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Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel

George Saunders · Random House
Pages: 341
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEThe long-awaited first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living and dead,...
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Commonwealth.

Ann Patchett · Harper
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times BestsellerThe acclaimed, bestselling author - winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize - tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families' lives.One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows...
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Fight No More: Stories

Lydia Millet · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

Twelve interlocking stories set in Los Angeles describe a broken family through the homes they inhabit. In her first collection since the Pulitzer Prize finalist Love in Infant Monkeys, Lydia Millet presents a web of stories that explore what it means to be home. A real estate broker is the first...
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There Your Heart Lies: A Novel

Mary Gordon · Pantheon
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the award-winning novelist Mary Gordon, here is a book whose twentieth-century wisdom can help us understand the difficulties we face in the twenty-first: There Your Heart Lies is a deeply moving novel about an American woman's experiences during the Spanish Civil War, the lessons...
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Ancient Light

John Banville · Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea gives us a brilliant, profoundly moving new novel about an actor in the twilight of his life and his career: a meditation on love and loss, and on the inscrutable immediacy of the past in our present lives.Is there any difference between memory...
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Two If by Sea

Jacquelyn Mitchard · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Deep End of the Ocean, an epic story of courage and devotion that spans three continents and the entire map of the human heart.Just hours after his wife and her entire family perish in the Christmas Eve tsunami in Brisbane, American expat...
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The Big Seven

Jim Harrison · Grove Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The Big Seven sends Detective Sunderson to confront his new neighbors, a gun-nut family who live outside the law in rural Michigan. Detective Sunderson has fled troubles on the home front and bought himself a hunting cabin in a remote area of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. No sooner has he settled...
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The Little Red Chairs

Edna O'Brien · Little
Pages: 299
Format: Print book

A fiercely beautiful novel about one woman's struggle to reclaim a life shattered by betrayal, from one of the greatest storytellers of our timeOne night, in the dead of winter, a mysterious stranger arrives in the small Irish town of Cloonoila. Broodingly handsome, worldly, and charismatic,...
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The Man in the High Castle

Philip K. Dick · Mariner Books
Pages: 274
Format: Paperback

"The single most resonant and carefully imagined book of Dick's career." - New York Times It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because...
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The Goldfinch: A Novel

Donna Tartt · Little Brown & Company
Pages: 771
Format: Hardcover

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE"The Goldfinch is a rarity that comes along perhaps half a dozen times per decade, a smartly written literary novel that connects with the heart as well as the mind....Donna Tartt has delivered an extraordinary work of fiction."--Stephen King, The New York...
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Mary Higgins Clark · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author and "Queen of Suspense" Mary Higgins Clark.After a party when her parents are away, eighteen-year-old Kerry Dowling is found fully dressed at the bottom of the family pool. The immediate suspect is her boyfriend who had a bitter...
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Two by Two

Nicholas Sparks · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 485
Format: Hardcover

At 32, Russell Green has it all: a stunning wife, a lovable six year-old daughter, a successful career as an advertising executive and an expansive home. He is living the dream, and his marriage to the bewitching Vivian is the center of that. But underneath the shiny surface of this perfect...
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