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by Colum McCann
Published Sep 2016
Read ReviewsIn such acclaimed novels as Let the Great World Spin and TransAtlantic, National Book Awardwinning author Colum McCann has transfixed readers with his precision, tenderness, and authority. Now, in his first collection of short fiction in more than a decade, McCann charts the territory of chance, and the profound and intimate consequences of ...
by Jan Ellison
Published Feb 2016
Read ReviewsWith the emotional complexity of Everything I Never Told You and the psychological suspense of The Girl on the Train, O. Henry Prize winner Jan Ellison delivers a brilliantly paced, beautifully written debut novel about one woman's reckoning with a youthful mistake.
Named one of the best books of the year by San Francisco Chronicle
by Ruth Rendell
Published Jul 2015
Read ReviewsIn this psychologically explosive story from "one of the most remarkable novelists of her generation" (People), the discovery of bones in a tin box sends shockwaves across a group of long-time friends.
by S.J. Watson
Published Feb 2012
Read ReviewsMemories define us. So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep? Welcome to Christine's life.
by Joseph O'Neill
Published Jun 2009
Read ReviewsIn a New York City made phantasmagorical by the events of 9/11, Hans - a banker originally from the Netherlands - finds himself marooned among the strange occupants of the Chelsea Hotel after his English wife and son return to London.
by Sadie Jones
Published Apr 2009
Read ReviewsA mesmerizing portrait of 1950s hypocrisy and unexpected love, from a powerful new voice.
by Richard Ford
Published Jul 2007
Read ReviewsFrank Bascombe returns, with a new lease on life (and real estate), more acutely in thrall to lifes endless complexities than ever before. A holiday, and a novel, no reader will ever forgetat once hilarious, harrowing, surprising, and profound.
by Paul Auster
Published Oct 2006
Read ReviewsPaul Auster's warmest, most exuberant novel, a moving and unforgettable hymn to the glories and mysteries of ordinary human life.
by Lamar Herrin
Published Sep 2006
Read ReviewsSet in Spain, this is a haunting and beautiful story of one man's brush with terrorism and his quest to find answers.
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Published Oct 2001
Read ReviewsAn English boy born in early-twentieth-century Shanghai, is orphaned at age nine when his mother and father both vanish under suspicious circumstances. Sent to live in England, he grows up to become a renowned detective and, 20 years later, returns to Shanghai, where the Sino-Japanese War is raging.
by John Lanchester
Published Apr 2001
Read ReviewsThe story of one day in the life of a decent man who only forty-eight hours before knew exactly who and what he was and who on this day wonders who and what he can become.
by Sebastian Faulks
Published Apr 1997
Read ReviewsCrafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love, Birdsong is a novel that will be read and marveled at for years to come.
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