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Drive Me Crazy

Dickeym eric jerome

"Driver" is an ex-con trying to make his life right but who shares an expensive secret and a past affair with his boss's wife - a woman who is nothing but trouble. Dickey's rich characters make listeners feel as if they are ...

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Published: Jul 2004

The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume ...

Arthur Conan Doyle

Be it T.S. Eliot, Winnie-the-Pooh creator A.A. Milne, or Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Sherlock Holmes fanatics generation after generation adore the super-sleuth and his chronicler, Dr. Watson. Together with Vol. II, the Barnes & Noble ...

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Published: Sep 2003

Platform

Michel Houellebecq

In his new work, Michel Houellebecq combines erotic provocation with a terrifying vision of a world teetering between satiety and fanaticism, to create one of the most shocking, hypnotic, and intelligent novels in years.In his early f...

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Published: Jul 2004

On the Road: 50th Anniversary Edition...

Jack Kerouac

A 50th anniversary hardcover edition of Kerouac's classic novel that defined a generation Few novels have had as profound an impact on American culture as On the Road. Pulsating with the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, s...

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Published: Oct 2007

Pachinko (National Book Award Finalis...

Min Jin Lee

A new tour de force from the bestselling author of Free Food for Millionaires,for readers of A Fine Balance and Cutting for Stone.Profoundly moving and gracefully told, PACHINKO follows one Korean family through the generations, begin...

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Published: Feb 2017

The Dearly Departed

Elinor Lipman

The untimely death of her single mother, Margaret Batten, brings Sunny back to small-town King George, New Hampshire, the scene of her unhappy, tormented adolescence, where she discovers old family secrets, unexpected alliances, and a...

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Published: Aug 2002

Where They Found Her

Kimberly McCreight

"McCreight creates a world that pulls us in completely and genuinely, with characters that can enrage, amuse, and fill us with empathy. It's a thrilling novel."—GILLIAN FLYNN, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Gone G...

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Published: Apr 2016

Solar

Ian McEwan

Michael Beard is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist (and compulsive overeater) whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions, ...

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Published: Mar 2011

Heft

Liz Moore

[Read by Kirby Heyborne and Keith Szarabajka] A heartwarming novel about larger-than-life characters and second chances. Former academic Arthur Opp weighs 550 pounds and hasn't left his rambling Brooklyn home in a decade. Twenty miles...

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Published: Mar 2012

Excellent Women

Barbara Pym

Mildred, a single woman in her 30s, the daughter of an Anglican clergyman, is one of the genteel and respectable 'excellent women' people rely on to live on the sidelines, coming forward only long enough to make tea in a crisis. When ...

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Published: Jan 2007

The Stone Diaries: (Classics Deluxe E...

Carol Shields

In celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of its original publication, Carol Shields's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel is now available in a Penguin Classics Deluxe EditionONE OF THE MOST successful and acclaimed novels of our time, ...

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Published: Oct 2008

Please Look After Mom

Kyung-Sook Shin

A million-plus-copy best seller in Korea—a magnificent English-language debut poised to become an international sensation—this is the stunning, deeply moving story of a family's search for their mother, who goes missing one aftern...

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Published: Apr 2012

Gut Symmetries

Jeanette Winterson

The highwire artist of the English novel redraws the romantic triangle for the post-Einsteinian universe, where gender is as elastic as matter, and any accurate Grand Unified Theory (GUT) must encompass desire alongside electromagneti...

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Published: Jul 1998

The Infinities

John Banville

On a languid midsummer's day in the countryside, old Adam Godley, a renowned theoretical mathematician, is dying. His family gathers at his bedside: his son, young Adam, struggling to maintain his marriage to a radiantly beautiful act...

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Published: Feb 2010

Perfect Peace: a Novel

Daniel Black

The heartbreaking portrait of a large, rural southern family's attempt to grapple with their mother's desperate decision to make her newborn son into the daughter she will never have When the seventh child of the Peace family, named P...

