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Explore the best fiction books of all time, including top science fiction, fantasy, historical, and romantic novels. Find famous novels and best-selling titles at our online bookstore, offering the best books to read.
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Eve GreenAfter her young mother's sudden death eight-year-old Eve is sent to live with her grandparents in rural Wales. In this unfamiliar world, she is told stories about her relatives but is forbidden to ask about her father, an Irish thief who abandoned her mother....
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Breaking the TongueThis masterly novel is not only bold and challenging but also beautifully written. The reader will be left breathless by the ending.--Library Journal A moving accomplishment.--Publishers Weekly, starred review Vyvyane Loh's richly ambitious narrative weaves the personal and the political into an unforgettable novel.--Claire...
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Sari Shop (Revised)Ramchand, a tired shop assistant in Sevak Sari House in Amritsar, spends his days patiently showing yards of fabric to the women of "status families" and to the giggling girls who dream of dressing up in silk but can only afford cotton. When Ramchand...
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Shylock's DaughterWhen the beautiful Jessica Pruitt arrives in Venice to star in a film based on The Merchant of Venice, she is preoccupied: she has recently lost custody of her daughter, and as an older actress she is increasingly aware of the difficulty of landing...
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The Anatomy SchoolSet in Belfast in the late sixties, Bernard MacLaverty's new novel takes us into Martin Brennan's last semester of high school, when he finds old friendships tested and is forced to face the unknown. Before he can become an adult, Martin must unravel the...
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The Horned ManThe Horned Man opens with a man losing his place in a book, then deepens into a dark and terrifying tale of a man losing his place in the world. As Lawrence Miller--an English expatriate and professor of gender studies--tells the story of what...
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University BoulevardIt's 1967, and while the world is turning topsy-turvy, the twosome seeks refuge within the walls of Sigma Zeta Chi. But Peachy's bid to pledge doesn't come easy; in fact, he finagles his way into the frat house, along with the first non-white to...
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Flatbellies: It's Not about Golf. It's about Life.It's not about golf. It's about life. Set in a small Oklahoma town in the mid-1960s--a simple place in a confusing time--Flatbellies is partly about the seemingly unreachable goal of a high school golf team: to win the state championship. But mostly it's about...
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Babe in Paradise: FictionThe unforgettable characters of Babe in Paradise--an aging stunt man, a chauffeur, and a voice-over actor among them--live on the periphery of Los Angeles's allure, outside its glamour and success. Marisa Silver's singular voice makes us care deeply about their everyday desperations and hard-won...
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Grand AmbitionIn Lisa Michaels's enthralling debut novel, she weaves the tale of two young newlyweds, Glen and Bessie Hyde, who set out in 1928 to run the rapids of the Grand Canyon. The pair hoped to set a record: Bessie would be the first woman...
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The Western CoastDefending herself with despairing stubbornness against personal catastrophe, she is able to save her life and escape. Enormously touching and wholly believable.--Washington Post Book WorldAuthor: Paula FoxPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublished: 09/17/2001Pages: 352Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 8.53h x 5.54w x 0.92dISBN: 9780393322866Review Citation(s):...
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A Relative Stranger: StoriesWithout question Charles Baxter, whose ravishing novel The Feast of Love was a National Book Award finalist, is one of our finest contemporary writers. These two books, set in the Michigan landscape that Baxter has made his own, display his unparalleled gift for revealing...
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The Fly-TrufflerPhilippe Cabassac has fly-truffled, the art of stalking the flies that lay their eggs directly over the truffles, every winter since childhood on his family estate in Provence. Since the death of his young wife, Julieta, the truffles have come to represent something far...
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Harry and Catherine: A Love StoryHere is that rarest and most satisfying of books: a grown-up love story. Harry and Catherine have been falling in and out of love for many years. She is divorced, determinedly raising two sons, and running a small gallery in upstate New York. He...
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The Electrical FieldWhen the beautiful Chisako and her lover are found murdered in a park, members of a small Ontario suburb in the 1970s must finally acknowledge certain inescapable truths about one another and the way their community has been shaped by the dark shadow of...
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GospelAt nineteen years old, Colin Harpur's girlfriend Denise Prior knows little about criminals, and even less about the law. When Denise drifts into the social circle of Harpur's number-one informant Jack Lamb, and one of the criminals is shot to death during a robbery,...
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After HannibalFrom the Booker Prize-winning author of Sacred Hunger, a vivid, sinuous, profound, and entirely beguiling venture. --Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times. Set in the beautiful landscape and rich history of Umbria, Italy, Booker Prize-winning author Barry Unsworth has written a witty and illuminating work...
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A Watch in the Night: Being the Conclusion of the Lampitt ChroniclesProustian without the pretensions (Kirkus Reviews), this marvelous work offers a rich culmination of Wilson's masterful portrait of a generation in its heyday and decline . . . presented with ironic humor and dense with engaging ideas and indelible characters (Publishers Weekly).Author: A. N....
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HamletThe text is taken from the Norton Critical Edition and includes a preface and footnotes by Byrus Hoy, professor emeritus at the University of Rochester. The preface speaks to the choice of text--primarily the second quarto with reliance on the folio as necessary--and places...
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Dead PianoA prosperous Black bourgeois family find their complacent lives shattered when they are taken hostage in their own home by two members of a Black militant group calling itself The Committee.Author: Henry Van DykePublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublished: 01/01/1997Pages: 132Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.38lbsSize:...
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