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  • To Kill a Mockingbird

    • ASIN: 0060935464
    • ISBN: 0060935464
    • Brand: Harper Perennial
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

    Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American ReadHarper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatredOne of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold m... [Read More]

  • The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel

    • ASIN: B0017SWPXY
    • Manufacturer: HarperCollins e-books

  • The Best American Mystery Stories 1998 (The Best American Series)

    • UPC: 046442835855
    • ASIN: 0395835852
    • ISBN: 0395835852
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin

    This year's guest editor, Sue Grafton, has put together a wonderfully diverse collection of stories to surprise and satisfy all fans of the genre. In this volume, best-selling writers such as Mary Higgins Clark, Walter Mosley, Lawrence Block, Jay McInerney, and Donald E. Westlake stand alongside an impressive array of new talent. As Grafton writes ... [Read More]

  • Best Short Stories of the Modern Age

    • ASIN: 0449300587
    • ISBN: 0449300587
    • Manufacturer: Fawcett

    The short-stroy form continues to be a rich and fertile vein of literary expression. Collected in this remarkable volume are twenty renowned writers of the modern age who brilliantly mastered the distinctive power and beauty of the form--each bringing his or her own unique vision to the page. This powerful collection includes the work of: Sherwood ... [Read More]

  • The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

    • ASIN: 0316055441
    • ISBN: 0316055441
    • Brand: Back Bay Books
    • Manufacturer: Back Bay Books

    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEA young New Yorker grieving his mother's death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this "extraordinary" and beloved Pulitzer Prize winner that "connects with the heart as well as the mind" (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review).Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accide... [Read More]

  • Mystery: An Alex Delaware Novel

    • ASIN: 0345505700
    • ISBN: 0345505700
    • Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

    The closing of the grand old Fauborg Hotel in Beverly Hills is a sad occasion for longtime patrons Alex Delaware and Robin Castagna, who go there one last time for cocktails. But even more poignant—and curious—is a striking young woman in elegant attire and dark glasses, alone there and waiting in vain. Two days later, police detective Milo Stu... [Read More]

  • Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

    • ASIN: B079L5DDB4
    • Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NAMED BY THE TIMES AS ONE OF "6 BOOKS TO HELP UNDERSTAND TRUMP'S WIN" AND SOON TO BE A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD "You will not read a more important book about America this year."—The Economist "A riveting book."—The Wall Street Journal"Essential reading."—David Brooks, New York TimesHillbilly ... [Read More]

  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

    • ASIN: 0062316117
    • ISBN: 9780062316110
    • Brand: Harper Perennial
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

    Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout.#1 New York Times Bestseller The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg,  now available as a beautifully packaged paperbackFrom a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bes... [Read More]

  • The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain (Modern Library Classics)

    • ASIN: 0812971183
    • ISBN: 0812971183
    • Brand: Modern Library
    • Manufacturer: Modern Library

    This unique collection of Twain’s essential short stories and semiautobiographical narratives is a testament to the author’s vast imagination. Featuring popular tales such as “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog” and “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,” as well as some delightful excerpts from The Diaries of Adam and Eve, this compilation a... [Read More]

  • The Eternal Husband and Other Stories (Modern Library Classics)

    • ASIN: 0812983378
    • ISBN: 0812983378
    • Manufacturer: Modern Library

    From Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, and Anna Karenina, which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller, The Eternal Husband and Other Stories brings together five of Dostoevsky’s short masterpieces. Filled with many of the themes and concerns central to his... [Read More]

  • The Banks Sisters

    • ASIN: 1622869478
    • ISBN: 1622869478
    • Manufacturer: Urban Books

    New York Times bestselling author Nikki Turner returns with her most spellbinding story to date: Meet the Banks sisters—Simone, Bunny, Tallhya, and Ginger. The four beauties are living under the same roof by force, but they can’t stand each other. Their only common denominator is their loving grandmother, Me-Ma. When she’s not at work trying ... [Read More]

  • Rules of Civility: A Novel

    • ASIN: B004IYJDVG
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

  • One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.) (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

    • ASIN: 0060883286
    • ISBN: 9780060883287
    • Brand: Gabriel Garc 237 a M 225 rquez
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

    One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, and alive with unforgettable men and women -- brimming with truth, compassion, and a lyrical magic that strikes the soul -- this novel is a masterpiece... [Read More]

  • Hula Done It?: A Passport to Peril Mystery

    • ASIN: 1451612893
    • ISBN: 1451612893
    • Brand: Brand: Pocket Books
    • Manufacturer: Gallery Books

    In the 4th book of the bestselling Passport to Peril series by Maddy Hunter, Emily cruises to Hawaii and a hunt for a long-lost treasure turns deadly.

  • Mystery and the Minister's Wife series: The Best is Yet to Be

    • ASIN: 0824947681
    • ISBN: 0824947681
    • Manufacturer: GuidepostsBooks

    About the Mystery and the Minister's Wife series: Escape to the charming town of Copper Mill, Tennessee. Nestled in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, Copper Mill is a place of tradition and tranquility. But when Kate Hanlon and her husband Paul move in, they discover that small town life is anything but boring. The mysteries Kate uncovers... [Read More]

  • Next Year in Havana

    • ASIN: B072BLV8Y9
    • Manufacturer: Berkley

    A HELLO SUNSHINE x REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK“A beautiful novel that's full of forbidden passions, family secrets and a lot of courage and sacrifice.”—Reese WitherspoonAfter the death of her beloved grandmother, a Cuban-American woman travels to Havana, where she discovers the roots of her identity—and unearths a family secret hidden ... [Read More]

  • Bitter Sun

    • ASIN: 0008145504
    • ISBN: 0008145504
    • Brand: HarperCollins
    • Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers

    Stand by Me" meets "True Detective" in this stunningly written tale of the darkness at the heart of a small mid-Western town and the four kids who uncover it. In the heatwave summer of 1971, four kids find a body by a lake and set out to solve a murder, but they dig too deep and ask too many questions. Larson is a town reeling in the wake of the Vi... [Read More]

  • Mysteries of Small Houses: Poems (Penguin Poets)

    • ASIN: 0140588965
    • ISBN: 9780140588965
    • Brand: Notley, Alice
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    Alice Notley vividly reconstructs the mysteries, longings, and emotions of her past in this brilliant new collection of poems that charts her growth from young girl to young woman to accomplished artist. In this volume, memories of her childhood in the California desert spring to life through evocative renderings of the American landscape, circa 19... [Read More]

  • The Husband's Secret

    • ASIN: B00D7Z4GQY
    • Manufacturer: Berkley

  • The Pritchett Century: A Selection of the Best by V. S. Pritchett (Modern Library Classics)

    • ASIN: 037575217X
    • ISBN: 037575217X
    • Manufacturer: Modern Library

    "If, as they say, I am a Man of Letters, I come, like my fellows, at the tail-end of a long and once esteemed tradition in English and American writing. We have no captive audience. We do not teach. We write to be readable and to engage the interest of what Virginia Woolf called 'the common reader.'"In a life that spanned almost the entire course o... [Read More]

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