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The Clockmaker's Daughter

Kate Morton

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“An ambitious, compelling historical mystery with a fabulous cast of characters…Kate Morton at her very best.” —Kristin Hannah“An elaborate tapestry…Morton doesn’t disappoint.” —TheWa...

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Published: May 2019

Disobedience

Naomi Alderman

Ronit Krushka leaves behind her ultra-Orthodox Jewish past in England and moves to New York City. However, when her rabbi father dies, Ronit must return and face the community she had tried to leave behind. She also must navigate her ...

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Published: May 2007

The Lemon Table

Julian Barnes

A collection of tales featuring aging characters facing the ends of their lives includes 'The Silence,' in which a famous composer longs for companionship and resists drinking; 'Knowing French,' in which an octogenarian begins corresp...

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Published: May 2005

Walks With Men: Fiction

Ann Beattie

A knockout  new novella that perfectly captures a time and a place--New York in the '80s--from iconic American writer Ann Beattie.

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Published: Jun 2010

Tear You Apart

Megan Hart

I'm on a train.  I don't know which stop I got on at; I only know the train is going fast and the world outside becomes a blur. I should get off, but I don't. The universe is playing a cosmic joke on me. Here I had my life—a good ...

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Published: Aug 2013

Hangsaman

Shirley Jackson

Seventeen-year-old Natalie Waite longs to escape home for college. Her father is a domineering and egotistical writer who keeps a tight rein on Natalie and her long-suffering mother. When Natalie finally does get away, however, colleg...

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Published: Jun 2013

Up in the Air

Walter Kirn

A traveling consultant for a Denver-based management firm, thirty-five-year-old Ryan Bingham spends his life on airplanes and in airports as he travels around the country, pursuing his goal to accumulate one million miles in his frequ...

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Published: Sep 2002

Matterhorn of the Vietnam War

Karl Marlantes

An incredible publishing story-written over the course of thirty years by a highly decorated Vietnam veteran, a New York Times best seller for sixteen weeks, a National Indie Next and a USA Today best seller-Matterhorn has been hailed...

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Published: Apr 2011

The Member of the Wedding

Carson McCullers

Frankie is a motherless 12-year-old growing up, with difficulty, in a town in Georgia in the 1930s. She is lonely, awkward, bored, and--like so many of Carson McCullers's characters--alienated from most of the people around her. When ...

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Published: Aug 2004

The Falls

Joyce C. Oates

A man climbs over the railings and plunges into Niagara Falls. A newlywed, he has left behind his wife, Ariah Erskine, in the honeymoon suite the morning after their wedding. 'The Widow Bride of The Falls,' as Ariah comes to be known,...

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Published: Aug 2005

Missing Mom

Joyce Carol Oates

A small upstate New York town is stunned when one of its beloved longtime inhabitants, Gwen Eaton, is murdered by a violent ex-con. The story is narrated by Gwen’s daughter Nikki, a reporter for the local paper, who tells her mo...

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Published: Sep 2006

The Buddha in the Attic

Julie Otsuka

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner AwardFor FictionNational Book Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize FinalistA New York Times Notable BookA gorgeous novel by the celebrated author of When the Emperor Was Divine that tells the story of a gr...

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Published: Jun 2012

A Thousand Acres

Jane Smiley

A successful Iowa farmer decides to divide his farm between his three daughters. When the youngest objects, she is cut out of his will. This sets off a chain of events that brings dark truths to light and explodes long-suppressed emot...

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Published: Dec 2003

Terrorist

John Updike

John Updike aims to shape the pastiche portrait of the homegrown terrorist (a la Richard Reid, John Walker, even Timothy McVeigh) into something psychologically rich and artistically profound. A lesser writer would have stumbled into ...

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Published: May 2007

The Accidental Bestseller

Wendy Wax

Once upon a time four aspiring authors met at their very first writers' conference. Ten years later they're still friends, survivors of the ultra-competitive New York publishing world. Mallory St. James is a workaholic whose bestselle...

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Published: Jun 2009

The Grace That Keeps This World

Tom Bailey

Living on the edge of the Adirondack wilderness with his wife, Susan, and two sons, Gary David and Kevin, Gary Hazen, a respected hunter and forester has raised survival to an artform, until a hunting trip into the woods transforms li...

