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Temporary (Emily Books)

Hilary Leichter

In Temporary,a young woman's workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre placements in search of steadiness, connection, and something, at last, to call her own. Whether it's shining an endless closet of shoes, ...

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Published: Mar 2020

The Child Who

Simon Lelic

An unimaginable crime and the man who must defend it-a probing psychological thriller from the author of A Thousand Cuts. A chance phone call throws the biggest muder case in southern England into the hands of provincial attorney Le...

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Published: Mar 2012

Hector and the Search for Happiness

Francois Lelord

"Once upon a time there was a young psychiatrist called Hector who was not very satisfied with himself. . . . " Hector is very good at treating patients in need of his help. But he can't do much for those who are simply diss...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2010

Castle

J. Robert Lennon

"Castle tells a terrific story, dire and confusing and convincing." —Scott Bradfield, The New York Times Book ReviewEric Loesch, a private man with a shadowy past, returns to his hometown in rural New York, where he purcha...

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Published: Apr 2010

A Peculiar Grace

Jeffrey Lent

Jeffrey Lent's previous novels have earned him comparisons to Cormac McCarthy, Pat Conroy, and William Faulkner, and his book In the Fall was hailed as one of the best of the year by the Christian Science Monitor and the New York Time...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2007

10:04: A Novel

Ben Lerner

Named One of the Best Books of the Year By:The New YorkerThe New York Times Book ReviewThe Wall Street JournalThe Village VoiceThe Boston Globe NPR Vanity FairThe Guardian (London) The L MagazineThe Times Literary Supplement (Londo...

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Published: Oct 2015

The Topeka School

Ben Lerner

FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE\r\n\r\nWINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE\r\nONE OF THENEW YORK TIMESTOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEAR\r\n\r\nA TIME, GQ, Vulture,and WASHINGTON POSTTOP 10 BOOK of the YEAR\r\nONE OF BARACK OBAMA\'S FAV...

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Published: Oct 2020

Essential Doris Lessing: Excerpts fro...

Doris May Lessing

A feminist landmark, The Golden Notebook tells the story of writer Anna Wulf and the crises she faces in her personal, political and professional life. Confounded by writer's block, the ferociously independent Wulf explores her situa...

Abridged CD
Published: Jan 2008

Motherless Brooklyn

Jonathan Lethem

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM WARNER BROS. STARRING BRUCE WILLIS, EDWARD NORTON, AND WILLEM DAFOE From America's most inventive novelist, Jonathan Lethem, comes this compelling and compulsive riff on the classic detective novel. ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2014

Number One Chinese Restaurant

Lillian Li

Named a Must-Read by TIME, Buzzfeed, The Wall Street Journal, Star Tribune, Fast Company, The Village Voice, Toronto Star, Fortune Magazine, InStyle, and O, The Oprah Magazine"A joy to read―I couldn't get enough."―Buzzfe...

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Published: Jun 2019

Kinder Than Solitude

Yiyun Li

A profound mystery is at the heart of this magnificent new novel by Yiyun Li, "one of America's best young novelists" (Newsweek) and the celebrated author of The Vagrants, winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. Moving...

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Published: Jan 2015

The Diagnosis

Alan Lightman

Bill Chalmers, a Boston executive on his way to work, abruptly loses his memory and has no idea who he is or what he's supposed to be doing. As his memory returns (after a series of daunting experiences) he begins to have other sympto...

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Published: Feb 2002

Preparation For The Next Life

Atticus Lish

Zou Lei, orphan of the desert, migrates to work in America and finds herself slaving in New York's kitchens. She falls in love with a young man whose heart has been broken in another desert. A new life may be possible if together they...

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Published: Nov 2015

The Kindly Ones

Jonathan Littell

"Oh my human brothers, let me tell you how it happened." So begins the chilling fictional memoir of Dr. Maximilien Aue, a former Nazi officer who has reinvented himself, many years after the war, as a middle-class family ma...

