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Published Oct 2022
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by Lauren Acampora
Published Feb 2016
Read ReviewsDeliciously creepy and masterfully complex The Wonder Garden heralds the arrival of a phenomenal new talent in American fiction.
by Salman Rushdie
Published Jan 2009
Read ReviewsA tall, yellow-haired, young European traveler calling himself Mogor dellAmore, the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the Emperor Akbar, lord of the great Mughal empire, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the imperial capital, a tale about a mysterious woman, a great beauty believed to possess powers of enchantment ...
by Martin Amis
Published Jan 2008
Read ReviewsIn 1946, two brothers and a Jewish girl fall into alignment in Moscow. The fraternal conflict then continues in Norlag, a slave-labor camp above the Arctic Circle, where a tryst in the coveted House of Meetings will haunt all three lovers long after the brothers are released.
by Cormac McCarthy
Published Mar 2007
Read ReviewsA searing, postapocalyptic novel by the author of the much loved Border Trilogy.
by Jonathan Franzen
Published Aug 2002
Read ReviewsThe Corrections brings an old-fashioned world of civic virtue and sexual inhibitions into violent collision with the era of home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental health care, and globalized greed.
by Saul Bellow
Published May 2001
Read Reviews"No contemporary of ours is more consistently brilliant and more defiantly risky than Saul Bellow." --Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review
by E.L. Doctorow
Published Jan 2001
Read ReviewsDaringly poised at the junction of the sacred and the profane, and filled with the sights and sounds of New York - a narrative of the twentieth century written for the twenty-first.
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