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The Collected Works of Billy the Kid

Michael Ondaatje

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The English Patient comes a visionary novel, a virtuoso synthesis of storytelling, history, and myth, about William Bonney, a.k.a. Billy the Kid, a bloodthirsty ogre and outlaw saint.

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Published: Jul 2009

Warlight

Michael Ondaatje

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize  A New York Times Notable Book A Washington Post Notable Book  An NPR Best Book of the Year  It is 1945, and London is still reeling from years of war. Fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his older s...

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Published: Apr 2019

Warlight: A novel

Michael Ondaatje

NATIONAL BEST SELLERFrom the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of The English Patient: a mesmerizing new novel that tells a dramatic story set in the decade after World War II through the lives of a small group of unexpec...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2018

The Elusive Pimpernel

Baroness Emmuska Orczy

It is September 1793 and French Agent and chief spy-catcher Chauvelin is determined to get his revenge for the previous humiliations dished out to him at the hands of the Scarlet Pimpernel. The Elusive Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy is t...

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Published: Feb 2007

Hunters in the Dark: A Novel

Lawrence Osborne

From the novelist the New York Times compares to Paul Bowles, Evelyn Waugh and Ian McEwan, an evocative new work of literary suspense  Adrift in Cambodia and eager to side-step a life of quiet desperation as a small-town teacher, 28-...

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Published: Oct 2016

The Swimmers: A novel

Julie Otsuka

NATIONAL BEST SELLER •A VOGUE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR•From the best-selling, award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor Was Divine comes a novel about what happens to a group of obsessed recreational ...

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Published: Jan 2023

Black Box

Amos Oz

Seven years after their divorce, Ilana breaks the bitter silence with a letter to Alex, a world-renowned authority on fanaticism, begging for help with their rebellious adolescent son, Boaz. One letter leads to another, and so evolves...

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Published: Aug 2012

The Puttermesser Papers

Cynthia Ozick

With dashing originality and in prose that sings like an entire choir of sirens, Cynthia Ozick relates the life and times of her most compelling fictional creation. Ruth Puttermesser lives in New York City. Her learning is monumental....

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Published: Jun 1998

The Man Who Loved Dogs: A Novel

Leonardo Padura

A gripping novel about the assassination of Leon Trotsky in Mexico City in 1940In The Man Who Loved Dogs, Leonardo Padura brings a noir sensibility to one of the most fascinating and complex political narratives of the past hundred ye...

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Published: Jan 2015

When I Was Yours

Lizzie Page

An emotional and unforgettable historical novel,perfect for fans of Natasha Lester and Lisa Wingate. We stand in the back of the hall as the children troop in. Big ones, little ones. Straggly hair, cropped hair, curls... the adul...

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Published: Dec 2020

Crazy Blood: A Novel

T. Jefferson Parker

The Carson dynasty rules the ski resort town of Mammoth Lakes in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. Founded by patriarch Adam, the town is the site of the Mammoth Cup ski race―a qualifier for the Olympics. But when Wylie Wel...

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Published: Mar 2017

Crazy Blood: A Novel

T. Jefferson Parker

The Carson dynasty rules the ski resort town of Mammoth Lakes in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. Founded by patriarch Adam, the town is the site of the Mammoth Cup ski race-a qualifier for the Olympics. But when Wylie Wel...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2016

Full Measure

T. Jefferson Parker

A New York Times Bestselling Author A Three-time Edgar Award-winning AuthorAfter seeing the worst that Afghanistan has to offer, Patrick Norris returns home eager to realize his dream of a sport fishing business. But when he learn...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2014

Full Measure: A Novel

T. Jefferson Parker

"A tense and compelling drama of the wars without and the wars within--and of the flame of violence that burns through the American psyche." --T.C. Boyle, New York Times bestselling author of The Women"Stunning . . . [P...

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Published: Dec 2015

A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially...

Brigid Pasulka

On the eve of World War II, in a place called Half-Village, a young man nicknamed the Pigeon falls in love with a girl fabled for her angelic looks. To court Anielica Hetmanskáhe offers up his "golden hands" and transforms ...

