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Stern Men

Elizabeth Gilbert

The "wonderful first novel about life, love, and lobster fishing" (USA Today) from the #1 bestselling writer In 2000, Elizabeth Gilbert's Stern Men debuted to phenomenal critical attention. Now, Penguin is publishing a new e...

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Published: Mar 2009

Bloodroot

Amy Greene

Named for a flower whose blood-red sap possesses the power both to heal and poison, Bloodroot is a stunning fiction debut about the legacies—of magic and madness, faith and secrets, passion and loss—that haunt one family across th...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2010

Downtown Owl

Chuck Klosterman

New York Times Bestselling Author Chuck Kosterman's First NovelSomewhere in North Dakota, there is a town called Owl that isn't there. Disco is over, but punk never happened. They don't have cable. They don't really have pop culture, ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2008

Admission

Jean Hanff Korelitz

"Admissions. Admission. Aren't there two sides to the word? And two opposing sides...It's what we let in, but it's also what we let out."For years, 38-year-old Portia Nathan has avoided the past, hiding behind her busy (and ...

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Published: Apr 2010

The Shadow Land: A Novel

Elizabeth Kostova

From the #1 bestselling author of The Historian comes a mesmerizing novelthat spans the past and the present—and unearths the troubled history of a gorgeous but haunted country.A young American woman, Alexandra Boyd, has traveled to...

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Published: Mar 2018

House of Daughters

Sarah-Kate Lynch

Family rivalries, long-ago love affairs, and forgotten scandals blend in this sparkling novel set in the Champagne province of France With effervescent wit and clear-eyed insight, Sarah-Kate Lynch explores the rivalries and bonds of s...

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Published: Aug 2008

In Falling Snow

Mary-Rose MacColl

A bestselling Australian writer's American debut and a heart-wrenching novel of World War I Iris Crane's tranquil life is shattered when a letter summons memories from her bittersweet past: her first love, her best friend, and the tra...

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Published: Aug 2013

Anagrams

Lorrie Moore

A cycle of five stories which overlap, concerning a woman named Benna and a man named Gerard, Benna's daughter Georgianna and Benna's best friend Eleanor; these stories explore themes of loneliness, connection, alienation, love and co...

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Published: Mar 2007

The Dutch House: A Novel

Ann Patchett

New York Times Bestseller | A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick | A New York Times Book Review Notable Book | TIME Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2019 Named one o...

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Published: Jan 2021

Fire in the East (Warrior of Rome)

Harry Sidebottom

A.D. 255: The Roman imperium is stretched to the breaking point, its authority and might challenged throughout the territories and along every border. One man is sent to marshal the defenses of a lonely city and to shore up the crumbl...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Apr 2010

The Key & Diary of a Mad Old Man

Junichiro Tanizaki

These two modern classics by the great Japanese novelist Junichiro Tanizaki, both utilize the diary form to explore the authority that love and sex have over all.In The Key, a middle-aged professor plies his wife of thirty years with ...

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Published: Sep 2004

Love and Other Impossible Pursuits

Ayelet Waldman

With wry candor and tender humor, acclaimed novelist Ayelet Waldman has crafted a strikingly beautiful novel for our time, tackling the absurdities of modern life and reminding us why we love some people no matter what.For Emilia Gree...

Abridged CD
Published: Jan 2006

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You S...

Fredrik Backman

A charming, warmhearted novel from the author of the New York Times bestseller A Man Called Ove, now available on CD from Encore at a great price!Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and cr...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2016

The Story of Forgetting

Stefan Merrill Block

In Stefan Merrill Block's extraordinary debut, three narratives intertwine to create a story that is by turns funny, smart, introspective, and revelatory. Abel Haggard is an elderly hunchback who haunts the remnants of his family's fa...

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Published: Apr 2009

Symbiont (Parasitology)

Mira Grant

THE SECOND BOOK IN MIRA GRANT'S TERRIFYING PARASITOLOGY SERIES.THE ENEMY IS INSIDE US. The SymboGen designed tapeworms were created to relieve humanity of disease and sickness. But the implants in the majority of the world's populatio...

