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Miss or Mrs?, The Haunted Hotel, The ...

Wilkie Collins

The three novellas gathered here--Miss or Mrs? (1871), The Haunted Hotel (1878), and The Guilty River (1886)--demonstrate Collins's ability to construct a gripping situation and create an atmosphere of mystery and menace. Fast-paced a...

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Published: Apr 2009

The Last Romantics: A Novel

Tara Conklin

A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!An Instant New York Times BestsellerNamed a Best Book of the Month by Goodreads • Lithub • Refinery29 • InStyle • HelloGiggles • Real Simple • Parade • PureWow • Bust...

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Published: Jan 2020

The Lizard Cage

Karen Connelly

Beautifully written and taking us into an exotic land, Karen Connelly’s debut novel The Lizard Cage is a celebration of the resilience of the human spirit.Teza once electrified the people of Burma with his protest songs against ...

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Published: Apr 2008

Matador

Barnaby Conrad

PRODUCT SYNOPSISIt is the morning of Pacote's last fight, the finale of a great career. The city of Sevilla waits, heavy with anticipation. But Pacote finds he is afraid, and fears disgrace in the ring. Time, once his friend, now pres...

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Published: May 2003

Sandrine's Case

Thomas H. Cook

Samuel Madison always wondered what Sandrine saw in him, he a meek, stuffy doctorate student and she a brilliant, beautiful bohemian with limitless talent and imagination. Yet on the surface their marriage seemed perfectly tranquil: j...

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Published: Aug 2013

The Space Between the Stars

Anne Corlett

When the world ends, where will you go? In a breathtakingly vivid and emotionally gripping debut novel, one woman must confront the emptiness in the universe—and in her own heart—when a devastating virus reduces most of humanit...

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Published: Feb 2018

The German Girl

Armando Lucas Correa

A young girl flees Nazi-occupied Germany with her family and best friend, only to discover that the overseas refuge they had been promised is an illusion in this "powerful and affecting" (Kirkus Reviews) debut novel, perfect...

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Published: Aug 2017

Quarantine

Jim Crace

In a powerful reimagination of Christ's forty-day fast in the wilderness, Jesus journeys to some isolated caves where he meets pilgrims, one of whom thinks that Jesus has divine qualities. Whitbread Novel of the Year. Booker Prize Fin...

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Published: Mar 1999

Endless Things

John Crowley

The acclaimed reality-altering finale to the 'dizzying experience, achieved with unerring security of technique' that is the ®gypt cycle (The New York Times Book Review) This is the fourth novel-the much anticipated conclusion-in...

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Published: Feb 2009

Make Your Home Among Strangers

Jennine Capo Crucet

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, winner of the International Latino Book Award for Best Latino-themed Fiction 2016, Longlisted for the 2015 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.Named a best book of the season by Cosmopoli...

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Published: Jul 2016

Dominicana: A Novel

Angie Cruz

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK Shortlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction "Through a novel with so much depth, beauty, and grace, we, like Ana, are forever changed." --Jacqueline Woodson, Vanity Fair "...

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Published: Jun 2020

A Wild Swan: And Other Tales

Michael Cunningham

Fairy tales for our times from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The HoursNamed a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Slate, and BustleA poisoned apple and a monkey’s paw with the power to change fate; a girl whose extraordinarily lo...

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Published: Nov 2016

Everything Matters!

Jr. Currie

"Startlingly talented . . . he survives the inevitable, apt comparisons to Kurt Vonnegut and writes in a tenderly mordant voice all his own." -Janet Maslin, The New York Times In this novel rich in character, Junior Thibodea...

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Published: Jul 2010

Kazan

James Oliver Curwood

Classic wilderness adventure story by the American novelist and conservationist. 'Kazan lay mute and motionless, his gray nose between his forepaws, his eyes half closed. A rock could have appeared scarcely less lifeless than he; not ...

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Published: Aug 2006

The Flaming Forest

James Oliver Curwood

Classic wilderness adventure story by the American novelist and conservationist. 'An hour ago, under the marvelous canopy of the blue northern sky, David Carrigan, Sergeant in His Most Excellent Majesty's Royal Northwest Mounted Polic...

