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This Will Be the End of Me
A Novel
2027
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Knives Out meets Everything Everywhere All at Once in this psychological thriller with a reality-bending twist: every suspect is an alternate version of the same man.Joshua Hoffman is hosting a fortieth birthday party at his secluded lakeside home, but the guests are no ordinary attendees—they are nine alternate versions of himself from other timelines, all brought together by cutting-edge technology. Each has taken a different path through life. ...
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2016
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Long-shortlisted, 2017 ReLit AwardsDaniel Solomon is not having a good day. Somewhere between Bangkok and Tokyo, zipping through the stratosphere, the jetliner on which he's travelling cracks open like an egg, ejecting Daniel and his fellow passengers into the great blue sky.If only that were the worst of it.Thousands of feet above the merciless Earth, still strapped into his seat, his cherished comics fluttering away like freed parrots, Daniel find...
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2010
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What if the best morning of your life suddenly turned into your worst nightmare? Sam Case is about to find out. Saving Rachel is the story of what happens when killers force a man to choose between his wife and his mistress...and the one he rejects must die. "If Dean Koontz collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock at the circus, this would be their brain child." –Vintage DM Book Reviews
Rules of Civility
A Novel
2011
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From the #1 New York Times**-bestselling author of** The Lincoln Highway and A Gentleman in Moscow**, a “sharply stylish” (Boston Globe) book about a young woman in post-Depression era New York who suddenly finds herself thrust into high society—now with over one million readers worldwide**On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is i...
The Painted Girls
A Novel
2012
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#1 National Bestseller and New York Times BestsellerParis, 1878. Following her father’s sudden death, Marie van Goethem is dispatched to the Paris Opéra, where for a scant wage she is trained to enter the famous Ballet. Her older sister, Antoinette, finds work—and the love of a dangerous young man—as an extra on the stage. Marie is soon modeling in the studio of renowned artist Edgar Degas, who will immortalize her image forever, while Antoinette must make...
State of Wonder
A Novel
2011
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“A nail-biting narrative, setting stark human dilemmas against a lush, exotic backdrop.”— People“Extraordinary. . . . Nothing is as it seems, and the ending is as shocking as it’s satisfying.” — Boston GlobeFrom award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett, a provocative and assured novel of morality and miracles, science and sacrifice set in the Amazon rainforestIn a narr...
The Tiger's Wife
A Novel
2011
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST •The instant classic debut novel from the author of Inland and The Morningside, hailed as “a thrilling beginning to what will certainly be a great literary career” (Elle)“Spectacular . . . [Téa Obreht] spins a tale of such marvel and magic in a literary voice so enchanting that the mesmerized reader wants her never to stop.”—Entertainment Weekly
2012
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In a small prairie school in 1929, Connie Flood helps a backward student, Michael Graves, learn how to read. Observing them and darkening their lives is the principal, Parley Burns, whose strange behaviour culminates in an attack so disturbing its repercussions continue to the present day.Connie's niece, Anne, tells the story. Impelled by curiosity about her dynamic, adventurous aunt and her more conventional mother, she revisits Connie's past and her mother's broken childhood. In ...
2015
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The suspenseful, emotionally resonant, and utterly compelling story of what brings an enigmatic French woman to a small Canadian town in the 1930s, a woman who has found depths of strength in dark times and comes to discover sanctuary at last. For readers of The Imposter Bride, The Cellist of Sarajevo, Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay, and The Red Violin.Helene Giroux arrives alone in St. Homais on a winter day. She wears good ci...
The Dovekeepers
A Novel
2011
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An ambitious and mesmerizing historical novel from the bestselling author of Rules of Magic. The Dovekeepers is “striking….Hoffman grounds her expansive, intricately woven, and deepest new novel in biblical history, with a devotion and seriousness of purpose” (Entertainment Weekly).Nearly two thousand years ago, nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on Masada, a mountain fortress in the Judean desert. According to the anci...
The Goldfinch
A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
2013
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A young New Yorker grieving his mother's death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this “extraordinary” and beloved novel that "connects with the heart as well as the mind" (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review), named a New York Times Best Book of the 21st Century.Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a weal...
2013
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Khaled Hosseini is one of the most widely read and beloved novelists in the world.His novels have sold more than 38 million copies worldwide. Now, six years after A Thousand Splendid Suns debuted at #1, spending fourteen consecutive weeks at #1 and nearly a full year on the hardcover list, Hosseini returns with a book that is broader in scope and setting than anything he's ever written before.A multigenerational-family story revolving around brothers and si...











