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The Leftovers
When a bizarre phenomenon causes the cataclysmic disappearances of numerous people all over the world, Kevin Garvey, the new mayor of a once-comfortable suburban community, struggles to help his neighbors heal while enduring the fanatical religious conversions of his wife and son.NPR Bestseller
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Absolution
In modern-day South Africa, Clare Walde tells the story of her sister's death and the disappearance of her daughter during apartheid 20 years earlier.
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Mr g
A Novel About the Creation
Bored with his existence in the shimmering Void with his bickering Uncle Deva and Aunt Penelope, Mr g wakes up from a nap one day and decides to create the universe, only to be challenged by intellectual rival Belhor.
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Boleto
Pursuing fame on the Texas show-horse circuit by training a beautiful quarter horse filly, Will Testerman spends all of his savings and taps informative stories from his youth during an effort that brings horse and man from his Wyoming home to an Absaroka Mountains ranch before their arrival in the treacherous polo fields of Southern California. By the author of Ghosts of Wyoming.
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Glaciers
Isabel, a collector of vintage items, looks over damaged books in a library basement and reminisces about her love for an ex-soldier, her need to collect old photographs and postcards, and her worry about the melting glaciers in Alaska, where she grew up.
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The Collective
Three aspiring Asian artists, a painter and two writers, meet in college and form a strong friendship after banding together against an act of racism that has lasting repercussions into their adult lives in Cambridge, Mass.
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In One Person
A tale inspired by the U.S. AIDS epidemic in the 1980s follows the experiences of individuals — including the bisexual narrator — who are torn by devastating losses and whose perspectives on tolerance and love are shaped by awareness of what might have been.NPR Bestseller
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The Sense Of An Ending
Tony Webster is a retired divorced man in his mid-60s who, after receiving notice of an unexpected bequest, is pulled back into a "powerful recollection of strong emotions" from his past. This leads to a reassessment of the accuracy of his memories, a rueful realization of how much he'd gotten wrong, and a harsh re-evaluation of his passive approach to life.NPR Bestseller, Literary Award Winner
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The Beginner's Goodbye
Aaron, a physically disabled man who spent his youth avoiding a controlling sister, is devastated by his wife's sudden death and moves through the grieving process with the help of her apparition. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Breathing Lessons.NPR Bestseller
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The Legend Of Pradeep Mathew
Succumbing to poor health after years of drinking, aging sportswriter W. G. Karunasena and his friend embark on a madcap search for a legendary cricket bowler during which they encounter a mysterious six-fingered coach, a Tamil Tiger warlord and startling truths.
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The Red House
A tale told from rotating viewpoints traces seven days of bitterly comic family dynamics and confrontation when a wealthy doctor invites his estranged sister's family to join his newly blended one at a vacation home in the English countryside. By the Whitbread Book of the Year Award-winning author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
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The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln
The best-selling author of The Emperor of Ocean Park imagines a world where the 16th President survives his 1865 assassination only to be charged with overstepping his Constitutional authority during the Civil War, a case that is aided by a black college graduate who is entangled in a violent political conspiracy.
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Our Lady of Alice Bhatti
Following in her healer father's footsteps to become a junior nurse in a Karachi hospital, Alice taps inherent talents to bring relief to suffering patients but is hampered by a bureaucratic caste system, religious prejudice, and a dangerous police squad.
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The Enchanted April
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A Partial History of Lost Causes
Abandoning her life when her father succumbs to Huntington's disease, Massachusetts native Irina discovers an unanswered letter from her father to an internationally renowned chess champion and political dissident, whom she decides to visit in Russia.
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State of Wonder
A researcher at a pharmaceutical company, Marina Singh must step out of her comfort zone when she is sent into the heart of the Amazonian delta to check on a field team that has been silent for two years — a dangerous assignment that forces Marina to confront the ghosts of her past.NPR Bestseller
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The Tiger's Wife
Tea Obreht's debut novel takes place in an unnamed Balkan country similar to the former Yugoslavia. Natalia, a young medical student, is on her way to an orphanage in enemy territory when she learns that her beloved grandfather has died. As his confidante, Natalia was not only aware of his cancer; she was also privy to his many incredible adventures, the two most fantastic being his stories of the Deathless Man and the Tiger's Wife.
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The Buddha in the Attic
Presents the stories of six Japanese mail-order brides, whose new lives in early 20th century San Francisco are marked by backbreaking migrant work, cultural struggles, children who reject their heritage, and the prospect of wartime internment.NPR Bestseller
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The Weird Sisters
Unwillingly brought together to care for their ailing mother, three sisters who were named after famous Shakespearean characters discover that everything they have been avoiding may prove more worthwhile than expected.NPR Bestseller
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The Chemistry Of Tears
Forced to hide her grief when her married lover dies unexpectedly, museum curator Catherine Gehrig works in solitude to restore a nineteenth-century automaton and finds comfort in the journals of its adventurous commissioner.
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The Hunger Angel
Traces the experiences of Leo Auberg, who, after five torturous years in a post-war Soviet Union labor camp, succumbs to a hallucinatory existence where hunger and everyday objects take on anthropomorphic qualities. Translated by Philip Boehm.
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The Snapper
Sharon Rabitte is single, pregnant, and living in Dublin, and as her stomach grows, her situation elicits a wide range of responses from her family and community. By the author of The Commitments. Reprint.
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The Newlyweds
Twenty-four-year-old Amina Mazid moves from Bangladesh to Rochester, N.Y., to marry a man she met online. But each is hiding something from his or her past that threatens to tear them apart. The Newlyweds is a continent-hopping novel about the exhilarations and real-life complications of getting and staying married in the modern age.NPR Bestseller
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The Dud Avocado
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The Marriage Plot
Madeleine Hanna breaks out of her straight-and-narrow mold when she falls in love with charismatic loner Leonard Bankhead, while an old friend resurfaces, obsessed with the idea that Madeleine is his destiny.NPR Bestseller
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The Love of My Youth
A Novel
Having not seen each other for more than 40 years, Miranda and Adam unexpectedly reunite in Rome--where they once spent a summer deeply in love--and agree to spend the Italian afternoons taking walks together, experiencing the city, bringing each other up to date--and reviewing the betrayal that drove them. By the author of Final Payments.
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No Time Like The Present
Interracial couple Steve and Jabulile are able to live happily together with their two children in a newly free South Africa, but their lives are defined by the constant struggle to marry their nation's past with its present.
