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Violeta [English Edition]: A Novel

Isabel Allende

This sweeping novel from the New York Timesbestselling author ofA Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2022

London Fields

Martin Amis

[Read by Steven Pacey]London Fields is Martin Amis' murder story for the end of the millennium. The murderee is Nicola Six, a ''black hole'' of sex and self-loathing who is intent on orchestrating her own extinction. The murderer may ...

Abridged MP3-CD
Published: Jul 2015

The Rachel Papers

Martin Amis

In his uproarious first novel Martin Amis, author of the bestselling London Fields, gave us one of the most noxiously believable -- and curiously touching -- adolescents ever to sniffle and lust his way through the pages of contempora...

Paperback
Published: Sep 1992

The Zone of Interest (Vintage Interna...

Martin Amis

A Best Book of the Year: Time, NPR, The Village Voice, The Miami Herald, Financial Times, Minneapolis Star Tribune, BookRiot"Powerful and electric. . . . A book that may stand for years as the triumph of his career." —NPR�...

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Published: Jul 2015

Time's Arrow

Martin Amis

In Time's Arrow the doctor Tod T. Friendly dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them, and mangles his patients before he sends them home. And all the while Tod's life races backward t...

Paperback
Published: Sep 1992

The Summer Guest: A Novel of Chekov

Alison Anderson

What if Anton Chekhov, undisputed master of the short story, actually wrote a novel—and the manuscript  still existed? This tantalizing possibility drives The Summer Guest, a spellbinding narrative that draws together, across two c...

Paperback
Published: May 2017

Best European Fiction 2018

Alex Andriesse

Since its inaugural appearance in 2010, Best European Fiction has become an essential resource for readers, critics, and publishers interested in contemporary European literature. In this, the ninth installment of the series, the anth...

Paperback
Published: Oct 2017

Sister

A. Manette Ansay

'When my brother disappeared in 1984, I began to see myself in the third person as if my life were a story being told to someone else.'Abigail Schiller lives a seemingly normal childhood in a rural Catholic commuinity in Wisconsin. Bu...

Paperback
Published: Jun 1997

Carry the One

Carol Anshaw

Carry the One begins in the hours following Carmen's wedding reception, when a car filled with stoned, drunk, and sleepy guests accidently hits and kills a girl on a dark, country road. For the next twenty-five years, those involved, ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2012

The Deeper the Water the Uglier the F...

Katya Apekina

*One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Fall―Vulture, BuzzFeed News, Publishers Weekly, The Millions, Bustle, Fast CompanyIt's 16-year-old Edie who finds their mother Marianne dangling in the living room from an old jump rope, pud...

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Published: Sep 2018

The Doll's House: A Detective Helen G...

M. J. Arlidge

Detective Helen Grace is on the trail of a twisted serial killer in this riveting thriller in the "gripping"* international bestselling series.Ruby wakes up in a strange room. Her captor calmly explains that no one is lookin...

Paperback
Published: Feb 2016

Girl in a Blue Dress Inspired by the ...

Gaynor Arnold

At the end of her life, Catherine, the cast-off wife of Charles Dickens, gave the letters she had received from her husband to their daughter Kate, asking her to donate them to the British Museum, "so the world may know that he l...

Paperback
Published: Aug 2010

A Passage North: A Novel

Anuk Arudpragasam

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • A young man journeys into Sri Lanka’s war-torn north in this searing novel of longing, loss, and the legacy of war from the author of The Story of a Brief Marriage.   “A nove...

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Published: Jan 2022

The Story of a Brief Marriage: A Nove...

Anuk Arudpragasam

Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize"Brave…Brilliant…This is a book that makes one kneel before the elegance of the human spirit and the yearning that is at the essence of every life." ―The New York Times Book Review...

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Published: Sep 2017

The Automobile Club of Egypt

Alaa Al Aswany

In British-occupied Egypt, on the eve of the 1952 revolution, respected landowner Abd el-Aziz Gaafar has fallen on hard times. Bankrupt, he moves his family to Cairo and takes a menial job at the Automobile Club, a luxurious lodge for...

