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by Leah Hager Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
The subtly powerful novel adapted into the 2015 feature film, The Grief of Others asks: is keeping a secret from a spouse always an act of infidelity? And what cost does such a secret exact on a family?**
**From the acclaimed author of No Book but the World and 2019's searing new novel Strangers...
by Cristina Henriquez
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
The "beautiful" (Chicago Sun-Times) novel from the prizewinning author of Come Together, Fall Apart.
Miraflores never knew her father, and never thought he wanted to know her. But when she returns to the Chicago suburb where she grew up to care for her ailing mother, she discovers that her...
by Erri De Luca
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2002
This is a story told by a boy in his thirteenth year, recorded in his secret diary. His life is about to change; his world, about to open.
He lives in Montedidio—God’s Mountain—a cluster of alleys in the heart of Naples. He brings a paycheck home every Saturday from Mast’Errico’s...
by Maxine Swann
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
?A work of stunning lyricism and intense originality?(Mary Gordon, author of Pearl). From an award-winning short story writer comes this spare, lively, moving novel, quickly embraced by critics and readers, portraying the strangely celebrated and unsupervised childhood of four hippie offspring in...
Gretel and the Dark
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
A captivating and atmospheric historical novel about a young girl in Nazi Germany, a psychoanalyst in fin-de-siècle Vienna, and the powerful mystery that links them together.
Gretel and the Dark explores good and evil, hope and despair, showing how the primal thrills and horrors of the stories...
by Daina Chaviano
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2008
A magical new novel "of loss and love across more than a century of Cuba's past."(Chicago Sun-Times)
Alone in a city that haunts her, far from her family, her history, and the island she left behind, Cecelia seeks refuge in a bar in Little Havana where a mysterious old woman's fascinating tale...
The Food of a Younger Land
The South Eats Delaware, Maryland, Washington, D.C., Virginia, West Virginia, Th e Carolinas,Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkans
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
A remarkable portrait of American food before World War II, presented by the New York Times-bestselling author of Cod and Salt.
Award-winning New York Times-bestselling author Mark Kurlansky takes us back to the food and eating habits of a younger America: Before the national highway system...
A Gesture Life
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2000
The second novel from the critically acclaimed New York Times–bestselling author Chang-rae Lee.
His remarkable debut novel was called "rapturous" (The New York Times Book Review), "revelatory" (Vogue), and "wholly innovative" (Kirkus Reviews). It was the recipient of six major awards, including...
by George Saunders
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2005
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.
In a profoundly strange country called Inner Horner, large enough for only one resident at a...
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Play Script)
Based on the novel by Khaled Hosseini
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
The script for the stage production of the bestselling Khaled Hosseini novel A Thousand Splendid Suns, as adapted by playwright Ursula Rani Sarma.
Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by...
The Kite Runner (Play Script)
Based on the novel by Khaled Hosseini
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
The script for the stage production of Khaled Hosseini's first and internationally bestselling novel, The Kite Runner, as adapted by playwright Matthew Spangler.
The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant, The...
You Need to Read This
The Death of the Imperative Mode, the Rise of the American Glottal Stop, the Biz arre Popularity of "Amongst," and Other Cuckoo Things That Have Happened to the
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
From a critically acclaimed master of language, a look at the trends, phenomena, and battles on the front lines of modern American English.
In You Need to Read This, language expert Ben Yagoda writes about the cuckoo things we have done to the English language. His witty, insightful, and wise...
by Adam Davies
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2002
Harry Driscoll is living in New York City (if you call trying to survive on an editorial assistant's salary "living").
His family is wealthy (but Harry Driscoll is not).
His education is Ivy League (but what good is it doing him?).
His publishing job is entry level (with no exit...
by Nathaniel Rich
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2008
One of the most original, dazzling, and critically acclaimed debut novels this year.
In this debut novel, hailed by Stephen King as ?terrifying, touching, and wildly funny,? the stories of two strangers, Eugene Brentani and Mr. Schmitz, interweave. What unfolds is a bold reinvention of storytelling...