Literary

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Heft

Liz Moore

pstrong"A stunningly sad and heroically hopeful tale. . . . This is a beautiful novel about relationships of the most makeshift kind."—O, The Oprah Magazine/strong/Arthur Opp weighs 550 pounds and hasn't left his rambling ...

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Published: Sep 2012

Home (Vintage International)

Toni Morrison

When Frank Money joined the army to escape his too-small world, he left behind his cherished and fragile little sister, Cee. After the war, his shattered life has no purpose until he hears that Cee is in danger.Frank is a modern Odyss...

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Published: Jan 2013

The Museum of Innocence

Orhan Pamuk

It is 1975, a perfect spring in Istanbul. Kemal and Sibel, children of two prominent families, are about to become engaged. But when Kemal encounters Füsun, a beautiful shopgirl and a distant relation, he becomes enthralled. And once...

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Published: Oct 2010

The Tragedy of Arthur

Arthur Phillips

The Tragedy of Arthur is an emotional and elaborately constructed tour de force from "one of the best writers in America" (The Washington Post). Its doomed hero is Arthur Phillips, a young novelist struggling with a con arti...

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Published: Feb 2012

The Moon Sister: A Novel (5) (The Sev...

Lucinda Riley

Experience the grandeur of the remote Scottish Highlands and Madrid in this USA TODAY bestselling "beautifully written...magical adventure" (Woman's World) following two women connected across time and distance as they searc...

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Published: Mar 2020

Death of the Black-Haired Girl

Robert Stone

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice"Fast-paced [and] riveting . . . Stone is one of our transcendently great American novelists." — Madison Smartt Bell"Brilliant." — Washington PostAt an elite college ...

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Published: Jun 2014

The Pale King

David Foster Wallace

The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive ...

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Published: Apr 2012

White Ivy: A Novel

Susie Yang

“A truly addictive read” (Glamour) about how a young woman’s crush on a privileged former classmate becomes a story of love, lies, and dark obsession, offering stark insights into the immigrant experience, as it hur...

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Published: Aug 2021

The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, Book ...

Stephen King

This seventh DARK TOWER book is the long-awaited conclusion to Stephen King’s epic horror/dark fantasy/post-apocalyptic SF series, wrapping up the adventures of gunslinger Roland of Gilead and his companions as they fulfill thei...

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Published: Aug 2006

What We Keep (Ballantine Reader's Cir...

Elizabeth Berg

Do you ever really know your mother, your daughter, the people in your family? In this rich and rewarding new novel by the beloved bestselling author of Talk Before Sleep and The Pull of the Moon, a reunion between two sisters and the...

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Published: May 1999

Sweet Dreams, Irene: An Irene Kelly N...

Jan Burke

Jacob Henderson, the 16-year-old son of a candidate for District Attorney, comes to Irene Kelly for help. His father is being blackmailed with incriminating photos suggesting that Jacob is involved in a devil cult. But the discovery ...

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Published: Sep 2002

The Silver Star: A Novel

Jeannette Walls

From one of the greatest storytellers of our time, the acclaimed, bestselling, "gripping story of a courageous and sensible girl surviving the adults around her" (St. Louis Post Dispatch)—"a page turner" (Enterta...

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Published: Jun 2014

Girl in Translation

Jean Kwok

Unabridged CDs, 8 CDs, 10 hours Read by TBA Introducing a fresh, exciting Chinese-American voice, Girl in Translation is an inspiring debut about a young immigrant in America, a smart girl who, living a double life between school and ...

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Published: May 2011

The Invisible Bridge

Julie Orringer

Paris, 1937. Andras Levi, a Hungarian-Jewish architecture student, arrives from Budapest with a scholarship, a single suitcase, and a mysterious letter he promised to deliver. But when he falls into a complicated relationship with the...

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Published: Jan 2011

Caleb's Crossing

Geraldine Brooks

Bethia Mayfield is a restless and curious young woman growing up in Martha's vineyard in the 1660s amid a small band of pioneering English Puritans. At age twelve, she meets Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a sec...

