Literary

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The Lovely Bones

Alice Sebold

Once in a generation a novel comes along that taps a vein of universal human experience, resonating with readers of all ages. THE LOVELY BONES is such a book -- a #1 bestseller celebrated at once for its artistry, for its luminous c...

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Published: Jan 2004

Bridge of Sighs

Richard Russo

Louis Charles Lynch (also known as Lucy) is sixty years old and has lived in Thomaston, New York, his entire life. He and Sarah, his wife of forty years, are about to embark on a vacation to Italy. Lucy's oldest friend, once a rival f...

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Published: Sep 2008

The Best of Me

Nicholas Sparks

"Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once, too, back when she was eighteen."In the spring of 1984, high school students Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole fell deeply, irrevocably in l...

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Published: Aug 2012

Love and Other Impossible Pursuits

Ayelet Waldman

Harvard Law graduate Emilia Greenleaf's perfect life with her beloved Jack is turned upside down by her new preschool-age stepson, William, a situation that is further complicated when she loses her own newborn daughter, but it is thr...

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Published: Feb 2007

Portrait in Sepia

Isabel Allende

In this sequel to DAUGHTER OF FORTUNE, Aurora del Valle, who belongs to a large and colorful Chilean family, looks back on the 30 years of her life and the events leading up to her birth, covering the years 1862 to 1910. In the proces...

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Published: Nov 2002

The Lake House: A Novel

Kate Morton

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Keeper comes a "moody, suspenseful page-turner" (People, Best Book Pick) filled with mystery and spellbinding secrets.Living on her family's idyllic lakeside estate in...

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Published: Jun 2016

Black Swan Green

David Mitchell

Rich with period detail, this lyrical but unsentimental novel by the author of the critically acclaimed CLOUD ATLAS takes the reader back to 1982, and into the life of Jason Taylor, an introspective 13-year-old poet living in the smal...

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Published: Feb 2007

The Alchemist, 25th Anniversary: A Fa...

Paulo Coelho

A special 25th anniversary edition of the extraordinary international bestseller, including a new Foreword by Paulo Coelho.Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, The Alchemist has becom...

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Published: Apr 2014

Red's Hot Honky-Tonk Bar

Pamela Morsi

Unruly Red knows she's no one's idea of a sweet old granny. But with one long-distance phone call, the fortysomething bar owner with the tattoos and tight jeans is suddenly responsible for two young grandchildren she hardly knows.Red'...

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Published: Jul 2009

All Families are Psychotic

Douglas Coupland

Sarah Drummond-Fournier is an astronaut, but she was a thalidomide baby who only has one arm. As she's about to be launched on a space shuttle, she confesses that she has AIDS, which she got when a bullet passed through the body of he...

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Published: Sep 2002

Corelli's Mandolin

Louis De Bernieres

A fifty-year epic follows the lives of the residents of the Greek island Cephallonia, exploring their peaceful, remote experiences before the onset of the Second World War. Reissue. 150,000 first printing. (A Universal/Miramax film en...

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Published: Aug 1995

So Brave, Young, and Handsome

Leif Enger

One of Time magazine's top-five novels of the year and a New York Times bestseller, Leif Enger's first novel, Peace Like a River, captured readers' hearts around the nation. His new novel is a stunning successor–a touching, nimble, ...

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Published: Apr 2009

One Breath Away

Heather Gudenkauf

One School, one gunman, your child. One Breath Away is the story of one harrowing event seen through the eyes of five very different narrators. Nearing retirement, Evelyn Oliver has been teaching for forty three years and believes ...

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Published: Jun 2012

The Hot Flash Club Strikes Again

Nancy Thayer

The fabulous women from The Hot Flash Club are back in top form, welcoming the stressed-out and pampering-deprived through their discreet spa doors–as Nancy Thayer returns with a witty, sexy, and heartwarming novel. The Hot Flas...

