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Beasts (Otto Penzler Books)

Joyce Carol Oates

IIt's not subtle, but it works. Whenever Oates composes at this length, she doesn't pad or overwrite. The result is a cunning fusion of Gothic romance and psychological horror story, and one of her best recent books.

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Published: Jan 2003

Maneater

Gigi Levangie Grazer

The wife of a Hollywood producer dips into her store of experience to write a Hollywood satire about an L.A. party girl named Clarissa Alpert who sets her relentless sights on the fabulously wealthy Aaron Mason, gets him to marry her,...

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Published: Jun 2004

Codex

Lev Grossman

A young investment banker named Edward Wozny becomes involved in a bizarre situation when he finds that a pair of clients--a fabulously wealthy duke and duchess--hire him to catalog their long-neglected library of rare books. The plot...

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Published: May 2005

The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper

Phaedra Patrick

"Phaedra Patrick understands the soul. Eccentric, charming, and wise…The Curious Charms is not just for those who are mourning over love or the past. This book will illuminate your heart." — Nina George, New York Times bestselling...

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Published: Jan 2017

My Sister's Keeper: A Novel

Jodi Picoult

From the New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things and The Storyteller, a "beautifully crafted novel" (People) that explores a family torn apart by conflicting needs and a passionate love that triumphs over hum...

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Published: Feb 2019

The Shipping News

Annie Proulx

In this touching and atmospheric novel set among the fishermen of Newfoundland, Proulx tells the story of Quoyle. From all outward appearances, Quoyle has gone through his first 36 years on earth as a big schlump of a loser. He's not ...

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Published: Dec 2001

The Commoner

John Burnham Schwartz

In 1959, a young woman, Haruko, marries the Crown Prince of Japan. She is the first nonaristocratic woman to enter the mysterious, hermetic monarchy. Met with cruelty and suspicion by the Empress, Haruko is controlled at every turn, s...

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Published: Jan 2009

The Next Best Thing: A Novel

Jennifer Weiner

Blockbuster #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner returns with an irresistible story about a young woman trying to make it in Hollywood…At twenty-three, Ruth Saunders left her childhood home in Massachusetts and heade...

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Published: May 2013

Bless Me, Ultima

Rudolfo Anaya

Ultima, a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic, comes to Antonio Marez's New Mexico family when he is six years old, and she helps him discover himself in the magical secrets of the pagan past. Reprint.

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Published: Apr 1994

The Hotel New Hampshire (Ballantine R...

John Irving

'The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels.'So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre...

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Published: Aug 1995

The Used World

Haven Kimmel

The latest novel from the #1 bestselling author of A Girl Named Zippy! The Used World Emporium is the sprawling antique store where Hazel, Claudia, and Rebekah pass their days surrounded by dusty furniture, cast-off clothes, and a...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2007

Tigers in Red Weather: A Novel

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...

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Published: Jun 2013

The God of Animals

Aryn Kyle

When her older sister runs away to marry a rodeo cowboy, Alice Winston is left to bear the brunt of her family's troubles -- a depressed, bedridden mother; a reticent, overworked father; and a run-down horse ranch. As the hottest summ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2007

The Piano Tuner

Daniel Mason

In 1886 a shy, middle-aged piano tuner named Edgar Drake receives an unusual commission from the British War Office: to travel to the remote jungles of northeast Burma and there repair a rare piano belonging to an eccentric army surge...

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Published: Aug 2003

Twelve Bar Blues

Patrick Neate

A musician named Lick Holden, who learns to play the cornet in reform school, and his sister Sophie, who can pass for white, are the focus of this novel, which follows the two from the 1920s to a couple of generations later, when a de...

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Published: Feb 2004

The Leftovers

Tom Perrotta

A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book for 2011 The New York Times bestseller now in paperback—A thought-provoking engrossing novel about love, connection, and loss from the author of The Abst...

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Published: May 2012

Dawn

Elie Wiesel

“The author…has built knowledge into artistic fiction.”—The New York Times Book Review Elisha is a young Jewish man, a Holocaust survivor, and an Israeli freedom fighter in British-controlled Palestine; John Da...

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Published: Mar 2006

Beartown

Fredrik Backman

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove returns with a dazzling, profound novel about a small town with a big dream—and the price required to make it come true.People say Beartown is finished. A tiny community n...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2017

The Circle (Vintage)

Dave Eggers

The Circle is the exhilarating new novel from Dave Eggers, best-selling author of A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award. When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet...

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Published: Apr 2014

Something Happened

Joseph Heller

Bob Slocum was living the American dream. He had a beautiful wife, three lovely children, a nice house...and all the mistresses he desired. He had it all -- all, that is, but happiness. Slocum was discontent. Inevitably, inexorably, ...

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Published: Nov 1997

Notes on a Scandal: What Was She Thin...

Zoe Heller

When her best friend Sheba Hart's love affair with an underage male student comes to light, igniting a media circus, solitary schoolteacher Barbara Covett decides to write an account of the affair in her friend's defense, in the proce...

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Published: Nov 2006

Ernest Hemingway Audio Collection

Ernest Hemingway

Nobel Prize-winning giant Ernest Hemingway is widely considered one of the greatest American authors of the Twentieth Century. Here, listeners can experience his riveting style both from his own voice and from one of America's most es...

Abridged CD
Published: May 2001

Mary Reilly

Valerie Martin

An astonishing tour de force...Not only does it give us a fresh take on the famous Dr. Jekyll and the infamous Mr. Hyde; it also allows us backstairs into the shadowy Victorian world of devoted servants and the festering slums they ha...

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Published: Apr 2001

All The Pretty Horses Low Price

Cormac McCarthy

Winner of the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction All the Pretty Horses—the first volume of the Border Trilogy—tells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers. Acro...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2011

The Bone Clocks

David Mitchell

The New York Times bestseller by the author of Cloud Atlas •Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize•Named One of the Top Ten Fiction Books of the Year by Time, Entertainment Weekly,andO: The Oprah Magazin...

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Published: Jun 2015

Bent Road

Lori Roy

"A remarkably assured debut novel. Rich and evocative, Lori Roy's voice is a welcome addition to American fiction." -Dennis Lehane For twenty years, Celia Scott has watched her husband, Arthur, hide from the secrets surroun...

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Published: Dec 2011

Kissing in Manhattan

David Schickler

In New York City, an odd assortment of characters--accountant, heiress, actor, priest--live in a strange apartment building with an even stranger doorman, and their lives intertwine in magical ways. A New York Times Notable Book for 2...

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Published: Aug 2005

The Art of Racing in the Rain Tie-in:...

Garth Stein

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM FOX 2000 STARRING MILO VENTIMIGLIA, AMANDA SEYFRIED, AND KEVIN COSTNER MEET THE DOG WHO WILL SHOW THE WORLD HOW TO BE HUMANThe New York Times bestselling novel from Garth Stein—a heart-wrenching but d...

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Published: Aug 2019

The Bonfire of the Vanities

Tom Wolfe

Vintage Tom Wolfe, the #1 bestseller that will forever define late-twentieth-century New York style. 'No one has portrayed New York Society this accurately and devastatingly since Edith Wharton' (The National Review)

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Published: Mar 2008

City of the Beasts

Isabel Allende

When Alexander Cold's mother falls ill, the fifteen-year-old is sent to stay with his eccentric grandmother in New York. A tough and prickly magazine reporter, Kate Cold takes Alex along with her on an expedition to the Amazon to ver...

Paperback
Published: Nov 2009
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