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Until I Find You

John Irving

Until I Find You is the story of the actor Jack Burns – his life, loves, celebrity and astonishing search for the truth about his parents. When he is four years old, Jack travels with his mother Alice, a tattoo artist, to several No...

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Published: May 2006

The Cat's Table

Michael Ondaatje

In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the "cat's table"—as far from the Captain's Table as can be—with a ragtag group of "insignificant&q...

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Published: Oct 2011

The Road Home

Rose Tremain

In the wake of factory closings and his beloved wife's death, Lev makes his way from Eastern Europe to London, seeking work to support his mother and his little daughter. After a spell of homelessness, he finds a job in the kitchen of...

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Published: May 2009

The Good Mother

Sue Miller

How brave that a first novel should attempt these extraordinarily difficult questions, questions so emotionally tough that they complicate the usual business of the novel, the expectations of character and plot. And how brave of Sue M...

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Published: Sep 2002

Remainder

Tom McCarthy

After an accident he doesn't remember involving 'something falling out of the sky' the unnamed narrator of the novel loses his memory and must relearn how to use his damaged body. However he has received millions in recompensation fro...

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Published: Feb 2007

The Accidental

Ali Smith

A British family, the Smarts, on summer vacation, find their domestic fa'ade irreparably ruffled by the appearance of a charismatic woman, Amber, who insinuates herself into their lives, hearts, and minds. In THE ACCIDENTAL, as in her...

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Published: Apr 2007

Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch

Sijie Dai

Following his runaway best seller, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie gives us a delightful new tale of East meets West: an adventure both wry and uplifting about a love of dreams and the dream of love, and the power ...

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Published: Jun 2005

The Lake of Dreams

Kim Edwards

From the author of the multimillion-copy bestseller The Memory Keeper's Daughter, an arresting novel of one family's secret history. Imbued with all the lyricism, compassion, and suspense of her bestselling novel The Memory Keeper'...

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Published: Nov 2011

The Buried Giant

Kazuo Ishiguro

A Best Book of the Year: The Washington PostChicago TribuneNPRSan Francisco ChronicleUSA TodayThe Huffington PostKansas City StarFinancial TimesBookPageIn post-Arthurian Britain, the wars that once raged between the Saxons and the Bri...

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Published: Jan 2016

The Uses of Enchantment

Heidi Julavits

Sixteen-year old Mary Veal vanishes from her prep school and reappears a month later without any memories of her absence. This vanishing spell has a ripple effect, disrupting Mary and her family's life in myriad ways. 15 years later, ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2007

A Sport and a Pastime

James Salter

“As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know,” is how Reynolds Price (The New York Times) described this classic that has been a favorite of readers, both here and in Europe, for almost forty years. Set in provincial ...

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Published: Aug 2006

Black & White

Dani Shapiro

In Dani Shapiro's captivating new novel, a mother struggles to protect her young daughter from the dark secrets of her past. Haunting and insightful, Black & White explores the notions of family and motherhood, inspiration and obliga...

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Published: Jun 2008

Werewolves in Their Youth: Stories

Michael Chabon

The author of Wonder Boys returns with a powerful and wonderfully written collection of stories. Caught at moments of change, Chabon's men and women, children and husbands and wives, all face small but momentous decisions. They are ...

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Published: Jan 2000

The Life All Around Me By Ellen Foste...

Kaye Gibbons

This sequel to Gibbons' beloved classic Ellen Foster, stands on its own as an unforgettable portrait of a redoubtable adolescent making herself up out of whole cloth. Now fifteen, Ellen is settled into a permanent home with a new moth...

Unabridged CD
Published: Dec 2005

The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street...

Susan Jane Gilman

Now in paperback, bestselling author Susan Jane Gilman's IndieNext Pick novel about an immigrant girl's transformation into an indomitable businesswoman in early 20th century New York. As a child in 1913, Malka Treynovsky flees Russi...

