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The Music Shop

Rachel Joyce

"An unforgettable story of music, loss and hope. Fans of High Fidelity, meet your next quirky love story."—PeopleNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES (UK) It is 1988. On a dead-end street in a run-down ...

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Published: Nov 2018

The Exiles: A Novel

Christina Baker Kline

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROPTIONED FOR TELEVISION BY BRUNA PAPANDREA, THE PRODUCER OF HBO'S BIG LITTLE LIES“A tour de force of original thought, imagination and promise … Kline takes full advantage of fiction &#...

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Published: Jun 2021

Capital: A Novel

John Lanchester

One of the most talked about books of the year, Capital is a sweeping social novel by the writer hailed on the cover of the New York Times Book Review as "a brainy, pleasure-loving polymath."Celebrated novelist John Lanchest...

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Published: May 2013

A Reunion of Ghosts

Judith Claire Mitchell

A NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALIST"The Alter sisters are mordant, wry, and crystalline in wit and vision; it is a tremendous pleasure to rocket through generations of their family histories with them." —Lauren Groff, N...

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Published: Jan 2016

Little Fires Everywhere

Celeste Ng

A Reese Witherspoon Book Club PickThe runaway New York Times bestseller!Named a Best Book of the Year by: People, The Washington Post, Bustle, Esquire, Southern Living, The Daily Beast, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Amazon, Barnes ...

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Published: Sep 2017

In the Skin of a Lion

Michael Ondaatje

Bristling with intelligence and shimmering with romance, this novel tests the boundary between history and myth. Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and earns his living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling ben...

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Published: Jan 1997

There There: A novel

Tommy Orange

NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLER "This is a novel about what it means to inhabit a land both yours and stolen from you, to simultaneously contend with the weight of belonging and unbelonging. There is an organic power to this book—a...

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Published: Jun 2018

Sophie's Choice

William Styron

" [One morning] in the early spring, I woke up with the remembrance of a girl I'd once known, Sophie. It was a very vivid half-dream, half-revelation, and all of a sudden I realized that hers was a story I had to tell." That...

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Published: Nov 2007

Love and Summer

William Trevor

The inimitable William Trevor returns with a story of suspicion, guilt, forbidden love and the possibility of starting over. It's summer, and nothing much is happening in Rathmoye. So it doesn't go unnoticed when a dark-haired strange...

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Published: Oct 2010

The Guy Not Taken: Stories

Jennifer Weiner

Jennifer Weiner's talent shines like never before in this collection of short stories, following the tender, often hilarious, progress of love and relationships over the course of a lifetime. We meet Marlie Davidow, home alone with he...

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Published: Jun 2007

Breath, Eyes, Memory (Oprah's Book Cl...

Edwidge Danticat

At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from the impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets to New York to be reunited with her mother, where she gains a legacy of shame that can only be healed when she returns to Haiti, to the woman ...

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Published: May 1998

A Confederacy of Dunces (Evergreen Bo...

John Kennedy Toole

An obese New Orleans misanthrope who constantly rebukes society, Ignatius Reilly gets a job at his mother's urging but ends up leading a workers' revolt, in a twentieth anniversary edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Reprint.

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Published: Jan 1994

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (Oprah's ...

David Wroblewski

Born mute, speaking only in sign, Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life on his family's farm in remote northern Wisconsin where they raise and train an extraordinary breed of dog. But when tragedy strikes, Edgar is forced to flee into ...

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Published: Sep 2009

About Face

Fern Michaels

Neglected by her mother, sexually abused and impregnated by her sterother, and emotionally pummeled by her fiance who threatens to leave her if she won't have sex with him, 17-year-old Casey Edwards finally snaps. Driven to the brink ...

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Published: Apr 2003

Moving Target

Elizabeth Lowell

Serena Charters's grandmother has been murdered, and Serena is sure that the motive was an ancient, priceless family heirloom--a medieval manuscript--that is now missng. With the help of sexy medieval-manuscript expert Erik North, Ser...

