Literary

241-270 of 1891

About a Boy

Nick Hornby

Will trades his lack of enthusiasm toward children for a date with a truly beautiful woman and single mother in a comic, incisive novel about modern romance, by the author of the international best-seller High Fidelity. Reprint. NYT.

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Published: May 1999

Cutting for Stone

Abraham Verghese

A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel-an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home.Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a b...

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Published: Jan 2010

Merrick (Vampire/Witches Chronicles)

Anne Rice

MERRICK is the seventh volume in the Vampire Chronicles and is also linked to author Rice's Mayfair Witches series. This volume follows the life of Merrick Mayfair, an orphan raised by a scholar with connections to Lestat. As she grow...

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Published: Oct 2001

Those Who Save Us

Jenna Blum

Trudy and her mother escaped Nazi Germany with the help of an American soldier, who brought them to Minnesota. But Trudy knows there is more to the story. Once she is grown up, an old photograph impels her to begin an investigation in...

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Published: May 2005

Snow Falling on Cedars

David Guterson

A Japanese-American fisherman's 1954 murder trial becomes the backdrop of a story that follows a doomed love affair between a white boy and a Japanese girl, a simmering land dispute, and the wartime internment of San Piedro's Japanese...

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Published: Sep 1995

Case Histories

Kate Atkinson

A triumphant new novel from award-winner Kate Atkinson: a breathtaking story of families divided, love lost and found, and the mysteries of fate.Case One: Olivia Land, youngest and most beloved of the Land girls, goes missing in the n...

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Published: Oct 2005

Time to Run (Seal Team 12)

Marliss Melton

Sara Garret thought the military lawyer she married would be the perfect husband and father. But he has become her worst nightmare. Now one vicious act has driven Sara to take their young son and flee. And she discovers that the on...

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Published: Feb 2006

The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro

An English butler reflects--sometimes bitterly, sometimes humorously--on his service to a lord between the two world wars and discovers doubts about his master's character and about the ultimate value of his own service to humanity

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Published: Sep 1990

Trans-Sister Radio

Chris Bohjalian

Dana leaves his small Vermont town and goes out west to have sex-change surgery; his former girlfriend, Allie--though confused and upset--takes care of him afterward. The repercussions affect not only Allie and Dana but Allie's daught...

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Published: Aug 2001

Geek Love

Katherine Dunn

The narrator, Olympia Binewski, an albino hunchback dwarf, tells the story of her large, close, and highly unusual family: her parents who deliberately gave birth to freaks to populate their carnival freak show (Olympia is the produce...

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Published: Jun 2002

The Accidental Tourist

Anne Tyler

Macon Leary, the middle-aged author of a series of books for armchair travellers, has recently had his grief over the murder of his son compounded by the breakup of his marriage. He begins to descend into obsessive behavior and must s...

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Published: Apr 2002

An Unfinished Life

Mark Spragg

Seeking to escape her brutal boyfriend and hoping to introduce her daughter, Griff, to the grandfather she has never met, widow Jean Gilkyson seeks refuge in her late husband's Wyoming hometown with her estranged father-in-law, who bl...

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Published: Aug 2005

To Love a Thief (Warner Forever)

Julie Anne Long

Lily Masters has a gift for picking pockets and telling stories—skills that come in handy for surviving London's slums. She's proud of providing for herself and her lively young sister, Alice, and she's never been caught. Well, ther...

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Published: Apr 2005

False Impression

Jeffrey Archer

Nothing is what it seems in this thriller by one of England's most successful novelists. Former politician Jeffrey Archer's first book since his release from jail--he served two years for perjury--FALSE IMPRESSION twists real-life eve...

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Published: Nov 2006

The Little Friend

Donna Tartt

Donna Tartt's long-awaited second novel (published 10 years after THE SECRET HISTORY) begins with the murder of a 9-year-old boy, which is never solved. Twelve years later, the family is still stunned and bereft, stuck in time--except...

