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The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

Jan-Philipp Sendker

[This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.] 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 s...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2012

The Visibles

Sara Shepard

The only piece of information that Summer Davis takes away from her years at Peninsula Upper School -- one of the finest in the Brooklyn Heights-to-Park Slope radius, to quote the promotional materials -- is the concept that DNA defin...

Paperback
Published: May 2010

Memento Mori

Muriel Spark

Elderly Lettie Colston receives an anonymous phone call reminding her that she must die. Soon ten of Lettie's friends also get the call. A bizarre investigation reveals a network of deception that binds together the group of aging ecc...

Abridged MP3-CD
Published: Aug 2003

We Are Not Ourselves: A Novel

Matthew Thomas

Destined to be a classic, this "powerfully moving" (Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding), multigenerational debut novel of an Irish-American family is nothing short of a "masterwork." (Joshua Ferris, Then We Came to ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2014

The Widows of Eastwick

John Updike

After traveling the world to exotic lands, Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie–now widowed but still witches–return to the Rhode Island seaside town of Eastwick, "the scene of their primes," site of their enchanted mischief more ...

Paperback
Published: Jun 2009

The Isle of Youth: Stories

Laura Van Den Berg

Laura van den Berg's gorgeous new book, The Isle of Youth, explores the lives of women mired in secrecy and deception. From a newlywed caught in an inscrutable marriage, to private eyes working a baffling case in South Florida, to a t...

Paperback
Published: Nov 2013

Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel

Jesmyn Ward

A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award–winner Jesmyn Ward.In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award–winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2017

You're Not You

Michelle Wildgen

Bec is adrift. IIt's the summer before her junior year in college. She's sleeping with a married professor, losing interest in her classes, and equivocating about her career. She takes a job caring for Kate, a thirty-six-year-old woma...

Paperback
Published: Jul 2007

Gossip Girl

Cecily Von Ziegesar

Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side where my friends and I live, and go to school, and play, and sleep- sometimes with each other. We all live in huge apartments with our own bedrooms and bathrooms and phone lines. We're smart,...

Abridged CD
Published: Oct 2003

The Ruined Map

Kobo Abe

Of all the great Japanese novelists, Kobe Abe was indubitably the most versatile. With The Ruined Map, he crafted a mesmerizing literary crime novel that combines the narrative suspense of Chandler with the psychological depth of Dost...

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Published: Dec 2001

An Unnecessary Woman

Rabih Alameddine

"I can't remember the last time I was so gripped simply by a novel's voice…Aaliya is thoughtful, she's complex, she's humorous and critical."-NPR.com"Beautiful and absorbing."-New York TimesAn Unnecessary Woman is...

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Published: Jan 2015

My Life in Heavy Metal: Stories

Steve Almond

In his smart and self-assured debut, My Life in Heavy Metal, Steve Almond breathes fresh life into the oft-explored territory of young love and longing. The 12 stories in this pulsating collection are populated with hookups, drunken k...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2003

The Kept Man

Jami Attenberg

Now in paperback: the novel that's "unabashedly emotional, refreshingly devoid of New York City cynicism, and tenderly funny" (People).Jarvis Miller's artist husband has been in a coma for six years. And so, Jarvis has spent...

Paperback
Published: Jan 2009

Winterton Blue

Trezza Azzopardi

“Beryl Bainbridge, Muriel Spark, and Graham Greene all come to mind, but Azzopardi’s style is all her own.”—Chicago TribuneNew York Times Editors’ Choice, the breathtaking third novel from Booker Prize fi...

Paperback
Published: Dec 2007

The Infinities

John Banville

On a languid midsummer's day in the countryside, the Godley family gathers at the bedside of Adam, a renowned mathematician and their patriarch. But they are not alone in their vigil. Around them hovers a clan of mischievous immortals...

