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Anna Kavan is now regarded as one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. An early novel, A Charmed Circle foreshadows her later ... More

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Alexander Popper is four years old when his father throws him into Lake Michigan, telling him to sink or swim. The rest of the family also struggles ... More

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But when Janey learns that the call is from a hospital all the way in Phoenix, Arizona, and a social worker is telling her that her father-in-law is ... More

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Just when you thought money buys everything! Born a star to his mother, a young man's life becomes entangled in a web of misfortune and sacrifices ... More

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This is a story about an African-American family in Nashville, Tennessee. Grandma Vet, the matriarch of this family, receives a telephone call in ... More

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A darkly funny and moving new novel by the author of Many Things Have Happened Since He Died. Sylvia Mullins, married to a man she may not love, ... More

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In an audacious literary experiment, Grass writes in the voices of his eight children as they record memories of their childhood, of growing up, of ... More

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It is 1973 and Watergate is on everyone's lips. Lucy Painter is a children's book illustrator and a single mother of two. She leaves New York and the ... More

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""Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." "Tolstoy wasn't thinking specifically of the Harrison family when he ... More

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Carol has always resented her family--her mother, endlessly knitting, her father and his obsession with next door's encroaching garden hedge, and her ... More

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A deeply moving and funny portrayal of a mother and son, this humorous novel about coping with an unusual situation tells the story of a speech ... More

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A riotous, unsentimental picture of life in a small Wales town, this portrait of a working-class woman of the Victorian era explores the hardships ... More

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Join twelve friends, all pretty much in their forties, as we peek into their lives for a few weeks. Learn about this group's fears, relationships, ... More

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Have you ever been overwhelmed by acronyms? Confused by technology? Inundated by irony, post-modernism, meta-ness and inexplicable catch phrases? If ... More

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Murray Reynolds, an engineer and mathematician who has turned his skills to earning an income from financial markets, retires to a rented cabin at ... More

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Rina lived the perfect street fantasy with one of the biggest drug dealers in Chicago on her arm. But is the cost of luxury too much for her to deal ... More

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Gary Tanner seems to have it all. He's handsome, athletic, and has the good fortune to meet Carol, the woman of his dreams. The couple marries and ... More

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"ESSENCE]"-bestselling author Johnson returns with the hotly anticipated follow-up to "Million Dollar Demise." This electrifying novel features the ... More

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The second novel in Scofield's Santa Fe trilogy explores the emptiness of love under false pretenses. As mishaps pile up, the increasingly frantic ... More

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A sixteen-year-old girl, mother to a younger sister and brother, longs to be beautiful, and thus happy, until she meets a playground counselor who ... More

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"Spare, elegant and absolutely riveting. . . . Cancel those dinner plans--you'll want to keep reading."--Joanna Powell, People

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Middle-class life meets hip-hop culture in this compelling story of a woman on a mission to change her life, as she learns the price she must pay for ... More

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An exceptionally engaging first novel from a commanding new voice in fiction, author of the award-winning and widely acclaimed story collection "The ... More

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A young black man struggles to survive the New York City projects, in this poignant tale of self discovery in the face of familial, communal, and ... More

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