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Saturday

Ian McEwan

Saturday is a novel set within a single day in February 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man — a successful neurosurgeon, happily married to a newspaper lawyer, and enjoying good relations with his children, who are young adul...

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Published: Apr 2006

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

Helen Simonson

Edgecombe St. Mary, a small village in the English countryside, is filled with rolling hills, thatched cottages, and contains a cast of characters both hilariously original and as familiar as the members of readers' own families. Thei...

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Published: Nov 2010

The Piano Teacher

Janice Y. K. Lee

In the sweeping tradition of 'The English Patient' Lee offers a gripping tale set in war-torn Hong Kong. Rich with intrigue, romance, and betrayal, this wonderfully written, utterly captivating novel dazzles.--Chang-rae Lee.

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Published: Nov 2009

Flight Behavior: A Novel (P.S.)

Barbara Kingsolver

"Kingsolver is a gifted magician of words."—TimeThe extraordinary New York Times bestselling author of The Lacuna (winner of the Orange Prize), The Poisonwood Bible (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize), and Animal, Vegetable...

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Published: Jun 2013

The Assassin (An Isaac Bell Adventure...

Clive Cussler

Van Dorn private detective Isaac Bell is investigating John D. Rockefeller's  Standard Oil monopoly, when a sniper begins murdering opponents of Standard Oil, and it doesn't stop there. The murders—shootings, poisonings, staged acc...

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Published: Feb 2016

Light on Snow

Anita Shreve

A brilliant and beautiful contemporary novel about love and memory from the author of the bestselling novels All He Ever Wanted and The Pilots Wife.The events of a December afternoon, during which a father and his daughter find an aba...

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Published: Sep 2005

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel...

Mary Ann Shaffer

January 1946: writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a stranger, a founding member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. And so begins a remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German occupation, and ...

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Published: May 2009

Simply Love

Mary Balogh

New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh returns to the elegance and sensuality of Regency England as she continues the enthralling story of four remarkable women–friends and teachers at Miss Martin’s School for Girls...

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Published: Feb 2007

People of the Book

Geraldine Brooks

The "complex and moving"(The New Yorker) novel by Pulitzer Prize–winner Geraldine Brooks follows a rare manuscript through centuries of exile and war Inspired by a true story, People of the Book is a novel of sweeping hist...

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Published: Jan 2009

The Snow Child

Eowyn Ivey

Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. ...

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Published: Nov 2012

This Tender Land: A Novel

William Kent Krueger

For fans of Before We Were Yours and Where the Crawdads Sing, "a gripping, poignant tale swathed in both mythical and mystical overtones" (Bob Drury, New York Times bestselling author) that follows four orphans on a life-cha...

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Published: May 2020

Brooklyn

Colm Toibin

Colm Tóibín’s New York Times bestselling novel—now an acclaimed film starring Saoirse Ronan and Jim Broadbent nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture—is “a moving, deeply satisfying read” (Entertainment We...

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Published: Mar 2010

Revolutionary Road (Movie Tie In))

Richard Yates

In the hopeful 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler appear to be a model couple: bright, beautiful, talented, with two young children and a starter home in the suburbs. Perhaps they married too young and started a family too early. Maybe Fr...

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Published: Dec 2008

Veronica

Mary Gaitskill

An ex-model, now an aging office-cleaner struggling with poor health, looks back upon her rocky life and her friendship with an unusual woman. As Alison Owen transforms herself from teenage runaway to runway walker, her success as a b...

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Published: Jul 2006

Remarkable Creatures

Tracy Chevalier

A voyage of discovery, two remarkable women, and an extraordinary time and place enrich bestselling author Tracy Chevalier's new novel. On the windswept, fossil-strewn beaches of the English coast, poor and uneducated Mary Anning lea...

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Published: Oct 2010

The Saving Graces

Patricia Gaffney

BMeet The Saving Graces, Four Of TheBRBest Friends A Woman Can Ever Have.For ten years, Emma, Rudy, Lee, and Isabel have shared a deep affection that has helped them deal with the ebb and flow of expectations and disappointments commo...

