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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

The Altruists: A Novel

Andrew Ridker

A New York TimesEditors' Choice " An] intelligent, funny, and remarkably assured first novel. . . . Andrew Ridker establishes] himself as a big, promising talent. . . . Hilarious. . . . Astute and highly entertaining. . . . Ou...

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Published: Mar 2020

Amity & Sorrow: A Novel

Peggy Riley

A page-turning literary debut about a mother and her two teenage daughters escaping a cult and starting over. Two sisters sit in the backseat of a car, bound at the wrists by a strip of white cloth. Their mother, Amaranth, drives for ...

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Published: Feb 2014

The White Woman on the Green Bicycle

Monique Roffey

When George and Sabine Harwood arrive in Trinidad from England George instantly takes to their new life, but Sabine feels isolated, heat-fatigued, and ill at ease with the racial segregation and the imminent dawning of a new era. Her ...

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Published: Apr 2011

Something to Live For

Richard Roper

Previously published as How Not to Die Alone Smart, darkly funny, and life-affirming, for fans of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, Something to Live For is the bighearted debut novel we all need, a story about love, loneliness,...

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Published: Jul 2020

The Moonlight Palace

Liz Rosenberg

Agnes Hussein, descendant of the last sultan of Singapore and the last surviving member of her immediate family, has grown up among her eccentric relatives in the crumbling Kampong Glam palace, a once-opulent relic given to her family...

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Published: Oct 2014

Tangled Hearts

JoAnn Ross

A poignant and powerful story about a woman torn between two lovers: the husband she believed was dead and the fiance she's about to marry. Alanna Cantrell's world was shattered when her dashing foreign correspondent husband was kidn...

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Published: Aug 2014

Last Night at the Blue Angel

Rebecca Rotert

Set against the backdrop of the early 1960s Chicago jazz scene, a highly ambitious and stylish literary debut that combines the atmosphere and period detail of Amor Towles’ Rules of Civility with the emotional depth and drama of...

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Published: Apr 2015
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