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Published: Oct 2015

The Other

David Guterson

From the author of the bestselling Snow Falling on Cedars, a coming-of-age novel that presents two powerfully different visions of what it means to live a good life and the compromises that come with fulfillment.John William Barry and...

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Published: Jun 2009

The Key

Kathryn Hughes

A hidden note. A lost love. A second chance...'A wonderful, enthralling story; one that I didn't want to end' Lesley Pearse on The Key 'A heartbreakingly powerful read'The Sun on The KeyFrom the #1 bestselling author of The Letter, Ka...

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Published: Dec 2018

The Walking People

Mary Beth Keane

Greta Cahill never believed she would leave her village in the west of Ireland until she found herself on a ship bound for New York, along with her sister Johanna and a boy named Michael Ward. Greta discovers that in America she can f...

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Published: May 2010

The Brightest Star in the Sky

Marian Keyes

Unabridged CDs, 7 CDs, 9 hours Read by TBA A wry and life affirming novel from the beloved author of This Charming Man.

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2010

A Thousand Cuts

Simon Lelic

"In his powerful, wrenching debut, Lelic takes a sadly familiar crime and delves into the equally familiar menace at its root: bullying." -People In this riveting debut novel about sexism, bullying, and the horrific effects ...

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Published: Jan 2011

The Edge of Winter

Luanne Rice

Neve Halloran and her teenage daughter, Mickey, struggle to build a new life together amid the harsh beauty of a wildlife sanctuary in Rhode Island's South County, as Mickey grows to womanhood in the company of a lonely boy who shares...

Abridged CD
Published: Feb 2007

Beautiful World, Where Are You

Sally Rooney

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Beautiful World, Where Are You is a new novel by Sally Rooney, the bestselling author of Normal Peopleand Conversations with Friends Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse,...

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Published: Jun 2022

The Cave

Jose Saramago

Nobel Prize-winning writer JosT Saramago creates a gentle and humorous story about an elderly potter, his daughter and son-in-law, the young widow who comes to live with them--and a dog. What begins with ceramic doll figures and some ...

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Published: Oct 2003

Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English

Natasha Solomons

At the start of World War II, Jack and Sadie Rosenblum flee Berlin for London with their baby daughter, Elizabeth. Upon arrival, Jack receives a pamphlet from the German Jewish Aid Committee on how to act like a proper Englishman. He ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2010

Life Studies: Stories

Susan Vreeland

With her richly textured novels Susan Vreeland has offered pioneering portraits of the artist's life. Now, in a collection of profound wisdom and beauty, she explores the transcendent power of art through the eyes of ordinary peop...

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Published: Nov 2005

The Hours

Michael Cunningham

A novel about three very different women--Virginia Woolf, Clarissa Vaughan, and Laura Brown--whose lives and destinies become intertwined spans the nation, from New York to Los Angeles, and follows them to a haunting and surprising co...

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Published: Jan 2000

A Virtuous Woman (Oprah's Book Club)

Kaye Gibbons

Oprah Book Club® Selection, October 1997: Gibbons's novel, A Virtuous Woman, takes place in the same hardscrabble part of the world as Ellen Foster. The virtuous woman is Ruby Pitt Woodrow, a woman who might have ended up like Ell...

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Published: Nov 1997

The Jane Austen Book Club

Karen Joy Fowler

As six Californians get together to form a book club to discuss the novels of Jane Austen, their lives are turned upside down by troubled marriages, illicit affairs, changing relationships, and love, in a comedy of contemporary manner...

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Published: May 2005

When We Were Orphans

Kazuo Ishiguro

When 9-year-old Christopher Banks's father--a British businessman involved in the opium trade--disappears from the family home in Shanghai, the boy and his friend Akira play at being detectives: 'Until in the end, after the chases, fi...

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Published: Oct 2001

The Witch of Portobello

Paulo Coelho

How do we find the courage to always be true to ourselves—even if we are unsure of who we are? That is the central question of international bestselling author Paulo Coelho's profound new work, The Witch of Portobello. It is ...

Paperback
Published: Feb 2008
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