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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

All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book, National Book Award finalist, more than two and a half years on the New York Times bestseller listFrom the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr...

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Published: Apr 2017

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

The Storyteller

Jodi Picoult

Some stories live forever . . .Sage Singer is a baker. She works through the night, preparing the day's breads and pastries, trying to escape a reality of loneliness, bad memories, and the shadow of her mother's death. When Josef Webe...

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Published: Nov 2013

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

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

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

One Mississippi

Mark Childress

When Daniel Musgroves family moves to a small Mississippi town at the beginning of his junior year, he faces all the pain and thrills of adolescence, with extra helpings of hormones and humiliation. But then he meets Tim, a fellow out...

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Published: Sep 2007

Wish You Were Here

Stewart O'Nan

When Emily Maxwell's husband dies, she knows she has to sell their summer place on Lake Chautauqua in New York State, and for one final week there, she gathers the clan: her daughter, Meg, who has her drinking problem under control--b...

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Published: Apr 2003

Miss Invisible

Laura Jensen Walker

Freddie Heinz is a single, 29-year-old plus-size wedding cake baker/decorator who feels invisible most of the time due to her size and her still-single status. Fans of Jennifer Weiner's novels will enjoy this tale about a woman who f...

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Published: Mar 2007

The Longest Ride

Nicholas Sparks

In the tradition of his beloved first novel, The Notebook, #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks returns with the remarkable story of two couples whose lives intersect in profound and surprising ways.Ira Levinson is in ...

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Published: Apr 2014

The Gone-Away World

Nick Harkaway

About the 'neon fuzz': a note on the book jacket from designer Jason Booher...'When you read Harkaway's novel, a gigantic sense of weirdness and cool and doom surround the characters. To capture all that plus the absurd humor that per...

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Published: Aug 2009

Arthur and George

Julian Barnes

Set against the backdrop of the British Empire, an intriguing novel by the author of Flaubert's Parrot chronicles the lives of two boys--George, the son of a Midlands vicar, and Arthur, growing up in Edinburgh--one who is forgotten by...

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Published: Jan 2007

Landing

Emma Donoghue

A delightful, old-fashioned love story with a uniquely twenty-first-century twist, Landing is a romantic comedy that explores the pleasures and sorrows of long-distance relationships—the kind millions of us now maintain mostly by pl...

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Published: Sep 2008

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry...

Rachel Joyce

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST “[Rachel] Joyce’s beguiling debut is [a] modest-seeming story of ‘ordinary’ English lives...

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Published: Mar 2013

Menage'A Way

Victor L. Martin

Menage Unique Legend's life, though it continues to be filled with material possessions and easy sex, spirals steadily out of control in this action-packed, page-turning sequel to A Hood Legend. Through it all, he pretends to be in co...

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Published: Nov 2004

A Mercy

Toni Morrison

A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize–winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier.In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In th...

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Published: Aug 2009

Saving the World

Julia Alvarez

Julia Alvarez is the author of five works of fiction, among them In the Time of the Butterflies and How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, books for children, essays, and poetry. Saving the World is an unfocused attempt to make a st...

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Published: Apr 2007

Fieldwork

Mischa Berlinski

When his girlfriend takes a job in Thailand, Mischa Berlinski goes along for the ride, planning to enjoy himself and work as little as possible. But one evening a fellow expatriate tips him off to a story: a charismatic American anthr...

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Published: Jan 2008
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