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The Witches of Eastwick

John Updike

BEFORE THEY WERE THE WIDOWS OF EASTWICK, OUR HEROINES WERE A TRIO OF DELIGHTFULLY WICKED WITCHES.In a small New England town in that hectic era when the sixties turned into the seventies, there lived three witches. Alexandra Spoffard,...

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Published: Oct 2008

The Blind Assassin

Margaret Eleanor Atwood

In her 10th novel, Margaret Atwood creates an elderly woman named Iris Griffen, who looks back on her life life of privilege and wealth in Ontario, Canada. Alongside Iris’s story, we read a bizarrely futuristic novel about obses...

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Published: Sep 2005

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their T...

Jack Kerouac

Now, for the first time, this legendary collaboration between two of the twentieth century's most influential writers is being released. A fascinating piece of American literary history and a remarkable window into the personal lives ...

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Published: Nov 2008

Darwin Conspiracy, The

John Darnton

In this riveting new novel, bestselling author John Darnton transports us to Victorian England and around the world to reveal the secrets of a legendary nineteenth-century figure. Darnton elegantly blends the power of fact and the ins...

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Published: Sep 2005

Corelli's Mandolin

Louis De Bernieres

A fifty-year epic follows the lives of the residents of the Greek island Cephallonia, exploring their peaceful, remote experiences before the onset of the Second World War. (A Working Title Films presentation entitled Captain Corelli'...

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Published: Jan 2001

Lilah (Canaan Trilogy)

Marek Halter

Lilah, the sister of Ezra, the high priest destined to lead the Jews back to Jerusalem, gives up her own happiness and plans to marry a Persian warrior for her faith, but when her brother orders all Jewish men to abandon their foreign...

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Published: Jun 2006

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...

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Published: Sep 2008

The Almost Moon

Alice Sebold

For years Helen Knightly has given her life to others: to her haunted mother, to her enigmatic father, to her husband and grown children. When she finally crosses a terrible boundary, her life comes rushing in at her in a way she neve...

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Published: Oct 2007

One More Thing: Stories and Other Sto...

B. J. Novak

WITH SPECIAL APPEARANCES by Lena Dunham, Jenna Fischer, Mindy Kaling, Julianne Moore, Carey Mulligan, Katy Perry, Jason Schwartzman, Emma Thompson, and Rainn WilsonB.J. Novak's One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories is an endlessly...

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Published: Feb 2014

Bleeding Edge

Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Pynchon brings us to New York in the early days of the internet It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dot-com boom and the terrible events of September 11th. Silicon Alley is a ghost town, Web 1...

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Published: Sep 2013

Confessions Of An English Opium-eater...

Thomas De Quincey

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Thomas De Quincey's best-known work, is an account of his early life and opium addiction, in prose that is by turns witty, conversational, and nightmarish.

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Published: Aug 2004

Sabbath's Theatre

Philip Roth

Mickey Sabbath, an aging, misanthropic puppeteer, embarks on a journey into his checkered past when his long-time mistress dies. His journey turns into succession of disasters. And while Sabbath wants to die, he still has too much lif...

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Published: Sep 2006

The Testament

Eric Van Lustbader

After his father's death in a mysterious explosion, Braverman 'Bravo' Shaw discovers that the late Dexter Shaw had been a high-ranking member of the Order of Gnostic Observatines, a secret sect tasked with preserving an ancient cache ...

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Published: Sep 2006

The Widows of Eastwick

John Updike

More than three decades have passed since the events described in John Updike's The Witches of Eastwick. The three divorcees–Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie–have left town, remarried, and become widows. They cope with their grief and s...

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Published: Oct 2008

Molloy

Samuel Beckett

Written initially in French, later translating it into English, "Molloyis the first book in Dublin-born Samuel Beckett's trilogy. It was published shortly after WWII and marked a new, mature writing style, which was to dominate t...

