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A Wreath For the Enemy

In my youth...I had an overwhelming passion to be like other people. Other people were a whole romantic race, miles beyond my reach. Not now. I don't really thnk that they exist, except in the eye of …

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Flesh

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Ein ganzes Leben

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Pulse

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End Zone

Don DeLillo's second novel, a sort of Dr. Strangelove meets North Dallas Forty, solidified his place in the American literary landscape in the early 1970s. The story of an angst-ridden, war-obsessed r…

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Lord Jim at Home

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Beartooth

Two brothers in dire straits, living on the edge of Yellowstone, agree to a desperate act of survival.

In an aging timber house hand-built into the Absaroka-Beartooth mountains, two brothers are strugg…

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Interpreter of Maladies

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Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching…

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Burntcoat

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Moon Road

It’s irksome to her, how well she knows this man, how much he has changed and how exactly the same he is ...

Kathleen and Yannick have not spoken for nineteen years, not since what happened with their …

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No Hiding in Boise

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A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

Just as Norman Maclean writes at the end of "A River Runs Through It" that he is "haunted by waters," so have readers been haunted by his novella. A retired English professor who began writing fiction…

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The Militia House

Longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize
Nominated for the 2023 Shirley Jackson Award

“An extraordinary novel about the quiet and not so quiet horrors of war.” —Roxane Gay

Stephen King m…

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Tortilla Flat

Danny is a paisano, descended from the original Spanish settlers who arrived in Monterey, California, centuries before. He values friendship above money and possessions, so when he suddenly inherits t…

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The Spinning Heart

In the aftermath of Ireland's financial collapse, dangerous tensions surface in an Irish town. As violence flares, the characters face a battle between public persona and inner desires. Through a chor…

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