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Longbourn
Jo Baker - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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* Pride and Prejudice was only half the story * If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats, Sarah often thought, she'd most likely be a sight more careful with them. In this irresistibly imagined belowstairs answer to Pride and Prejudice, the servants take center... |
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Rebecca's tale
Sally Beauman - William Morrow; First Edition edition
Format: Print book
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April 1951. It is twenty years since the death of Rebecca, the hauntingly beautiful first wife of Maxim de Winter. It is twenty years since the inquest, which famously -- and controversially -- passed a verdict of suicide. Twenty years since Manderley, the de Winters' ancient family seat,... |
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The Double Bind: A Novel
Chris Bohjalian - Crown; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Throughout his career, Chris Bohjalian has earned a reputation for writing novels that examine some of the most important issues of our time. With Midwives, he explored the literal and metaphoric place of birth in our culture. In The Buffalo Soldier, he introduced us to one of contemporary... |
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The Hours: A Novel
Michael Cunningham - Picador Modern Classics
Format: Hardcover
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A daring, deeply affecting third novel by the author of A Home at the End of the World and Flesh and Blood. In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation, draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group... |
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Hausfrau: A Novel
Jill Alexander Essbaum - Random House; First Edition first Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "In Hausfrau, Anna Karenina goes Fifty Shades with a side of Madame Bovary." - Time "A debut novel about Anna, a bored housewife who, like her Tolstoyan namesake, throws herself into a psychosexual journey of self-discovery and tragedy."... |
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Jane Steele
Lyndsay Faye - Putnam, 2016.
Format: Print book
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A reimagining of Jane Eyre as a gutsy, heroic serial killer, from the author whose work The New York Times described as "riveting" and The Wall Street Journal called "thrilling." "Reader, I murdered him." A sensitive orphan, Jane Steele... |
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The Winters: A Novel
Lisa Gabriele - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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"From the brilliant first line to the shattering conclusion, The Winters will draw you in and leave you breathless. . . . A must read." - Liv Constantine, author of The Last Mrs. ParrishA spellbindingly suspenseful new novel set in the moneyed world of the Hamptons, about secrets... |
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The Art of Fielding: A Novel
Chad Harbach - Little, Brown and Company
Format: eBook
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At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended.Henry's fight against self-doubt threatens to ruin his future.... |
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Ayesha At Last
Uzma Jalaluddin - Berkley
Format: Paperback
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A modern-day Muslim Pride and Prejudice for a new generation of love.Ayesha Shamsi has a lot going on. Her dreams of being a poet have been set aside for a teaching job so she can pay off her debts to her wealthy uncle. She lives with her boisterous Muslim family and is always being reminded... |
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Meg and Jo
Virginia Kantra - Berkley
Format: Paperback
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The timeless classic Little Women inspired this heartwarming modern tale of four sisters from New York Times bestselling author Virginia Kantra.The March sisters - reliable Meg, independent Jo, stylish Amy, and shy Beth - have grown up to pursue their separate dreams. When... |
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Wide Sargasso Sea: A Novel
Jean Rhys - W. W. Norton & Company; Reissue edition
Format: Paperback
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"A considerable tour de force by any standard."—?New York Times Book ReviewJean Rhys's reputation was made upon the publication of this passionate and heartbreaking novel, in which she brings into the light one of fiction's most mysterious characters: the madwoman... |
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The Innocents
Francesca Segal - Voice / Hyperion
Format: Print book
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*** Winner of the 2012 Costa First Novel Award *** "It is impossible to resist this novel's wit, grace, and charm."--Lauren Groff, author of The Monsters of Templeton and ArcadiaA smart and slyly funny tale of love, temptation, confusion, and commitment; a triumphant and beautifully... |
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Home Fire: A Novel
Kamila Shamsie - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Ingenious ... Builds to one of the most memorable final scenes I've read in a novel this century." - The New York Times LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE The suspenseful and heartbreaking story of an immigrant family driven to pit love against loyalty, with devastating... |
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Eligible: A modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice
Curtis Sittenfeld - Random House
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Wonderfully tender and hilariously funny, Eligible tackles gender, class, courtship, and family as Curtis Sittenfeld reaffirms herself as one of the most dazzling authors writing today. This version of the Bennet family - and Mr. Darcy - is one that... |
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On Beauty
Zadie Smith - Penguin Press HC, The; First Edition edition
Format: Print book
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Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering professor at Wellington, a liberal New England arts college. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once... |
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Frankissstein
Jeanette Winterson - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover
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Since her astonishing debut at twenty-five with Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson has achieved worldwide critical and commercial success as "one of the most daring and inventive writers of our time" (Elle) . Her new novel,... |
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