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The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories...

Ken Liu

Bestselling author Ken Liu selects his multiple award-winning stories for a groundbreaking collection—including a brand-new piece exclusive to this volume.With his debut novel, The Grace of Kings, taking the literary world by storm,...

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Published: Aug 2016

The Boy in the Field: A Novel

Margot Livesey

A New York TimesNotable Book of the Year | An O Magazine Best Book of the Year The New York Times bestselling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy delivers another “luminous, unforgettable, and perfectly rendered” (De...

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Published: Jul 2021

No One Is Talking About This: A Novel...

Patricia Lockwood

FINALIST FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE & A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF 2021    “A book that reads like a prose poem, at once sublime, profane, intimate, philosophical, witty and, eventually, deeply moving.” &mdas...

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Published: Feb 2022

Edgar and Lucy: A Novel

Victor Lodato

"On every page Lodato's prose sings with a robust, openhearted wit, making Edgar & Lucy a delight to read...Lodato keeps us in his thrall because his grip on the tiller stays reassuringly firm. Not to mention the supporting cast he's ...

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Published: Feb 2018

Doppler

Erlend Loe

Doppler has just lost his father. Despite the fact that he has a pregnant wife and two children, he decides to move into the woods. Here he starts a lonely and purposefully boring existence. He has never been so happy. When Doppler ki...

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Published: Jun 2019

The Affairs of Others

Amy Grace Loyd

Five years after her young husband's death, Celia Cassill has moved from one Brooklyn neighborhood to another, but she has not moved on. The owner of a small apartment building, Celia believes that she has a right to her ghosts, and s...

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Published: Aug 2014

Lost Children Archive: A novel

Valeria Luiselli

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE WASHINGTON POST • TIME MAGAZINE • NPR • CHICAGO TRIBUNE • GQ • O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE • THE GUARDIAN • THE DALLAS MORN...

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Published: Feb 2020

Border Songs

Jim Lynch

Set in the previously sleepy hinterlands straddling Washington state and British Columbia, Border Songs is the story of Brandon Vanderkool, six foot eight, frequently tongue-tied, severely dyslexic, and romantically inept. Passionate ...

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Published: Jul 2010

The Housewarming: A completely unputd...

S. E. Lynes

Everyone is going to the housewarming party. All the same people who lived on the street the day Abi vanished... Will her mother finally learn the truth? Avaonly left her daughter in the pushchair for five minutes. The buckle was...

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Published: Oct 2020

The Hunger Angel

Herta M. Ller

A masterful new novel from the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize, hailed for depicting the "landscape of the dispossessed" with "the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose" (Nobel Prize Committee)It was an...

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Published: Jul 2013

The Year She Left Us

Kathryn Ma

From the winner of the 2009 Iowa Short Fiction Prize—comes the extraordinary, unexpected debut tale of three generations of Chinese-American women in a San Francisco family who must confront their past and carve out a future.The Kon...

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Published: May 2015

Woke Up Lonely

Fiona Maazel

"Intricately imagined and timely . . . Maazel is an entertaining writer with a dry, droll sense of humor." —The New York Times Book Review, Editor's Choice* Shortlisted for the Believer Book Award * Fiona Maazel's Woke Up ...

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Published: Apr 2014

No Great Mischief

Alistair MacLeod

Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: "This sturdily textured debut novel never hesitates or meanders."—Library JournalAlistair MacLeod musters all of the skill and grace that have won him an internation...

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Published: Nov 2011

Hiddensee: A Tale of the Once and Fut...

Gregory Maguire

From the author of the beloved New York Times bestseller Wicked, the magical story of a toymaker, a nutcracker, and a legend remade . . .Gregory Maguire returns with an inventive novel inspired by a timeless holiday legend, intertwini...

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Published: Oct 2018

Shelter in Place

Alexander Maksik

Set in the Pacific Northwest in the jittery, jacked-up early 1990s, Shelter in Place, by one of America's most thrillingly defiant contemporary authors, is a stylish literary novel about the hereditary nature of mental illness, the fl...

