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The Forrests

Emily Perkins

Dorothy Forrest is immersed in the sensory world around her; she lives in the flickering moment. From the age of seven, when her odd, disenfranchised family moves from New York City to the wide skies of New Zealand, to the very end of...

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Published: Jul 2012

The Drifter (A Peter Ash Novel)

Nick Petrie

"Lots of characters get compared to my own Jack Reacher, but Petrie's Peter Ash is the real deal."--Lee Child*An Edgar Finalist for Best First NovelAn explosive thriller debut introducing Peter Ash, a veteran who finds that ...

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Published: Aug 2016

The Street

Ann Petry

“Petry is the writer we have been waiting for; hers are the stories we need to fully illuminate the questions of our moment, while also offering a page-turning good time. Ann Petry, the woman, had it all, and so does her insight...

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Published: Mar 1998

To Siberia

Per Petterson

Per Petterson's raw, poetic novel follows the intense kinship and agonizing separation of a brother and sister in World War II-era Denmark. Their parents' neglect leaves them wandering the streets of their small village as young child...

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Published: Sep 2009

Dare to Submit (NY Dare)

Carly Phillips

Is running away easier than giving in?Decklan Dare has everything he wants and he wants Amanda Collins. Which is perfect since Amanda wants him ― especially his no-strings-attached approach to casual sex. Emotions are overrated, bu...

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Published: Aug 2017

The Beautiful Bureaucrat: A Novel

Helen Phillips

"Chilling . . . the perfect summer page-turner." ―Chicago Tribune"Kafka would love The Beautiful Bureaucrat. . . . It's a surprising revelation of a book from an uncompromising author as unique as she is talented.&quo...

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Published: May 2016

Wild Magic (The Immortals)

Tamora Pierce

Discover a land of enchantment, legend, and adventure in this first book of the Immortals series, featuring an updated cover for longtime fans and fresh converts alike, and including an all-new afterword from Tamora Pierce.Thirteen-ye...

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Published: Sep 2015

Woodsburner

John Pipkin

Set against the backdrop of a devastating forest fire that Henry David Thoreau accidentally set in 1844, John Pipkin's novel brilliantly illuminates the mind of the young philosopher at a formative moment in his life and in the life o...

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Published: May 2010

Listen to Me

Hannah Pittard

A page-turning modern gothic about a marriage and road trip gone hauntingly awry A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice “Pittard deserves the attention of anyone in search of today’s best fiction.” — Washington Post�...

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Published: May 2017

The Heavenly Table

Donald Ray Pollock

In 1917, in that sliver of border land between Georgia and Alabama, Pearl Jewett ekes out an existence as a dispossessed farmer along with his three criminally-minded sons Cane, Cob, and Chimney. Hundreds of miles away, another farmin...

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Published: Jul 2017

Lanny: A Novel

Max Porter

Longlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize An entrancing new novel by the author of the prizewinning Grief Is the Thing with Feathers There's a village an hour from London. It's no different from many others today: one pub, one church, r...

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Published: Apr 2020

Afternoon Men

Anthony Powell

Written from a vantage point both high and deliberately narrow, the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell nevertheless deal in the universal themes that would become a substantial part of his oeuvre: pride, greed, and...

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Published: Oct 2014

Gain

Richard Powers

Gain tells two parallel stories: one, of Laura Body, divorced mother of two and real-estate agent in the small town of Lacewood, Illinois, who one day discovers that she has cancer; and two, of Clare Soap & Chemical, a company begun b...

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Published: Sep 2009

Generosity: An Enhancement

Richard Powers

FROM THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD–WINNING AUTHOR OF THE ECHO MAKER, A PLAYFUL AND PROVOCATIVE NOVEL ABOUT THE DISCOVERY OF THE HAPPINESS GENEWhen Chicagoan Russell Stone finds himself teaching a Creative Nonfiction class, he encounters a...

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Published: Aug 2010

Ladies' Man

Richard Price

Once upon a time, Kenny Becker had a barely tolerable girlfriend and a miserable job. Now, unattached and unemployed, can he stop the downward spiral of his life?