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Published: May 2010

Red Moon: A Novel

Benjamin Percy

Award -winning author Benjamin Percy presents an explosive and deeply layered literary thriller set in the American West.They live among us. They are our neighbors, our mothers, our lovers.They change.When government agents kick down ...

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Published: Jan 2014

The Last Gentleman

Walker Percy

Percy’s second novel is the comic tale of Will Barrett, a Candide-like young innocent working at Macy’s in New York City, who falls in love with Kitty Vaught. He accompanies her and her bizarre family to her Southern home,...

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Published: Sep 1999

The Forrests

Emily Perkins

Dorothy Forrest is immersed in the sensory world around her; she lives in the flickering moment. From the age of seven, when her odd, disenfranchised family moves from New York City to the wide skies of New Zealand, to the very end of...

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Published: Jul 2012

The Drifter (A Peter Ash Novel)

Nick Petrie

"Lots of characters get compared to my own Jack Reacher, but Petrie's Peter Ash is the real deal."--Lee Child*An Edgar Finalist for Best First NovelAn explosive thriller debut introducing Peter Ash, a veteran who finds that ...

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Published: Aug 2016

The Street

Ann Petry

“Petry is the writer we have been waiting for; hers are the stories we need to fully illuminate the questions of our moment, while also offering a page-turning good time. Ann Petry, the woman, had it all, and so does her insight...

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Published: Mar 1998

To Siberia

Per Petterson

Per Petterson's raw, poetic novel follows the intense kinship and agonizing separation of a brother and sister in World War II-era Denmark. Their parents' neglect leaves them wandering the streets of their small village as young child...

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Published: Sep 2009

Dare to Submit (NY Dare)

Carly Phillips

Is running away easier than giving in?Decklan Dare has everything he wants and he wants Amanda Collins. Which is perfect since Amanda wants him ― especially his no-strings-attached approach to casual sex. Emotions are overrated, bu...

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Published: Aug 2017

The Beautiful Bureaucrat: A Novel

Helen Phillips

"Chilling . . . the perfect summer page-turner." ―Chicago Tribune"Kafka would love The Beautiful Bureaucrat. . . . It's a surprising revelation of a book from an uncompromising author as unique as she is talented.&quo...

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Published: May 2016

Wild Magic (The Immortals)

Tamora Pierce

Discover a land of enchantment, legend, and adventure in this first book of the Immortals series, featuring an updated cover for longtime fans and fresh converts alike, and including an all-new afterword from Tamora Pierce.Thirteen-ye...

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Published: Sep 2015

Among the Ten Thousand Things

Julia Pierpont

For fans of Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Franzen, Lorrie Moore, and Curtis Sittenfeld, Among the Ten Thousand Things is a dazzling first novel, a portrait of an American family on the cusp of irrevocable change, and a startlingly original ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2015

Woodsburner

John Pipkin

Set against the backdrop of a devastating forest fire that Henry David Thoreau accidentally set in 1844, John Pipkin's novel brilliantly illuminates the mind of the young philosopher at a formative moment in his life and in the life o...

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Published: May 2010

Listen to Me

Hannah Pittard

A page-turning modern gothic about a marriage and road trip gone hauntingly awry A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice “Pittard deserves the attention of anyone in search of today’s best fiction.” — Washington Post�...

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Published: May 2017

The Heavenly Table

Donald Ray Pollock

In 1917, in that sliver of border land between Georgia and Alabama, Pearl Jewett ekes out an existence as a dispossessed farmer along with his three criminally-minded sons Cane, Cob, and Chimney. Hundreds of miles away, another farmin...

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Published: Jul 2017

Lanny: A Novel

Max Porter

Longlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize An entrancing new novel by the author of the prizewinning Grief Is the Thing with Feathers There's a village an hour from London. It's no different from many others today: one pub, one church, r...

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Published: Apr 2020

Afternoon Men

Anthony Powell

Written from a vantage point both high and deliberately narrow, the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell nevertheless deal in the universal themes that would become a substantial part of his oeuvre: pride, greed, and...

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Published: Oct 2014
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