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Jack Maggs

Peter Carey

A Booker Prize-winning author presents a novel set in 1830s Dickensian London featuring a thief who insinuates his way into the passionate entanglements of a well-appointed household and meets a writer obsessed with the criminal mind....

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Published: Feb 1999

This Dark Road to Mercy: A Novel

Wiley Cash

The critically acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller A Land More Kind Than Home—hailed as "a powerfully moving debut that reads as if Cormac McCarthy decided to rewrite Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird" (Rich...

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Published: Oct 2014

Goodbye Without Leaving

Laurie Colwin

An insightful domestic comedy, at once hilarious and extremely moving, Goodbye Without Leaving is the story of a woman's attempt to remain true to herself in a world of diminishing returns. As a bored graduate student, Geraldine Colsh...

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Published: Jun 2000

I, Strahd: The War Against Azalin

P.N. Elrod

The young and idealistic brother to the war-hardened Strahd von Zarovich loves beautiful Tatyana, but so does Strahd. To win her hand, Strahd will do anything--even enter a pact with death and seal it with his brother's blood. Chapter...

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Published: Jun 1998

The Round House: A Novel

Louise Erdrich

Winner of the 2012 National Book Award, Louise Erdrich's masterful novel is now available in a limited Olive Edition.One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the cri...

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Published: Oct 2017

Every Man Dies Alone

Hans Fallada

"The greatest book ever written about German resistance to the Nazis."-Primo LeviThis never-before-translated masterpiece-by a heroic best-selling writer who saw his life crumble when he wouldn't join the Nazi Party-is based...

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Published: Mar 2010

A Terrible Country: A Novel

Keith Gessen

A New York Times Editors' ChoiceNamed a Best Book of 2018 by Bookforum, Nylon, Esquire, and Vulture"This artful and autumnal novel, published in high summer, is a gift to those who wish to receive it."—Dwight Garner, The New Yo...

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Published: Jul 2019

Chalktown

Melinda Haynes

In this well-crafted, evocative novel by the author of Mother of Pearl, a poor family struggles to survive in a small 1960s Mississippi town in the face of mind-numbing poverty, an absent father, a disaffected and often cruel mother, ...

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Published: Jun 2002

Good As Gold

Joseph Heller

Bruce Gold, a middle-aged, Jewish professor of English literature, finds himself on the brink of a golden career in politics -- and not a moment too soon, as Gold yearns for an opportunity to transform a less-than-picture-perfect lif...

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Published: Nov 1997

May We Be Forgiven: A Novel

A. M. Homes

"A big American story with big American themes" (Elle) from the author of the New York Times-bestselling memoir The Mistress's Daughter In this vivid, transfixing new novel, A. M. Homes presents a darkly comic look at twenty...

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Published: Oct 2013

Brave New World Revisited

Aldous Huxley

When the novel Brave New World first appeared in 1932, its shocking analysis of a scientific dictatorship seemed a projection into the remote future. Here, in one of the most important and fascinating books of his career, Aldous Huxl...

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Published: Mar 2000

Mister Pip

Lloyd Jones

In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power of narrative to transform our lives.On a copper-rich tropical islan...

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Published: May 2008

Annie John

Jamaica Kincaid

The author of a prize-winning collection of short stories, At the Bottom of the River, presents her first novel, about a girl growing up in Antigua and her ambivalent but inescapable relationship with her mother. Reprint. NYT.

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Published: Jun 1997

Selected Stories

Alice Munro

Spanning almost thirty years and settings that range from big cities to small towns and farmsteads of rural Canada, this magnificent collection brings together twenty-eight stories by a writer of unparalleled wit, generosity, and emot...

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Published: Nov 1997

Foreign Gods, Inc.

Okey Ndibe

From a disciple of the late Chinua Achebe comes a masterful and universally acclaimed novel that is at once a taut, literary thriller and an indictment of greed's power to subsume all things, including the sacred.Foreign Gods, Inc., t...