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Published: Apr 2004

Broken for You

Stephanie Kallos

National best seller and Today show Book Club selection, Broken for You is the story of two women in self-imposed exile whose lives are transformed when their paths intersect. Stephanie Kallos's debut novel is a work of infinite charm...

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Published: Jun 2005

Lost and Found

Carolyn Parkhurst

What do a suburban mom and her troubled daughter, two recently divorced brothers, a pair of former child stars, born-again Christian newlyweds, and a couple of young millionaires have in common? They have all been selected to compete ...

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Published: Jul 2007

Rules of Civility

Amor Towles

The New York Times bestselling novel that "enchants on first reading and only improves on the second" (The Philadelphia Inquirer)This sophisticated and entertaining first novel presents the story of a young woman whose life ...

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Published: Jul 2012

An American Marriage (Oprah's Book Cl...

Tayari Jones

A NEW YORK TIMES AND WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK A 2018 BEST OF THE YEAR SELECTION OF NPR  * TIME  * BUSTLE  * O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE  * THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS  * AMAZON.COM OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB 2018 SELECTION LONGLISTED FOR THE 20...

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Published: Feb 2019

Ready for Marriage: Finding Happily-E...

Debbie Macomber

HE'S READY FOR LOVE—AND EVERYTHING IT MEANS. IS SHE? Three years ago, Mary Jo Summerhill fell completely and utterly in love with Evan Dryden. But she was a kindergarten teacher, and he was a Boston blue blood with political ambiti...

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Published: Mar 2015

Strangers in the Night

Linda Howard

A trio of enchanting and suspenseful love stories by the author of Open Season and Mr. Perfect includes "Lake of Dreams," "Blue Moon," and "White Out," in which Hope Bradshaw offers shelter to a stranger ...

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Published: Nov 2002

Americanah

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

One of TheNew York Times's Ten Best Books of the YearAn NPR "Great Reads" Book, a Chicago Tribune Best Book, a Washington Post Notable Book, a Seattle Times Best Book, an Entertainment Weekly Top Nonfiction Book, a Newsday ...

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Published: Mar 2014

The Round House: A Novel (P.S.)

Louise Erdrich

National Book Award Winner One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface as Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or rev...

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Published: May 2013

Depraved Heart: A Scarpetta Novel (Ka...

Patricia Daniels Cornwell

Patricia Cornwell delivers the newest engrossing thriller in her high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta.Depraved Heart: "Void of social duty and fatally bent on mischief."—Mayes v. People, 806 III. ...

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Published: Jun 2016

The Museum of Extraordinary Things: A...

Alice Hoffman

The "spellbinding" (People, 4 stars), New York Times bestseller from the author of The Dovekeepers: an extraordinary novel about an electric and impassioned love affair—"an enchanting love story rich with history and ...

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Published: Sep 2014

Atonement

Ian McEwan

Ian McEwan's Booker Prize-nominated Atonement is his first novel since Amsterdam took home the prize in 1998. But while Amsterdam was a slim, sleek piece, Atonement is a more sturdy, more ambitious work, allowing McEwan more room to p...

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Published: Feb 2003

Mercy: A Novel

Jodi Picoult

The #1 New York Times bestselling author and "master…at targeting hot issues and writing highly readable page-turners about them" (The Washington Post) weaves an unforgettable and moving novel of a small town gripped by a ...

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Published: Feb 2020

The Sense of an Ending

Julian Barnes

Winner of the 2011 Man Booker PrizeA novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning ne...

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Published: May 2012

The Sunday List of Dreams

Kris Radish

Now that she is happily divorced and recently retired, Connie Nixon is ready to get on with her life and begin living her own dreams, starting with her determination to get rid of all of the junk in the garage, but when she opens a bo...

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Published: Jan 2007
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