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Nora Webster: A Novel

Colm Toibin

From one of contemporary literature's bestselling, critically acclaimed, and beloved authors: a "luminous" novel (Jennifer Egan, The New York Times Book Review) about a fiercely compelling young widow navigating grief, fear,...

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Published: Jun 2015

I Married You For Happiness

Lily Tuck

DIV"His hand is growing cold, still she holds it," is how this riveting, deeply moving story of a forty-three year old marriage by National Book Award winner Lily Tuck begins. Unfolding over a single night, Nina sits at the...

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Published: Sep 2012

Redhead by the Side of the Road: A no...

Anne Tyler

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE From the beloved Anne Tyler, a sparkling new novel—an instant New York Timesbestseller—about misperception, second chances, and the sometimes elusive power of human connection. Micah Morti...

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Published: Mar 2021

And Now You Can Go

Vendela Vida

Vendela Vida's fearless, critically acclaimed fiction debut follows the unpredictable recovery of a young woman as she tries to make sense of her life after an encounter at gunpoint.Accosted one afternoon in Riverside Park by a man wh...

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Published: Sep 2004

High Plains Tango

Robert James Waller

With over 10 million copies sold, bestselling author Robert James Waller returns with the haunting, evocative story of a small town, a beautiful and mysterious woman, and the man forever changed by both.The wild places are where no on...

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Published: Jun 2006

The Riders

Tim Winton

After traveling through Europe for two years, Scully and his wife Jennifer wind up in Ireland, and on a mystical whim of Jennifer's, buy an old farmhouse which stands in the shadow of a castle. While Scully spends weeks alone ...

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Published: Jun 1996

Mislaid

Nell Zink

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDA sharply observed, mordantly funny, and startlingly original novel from an exciting, unconventional new voice—the author of the acclaimed The Wallcreeper—about the making and unmaking of...

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Published: Jan 2016

Emotionally Weird

Kate Atkinson

A thoroughly original and hilarious new novel about mothers, daughters, and love, by the author of Behind the Scenes at the MuseumOn a weather-beaten island off the coast of Scotland, Effie and her mother, Nora, take refuge in the lar...

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Published: Jul 2001

The Frog Prince

Jane Porter

Holly Bishop is the proverbial, small-town good girl. She always follows the rules, thinks of others first, and she never, ever makes mistakes. Until she marries the man she thought was her Prince Charming, who confesses on their hone...

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Published: May 2005

The Aleph and Other Stories

Jorge Luis Borges

Twenty fictional pieces survey the depth and range of the distinguished Argentine writer's forty-year career as he journeys inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Maya priest, fanatical Christian theologians, a man awa...

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Published: Aug 2004

Life Before Man

Margaret Atwood

Imprisoned by walls of their own construction, here are three people, each in midlife, in midcrisis, forced to make choices--after the rules have changed.  Elizabeth, with her controlled sensuality, her suppressed rage, is married t...

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Published: Apr 1998

The Child in Time

Ian McEwan

THE CHILD IN TIME begins on a Saturday morning when Stephen Lewis and his 3-year-old daughter, Kate, go to the supermarket. As they wait in line, she is kidnapped -suddenly, inexplicably, without warning. The novel explores the effect...

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Published: Nov 1999

Mr. Darcy Presents His Bride: A Seque...

Helen Halstead

When Elizabeth Bennett marries the brooding, passionate Mr. Darcy, she is thrown into the exciting world of London society. She makes a powerful friend in the Marchioness of Englebury but the jealousy among her ladyship's circle threa...

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Published: Mar 2007

The Position

Meg Wolitzer

Roz and Paul Mellow become famous when, in 1975, they write a sex manual and illustrate it with pictures of themselves making love. But everything goes downhill afterwards, particularly the lives of their four grossed-out children. Me...

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Published: Jun 2006

A Grave Mistake

Stella Cameron

The first mistake Dead: one ordinary man. Just the latest in a string of losers in the wrong place at the worst time. Not the kind of case to yank New Orleans homicide detective Guy Gautreaux back from his leave of absence in Toussai...

