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by Walter Mosley
Published Aug 2007
Read ReviewsIn a riveting story of modern-day resilience and redemption, two boys, as close as brothers, confront separate challenges, and when circumstances reunite them years later, draw on their extraordinary natures to confront a common enemy and, ultimately, save their lives.
by Nick Hornby
Published May 2006
Read ReviewsIntense, hilarious, provocative, and moving, A Long Way Down is a novel about suicide that is, surprisingly, full of life.
by Jennifer Haigh
Published Dec 2005
Read ReviewsA compelling story of love and loss in a western Pennsylvania mining town in the years after World War II.
by Suzan-Lori Parks
Published Apr 2004
Read Reviews'Though I've read countless novels, I had never read one like this ... told in a chorus of completely unexpected voices, as befits the first novel from a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter' - Washington Post.
by Matthew Sharpe
Published Oct 2003
Read Reviews'At once tragic and madcap, Sharpe's second novel offers an acidly funny portrait of a 'diminished nuclear unit' coping with its patriarch's pharmacologically induced stroke.'
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