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Published: Jul 2006

The Death of the Heart

Elizabeth Bowen

Thomas and Anna Quayne have a long, childless, emotionally sterile marriage. When Thomas's teenage half-sister, Portia, comes to stay with them, she disrupts everything by falling in love with an irresponsible young man who rejects he...

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Published: May 2000

Baby Brother's Blues

Pearl Cleage

When Regina Burns married Blue Hamilton, she knew he was no ordinary man. A charismatic R&B singer who gave up his career to assume responsibility for the safety of Atlanta's West End community, Blue had created an African American ur...

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Published: Feb 2007

Everyone Brave is Forgiven

Chris Cleave

The instant New York Times bestseller from Chris Cleave—the unforgettable novel about three lives entangled during World War II, told "with dazzling prose, sharp English wit, and compassion…a powerful portrait of war's effect...

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Published: Mar 2017

The Dead Lie Down

Sophie Hannah

A breathtaking novel of psychological suspense from the author of Little Face and The Wrong Mother Featuring the return of Sergeant Charlotte "Charlie" Zailer and DC Simon Waterhouse, The Dead Lie Down is another sophistica...

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Published: Jun 2010

The World in Half

Cristina Henriquez

Now in paperback, the "beautiful" (Chicago Sun-Times) novel from the prizewinning author of Come Together, Fall Apart. Miraflores never knew her father, and never thought he wanted to know her. But when she returns to the C...

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Published: Feb 2010

Mr. Flood's Last Resort

Jess Kidd

Note to readers: In the UK, this book is published under the title The Hoarder.Indie Next PickFrom the award-winning author of Himself comes a spellbinding and "magically entertaining read" (Good Housekeeping, UK) about a lo...

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Published: Mar 2019

The Desert Rose

Larry McMurtry

Originally a screenplay, this story metamorphosed into a novel. McMurtry tells the tale of Harmony, a showgirl in Las Vegas who loses her job, her car, her insurance checks, her boyfriend, and her youth, but maintains her indomitable ...

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Published: Feb 2002

The Second Coming

Walker Percy

Will Barrett (also the hero of Percy's The Last Gentleman) is a lonely widower suffering from a depression so severe that he decides he doesn't want to continue living. But then he meets Allison, a mental hospital escapee making a new...

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Published: Sep 1999

The Woman Who Lost Her Soul

Bob Shacochis

Renowned through four award-winning books for his gritty and revelatory visions of the Caribbean, Bob Shacochis returns to occupied Haiti in The Woman Who Lost Her Soul before sweeping across time and continents to unravel tangled kno...

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Published: Aug 2014

Horseplay

Judy Reene Singer

Patty got up to peer into the refrigerator. “Honey, don’t look so guilty,” she said. “Men are like horses. If they’re even-tempered and sweet, you stay on for the ride. If they buck and run around, you ge...

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Published: Aug 2005

The Song Reader

Lisa Tucker

She can hear the music in peoples' souls. Mary Beth and her younger sister Leeann are trying to support themselves in their small Southern hometown. So Mary Beth works to make ends meet by practicing her own unique talent: 'song rea...

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Published: May 2003

Dietland

Sarai Walker

A Best Book of the YearEntertainment Weekly• Bustle • Amazon • Women's National Book Association • Kirkus Reviews• BookPage• Kobo • LitReactor A Summer Must-ReadNew York Post• Us Weekly• O, The Oprah Magazine• USA...

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Published: May 2016

We

Yevgeny Zamyatin

D-503, a mathematician in the one thousandth year of the One State and the chief architect of the Integral, threatens national security when he falls in love with the beautiful I-330 and rediscovers the meaning of passion and the soul...

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Published: Jul 2006

Solemn Oath (ER Trilogy #2)

Hannah Alexander

Praise for Sacred Trust: Mirrors [ERs] exciting pace and agreeable characters. Publishers Weekly Guaranteed to keep the reader glued to the pages . . . Rendezvous 'The health of my patient will be my first consideration.' So vowed ...

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Published: May 2000
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