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Requiem for a Dream

Hubert Selby

In this searing novel first published in 1978, two young hoods, Harry and Tyrone, and a girlfriend fantasize about scoring a pound of heroin and getting rich. But their heroin habit gets the better of them, and Harry's mother's addict...

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Published: Sep 2000

The Beginner's Goodbye

Anne Tyler

Anne Tyler gives us a wise, haunting, and deeply moving new novel in which she explores how a middle-aged man, ripped apart by the death of his wife, is gradually restored by her frequent appearances--in their house, on the roadway, i...

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Published: Apr 2012

The Red Scarf

Kate Furnivall

The Russian Concubine dazzled readers. Now, its gifted author delivers another sweeping historical novel. Davinsky Labor Camp, Siberia, 1933: Only two things in this wretched place keep Sofia from giving up hope: the prospect of freed...

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Published: Jun 2008

My Name Is Red

Orhan Pamuk

In this historical mystery set in the 16th century, Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk creates a world populated by poets and artists who argue about the direction art seems to be taking (toward the use of perspective, and away from tradition...

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Published: Aug 2002

Call Me by Your Name: A Novel

Andre Aciman

Now a Major Motion Picture from Director Luca Guadagnino, Starring Armie Hammer and Timothee Chalamet, and Written by Three Time Academy Award Nominee James IvoryAn instant classic and one of the great love stories of our time.Andre A...

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Published: Oct 2017

Into the Water: A Novel

Paula Hawkins

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERGOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER FOR MYSTERY/THRILLERAn addictive new novel of psychological suspense from the author of #1 New York Times bestseller and global phenomenon The Girl on the Train. "Hawki...

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Published: May 2018

The Comfort of Strangers

Ian McEwan

As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into their own intimacy. They groom themselves meticulously, as though someone is waiting for them who cares deeply about how they appear. When they meet a man with a disturbing sto...

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Published: Nov 1994

The Buried Giant: A novel

Kazuo Ishiguro

From the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day  The Romans have long since departed and Britain is steadily declining into ruin. But, at least, the wars that once ravaged the country have ceas...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2015

Perfect Family

Pam Lewis

From the acclaimed author of Speak Softly, She Can Hear, a literary page-turner about a proper New England family and the dark secrets that undo them.Pony Carteret -- the lovely headstrong youngest member of the Carteret family -- has...

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Published: Apr 2009

Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel

Anthony Doerr

Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award, longlisted for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal, and the instant New York Timesbestseller! From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of All the Light We Cannot See, perhaps the most best...

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Published: Sep 2021

The Flamethrowers: A Novel

Rachel Kushner

Now in paperback, the New York Times bestseller and most highly acclaimed novel of Spring 2013, the "scintillatingly alive" (James Wood, The New Yorker) story of a young artist and the worlds she encounters in New York and R...

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Published: Feb 2014

A Brief History of Seven Killings

Marlon James

A thrilling ambitious intense Los Angeles Times novel that explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the late 1970s In A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James combines masterful storytelling with his unrivaled skill...

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Published: Oct 2015

Circling the Sun: A Novel

Paula McLain

Paula McLain, author of the phenomenal bestseller The Paris Wife, now returns with her keenly anticipated new novel, transporting readers to colonial Kenya in the 1920s. Circling the Sun brings to life a fearless and captivating woman...

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Published: Jul 2015

Land of Marvels

Barry Unsworth

"There is something of E. M. Forster in Unsworth's knowing depiction of a decaying empire."—The New Yorker In this masterful work of historical fiction set during the dying days of the Ottoman Empire, the schemes of Weste...

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Published: Jan 2010

White Teeth

Zadie Smith

An Englishman, Archie Jones, and a Bengali Muslim named Samad Iqbal, who first met after World War II in Turkey, encounter each other again 30 years later in the North-West London neighborhood where they live with their families. The ...

