Literary

151-180 of 1891

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

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

Snow

Orhan Pamuk

From the acclaimed author of My Name Is Red (“a sumptuous thriller”–John Updike; “chockful of sublimity and sin”–New York Times Book Review), comes a spellbinding tale of disparate yearnings–f...

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Published: Jul 2005

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A N...

Robin Sloan

A Winner of the Alex AwardA Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First FictionNamed a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Los Angeles Times, and San Francisco ChronicleNew York Times Book ReviewEditors' ChoiceNew York Times Bes...

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Published: Sep 2013

Midnight Champagne

A. Manette Ansay

Wedding guests offer opinions and predictions about the future of the new bride and groom--April Liesgang and Caleb Shannon, who have known each other for just three months--in a deeply moving novel about the complexities of love. By ...

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Published: Aug 2000

The Sportswriter

Richard Ford

IIt's hard to imagine a book illuminating the texture of everyday life more brilliantly, or capturing the truth of human emotions more honestly, than Ford does in his account of an alienated scribe in the New Jersey suburbs. Frank Bas...

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Published: Jun 1995

A Gate at the Stairs

Lorrie Moore

In her bestselling story collection, 'Birds of America,' Moore wrote about the disconnect between men and women, about the precariousness of women on the edge, and about loneliness and loss. Now, Moore turns her eye on the anxiety and...

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Published: Sep 2010

Sputnik Sweetheart

Haruki Murakami

In the late 50's--the days of Sputnik--a young teacher falls in love with a woman who wants to be a writer in the tradition of Kerouac and the Beats. Then she goes off to a Greek island and disappears, and in his frantic attempts to f...

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Published: Apr 2002

There There

Tommy Orange

National BestsellerOne of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the YearOne of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, NPR, Time, O, The Oprah Magazine, The Dallas Morning News, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, BuzzFeed, San Francisco...

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Published: May 2019

Anxious People: A Novel

Fredrik Backman

An instant #1 New York Times bestseller, the new novel from the author of A Man Called Ove is a “quirky, big-hearted novel....Wry, wise and often laugh-out-loud funny, it’s a wholly original story that delivers pure pleas...

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Published: Jul 2021

Telegraph Avenue: A Novel (P.S.)

Michael Chabon

"An immensely gifted writer and magical prose stylist."—Michiko Kakutani, New York Times New York Times bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon has transported readers to wonderful places: to New York C...

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Published: Sep 2013

Go Set a Watchman: A Novel

Harper Lee

From Harper Lee comes a landmark new novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird.Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch—"Scout"—returns home from N...

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Published: May 2016

The Widower's Tale

Julia Glass

In a historic farmhouse outside Boston, seventy-year-old Percy Darling is settling happily into retirement: reading novels, watching old movies, and swimming naked in his pond. His routines are disrupted, however, when he is persuaded...

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Published: Sep 2011

We Were the Mulvaneys (Oprah's Book C...

Joyce Carol Oates

In upstate New York, the Mulvaneys are a wealthy and magnetic family--attractive, charismatic, promising. But after 25 years, the family begins to slide, then fragment, then shatter, and soon there is nothing left of the dynasty. Judd...

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Published: Jan 2001

The Inheritance of Loss

Kiran Desai

Kiran Desai casts an incisive, mournful eye on post-colonialism and the vast gulf between economic classes in her second novel. In the 1980s, a Nepalese uprising threatens a reclusive, Cambridge-educated Indian judge living in the Him...

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Published: Sep 2006

Immediate Family

Eileen Goudge

In this sentimental novel, their 15-year college reunion marks a crossroads for four friends--a single literary agent desperate for a child, an exhausted single mom looking for love, a father-to-be, and a TV journalist reeling from th...

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Published: Jul 2007

Adored

Tilly Bagshawe

In this sweeping and sexy debut potboiler, a woman struggles toward love and cinematic success. Siena McMahon is the treasured granddaughter of Hollywood movie star Duke McMahon, a man so ruthlessly selfish he moved his mistress into ...

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Published: May 2006

The House on Hope Street

Danielle Steel

In eighteen years of marriage, Liz and Jack Sutherland had built a family, a successful law practice, and a happy home near San Francisco, on Hope Street. Then, in an instant, it all fell apart. It began like any other Christmas morni...

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Published: Jul 2001

Songs Without Words

Ann Packer

Ann Packer's debut novel, The Dive from Clausen's Pier, was a nationwide bestseller that established her as one of our most gifted chroniclers of the interior lives of women. Now, in her long-awaited second novel, she takes us on a jo...

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Published: Aug 2008

Astrid and Veronika

Linda Olsson

With extraordinary emotional power, Linda Olsson's stunningly well-crafted debut novel recounts the unusual and unexpected friendship that develops between two women. Veronika, a young writer from New Zealand, rents a house in a small...

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Published: Feb 2007

The Lay of the Land

Richard Ford

With The Sportswriter, in 1985, Richard Ford began a cycle of novels that ten years later - after Independence Day won both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award - was hailed by The Times of London as 'an extraordinary epic [t...

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Published: Jul 2007

This Rock

Robert Morgan

A novel set in the North Carolina mountains in the early 1920s tells the story of two vastly different brothers--one who is embittered, wild, and dissolute, the other shy, innocent, and intent on building a rock church with his own ha...

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Published: Sep 2002

Nutshell: A Novel

Ian McEwan

New from the bestselling author of Atonement and The Children ActTrudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home—a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse—but John's not there. Instead, she's with his brother...

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Published: May 2017
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