Literary

301-330 of 2062

The Myth of You and Me

Leah Stewart

For years, Cameron has taken care of Oliver Doucet, an elderly historian living in William Faulkner’s home town of Oxford, Mississippi. Now pushing 30, Cameron still smarts over the dissolution of her friendship with Sonya Gray,...

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Published: Apr 2006

The Wailing Wind

Tony Hillerman

Officer Bernadette Manuelito found the dead man slumped over in the cab of a blue pickup abandoned in a dry gulch off a dirt road -- with a rich ex-con's phone number in his pocket ... and a tobacco tin nearly filled with tracer gold....

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Published: Apr 2003

Britt-Marie Was Here: A Novel

Fredrik Backman

The New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry“returns with this heartwarming story about a woman rediscovering herself after a personal crisis…fans of Backman will ...

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Published: Feb 2017

Secrets She Left Behind

Diane Chamberlain

One afternoon, single mother Sara Weston says that she's going to the store—and never returns. In her absence, she leaves her teenage son alone with his damaged past and a legacy of secrets.Keith Weston nearly lost his life in an ac...

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Published: Jun 2009

Safe Haven

Nicholas Sparks

When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet self-effacing, Katie seems determined to avoid forming personal ties un...

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Published: Dec 2012

Happiness Sold Separately

Libby Street

Have you ever had the perfect day? A day when the world smiles on you with sunny skies and fills each hour with such bright and lovely things that, as you snuggle down to sleep, you say to yourself, 'Now that was a wonderful day'? Me ...

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Published: Jun 2005

The Rum Diary

Hunter S. Thompson

Disgusting as he usually was,' Hunter Thompson writes in this, his 1959 novel, 'on rare occasions he showed flashes of a stagnant intelligence. But his brain was so rotted with drink and dissolute living that whenever he put it to wor...

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Published: Nov 1999

The Girl on the Train (Movie Tie-In)

Paula Hawkins

The #1 New York Times Bestseller, USA Today Book of the Year, now a major motion picture starring Emily Blunt. The debut psychological thriller that will forever change the way you look at other people's lives, from the author of...

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Published: Aug 2016

Enduring Love

Ian McEwan

On a windy spring day in the Chilterns, the calm, organized life of science writer Joe Rose is shattered when he witnesses a tragic accident: a hot-air balloon with a boy trapped in its basket is being tossed by the wind, and in the a...

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Published: Dec 1998

The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath

Esther Greenwood is brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under—maybe for the last time. In her acclaimed and enduring masterwork, Sylvia Plath brilliantly draws the reader into Esther's breakd...

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Published: Aug 2005

The House at Tyneford

Natasha Solomons

It's the spring of 1938 and no longer safe to be a Jew in Vienna. Nineteen-year-old Elise Landau is forced to leave her glittering life of parties and champagne to become a parlor maid in England. She arrives at Tyneford, the great h...

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Published: Dec 2011

What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Sc...

Zoe Heller

Barbara Covett, a middle-aged teacher at a private school, befriends the new teacher, Sheba Hart, whose exotic looks and naively open manner and way of dressing are a contrast to her own drabber style. When Sheba begins an affair with...

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Published: Jun 2004

Heart and Soul

Maeve Binchy

With the warmth, humor, and compassion we have come to expect, Maeve Binchy tells a story of  doctors and staff, patients, family, and friends at a heart clinic in a community caught between the old Ireland and the new. Dr. Clara Ca...

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Published: Feb 2010

The Traveler

John Twelve Hawks

In London, Maya, a young woman trained to fight by her powerful father, uses the latest technology to elude detection when walking past the thousands of surveillance cameras that watch the city. In New York, a secret shadow organizati...

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Published: Jul 2006

High Anxiety

Charlotte Hughes

Readers will go crazy for the latest Kate Holly case... Kate Holly needs a temporary secretary. Amanda Davis is a competent worker with a friendly personality and-after altering her hairstyle and fashion sense to identically match K...

