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City of Girls: A Novel

Elizabeth Gilbert

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and The Signature of All Things, a delicious novel of glamour, sex, and adventure, about a young woman discovering that you don't h...

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Published: Apr 2020

Captain Wentworth's Diary

Amanda Grange

The retelling of Jane Austen's novel Persuasion from the point of view of Captain Frederick Wentworth-by the author of Mr. Knightley's Diary. During his shore leave from the Navy, Frederick Wentworth falls in love with the elegant and...

Paperback
Published: May 2008

War Trash

Ha Jin

War Trash, the extraordinary new novel by the National Book Award–winning author of Waiting, is Ha Jin’s most ambitious work to date: a powerful, unflinching story that opens a window on an unknown aspect of a little-known...

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Published: May 2005

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

Anthony Marra

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena: A Novel

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Published: Feb 2014

Everyman

Philip Roth

Philip Roth's 27th novel begins at its unnamed protagonist's funeral, then leaps back in time to various moments of injury and deterioration (a childhood hernia, a burst appendix, heart failures of various kinds, the sad end of friend...

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Published: Apr 2007

Authority

Jeff VanderMeer

In the second volume of the Southern Reach Trilogy, questions are answered, stakes are raised, and mysteries are deepened . . .In Annihilation,Jeff VanderMeer introduced Area X—a remote and lush terrain mysteriously sequestered fr...

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Published: May 2014

Lost Memory of Skin

Russell Banks

"Like our living literary giants Toni Morrison and Thomas Pynchon, Russell Banks is a great writer wrestling with the hidden secrets and explosive realities of this country."—Cornel West"Of the many writers working in...

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Published: Jul 2012

The Swans of Fifth Avenue: A Novel

Melanie Benjamin

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Aviator's Wife returns with a triumphant new novel about New York's "Swans" of the 1950s—and the scandalous, headline-making, and enthralling friendship between literary le...

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Published: Oct 2016

The Firebrand

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Blending archaeological fact and legend, the myths of the gods and the feats of heroes, Marion Zimmer Bradley breathes new life into the classic tale of the Trojan War-reinventing larger-than-life figures as living people engaged in a...

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Published: May 2003

The Courage Tree

Diane Chamberlain

Eight-year-old Sophie Donohue suffers from a rare disease requiring constant treatment, but she wants to be normal. Sophie's mother finally agrees to let her go on a camping trip, but when Sophie goes missing, a full-scale search is l...

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Published: Apr 2009

The Hours

Michael Cunningham

A daring, deeply affecting third novel by the author of A Home at the End of the World and Flesh and Blood. In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation, draws inventively on the...

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Published: Jan 2000

Billy Bathgate

E. L. Doctorow

A new edition of a classic best-seller follows young Billy Bathgate through 1930s New York as he becomes involved with the nefarious schemes of the fascinating mobster Dutch Schultz and begins a potentially deadly affair with Dutch's ...

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Published: Dec 1998

The Gift of Rain

Tan Twan Eng

The recipient of extraordinary acclaim from critics and the bookselling community, Tan Twan Eng's debut novel casts a powerful spell and has garnered comparisons to celebrated wartime storytellers Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene. S...

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Published: May 2009

The Master Butchers Singing Club

Louise Erdrich

Having survived World War I, Fidelis Waldvogel returns to his quiet German village and marries the pregnant widow of his best friend, killed in action. With a suitcase full of sausages and a master butcher's precious knife set, Fideli...

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Published: Jul 2005

Offshore

Penelope Fitzgerald

A Booker Prize-winning story offers a stunning portrait of a group of eccentrics living in houseboats on the river Thames and describes how their disparate lives intertwine and complicate matters for everyone. Reprint. 50,000 first pr...

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Published: Apr 1998

Cold Comfort Farm (Classics Deluxe Ed...

