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Gossip Girl

Cecily Von Ziegesar

Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side where my friends and I live, and go to school, and play, and sleep- sometimes with each other. We all live in huge apartments with our own bedrooms and bathrooms and phone lines. We're smart,...

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Published: Oct 2003

The Ruined Map

Kobo Abe

Of all the great Japanese novelists, Kobe Abe was indubitably the most versatile. With The Ruined Map, he crafted a mesmerizing literary crime novel that combines the narrative suspense of Chandler with the psychological depth of Dost...

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Published: Dec 2001

An Unnecessary Woman

Rabih Alameddine

"I can't remember the last time I was so gripped simply by a novel's voice…Aaliya is thoughtful, she's complex, she's humorous and critical."-NPR.com"Beautiful and absorbing."-New York TimesAn Unnecessary Woman is...

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Published: Jan 2015

My Life in Heavy Metal: Stories

Steve Almond

In his smart and self-assured debut, My Life in Heavy Metal, Steve Almond breathes fresh life into the oft-explored territory of young love and longing. The 12 stories in this pulsating collection are populated with hookups, drunken k...

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Published: Mar 2003

The Kept Man

Jami Attenberg

Now in paperback: the novel that's "unabashedly emotional, refreshingly devoid of New York City cynicism, and tenderly funny" (People).Jarvis Miller's artist husband has been in a coma for six years. And so, Jarvis has spent...

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Published: Jan 2009

Winterton Blue

Trezza Azzopardi

“Beryl Bainbridge, Muriel Spark, and Graham Greene all come to mind, but Azzopardi’s style is all her own.”—Chicago TribuneNew York Times Editors’ Choice, the breathtaking third novel from Booker Prize fi...

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Published: Dec 2007

The Infinities

John Banville

On a languid midsummer's day in the countryside, the Godley family gathers at the bedside of Adam, a renowned mathematician and their patriarch. But they are not alone in their vigil. Around them hovers a clan of mischievous immortals...

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Published: Feb 2011

The Secret Scripture

Sebastian Barry

Roseanne McNulty, once one of the most beautiful and beguiling girls in County Sligo, Ireland, is now an elderly patient at Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital. As her hundredth year draws near, she decides to record the events of her ...

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Published: Oct 2008

The Temporary Gentleman

Sebastian Barry

A stunning new novel from the two-time Man Booker shortlisted author of The Secret Scripture In this highly anticipated new novel, Irishman Jack McNulty is a "temporary gentleman"—an Irishman whose commission in the Briti...

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Published: Apr 2015

A Very Private Gentleman

Martin Booth

Known as Signor Farfalla--Mr. Butterfly--to his neighbors in the southern Italian town where he lives, an inconspicuous gentleman who spends his days painting, idling at local cafes, and getting together with his friend, the town prie...

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Published: Feb 2005

Latecomers

Anita Brookner

A novel about the 50-year friendship of two dissimilar German refugees brought over to England as children from Nazi Germany. Their friendship becomes a funny yet touching model for the ways in which human beings come to terms with th...

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Published: Feb 1990

Strangers

Anita Brookner

Booker Prize-winner Anita Brookner captures the magic and depth of real life with this story of an ordinary man whose unexpected longings, doubts, and fears are universal. Paul Sturgis is resigned to his bachelorhood and the quietude...

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Published: Jul 2010

Carry Me Across the Water

Ethan Canin

August Kleinman is a World War II veteran now living in Pittsburgh, where he has made a fortune as the founder of a prosperous brewery. As Canin narrates episodes from Kleinman's life, past and present, an episode from the war, on the...

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Published: May 2002

Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Nove...

Truman Capote

Perhaps already the most famous unpublished novel in contemporary American fiction, Answered Prayers is the work Capote was still completing at the time of his death and is joined here with a revealing introduction by his biographer, ...

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Published: Mar 1995

Moonglow: A Novel

Michael Chabon

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWinner of the Sophie Brody Medal • An NBCC Finalist for 2016 Award for Fiction • ALA Carnegie Medal Finalist for Excellence in Fiction • Wall Street Journal's Best Novel of the Year • A New Yor...

