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The Uses of Enchantment

Heidi Julavits

Sixteen-year old Mary Veal vanishes from her prep school and reappears a month later without any memories of her absence. This vanishing spell has a ripple effect, disrupting Mary and her family's life in myriad ways. 15 years later, ...

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Published: Jan 2007

A Sport and a Pastime

James Salter

“As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know,” is how Reynolds Price (The New York Times) described this classic that has been a favorite of readers, both here and in Europe, for almost forty years. Set in provincial ...

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Published: Aug 2006

Black & White

Dani Shapiro

In Dani Shapiro's captivating new novel, a mother struggles to protect her young daughter from the dark secrets of her past. Haunting and insightful, Black & White explores the notions of family and motherhood, inspiration and obliga...

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Published: Jun 2008

Werewolves in Their Youth: Stories

Michael Chabon

The author of Wonder Boys returns with a powerful and wonderfully written collection of stories. Caught at moments of change, Chabon's men and women, children and husbands and wives, all face small but momentous decisions. They are ...

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Published: Jan 2000

The Life All Around Me By Ellen Foste...

Kaye Gibbons

This sequel to Gibbons' beloved classic Ellen Foster, stands on its own as an unforgettable portrait of a redoubtable adolescent making herself up out of whole cloth. Now fifteen, Ellen is settled into a permanent home with a new moth...

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Published: Dec 2005

The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street...

Susan Jane Gilman

Now in paperback, bestselling author Susan Jane Gilman's IndieNext Pick novel about an immigrant girl's transformation into an indomitable businesswoman in early 20th century New York. As a child in 1913, Malka Treynovsky flees Russi...

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Published: Jun 2015

The Lowland (Vintage Contemporaries)

Jhumpa Lahiri

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book • A Time Top Fiction Book • An NPR "Great Read" • A Chicago Tribune Best Book • A USA Today Best Book • A People magazine Top 10 Book • A Barnes and Noble Best New B...

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Published: Jun 2014

An Object of Beauty

Steve Martin

Lacey Yeager is young, captivating, and ambitious enough to take the NYC art world by storm. Groomed at Sotheby's and hungry to keep climbing the social and career ladders put before her, Lacey charms men and women, old and young, ric...

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Published: Nov 2011

Life After Life

Jill McCorkle

Life After Life is filled with a sense of wonder at our capacity for self-discovery at any age. And the residents, staff, and neighbors of the Pine Haven retirement center (from twelve-year-old Abby to eighty-five-year-old Sadie) shar...

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Published: Aug 2013

The Children Act

Ian McEwan

One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, NPR, Vogue, BookRiotFiona Maye is a leading High Court judge who presides over cases in the family division. She is renowned for her fierce intelligence, exactitude, and sensit...

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Published: Apr 2015

The Tale of Genji

Lady Murasaki

The Tale of Genji' ceases to be a work of worldly and poetic comedy and, in its last part, becomes a fast-moving drama of intrigue and passion and dementia....It is as if we had moved from, say, Jane Austen to an Oriental version of '...

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Published: Aug 2000

His Illegal Self

Peter Carey

Seven-year-old Che Selkirk was raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother. The son of radical student activists at Harvard in the late sixties, Che has grown up with the hope that one day his parents will come back for h...

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Published: Feb 2009

Dead of Winter (The Arcana Chronicles...

Kresley Cole

Can Evie convince her rival loves to work together? Their survival depends on it in this third book of #1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole's Arcana Chronicles, a nonstop action tale of rescue, redemption, and a revenge m...

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Published: Dec 2015

The Rabbit Hutch: A Novel (National B...

Tess Gunty

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER •The standout literary debut that everyone is talking about •"Inventive, heartbreaking and acutely funny."—The Guardian A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, TIME, NPR...

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Published: Jun 2023

Anthropology of an American Girl

Hilary Thayer Hamann

This is what it's like to be a high-school-age girl.To forsake the boyfriend you once adored.To meet the love of your life, who just happens to be your teacher.To discover for the first time the power of your body and mind. This is w...

