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Winter Garden

A Novel

by Beryl Bainbridge
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016

A satirical thriller about a British adulterer in Russia from the award-winning author of The Bottle Factory Outing. Middle-class, middle-aged, and middle-of-the-road lawyer Douglas Ashburner has never been much of a womanizer. So when he tells his wife he’s going on a fishing holiday, she...
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Injury Time

A Novel

by Beryl Bainbridge
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016

Winner of the Whitbread Literary Award: A darkly humorous tale about a 1970s dinner party gone terribly wrong by one of Britain’s most renowned authors. Edward is normally a cautious man, especially when it comes to his mistress, Binny. But he feels bad that his lover never gets to enjoy...
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Fanny

Being the True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones

by Erica Jong
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013

A “rollicking and bawdy” tale of eighteenth-century England, inspired by Fanny Hill, from the New York Times–bestselling author of Fear of Flying (The Plain Dealer). Galloping from England to Africa to the high seas of the Caribbean, bestselling author Erica Jong’s “perverse epic”...
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by Jack Kerouac
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016

A sensory narrative poem capturing the rhythms of the universe and secrets of the subconscious with stunning linguistic dexterity from the author of On the Road A spontaneous writing project in the form of an extended prose poem, this sonorous and spiritually playful book is one of Jack Kerouac’s...
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by Jack Kerouac
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016

Just as he upended the conventions of the novel with On the Road, Jack Kerouac revolutionized American poetry in this ingenious collection Bringing together selections from literary journals and his private notebooks, Jack Kerouac’s Scattered Poems exemplifies the Beat Generation icon’s...
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by Taylor Caldwell
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018

From the bestselling author of Captains and the Kings: The story of a blacksmith’s son, a small town, and a secret dark enough to seal a man’s fate. Raised in a two-room shack behind his father’s smithy shop, Dan Hendricks was marked as an outcast from earliest childhood. The people of...
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by R. A. MacAvoy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014

Set against the turbulent backdrop of the Italian Renaissance, this alternate history takes place in a world where real faith-based magic exists. Our hero is Damiano Dalstrego. He is a wizard’s son, an alchemist, and the heir to dark magics. But he is also an innocent, a young scholar and musician...
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by Frances Lockridge, Richard Lockridge
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016

Tonight, Jerry North faces something so terrifying that no amount of martinis could quiet his nerves: He has to make a speech. He’s introducing one of his authors, Victor Leeds Sproul, a continental novelist whose delicate tales of Parisian life have been selling like hotcakes ever since the Nazis...
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by Herbert Lieberman
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013

For an unsuspecting group of friends, a hike through the forest turns into a desperate fight for survival Mr. Rogers is the ideal guide for a few neighbors looking to survey a large, wooded piece of property: He remembers every tree, stream, and bush; when there’s a fork in the road, he knows...
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by John P. Marquand
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015

**“Women and Thomas Harrow is Grade A Marquand, spellbindingly readable, smooth as cream in its polished technical craftsmanship, sardonically witty and filled with a special sort of wry and melancholy worldly wisdom.” —The New York Times Playwright Thomas Harrow followed his first...
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by Mavis Gallant
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014

A New York Times Best Book of the Year: Short stories centered around a French Canadian family that relocates to Paris in the years before WWII. One of the greatest strengths of Mavis Gallant’s writing is her ability to distill a character’s emotions into a simple moment—a lingering glance...
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by Charlotte MacLeod
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012

After witnessing a strange explosion, Janet becomes a murderer’s next target Janet Rhys is driving through the backwoods of Canada when she sees the truck ahead of her lose control, smash into a snow bank, and flip sideways, completely blocking the road. Springing to action, she darts into...
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by Lisa Alther
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010

A humorous journey from ’80s Manhattan to the wild side of small-town living, from bestselling author Lisa Alther   Clea Shawn is exhausted by her life: her globe-trotting career as a travel photographer, her successful husband’s numerous liaisons, and the unrequited love she feels...
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by Padgett Powell
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013

In the sequel to Powell’s acclaimed debut, Edisto, Simons Manigault is older—if not particularly wiser—and searching for the cure to his restlessness in memory, travel, and forbidden love Fourteen years after we first met Simons Manigault, our protagonist is newly graduated from Clemson...
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