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The Tiger's Wife: A Novel by Tea Obreht (excerpt)
Weaving a brilliant latticework of family legend, loss, and love, Téa Obreht, the youngest of The New Yorker’s twenty best American fiction writers under forty, has spun a timeless novel ...
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The Descendants - A Novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings (Excerpt)
<The novel that inspired the motion picture!> Fortunes have changed for the King family, descendants of Hawaiian royalty and one of the state’s largest landowners. Matthew King’s daughter...
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Major Pettigrew's Last Stand (Excerpt)
You are about to travel to Edgecombe St. Mary, a small village in the English countryside filled with rolling hills, thatched cottages, and a cast of characters both hilariously original ...
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (excerpt)
“A tender and satisfying novel set in a time and a place lost forever, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet gives us a glimpse of the damage that is caused by war--not the sweeping dam...
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A Story From Pulitzer Prizewinning Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Ma...
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IF I LOVED YOU, I WOULD TELL YOU THIS by Robin Black (excerpt)
[Now in paperback, and with a new story included!] Heralding the arrival of a stunning new voice in American fiction, Robin Black’s If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This takes readers in...
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Every Last One by Anna Quindlen (Excerpt)
In this breathtaking and beautiful novel, the #1 New York Times bestselling author Anna Quindlen creates an unforgettable portrait of a mother, a father, a family, and the explosive, viol...
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The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: fiction by Elizabeth Berg
[Finally in paperback!] Every now and then, right in the middle of an ordinary day, a woman rebels, kicks up her heels, and commits a small act of liberation. What would you do, if you we...
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Half a Life: A Memoir by Darin Strauss (excerpt and interview with Colum McCann)
[Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award] In this powerful, unforgettable memoir, acclaimed novelist Darin Strauss examines the far-reaching consequences of the tragic moment tha...
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood (excerpt)
In Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller remembers her African childhood with candor and sensitivity. Though it is a diary of an unruly life in an often inhospitable place...
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The Cookbook Collector: A Novel by Allegra Goodman (excerpt)
Emily and Jessamine Bach are opposites in every way: Twenty-eight-year-old Emily is the CEO of Veritech, twenty-three-year-old Jess is an environmental activist and graduate student in ph...
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ONCE UPON A TIME, THERE WAS YOU by Elizabeth Berg (Excerpt)
Even on their wedding day, John and Irene sensed that they were about to make a mistake. Years later, divorced, dating other people, and living in different parts of the country, they see...
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Juliet: A Novel by Anne Fortier (excerpt)
When Julie Jacobs inherits a key to a safety-deposit box in Siena, Italy, she is told that it will lead her to an old family treasure. Soon she is launched on a winding and perilous journ...
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The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen: An Excerpt
The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Chased the Moon welcomes you to her newest locale: Walls of Water, North Carolina, where the secrets are thicker than the fog from th...
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