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Rise and Shine
by Anna Quindlen
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From Anna Quindlen, acclaimed author of Blessings, Black and Blue, and One True Thing, a superb novel about two sisters, the true meaning of success, and the qualities in life that matter most. It's an otherwise ordinary Monday when Meghan Fitzmaurice's... ( read more)
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A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father
by Augusten Burroughs
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"As a little boy, I had a dream that my father had taken me to the woods where there was a dead body. He buried it and told me I must never tell. It was the only thing we'd ever done together as father and son, and I promised not to tell. But unlike most... ( read more)
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Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse
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In the novel, Siddhartha, a young man, leaves his family for a contemplative life, then, restless, discards it for one of the flesh. He conceives a son, but bored and sickened by lust and greed, moves on again. Near despair, Siddhartha comes to a river... ( read more)
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Everything That Rises Must Converge
by Flannery Oconnor
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Flannery O'Connor was working on Everything That Rises Must Converge at the time of her death. This collection is an exquisite legacy from a genius of the American short story, in which she scrutinizes territory familiar to her readers: race, faith, and... ( read more)
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Home Land
by Sam Lipsyte
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A caustic and hilarious story about Lewis Miner, a man afflicted by a terrible high school experience and blessed with an acid tongue that takes no prisoners. Lipsyte's sentences are creations of absolute wonder and terrific angst. Recommended by Kevin... ( read more)
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The Chosen
by Chaim Potok
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"Anyone who finds it is finding a jewel. Its themes are profound and universal." THE WALL STREET JOURNAL It is the now-classic story of two fathers and two sons and the pressures on all of them to pursue the religion they share in the way that... ( read more)
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The Wedding
by Nicholas Sparks
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From America's favorite chronicler of love stories continues the legacy of his classic "The Notebook" with the story of an ordinary man who goes to extraordinary lengths to win back the love of his life.... ( read more)
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All the King's Men
by Robert Penn Warren
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When All the King's Men was first published in 1946, Sinclair Lewis pronounced it "massive, impressive...one of our few national galleries of character." Diana Trilling, reviewing it for the Nation, wrote, "For sheer virtuosity, for the sustained drive... ( read more)
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The Maytrees
by Annie Dillard
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Readers used to Dillard's nonfiction nature writing might initially be surprised at this novel about the subtle undercurrents that make up love. The surprise won't last; Dillard does in The Maytrees what she always does — asks big brave questions of... ( read more)
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Sula (Oprah's Book Club)
by Toni Morrison
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Written by one of the most important novelistsin America today, Sula is a rich and moving novel that traces the lives of two black heroines--from their growing up together in a small Ohio town, through their sharply divergent paths of womanhood, to their... ( read more)
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Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
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An outsider's account of a troubled aristocratic family, written by the celebrated English novelist. Charles Ryder, the narrator, is a dull and rather pompous undergraduate at Oxford when he meets Sebastian Flyte, a wealthy and sybaritic classmate. The... ( read more)
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The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Pevear & Volokhonsky)
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Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880), is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered; his sons — the atheist intellectual... ( read more)
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The Elephant Vanishes: Stories
by Haruki Murakami
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With the same deadpan mania and genius for dislocation that he brought to his internationally acclaimed novels A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami makes this collection of stories a determined assault... ( read more)
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Birds in Fall
by Brad Kessler
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One fall night, an innkeeper on a remote island in Nova Scotia watches an airplane plummet to the sea. As the search for survivors envelops the island, the mourning families gather at the inn, waiting for news of those they have lost. Here among... ( read more)
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The Twentieth Wife
by Indu Sundaresan
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An enchanting historical epic of grand passion and adventure, this debut novel tells the captivating story of one of India's most controversial empresses -- a woman whose brilliance and determination trumped myriad obstacles, and whose love shaped the... ( read more)
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Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson
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A story about faith, love, history and growing old, this book is poignant and lovely. It is a long letter from a father who thinks he is soon to die, to his seven-year-old son. Robinson's command of language, her deep understanding of humanity, and her... ( read more)
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Valencia 2ND Edition
by Michelle Tea
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Valencia is the fast-paced account of one girl's search for love and high times in the drama-filled dyke world of San Francisco's Mission District. Michelle Tea records a year lived in a world of girls: there's knife-wielding Marta, who introduces... ( read more)
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The Candy Darlings
by Christine Walde
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So many young adult novels are about fighting to be popular, having the
best clothes and the hottest boyfriend, and getting away with
irresponsible behavior. This is not one of those books. Christine Walde clearly remembers what it was like to be a... ( read more)
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Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermino Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years... ( read more)
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The Interpretation of Murder
by Jed Rubenfeld
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A perfect thriller for a dark and stormy night. Move over, Holmes and Watson — Jed Rubenfeld's masterful debut features the dynamic duo of Freud and Jung, working together to catch a killer. If that set-up doesn't hook you, just wait until you see... ( read more)
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