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Shrines of Gaiety: A Novel

Kate Atkinson

NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER•The award-winning author of Life after Life transports us to a restless London in the wake of the Great War—a city bursting with money, glamour, and corruption—in this spellbinding tale of sed...

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Published: May 2023

The Kept Man

Jami Attenberg

Now in paperback: the novel that's "unabashedly emotional, refreshingly devoid of New York City cynicism, and tenderly funny" (People).Jarvis Miller's artist husband has been in a coma for six years. And so, Jarvis has spent...

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Published: Jan 2009

Winterton Blue

Trezza Azzopardi

“Beryl Bainbridge, Muriel Spark, and Graham Greene all come to mind, but Azzopardi’s style is all her own.”—Chicago TribuneNew York Times Editors’ Choice, the breathtaking third novel from Booker Prize fi...

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Published: Dec 2007

The Infinities

John Banville

On a languid midsummer's day in the countryside, the Godley family gathers at the bedside of Adam, a renowned mathematician and their patriarch. But they are not alone in their vigil. Around them hovers a clan of mischievous immortals...

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Published: Feb 2011

The Temporary Gentleman

Sebastian Barry

A stunning new novel from the two-time Man Booker shortlisted author of The Secret Scripture In this highly anticipated new novel, Irishman Jack McNulty is a "temporary gentleman"—an Irishman whose commission in the Briti...

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Published: Apr 2015

A Very Private Gentleman

Martin Booth

Known as Signor Farfalla--Mr. Butterfly--to his neighbors in the southern Italian town where he lives, an inconspicuous gentleman who spends his days painting, idling at local cafes, and getting together with his friend, the town prie...

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Published: Feb 2005

Latecomers

Anita Brookner

A novel about the 50-year friendship of two dissimilar German refugees brought over to England as children from Nazi Germany. Their friendship becomes a funny yet touching model for the ways in which human beings come to terms with th...

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Published: Feb 1990

Strangers

Anita Brookner

Booker Prize-winner Anita Brookner captures the magic and depth of real life with this story of an ordinary man whose unexpected longings, doubts, and fears are universal. Paul Sturgis is resigned to his bachelorhood and the quietude...

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Published: Jul 2010

Carry Me Across the Water

Ethan Canin

August Kleinman is a World War II veteran now living in Pittsburgh, where he has made a fortune as the founder of a prosperous brewery. As Canin narrates episodes from Kleinman's life, past and present, an episode from the war, on the...

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Published: May 2002

Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Nove...

Truman Capote

Perhaps already the most famous unpublished novel in contemporary American fiction, Answered Prayers is the work Capote was still completing at the time of his death and is joined here with a revealing introduction by his biographer, ...

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Published: Mar 1995

Moonglow: A Novel (Harper Perennial O...

Michael Chabon

Moonglow unfolds as the deathbed confession of a man the narrator refers to only as "my grandfather." It is a tale of madness, of war and adventure, of sex and marriage and desire, of existential doubt and model rocketry, of...

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Published: Sep 2020

The Wangs vs. the World

Jade Chang

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An October 2016 Indie Next Pick A PopSugar Best Book for Fall A BuzzFeed Incredible Book for Fall A Nylon Amazing Book for Fall A Bustle Book for Your Fall TBR List A Millions Most Anticipa...

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Published: Oct 2017

The Queen of the Night

Alexander Chee

National Bestseller“This book is a glorious performance . . . Enveloping, seductive.” —Karen RussellFrom a writer praised by Junot Díaz as “the fire, in my opinion, and the light,” a mesmerizing novel that follows one wo...

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Published: Jan 2017

The Pilgrimage

Paulo Coelho

Here Paulo Coelho details his journey across Spain along the legendaryroad of San Tiago, which pilgrims have travelled since Middle Ages. On this contemporary quest, he encounters a Chaucerian variety of mysterious guides and devilish...

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Published: Sep 2008

And Then You Die

Michael Dibdin

Having survived an explosive assassination attempt, Italian police detective Aurelio Zen finds himself convalescing at a Tuscan seaside resort town, where he is under orders to lie low until he is to testify at a much-anticipated Mafi...

