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Literary Fiction
| The Typing Lady: And Other Fictions |
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Ruth Ozeki |
THE TYPING LADY has been touted by critics as one of the most enjoyable story collections of the season. Included are wit, warmth and humanity shining through dynamite pieces like a curious grandmother creating a fake on-line dating profile to spy on her granddaughter, a long-deceased Beat poet hijacking the mind of a... |
| Tom Lake |
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Ann Patchett |
TOM LAKE is the spellbinding story of a mother dealing with her three daughters who have an unyielding interest in learning of her life before she became their mother - before she married. Is there a huge secret they must solve concerning a past affair with a big-time Hollywood star?
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| Whistler |
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Ann Patchett |
WHISTLER is Ann Patchett at her best showing readers that small consequential moments can define our lives. This is a moving and meaningful story by one of America's finest storytellers.
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| The Award |
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Matthew Pearl |
THE AWARD s a gripping look at the literary world where ambition, deception and murder meet. It is a stunning satire that you can't put down by the author of The Dante Club. THIS COPY (shown below) was hand signed by Matthew Pearl on the title page. It is a new, unread,... |
| Mrs. Fletcher |
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Tom Perrotta |
MRS. FLETCHER is a divorced mother who begins to dabble in erotic sex and pornography when her only child goes away to college. This new phase of her life is a far cry from her normal days as director of a senior center. The consequences of this departure soon come home to roost.
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| A Free State |
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Tom Piazza |
A FREE STATE is set prior to the Civil War and follows the adventures of a fugitive slave who fools the white citizens of Philadelphia as he entertains, pretending to be a white musician in blackface.
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| Hollow Bones |
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Jodi Picoult |
HOLLOW BONES is an intricate, twisty family drama that begins on 9/11 when the mother of a two-month old keeps her appointment at The World Trade Tower. The devastating horror causes the infant to grow up dedicating her life to emergency preparedness. And then, she has a personal emergency. THIS COPY ... |
| Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 |
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Francine Prose |
LOVERS AT THE CHAMELEON CLUB, PARIS 1932 captures the "City of Light" at its height - in the Roaring Twenties. Some of literature's most interesting characters congregate at the Chameleon Club - including a cross-dressing lesbian athlete, a young photographer and a socialite art patron. Each voice is spoken with... |
| The Reason You're Alive |
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Matthew Quick |
THE REASON YOU'RE ALIVE is a brilliant and dark story of a wounded veteran who attempts to put his life in order as the end nears. The former soldier, in both a heartfelt and sometimes humorous manner, hopes to prove he is a loving and honorable man.
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| The Ventriloquists |
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E.R. Ramzipoor |
THE VENTRILOQUISTS finds a young girl, Helene, masquerading as a boy and selling newspapers to survive on the streets of 1943 Brussels. When the Nazis pressure her friend, a publisher of dissident underground newspapers, to betray his cause or die, they and their peers decide to pretend to cave to the German demands,... |