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Circling the Sun: A Novel

Paula McLain

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, BOOKPAGE, AND SHELF AWARENESS • "Paula McLain is considered the new star of historical fiction, and for good reason. Fans of The Paris Wife will b...

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Published: May 2016

The Returned

Jason Mott

Harold and Lucille Hargrave's lives have been both joyful and sorrowful in the decades since their eight-year-old son, Jacob, died tragically in 1966. In their old age they've settled comfortably into life without him…. Until one da...

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Published: May 2014

Songs for the Missing

Stewart O'Nan

Returning again to the theme of working-class people and their wrenching concerns, Songs for the Missing begins with the suspenseful pace of a thriller, following an Ohio community's efforts to locate a young woman who has gone missin...

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Published: Aug 2009

The Well and the Mine

Gin Phillips

With an introduction by Fannie Flagg Author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe A novel of warmth and true feeling, The Well and the Mine explores the value of community, charity, family, and hope that we can give ea...

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Published: Apr 2009

Garden of Stones

Sophie Littlefield

In the dark days of war, a mother makes the ultimate sacrificeLucy Takeda is just fourteen years old, living in Los Angeles, when the bombs rain down on Pearl Harbor. Within weeks, she and her mother, Miyako, are ripped from their hom...

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Published: Dec 2012

No River Too Wide

Emilie Richards

Some betrayals are like rivers, so deep, so wide, they can't be crossed. But—for those with enough courage—forgiveness, redemption and love may be found on the other side. On the night her home is consumed by fire, Janine Stoddar...

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Published: Jun 2014

When the Killing's Done

T. Coraghessan Boyle

T.C. Boyle's most powerful and fully realized work yet-"terrifically exciting and unapologetically relevant" (The Washington Post). Principally set on the wild Channel Islands off the coast of California, T.C. Boyle's new ...

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Published: Feb 2012

The Starboard Sea: A Novel

Amber Dermont

"A rich, quietly artful novel that is bound for deep water, with questions of beauty, power and spiritual navigation as its main concerns. The title refers not to the right side of a boat but to the right course through life, and...

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Published: Feb 2013

The Garden of Evening Mists

Tan Twan Eng

Malaya, 1951. Yun Ling Teoh, the scarred lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks solace among the jungle-fringed tea plantations of Cameron Highlands. There she discovers Yugiri, the only Japanese garden in Malaya, and ...

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Published: Aug 2012

Virgil Wander

Leif Enger

The first novel in ten years from award-winning, bestselling author Leif Enger, Virgil Wander is a sweeping story of new beginnings that follows the inhabitants of a Midwestern town in their quest to revive its flagging heart.Small to...

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Published: Jun 2019

The Cellist of Sarajevo

Steven Galloway

The acclaimed and inspiring international bestseller that is a tribute to the human spirit. In a city ravaged by war, a musician plays his cello for twenty-two days at the site of a mortar attack, in memory of the fallen. Among the st...

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Published: Mar 2009

Last Christmas in Paris: A Novel of W...

Hazel Gaynor

New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor has joined with Heather Webb to create this unforgettably romantic novel of the Great War.August 1914. England is at war. As Evie Elliott watches her brother, Will, and his best friend, T...

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Published: Oct 2017

The End of the Point: A Novel (P.S.)

Elizabeth Graver

A precisely observed, superbly crafted novel, The End of the Point by Elizabeth Graver charts the dramatic changes in the lives of three generations of one remarkable family, and the summer place that both shelters and isolates them.A...

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Published: Feb 2014

The Captain and the Enemy

Graham Greene

Victor Baxter is a young boy when a secretive stranger known simply as “the Captain” brings him from his boarding school to London. Victor becomes the surrogate son and companion of a woman named Liza, who renames him “...

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Published: Sep 2005

P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boy...

Jenny Han

Given the way love turned her heart in the New York Times bestselling To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, which School Library Journal called a “lovely, lighthearted romance,” it’s no surprise that Laura Jean still has letters ...

