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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

Tony Hillerman: The Leaphorn and Chee...

Tony Hillerman

Three of New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman's most popular novels -- a must-have anthology from one of the great masters of suspense.Audio includes:Skinwalkers: Three shotgun blasts explode into the trailer of Officer Ji...

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Published: May 2005

One Mississippi

Mark Childress

When Daniel Musgroves family moves to a small Mississippi town at the beginning of his junior year, he faces all the pain and thrills of adolescence, with extra helpings of hormones and humiliation. But then he meets Tim, a fellow out...

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Published: Sep 2007

Wish You Were Here

Stewart O'Nan

When Emily Maxwell's husband dies, she knows she has to sell their summer place on Lake Chautauqua in New York State, and for one final week there, she gathers the clan: her daughter, Meg, who has her drinking problem under control--b...

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Published: Apr 2003

Miss Invisible

Laura Jensen Walker

Freddie Heinz is a single, 29-year-old plus-size wedding cake baker/decorator who feels invisible most of the time due to her size and her still-single status. Fans of Jennifer Weiner's novels will enjoy this tale about a woman who f...

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Published: Mar 2007

The Gone-Away World

Nick Harkaway

About the 'neon fuzz': a note on the book jacket from designer Jason Booher...'When you read Harkaway's novel, a gigantic sense of weirdness and cool and doom surround the characters. To capture all that plus the absurd humor that per...

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Published: Aug 2009

Arthur and George

Julian Barnes

Set against the backdrop of the British Empire, an intriguing novel by the author of Flaubert's Parrot chronicles the lives of two boys--George, the son of a Midlands vicar, and Arthur, growing up in Edinburgh--one who is forgotten by...

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Published: Jan 2007

Landing

Emma Donoghue

A delightful, old-fashioned love story with a uniquely twenty-first-century twist, Landing is a romantic comedy that explores the pleasures and sorrows of long-distance relationships—the kind millions of us now maintain mostly by pl...

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Published: Sep 2008

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry...

Rachel Joyce

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST “[Rachel] Joyce’s beguiling debut is [a] modest-seeming story of ‘ordinary’ English lives...

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Published: Mar 2013

Menage'A Way

Victor L. Martin

Menage Unique Legend's life, though it continues to be filled with material possessions and easy sex, spirals steadily out of control in this action-packed, page-turning sequel to A Hood Legend. Through it all, he pretends to be in co...

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Published: Nov 2004

A Mercy

Toni Morrison

A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize–winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier.In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In th...

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Published: Aug 2009

Saving the World

Julia Alvarez

Julia Alvarez is the author of five works of fiction, among them In the Time of the Butterflies and How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, books for children, essays, and poetry. Saving the World is an unfocused attempt to make a st...

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Published: Apr 2007

Fieldwork

Mischa Berlinski

When his girlfriend takes a job in Thailand, Mischa Berlinski goes along for the ride, planning to enjoy himself and work as little as possible. But one evening a fellow expatriate tips him off to a story: a charismatic American anthr...

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Published: Jan 2008

The Silver Boat

Luanne Rice

From New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice, a moving family story that "will strike a chord in every mother, daughter, or sister" (Marie Claire)In The Silver Boat, New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice has wr...

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Published: May 2012

Grange House

Sarah Blake

Much like every other summer, Maisie Thomas spends the summer of 1896 at the Grange House, a hotel on the coast of Maine ruled by the elegant Miss Grange, but this stay proves to be very different after local fisherman find two drowne...

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Published: Jun 2001

The End of the Affair (Classics Delux...

Graham Greene

Graham Greene’s 1951 novel centers on the attempt of Maurice Bendix, a London novelist, to learn why his lover, Sarah, had abandoned him without a word of explanation several years before. In the course of the story, Sarah dies,...

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Published: Sep 2004

The Metamorphosis: And Other Short St...

Franz Kafka

Gregor Samsa, a seemingly typical man, wakes up one morning to discover he has been transformed into a gigantic insect. Frustrated and depressed about his physical alteration - and his family's rejection - Samsa's plight is filled wit...

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Published: Nov 2005

Revolutionary Road

Richard Yates

With a new introduction by Richard Ford'A deft, ironic, beautiful novel that deserves to be a classic.' --William StyronFrom the moment of its publication in 1961, Revolutionary Road was hailed as a masterpiece of realistic fiction an...

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Published: Nov 2008

Cavedweller

Dorothy Allison

A lush, epic novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Bastard Out of Carolina. When Delia Byrd packs up her old Datsun and her daughter Cissy and gets on the Santa Monica Freeway heading south and east, she is leaving eve...

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Published: May 1999

The Brief History of the Dead

Kevin Brockmeier

This richly imaginative novel is set on Earth and in the City, an Earth-like place where the recent dead live as long as they are remembered by those still alive. Among the residents of the City are Marion and Phillip Byrd, who are fa...

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Published: Feb 2006

Before the Fall

Noah Hawley

New York Times BestsellerFrom the Emmy, PEN, Peabody, Critics' Choice, and Golden Globe Award-winning creator of the TV show Fargo comes the thriller of the year.On a foggy summer night, eleven people--ten privileged, one down-on-his-...

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Published: Jun 2016

The Ice Storm

Rick Moody

The year is 1973. As a freak winter storm bears down on an exclusive, affluent suburb in Connecticut, cark skid out of control, men and women swap partners, and their children experiment with sex, drugs, and even suicide. Here two fam...

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Published: Apr 2002

The Sellout: A Novel

Paul Beatty

A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in FictionNamed one of the best books of 2015 by TheNew York Times Book Review and the Wall Street JournalA biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial...

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Published: Mar 2016

The Decameron

Boccaccio

While the Black Death rages through 14th-century Florence, ten people in a country house outside the city pass ten days by telling each other stories. Each person tells one tale on a designated topic each day, making for 100 stories i...

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Published: Jun 2006

Girls in White Dresses

Jennifer Close

Wickedly hilarious and utterly recognizable, Girls in White Dresses tells the story of three women grappling with heartbreak and career change, family pressure and new love—all while suffering through an endless round of weddings an...

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Published: May 2012

The Maytrees

Annie Dillard

Toby Maytree first sees Lou Bigelow on her bicycle in postwar Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her laughter and loveliness catch his breath. Maytree is a Provincetown native, an educated poet of thirty. As he courts Lou, just out of coll...

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Published: Jun 2008

A Good American

Alex George

Unabridged, 10 CDs, 12 1/2 hoursRead by TBA For fans of Water for Elephants and Major Pettigrew's Last Stand--an uplifting novel about the families we create and the places we call home.

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2012
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