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Milk Fed: A Novel

Melissa Broder

This darkly hilarious and “delicious new novel that ravishes with sex and food” (The Boston Globe) from the acclaimed author of The Pisces and So Sad Today is a “precise blend of desire, discomfort, spirituality, an...

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Published: Aug 2021

Dolly

Anita Brookner

In her superbly accomplished new novel, Anita Brookner proves that she is our mast profound observer of women's lives, posing questions about feminine identity and desire with a stylishness that conveys an almost sensual pleasure.From...

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Published: Jan 1995

Look at Me

Anita Brookner

A lonely art historian absorbed in her research seizes the opportunity to share in the joys and pleasures of the lives of a glittering couple, only to find her hopes of companionship and happiness shattered. Reprint. 12,500 firs...

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Published: Jan 1997

The Orphan of Salt Winds

Elizabeth Brooks

For fans of Eowyn Ivey, Rose Tremaine, and Kate Atkinson, The Orphan of Salt Winds is a bewitching debut about the secrets that haunt us.England, 1939. Ten-year-old Virginia Wrathmell arrives at Salt Winds, a secluded house on the edg...

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Published: Jan 2019

The Thirty-Nine Steps

John Buchan

Returning to England after years in South Africa, Richard Hannay enters the Secret Service accidentally after he finds a murdered neighbor in his apartment and finds himself on the run from the police and the killers alike. Reprint.

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Published: Aug 2004

Nothing Like the Sun

Anthony Burgess

"Shakespeare in his own stirring times . . . suffering or triumphant with the day's news. . . . Brilliant."—Times Literary SupplementA magnificent, bawdy telling of Shakespeare's love life, following young Will's maturatio...

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Published: Aug 2013

Metaphysical Poetry

Colin Burrow

Featuring more erotic and libertine poems, more political poems, and more poems by women, this newly revised selection of poems by the greatest poets of the seventeenth century offers a generous sampling of John Donne as well as poe...

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Published: Aug 2006

Shotgun Lovesongs: A Novel

Nickolas Butler

NATIONAL BESTSELLER"Impressively original." —The New York Times"Sparkles in every way. A love letter to the open lonely American heartland…A must-read." —People"The kind of book that restores your faith...

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Published: Mar 2015

The Hearts of Men

Nickolas Butler

Camp Chippewa, 1962. Nelson Doughty, age thirteen, social outcast and overachiever, is the Bugler, sounding the reveille proudly each morning. Yet this particular summer marks the beginning of an uncertain and tenuous friendship with ...

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Published: Jan 2018

Black Moon: A Novel

Kenneth Calhoun

For fans of The Age of Miracles and The Dog Stars, Black Moon is a hallucinatory and stunning debut that Charles Yu calls "Gripping and expertly constructed."Insomnia has claimed everyone Biggs knows.  Even his beloved wife...

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Published: Jan 2015

The Weight of a Piano: A novel

Chris Cander

In 1962, in the Soviet Union, eight-year-old Katya is bequeathed what will become the love of her life: a Blüthner piano, on which she discovers an enrichening passion for music. Yet after she marries, her husband insists the family ...

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Published: Oct 2019

The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

Joanna Cannon

"An astute, engaging debut" (Publishers Weekly), The Trouble with Goats and Sheep is a quirky and utterly charming tale of a community in need of reconciliation and two girls learning what it means to belong.England, 1976. M...

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Published: Jun 2017

Three Things about Elsie

Joanna Cannon

The bestselling author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep delivers a suspenseful and emotionally satisfying novel "infused with warmth and humor" (People) about a lifelong friendship, a devastating secret, and the small ac...

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Published: Jul 2019

A Highly Unlikely Scenario, or a Neet...

Rachel Cantor

In the not-too-distant future, competing giant fast food factions rule the world. Leonard works for Neetsa Pizza, the Pythagorean pizza chain, in a lonely but highly surveilled home office, answering calls on his complaints hotline. I...

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Published: Jan 2014

The Voyage

Philip Caputo

At the turn of the century, three teenage boys leave their Maine home at the orders of their father, Cyrus Braithwaite, and embark on the voyage of a lifetime down the Atlantic coast, an adventure that years later reveals remarkable t...