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Published: Jan 2017

The Sisters

Nancy Jensen

Family secrets reverberate for generations in one of the "Best Novels of 2011" (IKirkus Reviews)DIV PGrowing up without a mother in hardscrabble Kentucky in the 1920s, Bertie Fischer and her older sister, Mabel, have only ...

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Published: Oct 2012

The Music Shop

Rachel Joyce

"An unforgettable story of music, loss and hope. Fans of High Fidelity, meet your next quirky love story."—PeopleNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES (UK) It is 1988. On a dead-end street in a run-down ...

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Published: Nov 2018

The Exiles: A Novel

Christina Baker Kline

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROPTIONED FOR TELEVISION BY BRUNA PAPANDREA, THE PRODUCER OF HBO'S BIG LITTLE LIES“A tour de force of original thought, imagination and promise … Kline takes full advantage of fiction &#...

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Published: Jun 2021

Capital: A Novel

John Lanchester

One of the most talked about books of the year, Capital is a sweeping social novel by the writer hailed on the cover of the New York Times Book Review as "a brainy, pleasure-loving polymath."Celebrated novelist John Lanchest...

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Published: May 2013

A Reunion of Ghosts

Judith Claire Mitchell

A NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALIST"The Alter sisters are mordant, wry, and crystalline in wit and vision; it is a tremendous pleasure to rocket through generations of their family histories with them." —Lauren Groff, N...

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Published: Jan 2016

In the Skin of a Lion

Michael Ondaatje

Bristling with intelligence and shimmering with romance, this novel tests the boundary between history and myth. Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and earns his living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling ben...

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Published: Jan 1997

Love and Summer

William Trevor

The inimitable William Trevor returns with a story of suspicion, guilt, forbidden love and the possibility of starting over. It's summer, and nothing much is happening in Rathmoye. So it doesn't go unnoticed when a dark-haired strange...

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Published: Oct 2010

Fall On Your Knees (Oprah's Book Club...

Ann-Marie MacDonald

...Ann-Marie MacDonald writes of several generations of a Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia family in this resonant first novel....Ms. MacDonald skillfully shifts the story backward and forward in time, giving it a mythic quality that a...

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Published: Jan 2002

The Guy Not Taken: Stories

Jennifer Weiner

Jennifer Weiner's talent shines like never before in this collection of short stories, following the tender, often hilarious, progress of love and relationships over the course of a lifetime. We meet Marlie Davidow, home alone with he...

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Published: Jun 2007

Forever... of Good and Evil, Love an...

Jude Deveraux

From A Knight in Shining Armor to The Mulberry Tree, Jude Deveraux's bestsellers sparkle with stunning originality, heartfelt wit, and adventurous passion. Now, this superb storyteller mixes the flavor of a classic fairy tale with a v...

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Published: Oct 2002

The Templar Legacy

Steve Berry

A DA VINCI CODE-like search for ancient secrets drives this thriller by the bestselling author of THE AMBER ROOM. An attempt to get closer to her late husband by pursuing his research leads senior Justice Department official Stephanie...

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Published: Jan 2007

Breath, Eyes, Memory (Oprah's Book Cl...

Edwidge Danticat

At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from the impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets to New York to be reunited with her mother, where she gains a legacy of shame that can only be healed when she returns to Haiti, to the woman ...

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Published: May 1998

A Confederacy of Dunces (Evergreen Bo...

John Kennedy Toole

An obese New Orleans misanthrope who constantly rebukes society, Ignatius Reilly gets a job at his mother's urging but ends up leading a workers' revolt, in a twentieth anniversary edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Reprint.

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Published: Jan 1994

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (Oprah's ...

David Wroblewski

Born mute, speaking only in sign, Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life on his family's farm in remote northern Wisconsin where they raise and train an extraordinary breed of dog. But when tragedy strikes, Edgar is forced to flee into ...

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Published: Sep 2009

About Face

Fern Michaels

Neglected by her mother, sexually abused and impregnated by her sterother, and emotionally pummeled by her fiance who threatens to leave her if she won't have sex with him, 17-year-old Casey Edwards finally snaps. Driven to the brink ...

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Published: Apr 2003
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