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The Gargoyle

Andrew Davidson

An extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of timeThe narrator of The Gargoyle is a very contemporary cynic, physically beautiful and sexually adept, who dwells in the moral vacu...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2008

Lunar Park

Bret Easton Ellis

Bret Easton Ellis writes a memoirish roman ' clef about a middle-aged writer named Bret Easton Ellis who marries an actress, moves to the suburbs, settles down, and watches his life disintegrate. Among other things, his novels--in par...

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Published: Aug 2006

Turtle Moon

Alice Hoffman

The New York Times bestselling author of Second Nature and Here on Earth presents 'a captivating...truly original novel' (Cosmopolitan), the story of a divorced woman, her disillusioned teenage son, and the events that change their li...

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Published: Jun 1993

Saving Ceecee Honeycutt

Beth Hoffman

Steel Magnolias meets The Help in this Southern debut novel sparkling with humor, heart, and feminine wisdom Twelve-year-old CeeCee Honeycutt is in trouble. For years, she has been the caretaker of her psychotic mother, Camille-the t...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2010

Catharine: and Other Writings (Oxford...

Jane Austen

This new collection of Austen's brilliant short fiction is the first annotated edition of her short writings. The texts have been compared with the manuscripts to give a number of new readings. In addition to prose fiction and praye...

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Published: Jul 1998

Summer's Child

Diane Chamberlain

Early on the morning of her eleventh birthday, on the beach beside her North Carolina home, Daria Cato receives an unbelievable gift from the sea—an abandoned newborn baby. When the infant's identity cannot be uncovered, she is adop...

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Published: Apr 2010

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece.A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack sto...

Abridged CD
Published: Nov 2008

The Giant's House: A Romance

Elizabeth McCracken

Peggy Court is the librarian in a small Massachusetts town. James Sweatt is a boy who grows--and grows and grows. After James’s mother commits suicide, Peggy assumes a protective role towards the boy, breaking out of the misanth...

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Published: Jul 2006

The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold ...

Nancy Mitford

The snobbery and false values of the English country aristocracy during the 1920s and 1930s are satirized in these two love stories involving the well-established Radlett and Hampton families. Reprint. 12,500 first printing. (A PBS te...

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Published: Dec 2001

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Tom Robbins

Listeners follow Sissy Hankshaw's odyssey from Virginia to chic Manhattan to the Dakota Badlands, where FBI agents, cowgirls, and ecstatic whooping cranes explode in a deliciously drawn-out climax. Unabridged. 12 CDs.

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2006

The Death of Mrs. Westaway

Ruth Ware

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, and The Lying Game comes Ruth Ware's fourth novel, "her best yet" (Library Journal, starred revie...

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Published: May 2019

One Amazing Thing

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

"Divakaruni is a brilliant storyteller; she illuminates the world with her artistry; and shakes the reader with her love." --Junot Diaz Late afternoon sun sneaks through the windows of a passport and visa office in a...

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Published: Dec 2010

An Untamed State

Roxane Gay

"Once you start this book, you will not be able to put it down. An Untamed State is a novel of hope intermingled with fear, a book about possibilities mixed with horror and despair. It is written at a pace that will match your ra...

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Published: May 2014

The Cookbook Collector

Allegra Goodman

Heralded as "a modern day Jane Austen" by USA Today, National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Allegra Goodman has compelled and delighted hundreds of thousands of readers. Now, in her most ambitious...

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Published: Jul 2011

Superman/Batman Vol. 1: Public Enemie...

Jeph Loeb

A tale of loyalty and unlikely friendship featuring two of the most recognizable and popular super-heroes on the planet pairs the Man of Steel with the Dark Knight when longtime Superman enemy Lex Luthor, now president of the United S...

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Published: Apr 2005

Chasing Harry Winston

Lauren Weisberger

Three best friends vow to change their lives in this hit novel from bestseller Weisberger (The Devil Wears Prada), soon to be a major motion picture.

Paperback
Published: Jan 2010

Something Missing

Matthew Dicks

A career criminal with OCD tendencies and a savant-like genius for bringing order to his crime scenes, Martin considers himself one of the best in the biz. After all, he's been able to steal from the same people for years on end—vir...

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Published: Jul 2009

Sister of My Heart

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

The author of the critically acclaimed novel Mistress of Spices delivers another sensually and movingly written novel set in the author's native India, where a dark family secret molds the lives of two close but very different sisters...

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Published: Jan 2000

Seventh Heaven

Alice Hoffman

In the late 1950s, when Nora Silk moves into Hemlock Street, the entire neighborhood sucks in its breath. A divorcee who wears Toreador pants and lets her kids eat sweets before school, Nora is a walking scandal. But when the block's ...

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Published: Apr 2003

Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

Beth Hoffman

Unabridged CDs, 8 CDs, 10 hours Read by TBA Steel Magnolias meets The Help in this Southern debut novel sparkling with humor, heart, and feminine wisdom.

Paperback
Published: Oct 2010

The Million Dollar Divorce

R.M. Johnson

Scheming to obtain a divorce without losing half of his millions by exploiting an infidelity clause in his prenuptial agreement, business entrepreneur Nate Kenny blackmails a down-on-his-luck man into seducing his wife, a plan that ba...

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Published: Aug 2005

Yes, My Darling Daughter

Margaret Leroy

Every once in a blue moon, a masterful writer dives into gothic waters and emerges with a novel that—like Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, Minette Walters's The Breaker, and Donna Tartt's The Little Friend—simultaneously celebrates an...

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Published: Mar 2010

Maggie: The Sequel to The Dead Don't ...

Charles Martin

'When Maggie opened her eyes that New Year's Day some seventeen months ago, I felt like I could see again. The fog lifted off my soul, and for the first time since our son had died and she had gone to sleep--some four months, sixteen...

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Published: Sep 2006

Tar Baby

Toni Morrison

The arrival of an ominous black stranger disturbs the precisely choreographed interactions among the five people living in a beautiful house on a Caribbean island--a millionaire candy manufacturer, his wife, and their servants--in a n...

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Published: Jun 2004

Gone Fishin': Featuring an Original E...

Walter Mosley

Gone Fishin' actually marks the first appearance of Ezekiel 'Easy' Rawlins, as well as his homicide-prone sidekick Raymond 'Mouse' Alexander. But the story takes place in 1939, when both protagonists are still living in Houston. This ...

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Published: Sep 2002

The Man in My Basement

Walter Mosley

The novel, written in adorned prose that allows the ideas to breathe, will hold readers rapt; it is Mosley's most philosophical novel to date, as he explores guilt, punishment, responsibility and redemption as individual and social co...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2004

Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Marisha Pessl

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 ...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2007

Miss Julia's School of Beauty

Ann B. Ross

Everyone's favorite proper Southern lady is back and feistier than ever in her sixth hilarious adventure Imagine Aunt Bee from The Andy Griffith Show with a lot more backbone and confidence,' wrote Publishers Weekly about Miss Juli...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2005

The Dying Animal

Philip Roth

Philip Roth's perennial character (first introduced in THE BREAST, then appearing in THE PROFESSOR OF DESIRE) David Kepesh is the narrator of THE DYING ANIMAL, which finds an aging Kepesh still obsessed with sex, still longing for you...

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Published: Jul 2002

The Vanishing Point

Mary Sharratt

Raised by a father who secretly trained her in the physician’s art, Hannah Powers journeys to seventeenth-century colonial Maryland to be with her sister, married off to a distant cousin after a series of sexual improprieties, a...

Paperback
Published: Jun 2006
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