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Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morg...

John Steinbeck

In the 1670s Henry Morgan, a pirate and outlaw of legendary viciousness, ruled the Spanish Main. He ravaged the coasts of Cuba and America, striking terror wherever he went. Morgan was obsessive. He had two driving ambitions: one to ...

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Published: Aug 2008

The Tin Horse: A Novel

Janice Steinberg

In the stunning tradition of Lisa See, Maeve Binchy, and Alice Hoffman, The Tin Horse is a rich multigenerational story about the intense, often fraught bond sisters share and the dreams and sorrows that lay at the heart of the immigr...

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Published: Mar 2013

The History of Us: A Novel

Leah Stewart

Praised for "graceful prose and easy storytelling" (Publishers Weekly), the celebrated author of The Myth of You and Me presents the heartfelt story of three grown siblings who return to their childhood home to unravel a fam...

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Published: Aug 2013

Now You See Him

Anne Stuart

Francey Neeley's life has been torn to pieces. Her handsome and charming Irish boyfriend turned out to be a terrorist who was only after her fortune and planned to kill her once he got it. His "sister" forced Francey to help...

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Published: Feb 2015

Good Night, Mr. Wodehouse

Faith Sullivan

Nell Stillman's road is not easy. When her boorish husband dies soon after they move to the small town of Harvester, Minnesota, Nell is alone, penniless yet responsible for her beloved baby boy, Hillyard. Not an easy fate in small-tow...

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Published: Jun 2016

Saints for All Occasions: A novel (Vi...

J. Courtney Sullivan

A NATIONAL BESTSELLERA New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2017 Washington Post 10 Best Books of 2017A Harper's Bazaar Best Book of 2017"This year's best book about family." —Ron Charles, The Washington PostA sweeping, ...

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Published: May 2018

Wish You Were Here

Graham Swift

[This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.]Wish You Were Here is rich with Graham Swift's love of the local and full of humor and tenderness in the face of tragedy. On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack...

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Published: Apr 2012

Wish You Were Here (Vintage Internati...

Graham Swift

On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton—once a Devon farmer, now the proprietor of a seaside caravan park—receives the news that his brother, Tom, not seen for years, has been killed in combat in Iraq. For Jack...

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Published: Jan 2013

The Book of Speculation

Erika Swyler

"Dazzling...[a] quirky, raucous, and bewitching family saga." --Sara Gruen, author of Water for ElephantsSimon Watson, a young librarian, lives alone in a house that is slowly crumbling toward the Long Island Sound. His pare...

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Published: Jun 2015

Iza's Ballad

Magda Szabo

From the author of The Door, selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 2015An NYRB Classics OriginalLike Magda Szabó’s internationally acclaimed novel The Door, Iza’s Ballad is a striking story of...

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Published: Oct 2016

All That Man Is: A Novel

David Szalay

Finalist for the 2016 Man Booker Prize Winner of the 2016 Paris Review Plimpton Prize for FictionA magnificent and ambitiously conceived portrait of contemporary life, by a genius of realismAll That Man Is traces the arc of life from ...

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Published: Oct 2017

My Absolute Darling: A Novel

Gabriel Tallent

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALISTNBCC JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FINALISTONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S MOST NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S MOST NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017ONE OF NPR'S 'GREAT READS' OF...

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Published: Jun 2018

The Memoirs of a Polar Bear

Yoko Tawada

The Memoirs of a Polar Bear stars three generations of talented writers and performers—who happen to be polar bearsThe Memoirs of a Polar Bear stars three generations of talented writers and performers—who happen to be polar bears...

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Published: Nov 2016

Real Life: A Novel

Brandon Taylor

A FINALIST FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZEAND THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE JOHN LEONARD PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE “A blistering coming of age story” —O: The Oprah Magazine Named...

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Published: Feb 2021

Far North

Marcel Theroux

2009 National Book Award FinalistMy father had an expression for a thing that turned out bad. He'd say it had gone west. But going west always sounded pretty good to me. After all, westwards is the path of the sun. And through as much...

