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Something to Tell You

Hanif Kureishi

THE STUNNINGLY ORIGINAL, ICONOCLASTIC, AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA RETURNS WITH HIS FINEST, MOST EXUBERANT NOVEL.In the early 1980s Hanif Kureishi emerged as one of the most compelling new voices in film and fiction...

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Published: Oct 2009

The Prophecy

Chris Kuzneski

The legendary Nostradamus predicted numerous world-changing events. But his most important prophecies remained hidden. After discovering a message written in a series of codes and ancient languages a young woman is prompted to seek ou...

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Published: Jul 2011

Nobody Is Ever Missing

Catherine Lacey

You can run all the way to New Zealand, but eventually you'll catch up with yourselfWithout telling her family, Elyria takes a one-way flight to New Zealand, abruptly leaving her stable but unfulfilling life in Manhattan. As her husba...

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Published: Jul 2014

Imperfect Birds

Anne Lamott

A powerful and redemptive novel of love and family-from the beloved bestselling author. Seventeen-year-old Rosie Ferguson is smart, athletic, and beautiful- everything her mother, Elizabeth, and stepfather, James, hoped she would be....

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Published: Apr 2011

Ginny Moon: A Novel

Benjamin Ludwig

READ THE BOOK CRITICS ARE RAVING ABOUT!“A brilliant debut." —Graeme Simsion, New York Times bestselling author of The Rosie Project“A heartwarming and unforgettable page-turner." —Booklist, starred review“...

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Published: Dec 2017

Tender Graces

Kathryn Magendie

The death of her troubled mother and memories of her abused grandmother lure a woman back to the Appalachian hollow where she was born. Virginia Kate Carey, the daughter of a beautiful mountain wild-child and a slick, Shakespeare-quot...

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Published: Apr 2009

The Great Believers: A Novel

Rebecca Makkai

FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE IN FICTIONWINNER OF THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDALWINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FICTION WINNER OF THE STONEWALL BOOK AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Soon to Be a Major Televis...

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Published: Jun 2019

When the World Was Steady

Claire Messud

In a debut novel of remarkable breadth and intimate insight, Claire Messud tells the story of two middle-aged sisters and the divergent life paths chosen by each. On Bali and Skye, two islands as far apart as geography allows, the si...

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Published: May 2007

Garden State

Rick Moody

Captures the tale of four twenty-something, Generation X youths who suddenly are given a ''wake-up call'' and are forced to take on responsibilty and enter the real world once and for all. Reprint. Tour. PW. NYT.

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Published: Apr 1997

Purple America

Rick Moody

Purple America begins in a bathtub and ends in Long Island Sound. Inbetween, Rick Moody's latest novel explores the landscape of a family in crisis. Dexter(Hex) Raitliffe, a freelance publicist, returns home to care for his mother, Bi...

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Published: May 1998

The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Ea...

Edward Kelsey Moore

bTold with wit, style, and compassion, this is the story of friendship among three women weathering the ups and downs of life in a small Midwestern town./bbrbrWhen Odette, Clarice, and Barbara Jean meet as teenagers in the mid-sixties...

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Published: Mar 2013

Dear Life: Stories

Alice Munro

A brilliant new collection of stories from one of the most acclaimed and beloved writers of our time. Alice Munro's peerless ability to give us the essence of a life in often brief but always spacious and timeless stories is once agai...

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Published: Nov 2012

Dance Dance Dance

Haruki Murakami

This unusual poetry release is read by youtube.com star Urgelt he prefers to use his internet alias who lives a solitary life in Virginia USA reading poetry. His video of The Cremation is intensely moving and passionate. For Naxos A...

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Published: Nov 2007

Next Life Might Be Kinder

Howard Norman

"Norman elegantly crafts a murder story that isn't a mystery; a ghost story without shivers. At its heart, this is a bittersweet love story, about the hole left in a life." — Seattle Times Sam Lattimore meets Elizabeth Ch...

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Published: Jun 2015

Hamnet

Maggie O'Farrell

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD “Of all the stories that argue and speculate about Shakespeare’s life ... here is a novel ... so gorgeously written that it ...