Stella Gibbons

Orphaned and impoverished, Flora Poste goes to Sussex to stay with her bizarre cousins, the Starkadders. Their squalid farm is ruled by Ada Doom, who was traumatized in her childhood by 'something nasty in the woodshed.' Written as a ...

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Published: Mar 2006

In This House of Brede

Rumer Godden

This extraordinarily sensitive and insightful portrait of religious life centers on Philippa Talbot, a highly successful professional woman who leaves her life among the London elite to join a cloistered Benedictine community. In This...

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Published: Feb 2005

Little Mercies

Heather Gudenkauf

In her latest ripped-from-the-headlines tour de force, New York Times bestselling author Heather Gudenkauf shows how one small mistake can have life-altering consequences… Veteran social worker Ellen Moore has seen the worst side o...

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Published: Jun 2014

Leeway Cottage

Beth Gutcheon

In a tale that spans a long-term twentieth-century marriage, wealthy Sydney Brant marries Danish pianist Laurus Moss on the eve of the Nazi invasion of Denmark and finds their marriage challenged by disparate views of the world, Lauru...

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Published: May 2005

The Cranes Dance

Meg Howrey

 I threw my neck out in the middle of Swan Lake last night.So begins the tale of Kate Crane, a soloist in a celebrated New York City ballet company. Kate is struggling to keep her place in a very demanding world, a world she can't he...

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Published: May 2012

Brothers

Yu Hua

A bestseller in China, recently short-listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize, and a winner of France's Prix Courrier International, Brothers is an epic and wildly unhinged black comedy of modern Chinese society running amok.Here is C...

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Published: Jan 2010

A Peculiar Grace

Jeffrey Lent

An unforgettable tale of love, family secrets, and the hold of the past in a family of New England artists, A Peculiar Grace is the latest triumph from the author of In the Fall, hailed by The Christian Science Monitor and The New Yor...

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Published: Jun 2008

The Family Man

Elinor Lipman

A hysterical phone call from Henry Archer's ex-wife and a familiar face in a photograph upend his well-ordered life and bring him back into contact with the child he adored, a short-term stepdaughter from a misbegotten marriage long a...

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Published: May 2010

Good Hair

Benilde Little

Alice Andrews has her hands full living in Manhattan, working as a reporter in Newark, and trying to forget the smooth-talking investment banker she thought was Mr. Right. When she meets Jack Russworm, a handsome, Harvard-educated doc...

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Published: Aug 2001

The Highest Tide

Jim Lynch

A budding marine biologist comes of age in this poignant tale set in a small shoreside town in the state of Washington. Miles, an intelligent, sensitive, small-for-his-age 13-year-old beachcomber, escapes his insomnia, his parents&rs...

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Published: May 2006

Such a Long Journey

Rohinton Mistry

It is Bombay in 1971, the year India went to war over what was to become Bangladesh. A hard-working bank clerk, Gustad Noble is a devoted family man who gradually sees his modest life unravelling. His young daughter falls ill; his pro...

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Published: Jun 1992

Lives of Girls and Women

Alice Munro

[J]ust as the classical poets always thought that the usual should be exploited and beautifully put forth, so has Miss Munro seized upon the right incidents, the right referents to make the ordinary into an extraordinary work of art.

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Published: Feb 2001

The Hand That First Held Mine

Maggie O'Farrell

Lexie Sinclair is plotting an extraordinary life for herself.Hedged in by her parents' genteel country life, she plans her escape to London. There, she takes up with Innes Kent, a magazine editor who wears duck-egg blue ties and intro...

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Published: Jan 2011

The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

Jan-Philipp Sendker

A poignant and inspirational love story set in Burma, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats spans the decades between the 1950s and the present.  When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his...

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Published: Jan 2012

The Stone Diaries

Carol Shields

This fictionalized autobiography of Daisy Goodwill Flett, captured in Daisy's vivacious yet reflective voice, has been winning over readers since its publication in 1995, when it won the Pulitzer Prize. After a youth marked by sudden ...

Abridged CD
Published: Sep 2006
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