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Published: Sep 2003

Angels of Destruction

Keith Donohue

Keith Donohue's first novel, The Stolen Child, was a national bestseller hailed as "captivating" (USA Today), "luminous and thrilling" (Washington Post), and "wonderful...So spare and unsentimental that it's i...

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Published: Mar 2009

The Lay of the Land

Richard Ford

A follow-up to The Sportswriter and Independence Day once again picks up the story of Frank Bascombe in the fall of 2000, with the results of the presidential election still hanging in the balance and Frank confronted by the perils of...

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Published: Oct 2006

The Broom of the System

David Foster Wallace

The "dazzling, exhilarating" (San Francisco Chronicle) debut novel from the bestselling author of Infinite Jest, available for the first time as an audiobook.At the center of The Broom of the System is the betwitching (and a...

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Published: Jun 2010

Vinegar Girl: A Novel

Anne Tyler

Pulitzer Prize winner and American master Anne Tyler brings us an inspired, witty and irresistible contemporary take on one of Shakespeare's most beloved comedies Kate Battista feels stuck. How did she end up running house and home f...

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Published: Jun 2016

And Every Morning the Way Home Gets L...

Fredrik Backman

The New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She’s Sorry, and Britt-Marie Was Here offers an exquisitely moving portrait of an elderly man’s struggle to hold on to his most preciou...

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Published: Nov 2016

The Whole World Over

Julia Glass

Hired as the personal chef to the governor of New Mexico, headstrong Greenie Duquette leaves behind her Greenwich Village pastry business and her psychotherapist husband Alan to head west with her four-year-old son, prompting a period...

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Published: May 2006

The Breast

Philip Roth

Like a latter-day, Gregor Smasa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. But where Kafka's protagonist turned into a giant beetle, the narrator of Philip Roth's richly conceived fantasy has be...

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Published: Jan 2010

Eligible: A modern retelling of Pride...

Curtis Sittenfeld

From the "wickedly entertaining" (USA Today) Curtis Sittenfeld, New York Times bestselling author of Prep and American Wife, comes a modern retelling of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. A bold literary experiment, Eligible...

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Published: Apr 2016

Private Life

Jane Smiley

A riveting new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winner that traverses the intimate landscape of one woman's life, from the 1880s to World War II.Margaret Mayfield is nearly an old maid at twenty-seven in post–Civil War Missouri when ...

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Published: May 2010

The Dybbuk

S. Ansky

In Eastern European Jewish folklore, a dybbuk is a wandering soul that comes to rest in the body of a living person. Part folk tale, part love story, and part allegory, The Dybbuk re-creates a bygone era, with its rich humor, music, m...

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Published: Dec 2003

You Lost Me There

Rosecrans Baldwin

By turns funny, charming, and tragic, Rosecrans Baldwin's debut novel takes us inside the heart and mind of Dr. Victor Aaron, a leading Alzheimer's researcher at the Soborg Institute on Mount Desert Island in Maine. Victor spends his ...

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Published: Aug 2010

People of the Book: A Novel

Geraldine Brooks

The bestselling novel that follows a rare manuscript through centuries of exile and war, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March and of The Secret Chord, coming from Viking in October 2015Inspired by a true story, People of ...

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Published: Nov 2015

The Snow Queen: A Novel

Michael Cunningham

A darkly luminous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The HoursMichael Cunningham's luminous novel begins with a vision. It's November 2004. Barrett Meeks, having lost love yet again, is walking through Central Park ...

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Published: May 2014

Intuition

Allegra Goodman

Hailed as “a writer of uncommon clarity” by the New Yorker, National Book Award finalist Allegra Goodman has dazzled readers with her acclaimed works of fiction, including such beloved bestsellers as The Family Markowitz a...

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Published: Mar 2006

The Other

David Guterson

From the author of the best-selling Snow Falling on Cedars, a dazzling new novel about youth and idealism, adulthood and its compromises, and two powerfully different visions of what it means to live a good life.John William Barry has...

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Published: Jun 2008
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