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Kitchens of the Great Midwest

J. Ryan Stradal

“A sweet and savory treat.” —People“An impressive feat of narrative jujitsu . . . that keeps readers turning the pages too fast to realize just how ingenious they are.”—The New York Times Book Review, Editor’s PickKitche...

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Published: Jun 2016

My Other Life

Paul Theroux

In the Washington Post Book World, Sven Birkerts called this exuberant novel 'a complex and gripping work of invention and confession . . . I understood again how the prose of a true writer can bring us to a world beyond.' The book sp...

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Published: Sep 1997

Man Gone Down

Michael Thomas

The down-on-his-luck hero of MAN GONE DOWN has overcome his alcoholism to build a family in Brooklyn, but must face the crippling oppression of a faltering economy when he suddenly has only four days to pay for a new apartment and his...

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Published: Jan 2007

The Detective's Secret (The Detective...

Lesley Thomson

Jack Harmon craves silence and a bird's eye view. From his new home in Palmyra Tower, he can raise binoculars to watch over west London. If he watches for long enough, he will learn who has secrets. He will learn who plans to kill. Bu...

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Published: Apr 2016

One Last Thing Before I Go: A Novel

Jonathan Tropper

The bestselling author of This Is Where I Leave You returns with a hilarious and heart-rending tale about one familiy's struggle to reconnect."Mistakes have been made." Drew Silver has begun to accept that life isn't going t...

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Published: May 2013

The John Updike Audio Collection

John Updike

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as th...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2003

My Name is Anton: A Novel

Catherine Ryan Hyde

New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde returns with a hopeful novel of sacrifice, two lost souls, and enduring love.\n\nIt’s 1965, and life has taken a turn for eighteen-year-old Anton Addison-Rice. Nearly a year ...

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Published: Dec 2020

Accommodations

Accommodations follows Wiola after she leaves her childhood village, a close-knit agricultural community in Poland where the Catholic calendar and local gossip punctuate daily life. Her new independence in the nearby city of Czestocho...

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Published: Jun 2019

Benefit

A young woman discovers what lurks beneath the system that anointed her among the best and brightest of her generation “A smart, razor-sharp exploration of the precarious island of academic life and the cold unforgiving waters ...

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Published: Apr 2022

Cornelius Sky

"The novel is set against a backdrop of a crumbling Manhattan, where tensions are high and things seem to be at a breaking point, mirroring the chaos in Sky's own life. Brandoff comes to the material honestly, having worked as a city ...

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Published: Aug 2019

Loudermilk: Or, the Real Poet; Or, th...

A tale of two idiots―the handsome, charismatic Troy Augustus Loudermilk and his unassuming, socially anxious friend Harry Rego―who, in the early days of the new millennium, scam their way into a fellowship at the most prestigious ...

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Published: May 2019

The End We Start From

The #1 Indie Next Selection for November 2017, a Summer/Fall 2017 Indies Introduce Selection, a Fall 2017 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection, an Amazon Best of the Month in Literature & Fiction"The End We Start ...

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Published: Sep 2018

Essential Acker: The Selected Writing...

Kathy Acker

Kathy Acker pushed literary boundaries with a vigor and creative fire that made her one of America's preeminent experimental writers and her books cult classics. Now Amy Scholder and Dennis Cooper have distilled the incredible variety...

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Published: Sep 2002

In Memoriam to Identity (Acker, Kathy...

Kathy Acker

Kathy Acker’s characteristically outrageous, lyrical, and hyperinventive novel concerns three characters who share an impulse toward self-immolation through doomed, obsessive romance. Teetering somewhere between the Beats and Pu...

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Published: Aug 1998

The Lambs of London

Peter Ackroyd

Mary Lamb is confined by the restrictions of domesticity: her father is losing his mind, her mother watchful and hostile. The great solace of her life is her brother Charles, an aspiring writer. It is no surprise when Mary falls for t...