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Published: Jun 2001

Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe

This is Chinua Achebes classic novel, with more than two million copies sold since its first U.S. publication in 1969. Combining a richly African story with the author's keen awareness of the qualities common to all humanity, Achebe h...

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Published: Sep 1994

Icy Sparks (Oprah's Book Club)

Gwyn Hyman Rubio

Set in 1956, this is the story of Icy, a 10-year-old girl with Tourette's syndrome who has been raised in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky by her grandparents. She does her best to hide the jerks and spasms brought on by her disorder...

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Published: Apr 2001

Good Grief

Lolly Winston

Debut author Lolly Winston's funny and heartwarming New York Times bestseller about a young widow's struggle to rebuild her life is now in paperback! Thirty-six-year-old Sophie Stanton wants to be a good widow-a graceful, composed, Ja...

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Published: Apr 2005

Shopaholic & Sister

Sophie Kinsella

Sophie Kinsella has conquered the hearts of millions with her New York Times bestselling Shopaholic novels, which feature the irresistible one-woman shopping phenomenon Becky Bloomwood. Now Becky’s back in a hilarious, heartwar...

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Published: Aug 2005

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

Helen Simonson

You are about to travel to Edgecombe St. Mary, a small village in the English countryside filled with rolling hills, thatched cottages, and a cast of characters both hilariously original and as familiar as the members of your own fami...

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Published: Mar 2010

The Law of Similars

Chris Bohjalian

Widowed father Leland Fowler turns to homeopathic healer Carissa for help, and she heals both his body and his heart, but when another of her patients suddenly goes into a coma, law officer Leland is faced with a difficult moral and e...

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Published: Mar 2000

The Storyteller

Jodi Picoult

Some stories live forever . . .Sage Singer is a baker. She works through the night, preparing the day's breads and pastries, trying to escape a reality of loneliness, bad memories, and the shadow of her mother's death. When Josef Webe...

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Published: Nov 2013

The Brief History of the Dead

Kevin Brockmeier

In The City, an afterlife world inhabited by the recently departed as long as they remain in the memories of the living, Marion and Phillip Byrd find themselves falling in love again after decades of marriage, while on Earth, their da...

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Published: Jan 2007

Are You Afraid of the Dark?

Sidney Sheldon

In this work of suspense by internationally bestselling author and TV writer Sidney Sheldon, two women pit themselves against a tycoon bent on world domination. Scientists researching various methods of weather control for KIG, an int...

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Published: Jun 2005

Broken Wings

V. C. Andrews

Three young girls from very different backgrounds--Robin, living with a mother more absorbed in her Nashville singing career than her own daughter; Teal, a wealthy girl who will do anything to get her parents' attention; and Phoebe, a...

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Published: May 2003

Sleeping with Beauty (Bantam Book)

Donna Kauffman

At twenty-eight, elementary-school teacher Lucy Harper still feels more like a wallflower than the sex goddess she knows is trapped inside her. In fact, she can barely remember the last time she actually had sex. She claims she’...

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Published: Jun 2005

Dirty Little Secrets

Joy King

Dreaming of a career as a movie star and of finding the man to love her forever, young Tyler Blake heads for the Big Apple after high school to attend college and pursue her acting career, but she soon becomes trapped in a web of sex,...

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Published: Jun 2006

Angels Everywhere (Avon's A Season of...

Debbie Macomber

A Heavensent Gift of Love In a season of giving, the beloved New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber sends joy winging our way with two miraculous full-length novels together in one volume. Celebrate life, love, and the holi...

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Published: Dec 2002

And the Mountains Echoed

Khaled Hosseini

An unforgettable novel about finding a lost piece of yourself in someone else. Khaled Hosseini, the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, has written a new novel about how we love, h...

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Published: Jun 2014

Amy and Isabelle: A novel

Elizabeth Strout

When Amy Goodrow, a shy high school student, falls in love with her math teacher, the love affair threatens the intimate relationship between Amy and her mother, Isabelle, whose feelings are influenced by the shame of her own past. A ...

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Published: Feb 2000
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