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Published: Nov 2000

Five Skies

Ron Carlson

Award-winning short story writer Ron Carlson delivers a stirring novel about three men confronting their pasts and their purpose Beloved story writer Ron Carlson's first novel in thirty years, Five Skies is the story of three men gat...

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Published: May 2008

Hotel Moscow

Talia Carner

From the author of Jerusalem Maiden comes a mesmerizing, thought-provoking novel that tells the riveting story of an American woman—the daughter of Holocaust survivors—who travels to Russia shortly after the fall of communism, and...

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Published: Jun 2015

The Bloody Chamber: And Other Stories...

Angela Carter

An absorbing collection of dark, sensual, and fantastic stories inspired by the fairy tales and legends of Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Beauty and the Beast, vampires, werewolves, and more.

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Published: Mar 2011

The Horse's Mouth

Joyce Cary

The Horse's Mouth, famously filmed with Alec Guinness in the central role, is a searing portrait of the artistic temperament. Gulley Jimson is the charming, impoverished painter who cares little about the conventional values of his d...

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Published: Jun 2017

The Last Ballad

Wiley Cash

Winner of the Southern Book Prize for Literary FictionNamed a Best Book of 2017 by the Chicago Public Library and the American Library Association"Wiley Cash reveals the dignity and humanity of people asking for a fair shot in an...

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Published: Jul 2018

The House of Impossible Beauties: A N...

Joseph Cassara

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2018 BY Buzzfeed • The Wall Street Journal • The Millions • Southern Living • Bustle • Esquire • Entertainment Weekly • Nylon• Mashable"Cassaras's propulsive and profound first nov...

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Published: Nov 2018

Senselessness

Horacio Castellanos Moya

A Rainmaker Translation Grant Winner from the Black Mountain Institute: Senselessness, acclaimed Salvadoran author Horacio Castallanos Moya's astounding debut in English, explores horror with hilarity and electrifying panache.A boozin...

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Published: May 2008

Peel My Love Like an Onion

Ana Castillo

Ana Castillo's voice is one of self-confident, hypnotic melancholy. Peel My Love Like an Onion, her fifth book, often reads like a diary rather than a novel--full of dashed-off midnight eloquence but unformed. IIt's the story of Carme...

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Published: Sep 2000

Lucy Gayheart

Willa Cather

Willa Cather's Lucy Gayheart gropes a wistful way back to the time of the horse and buggy, when some men and some women loved deeply and truly and make themselves miserable and hugged their misery.Small towns, no less than Vienna and ...

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Published: Jan 2019

The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes: A N...

Diane Chamberlain

“Full of surprises and captivating plot twists all the way until the very last page.” —Examiner An unsolved murder. A missing child. A lifetime of deception. In 1977, pregnant Genevieve Russell disappeared. Tw...

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Published: Apr 2021

Miss Black America

Veronica Chambers

debut from the author of Mama’s Girl, Miss Black America is the warm and tender story of Angela, a young girl growing up in 1970s Brooklyn. Angela goes to school one ordinary day and returns home to find her glamorous and fierc...

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Published: Jun 2005

Days of Distraction: A Novel

Alexandra Chang

“Startlingly original and deeply moving.... Chang here establishes herself as one of the most important of the new generation of American writers.”   — George Saunders A Recommended Book FromBuzz...

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Published: Feb 2021

How to Be a Good Wife

Emma Chapman

HOW TO BE A GOOD WIFE BY EMMA CHAPMAN IS A HAUNTING LITERARY DEBUT ABOUT A WOMAN WHO BEGINS HAVING VISIONS THAT MAKE HER QUESTION EVERYTHING SHE KNOWSMarta and Hector have been married for a long time. Through the good and bad; throug...

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Published: Sep 2014

On the Black Hill (Penguin Ink)

Bruce Chatwin

The tale of identical twin brothers who toil on the family farm in the wild and vibrant land of Wales and experience the oddities, wonders, and tragedies of human experience.

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Published: Jan 2011

Edinburgh

Alexander Chee

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year Winner of the James Michener/Copernicus Society Fellowship Prize Lambda Literary Foundation Editor's Choice Award "Incomparable . . . because of its bravery, its wisdom, its vitality, an...

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Published: Jan 2017
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