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Clock Dance

A novel

by Anne Tyler
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018

NATIONAL BEST SELLER • TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR USA TODAY**• ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: O Magazine, Christian Science Monitor, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, The Times (London) A charming new novel of self-discovery and second chances from the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning...

Spoonbenders

A novel

by Daryl Gregory
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017

**A NEBULA AWARD FINALIST ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR "Hilarious, heartfelt and brimming with humanity.” —Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, author of The Nest** Teddy Telemachus is a charming con man with a gift for sleight of hand and some shady underground associates. In...
by Jonathan Raban
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007

Jonathan Raban’s powerful novel is set in Seattle in 1999, at the height of its infatuation with the virtual. It’s a place that attracts immigrants. One of these is Tom Janeway, a bookish Hungarian-born Englishman who makes his living commenting on American mores on NPR. Another, who calls himself...
by Elinor Lipman
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012

**It was not complicated, and, as my mother pointed out, not even personal: They had a hotel; they didn't want Jews; we were Jews...**It's the early 1960s and Natalie Marx is stunned when her mother inquires about vacation accommodations in Vermont and receives a response that says, "The Inn...

Ladder of Years

A Novel

by Anne Tyler
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010

"BALTIMORE WOMAN DISAPPEARS DURING FAMILY VACATION." The headlines are all the same: Beloved mother and wife Delia Grinstead was last seen strolling down the Delaware shore, wearing only a bathing suit and carrying a beach tote with five hundred dollars tucked inside. To the best of her...
by Nancy Mitford
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013

Christmas Pudding and Pigeon Pie are two sparkling comedies from early in the career of Nancy Mitford, beloved author of The Pursuit of Love and *Love in a Cold Climate, *here published in one volume with a new introduction by Jane Smiley.   In Christmas Pudding, an array of colorful characters...
by Alix Ohlin
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012

“A skillful storyteller . . . attractively quick-witted and wry.” —J. M. Coetzee “Ohlin has a great eye, a great ear, and all the other equipment auguring a very successful future.”—Jay McInerney “Expect to hear her spoken of in the same reverent breath as Lorrie Moore and Joy Williams.”...
by Alice Munro
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013 In the her tenth collection (the title story of which is the basis for the new film Hateship Loveship), Alice Munro achieves new heights, creating narratives that loop and swerve like memory, and conjuring up characters as thorny and contradictory...

Caramelo

En Espanol

by Sandra Cisneros
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 30, 2013

La célebre autora de* La casa en Mango Street*, y ganadora del PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature 2018, nos ofrece una nueva y extraordinaria novela narrada en un lenguaje de una originalidad arro-lladora: es la historia de varias generaciones de una familia méxicoamericana...
by Abraham Verghese
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009

A sweeping, emotionally riveting novel with over one million copies sold—an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned...
by Anne Tyler
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  “More powerful and moving than anything [Tyler] has done.” —Los Angeles Times Unfolding over the course of a single emotionally fraught day, this stunning novel encompasses a lifetime of dreams, regrets and reckonings. ...
by Kent Haruf
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2001

National Book Award Finalist A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver. In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats first to the bedroom,...
by Kent Haruf
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013

From the beloved and best-selling author of Plainsong and Eventide comes a story of life and death, and the ties that bind, once again set out on the High Plains in Holt, Colorado. When Dad Lewis is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he and his wife, Mary, must work together to make his final...
by Richard Russo
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011

**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize “Russo writes with a warm, vibrant humanity.... A stirring mix of poignancy, drama and comedy.” —The Washington Post** Welcome to Empire Falls, a blue-collar town full of abandoned mills whose citizens surround themselves with the comforts and feuds...
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