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Published: Oct 2014

Night Film

Marisha Pessl

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYNPR • Cosmopolitan • Kirkus Reviews • BookPageA page-turning thriller for readers of Stephen King, Gillian Flynn, and Stieg Larsson, Night Film tells the haunti...

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Published: Jul 2014

Blue Angel

Francine Prose

Swenson waits for his students to complete their private rituals, adjusting zippers and caps, arranging the pens and notebooks so painstaking chosen to express their tender young selves, the fidgety ballets that signal their weekly su...

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Published: Mar 2006

The Pearl Sister: Book Four

Lucinda Riley

From the breathtaking beaches of Thailand to the barely tamed wilds of colonial Australia, The Pearl Sister is the fourth "brilliantly written" (Historical Novel Society) novel in New York Times bestselling author Lucinda Ri...

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Published: Jan 2019

Whiskey and Charlie

Annabel Smith

"A sharp, perceptive novel about family and forgiveness, Whiskey & Charlie will stay with me for a very long time." Christina Baker Kline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan TrainA captivating debut novel of brot...

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Published: Apr 2015

The Hundred Secret Senses

Amy Tan

Stunning reissue of an international bestseller, from the author of The Joy Luck Club and The Bonesetter's Daughter Olivia Yee is only five years old when Kwan, her older sister from China, comes to live with the family and turns her...

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Published: Dec 2010

Day

Elie Wiesel

'Not since Albert Camus has there been such an eloquent spokesman for man.' --The New York Times Book ReviewThe publication of Day restores Elie Wiesel’s original title to the novel initially published in English as The Accident...

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Published: Mar 2006

The Oath

Elie Wiesel

Two decades before the Holocaust, when the Jews in an Eastern European village are accused of ritual murder after a Christian boy is missing, an innocent Jewish madman confesses to the crime, admonishing his fellow Jews to take an oat...

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Published: May 1986

Vanishing Acts

Jodi Picoult

Delia Hopkins is living a placid enough life in New Hampshire with her little daughter, and is about to finally marry the child's father, Eric, a lawyer. Then, suddenly Delia's life bursts wide open: her adored father, Andrew, is arre...

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Published: Nov 2005

House of Sand and Fog (Oprah's Book C...

Andre Dubus

Oprah Book Club® Selection, November 2000: Andre Dubus III wastes no time in capturing the dark side of the immigrant experience in America at the end of the 20th century. House of Sand and Fog opens with a highway crew composed o...

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Published: Nov 2000

Goodnight Nobody

Jennifer Weiner

The incredibly fraught choice that many women must make between being a career woman and being a good mother gets full play in this humorous mom-lit mystery by the author of LITTLE EARTHQUAKES. The neglect of her husband, the move fro...

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Published: May 2006

Handle with Care

Jodi Picoult

Things break all the time.Day breaks, waves break, voices break.Promises break.Hearts break.Every expectant parent will tell you that they don't want a perfect baby, just a healthy one. Charlotte and Sean O'Keefe would have asked for ...

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Published: Sep 2009

Tara Road (Oprah's Book Club)

Maeve Binchy

Ria lived on Tara Road in Dublin with her dashing husband, Danny, and their two children. She fully believed she was happily married, right up until the day Danny told her he was leaving her to be with his young, pregnant girlfriend. ...

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Published: Jul 2000

One Door Away from Heaven

Dean Koontz

When Micky Bellsong encounters Leilani Klonk, a disabled girl with a fierce spirit, and Leilani's stepfather Preston Maddoc, who believes that aliens will heal Leilani by her tenth birthday or take her with them, she finally finds the...

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Published: Oct 2002

Certain Girls

Jennifer Weiner

Readers fell in love with Cannie Shapiro, the smart, sharp-tongued, bighearted heroine of Good in Bed who found her happy ending after her mother came out of the closet, her father fell out of her life, and her ex-boyfriend started ch...

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Published: Apr 2009

Shopaholic & Sister

Sophie Kinsella

Once again, the immortal question, "Is there more to life than shopping?" is debated in this fourth Shopaholic novel. Becky Bloomwood Brandon returns to London from her 10-month honeymoon/shopping expedition with new husband...

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Published: Aug 2005
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