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Trio: A novel (Vintage International)...

William Boyd

A rollicking novel with a dark undertow, set around three unforgettable individuals and a doomed movie set—from the award-winning, best-selling author of Any Human Heart A producer. A novelist. An actress. It's summer 1968&md...

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Published: Mar 2022

A History of Loneliness: A Novel

John Boyne

Odran Yates enters Clonliffe Seminary in 1972 after his mother informs him that he has a vocation to the priesthood. He goes in full of ambition and hope, dedicated to his studies and keen to make friends. Forty years later, Odran's d...

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Published: May 2016

The Absolutist

John Boyne

A masterfully told tale of passion, jealousy, heroism and betrayal set in the gruesome trenches of World War I.It is September 1919: twenty-one-year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver a package of lette...

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Published: Jul 2012

Lamp Black, Wolf Grey: A Novel

Paula Brackston

Artist Laura Matthews finds her new home in the Welsh mountains to be a place so charged with tales and legends that she is able to reach through the gossamer-fine veil that separates her own world from that of myth and fable. She and...

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Published: Jun 2015

The Golden Apples of the Sun

Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury , one of the most talented and visionary authors of this century, celebrates life and dreams with these thirty-two stories, which were originally published in two separate collections.

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Oct 2010

Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in ...

Richard Brautigan

A Brautigan omnibus, reissued in paperback in celebration of its twentieth anniversary, this one-volume edition includes three contemporary classics that embody the spirit of the 1960s.

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Published: Mar 1989

Mrs. Jeffries On The Ball

Emily Brightwell

When Hannah Greenwood is murdered at the Queen's Jubilee, suspicion falls on the members of her literary circle. The case makes a baffling turn when it seems that no one has a motive for the murder. Since Inspector Witherspoon was a g...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2015

Milk Fed: A Novel

Melissa Broder

This darkly hilarious and “delicious new novel that ravishes with sex and food” (The Boston Globe) from the acclaimed author of The Pisces and So Sad Today is a “precise blend of desire, discomfort, spirituality, an...

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Published: Aug 2021

Dolly

Anita Brookner

In her superbly accomplished new novel, Anita Brookner proves that she is our mast profound observer of women's lives, posing questions about feminine identity and desire with a stylishness that conveys an almost sensual pleasure.From...

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Published: Jan 1995

Look at Me

Anita Brookner

A lonely art historian absorbed in her research seizes the opportunity to share in the joys and pleasures of the lives of a glittering couple, only to find her hopes of companionship and happiness shattered. Reprint. 12,500 firs...

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Published: Jan 1997

The Orphan of Salt Winds

Elizabeth Brooks

For fans of Eowyn Ivey, Rose Tremaine, and Kate Atkinson, The Orphan of Salt Winds is a bewitching debut about the secrets that haunt us.England, 1939. Ten-year-old Virginia Wrathmell arrives at Salt Winds, a secluded house on the edg...

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Published: Jan 2019

The Thirty-Nine Steps

John Buchan

Returning to England after years in South Africa, Richard Hannay enters the Secret Service accidentally after he finds a murdered neighbor in his apartment and finds himself on the run from the police and the killers alike. Reprint.

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Published: Aug 2004

Dragon Seed

Pearl S. Buck

One of the more political novels from the pen of Pearl Buck, Dragon Seed brings to light the tragedy of the Japanese invasion and occupation of mainland China during WWII. Centering her story around the fictional family of Ling Tan, B...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2010

Nothing Like the Sun

Anthony Burgess

"Shakespeare in his own stirring times . . . suffering or triumphant with the day's news. . . . Brilliant."—Times Literary SupplementA magnificent, bawdy telling of Shakespeare's love life, following young Will's maturatio...

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Published: Aug 2013

Metaphysical Poetry

Colin Burrow

Featuring more erotic and libertine poems, more political poems, and more poems by women, this newly revised selection of poems by the greatest poets of the seventeenth century offers a generous sampling of John Donne as well as poe...