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Published: Jun 2011

Stars Go Blue: A Novel

Laura Pritchett

Laura Pritchett is an award-winning author who has quickly become one of the west's defining literary voices. We first met hardscrabble ranchers Renny and Ben Cross in Laura's debut collection, and now in Stars Go Blue, they are estra...

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Published: Jun 2015

The Vixen: A Novel

Francine Prose

Named one of the best books of 2021 byNPR, The Washington Post, and Financial Times “No one states problems more correctly, more astutely, more amusingly and more uncomfortably than Francine Prose . . . The gift of her work to ...

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Published: Jun 2022

The Good Luck of Right Now: A Novel

Matthew Quick

From Matthew Quick, the New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook, comes The Good Luck of Right Now, a funny and tender story about family, friendship, grief, acceptance, and Richard Gere—an entertaining and i...

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Published: Feb 2015

The Night Child: A Novel

Anna Quinn

Nora Brown teaches high school English and lives a quiet life in Seattle with her husband and six-year-old daughter. But one November day, moments after dismissing her class, a girls face appears above the students desksa wild numinou...

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Published: Mar 2019

This Must Be the Place

Kate Racculia

A sudden death, a never-mailed postcard, and a longburied secret set the stage for a luminous and heartbreakingly real novel about lost souls finding one anotherThe Darby-Jones boardinghouse in Ruby Falls, New York, is home to Mona Jo...

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Published: Jul 2011

The Italian Teacher

Tom Rachman

"An exotic touch of intrigue arises in THE ITALIAN TEACHER . . . deliciously ironic and deeply affectionate."—Ron Charles, The Washington Post A masterful novel about the son of a great painter striving to create his own ...

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Published: Mar 2019

In the Light of What We Know: A Novel...

Zia Haider Rahman

A BOLD, EPIC DEBUT NOVEL SET DURING THE WAR AND FINANCIAL CRISIS THAT DEFINED THE BEGINNING OF OUR CENTURYOne September morning in 2008, an investment banker approaching forty, his career in collapse and his marriage unraveling, recei...

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Published: Mar 2015

Above the Waterfall

Ron Rash

In this poetic and haunting tale set in contemporary Appalachia, New York Times bestselling author Ron Rash illuminates lives shaped by violence and a powerful connection to the land.Les, a long-time sheriff just three-weeks from reti...

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Published: Jul 2016

Foe

Iain Reid

"Foe is a tale of implacably mounting peril that feels all the more terrifying for being told in such a quiet, elegantly stripped-down voice. Iain Reid knows how to do 'ominous' as well as anyone I've ever read." —Scott Sm...

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Published: Jul 2019

The Night Mark

Tiffany Reisz

From the bestselling author of The Bourbon Thief comes a sweeping tale of loss and courage, where one woman discovers that her destiny is written in sand, not carved in stone.Faye Barlow is drowning. After the death of her beloved hus...

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Published: Mar 2017

Wingshooters

Nina Revoyr

Michelle LeBeau, the child of a white American father and a Japanese mother, lives with her grandparents in Deerhorn, Wisconsin--a small town that had been entirely white before her arrival. Rejected and bullied, Michelle spends her t...

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Published: Mar 2011

The Boy in the Black Suit

Jason Reynolds

A 2016 Coretta Scott King Author Honor book.Just when seventeen-year-old Matt thinks he can't handle one more piece of terrible news, he meets a girl who's dealt with a lot more—and who just might be able to clue him in on how to ri...

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Published: Apr 2016

Odds Against Tomorrow: A Novel

Nathaniel Rich

NEW YORK CITY, the near future: Mitchell Zukor, a gifted young mathematician, is hired by a mysterious new financial consulting firm, FutureWorld. The business operates out of a cavernous office in the Empire State Building; Mitchell ...

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Published: Apr 2014

Lover's Knot

Emilie Richards

In the rich, evocative prose that earned high praise for WEDDING RING and ENDLESS CHAIN, Emilie Richards crafts the third tale in the Shenandoah Album series, resonant with the power of love and family tiesConfused about her troubled ...

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Published: May 2013

The Secret of Clouds

Alyson Richman

From the #1 international bestselling author of The Lost Wife and The Velvet Hours comes an emotionally charged story about a mother's love, a teacher's promise, and a child's heart.....  Katya, a rising ballerina, and Sasha, a grad...

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Published: Feb 2019
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