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The Cookbook Collector

Allegra Goodman

Heralded as "a modern day Jane Austen" by USA Today, National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Allegra Goodman has compelled and delighted hundreds of thousands of readers. Now, in her most ambitious...

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Published: Jul 2011

Superman/Batman Vol. 1: Public Enemie...

Jeph Loeb

A tale of loyalty and unlikely friendship featuring two of the most recognizable and popular super-heroes on the planet pairs the Man of Steel with the Dark Knight when longtime Superman enemy Lex Luthor, now president of the United S...

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Published: Apr 2005

Something Missing

Matthew Dicks

A career criminal with OCD tendencies and a savant-like genius for bringing order to his crime scenes, Martin considers himself one of the best in the biz. After all, he's been able to steal from the same people for years on end—vir...

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Published: Jul 2009

Sister of My Heart

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

The author of the critically acclaimed novel Mistress of Spices delivers another sensually and movingly written novel set in the author's native India, where a dark family secret molds the lives of two close but very different sisters...

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Published: Jan 2000

Seventh Heaven

Alice Hoffman

In the late 1950s, when Nora Silk moves into Hemlock Street, the entire neighborhood sucks in its breath. A divorcee who wears Toreador pants and lets her kids eat sweets before school, Nora is a walking scandal. But when the block's ...

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Published: Apr 2003

Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

Beth Hoffman

Unabridged CDs, 8 CDs, 10 hours Read by TBA Steel Magnolias meets The Help in this Southern debut novel sparkling with humor, heart, and feminine wisdom.

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Published: Oct 2010

The Million Dollar Divorce

R.M. Johnson

Scheming to obtain a divorce without losing half of his millions by exploiting an infidelity clause in his prenuptial agreement, business entrepreneur Nate Kenny blackmails a down-on-his-luck man into seducing his wife, a plan that ba...

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Published: Aug 2005

Yes, My Darling Daughter

Margaret Leroy

Every once in a blue moon, a masterful writer dives into gothic waters and emerges with a novel that—like Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, Minette Walters's The Breaker, and Donna Tartt's The Little Friend—simultaneously celebrates an...

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Published: Mar 2010

Maggie: The Sequel to The Dead Don't ...

Charles Martin

'When Maggie opened her eyes that New Year's Day some seventeen months ago, I felt like I could see again. The fog lifted off my soul, and for the first time since our son had died and she had gone to sleep--some four months, sixteen...

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Published: Sep 2006

Tar Baby

Toni Morrison

The arrival of an ominous black stranger disturbs the precisely choreographed interactions among the five people living in a beautiful house on a Caribbean island--a millionaire candy manufacturer, his wife, and their servants--in a n...

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Published: Jun 2004

Gone Fishin': Featuring an Original E...

Walter Mosley

Gone Fishin' actually marks the first appearance of Ezekiel 'Easy' Rawlins, as well as his homicide-prone sidekick Raymond 'Mouse' Alexander. But the story takes place in 1939, when both protagonists are still living in Houston. This ...

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Published: Sep 2002

The Man in My Basement

Walter Mosley

The novel, written in adorned prose that allows the ideas to breathe, will hold readers rapt; it is Mosley's most philosophical novel to date, as he explores guilt, punishment, responsibility and redemption as individual and social co...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2004

Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Marisha Pessl

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 ...

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Published: May 2007

Miss Julia's School of Beauty

Ann B. Ross

Everyone's favorite proper Southern lady is back and feistier than ever in her sixth hilarious adventure Imagine Aunt Bee from The Andy Griffith Show with a lot more backbone and confidence,' wrote Publishers Weekly about Miss Juli...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2005

The Dying Animal

Philip Roth

Philip Roth's perennial character (first introduced in THE BREAST, then appearing in THE PROFESSOR OF DESIRE) David Kepesh is the narrator of THE DYING ANIMAL, which finds an aging Kepesh still obsessed with sex, still longing for you...