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Published: Oct 2003

Diary of a Mad Bride

Laura Wolf

Impulsively accepting her boyfriend's marriage proposal, Amy, an independent, career-minded New Yorker, finds her common-sense approach turned upside down as she becomes embroiled in the agonizing preparations for the wedding of her d...

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Published: Jan 2002

The Myth of You and Me

Leah Stewart

For years, Cameron has taken care of Oliver Doucet, an elderly historian living in William Faulkner’s home town of Oxford, Mississippi. Now pushing 30, Cameron still smarts over the dissolution of her friendship with Sonya Gray,...

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Published: Apr 2006

Britt-Marie Was Here: A Novel

Fredrik Backman

The New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry“returns with this heartwarming story about a woman rediscovering herself after a personal crisis…fans of Backman will ...

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Published: Feb 2017

Secrets She Left Behind

Diane Chamberlain

One afternoon, single mother Sara Weston says that she's going to the store—and never returns. In her absence, she leaves her teenage son alone with his damaged past and a legacy of secrets.Keith Weston nearly lost his life in an ac...

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Published: Jun 2009

Happiness Sold Separately

Libby Street

Have you ever had the perfect day? A day when the world smiles on you with sunny skies and fills each hour with such bright and lovely things that, as you snuggle down to sleep, you say to yourself, 'Now that was a wonderful day'? Me ...

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Published: Jun 2005

The Rum Diary

Hunter S. Thompson

Disgusting as he usually was,' Hunter Thompson writes in this, his 1959 novel, 'on rare occasions he showed flashes of a stagnant intelligence. But his brain was so rotted with drink and dissolute living that whenever he put it to wor...

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Published: Nov 1999

The Summer Guest

Justin Cronin

Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for his radiant novel in stories, Mary and O’Neil, Justin Cronin has already been hailed as a writer of astonishing gifts. Now Cronin’s new novel, The Summer Guest, fulfills that promise&#...

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Published: May 2005

Enduring Love

Ian McEwan

On a windy spring day in the Chilterns, the calm, organized life of science writer Joe Rose is shattered when he witnesses a tragic accident: a hot-air balloon with a boy trapped in its basket is being tossed by the wind, and in the a...

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Published: Dec 1998

The House at Tyneford

Natasha Solomons

It's the spring of 1938 and no longer safe to be a Jew in Vienna. Nineteen-year-old Elise Landau is forced to leave her glittering life of parties and champagne to become a parlor maid in England. She arrives at Tyneford, the great h...

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Published: Dec 2011

What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Sc...

Zoe Heller

Barbara Covett, a middle-aged teacher at a private school, befriends the new teacher, Sheba Hart, whose exotic looks and naively open manner and way of dressing are a contrast to her own drabber style. When Sheba begins an affair with...

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Published: Jun 2004

The Traveler

John Twelve Hawks

In London, Maya, a young woman trained to fight by her powerful father, uses the latest technology to elude detection when walking past the thousands of surveillance cameras that watch the city. In New York, a secret shadow organizati...

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Published: Jul 2006

High Anxiety

Charlotte Hughes

Readers will go crazy for the latest Kate Holly case... Kate Holly needs a temporary secretary. Amanda Davis is a competent worker with a friendly personality and-after altering her hairstyle and fashion sense to identically match K...

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Published: Dec 2009

Nightlife

Thomas Perry

A female serial killer serves as the focus of this gripping, constantly surprising thriller. Charlene Buckner used to simply drain her wealthy boyfriends of money, and then move on. But now she's turned to murder for the first time; s...

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Published: May 2007

Company

Max Barry

The author of JENNIFER GOVERNMENT captures, in frighteningly funny fashion and dead-on detail, the zeitgeist of the corporate cube farm. Stephen Jones, a freshly minted business graduate, takes his first job as a rep in Training Sales...

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Published: Mar 2007

The Uncommon Readerla

Alan Bennett

A deliciously funny novella that celebrates the pleasure of reading. When the Queen, in pursuit of her wandering corgis, stumbles upon a mobile library she feels duty-bound to borrow a book. Aided by Norman, a young man from the palac...

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Published: Sep 2008
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