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  • SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE
    SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE
    CLAIRE KEEGAN
    Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker PrizeOne of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century"A hypnotic and electrifying Irish tale that transcends country, transcends time." --Lily King, New York Times bestselling author of Writers & LoversSmall Things Like These is award-winning author Claire Keegan's landmark new novel, a tale of one man's courage and a remarkable por...
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  • WRITERS & LOVERS
    WRITERS & LOVERS
    LILY KING
    #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick as Featured on TodayEmma Roberts Belletrist Book Club PickA New York Times Book Review's Group Text Selection "I loved this book not just from the first chapter or the first page but from the first paragraph... The voice is just so honest and riveting and insightful about creativity and life." --Curtis Sittenfeld An extraordinary new novel of art, ...
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  • CONFESSIONS OF A BOOKSELLER
    CONFESSIONS OF A BOOKSELLER
    BYTHELL, SHAUN
    Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland. With more than a mile of shelving, real log fires in the shop and the sea lapping nearby, the shop should be an idyll for bookworms.Unfortunately, Shaun also has to contend with bizarre requests from people who don't understand what a shop is ...
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  • THE GUARDIANS
    THE GUARDIANS
    JOHN GRISHAM
    John Grisham delivers a classic legal thriller--with a twist.In the small Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues. There were no witnesses, no one with a motive. But the police soon came to suspect Quincy Miller, a young black man who was once a client of Russo's.Quincy was tried,...
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  • BUNNY
    BUNNY
    MONA AWAD
    Soon to be a major motion picture"Jon Swift + Witches of Eastwick + Kelly 'Get In Trouble' Link + Mean Girls + Creative Writing Degree Hell! No punches pulled, no hilarities dodged, no meme unmangled! O Bunny you are sooo genius!" --Margaret Atwood, via Twitter"A wild, audacious and ultimately unforgettable novel." --Michael Schaub, Los Angeles Times"Awad is a stone-cold genius...
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  • WOMEN TALKING
    WOMEN TALKING
    MIRIAM TOEWS
    The basis of the Oscar-nominated film from writer/director Sarah Polley, starring Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, with Ben Whishaw and Frances McDormand.INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER"This amazing, sad, shocking, but touching novel, based on a real-life event, could be right out of The Handmaid's Tale." --Margaret Atwood, on Twitter"Scorching . . . a wry, freewheeling novel ...
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  • DAISY JONES AND THE SIX
    DAISY JONES AND THE SIX
    REID, TAYLOR JENKINS
    NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • The Washington Post • Esquire • Glamour • Real Simple • Good Housekeeping • Marie Claire • Parade • Paste • Shelf Awareness • BookRiotEveryone knows DAISY JONES & THE SIX, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity . . . until now.Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late six...
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  • BEACH READ
    BEACH READ
    EMILY HENRY
    "A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters. Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast. They're polar oppo...
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  • THE MEMORY POLICE
    THE MEMORY POLICE
    YOKO OGAWA
    A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor.On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses. . . . Most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few able to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who ar...
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  • TALES FROM THE CAFE
    TALES FROM THE CAFE
    KAWAGUCHI, TOSHIKAZU
    The million-copy bestselling series.Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s heartwarming Tales from the Cafe, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time?In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a cafe which has been serving carefully brewe...
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  • THE COLOR PURPLE
    THE COLOR PURPLE
    ALICE WALKER
    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Alice Walker's iconic modern classic is now a Penguin Book.A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other acros...
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  • MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION
    MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION
    MOSHFEGH, OTTESSA
    From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman’s efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes.Our narrator should be happy, shouldn’t she? She’s young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia ...
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  • A PLACE CALLED FREEDOM
    A PLACE CALLED FREEDOM
    FOLLETT KEN
    It begins in the Scottish Highlands, in the infernal coal mines of the Jamisson family, where twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh spends most of his waking hours. Bound to his employer for life and threatened always by firedamp, the explosive gas that may ignite at any moment and bury him, Mack burns with the desire to escape. He finds an unlikely ally in Lizzie Hallim, the beautifu...
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  • THE STORM SISTER
    THE STORM SISTER
    RILEY, LUCINDA
    Ally D'Apliese is about to compete in one of the world's most perilous yacht races, when she hears the news of her adoptive father's sudden, mysterious death. Rushing back to meet her five sisters at their family home, she discovers that her father - an elusive billionaire affectionately known to his daughters as Pa Salt - has left each of them a tantalising clue to their true ...
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  • THE PERFECT COUPLE
    THE PERFECT COUPLE
    ELIN HILDERBRAND
    From New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand, comes a novel about the many ways family can fill our lives with love...if they don't kill us first. *New York Times bestseller*It's Nantucket wedding season, also known as summer-the sight of a bride racing down Main Street is as common as the sun setting at Madaket Beach. The Otis-Winbury wedding promises to be an event...
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  • THE BELL JAR
    THE BELL JAR
    PLATH, SYLVIA
    Sylvia Plath's groundbreaking semi-autobiographical novel offers an intimate, honest and often wrenching glimpse into mental illness. The Bell Jar broke the boundaries between fiction and reality and helped cement Sylvia Plath's place as an enduring feminist icon. Celebrated for its darkly humorous, razor sharp portrait of 1950s society, it continues to resonate with readers to...
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    Q. 210