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Published: Jul 2007

The Barter

Siobhan Adcock

"Eerie and atmospheric, this psychological thriller will twist its way into readers' psyches." —Booklist In today's "lean in" era, debut novelist Siobhan Adcock casts the issue of whether women can ever "hav...

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Published: Aug 2015

Last Man in Tower

Aravind Adiga

Aravind Adiga's first novel since his Man Booker Prize–winning best seller The White Tiger ("Amazing . . . One of the most powerful books I've read in decades" —Deirdre Donahue, USA Today): a stunning, darkly comic story...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2011

The Brummstein

Peter Adolphsen

A mysterious enchanted stone travels through time and space from the beginning of human life through to the end of the twentieth century, connecting history's tragic events from the perspective of the individual carrying the stone. Us...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Dec 2012

That Kind of Mother: A Novel

Rumaan Alam

NAMED A RECOMMENDED BOOK OF 2018 BY:Buzzfeed • The Boston Globe •  The Millions • InStyle • Southern Living • Vogue • Popsugar • Kirkus • The Washington Post • Library Journal • Real Simple • NPR"With h...

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Published: Feb 2019

War by Candlelight: Stories

Daniel Alarcon

Something is happening around the globe: mass movements of peoples, dislocations of language and culture in the wake of war and economic crises -- simply put, our world is changing.In this exquisite collection, Daniel Alarcón tak...

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Published: Apr 2006

Infinite Home

Kathleen Alcott

"[E]xpect to find insights that make you stop, go back and read again.... Take it from us: You don't know what's coming in the last third of this book, and you will be astounded." —O, the Oprah MagazineA beautifully wrought stor...

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Published: Jul 2016

The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets

Kathleen Alcott

Ida grew up with Jackson and James—where there was "I" there was a "J." She can't recall a time when she didn't have them around, whether in their early days camping out in the boys' room decorated with circus sc...

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Published: Sep 2012

Good Wives: A Story for Girls

Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist. She is best known for the novel Little Women, set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House in Concord, Massachusetts, and published in 1868. This novel ...

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Published: May 2019

This Was Not the Plan

Cristina Alger

From the acclaimed author of The Darlings comes a “funny, bittersweet, and ultimately uplifting look” (Sarah Pekkanen) at fatherhood, love, and family life.Charlie Goldwyn’s life hasn’t exactly gone according to plan. Widowerh...

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Published: Oct 2016

Celestial Bodies

Jokha Alharthi

Winner of the 2019 Man Booker International PrizeIn the village of al-Awafi in Oman, we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries after a heartbreak; Asma, who marries from a sense of duty; and Khawla, who chooses to refuse all offe...

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Published: Oct 2019

Song of the Shank

Jeffery Renard Allen

A contemporary American masterpiece about music, race, an unforgettable man, and an unreal America during the Civil War eraAt the heart of this remarkable novel is Thomas Greene Wiggins, a nineteenth-century slave and improbable music...

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Published: Jun 2014

Forest of the Pygmies

Isabel Allende

From one of the world's best-loved storytellers comes a magical novel of adventure and discovery Alexander Cold knows all too well his grandmother Kate is never far from an adventure. When International Geographic commissions her to w...

Paperback
Published: Nov 2009

Of Love and Shadows: A Novel

Isabel Allende

This profoundly moving tale of love, bravery, and tragedy by New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende brings to life a country ruled with an iron fist--and the men and women who dare to challenge it.Irene Beltrán is a force t...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2019

The House of the Spirits: A Novel

Isabel Allende

The unforgettable first novel that established Isabel Allende as one of the world's most gifted and imaginative storytellersThe House of the Spirits brings to life the triumphs and tragedies of three generations of the Trueba family. ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2019

The Infinite Plan

Isabel Allende

"Allende is one of the most important novelists to emerge from Latin America in the past decade." -- Boston Globe "Allende is a genius." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review From Isabel Allende, the beloved New York ...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2020
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