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Published: Jul 2002

The Vanishing Point

Mary Sharratt

Raised by a father who secretly trained her in the physician’s art, Hannah Powers journeys to seventeenth-century colonial Maryland to be with her sister, married off to a distant cousin after a series of sexual improprieties, a...

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Published: Jun 2006

Sexing the Cherry (Winterson, Jeanett...

Jeanette Winterson

In a fantastic world that is not 17th-century England, a baby is found floating in the Thames. Rescued by the Dog Woman, a murderous gentle giant, the baby soon grows up to discover that the strangest wonders are the ones spun out of ...

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Published: Aug 1998

The White Tiger

Aravind Adiga

* Mp3 CD Format *. Set in a raw and unromanticized India, The White Tiger---the first-person confession of a murderer---is as compelling for its subject matter as it is for the voice of its narrator: amoral, cynical, unrepentant, yet ...

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Published: May 2008

The Florabama Ladies' Auxiliary & Sew...

Lois Battle

Bonnie leaves her bankrupt husband and takes the first job of her life at age 50. Hired to run a program for the jobless female workers at a local mill that has closed, she gets involved in their lives and takes comfort from the simil...

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Published: Feb 2002

Captain Wentworth's Diary

Amanda Grange

The retelling of Jane Austen's novel Persuasion from the point of view of Captain Frederick Wentworth-by the author of Mr. Knightley's Diary. During his shore leave from the Navy, Frederick Wentworth falls in love with the elegant and...

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Published: May 2008

War Trash

Ha Jin

War Trash, the extraordinary new novel by the National Book Award–winning author of Waiting, is Ha Jin’s most ambitious work to date: a powerful, unflinching story that opens a window on an unknown aspect of a little-known...

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Published: May 2005

Every Last Lie

Mary Kubica

A widow's pursuit of the truth leads her to the darkest corners of the psyche in this exhilarating thriller from New York Times bestselling author Mary KubicaClara Solberg's world shatters when her husband and their four-year-old daug...

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Published: May 2018

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

Anthony Marra

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena: A Novel

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Published: Feb 2014

Everyman

Philip Roth

Philip Roth's 27th novel begins at its unnamed protagonist's funeral, then leaps back in time to various moments of injury and deterioration (a childhood hernia, a burst appendix, heart failures of various kinds, the sad end of friend...

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Published: Apr 2007

Authority

Jeff VanderMeer

In the second volume of the Southern Reach Trilogy, questions are answered, stakes are raised, and mysteries are deepened . . .In Annihilation,Jeff VanderMeer introduced Area X—a remote and lush terrain mysteriously sequestered fr...

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Published: May 2014

Lost Memory of Skin

Russell Banks

"Like our living literary giants Toni Morrison and Thomas Pynchon, Russell Banks is a great writer wrestling with the hidden secrets and explosive realities of this country."—Cornel West"Of the many writers working in...

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Published: Jul 2012

The Swans of Fifth Avenue: A Novel

Melanie Benjamin

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Aviator's Wife returns with a triumphant new novel about New York's "Swans" of the 1950s—and the scandalous, headline-making, and enthralling friendship between literary le...

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Published: Oct 2016

The Firebrand

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Blending archaeological fact and legend, the myths of the gods and the feats of heroes, Marion Zimmer Bradley breathes new life into the classic tale of the Trojan War-reinventing larger-than-life figures as living people engaged in a...

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Published: May 2003

The Courage Tree

Diane Chamberlain

Eight-year-old Sophie Donohue suffers from a rare disease requiring constant treatment, but she wants to be normal. Sophie's mother finally agrees to let her go on a camping trip, but when Sophie goes missing, a full-scale search is l...

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Published: Apr 2009

The Gift of Rain

Tan Twan Eng

The recipient of extraordinary acclaim from critics and the bookselling community, Tan Twan Eng's debut novel casts a powerful spell and has garnered comparisons to celebrated wartime storytellers Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene. S...

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Published: May 2009
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