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Published: Sep 2005

Tell the Wolves I'm Home: A Novel

Carol Rifka Brunt

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Wall Street Journal • O: The Oprah Magazine • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews • Booklist • School Library Journal NAMED A FAVORITE READ BY GILLIAN FLYNN WINNER OF THE ALEX AWARDIn t...

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Published: Jul 2013

After Dark

Haruki Murakami

A short, sleek novel of encounters set in the witching hours of Tokyo between midnight and dawn, and every bit as gripping as Haruki Murakami’s masterworks The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Kafka on the Shore.At its center are two ...

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Published: Apr 2008

Requiem for a Dream

Hubert Selby

In this searing novel first published in 1978, two young hoods, Harry and Tyrone, and a girlfriend fantasize about scoring a pound of heroin and getting rich. But their heroin habit gets the better of them, and Harry's mother's addict...

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Published: Sep 2000

The Red Scarf

Kate Furnivall

The Russian Concubine dazzled readers. Now, its gifted author delivers another sweeping historical novel. Davinsky Labor Camp, Siberia, 1933: Only two things in this wretched place keep Sofia from giving up hope: the prospect of freed...

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Published: Jun 2008

My Name Is Red

Orhan Pamuk

In this historical mystery set in the 16th century, Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk creates a world populated by poets and artists who argue about the direction art seems to be taking (toward the use of perspective, and away from tradition...

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Published: Aug 2002

Call Me by Your Name: A Novel

Andre Aciman

Now a Major Motion Picture from Director Luca Guadagnino, Starring Armie Hammer and Timothee Chalamet, and Written by Three Time Academy Award Nominee James IvoryAn instant classic and one of the great love stories of our time.Andre A...

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Published: Oct 2017

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. "Hawki...

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Published: May 2018

The Comfort of Strangers

Ian McEwan

As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into their own intimacy. They groom themselves meticulously, as though someone is waiting for them who cares deeply about how they appear. When they meet a man with a disturbing sto...

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Published: Nov 1994

Perfect Family

Pam Lewis

From the acclaimed author of Speak Softly, She Can Hear, a literary page-turner about a proper New England family and the dark secrets that undo them.Pony Carteret -- the lovely headstrong youngest member of the Carteret family -- has...

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Published: Apr 2009

The Flamethrowers: A Novel

Rachel Kushner

Now in paperback, the New York Times bestseller and most highly acclaimed novel of Spring 2013, the "scintillatingly alive" (James Wood, The New Yorker) story of a young artist and the worlds she encounters in New York and R...

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Published: Feb 2014

Safe Haven

Nicholas Sparks

When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet self-effacing, Katie seems determined to avoid forming personal ties un...

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Published: Dec 2012

A Brief History of Seven Killings

Marlon James

A thrilling ambitious intense Los Angeles Times novel that explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the late 1970s In A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James combines masterful storytelling with his unrivaled skill...

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Published: Oct 2015

Land of Marvels

Barry Unsworth

"There is something of E. M. Forster in Unsworth's knowing depiction of a decaying empire."—The New Yorker In this masterful work of historical fiction set during the dying days of the Ottoman Empire, the schemes of Weste...

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Published: Jan 2010

White Teeth

Zadie Smith

An Englishman, Archie Jones, and a Bengali Muslim named Samad Iqbal, who first met after World War II in Turkey, encounter each other again 30 years later in the North-West London neighborhood where they live with their families. The ...

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Published: Jun 2001

Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe

This is Chinua Achebes classic novel, with more than two million copies sold since its first U.S. publication in 1969. Combining a richly African story with the author's keen awareness of the qualities common to all humanity, Achebe h...

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Published: Sep 1994

Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Set on the Caribbean coast of South America, this love story brings together Fermina Daza and Florentino Ariza, a man who has secretly loved her for more than fifty years, on the day of her husband's funeral. Reprint. 50,000 first pri...

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Published: Oct 2003
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