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Long Bright River: A Novel

Liz Moore

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR, PARADE, REAL SIMPLE,and BUZZFEED AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK "[Moore’s] ...

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Published: Dec 2020

Bark: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries...

Lorrie Moore

"Heartbreaking. . . . Mordantly funny. . . . Takes us on a rare flight of self-transcendence. . . . Moments of recognition bring jolts like electric shocks." —The New York Review of Books "Wonderful. . . . Masterful....

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Published: Oct 2014

How to Build a Girl

Caitlin Moran

The New York Times bestselling author hailed as "the UK's answer to Tina Fey, Chelsea Handler, and Lena Dunham all rolled into one" (Marie Claire) makes her fiction debut with a hilarious yet deeply moving coming of age nove...

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Published: Jul 2015

Light from a Distant Star

Mary McGarry Morris

Light from a Distant Star is a gripping coming-of-age story with a brutal murder at its heart and a heroine as unforgettable as Harper Lee's "Scout."It is early summer and Nellie Peck is on the cusp of adolescence – gangly...

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Published: Jul 2012

God Help the Child (Vintage Internati...

Toni Morrison

At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the s...

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Published: Jan 2016

White Dog Fell from the Sky: A Novel

Eleanor Morse

An extraordinary novel of love, friendship, and betrayal for admirers of Abraham Verghese and Edwidge Danticat Eleanor Morse's rich and intimate portrait of Botswana, and of three people whose intertwined lives are at once tragic ...

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Published: Dec 2013

Night Music: A Novel

Jojo Moyes

Now published in the United States for the first time—an early novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of StarsIsabel Delancey, a classical violinist, has always taken her comfortable life for granted. ...

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Published: Aug 2021

The Lives of Others

Neel Mukherjee

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this "dazzling" (Entertainment Weekly) saga of epic scope is both a family and a political drama.The aging patriarch and matriarch of the Ghosh family preside over their large household,...

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Published: Sep 2015

Killing Commendatore

Haruki Murakami

When a thirty-something portrait painter is abandoned by his wife, he secludes himself in the mountain home of a world famous artist. One day, the young painter hears a noise from the attic, and upon investigation, he discovers a prev...

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Published: Oct 2019

Convenience Store Woman

Sayaka Murata

The surprise hit of the summer and winner of Japan's prestigious Akutagawa Prize, Convenience Store Woman is the incomparable story of Keiko Furukura, a thirty-six-year-old Tokyo resident who has been working at the Hiiromachi "S...

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Published: Apr 2019

The Boat Runner

Devin Murphy

In the tradition of AllThe Light We Cannot See and The Nightingale, comes an incandescent debut novel about a young Dutch man who comes of age during the perilousness of World War II.Beginning in the summer of 1939, fourteen-year-old ...

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Published: Sep 2017

Bend Sinister

Vladimir Nabokov

The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic.  While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, fir...

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Published: Apr 1990

Laughter in the Dark

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

A reissue of the classic novel from the author of Lolita which brilliantly portrays one man's ruin through love and betrayal.'Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one ...

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Published: Dec 1989

The Enigma of Arrival

V. S. Naipaul

The autobiographical novel of a journey from the British colony of Trinidad to the ancient countryside of England.

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Published: Apr 1988

The Girl in the Garden

Kamala Nair

The redemptive journey of a young woman unsure of her engagement, who revisits in memory the events of one scorching childhood summer when her beautiful yet troubled mother spirits her away from her home to an Indian village untouched...

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Published: Jun 2012

The Lake House

Marci Nault

Achingly tender, yet filled with laughter, The Lake House brings to life the wide range of human emotions and the difficult journey from heartbreak to healing. VICTORIA ROSE. Fifty years before, a group of teenage friends promised eac...

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Published: May 2013

Bound

Antonya Nelson

Even after nearly two decades together, the Desplaines have their secrets. Oliver, an aging Wichita entrepreneur, is on his third marriage, and has recently found an even younger mistress. Catherine, his seemingly content wife, has a ...