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Published: Oct 2006

The Marriage Plot

Jeffrey Eugenides

The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his 2002 book MIDDLESEX, Jeffrey Eugenides is a contemporary master of the novel form, and this expertise and creative fluency come to bear on THE MARRIAGE PLOT. At once stunningly constructed and ...

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Published: Sep 2012

The Black Prince

Iris Murdoch

In Murdoch's 15th novel, an aging novelist who has led a loveless life retires even further from the real world to write his magnum opus. Instead, he falls obsessively in love with a very young woman. The portrait of the artist is not...

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Published: Mar 2003

Circle Of Five

Dolores Stewart Riccio

A group of delightfully eccentric women, who have a penchant for casting spells, find their peaceful world turned upside down by the arrival of a mysterious stranger who, they believe, is connected to the disappearance of two young bo...

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Published: Mar 2003

Slow Man

J. M. Coetzee

Rendered dependent on others after losing his leg in a bicycle accident, sixty-year-old photographer Paul Rayment finds himself falling in love with a down-to-earth Croatian nurse and encouraged by a mysterious writer to take an activ...

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Published: Oct 2006

When Madeline Was Young

Jane Hamilton

Jane Hamilton, award-winning author of The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World, is back in top form with a richly textured novel about a tragic accident and its effects on two generations of a family.When Aaron Maciver’s beautif...

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Published: Sep 2007

Into the Water: A Novel

Paula Hawkins

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERGOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER FOR MYSTERY/THRILLERAn addictive new novel of psychological suspense from the author of #1 New York Times bestseller and global phenomenon The Girl on the Train“Hawkins is...

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Published: May 2018

The Invention of Morel

Adolfo Bioy Casares

"The Island of Doctor Moreau inspired this 1940 novella. Set one a mysterious island, "The Invention of Morel is a story of suspense and exploration as well as an unlikely romance, where every detail is both crystal clear an...

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Published: Sep 2003

The Truth About Celia

Kevin Brockmeier

A little girl named Celia Brooks inexplicably disappears on an ordinary day in March. Four years later, her parents and neighbors gather for a memorial service. Told in a series of stories, this novel is narrated partly by a man with ...

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Published: Jul 2004

Agnes Grey

Anne Bronte

This roman-a-clef is a semi-autobiographical depiction of Anne Bronte's life as a governess. In the novel, Agnes, a rector's daughter--like Anne and her sisters, Charlotte and Emily--describes the spoiled children of the Bloomfield fa...

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Published: Apr 2003

Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, The t...

Oscar Hijuelos

IIt's 1949, the era of the mambo, and two young Cuban musicians make their way from Havana to New York. The Castillo brothers, workers by day, become, by night, stars of the dance halls, where their orchestra plays the sensuous, pulsi...

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Published: Jul 2005

How to Save Your Own Life

Erica Jong

Erica Jong--like Isadora Wing, her fictional doppelganger--was rich and famous, brainy and beautiful, and soaring high with erotica and marijuana in 1977, the year this book was first published. Ericasadora are the perfect literary an...

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Published: Jul 2006

The LAST PICTURE SHOW

Larry McMurtry

The Last Picture Show is one of Larry McMurtry's most powerful, memorable novels -- the basis for the enormously popular movie of the same name. Set in a small, dusty, Texas town, The Last Picture Show introduced the characters of Jac...

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Published: Jan 1999

Rape: A Love Story

Joyce Carol Oates

[T]he sense of doom inexorably working itself out is simultaneously distasteful, logical, and dramatically just....We've been here before....But Oates has achieved memorable successes in the short-novel form, and, on balance, this is ...

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Published: Jan 2005

Heir to the Glimmering World

Cynthia Ozick

James A'bair, whose father is the author of the popular series The Bear Boy, has taken in the eccentric Mitwisser family and the orphaned Rose Meadows, who must resist the pull of the actual Bear Boy as she pursues her own desires, in...

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Published: Sep 2005

Accidental Happiness

Jean Reynolds Page

Following the tragic loss of her husband, Gina Melrose, a young widow, finds her life further thrown into turmoil when her refuge and her period of grieving are invaded by a woman named Reese, Gina's late husband's former wife, and by...

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Published: Sep 2006
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