Paperback
Published: Jul 2016

Big Sky (Jackson Brodie)

Kate Atkinson

Iconoclastic detective Jackson Brodie returns in a triumphant new novel about secrets, sex, and liesJackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village, in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son and an aging Labrad...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2019

The Melting Season

Jami Attenberg

From one of today's hottest novelists-a provocative story about friendship and self-discovery. Catherine Madison left her small town in Nebraska after her husband deserted her. She's also left behind her most shameful secrets-of a fa...

Paperback
Published: Jan 2011

Hag-Seed

Margaret Atwood

Bestselling and multiple award-winning author Margaret Atwood retells The Tempest, one of Shakespeare's most stirring and unforgettable plays.From the Hardcover edition.

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2016

The Handmaid's Tale TV Tie-In Edition...

Margaret Atwood

Audie Award, Fiction, 2013Margaret Atwood's popular dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale explores a broad range of issues relating to power, gender, and religious politics. Multiple Emmy and Golden Globe award-winner Claire Danes (Temp...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2017

4 3 2 1: A Novel

Paul Auster

From the internationally celebrated author of The New York Trilogy comes a sweeping story of birthright and possibility, of love and the fullness of life itself, in which we follow the four parallel lives, loves, and obsessions of o...

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Published: Jan 2017

Moon Palace

Paul Auster

Marco Stanley Fogg is an orphan, a child of the '60s, a quester tirelessly seeking the key to his past, the answers to the ultimate riddle of his fate. As Marco journeys from the canyons of Manhattan to the deserts of Utah, he encount...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Nov 2015

13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl: Fic...

Mona Awad

"This book sparkles with wit. . . . Awad knows how to talk about the raw struggles of female friendships, sex, contact, humanness, and her voice is a wry celebration of all of this at once." —Aimee Bender "Honest, se...

Paperback
Published: Feb 2016

The Water Knife

Paolo Bacigalupi

WATER IS POWER In the near future, the Colorado River has dwindled to a trickle. Detective, assassin, and spy, Angel Velasquez "cuts" water for the Southern Nevada Water Authority, ensuring that its lush arcology developmen...

Paperback
Published: Apr 2016

The Deal of a Lifetime: A Novella

Fredrik Backman

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and Beartown delivers an insightful and poignant holiday novella about a man who sacrificed his family in the single-minded pursuit of success and the courageous little girl...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2017

Showdown

Tilly Bagshawe

Bobby Cameron is a cowboy through and through. An alpha male of the old school, his classic good looks have made women swoon on the racing circuit from Kentucky to Dubai. After inheriting Highwood, his father's magnificent but debt-ri...

Abridged CD
Published: Jun 2006

Young Man with a Horn

Dorothy Baker

Dorothy Baker's Young Man with a Horn is widely regarded as the first jazz novel, and it courses with the verve and swing of the music that defined an era.  From the beginning, Rick Martin loved music and the music loved him. He coul...

Paperback
Published: Aug 2012

Mezzanine

Nicholson Baker

In his startling, witty, and inexhaustibly inventive first novel—first published in 1986 and now reissued as a Grove Press paperback—the author of Vox and The Fermata uses a one-story escalator ride as the occasion for a dazzling ...

Paperback
Published: Jul 2010

The Anthologist

Nicholson Baker

The Anthologist captures all the warmth, wit, and extraordinary prose style that have made award-winning author Nicholson Baker an American master.

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Mar 2010

Mercy Snow: A Novel

Tiffany Baker

"Strength and quiet beauty mark Baker's writing . . . Mercy Snow provides an authentic universe of damaged souls and a fantastical heroine."--Anita Shreve, Washington PostIn the tiny town of Titan Falls, New Hampshire, the p...

Paperback
Published: Jan 2015

If Beale Street Could Talk

James A. Baldwin

In this honest and stunning novel, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of injustice. Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her...

Paperback
Published: Oct 2006
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