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A Novel
by Andrew Sean Greer
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by Mal Peet
Published Feb 2013
Read ReviewsCan love survive a lifetime? With its urgent sense of history, sweeping emotion, and winning young narrator, Mal Peet's latest is an unforgettable, timely exploration of life during wartime.
by Paolo Giordano
Published Mar 2011
Read ReviewsA bestselling international literary sensation about whether a "prime number" can ever truly connect with someone else.
by Carla Buckley
Published Jan 2011
Read ReviewsHow far would you go to protect your family?
Carla Buckleys poignant debut raises important questions to which there are no easy answers, in an emotionally riveting tale of one family facing unimaginable stress.
by Jane Gardam
Published Oct 2009
Read ReviewsOld Filth has been acclaimed as Jane Gardams masterpiece, a book where life and art merge. And now that beautiful, haunting novel has been joined by a companion that also bursts with humor and wisdom: The Man in the Wooden Hat.
by Jeffrey Eugenides
Published Jan 2009
Read Reviews"Read these love stories in the safety of your single bed. Let everybody else suffer." Jeffrey Eugenides, from the introduction to My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead.
by Amy Bloom
Published Jun 2008
Read ReviewsWhen her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way in a new land. When word comes that her daughter, Sophie, might still be alive, Lillian embarks on an odyssey that takes her from the world of the Yiddish theater on New Yorks Lower East Side, to Seattles Jazz District, and up to...
by Lionel Shriver
Published Mar 2008
Read ReviewsUsing a playful parallel-universe structure,The Post-Birthday World follows one woman's future as it unfolds under the influence of two drastically different men.
by Sara Gruen
Published May 2007
Read ReviewsAn atmospheric, gritty, and compelling novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932 illuminated by a wonderful sense of time and place. Winner of the 2007 BookBrowse Award for Most Popular Book.
by Audrey Niffenegger
Published May 2004
Read ReviewsA funny, often poignant tale of boy meets girl with a twist: what if one of them couldn't stop slipping in and out of time? Highly original and imaginative, this debut novel raises questions about life, love, and the effects of time on relationships.
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