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by Claire Vaye Watkins
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by Gabriel Tallent
Published Jan 2026
Read ReviewsIn this story of intense friendship and grit, two down-and-out teens escape their lives and chase a different future through rock-climbing -- from the New York Times bestselling author of My Absolute Darling.
by Ryan O'Neill
Published Jul 2014
Read ReviewsWith imagination, wit, and a keen eye, Ryan O'Neill draws the essence of the human experience with a cast of characters who stick with you long after you turn the last page of this brilliant short story collection.
by Jim Gavin
Published Feb 2014
Read ReviewsMiddle Men brings to life a series of unforgettable characters learning what it means to love and work and be in the world as a man
by Richard Ford
Published Jan 2013
Read ReviewsA true masterwork of haunting and spectacular vision from one of our greatest writers, Canada is a profound novel of boundaries traversed, innocence lost and reconciled, and the mysterious and consoling bonds of family.
by Annie Proulx
Published Oct 2011
Read ReviewsProulx's first work of nonfiction in more than twenty years, Bird Cloud is the story of designing and constructing her dream house. It is also an enthralling natural history and archaeology of the region, and a family history, going back to nineteenth-century Mississippi riverboat captains and Canadian settlers.
by Marilynne Robinson
Published Jan 2006
Read Reviews"Robinson's prose is beautiful, shimmering and precise; the revelations are subtle but never muted when they come, and the careful telling carries the breath of suspense....Robinson truly succeeds in what is destined to become her second classic."
by Cormac McCarthy
Published Nov 2002
Read ReviewsThe first volume in the Border Trilogy - the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.
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