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Published: Sep 2016

The End of the Jews

Adam Mansbach

The ruthlessly engrossing and beautifully rendered story of the Brodskys, a family of artists who realize, too late, one elemental truth: Creation's necessary consequence is destruction.Each member of the mercurial clan in Adam Mansba...

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Published: Mar 2009

Good at Games

Jill Mansell

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jill Mansell captivates with a madcap tale of the games lovers play.Who will make the next move?How does one become accidentally engaged? That's what Suzy Curtis thinks when she suddenly...

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Published: Jan 2016

A Change of Climate

Hilary Mantel

Ralph and Anna Eldred are an exemplary couple, devoting themselves to doing good. Thirty years ago as missionaries in Africa, the worst that could happen did. Shattered by their encounter with inexplicable evil, they returned to Engla...

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Published: Sep 2003

The Giant, O'Brien

Hilary Mantel

A New York Times Book ReviewNotable Book of the Year A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year London, 1782: center of science and commerce, home to the newly rich and the desperately poor. In the midst of it all is the Giant, O'Bri...

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Published: Jun 2007

Send Down the Rain: New from the auth...

Charles Martin

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Mountain Between Us comes a new, spellbinding story of buried secrets, lost love, and the promise of second chances.Allie is still recovering from the loss of her family's beloved wate...

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Published: Feb 2019

River of Heaven

Lee Martin

"You have to know the rest of my story, the part I can't yet bring myself to say. A story of a boy I knew a long time ago and a brother I loved and then lost." Past and present collide in Lee Martin's highly anticipated nove...

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Published: Apr 2009

In the Country of Men

Hisham Matar

Libya, 1979. Nine-year-old Suleiman’s days are circumscribed by the narrow rituals of childhood: outings to the ruins surrounding Tripoli, games with friends played under the burning sun, exotic gifts from his father’s co...

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Published: Feb 2008

The Gospel of Judas

Simon Mawer

In Simon Mawer's remarkably poised and poignant novel, the small momentis as significant as the large, and 'the detail dictat[es] to the whole.' Biblical scholar Father Leo Newman has spent a lifetime deciphering meaning from evanesce...

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Published: May 2002

Crum (Crum Trilogy)

Lee Maynard

In Crum, a gritty coal town on the West Virginia-Kentucky border, the boys fight, swear, chase and sometimes catch girls. The adults are cramped in and clueless, hemmed in by the mountains. The weight of wonder, dejection, and e...

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Published: Apr 2012

How Beautiful We Were: A Novel

Imbolo Mbue

A fearless young woman from a small African village starts a revolution against an American oil company in this sweeping, inspiring novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Behold the Dreamers. ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS ...

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Published: Feb 2022

The Spoiler

Annalena McAfee

pA deft and impressive debut novel—a dark hyper-comedy—set in London in the late 1990s during the height of the newspaper wars just before the dot-com tidal wave.brbrHonor Tait, a legendary prize-winning war correspondent (called ...

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Published: Jan 2013

Apeirogon: A Novel

Colum McCann

NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER • “A quite extraordinary novel. Colum McCann has found the form and voice to tell the most complex of stories, with an unexpected friendship between two men at its powerfully beating heart.”&m...

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Published: Feb 2021

C

Tom McCarthy

C has been shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize.The acclaimed author of Remainder, which Zadie Smith hailed as "one of the great English novels of the past ten years,"gives us his most spectacularly inventive novel yet....

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Published: Sep 2011

Satin Island (Vintage Contemporaries)...

Tom McCarthy

Short-listed for the Man Booker PrizeIn Satin Island, Tom McCarthy—the acclaimed, Man Booker Prize-nominated author of Remainder and C—captures the way we experience our world and our efforts to find meaning in the narratives we t...

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Published: Jan 2016

My Ex-Life: A Novel

Stephen McCauley

National BestsellerBest Book of the Year: NPR, Shelf AwarenessIn prose filled with hilarious and heartbreakingly accurate one-liners, Stephen McCauley has written a novel that examines how we define home, family, and love. Be prepared...

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Published: May 2019
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