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Published: May 2021

The Dog: A Novel (Vintage Contemporar...

Joseph O'Neill

***A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK******LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014******PWs Best of the Year 2014***The author of the best-selling and award-winning Netherland now gives us his eagerly awaited, stunningly different new nov...

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Published: Jun 2015

The Quick: A Novel

Lauren Owen

For fans of Anne Rice, The Historian, and The Night Circus, an astonishing debut, a novel of epic scope and suspense that conjures up all the magic and menace of Victorian London 1892: James Norbury, a shy would-be poet newly down fr...

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Published: Feb 2014

All Stories Are Love Stories

Elizabeth Percer

In this thoughtful, mesmerizing tale with echoes of Station Eleven, the author of An Uncommon Education follows a group of survivors thrown together in the aftermath of two major earthquakes that strike San Francisco within an hour of...

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Published: Mar 2017

Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot vs. the ...

Dav Pilkey

Ricky Ricotta and his Mighty Robot are in for a sticky, slimy surprise!Ricky and his Mighty Robot have built the coolest fort Squeakyville has ever seen, and they can't wait for the fun to begin! But then Cousin Lucy arrives with her ...

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Published: Oct 2015

Midnight Cactus

Bella Pollen

Alice Colman leaves London and a loveless marriage behind to restore an Arizona ghost town. There, she begins a slow romance with Duvall, the head of construction on the restoration project. Duvall is a strong silent type, with a trag...

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Published: Dec 2006

Storm in the Village

Miss Read

The English village of Fairacre, comfortably nestled in the heartof the Cotswolds, is a picturesque place of tile-roof cottages, ahistoric church, a post office, and a small primary school. Through theschool's beloved headmistress, Mi...

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Published: Aug 2007

The Professor of Desire

Philip Roth

As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself "a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes." Little does he realize how prophetic this motto will be—or how damning. For as Philip Roth follows Kepesh from the domest...

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Published: Dec 2009

Lock In: A Novel of the Near Future

John Scalzi

A blazingly inventive near-future thriller from the best-selling, Hugo Award-winning John Scalzi.Not too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the globe. Most who get sick experience nothing worse than f...

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Published: Aug 2015

There Will Never Be Another You

Carolyn See

“Carolyn See has written a novel alive with wit and love and energy–a book about things falling apart that turns out to be a day at the beach. . . . Pure joy.”–Joan DidionAccomplished author Carolyn See triumph...

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Published: Sep 2007

The Bastard of Istanbul

Elif Shafak

From one of Turkey's most acclaimed and outspoken writers comes a novel about the tangled histories of two families.In her second novel written in English, Elif Shafak confronts her country's violent past in a vivid and colorful tale ...

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Published: Jan 2007

Private Life

Jane Smiley

 From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres: the powerful and deeply affecting story of one woman's life, from post Civil-War Missouri to California in the midst of World War II.  When Margaret Mayfield marries Capta...

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Published: Jun 2011

All the Little Live Things

Wallace Stegner

Award-winning and bestselling author Wallace Stegner takes on the hippy generation in a novel of "crackling vividness."--The New York Times Book Review. A bearded young cultist invades the lives of a retired literary agent a...

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Published: Jun 2010

Murder Is Bad Manners (A Wells & Wong...

Robin Stevens

Two friends form a detective agency—and must solve their first murder case—in this "sharp-witted debut" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) that is the first adventure in a brand-new middle grade mystery series set at a ...

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Published: Apr 2016

Q & A

Vikas Swarup

Vikas Swarup's spectacular debut novel opens in a jail cell in Mumbai, India, where Ram Mohammad Thomas is being held after correctly answering all twelve questions on India's biggest quiz show, Who Will Win a Billion? It is hard to b...

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Published: Aug 2008

Hotel Honolulu

Paul Theroux

The narrator of Theroux's novel, a failed writer, manages a rundown hotel in Hawaii for a flamboyant character named Buddy Hamstra. The hotel--and in fact the entire city--seems to be people entirely by eccentrics, including a lawyer ...

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Published: May 2002
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