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Published: Sep 2003

The Hidden Man

David Ellis

Jason Kolarich is a Chicago attorney with a lineman's build, a razor- sharp intellect-and the grief of a tragic personal loss. When an estranged childhood friend is charged with murder, Kolarich must create a solid defense-even while ...

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Published: Jan 2011

The Painted Drum

Louise Erdrich

An art dealer named Faye Travers returns to the Ojibwe reservation where her grandmother lives, bringing with her a painted drum she discovered in the art collection of a man whose grandfather was an agent there for the Bureau of Indi...

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Published: Sep 2006

Hausfrau

Jill Alexander Essbaum

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER •NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, THE HUFFINGTON POST, AND SHELF AWARENESS • “In Hausfrau, Anna Karenina goes Fifty Shades with a side of Mada...

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Published: Aug 2015

Crooked Heart

Lissa Evans

Paper Moon meets the Blitz in this original black comedy, set in World War II England, chronicling an unlikely alliance between a small time con artist and a young orphan evacuee.When Noel Bostock—aged ten, no family—is evacuated ...

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Published: Jul 2016

The Shortest Way Home

Juliette Fay

Reminiscent of Jonathan Tropper and Marisa de los Santos, a novel full of humor, heart, and hope for finding yourself where you least expect to/b/Sean Doran has spent twenty years in third-world war zones and natural disaster areas, f...

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Published: Oct 2012

Past Imperfect

Julian Fellowes

From the creator of the Emmy Award-winning Downton Abbey... "Damian Baxter was a friend of mine at Cambridge. We met around the time when I was doing the Season at the end of the Sixties. I introduced him to some of the girls. T...

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Published: May 2012

The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty

Amanda Filipacchi

"A sure comic touch . . . smart and sweet . . . a tribute to the pleasures of friendship." ―The New YorkerIn the heart of New York City, a group of artistic friends struggles with society's standards of beauty. At the cent...

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Published: Feb 2016

The French Lieutenant's Woman

John Fowles

Well-known as an international bestseller and award-winning film, The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles is magnificent entertainment. This virtuoso reading by Academy Award winner Jeremy Irons is storytelling at its best. Fowle...

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Published: Sep 1998

The Solitude of Prime Numbers

Paolo Giordano

"Mesmerizing...an exquisite rendering of what one might call feels at the subatomic level." -The New York Times A prime number is a lonely thing. It can only be divided by itself or by one, and it never truly fits with anoth...

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Published: Mar 2011

Colonel Brandon's Diary

Amanda Grange

A vibrant retelling of Sense and Sensibility, Grange's sweeping epic breathes new life into another of Austen's best-loved novels. At the age of eighteen, James Brandon's world is shattered when the girl he loves, Eliza, is forced to ...

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Published: Jul 2009

Bloodroot

Amy Greene

Myra Lamb is a wild girl with mysterious, haint blue eyes who grows up on remote Bloodroot Mountain. Her grandmother, Byrdie, protects her fiercely and passes down "the touch" that bewitches people and animals alike. But whe...

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Published: Jan 2011

The Book of Unknown Americans

Cristina Henriquez

When fifteen-year-old Maribel Rivera sustains a terrible injury, the Riveras leave behind a comfortable life in Mexico and risk everything to come to the United States so that Maribel can have the care she needs. Once they arrive, it'...

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Published: Mar 2015

22 Britannia Road

Amanda Hodgkinson

A tour de force that echoes modern classics like Suite Francaise and The Postmistress. "Housekeeper or housewife?" the soldier asks Silvana as she and eight- year-old Aurek board the ship that will take them from Poland to ...

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Published: Apr 2012

So Much Pretty

Cara Hoffman

When she disappeared from her rural hometown, Wendy White was a sweet, family-oriented girl, a late bloomer who'd recently moved out on her own, with her first real boyfriend and a job waiting tables at the local tavern. It happens al...

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Published: Mar 2012

Mash About Three Army Doctors

Richard Hooker

Before the movie, this is the novel that gave life to Hawkeye Pierce, Trapper John, Hot Lips Houlihan, Frank Burns, Radar O'Reilly, and the rest of the gang that made the 4077th MASH like no other place in Korea or on earth. The docto...

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Published: Apr 1997
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