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Published: May 2002

Everything I Never Told You: A Novel

Celeste Ng

"If we know this story, we haven't seen it yet in American fiction, not until now. . . . Deep, heartfelt." —The New York Times Book Review"Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet." So begins this exquisite no...

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Published: Jun 2015

The Templar Legacy

Steve Berry

A DA VINCI CODE-like search for ancient secrets drives this thriller by the bestselling author of THE AMBER ROOM. An attempt to get closer to her late husband by pursuing his research leads senior Justice Department official Stephanie...

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Published: Feb 2006

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

Helen Simonson

You are about to travel to Edgecombe St. Mary, a small village in the English countryside filled with rolling hills, thatched cottages, and a cast of characters both hilariously original and as familiar as the members of your own fami...

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Published: Mar 2010

The Lord of the Rings: Part 1, The Fe...

J. R. R. Tolkien

The first thing that one asks of an adventure story is that the adventure should be various and exciting; in this respect Mr. Tolkien's invention is unflagging, and, on the primitive level of wanting to know what happens next, 'The Fe...

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Published: Oct 2001

The Stolen Child

Keith Donohue

This literary fantasy marks the author's debut. In 1949, a band of hobgoblins living in the woods near a remote American farmhouse kidnap seven-year-old Henry Day and substitute one of their own, a changeling who himself was once huma...

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Published: May 2007

The Mercy of Thin Air

Ronlyn Domingue

Dying in a tragic accident while in the throes of a wonderful love affair with Andrew, Razi Nolan of 1920s New Orleans chooses to become a ghost and haunts the house of a young couple, to whom she reveals the mystery of her life and l...

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Published: Jun 2006

Hey Nostradamus!

Douglas Coupland

This account of a Columbine-ish massacre and its aftermath, is narrated by four characters: Cheryl, a highly religious teenager whose narrative leads up to the massacre (in which she is killed); Jason, the boy she was secretly married...

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Published: Jul 2004

Mad River Road

Joy Fielding

An ex-con’s fury threatens three troubled women in this gripping work of suspense. Ralph Fisher holds his former wife fully responsible for the year he spent in prison, although it was his brutal abuse of her that landed him the...

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Published: Dec 2006

Breakfast of Champions

Kurt Vonnegut

Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut l...

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Published: May 1999

A Promising Man (and About Time, Too)...

Elizabeth Young

From the fire-hot author of Asking for Trouble comes a second irresistibly funny and romantic novel, in which we meet the delightfully wicked Harriet and John, who are matched as perfectly as scones and clotted cream -- if only Harrie...

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Published: Nov 2002

The Wednesday Sisters

Meg Waite Clayton

Friendship, loyalty, and love lie at the heart of Meg Waite Clayton's beautifully written, poignant, and sweeping novel of five women who, over the course of four decades, come to redefine what it means to be family.For thirty-five ye...

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Published: May 2009

Last Night in Twisted River

John Irving

In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, fo...

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Published: Oct 2009

Every Breath You Take

Judith McNaught

The setting and two characters from one of Judith McNaught’s previous novels, PARADISE, return in this work of romantic suspense. Kate Donovan’s romantic fling with a stranger, Mitchell Wyatt, on the lovely Caribbean islan...

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Published: Dec 2005

Saving Fish from Drowning

Amy Tan

A pious man explained to his followers: 'It is evil to take lives and noble to save them. Each day I pledge to save a hundred lives. I drop my net in the lake and scoop out a hundred fishes. I place the fishes on the bank, where they ...

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Published: Oct 2005

Lighthousekeeping

Jeanette Winterson

Silver is being raised by Pew, the old, blind lighthouse keeper in her Scottish town, who tells her the story behind the building of the lighthouse--one involving love, betrayal, and disaster. At the same time, Silver's own story turn...

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Published: Mar 2006
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