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Published: Dec 2009

Nightlife

Thomas Perry

A female serial killer serves as the focus of this gripping, constantly surprising thriller. Charlene Buckner used to simply drain her wealthy boyfriends of money, and then move on. But now she's turned to murder for the first time; s...

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Published: May 2007

Company

Max Barry

The author of JENNIFER GOVERNMENT captures, in frighteningly funny fashion and dead-on detail, the zeitgeist of the corporate cube farm. Stephen Jones, a freshly minted business graduate, takes his first job as a rep in Training Sales...

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Published: Mar 2007

The Uncommon Readerla

Alan Bennett

A deliciously funny novella that celebrates the pleasure of reading. When the Queen, in pursuit of her wandering corgis, stumbles upon a mobile library she feels duty-bound to borrow a book. Aided by Norman, a young man from the palac...

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Published: Sep 2008

Brooklyn

Colm Toibin

"One of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary literature" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the hard years following World War Two. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn...

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Published: Mar 2010

Observatory Mansions

Edward Carey

Observatory Mansions, an apartment building in a provincial English city, houses the very strange Francis Orme, who lives with his quasi-comatose parents, pretends to be a statue in public, and collects things that belong to other peo...

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Published: Feb 2002

Commitments

Barbara Delinsky

A Manhattan high-society wife risks her safety and that of her handicapped son to help a convicted murderer she believes is innocent win his freedom. By the best-selling author of Suddenly. Reissue.

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Published: Aug 1995

Shades of Grey

Jasper Fforde

The New York Times bestseller and "a rich brew of dystopic fantasy and deadpan goofiness" (The Washington Post) Welcome to Chromatacia, where the societal hierarchy is strictly regulated by one's limited color perception. A...

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Published: Mar 2011

The Second Silence

Eileen Goudge

When her only child is stolen from her by her estranged husband, a powerful real-estate developer, Noelle Van Doren and her long-estranged parents struggle to unravel the secrets of Robert's past, revealing their own inner fears and t...

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Published: May 2001

Iron House

John Hart

An old man is dying.When the old man is dead they will come for him.And they will come for her, to make him hurt. John Hart has written three New York Times bestsellers and won an unprecedented two back-to-back Edgar Awards. His book...

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Published: Mar 2012

Thicker Than Water

P. J. Parrish

An electrifying novel of suspense follows Louis Kincaid as he races against time to find the truth surrounding a series of vicious killings that bear a startling resemblence to a twenty-year-old rape and murder case for which the man ...

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Published: Jan 2003

The Best of Me

Nicholas Sparks

em"Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once, too, back when she was eighteen."/embrbrIn the spring of 1984, high school students Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole fell deeply, irrevocably in lo...

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Published: Mar 2013

The Great Santini

Pat Conroy

Step into the powerhouse life of Bull Meecham. He’s all Marine-fighter pilot, king of the clouds, and absolute ruler of his family. Lillian is his wife—beautiful, southern-bred, with a core of velvet steel. Without her coo...

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Published: Mar 2002

Romantically Challenged

Beth Orsoff

Embarking on a dating frenzy of blind dates, chance meetings, dating services, and the Internet, L.A. entertainment lawyer Julie Burns launches a campaign to find Mr. Perfect, unaware that love can find you when you least expect it.

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Published: Apr 2006

All the Names

Jose Saramago

This novel was the winner of the Weidenfeld Translation Prize for Margaret Jull Costa's translation from the Portuguese. Saramago tells the story of a passive, mild man who has little interest in anything beyond his job as a low-level...

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Published: Oct 2001

Little White Lies of Love and Good In...

Gemma Townley

Opening a letter intended for her glamorous former roommate, Cressida, Natalie, a young woman who has always dreamed of attending the best parties and enjoying the company of celebrities and high-society friends, accepts an invitation...

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Published: Feb 2006
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