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Published: Oct 2011

Cactus League

Emily Nemens

Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR and Lit Hub. A Los Angeles TimesBestseller.A New York Times Book ReviewEditors' Choice "In The Cactus League [Emily Nemens] provides her readers with what amounts to a miniature, self-enclosed wo...

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Published: Feb 2021

The Fires of Autumn

Irene Nemirovsky

This panoramic exploration of French life between the wars reads like a prequel to Irène Nemirovsky's international bestseller Suite Française.  At the end of the First World War, Bernard Jacquelain returns from the trenches a chan...

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Published: Mar 2015

BONE

Fae Myenne Ng

In this profoundly moving novel, Fae Myenne Ng takes readers into the hidden heart of San Francisco's Chinatown, to a world of family secrets, hidden shames, and the lost bones of a 'paper father.' It is a world in which two generatio...

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Published: May 2008

Us

David Nicholls

Douglas Petersen may be mild mannered, but behind his reserve lies a sense of humor that, against all odds, seduces beautiful Connie into a second date . . . and eventually into marriage. Now, almost three decades after their relation...

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Published: Jun 2015

Popular Music from Vittula

Mikael Niemi

'A blissfully eccentric, fiction-enhanced memoir. . . . His prose buzzes with wonder, fearlessness and ecstatic ignorance: the sensations of youth. Each chapter is an epic in miniature.'-Hugo Lindgren, The New York Times Magazine'Haun...

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Published: Oct 2004

Velva Jean Learns to Fly

Jennifer Niven

After Pearl Harbor, Velva Jean signs up for service and gets her wings, risking her life-and her heart. Velva Jean Hart, the fiercely independent heroine of Jennifer Niven's spectacular debut novel, Velva Jean Learns to Drive, retur...

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Published: Aug 2011

What Is Left the Daughter

Howard Norman

Seventeen-year-old Wyatt Hillyer is suddenly orphaned when his parents, within hours of each other, jump off two different bridges—the result of their separate involvements with the same compelling neighbor, a Halifax switchboard op...

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Published: May 2011

Mirror, Shoulder, Signal: A Novel

Dorthe Nors

A smart, witty novel of driving lessons and vertigo, short-listed for the Man Booker International PrizeSonja is ready to get on with her life. She's over forty now, and the Swedish crime novels she translates are losing their fascina...

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Published: Jun 2018

Girl at War

Sara Novic

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BOOKPAGE, BOOKLIST, AND ELECTRIC LITERATURE• ALEX AWARD WINNER • For readers of The Tiger's Wife and All the Light We Cannot See comes a powerful debut novel about a girl's coming of ag...

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Published: Mar 2016

In the Forest

Edna O'Brien

In the best of Edna O'Brien's novels, there is a lawless element, a violence, that springs up to satisfy some primal urge: revenge, desire, thwarted love, or even the seemingly contrasting need of a community for balance and order. I...

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Published: Apr 2003

The Little Red Chairs

Edna O'Brien

A fiercely beautiful novel about one woman's struggle to reclaim a life shattered by betrayal, from one of the greatest storytellers of our time One night, in the dead of winter, a mysterious stranger arrives in the small Irish town o...

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Published: Dec 2016

The Violent Bear It Away

Flannery O'Connor

Francis Marion Tarwater is an orphan boy living with his elderly great-uncle in the Tennessee backcountry. Tarwater's fate is foretold by his great-uncle before the old man dies: Tarwater will be called by the Lord to be a prophet. Th...

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Published: Jun 2007

The Death of Bees: A Novel (P.S.)

Lisa O'Donnell

A riveting, brilliantly written debut novel, The Death of Bees is a coming-of-age story in which two young sisters attempt to hold the world at bay after the mysterious death of their parents.Marnie and Nelly, left on their own in Gl...

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Published: Oct 2013
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