chris Bohjalian

Withdrawing into her photography and a job at a homeless shelter after being assaulted while riding her bike, student Laurel Estabrook encounters Bobbie Crocker, a man with a history of mental illness and a box of secret photos, but w...

Abridged CD
Published: Feb 2007

The Inheritance of Loss

Kiran Desai

Kiran Desai casts an incisive, mournful eye on post-colonialism and the vast gulf between economic classes in her second novel. In the 1980s, a Nepalese uprising threatens a reclusive, Cambridge-educated Indian judge living in the Him...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2007

Imperfect Birds

Anne Lamott

Unabridged CDs, 8 CDs, 10 hours Read by TBA A powerful and redemptive novel of love and family, from the author of the bestselling Blue Shoe, Grace (Eventually), and Operating Instructions.

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2010

My Name Is Lucy Barton

Elizabeth Strout

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the tender relationship between mother and daughter in this extraordinary novel by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess B...

Paperback
Published: Nov 2016

Milkman: A Novel

Anna Burns

Winner of the Man Booker Prize"Everything about this novel rings true. . . . Original, funny, disarmingly oblique and unique."―The GuardianIn an unnamed city, middle sister stands out for the wrong reasons. She reads while...

Paperback
Published: Dec 2018

I, Ripper: A Novel

Stephen Hunter

The electrifying new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Stephen Hunter takes you deep inside the mind of the most notorious serial killer of all time: Jack the Ripper.In the fall of 1888, Jack the Ripper slaughtered five ...

Paperback
Published: Dec 2015

Tigers in Red Weather

Liza Klaussmann

Nick and her cousin Helena grew up in a world of sun bleached boat docks, tennis whites, and midnight gin parties at Tiger House, the family home on Martha's Vineyard. In the wake of the Second World War, the two women are on the cusp...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2012

Transcription: A Novel

Kate Atkinson

A dramatic story of WWII espionage, betrayal, and loyalty, by the #1 bestselling author of Life After LifeIn 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department ...

Paperback
Published: Apr 2019

The Dream Lover: A Novel

Elizabeth Berg

A passionate and powerful novel based on the scandalous life of the French novelist George Sand, her famous lovers, untraditional Parisian lifestyle, and bestselling novels in Paris during the 1830s and 40s This major departure for be...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2015

Welcome to Braggsville

T. Geronimo Johnson

National BestsellerFrom the PEN/Faulkner finalist and critically acclaimed author of Hold It 'Til It Hurts comes a dark and socially provocative Southern-fried comedy about four UC Berkeley students who stage a dramatic protest during...

Paperback
Published: Sep 2015

Slade House: A Novel

David Mitchell

The New York Times bestseller by the author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas | A Publishers Weekly Literary Fiction Top 10 Pick for Fall 2015Keep your eyes peeled for a small black iron door. Down the road from a working-class Briti...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2015

The Yellow Birds: A Novel

Kevin Powers

A novel written by a veteran of the war in Iraq, The Yellow Birds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive."The war tried to kill us in the spring." So begins this powerful account of friendship and ...

Paperback
Published: May 2013

Lila: A Novel

Marilynne Robinson

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNERA new American classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gilead and HousekeepingMarilynne Robinson, one of the greatest novelists of our time, returns to the...

Paperback
Published: Oct 2015

Lila: A Novel

Marilynne Robinson

A new American classic from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Gilead and HousekeepingMarilynne Robinson, one of the greatest novelists of our time, returns to the town of Gilead in an unforgettable story of a girlhood lived on t...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2014

Gods in Alabama

JOSHILYN JACKSON

A crime from her youth threatens a young woman's future in this extraordinary debut novel that follows in the bestselling Southern tradition of Big Stone Gap. When Arlene Fleet headed off to college in Chicago, she made three promises...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2005

A Happy Marriage

Rafael Yglesias

A Happy Marriage is both intimate and expansive: It is the story of Enrique Sabas and his wife, Margaret, a novel that alternates between the romantic misadventures of the first weeks of their courtship and the final months of Margare...

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Published: Aug 2010

The Book of Night Women

Marlon James

A true triumph of voice and storytelling, The Book of Night Women rings with both profound authenticity and a distinctly contemporary energy. It is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of th...

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Published: Feb 2010

The Butterfly House

Marcia Preston

A decade after a devastating fire that destroyed her friend's home of Rockhaven and claimed her own alcoholic mother's life, Roberta continues to be haunted by the tragedy and struggles to come to terms with the dark secret she posses...

Paperback
Published: Aug 2006

Where Darkness Lives

Robert Ross

When a whirlwind affair with a gorgeous financier leads to a hasty marriage, Kate Colson soon discovers that her new husband is not what he seems after she arrives at his family's estate and begins seing disturbing visions, which caus...

Paperback
Published: Jul 2002

The Guest Book: A Novel

Sarah Blake

Instant New York Times Bestseller Longlisted for Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence "The Guest Book is monumental in a way that few novels dare attempt." --The Washington Post The thought-provoking new novel by New York...

Paperback
Published: May 2020

Lay that Trumpet in Our Hands

Susan Carol McCarthy

Set agains the background of the Civil Rights movement and based on true events, this novel tells the story of Reesa McMahon, who loses both her best friend and her brother to Ku Klux Klan violence and who must struggle to overcome ha...

Paperback
Published: Apr 2003

The Japanese Lover: A Novel

Isabel Allende

From New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende, "a magical and sweeping" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) love story and multigenerational epic that stretches from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the...

Paperback
Published: Aug 2016

Innocents

Cathy Coote

Written when Cathy Coote was nineteen, Innocents is a taut, wickedly clever descent into the anatomy of an obsession, the debut of a precociously assured and provocative young literary voice. Forcing someone vulnerable and naive into ...

Paperback
Published: Aug 2002

Pushkin Hills

Sergei Dovlatov

An unsuccessful writer and an inveterate alcoholic, Boris Alikhanov has recently divorced his wife Tatyana, and he is running out of money. The prospect of a summer job as a tour guide at the Pushkin Hills Preserve offers him hope of ...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2015

Not a Sound

Heather Gudenkauf

A shocking discovery and chilling secrets converge in this latest novel from New York Times bestselling author Heather Gudenkauf When a tragic accident leaves nurse Amelia Winn deaf, she spirals into a depression that ultimately caus...

Paperback
Published: May 2017

How the Light Gets In

M. J. Hyland

Desperate to escape a life of poverty in Sydney, Australia, Lou Connor, a gifted sixteen-year-old student, is delighted to be given the opportunity to become an exchange student at an Illinois college, but her difficulty in coping wit...

Paperback
Published: May 2004
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