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Published: Jun 2015

The Lowland (Vintage Contemporaries)

Jhumpa Lahiri

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book • A Time Top Fiction Book • An NPR "Great Read" • A Chicago Tribune Best Book • A USA Today Best Book • A People magazine Top 10 Book • A Barnes and Noble Best New B...

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Published: Jun 2014

An Object of Beauty

Steve Martin

Lacey Yeager is young, captivating, and ambitious enough to take the NYC art world by storm. Groomed at Sotheby's and hungry to keep climbing the social and career ladders put before her, Lacey charms men and women, old and young, ric...

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Published: Nov 2011

Life After Life

Jill McCorkle

Life After Life is filled with a sense of wonder at our capacity for self-discovery at any age. And the residents, staff, and neighbors of the Pine Haven retirement center (from twelve-year-old Abby to eighty-five-year-old Sadie) shar...

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Published: Aug 2013

The Children Act

Ian McEwan

One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, NPR, Vogue, BookRiotFiona Maye is a leading High Court judge who presides over cases in the family division. She is renowned for her fierce intelligence, exactitude, and sensit...

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Published: Apr 2015

His Illegal Self

Peter Carey

Seven-year-old Che Selkirk was raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother. The son of radical student activists at Harvard in the late sixties, Che has grown up with the hope that one day his parents will come back for h...

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Published: Feb 2009

Dead of Winter (The Arcana Chronicles...

Kresley Cole

Can Evie convince her rival loves to work together? Their survival depends on it in this third book of #1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole's Arcana Chronicles, a nonstop action tale of rescue, redemption, and a revenge m...

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Published: Dec 2015

Anthropology of an American Girl

Hilary Thayer Hamann

This is what it's like to be a high-school-age girl.To forsake the boyfriend you once adored.To meet the love of your life, who just happens to be your teacher.To discover for the first time the power of your body and mind. This is w...

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Published: Jun 2011

The Death of the Adversary

Hans Keilson

Written while Hans Keilson was in hiding during World War II and first published in 1959, The Death of the Adversary is the self-portrait of a young man helplessly fascinated—obsessed—by an unnamed "adversary," whom he w...

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Published: Jul 2010

The Misremembered Man

Christina McKenna

The Misremembered Man is a beautifully rendered portrait of life in rural Ireland which charms and delights with its authentic characters and gentle humor. This vivid portrayal of the universal search for love brings with it a darker ...

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Published: Jun 2011

No Time to Wave Goodbye

Jacquelyn Mitchard

New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard captured the heart of a nation with The Deep End of the Ocean, her celebrated debut novel about mother Beth Cappadora, a child kidnapped, a family in crisis. Now, in No Time to Wave...

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Published: Sep 2009

Our Tragic Universe

Scarlett Thomas

Meg Carpenter is broke, her novel years overdue. So when a pseudoscientific book promising life everlasting lands on her desk, she jumps at the chance to review it. Thus begins a labyrinthine journey featuring mysterious beasts of the...

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Published: May 2011

Divisadero

Michael Ondaatje

From the celebrated author of The English Patient and In the Skin of a Lion comes a remarkable new novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time. In the 1970s in northern California, near Gold Rush country, a f...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2007

Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith...

Anne Lamott

Blue Van Meer, a precocious and overeducated high-schooler, lives an unorthodox and migratory lifestyle, traveling from one quaint college town to the next with her father, a peripatetic professor. In her senior year, she is taken up ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2007

The Woman Upstairs

Claire Messud

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Emperor's Children, a masterly new novel: the riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed and betrayed by a desire for a world beyond her own. Nora Eldridge, an elementary sc...

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Published: Apr 2013

Flower Children

Maxine Swann

From an award-winning writer: an elegant, lively, moving novel that portrays the strangely celebrated and unsupervised childhood of four hippie offspring in the seventies and eighties. When Flower Children's first chapter was publish...

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Published: Jun 2008
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