Literary

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The Good People

Hannah Kent

From the author of Burial Rites, "a literary novel with the pace and tension of a thriller that takes us on a frightening journey towards an unspeakable tragedy."-Paula Hawkins, bestselling author of The Girl on the Train an...

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Published: Jul 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

Beloved

Toni Morrison

Sethe, an escaped slave, kills her own daughter Beloved with a handsaw to prevent her from being claimed as a slave in this stunningly rendered story. Beloved returns to her mother as a ghost 20 years later.

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Published: Jun 1994

The First Counsel

Brad Meltzer

Michael Garrick, a young lawyer with the White House legal team, is involved in a romance with Nora Hartson, the president's beautiful, spoiled, impetuous daughter. Out on an illicit date one night, Nora and Michael stumble into a Was...

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Published: Dec 2001

Moving Target

Elizabeth Lowell

Serena Charters's grandmother has been murdered, and Serena is sure that the motive was an ancient, priceless family heirloom--a medieval manuscript--that is now missng. With the help of sexy medieval-manuscript expert Erik North, Ser...

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Published: May 2002

Paradise Alley

Kevin Baker

Paradise Alley is a slum in New York City, and in 1863 it is the site of the riots that occurred when working-class men who were too poor to avoid military service through bribes were drafted into the army. The story is told from the ...

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Published: Oct 2003

Everything I Never Told You: A Novel

Celeste Ng

"If we know this story, we haven't seen it yet in American fiction, not until now. . . . Deep, heartfelt." —The New York Times Book Review"Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet." So begins this exquisite no...

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Published: Jun 2015

Sea Glass

Anita Shreve

From its opening pages, Anita Shreve's Sea Glass surrounds the reader in the surprisingly rich feeling of the New Hampshire coast in winter. Vividly evoking the life of the coastal community at the beginning of the Great Depression, S...

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Published: Jan 2003

The Stolen Child

Keith Donohue

This literary fantasy marks the author's debut. In 1949, a band of hobgoblins living in the woods near a remote American farmhouse kidnap seven-year-old Henry Day and substitute one of their own, a changeling who himself was once huma...

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Published: May 2007

The Mercy of Thin Air

Ronlyn Domingue

Dying in a tragic accident while in the throes of a wonderful love affair with Andrew, Razi Nolan of 1920s New Orleans chooses to become a ghost and haunts the house of a young couple, to whom she reveals the mystery of her life and l...

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Published: Jun 2006

Hey Nostradamus!

Douglas Coupland

This account of a Columbine-ish massacre and its aftermath, is narrated by four characters: Cheryl, a highly religious teenager whose narrative leads up to the massacre (in which she is killed); Jason, the boy she was secretly married...

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Published: Jul 2004

Mad River Road

Joy Fielding

An ex-con’s fury threatens three troubled women in this gripping work of suspense. Ralph Fisher holds his former wife fully responsible for the year he spent in prison, although it was his brutal abuse of her that landed him the...

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Published: Dec 2006

The Dinner

Herman Koch

"A European Gone Girl." --The Wall Street JournalAn internationally bestselling phenomenon: the darkly suspenseful, highly controversial tale of two families struggling to make the hardest decision of their lives -- all over...

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Published: Nov 2013

Breakfast of Champions

Kurt Vonnegut

Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut l...

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Published: May 1999

A Promising Man (and About Time, Too)...

Elizabeth Young

From the fire-hot author of Asking for Trouble comes a second irresistibly funny and romantic novel, in which we meet the delightfully wicked Harriet and John, who are matched as perfectly as scones and clotted cream -- if only Harrie...

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Published: Nov 2002

The Wednesday Sisters

Meg Waite Clayton

Friendship, loyalty, and love lie at the heart of Meg Waite Clayton's beautifully written, poignant, and sweeping novel of five women who, over the course of four decades, come to redefine what it means to be family.For thirty-five ye...

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Published: May 2009

Freedom

Jonathan Franzen

Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul—the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbor, who could tell you where to recycle your bat...

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Published: Sep 2011

Lighthousekeeping

Jeanette Winterson

Silver is being raised by Pew, the old, blind lighthouse keeper in her Scottish town, who tells her the story behind the building of the lighthouse--one involving love, betrayal, and disaster. At the same time, Silver's own story turn...

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Published: Mar 2006
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