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The Heart Has Its Reasons

Maria Duenas

Declared "a writer to watch" (Publishers Weekly, starred review), New York Times bestselling author María Dueñas pours heart and soul into this story of a woman who discovers the power of second chances.A talented college ...

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Published: Jul 2015

Georges

Alexandre Dumas

A major new translation of a stunning rediscovered novel by Alexandre Dumas, Georges is a classic swashbuckling adventure. Brilliantly translated by Tina A. Kover in lively, fluid prose, this is Dumas’s most daring work, in whic...

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Published: Jun 2008

Exposure

Helen Dunmore

"A spy novel but one that has been quietly and ingeniously deepened well beyond the ambitions of genre . . . [it] is one of those books that you read with your heart in your mouth, your mind fully engaged, and with a sense of des...

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Published: Apr 2017

The Bible Salesman

Clyde Edgerton

Preston Clearwater has been a criminal since stealing two chain saws and 1,600 pairs of aviator sunglasses from the army during the Second World War. Back on the road in postwar North Carolina, now a member of a car-theft ring, he pi...

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Published: Sep 2009

The Candy House: A Novel

Jennifer Egan

* Named a Top Ten Best Book of 2022 by The New York Times Book Review, The Philadelphia Inquirer,and Slate *Named a Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker,NPR, Oprah Daily, Time, Harper's Bazaar, Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, Vogue,and ...

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Published: Mar 2023

The Every: A novel

Dave Eggers

From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Circlecomes an exciting new follow-up. When the world’s largest search engine/social media company, The Circle, merges with the planet’s dominant e-commerce site, it create...

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Published: Nov 2021

American War: A Novel

Omar El Akkad

"Powerful . . . As haunting a postapocalyptic universe as Cormac McCarthy [created] in The Road, and as devastating a look as the fallout that national events have on an American family as Philip Roth did in The Plot Against Amer...

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Published: Jan 2018

American Housewife

Helen Ellis

A sharp, funny, delightfully unhinged collection of stories set in the dark world of domesticity, American Housewife features murderous ladies who lunch, celebrity treasure hunters, and the best bra fitter south of the Mason Dixon lin...

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Published: Oct 2016

A Small Indiscretion

Jan Ellison

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE • With the emotional complexity of Everything I Never Told You and the psychological suspense of The Girl on the Train, O. Henry Prize winner Jan Ellison delivers a...

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Published: Feb 2016

Infinite Country: A Novel

Patricia Engel

A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK and INSTANT NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL “A profound, beautiful novel.” —People * “Poignant.” —BuzzFeed * “A br...

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Published: Oct 2021

The Veins of the Ocean: A Novel

Patricia Engel

A New York Times Editors' ChoiceA Book Riot Best Book[s] of the Year So Far and a Buzzfeed, "The 27 Most Exciting Books Coming In 2016""Sumptuous . . . This is a writer who understands that exile can be as much an emoti...

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Published: May 2017

Ministry of Special Cases, The

Nathan Englander

From its unforgettable opening scene in the darkness of a forgotten cemetery in Buenos Aires, Nathan Englander's debut novel The Ministry of Special Cases casts a powerful spell. In the heart of Argentina's Dirty War, Kaddish Poznan s...

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Published: Apr 2008

Actress: A Novel

Anne Enright

Longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction One of Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 “A critique, a confession, a love letter—and another brilliant novel from Anne Enright.” —Ron Charles, Washington Po...

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Published: Feb 2021

The Green Road: A Novel

Anne Enright

"With language so vibrant it practically has a pulse, Enright makes an exquisitely drawn case for the possibility of growth, love and transformation at any age." ―PeopleFrom internationally acclaimed author Anne Enright co...

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Published: May 2016

The Antelope Woman

Louise Erdrich

This updated edition of National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich’s 1998 novel now features fascinating new content, a new title, new cover art, and a new foreword by the author—a riveting st...