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Published: Apr 2012

Queen of Dreams

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

In QUEEN OF DREAMS, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni once more spins a fresh, spellbinding story of transformation. Rakhi, a young artist and divorced mother living in Berkeley, California, is struggling to keep her footing, with her family...

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Published: Oct 2005

Finding Nouf

Zoe Ferraris

When sixteen-year-old Nouf goes missing, her prominent family calls on Nayir al-Sharqi, a pious desert guide, to lead the search party. Ten days later, just as Nayir is about to give up in frustration, her body is discovered by anonym...

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Published: May 2009

Miracle Creek

Angie Kim

The "gripping... page-turner" (Time) hitting all the best of summer reading lists, Angie Kim's Miracle Creekis perfect for book clubs and fans of Liane Moriarty and Celeste Ng How far will you go to protect your family? Wil...

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Published: Apr 2020

Eva Moves the Furniture

Margot Livesey

In early childhood, Eva acquires two invisible friends who accompany her through her life. Sometimes helpful, at other times destructive, they intervene when Eva falls in love, breaking up the romance. As time goes by, Eva must decide...

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Published: Oct 2002

Invitation to a Beheading

Vladimir Nabokov

Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for 'gnostical turpitude.' an imagina...

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Published: Sep 1989

The Icarus Girl

Helen Oyeyemi

Jessamy “Jess” Harrison is an eight-year-old caught between two different worlds. The daughter of a British father and a Nigerian mother, she has always felt like a misfit. She is smart and precocious, but can’t seem...

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Published: Apr 2006

Someone at a Distance (Persephone Cla...

Dorothy Whipple

'A very good novel indeed about the fragility and also the tenacity of love.'-The SpectatorWritten in 1953, the last book by best-selling novelist Dorothy Whipple, Someone at a Distance is a quietly gripping story about the destructio...

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Published: Sep 2008

The Alpine Zen: An Emma Lord Mystery

Mary Daheim

The picturesque town of Alpine in the foothills of Washington state's Cascade Mountains—home to Emma Lord and her weekly newspaper The Alpine Advocate—has long charmed and enthralled mystery lovers. Now, with The Alpine Zen, Mary ...

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Published: Mar 2016

The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls...

Anton DiSclafani

"This summer's first romantic page turner."-Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Named a most anticipated book for Summer 2013 by The Wall Street Journal and Publishers Weekly and USA Today, NPR, and People summer reads ...

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Published: Jun 2014

Two Rivers

T. Greenwood

In 'Two Rivers', Vermont, Harper Montgomery is living a life overshadowed by grief and guilt. Since the death of his wife twelve years earlier, Harper has narrowed his world to working at the local railroad and raising his daughter, S...

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Published: Jan 2009

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Year...

Haruki Murakami

A New York Times and Washington Post notable book, and one of the Financial Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Slate, Mother Jones, The Daily Beast, and BookPage's best books of the yearAn instant #1 New York Times Bestseller, Colorle...

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Published: May 2015

Sweet Thursday

John Steinbeck

In Monterey, on the California coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that are just naturally bad. Returning to the scene of Cannery Row—the weedy lots and junk heaps and fl...

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Published: Aug 2008

The Flying Troutmans

Miriam Toews

Meet the Troutmans. Hattie's boyfriend has just dumped her, her sister Min's back in the psych ward, and Min's kids, Logan and Thebes, are not talking and talking way too much, respectively. Responding to a distress call from Thebes, ...

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Published: Oct 2009

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Mitch Albom

Eddie works as a maintenance man at an amusement park--a life he himself sees as nothing much. But at the age of 83, he accidentally dies saving the life of a child. When he gets to heaven, he meets five people who show him that his l...

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Published: Jan 2003

Change of Heart

Jodi Picoult

Can we save ourselves, or do we rely on others to do it? Is what we believe always the truth? One moment June Nealon was happily looking forward to years full of laughter and adventure with her family, and the next, she was starin...

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Published: Dec 2008
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