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Published: Aug 2006

Shotgun Lovesongs: A Novel

Nickolas Butler

NATIONAL BESTSELLER"Impressively original." —The New York Times"Sparkles in every way. A love letter to the open lonely American heartland…A must-read." —People"The kind of book that restores your faith...

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Published: Mar 2015

Shotgun Lovesongs: A Novel

Nickolas Butler

Welcome to Little Wing.It's a place like hundreds of others, nothing special, really. But for four friends—all born and raised in this small Wisconsin town—it is home. And now they are men, coming into their own, or struggling to ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2014

The Hearts of Men

Nickolas Butler

Camp Chippewa, 1962. Nelson Doughty, age thirteen, social outcast and overachiever, is the Bugler, sounding the reveille proudly each morning. Yet this particular summer marks the beginning of an uncertain and tenuous friendship with ...

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Published: Jan 2018

Black Moon: A Novel

Kenneth Calhoun

For fans of The Age of Miracles and The Dog Stars, Black Moon is a hallucinatory and stunning debut that Charles Yu calls "Gripping and expertly constructed."Insomnia has claimed everyone Biggs knows.  Even his beloved wife...

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Published: Jan 2015

The Weight of a Piano: A novel

Chris Cander

In 1962, in the Soviet Union, eight-year-old Katya is bequeathed what will become the love of her life: a Blüthner piano, on which she discovers an enrichening passion for music. Yet after she marries, her husband insists the family ...

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Published: Oct 2019

Three Things about Elsie

Joanna Cannon

The bestselling author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep delivers a suspenseful and emotionally satisfying novel "infused with warmth and humor" (People) about a lifelong friendship, a devastating secret, and the small ac...

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Published: Jul 2019

A Highly Unlikely Scenario, or a Neet...

Rachel Cantor

In the not-too-distant future, competing giant fast food factions rule the world. Leonard works for Neetsa Pizza, the Pythagorean pizza chain, in a lonely but highly surveilled home office, answering calls on his complaints hotline. I...

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Published: Jan 2014

The Voyage

Philip Caputo

At the turn of the century, three teenage boys leave their Maine home at the orders of their father, Cyrus Braithwaite, and embark on the voyage of a lifetime down the Atlantic coast, an adventure that years later reveals remarkable t...

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Published: Nov 2000

Five Skies

Ron Carlson

Award-winning short story writer Ron Carlson delivers a stirring novel about three men confronting their pasts and their purpose Beloved story writer Ron Carlson's first novel in thirty years, Five Skies is the story of three men gat...

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Published: May 2008

Five Skies

Ron Carlson

Award-winning short story writer Ron Carlson delivers a stirring novel about three men confronting their pasts and their purpose Beloved story writer Ron Carlson's first novel in thirty years, Five Skies is the story of three men g...


Published: May 2007

Hotel Moscow

Talia Carner

From the author of Jerusalem Maiden comes a mesmerizing, thought-provoking novel that tells the riveting story of an American woman—the daughter of Holocaust survivors—who travels to Russia shortly after the fall of communism, and...

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Published: Jun 2015

The Bloody Chamber: And Other Stories...

Angela Carter

An absorbing collection of dark, sensual, and fantastic stories inspired by the fairy tales and legends of Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Beauty and the Beast, vampires, werewolves, and more.

Paperback
Published: Mar 2011

The Horse's Mouth

Joyce Cary

The Horse's Mouth, famously filmed with Alec Guinness in the central role, is a searing portrait of the artistic temperament. Gulley Jimson is the charming, impoverished painter who cares little about the conventional values of his d...

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Published: Jun 2017

The Last Ballad

Wiley Cash

Winner of the Southern Book Prize for Literary FictionNamed a Best Book of 2017 by the Chicago Public Library and the American Library Association"Wiley Cash reveals the dignity and humanity of people asking for a fair shot in an...

Paperback
Published: Jul 2018

The House of Impossible Beauties: A N...

Joseph Cassara

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2018 BY Buzzfeed • The Wall Street Journal • The Millions • Southern Living • Bustle • Esquire • Entertainment Weekly • Nylon• Mashable"Cassaras's propulsive and profound first nov...

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Published: Nov 2018
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