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Gravity's Rainbow

Thomas Pynchon

Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative ...

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Published: Oct 2014

The Rise & Fall of Great Powers: A No...

Tom Rachman

For fans of Jennifer Egan, Dave Eggers, and Donna Tartt—the brilliant, intricately woven new novel by Tom Rachman, author of The Imperfectionists Following one of the most critically acclaimed fiction debuts in years, New York Time...

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Published: May 2014

Such a Fun Age

Kiley Reid

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A REESE'S BOOK CLUB x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK PICK "The most provocative page-turner of the year." --Entertainment Weekly "A great way to kick off 2020." --Washington Post &...

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Published: Mar 2020

My Abandonment

Peter Rock

Thirteen-year-old Caroline has been raised and homeschooled by her father in a rigid code of behavior that allows them to survive, homeless, on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon. There they inhabit an elaborate cave shelter, wash in a...

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Published: Mar 2009

Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk: A Novel...

Kathleen Rooney

"Between author Rooney's story and narrator Xe Sands's craftsmanship, this Walk will sweep listeners off their feet...Through Sands we feel the force of Lillian's personality ― with all its drive, wit, and grace ― as well as ...

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Published: Jan 2017

My Life as a Man

Philip Roth

At its heart lies the marriage of Peter and Maureen Tarnopol, a gifted young writer and the woman who wants to be his muse but who instead is his nemesis. Their union is based on fraud and shored up by moral blackmail, but it is so pe...

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Published: May 2010

The Professor of Desire

Philip Roth

As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself "a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes." Little does he realize how prophetic this motto will be—or how damning. For as Philip Roth follows Kepesh from the domest...

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Published: Dec 2009

The Golden House

Salman Rushdie

A modern American epic set against the panorama of contemporary politics and culture—a hurtling, page-turning mystery that is equal parts The Great Gatsby and The Bonfire of the Vanities On the day of Barack Obama's inauguration, an...

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Published: Sep 2017

The Kid

Sapphire

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Published: Apr 2011

The Stars Are Fire: A novel

Anita Shreve

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Weight of Water and The Pilot's Wife (an Oprah's Book Club selection): an exquisitely suspenseful new novel about an extraordinary young woman tested by a catastrophic event and its d...

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Published: May 2017

Property: Stories Between Two Novella...

Lionel Shriver

A striking new collection of ten short stories and two novellas which explore the idea of "property" in every meaning of the word from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award finalist So Mu...

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Published: Apr 2018

Should We Stay or Should We Go: A Nov...

Lionel Shriver

When her father dies, Kay Wilkinson can’t cry. Over ten years, Alzheimer’s had steadily eroded this erudite man into a paranoid lunatic. Surely one’s own father passing should never come as such a relief.Both medica...

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Published: Jun 2021

The Motion of the Body Through Space

Lionel Shriver

In Lionel Shriver's entertaining send-up of today's cult of exercise--which not only encourages better health, but now like all religions also seems to promise meaning, social superiority, and eternal life--an aging husband's sudden o...

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Published: May 2020

Stone Arabia

Dana Spiotta

Dana Spiotta's "scintillating" (The Seattle Times) and "singularly powerful and provocative" (The Boston Globe) novel Eat the Document was shortlisted for the National Book Award, and she has received a Guggenheim ...

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Published: Jul 2011

Heidi

Johanna Spyri

A picture book version of the popular classic is told from the perspective of the irrepressible Heidi herself and is complemented by lavish illustrations of Heidi's grandfather, Peter the goatherd, sickly Klara, and the alpine landsca...

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Published: Oct 2000

The Tin Horse: A Novel

Janice Steinberg

In the stunning tradition of Lisa See, Maeve Binchy, and Alice Hoffman, The Tin Horse is a rich multigenerational story about the intense, often fraught bond sisters share and the dreams and sorrows that lay at the heart of the immigr...

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Published: Mar 2013

Wish You Were Here

Graham Swift

[This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.]Wish You Were Here is rich with Graham Swift's love of the local and full of humor and tenderness in the face of tragedy. On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack...

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Published: Apr 2012

The Book of Speculation

Erika Swyler

"Dazzling...[a] quirky, raucous, and bewitching family saga." --Sara Gruen, author of Water for ElephantsSimon Watson, a young librarian, lives alone in a house that is slowly crumbling toward the Long Island Sound. His pare...

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Published: Jun 2015

Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilyich & M...

Leo Tolstoy

In these two famous short novels, Leo Tolstoy takes readers to the brink of despair. At the end of life worldly ambition offers no consolation for the spiritually empty soul. But Tolstoy is the master of themes of redemption. He tu...

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Published: Sep 2005

I Married You for Happiness

Lily Tuck

Slender, potent, and utterly engaging, I Married You For Happiness combines marriage, mathematics, and the probability of an afterlife to create Lily Tuck's most affecting and riveting book yet. "His hand is growing cold, still s...

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Published: Sep 2011

French Braid: A novel

Anne Tyler

From the beloved best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author—a funny, joyful, brilliantly perceptive journey deep into one Baltimore family’s foibles, from a boyfriend with a red Chevy in the 1950s up to a longed-for...

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Published: Mar 2022

The Accidental Tourist

Anne Tyler

Macon Leary is a travel writer who hates both travel and anything out of the ordinary. He is grounded by loneliness and an unwillingness to compromise his creature comforts. Then he meets Muriel, a deliciously peculiar dog-obedience t...

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Published: Nov 2012

Crazy Love You: A Novel

Lisa Unger

No one writes "good scary fun" (The Washington Post) better than New York Times bestselling master of psychological suspense Lisa Unger. With more than 1.9 million books sold in more than thirty countries, it's clear why USA...

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Published: Feb 2015

The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty

Vendela Vida

In Vendela Vida's taut and mesmerizing novel of ideas, a women travels to Casablanca, Morocco, on mysterious business. While checking into her hotel, the women is robbed of her wallet and passport all of her money and identification. ...

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Published: Jun 2015

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut

Slaughterhouse-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in...

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Published: Jan 2016

Lying Game: A Novel

Ruth Ware

From the instant New York Times bestselling author of blockbuster thrillers In a Dark, Dark Wood and The Woman in Cabin 10 comes a chilling new novel of friendship, secrets, and the dangerous games teenaged girls play.On a cool June m...

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Published: Mar 2018

Mother Daughter Widow Wife

Robin Wasserman

" An] utterly enthralling piece of music, sharp and soulful and ferociously insightful all at once...This singular, spellbinding novel is...an exploration of identity itself." --Leslie Jamison, author of The Recovering and M...

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Published: Jun 2020

Certain Girls

Jennifer Weiner

Readers fell in love with Cannie Shapiro, the smart, sharp-tongued, bighearted heroine of Good in Bed who found her happy ending after her mother came out of the closet, her father fell out of her life, and her ex-boyfriend started ch...

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Published: Apr 2008

Hostage

Elie Wiesel

The acclaimed novelist and Nobel laureate returns to the subjects that have brought him the widest critical and commercial success, in an impassioned and deeply moving new novel about the legacy of the Holocaust and the ongoing Israel...

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Published: Aug 2012

Good Grief

Lolly Winston

Sophie Stanton's adored husband dies young of cancer, and she can't get over her grief. Barely able to function, she takes the advice of her boss and moves to Oregon to make a new beginning. There she finds that as her life, inevitabl...

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Published: Apr 2005
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