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The Borrower

Rebecca Makkai

"Rarely is a first novel as smart and engaging and learned and funny and moving as The Borrower." —Richard Russo, author of Pulitzer Prize–winning Empire FallsLucy Hull, a children's librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, find...

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Published: May 2012

The Hundred-Year House: A Novel

Rebecca Makkai

The acclaimed author of The Borrower returns with a dazzlingly original, mordantly witty novel about the secrets of an old-money family and their turn-of-the-century estate, Laurelfield."Rebecca Makkai is a writer to watch, as sn...

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Published: May 2015

The Shadow Girls (Vintage)

Henning Mankell

Jesper Humlin is a mildly famous author and poet with lackluster book sales. Not even his editor will support his artistic vision, suggesting instead that he start writing crime novels in the place of poetry. In his travels, Humlin en...

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Published: Nov 2013

Child of My Heart

Alice McDermott

Alice McDermott again explores the world of Irish-American Catholics on Long Island and Queens in this coming-of-age tale set during one event-filled summer in the life of a girl who is not only stunningly beautiful but a great baby-s...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2002

A Children's Bible: A Novel

Lydia Millet

Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction One of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of the Year Named one of the best novels of the year by Time, Washington Post, NPR, Chicago Tribune, Esquire, BBC, and many others Nation...

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Published: May 2021

The Temple of Dawn

Yukio Mishima

Dramatizes the Japanese experience from the eve of World War II through the degradation of the postwar era.

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Published: Apr 1990

Winter in Thrush Green

Miss Read

In the follow-up to Thrush Green, the arrival of a stranger in the village stirs ripples of speculation and interest.

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Published: Dec 2008

She Would Be King: A Novel

Wayetu Moore

A novel of exhilarating range, magical realism, and history―a dazzling retelling of Liberia's formationWayetu Moore's powerful debut novel, She Would Be King, reimagines the dramatic story of Liberia's early years through three unfo...

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Published: Sep 2019

Debbie Doesn't Do It Anymore (Vintage...

Walter Mosley

Millions of men and (no doubt many) women have watched famed black porn queen Debbie Dare—she of the blond wig and blue contacts—"do it" on television and computer screens in every combination of partners and positions i...

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Published: Feb 2015

The Gendarme

Mark T. Mustian

What would you do if the love of your life, and all your memories, were lost- only to reappear, but with such shocking revelations that you wish you had never remembered... Emmett Conn is an old man, near the end of his life. A World...

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Published: Sep 2011

Look at the Harlequins!

Vladimir Nabokov

A dying man cautiously unravels the mysteries of memory and creation. Vadim is a Russian emigre who, like Nabokov, is a novelist, poet and critic. There are threads linking the fictional hero with his creator as he reconstructs the im...

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Published: Jun 1990

Transparent Things

Vladimir Nabokov

Transparent Things revolves around the four visits of the hero--sullen, gawky Hugh Person--to Switzerland . . .  As a young publisher, Hugh is sent to interview R., falls in love with Armande on the way, wrests her, after  multipl...

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Published: Oct 1989

Chance

Kem Nunn

"Dr. Eldon Chance is a man primed for spectacular ruin. His wife has left him for a dyslexic fitness instructor, his teenaged daughter is disappearing into drugs; he owes the IRS untold sums; his neuro-psychiatry practice has been red...

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Published: Dec 2014

The Mammy

Brendan O'Carroll

A popular Irish comedian chronicles with raw humor and great affection the comic misadventures of a large and lively North Dublin family in the 1960s. The film version, directed by and starring Anjelica Huston, is tentatively schedule...

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Published: May 1999

Mudwoman: A Novel

Joyce Carol Oates

Mudgirl is a child abandoned in the silty flats of the Black Snake River. Cast aside, Mudgirl survives by an accident of fate—or destiny. After her rescue, the well-meaning couple who adopt Mudgirl quarantine her poisonous history ...