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Published: Jun 2010

A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta

Paul Theroux

When Jerry Delfont, an aimless travel writer with writer's block (his "dead hand"), receives a letter from an American philanthropist, Mrs. Merrill Unger, with news of a scandal involving an Indian friend of her son's, he is...

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Published: Jan 2011

Blinding Light

Paul Theroux

Like his creator, Paul Theroux, the hero of BLINDING LIGHT, Slade Steadman, became famous for a best-selling travel book. In Theroux’s case it was THE GREAT RAILWAY BAZAAR, in Steadman’s it’s TRESPASSING, a book abou...

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Published: Jun 2006

Mother Land

Paul Theroux

"Theroux possesses a fabulously nasty sense of humor." — Stephen King, New York Times Book Review  To those in her Cape Cod town, Mother is an exemplar of piety, frugality, and hard work. To her husband and seven children...

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Published: May 2018

The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Aro...

Paul Theroux

As he travels around the coast of Great Britain, the author of The Mosquito Coast provides a profile of Britain and her people in a collection of interviews with citizens during the time of the papal visit, the Falklands crisis, a gre...

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Published: Jun 2006

Do Not Say We Have Nothing: A Novel

Madeleine Thien

Winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award // Finalist for the Man Booker Prize and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction "A powerfully expansive novel…Thien writes with the mastery of a con...

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Published: Oct 2017

The Seed Collectors: A Novel

Scarlett Thomas

Great Aunt Oleander is dead. To each of her nearest and dearest she has left a seed pod. The seed pods might be deadly, but then again they might also contain the secret of enlightenment. Not that anyone has much time for enlightenmen...

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Published: Apr 2017

The Reservoir

John Milliken Thompson

On an early spring morning in Richmond, Virginia, in the year 1885, a young pregnant woman is found floating in the city reservoir. It appears that she has committed suicide, but there are curious clues at the scene that suggest foul ...

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Published: Jun 2011

Path of the Assassin: A Thriller

Brad Thor

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Scot Harvath series and "heir to Tom Clancy and Robert Ludlum" (Chicago Tribune) returns with this unputdownable, white-knuckled thriller following the Secret Service agent as ...

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Published: Feb 2011

The Girls from Corona del Mar (Vintag...

Rufi Thorpe

Best friends Mia and Lorrie Ann couldn't be more different; where Mia is reckless and proudly hard-hearted, Lorrie Ann is kind, serenely beautiful, and seemingly immune to the kind of teenage mistakes that Mia can't help but make.  B...

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Published: Apr 2015

Love Me Back

Merritt Tierce

A Chicago Tribune,Electric Literature, and BookRiot Best Book of the Year A National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" AuthorMarie is a waitress at an upscale Dallas steakhouse, attuned to the appetites of her patrons and gifte...

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Published: Jun 2015

All My Puny Sorrows

Miriam Toews

Elf and Yoli are sisters. While on the surface Elfrieda's is an enviable life (she's a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, and happily married) and Yolandi's a mess (she's divorced and broke, with two teenagers growing up too ...

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Published: Nov 2015

Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilyich & M...

Leo Tolstoy

In these two famous short novels, Leo Tolstoy takes readers to the brink of despair. At the end of life worldly ambition offers no consolation for the spiritually empty soul. But Tolstoy is the master of themes of redemption. He tu...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2005

Johnny Got His Gun

Dalton Trumbo

* Mp3 CD Format *. An immediate bestseller upon its original publication in 1939, Dalton Trumbos stark, profoundly troubling masterpiece about the horrors of World War I brilliantly crystallized the uncompromising brutality of war and...

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Published: Apr 2008

There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job

Kikuko Tsumura

"[A] 21st-century response to Herman Melville's 'Bartleby, the Scrivener.'"—NPR "A revelation."—Time A young woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that has the following traits...

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Published: Mar 2021

I Married You for Happiness

Lily Tuck

Slender, potent, and utterly engaging, I Married You For Happiness combines marriage, mathematics, and the probability of an afterlife to create Lily Tuck's most affecting and riveting book yet. "His hand is growing cold, still s...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2011
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