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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

Mistress of Justice

Jeffery Deaver

Taylor Lockwood spends her days working as a paralegal in one of New York's preeminent Wall Street law firms and her nights playing jazz piano anyplace she can. But the rhythm of her life is disrupted when attorney Mitchell Reece requ...

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Published: Jun 2018

Mistress of Justice

Jeffery Deaver

Taylor Lockwood spends her days working as a paralegal in one of New York's preeminent Wall Street law firms and her nights playing jazz piano anyplace she can. But the rhythm of her life is disrupted when attorney Mitchell Reece requ...

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Published: Jun 2018

Patsy: A Novel

Nicole Dennis-Benn

Best Books of 2019: Washington Post - O, The Oprah Magazine - Time - NPR - People - Buzzfeed A TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Selection A Washington Post Lily Lit Club Selection Longlisted - PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction ...

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Published: May 2020

Grace

Natashia Deon

For a runaway slave in the 1840s south, life on the run can be just as dangerous as life under a sadistic Massa. That's what fifteen-year-old Naomi learns after she escapes the brutal confines of life on an Alabama plantation and take...

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Published: Apr 2017

The Red Car: A Novel

Marcy Dermansky

"Sharp and fiery. . . . There is, now, a literary term for a book you can't stop reading. . . . It is The Red Car."―New York Times Book ReviewIn her "dry, delightful fairy tale for grown-ups" (People), celebrated...

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Published: Sep 2017

Vernon Subutex 1: A Novel

Virginie Despentes

The "rock and roll Zola": short-listed for the International Man Booker Prize, a European bestseller, and the basis of a hit TV seriesFrom the provocative writer and filmmaker Virginie Despentes comes volume one of her accla...

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Published: Nov 2019

Mariana

Monica Dickens

'Funny and poignant. . . . This book is written with verve and exuberance.'-The Sunday TelegraphMonica Dickens, the great granddaughter of Charles Dickens, published Mariana in 1940 when she was only twenty-four years old. A bestselle...

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Published: Feb 2009

Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

Matthew Dicks

PImaginary friend Budo narrates this heartwarming story of love, loyalty, and the power of the imagination—the perfect read for anyone who has ever had a friend . . . real or otherwise./Pudo is lucky as imaginary friends go. He's be...

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Published: Aug 2012

Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend: A Nov...

Matthew Dicks

I am not imaginary...Budo is lucky as imaginary friends go. He's been alive for more than five years, which is positively ancient in the world of imaginary friends. But Budo feels his age and thinks constantly of the day when eight-y...

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Published: Jun 2013

Rameau's Nephew and First Satire (Oxf...

Denis Diderot

In his brilliant and witty dialogue, Denis Diderot invents a chance encounter in a Paris cafe between two acquaintances. Their talk ranges broadly across art, music, education, and the contemporary scene, as the nephew of composer Ram...

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Published: Feb 2009

The Sunlit Night

Rebecca Dinerstein

In the beautiful, barren landscape of the Far North, under the ever-present midnight sun, Frances and Yasha are surprised to find refuge in each other. Their lives have been upended--Frances has fled heartbreak and claustrophobic Manh...

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Published: Mar 2016

Sister of My Heart

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Anju is the daughter of an upper-caste Calcutta family of distinction. Her cousin Sudha is the daughter of the black sheep of that same family. Sudha is startlingly beautiful; Anju is not. Despite those differences, since the day on w...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2012

Andrew's Brain: A Novel

E. s. Doctorow

This brilliant new novel by an American master, the author of Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, Billy Bathgate, and The March, takes us on a radical trip into the mind of a man who, more than once in his life, has been the inadvertent agen...

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Published: Jan 2014

About Grace: A Novel

Anthony Doerr

The first novel by the author of the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestseller All the Light We Cannot See, one of the most beautiful, wise, and compelling debuts of recent times.David Winkler begins life in Anchor...

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Published: Oct 2015

At the Bottom of Everything: A Novel ...

Ben Dolnick

It's been ages since the "incident" that estranged former best friends Adam and Thomas, and Adam has long since decided he's better off, even if his own life hasn't exactly turned out as planned. Ten years after the two frie...

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Published: Sep 2014

Crime and Punishment (Oxford World's ...

Fyodor Dostoevsky

"One death, in exchange for thousands of lives - it's simple arithmetic!"A new translation of Dostoevsky's epic masterpiece, Crime and Punishment (1866). The impoverished student Raskolnikov decides to free himself from debt...

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Published: Apr 2019

Notes from a Dead House (Vintage Clas...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

From the acclaimed translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky comes a new translation of the first great prison memoir: Fyodor Dostoevsky's fictionalized account of his life-changing penal servitude in Siberia. In 1849 Dostoev...

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Published: Mar 2016
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