  • THE TRAVELLING CAT CHRONICLES
    THE TRAVELLING CAT CHRONICLES
    ARIKAWA, HIRO
    A book that “speak[s] volumes about our need for connection—human, feline or otherwise” (The San Francisco Chronicle), The Travelling Cat Chronicles is a life-affirming anthem to kindness and self-sacrifice that shows how the smallest things can provide the greatest joy—the perfect gift for cat lovers and travellers!We take journeys to explore exotic new places and to return to...
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  • THE CRAZY RICH ASIANS TRILOGY BOX SET
    THE CRAZY RICH ASIANS TRILOGY BOX SET
    KEVIN KWAN
    Give the gift of the outrageous, funny, "wickedly delectable" (New York Times) Crazy Rich Asians series in a collectible box set! NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER · NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE New Yorker Rachel Chu does not know that her loving boyfriend, Nicholas Young, also happens to be Singapore's most eligible bachelor and likely heir to a massive fortune. So when she agrees t...
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  • THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ
    THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ
    HEATHER MORRIS
    #1 New York Times Bestseller and #1 International BestsellerThis beautiful, illuminating tale of hope and courage is based on interviews that were conducted with Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig (Lale) Sokolov—an unforgettable love story in the midst of atrocity.“The Tattooist of Auschwitz is an extraordinary document, a story about the extremes of hum...
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  • THE SATANIC VERSES
    THE SATANIC VERSES
    RUSHDIE, SALMAN
    One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie’s best-known and most galvanizing book. Set in a modern world filled with both mayhem and miracles, the story begins with a bang: the terrorist bombing of a London-bound jet in midflight. Two Indian actors of opposing sensibilities fall to earth, transformed into living symbols...
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  • IRISH THOROUGHBRED
    IRISH THOROUGHBRED
    ROBERTS, NORA
    The very first novel by the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestselling author, now in a beautiful new hardcover edition.There's nothing left for Adelia Cunnane in Ireland. The aunt she cared for has passed, and the family farm has been sold for taxes. But her uncle Paddy has written her: Come to America...Dee has always had a magical touch with animals, and she finds employment w...
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    Q. 210

  • LIFE OF PI (EXP)
    LIFE OF PI (EXP)
    MARTEL YANN
    One boy, one boat, one tiger ... After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitar lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild blue Pacific. The only survivors from the weck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female oran-utan - and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. ...
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  • HOMESICK FOR ANOTHER WORLD
    HOMESICK FOR ANOTHER WORLD
    MOSHFEGH, OTTESSA
    A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time"I can’t recall the last time I laughed this hard at a book. Simultaneously, I’m shocked and scandalized. She’s brilliant, this young woman."—David Sedaris Ottessa Moshfegh's debut novel Eileen was one of the literary events of 2015. Gar...
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  • THE LITTLE MERMAID AND OTHER FAIRY TALES
    THE LITTLE MERMAID AND OTHER FAIRY TALES
    ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN
    Featuring beloved characters such as the Little Mermaid, Thumbelina, and the Snow Queen, a deluxe full-color edition of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic fairytales, illustrated with stunning drawings and interactive artwork from MinaLima, the award-winning design studio behind the graphics for the Harry Potter film franchise—the perfect companion for fans of the Disney live-ac...
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  • A MAN CALLED OVE: A NOVEL
    A MAN CALLED OVE: A NOVEL
    BACKMAN, FREDRIK
    Meet Ove. He’s a curmudgeon—the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him “the bitter neighbor from hell.” But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn’t walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time?Behind the cranky exterio...
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  • MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE
    MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE
    DICK, PHILIP K.
    Now an Amazon Original series Winner of the Hugo Award "The single most resonant and carefully imagined book of Dick's career"--New York Times It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some twenty years earlier the United States lost a wa...
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  • BENEATH A SCARLET SKY
    BENEATH A SCARLET SKY
    SULLIVAN, MARK T.
    Soon to be a major television event from Pascal Pictures, starring Tom Holland. Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, the USA Today and #1 Amazon Charts bestseller Beneath a Scarlet Sky is the triumphant, epic tale of one young man's incredible courage and resilience during one of history's darkest hours. Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He's a n...
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  • A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN
    A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN
    BERLIN, LUCIA
    "Stories from a lost American classic "in the same arena as Alice Munro" (Lydia Davis) "In the field of short fiction, Lucia Berlin is one of America's best kept secrets. That's it. Flat out. No mitigating conditions." --Paul Metcalf A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. With her trademark blend of humor and melanch...
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  • THE VEGETARIAN
    THE VEGETARIAN
    KANG, HAN
    WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE • “[Han] Kang viscerally explores the limits of what a human brain and body can endure, and the strange beauty that can be found in even the most extreme forms of renunciation.”—Entertainment Weekly One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century“Ferocious.”—The New York Times Book Review (Ten Best Books of the Year)“Both ...
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    Q. 130

  • I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS
    I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS
    ANGELOU, MAYA
    Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-suffic...
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