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Saving Fish from Drowning

Amy Tan

A pious man explained to his followers: 'It is evil to take lives and noble to save them. Each day I pledge to save a hundred lives. I drop my net in the lake and scoop out a hundred fishes. I place the fishes on the bank, where they ...

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Published: Oct 2005

The Metamorphosis: And Other Short St...

Franz Kafka

Gregor Samsa, a seemingly typical man, wakes up one morning to discover he has been transformed into a gigantic insect. Frustrated and depressed about his physical alteration - and his family's rejection - Samsa's plight is filled wit...

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Published: Nov 2005

Fire in the East (Warrior of Rome)

Harry Sidebottom

A.D. 255: The Roman imperium is stretched to the breaking point, its authority and might challenged throughout the territories and along every border. One man is sent to marshal the defenses of a lonely city and to shore up the crumbl...

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Published: Apr 2010

Sing Them Home

Stephanie Kallos

After the loss of their mother, the Jones children--Larken, Gaelan, and Bonnie--have grown into adulthood under the shadow of unresolved grief and become encased in town myth. Everyone in Emlyn Springs, Nebraska, knows the story of An...

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Published: Jan 2009

A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar

Suzanne Joinson

It is 1923. Evangeline (Eva) English and her sister Lizzie are missionaries heading for the ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar. Though Lizzie is on fire with her religious calling, Eva's motives are not quite as noble, but with her gre...

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Published: May 2012

Americanah

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

One of The New York Times's Ten Best Books of the YearWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionAn NPR "Great Reads" Book, a Chicago Tribune Best Book, a Washington Post Notable Book, a Seattle Times Best B...

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Published: Jun 2015

Them

Nathan McCall

Barlowe, a single, African American in his forties, shares a ramshackle house with his nephew in an Atlanta neighborhood, the old Fourth Ward, known both as the center of the civil rights movement and for its main street, Auburn Avenu...

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Published: Nov 2007

Black & White

Dani Shapiro

This spellbinding novel about art, fame, ambition, and family explores a provocative question: Is it possible for a mother to be true to herself and true to her children at the same time? This brilliant examination of motherhood---a n...

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Published: May 2007

The Greenlanders

Jane Smiley

Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author Jane Smiley's The Greenlanders is an enthralling novel in the epic tradition of the old Norse sagas. Set in the fourteenth century in Europe's most far-flung outpost, a land of glittering f...

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Published: Jan 2015

Europe Central

William T. Vollmann

A young German joins the SS to expose its crimes, two generals collaborate with the enemy for different reasons, and Soviet composer Shostakovich labors under Stalinist oppression in this daring novel of human actions in wartime.

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Published: Jan 2008

Drive Me Crazy

Dickeym eric jerome

"Driver" is an ex-con trying to make his life right but who shares an expensive secret and a past affair with his boss's wife - a woman who is nothing but trouble. Dickey's rich characters make listeners feel as if they are ...

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Published: Jul 2004

The White Tiger

Aravind Adiga

* Mp3 CD Format *. Set in a raw and unromanticized India, The White Tiger---the first-person confession of a murderer---is as compelling for its subject matter as it is for the voice of its narrator: amoral, cynical, unrepentant, yet ...

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Published: May 2008

In Sunlight and in Shadow

Mark Helprin

b[MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.]/b Mark Helprin's enchanting and sweeping novel asks a simple question: can love and honor conquer all? New York in 1947 glows with postwar energy. Harry Copeland, an elite paratrooper who foug...

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Published: Oct 2012

Indignation

Philip Roth

It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. Marcus Messner of Newark, New Jersey is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative Winesburg College in Ohio. Why is he here? Because his father, a hard-working...

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Published: Sep 2008

The Pacific (Home Repair Is Homicide ...

Mark Helprin

At long last, almost ten years since his previous book, Mark Helprin returns with The Pacific and Other Stories, a collection of sixteen stories that display the remarkable scope, incomparable wit, and deft prose that have come to...

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Published: Nov 2004

The Seduction of Water

Carol Goodman

Iris Greenfelder is a perennial Ph.D. candidate, stuck in a rut in her career and her love life. When she decides to write a book based on a story her mother used to tell, however, her life expands in ways she had never dreamed, invol...

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Published: Jan 2003

The Art of Fiction

Ayn Rand

In The Art of Fiction, Ayn Rand, the legendary author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, discusses how a writer combines abstract ideas with concrete action and description to achieve a unity of theme, plot, characterization, and...

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Published: Jan 2004

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their T...

William S. Burroughs

Now, for the first time, this legendary collaboration between two of the twentieth century's most influential writers is being released. William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, two novice writers at the dawn of their careers, sat down ...

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Published: Nov 2008

The Story of King Arthur and His Knig...

Howard Pyle

Here, in The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, is the true spirit of the England of that time, when Arthur, son of Uther-Pendragon, was overlord of Britain and Merlin was a powerful enchanter, when the sword Excalibur was forged a...

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Published: Jul 2002

Still Life with Bread Crumbs: A Novel...

Anna Quindlen

Anna Quindlen, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, Rise and Shine, and A Short Guide to a Happy Life, returns with a love story, and the deeply satisfying story of the changing dimensions of a ...

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Published: Jan 2014

Memento Mori

Muriel Spark

Elderly Lettie Colston receives an anonymous phone call reminding her that she must die. Soon ten of Lettie's friends also get the call. A bizarre investigation reveals a network of deception that binds together the group of aging ecc...

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Published: Aug 2003

In the Courts of the Sun

Brian D'Amato

A mind-bending, time-bending, zeitgeist-defining novel about the days leading up to December 21, 2012---the day the Maya predicted the world would end.

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Published: May 2009

The End of the Affair

Graham Greene

Audie Award Winner, Audiobook of the Year, 2013Audie Award Nominee, Best Solo Narration, 2013Graham Greene's evocative analysis of the love of self, the love of another, and the love of God is an English classic that has been translat...

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Published: Jul 2014

Going to Bend

Diane Hammond

An evocative portrait of life in a small Oregon-coast town and of Petie and Rose, two women testing their own limits, Going to Bend combines the sexy sassiness of Thelma and Louise with the emotional warmth of Fried Green Tomatoes

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Published: Jan 2004

The Professor of Desire

Philip Roth

As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself "a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes." Little does he realize how prophetic this motto will be—or how damning. For as Philip Roth follows Kepesh from the domest...

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Published: Dec 2009

The Bastard of Istanbul

Elif Shafak

From one of Turkey's most acclaimed and outspoken writers comes a novel about the tangled histories of two families.In her second novel written in English, Elif Shafak confronts her country's violent past in a vivid and colorful tale ...

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Published: Jan 2007

All the Little Live Things

Wallace Stegner

Award-winning and bestselling author Wallace Stegner takes on the hippy generation in a novel of "crackling vividness."--The New York Times Book Review. A bearded young cultist invades the lives of a retired literary agent a...

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Published: Jun 2010

Confessions Of An English Opium-eater...

Thomas De Quincey

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Thomas De Quincey's best-known work, is an account of his early life and opium addiction, in prose that is by turns witty, conversational, and nightmarish.

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Published: Aug 2004

His Illegal Self

Peter Carey

Che is a precocious young boy raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother. Yearning for his famous outlaw parents--radical 1960s activists who are now among the FBI s most wanted he's denied all access to television and t...

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Published: Feb 2008

The Savage Detectives

Roberto Bolano

National Bestseller In this dazzling novel, the book that established his international reputation, Roberto Bolaño tells the story of two modern-day Quixotes--the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of litera...

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Published: Aug 2009
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