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Published: Jun 2011

The Death of the Adversary

Hans Keilson

Written while Hans Keilson was in hiding during World War II and first published in 1959, The Death of the Adversary is the self-portrait of a young man helplessly fascinated—obsessed—by an unnamed "adversary," whom he w...

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Published: Jul 2010

The Misremembered Man

Christina McKenna

The Misremembered Man is a beautifully rendered portrait of life in rural Ireland which charms and delights with its authentic characters and gentle humor. This vivid portrayal of the universal search for love brings with it a darker ...

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Published: Jun 2011

No Time to Wave Goodbye

Jacquelyn Mitchard

New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard captured the heart of a nation with The Deep End of the Ocean, her celebrated debut novel about mother Beth Cappadora, a child kidnapped, a family in crisis. Now, in No Time to Wave...

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Published: Sep 2009

Our Tragic Universe

Scarlett Thomas

Meg Carpenter is broke, her novel years overdue. So when a pseudoscientific book promising life everlasting lands on her desk, she jumps at the chance to review it. Thus begins a labyrinthine journey featuring mysterious beasts of the...

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Published: May 2011

Divisadero

Michael Ondaatje

From the celebrated author of The English Patient and In the Skin of a Lion comes a remarkable new novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time. In the 1970s in northern California, near Gold Rush country, a f...

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Published: May 2007

Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith...

Anne Lamott

Blue Van Meer, a precocious and overeducated high-schooler, lives an unorthodox and migratory lifestyle, traveling from one quaint college town to the next with her father, a peripatetic professor. In her senior year, she is taken up ...

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Published: Apr 2007

The Woman Upstairs

Claire Messud

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Emperor's Children, a masterly new novel: the riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed and betrayed by a desire for a world beyond her own. Nora Eldridge, an elementary sc...

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Published: Apr 2013

Flower Children

Maxine Swann

From an award-winning writer: an elegant, lively, moving novel that portrays the strangely celebrated and unsupervised childhood of four hippie offspring in the seventies and eighties. When Flower Children's first chapter was publish...

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Published: Jun 2008

Tom Clancy's Power Plays: Cutting Edg...

Tom Clancy

WIRED. Africa becomes the battleground of twenty-first-century war. As fiber-optic cable is laid down around the continent, two entities fight to control it. One is ULink Communications, headed by Roger Gordian. The Pan-African fibe...

Abridged CD
Published: Oct 2002

Zero K

Don DeLillo

The wisest, richest, funniest, and most moving novel in years from Don DeLillo, one of the great American novelists of our time—an ode to language, at the heart of our humanity, a meditation on death, and an embrace of life.Jeffrey ...

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Published: May 2016

Lost in the City

Edward P. Jones

Set in the nation's capital, a collection of stories about African Americans living in Washington, D.C., introduces characters who struggle daily with loss--of family, of friends, of memories, and of themselves. Repritn. 15,000 first ...

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Published: Dec 2004

You Don't Love Me Yet

Jonathan Lethem

In YOU DON'T LOVE ME YET the ever-eclectic Jonathan Lethem concocts a toothsome literary delight, an oddball tale of ill-conceived lovemaking in the urban world. Lucinda Hoekke is a professional listener at The Complaint Line. Most of...

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Published: Mar 2007

Ruby: A Novel

Cynthia Bond

The epic, unforgettable story of a man determined to protect the woman he loves from the town desperate to destroy her—this beautiful and devastating debut heralds the arrival of a major new voice in fiction.  Ephram Jennings has n...

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Published: Apr 2014

Trouble

Kate Christensen

Josie is a Manhattan psychotherapist living a comfortable life with her husband and daughter. Raquel is a Los Angeles rock star with a platinum album and the attendant money and fame. When Josie realizes her marriage is over, and Raqu...

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Published: Jun 2010

Manhattan Beach: A Novel

Jennifer Egan

* New York Times Bestseller * A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of 2017* A Time magazine and USA Today Top 10 Novel of 2017* Winner of the Booklist Top of the List for Fiction* Longl...

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Published: Oct 2017
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