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Flirting With Pete by Barbara Delinsky (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours new

In Flirting with Pete, bestselling author Barbara Delinsky weaves together two fascinating narratives that merge in a dramatic, highly emotional, and totally unexpected conclusion, as a daughter's... read more


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The Ghost by Robert Harris (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours new

From the bestselling author of Fatherland and Imperium comes The Ghost, an extraordinarily auspicious thriller of power, politics, corruption, and murder. Dashing, captivating Adam Lang was Britain's... read more


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Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours new

If there's any justice, it is only a matter of time before the work of the curiously-named DBC Pierre becomes essential reading for anyone interested in cutting-edge writing today. Vernon God Little... read more


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The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours new

"I had been making the rounds of the Sacrifice Poles the day we heard my brother had escaped. I already knew something was going to happen; the Factory told me." Those lines begin one of the most... read more


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Little Children by Tom Perrotta (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours new

Tom Perrotta's thirty-ish parents of young children are a varied and surprising bunch. There's Todd, the handsome stay-at-home dad dubbed "The Prom King" by the moms of the playground; Sarah, a... read more


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Windflower (New Canadian Library) by Gabrielle Roy (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours new

Set against the austere landscape of northern Labrador, Windflower is the poignant story of Elsa Kumachuk, a young Inuit woman torn between two worlds by the birth of her blond-haired, blue-eyed son.... read more


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The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours new

Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. Two Millennium journalists about to expose the truth about the sex trade in Sweden are brutally murdered, and Salander's prints are on the weapon. Her history of... read more


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The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours new

First published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters--beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively... read more


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The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours new

I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of... read more


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The Man Who Disappeared by Clare Morrall (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours new

An absorbing and thought-provoking tale about a happy family shattered when the husband mysteriously vanishes, accused of a serious crime that seems completely out of character. But perhaps he was... read more


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Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours new

Joan Foster is the bored wife of a myopic ban-the-bomber.  She takes off overnight as Canada's new superpoet, pens lurid gothics on the sly, attracts a blackmailing reporter, skids... read more


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Missing by Susan Lewis (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours new

A powerful new novel from the best-selling author of The Hornbeam Tree and Just One More Day. The Hornbeam Tree was short listed for the Romantic Novelists’ Association Romantic Novel of the Year... read more


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That Summer by Andrew Greig (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours new

Andrew Greig, prize-winning novelist and poet, dedicates his latest novel "to the vanishing generation"--all who lived through the Second World War and That Summer, the summer of 1940 and the Battle... read more


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English Passengers by Matthew Kneale (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours new

Christopher Columbus was looking for a passage to India when he ran full-tilt into the Americas. One of the narrators of Matthew Kneale's ambitious historical novel English Passengers has more modest... read more


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The Birthing House by Christopher Ransom (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours new

In this psychological thriller with supernatural overtones, a young couple, Conrad and Joanna Harrison, attempt to save their marriage by starting anew in a rural turn-of-the-century former birthing... read more


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Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours new

Don’t Let’s go to the Dogs Tonight is a wonderfully evocative memoir of Alexandra Fuller’s African childhood. Fuller regards herself "as a daughter of Africa", who spent her early life on farms in... read more


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The Help by Kathryn Stockett (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours new

Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi,... read more


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Number Ten by Sue Townsend (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours new

Jack Spratt is a policeman on the door of number ten Downing Street. When the Prime Minister decides that the only way to get closer to the men and women on the street is to travel around the country... read more


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Good Faith by Jane Smiley (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours new

Opening a Jane Smiley novel is like slipping into a warm bath. Here are people we know, places where we grew up. But the comforting, unassuming tone of her work allows Smiley incredible latitude as a... read more


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Snow Flower And The Secret Fan by Lisa See (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours new

In nineteenth-century China, in a remote Hunan county, a girl named Lily, at the tender age of seven, is paired with a laotong, an “old same,” in an emotional match that will last a lifetime. The... read more


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