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Published: May 2015

The Beet Queen

Louise Erdrich

On a spring morning in 1932, young Karl and Mary Adare arrive by boxcar in Argus, North Dakota. After being orphaned in a most peculiar way, they seek refuge in the butcher shop of their aunt Fritzie and her husband, Pete; ordinary M...

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Published: Sep 2006

The Night Watchman: A Novel

Louise Erdrich

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF 2020 AMAZON BEST BOOK OF 2020 NPR BEST BOOK OF 2020 CBS SUNDAY MORNING BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST FICTION OF 2020 CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY'S BEST OF THE BEST G...

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Published: Mar 2021

The Sentence: A Novel

Louise Erdrich

"Dazzling. . . . A hard-won love letter to readers and to booksellers, as well as a compelling story about how we cope with pain and fear, injustice and illness. One good way is to press a beloved book into another's hands. Read ...

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Published: Sep 2022

The Understory

Pamela Erens

The Understory-the debut novel from the critically acclaimed author of The Virgins-is the haunting portrayal of Jack Gorse, an ex-lawyer, now unemployed, who walls off his inner life with elaborate rituals and routines. Every day he t...

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Published: Apr 2014

Our Ecstatic Days

Steve Erickson

Overcome by a fear that a lake that has miraculously appeared in Los Angeles is out to take her son from her, a single mother plunges into its depths and emerges as a powerful dominatrix and seer, while thousands of miles away, anothe...

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Published: Jan 2006

The End of Days

Jenny Erpenbeck

Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for the best translated novel of 2014, now a New Directions paperbackThe End of Days, a brilliant novel of contingency and fate, by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, consists ...

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Published: Feb 2016

Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Se...

Danielle Evans

The debut of a "striking" new voice in fiction (Entertainment Weekly) Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self offers a bold new perspective on the experience of being young and African-American or mixed-race in modern-day Am...

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Published: Sep 2011

Walking on Water: A Novel (The Walk)

Richard Paul Evans

With this New York Times bestseller, the beloved Walk series ends as Alan Christoffersen reaches his destination and the beginning of a new life: "Definitely a journey worth taking" (Booklist).After the death of his beloved ...

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Published: May 2015

Hiding in Plain Sight

Nuruddin Farah

A bold new novel that "augments a body of work worthy of a Nobel Prize" (Kirkus Reviews), from the internationally acclaimed author of Crossbones Nuruddin Farah—"the most important African novelist to emerge in the p...

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Published: Sep 2015

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to...

Richard Farina

This is the ultimate novel of college life during the first hallucinatory flowering of what has famously come to be known as The Sixties. Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me follows haunted ur-hippy Gnossos Pappadopoulis upon ret...

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Published: May 1996

Half Life

Roopa Farooki

'It's time to stop fighting, and go home'. Those were the words that finally persuaded Aruna to walk out of her East London flat in the middle of breakfast, wearing flimsy sandals on a brisk Spring day, carrying nothing more substanti...

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Published: Jul 2011

A Fable

William Faulkner

Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1955, A FABLE is an allegorical novel about a French corporal--meant to be seen as a Christ figure--during World War I. In perhaps his most ambitious work, Faulkner aban...

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Published: Dec 1977

Go Down, Moses

William Faulkner

Faulkner examines the changing relationship of black to white and of man to the land, and weaves a complex work that is rich in understanding of the human condition.

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Published: Jan 1991

The Mansion

William Faulkner

The Mansion completes Faulkner's great trilogy of the Snopes family in the mythical county of Yoknapatawpha, Mississippi, which also includes The Hamlet and The Town. Beginning with the murder of Jack Houston, and ending with the murd...

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Published: Sep 2011

Show Boat

Edna Ferber

The classic tale behind MGM's blockbuster movie directed by George Sidney, starring Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, and Kathryn Grayson. Bringing to life the adventurous world of Mississippi show boats, the grittiness of turn-of-the-century...

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Published: Jul 2013
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