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The Death of the Adversary

Hans Keilson

Written while Hans Keilson was in hiding during World War II and first published in 1959, The Death of the Adversary is the self-portrait of a young man helplessly fascinated—obsessed—by an unnamed "adversary," whom he w...

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Published: Jul 2010

The Misremembered Man

Christina McKenna

The Misremembered Man is a beautifully rendered portrait of life in rural Ireland which charms and delights with its authentic characters and gentle humor. This vivid portrayal of the universal search for love brings with it a darker ...

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Published: Jun 2011

Our Tragic Universe

Scarlett Thomas

Meg Carpenter is broke, her novel years overdue. So when a pseudoscientific book promising life everlasting lands on her desk, she jumps at the chance to review it. Thus begins a labyrinthine journey featuring mysterious beasts of the...

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Published: May 2011

Flower Children

Maxine Swann

From an award-winning writer: an elegant, lively, moving novel that portrays the strangely celebrated and unsupervised childhood of four hippie offspring in the seventies and eighties. When Flower Children's first chapter was publish...

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Published: Jun 2008

Lost in the City

Edward P. Jones

Set in the nation's capital, a collection of stories about African Americans living in Washington, D.C., introduces characters who struggle daily with loss--of family, of friends, of memories, and of themselves. Repritn. 15,000 first ...

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Published: Dec 2004

Trouble

Kate Christensen

Josie is a Manhattan psychotherapist living a comfortable life with her husband and daughter. Raquel is a Los Angeles rock star with a platinum album and the attendant money and fame. When Josie realizes her marriage is over, and Raqu...

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Published: Jun 2010

In Sunlight and in Shadow

Mark Helprin

In the summer of 1946, New York City pulses with energy. Harry Copeland, a World War II veteran, has returned home to run the family business. Yet his life is upended by a single encounter with the young singer and heiress Catherin...

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Published: Oct 2013

Me & Emma

Elizabeth Flock

Narrated with simplicity and unabashed honesty, Elizabeth Flock's critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling novel Me & Emma is a vivid portrayal of a child's indomitable spirit, her incredible courage and the heartbreaking loss ...

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Published: Mar 2006

Playdate

Thelma Adams

"Adams is that rare writer who sends out every laugh with a sting in its tail. Most novels fade from the memory. This one sticks."—Peter Travers, Rolling Stone Inside their picture-perfect homes, the residents of this quie...

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Published: Mar 2012

Diary of an Oxygen Thief

Anonymous

Hurt people hurt people. Say there was a novel in which Holden Caulfield was an alcoholic and Lolita was a photographer's assistant and, somehow, they met in Bright Lights, Big City. He's blinded by love. She by ambition. Diary of an ...

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Published: Jun 2016

Big Sky

Kate Atkinson

Iconoclastic detective Jackson Brodie returns in a triumphant new novel about secrets, sex, and lies. Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village, in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son and an aging Lab...

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Published: Jun 2020

Coral Glynn: A Novel

Peter Cameron

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice In the spring of 1950, Coral Glynn arrives at an isolated mansion in the English countryside to nurse the elderly Edith Hart. There, Coral meets Hart House's odd inhabitants: Mrs. Prence, t...

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Published: Mar 2013

Margot: A Novel

Jillian Cantor

Anne Frank has long been a symbol of bravery and hope, but there were two sisters hidden in the annex, two young Jewish girls, one a cultural icon made famous by her published diary and the other, nearly forgotten. In the spring of ...

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Published: Sep 2013

The Bingo Palace

Louise Erdrich

At the crossroads of his life, Lipsha Morrissey is summoned by his grandmother to return to the reservation. There, he falls in love for the very first time—with the beautiful Shawnee Ray, who's already considering a marriage pr...

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Published: Sep 2006

Telephone

Percival Everett

An astonishing new novel of loss and grief from "one of our culture's preeminent novelists" (Los Angeles Times) Zach Wells is a perpetually dissatisfied geologist-slash-paleobiologist. Expert in a very narrow area--the geol...

