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Dom Casmurro
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Margaret Jull Costa,Robin Patterson,Anne-Marie Quint,0,Machado de Assis,John A. Gledson,João Adolfo Hansen |
"At last, a new translation of Machado's masterpiece that is complete (unlike Scott-Buccleuch's 1992 version - see HLAS 54:5078 - which omitted key chapters) and highly readable. Gledson produces a m… |
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Tinkers
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Paul Harding |
An old man lies dying. As time collapses into memory, he travels deep into his past where he is reunited with his father and relives the wonder and pain of his impoverished New England youth. At once… |
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The house on Sugar Plum Lane
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Judy Duarte |
In her unforgettable Fairbrook novels, Judy Duarte has created a town that's as warm and as welcoming as home. In The House on Sugar Plum Lane, old friends and new characters mingle in a poignant sto… |
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
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Lisa See |
Lily is the daughter of a humble farmer in Yongming County, and to her family is just another mouth to feed until she can be married off. But when she is six years old she is brought before the ambit… |
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The misogynist
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Piers Paul Read |
Jomier has reached the age of retirement. His children have grown up. He lives alone in London, embittered and humiliated after his wife, Tilly, had an affair and left him for Max, an uninhibited int… |
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The J.A.P. chronicles
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Isabel Rose |
Reunited with her former bunkmates at the centennial of Willow Lake Camp, Ali Cohen, an Oscar-nominated filmmaker, plans to make a documentary about her former teenage tormentors at the Jewish girls'… |
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The breaking of eggs
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Jim Powell |
From the boulevards of Paris to the ghettos of wartime Poland, via Midwest America and the Berlin Wall, 'The Breaking Of Eggs' chronicles the extraordinary journey of a lonely man who discovers it ne… |
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Spool of Blue Thread
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Anne Tyler |
"From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--now in the fiftieth year of her remarkable career--a brilliantly observed, joyful and wrenching, funny and true new novel that reveals, as only she ca… |
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The 5th Inning
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E. Ethelbert Miller |
Summary:The 5th Inning is poet and literary activist E. Ethelbert Miller's second memoir. Coming a decade after Fathering words: the making of an African American writer, this book finds Miller retur… |
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East of the mountains
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David Guterson |
In Washington State, a widowed doctor suffering from cancer takes a hunting trip, the real purpose of which is to commit suicide, which he will masquerade as an accident. But Dr. Ben Givens' resolve … |
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An American type
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Henry Roth |
Set in the dire year of 1938, Ira Stigman journeys to the famed artists' colony Yaddo, where he meets a blond, aristocratic pianist whose "calm, Anglo-Saxon radiance" engages him.The conflict with hi… |
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City of thieves
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David Benioff |
Documenting his grandparents' experiences during the siege of Leningrad, a young writer learns his grandfather's story about how a military deserter and he tried to secure pardons by gathering hard-t… |
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The box of the dead
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Beatrice MacNeil |
Novel centers on Ivadoile Spears, aged ninety-two, who was widowed early and has run a boarding house on Cape Breton for many years in the splendid home left to her by her doctor husband. We muse wit… |
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The Joy Luck Club
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Amy Tan,Ronald Bass,Jordi Fibla,Tsai Chin,Wayne Wang,Gwendoline Yeo |
Four mothers, four daughters, four families, whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's telling the stories. In 1949, four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet we… |
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Gilead
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Marilynne Robinson |
**WINNER OF THE 2005 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION**
In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames’s life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. Ames is the so… |
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Darke
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Rick Gekoski,R. A. Gekoski |
Dr James Darke has expelled himself from the world. He writes compulsively in his 'coming of old age' journal; he eats little, drinks and smokes a lot. Meditating on what he has lost - the loves of h… |
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Three things about Elsie
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Joanna Cannon,Cannon, Joanna (Psychiatrist) |
"'There are three things you should know about Elsie. The first thing is that she's my best friend. The second is that she always knows what to say to make me feel better. And the third thing...might… |
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City of Girls: A Novel
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Elizabeth Gilbert,Elizabeth Gilbert |
In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance. Her affluent parents send her to Manhattan to live with her Aun… |
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Belle Cora
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Phillip Margulies |
A sweeping historical tale based on the life and times of the daughter of a New York merchant finds the orphaned Belle suffering at the hands of a rival cousin before working as a prostitute and tran… |
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The last days of Rabbit Hayes
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Anna McPartlin |
"Here is a truth that can't be escaped: for Mia "Rabbit" Hayes, life is coming to and end. Rabbit Hayes loves her life, ordinary as it is, and the extraordinary people in it. She loves her spirited d… |
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