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Published: Aug 2006

Outline: A Novel

Rachel Cusk

A Finalist for the Folio Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the Baileys Women's Prize for FictionOne of The New York Times' Top Ten Books of the YearNamed a A New York Times Book Review Notable Book and a Be...

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Published: Jan 2016

Transit: A Novel (Outline Trilogy)

Rachel Cusk

National Bestseller • AFinalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize • A Finalist for the Goldsmiths Prize• Longlisted for the International DUBLIN Literary Award • One of Time Magazine's Top 10 Fiction Books of the YearA New York ...

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Published: Jan 2018

Playing with the Grown-ups

Sophie Dahl

For Kitty, growing up at Hay House amongst bluebell woods and doting relations is heaven. But for her mother, the restless Marina, a bohemian beauty who paints and weeps with alacrity, this comfortable domesticity cannot provide the n...

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Published: Feb 2009

Only Revolutions

Mark Z. Danielewski

Sam:They were with us before Romeo & Juliet. And long after too. Because they're forever around. Or so both claim, carolling gleefully:We're allways sixteen.Sam & Hailey, powered by an ever-rotating fleet of cars, from Model T to Linc...

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Published: Jul 2007

Breath, Eyes, Memory

Edwidge Danticat

The 20th anniversary edition of Edwidge Danticat's groundbreaking debut, now an established classic--revised and with a new introduction by the author, and including extensive bonus materialsAt the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent f...

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Published: Feb 2015

Wolf in White Van

John Darnielle

A New York Times BestsellerNominated for the National Book Award, Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction, and Winner of the Alex Award, "One of the Most Compelling Books of the Year" (Blake Butler, V...

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Published: Sep 2015

The Perfect Mother

Nina Darnton

When an American exchange student is accused of murder, her mother will stop at nothing to save her. A midnight phone call shatters Jennifer Lewis's carefully orchestrated life. Her daughter, Emma, who's studying abroad in Spain,...

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Published: Nov 2014

The Book of Jonas

Stephen Dau

DIVJonas is fifteen when his family is killed during an errant U.S. military operation in an unnamed Middle Eastern country. An international relief organization sends Jonas to America, where he struggles to assimilate—adapting to h...

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Published: Feb 2013

Damnation Spring

Ash Davidson

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Named a Best Book of 2021 by Newsweek, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times “A glorious book—an assured novel that’s gorgeously told.” —T...

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Published: May 2022

Cataract City

Craig Davidson

A searing novel about two friends on opposite sides of the law, from the author of Rust and Bone, "a writer of immense power" (Peter Straub)On the Canadian side of Niagara Falls, life beyond the tourist trade isn't easy. Loc...

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Published: Jul 2014

The Conjurer's Bird

Martin Davies

THE CONJURER’S BIRD is a beautiful story in the spirit of POSSESSION that is as exciting as THE CLUB DUMAS, inspired by one of the great puzzles of natural history: that of the Mysterious Bird of Ulieta. Seen only once, in 1774,...

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Published: Aug 2006

The Fortunes

Peter Ho Davies

Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awardfor literature that confronts racism and examines diversityWinner of the 2017 Chautauqua PrizeFinalist for the Dayton Literary Peace PrizeA New York Times Notable Book "[A] complex, beaut...

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Published: Sep 2017

A Happy Catastrophe: A Novel

Maddie Dawson

From the bestselling author of Matchmaking for Beginners comes a novel about love, loss, and the beautiful mess of family. Marnie MacGraw and Patrick Delaney have been in love for a few years now, enough to realize that they are impe...

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Published: May 2020

The Party

Elizabeth Day

A taut psychological tale of obsession and betrayal set over the course of a dinner party."Day's shrewd eye and authorial tone provide a gleeful, edgy wit.... [a] smart, irresistible romp."--New York Times Book ReviewBen, wh...

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Published: Aug 2018

Alice Close Your Eyes

Averil Dean

With haunting prose and deft psychological insight, Averil Dean spins a chilling story that explores the dark corners of obsession—love, pain and revenge. Ten years ago, someone ruined Alice Croft's life. Now, she has a chance to r...

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Published: Dec 2013
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