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Published: May 2020

The Universe Versus Alex Woods

Gavin Extence

A rare meteorite struck Alex Woods when he was ten years old, leaving scars and marking him for an extraordinary future. The son of a fortune teller, bookish, and an easy target for bullies, Alex hasn't had the easiest childhood. But...

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Published: May 2014

To Rise Again at a Decent Hour: A Nov...

Joshua Ferris

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this big, brilliant, profoundly observed novel by National Book Award Finalist Joshua Ferris explores the absurdities of modern life and one man's search for meaning.Paul O'Rourke is a man made of...

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Published: Mar 2015

The Shock of the Fall: A Novel

Nathan Filer

***This book has also been published as Where the Moon Isn't.***Winner of the 2013 Costa First Novel Award "A stunning novel. Ambitious and exquisitely realized . . . clearly the work of a major new talent." —S. J. Watson...

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Published: Oct 2014

Purity: A Novel

Jonathan Franzen

A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of FREEDOM and THE CORRECTIONS Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's s...

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Published: Sep 2016

Spaced Out (Moon Base Alpha)

Stuart Gibbs

In this New York Times bestselling novel the moon base commander has gone missing and Dash Gibson is on the case. The second mind-boggling mystery of the Moon Base Alpha series from beloved author Stuart Gibbs.There’s nowhere to hid...

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Published: Apr 2017

Friendship: A Novel

Emily Gould

A Wall Street Journal Favorite Book of the Year · A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice · Named a Best Book of the Year by Vol. 1 Brooklyn and The Globe and Mail (Canada)Bev Tunney and Amy Schein have been best friends for ye...

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Published: Jul 2015

Dakota

Martha Grimes

There is "suspense on every page"(Cleveland Plain Dealer) in this follow-up to Biting the Moon— now available in paperback. In Martha Grimes's acclaimed novel Biting the Moon, amnesiac drifter Andi Oliver sought the one ma...

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Published: Feb 2009

Moth Smoke

Mohsin Hamid

divBAvailable for the first time from Riverhead—the debut novel from the bestselling author of IThe Reluctant Fundamentalist./BMoth Smoke, Mohsin Hamid's deftly conceived first novel, immediately marked him as an uncommonly talented...

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Published: Oct 2012

Munich: A novel

Robert Harris

From the internationally best-selling author of Fatherland and the Cicero Trilogy--a new spy thriller about treason and conscience, loyalty and betrayal, set against the backdrop of the fateful Munich Conference of September 1938.Hugh...

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Published: Nov 2018

Hot Milk

Deborah Levy

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year.Shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize, Hot Milk moves "gracefully among pathos, danger, and humor" (The New York Times).I have been sleuthing my mother's symptoms for as long as ...

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Published: May 2017

Solo

Jill Mansell

Solo

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Published: Jan 2017

Shadow Country

Peter Matthiessen

2008 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERPeter Matthiessen's great American epic–Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man's River, and Bone by Bone–was conceived as one vast mysterious novel, but because of its length it was originally broken up int...

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Published: Dec 2008

Behold the Dreamers (Oprah's Book Clu...

Imbolo Mbue

A compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream—the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession up...

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Published: Jun 2017

Bertie Plays the Blues: A 44 Scotland...

Alexander McCall Smith

44 SCOTLAND STREET - Book 7The residents and neighbors of 44 Scotland Street and the city of Edinburgh come to vivid life in these gently satirical, wonderfully perceptive serial novels, featuring seven-year-old Bertie, a remarkably p...

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Published: Oct 2013

A Good Marriage: A Novel

Kimberly McCreight

COMING SOON FROM AMAZON AND NICOLE KIDMAN’S BLOSSOM FILMS A New York TimesSummer Reads Selection | A PeopleBest Book of the Summer | A Library Reads Pick | A Book Riot Addictive New Thriller to Add to Your TBR Pi...

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Published: Dec 2020
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