Paperback
Published: Feb 2011

The Secret Scripture

Sebastian Barry

Roseanne McNulty, once one of the most beautiful and beguiling girls in County Sligo, Ireland, is now an elderly patient at Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital. As her hundredth year draws near, she decides to record the events of her ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2008

The Temporary Gentleman

Sebastian Barry

A stunning new novel from the two-time Man Booker shortlisted author of The Secret Scripture In this highly anticipated new novel, Irishman Jack McNulty is a "temporary gentleman"—an Irishman whose commission in the Briti...

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Published: Apr 2015

A Very Private Gentleman

Martin Booth

Known as Signor Farfalla--Mr. Butterfly--to his neighbors in the southern Italian town where he lives, an inconspicuous gentleman who spends his days painting, idling at local cafes, and getting together with his friend, the town prie...

Paperback
Published: Feb 2005

Latecomers

Anita Brookner

A novel about the 50-year friendship of two dissimilar German refugees brought over to England as children from Nazi Germany. Their friendship becomes a funny yet touching model for the ways in which human beings come to terms with th...

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Published: Feb 1990

Strangers

Anita Brookner

Booker Prize-winner Anita Brookner captures the magic and depth of real life with this story of an ordinary man whose unexpected longings, doubts, and fears are universal. Paul Sturgis is resigned to his bachelorhood and the quietude...

Paperback
Published: Jul 2010

The Sand Castle

Rita Mae Brown

Since the publication of Rubyfruit Jungle in 1973, Rita Mae Brown has been a major American literary voice and a bestselling author. In The Sand Castle, she revisits some of her most unforgettable characters: sisters Juts and Wheezie ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2008

Carry Me Across the Water

Ethan Canin

August Kleinman is a World War II veteran now living in Pittsburgh, where he has made a fortune as the founder of a prosperous brewery. As Canin narrates episodes from Kleinman's life, past and present, an episode from the war, on the...

Paperback
Published: May 2002

Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Nove...

Truman Capote

Perhaps already the most famous unpublished novel in contemporary American fiction, Answered Prayers is the work Capote was still completing at the time of his death and is joined here with a revealing introduction by his biographer, ...

Paperback
Published: Mar 1995

Moonglow: A Novel

Michael Chabon

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWinner of the Sophie Brody Medal • An NBCC Finalist for 2016 Award for Fiction • ALA Carnegie Medal Finalist for Excellence in Fiction • Wall Street Journal's Best Novel of the Year • A New Yor...

Paperback
Published: Sep 2017

Moonglow: A Novel (Harper Perennial O...

Michael Chabon

Moonglow unfolds as the deathbed confession of a man the narrator refers to only as "my grandfather." It is a tale of madness, of war and adventure, of sex and marriage and desire, of existential doubt and model rocketry, of...

Paperback
Published: Sep 2020

The Wangs vs. the World

Jade Chang

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An October 2016 Indie Next Pick A PopSugar Best Book for Fall A BuzzFeed Incredible Book for Fall A Nylon Amazing Book for Fall A Bustle Book for Your Fall TBR List A Millions Most Anticipa...

Paperback
Published: Oct 2017

The Queen of the Night

Alexander Chee

National Bestseller“This book is a glorious performance . . . Enveloping, seductive.” —Karen RussellFrom a writer praised by Junot Díaz as “the fire, in my opinion, and the light,” a mesmerizing novel that follows one wo...

Paperback
Published: Jan 2017

Cybernation (Tom Clancy's Net Force, ...

Tom Clancy

In the year 2010, computers are the new superpowers. Those who control them control the world. To enforce the Net Laws, Congress creates the ultimate computer security agency within the FBP the Net Force.When web service is disrupted ...

Abridged CD
Published: Nov 2001

The Pilgrimage

Paulo Coelho

Here Paulo Coelho details his journey across Spain along the legendaryroad of San Tiago, which pilgrims have travelled since Middle Ages. On this contemporary quest, he encounters a Chaucerian variety of mysterious guides and devilish...

Paperback
Published: Sep 2008

Red Badge of Courage

Stephen Crane

THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE, the harrowing tale of a young soldier in battle during the Civil War, is a masterpiece of 19th-century naturalism. Crane attended a military prep school and was obsessed with war all his life, but he wrote th...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2000
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