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Published: Feb 2013

The Black Book

Orhan Pamuk

Galip is a lawyer in Istanbul. When his wife R'ya disappears, along with her half-brother Jelal (a journalist with a murky political past), Galip makes a desperate attempt to trace her. Alongside the action-filled narrative of Galip's...

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Published: Jul 2006

The Dorothy Parker Audio Collection

Dorothy Parker

Author, poet, screenwriter and outstanding member of the legendary Algonquin Round Table, Dorothy Parker was known for her quick wit, keen observations, and remarkable insight into the human condition. Regarded as brilliant, but known...

Abridged CD
Published: Jun 2004

Change of Heart: A Novel

Jodi Picoult

The acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author presents a spellbinding tale of a mother's tragic loss and one man's last chance at gaining salvation.Can we save ourselves, or do we rely on others to do it? Is what we believe alway...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2018

The Secrets We Kept

Lara Prescott

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER A HELLO SUNSHINE x REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE WASHINGTON POST - NPR - ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY-THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS - ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH- LIBRARY ...

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Published: Jun 2020

Mister Monkey: A Novel

Francine Prose

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author weaves an ingenious, darkly humorous, and brilliantly observant story that follows the exploits and intrigue of a constellation of characters affiliated with an off-off-off-off Broadway ...

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Published: Oct 2017

Bleeding Edge: A Novel

Thomas Pynchon

The Washington Post"Brilliantly written… a joy to read… Bleeding Edge is totally gonzo, totally wonderful. It really is good to have Thomas Pynchon around, doing what he does best." (Michael Dirda) It is 2001 in New York C...

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Published: Aug 2014

Indignation

Philip Roth

NATIONAL BESTSELLERIndignation, Philip Roth's twenty-ninth book, is a powerful exploration of a remarkable moment in American history. It is a novel that highlights his masterful ability to re-create a time and a place and to populate...

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Published: Oct 2009

Indignation

Philip Roth

It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. Marcus Messner of Newark, New Jersey is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative Winesburg College in Ohio. Why is he here? Because his father, a hard-working...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Sep 2008

When She Was Good

Philip Roth

In this mesmerizing, funny, chilling novel, the setting is a small town in the 1940s Midwest, the subject the heart of a wounded and ferociously moralistic young woman, one of those implacable American moralists whose "goodness i...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2009

Mating

Norman Rush

Set in the African republic of Botswana--the locale of his acclaimed short story collection, Whites--Norman Rush's novel simultaneously explores the highest of intellectual high grounds and the most tortuous ravines of the erotic. tac...

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Published: Sep 1992

Chances Are . . .: A novel

Richard Russo

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls comes a new revelation: a riveting story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship.One beautiful September day, three men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever since ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2019

They May Not Mean To, But They Do: A ...

Cathleen Schine

From one of America's greatest comic novelists, a hilarious new novel about aging, family, loneliness, and loveThe Bergman clan has always stuck together, growing as it incorporated in-laws, ex-in-laws, and same-sex spouses. But famil...

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Published: Jun 2017

Homecoming: A novel

Bernhard Schlink

The first novel by Bernhard Schlink since his international best seller The Reader, Homecoming is the story of one man's odyssey and another man's pursuit.A child of World War II, Peter Debauer grew up with his mother and scant memori...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2008

Staying On (Phoenix Fiction Series)

Paul Scott

This novel, which won the Booker Prize in 1977, is a coda to "The Raj Quartet". It is set in the new India of 1972, where an elderly couple--Colonel Tusker Smalley and his wife Lucy (minor characters in the "Quartet&quo...

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Published: Oct 1998

Resistance

Owen Sheers

1944. After the fall of Russia and the failed D-Day landings, a German counterattack lands on British soil. Within a month, half of Britain is occupied. The seat of British government has fled to Worcester, Churchill to Canada. A netw...

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Published: Feb 2009
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