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  • Playground
    Playground : A Novel
    by Richard Powers
    Hardcover: Sep 2024
    Paperback: Sep 2025
     
    A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory and Bewilderment.
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  • Playing Botticelli
    Playing Botticelli
    by Liza Nelson
    Hardcover: Jan 2000
    Paperback: Jan 2001
     
    Liza Nelson captures that pivotal time when a parent's power to shape and shield her child is drawing to an end.
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  • Please Look After Mom
    Please Look After Mom : A Novel
    by Kyung-sook Shin
    Hardcover: Apr 2011
    Paperback: Apr 2012
     
    An international sensation and a bestseller that has sold over 1.5 million copies in the author's native Korea, Please Look After Mom is a stunning, deeply moving story of a family's search for their missing mother - and their discovery of the ...
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  • A Pleasure and a Calling
    A Pleasure and a Calling
    by Phil Hogan
    Hardcover: Jan 2015
    Paperback: Jan 2016
     
    In the tradition of Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley novels comes a deliciously unsettling tale of psychological suspense that delves into the mind of a man with a chilling double life.
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  • The Plot Against America
    The Plot Against America
    by Philip Roth
    Hardcover: Oct 2004
    Paperback: Sep 2005
     
    This may be alternative history, but it is chillingly and convincingly realistic in its portrayal. The reader watches, horrified yet totally absorbed, as America spirals down the path toward fascism.
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  • The Poe Shadow
    The Poe Shadow
    by Matthew Pearl
    Hardcover: May 2006
    Paperback: Jul 2007
     
    Through the eyes of a Baltimore lawyer named Quentin Clark, Pearl opens a new window on the truth behind Poe’s demise, literary history’s most persistent enigma.
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  • The Poet of Tolstoy Park
    The Poet of Tolstoy Park
    by Sonny Brewer
    Hardcover: Mar 2005
    Paperback: Mar 2006
     
    A moving and irresistible book based on the true story of Henry Stuart who, given less than a year to live, moved to Alabama, discarded his boots and built a round hut that he lived in for the next twenty years.
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  • The Poet's House
    The Poet's House
    by Jean Thompson
    Hardcover: Jul 2022
    Paperback: Jul 2023
     
    A warm and witty story of a young woman who gets swept up in the rivalries and love affairs of a dramatic group of writers.
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