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Published: Dec 2011

The Sandcastle Girls (Vintage Contemp...

Chris Bohjalian

When Elizabeth Endicott arrives in Aleppo, Syria, she has a diploma from Mount Holyoke, a crash course in nursing, and only the most basic grasp of the Armenian language. It's 1915, and Elizabeth has volunteered to help deliver food a...

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Published: Apr 2013

Jack Maggs

Peter Carey

A Booker Prize-winning author presents a novel set in 1830s Dickensian London featuring a thief who insinuates his way into the passionate entanglements of a well-appointed household and meets a writer obsessed with the criminal mind....

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Published: Feb 1999

This Dark Road to Mercy: A Novel

Wiley Cash

The critically acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller A Land More Kind Than Home—hailed as "a powerfully moving debut that reads as if Cormac McCarthy decided to rewrite Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird" (Rich...

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Published: Oct 2014

Goodbye Without Leaving

Laurie Colwin

An insightful domestic comedy, at once hilarious and extremely moving, Goodbye Without Leaving is the story of a woman's attempt to remain true to herself in a world of diminishing returns. As a bored graduate student, Geraldine Colsh...

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Published: Jun 2000

The Washingtonienne

Jessica Cutler

The woman whose spicy, gossipy blog recounting her multiple and simultaneous sexual liaisons with DC’s power brokers brought her notoriety--and got her fired from her political internship--dishes it out again in this thinly disg...

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Published: Jun 2005

I, Strahd: The War Against Azalin

P.N. Elrod

The young and idealistic brother to the war-hardened Strahd von Zarovich loves beautiful Tatyana, but so does Strahd. To win her hand, Strahd will do anything--even enter a pact with death and seal it with his brother's blood. Chapter...

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Published: Jun 1998

The Round House: A Novel

Louise Erdrich

Winner of the 2012 National Book Award, Louise Erdrich's masterful novel is now available in a limited Olive Edition.One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the cri...

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Published: Oct 2017

Every Man Dies Alone

Hans Fallada

"The greatest book ever written about German resistance to the Nazis."-Primo LeviThis never-before-translated masterpiece-by a heroic best-selling writer who saw his life crumble when he wouldn't join the Nazi Party-is based...

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Published: Mar 2010

Purity: A Novel

Jonathan Franzen

A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of FreedomYoung Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchi...

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Published: Sep 2015

A Terrible Country: A Novel

Keith Gessen

A New York Times Editors' ChoiceNamed a Best Book of 2018 by Bookforum, Nylon, Esquire, and Vulture"This artful and autumnal novel, published in high summer, is a gift to those who wish to receive it."—Dwight Garner, The New Yo...

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Published: Jul 2019

Chalktown

Melinda Haynes

In this well-crafted, evocative novel by the author of Mother of Pearl, a poor family struggles to survive in a small 1960s Mississippi town in the face of mind-numbing poverty, an absent father, a disaffected and often cruel mother, ...

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Published: Jun 2002

Good As Gold

Joseph Heller

Bruce Gold, a middle-aged, Jewish professor of English literature, finds himself on the brink of a golden career in politics -- and not a moment too soon, as Gold yearns for an opportunity to transform a less-than-picture-perfect lif...

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Published: Nov 1997

May We Be Forgiven: A Novel

A. M. Homes

"A big American story with big American themes" (Elle) from the author of the New York Times-bestselling memoir The Mistress's Daughter In this vivid, transfixing new novel, A. M. Homes presents a darkly comic look at twenty...

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Published: Oct 2013

Brave New World Revisited

Aldous Huxley

When the novel Brave New World first appeared in 1932, its shocking analysis of a scientific dictatorship seemed a projection into the remote future. Here, in one of the most important and fascinating books of his career, Aldous Huxl...

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Published: Mar 2000

Mister Pip

Lloyd Jones

In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power of narrative to transform our lives.On a copper-rich tropical islan...

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Published: May 2008
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