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Published: Sep 2017

Moonglow: A Novel (Harper Perennial O...

Michael Chabon

Moonglow unfolds as the deathbed confession of a man the narrator refers to only as "my grandfather." It is a tale of madness, of war and adventure, of sex and marriage and desire, of existential doubt and model rocketry, of...

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Published: Sep 2020

The Wangs vs. the World

Jade Chang

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An October 2016 Indie Next Pick A PopSugar Best Book for Fall A BuzzFeed Incredible Book for Fall A Nylon Amazing Book for Fall A Bustle Book for Your Fall TBR List A Millions Most Anticipa...

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Published: Oct 2017

The Queen of the Night

Alexander Chee

National Bestseller“This book is a glorious performance . . . Enveloping, seductive.” —Karen RussellFrom a writer praised by Junot Díaz as “the fire, in my opinion, and the light,” a mesmerizing novel that follows one wo...

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Published: Jan 2017

Cybernation (Tom Clancy's Net Force, ...

Tom Clancy

In the year 2010, computers are the new superpowers. Those who control them control the world. To enforce the Net Laws, Congress creates the ultimate computer security agency within the FBP the Net Force.When web service is disrupted ...

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Published: Nov 2001

The Pilgrimage

Paulo Coelho

Here Paulo Coelho details his journey across Spain along the legendaryroad of San Tiago, which pilgrims have travelled since Middle Ages. On this contemporary quest, he encounters a Chaucerian variety of mysterious guides and devilish...

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Published: Sep 2008

In the Courts of the Sun

Brian D'Amato

A mind-bending, time-bending, zeitgeist-defining novel about the days leading up to December 21, 2012---the day the Maya predicted the world would end.

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Published: May 2009

And Then You Die

Michael Dibdin

Having survived an explosive assassination attempt, Italian police detective Aurelio Zen finds himself convalescing at a Tuscan seaside resort town, where he is under orders to lie low until he is to testify at a much-anticipated Mafi...

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Published: Sep 2003

Very Bad Men

Harry Dolan

Unabridged, 10 CDs, 12 hours Read by TBA A new book in the series that wowed critics and was a national bestseller-featuring the mysterious David Loogan.

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Published: Jul 2011

The Hidden Man

David Ellis

Jason Kolarich is a Chicago attorney with a lineman's build, a razor- sharp intellect-and the grief of a tragic personal loss. When an estranged childhood friend is charged with murder, Kolarich must create a solid defense-even while ...

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Published: Jan 2011

The Painted Drum

Louise Erdrich

An art dealer named Faye Travers returns to the Ojibwe reservation where her grandmother lives, bringing with her a painted drum she discovered in the art collection of a man whose grandfather was an agent there for the Bureau of Indi...

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Published: Sep 2006

Hausfrau

Jill Alexander Essbaum

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER •NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, THE HUFFINGTON POST, AND SHELF AWARENESS • “In Hausfrau, Anna Karenina goes Fifty Shades with a side of Mada...

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Published: Aug 2015

Crooked Heart

Lissa Evans

Paper Moon meets the Blitz in this original black comedy, set in World War II England, chronicling an unlikely alliance between a small time con artist and a young orphan evacuee.When Noel Bostock—aged ten, no family—is evacuated ...

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Published: Jul 2016

West of Here

Jonathan Evison

From the rugged mudflats of the Northwestern frontier to a rusting strip mall, West of Here is a conversation between two epochs. In his eagerly awaited second novel, Jonathan Evison tells the stories of the people who first inhabited...

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2011

The Shortest Way Home

Juliette Fay

Reminiscent of Jonathan Tropper and Marisa de los Santos, a novel full of humor, heart, and hope for finding yourself where you least expect to/b/Sean Doran has spent twenty years in third-world war zones and natural disaster areas, f...

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Published: Oct 2012

Past Imperfect

Julian Fellowes

From the creator of the Emmy Award-winning Downton Abbey... "Damian Baxter was a friend of mine at Cambridge. We met around the time when I was doing the Season at the end of the Sixties. I introduced him to some of the girls. T...

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Published: May 2012
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