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Published: Feb 2010

The Kindly Ones

Jonathan Littell

Told from the point of view of the executionerand in his voiceThe Kindly Ones evokes in graphic detail the horrors of Babi Yar, Stalingrad, Auschwitz, and the fall of Berlin in 1945. Massive in scope, horrific in subject matter and sh...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Mar 2009

We Are Unprepared

Meg Little Reilly

We Are Unprepared is a novel about the next big storm, the one that changes our relationship to nature and each other…the superstorm that threatens to destroy a marriage, a rural Vermont town and the Eastern Seaboard when it hits. B...

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Published: Aug 2016

House of Glass

Sophie Littlefield

Bestselling author Sophie Littlefield delivers a riveting, ripped-from-the-headlines story about a family put to the ultimate test when two men take them hostage inside their home Jen Glass has worked hard to achieve the ideal life: ...

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Published: Feb 2014

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories...

Ken Liu

Bestselling author Ken Liu selects his multiple award-winning stories for a groundbreaking collection—including a brand-new piece exclusive to this volume.With his debut novel, The Grace of Kings, taking the literary world by storm,...

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Published: Aug 2016

Moon Tiger

Penelope Lively

Winner of the Man Booker PrizePenelope Lively won Britain's prestigious Booker Prize for this deeply moving, elegantly structured novel. Elderly, uncompromising Claudia Hampton lies in a London hospital bed with memories of life flutt...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2018

The Boy in the Field: A Novel

Margot Livesey

A New York TimesNotable Book of the Year | An O Magazine Best Book of the Year The New York Times bestselling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy delivers another “luminous, unforgettable, and perfectly rendered” (De...

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Published: Jul 2021

No One Is Talking About This: A Novel...

Patricia Lockwood

FINALIST FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE & A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF 2021    “A book that reads like a prose poem, at once sublime, profane, intimate, philosophical, witty and, eventually, deeply moving.” &mdas...

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Published: Feb 2022

Edgar and Lucy: A Novel

Victor Lodato

"On every page Lodato's prose sings with a robust, openhearted wit, making Edgar & Lucy a delight to read...Lodato keeps us in his thrall because his grip on the tiller stays reassuringly firm. Not to mention the supporting cast he's ...

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Published: Feb 2018

Doppler

Erlend Loe

Doppler has just lost his father. Despite the fact that he has a pregnant wife and two children, he decides to move into the woods. Here he starts a lonely and purposefully boring existence. He has never been so happy. When Doppler ki...

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Published: Jun 2019

The Affairs of Others

Amy Grace Loyd

Five years after her young husband's death, Celia Cassill has moved from one Brooklyn neighborhood to another, but she has not moved on. The owner of a small apartment building, Celia believes that she has a right to her ghosts, and s...

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Published: Aug 2014

Lost Children Archive: A novel

Valeria Luiselli

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE WASHINGTON POST • TIME MAGAZINE • NPR • CHICAGO TRIBUNE • GQ • O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE • THE GUARDIAN • THE DALLAS MORN...

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Published: Feb 2020

Border Songs

Jim Lynch

Set in the previously sleepy hinterlands straddling Washington state and British Columbia, Border Songs is the story of Brandon Vanderkool, six foot eight, frequently tongue-tied, severely dyslexic, and romantically inept. Passionate ...

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Published: Jul 2010

The Housewarming: A completely unputd...

S. E. Lynes

Everyone is going to the housewarming party. All the same people who lived on the street the day Abi vanished... Will her mother finally learn the truth? Avaonly left her daughter in the pushchair for five minutes. The buckle was...

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Published: Oct 2020

The Hunger Angel

Herta M. Ller

A masterful new novel from the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize, hailed for depicting the "landscape of the dispossessed" with "the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose" (Nobel Prize Committee)It was an...

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Published: Jul 2013

The Year She Left Us

Kathryn Ma

From the winner of the 2009 Iowa Short Fiction Prize—comes the extraordinary, unexpected debut tale of three generations of Chinese-American women in a San Francisco family who must confront their past and carve out a future.The Kon...

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Published: May 2015

Woke Up Lonely

Fiona Maazel

"Intricately imagined and timely . . . Maazel is an entertaining writer with a dry, droll sense of humor." —The New York Times Book Review, Editor's Choice* Shortlisted for the Believer Book Award * Fiona Maazel's Woke Up ...

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Published: Apr 2014
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