2016 |
The Underground Railroad |
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Colson Whitehead
Publishers Weekly Audiobook fans will certainly not be disappointed by versatile actor Turpin's performan...More |
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2015 |
Ruby |
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Cynthia Bend
Publishers Weekly Bond's debut novel is difficult to read for its graphic and uncomfortable portrayal of...More |
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2014 |
The Invention of Wings |
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Sue Monk Kidd
Publishers Weekly Sarah and Handful Grimke split the narration in Kidd's third novel, set in pre-Civil W...More |
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2010 |
Freedom |
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Jonathan Franzen
Publishers Weekly Nine years after winning the National Book Award, Franzen's The Corrections consistent...More |
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2009 |
Say Youre One of Them |
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Uwem Akpan
Publishers Weekly Nigerian-born Jesuit priest Akpan transports the reader into gritty scenes of chaos and fe...More |
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2008 |
A New Earth |
Eckhart Tolle
Library Journal Tolle follows up his successful The Power of Now-it's sold two million copies worldwide ...More |
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2007 |
Pillars of the Earth |
Ken Follett
Book list A mystifying puzzle involving the execution of an innocent man is interwoven into this monumental s...More |
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2007 |
Middlesex: A Novel |
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Jeffrey Eugenides
School Library Journal Adult/High School-From the opening paragraph, in which the narrator explains that he ...More |
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2007 |
The Road |
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Cormac McCarthy
Publishers Weekly Violence, in McCarthy's postapocalyptic tour de force, has been visited worldwide in t...More |
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2006 |
Night |
Elie Wiesel
Library Journal Wiesel's perennial best-selling memoir-cum-novel of his year spent in four concentration ...More |
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2005 |
Light in August |
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William Faulkner
Publishers Weekly Narrator Will Patton delivers a compelling performance in this audio version of Faulkner...More |
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2004 |
The Good Earth |
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Pearl Buck
Library Journal First published in 1931, this classic novel about Chinese peasant life around the turn of th...More |
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2004 |
Anna Karenina |
Leo Tolstoy
Choice An award-winning author and translator, Bartlett offers a fluid, conversational British English rendit...More |
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2003 |
Cry, the Beloved Country |
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Alan Paton
Publishers Weekly In search of missing family members, Zulu priest Stephen Kumalo leaves his South African vi...More |
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2002 |
Sula |
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Toni Morrison
Library Journal Hearing an author read her own work creates a special ambiance. To hear Morrison read a short...More |
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2002 |
Fall on Your Knees |
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Publishers Weekly Not a single line is superfluous in this richly layered tale of the secrets within several ...More |
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2001 |
A Fine Balance |
Rohinton Mistry
Publishers Weekly The setting of Mistry's quietly magnificent second novel (after the acclaimed Such a Lo...More |
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2001 |
The Corrections |
Jonathan Franzen
Library Journal In this novel of breathtaking virtuosity, Franzen, whose debut, The Twenty-Seventh City, ch...More |
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2001 |
Cane River |
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Lalita Tademy
Book list Tademy halted a career as a high-powered technology executive to research her family's history....More |
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2001 |
Icy Sparks |
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Gwyn Hyman Rubio
Publishers Weekly The diagnosis of Tourette's Syndrome isn't mentioned until the last pages of Rubio&...More |
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2001 |
We Were the Mulvaneys |
Joyce Carol Oates
Publishers Weekly Elegiac and urgent in tone, Oates's wrenching 26th novel (after Zombie) is a profound a...More |
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2000 |
House of Sand and Fog |
Andre Dubus
Book list Reeling from her husband's abrupt departure, Kathy is living alone in the modest California bun...More |
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2000 |
Drowning Ruth |
Christina Schwarz
Library Journal Why did Ruth's mother, Mathilda, drown on that fateful night in 1919 and Ruth survive? Th...More |
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2000 |
Open House |
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Elizabeth Berg
Book list Two new novels, one from a seasoned veteran, one from a newcomer, take on the subject of a woman fi...More |
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2000 |
The Poisonwood Bible |
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Barbara Kingsolver
Library Journal It's been five years since Kingsolver's last novel (Pigs in Heaven, LJ 6/15/93), and ...More |
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2000 |
While I Was Gone |
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Sue Miller
Library Journal Thirty years ago, Joey Becker's carefree bohemian life was shattered by the brutal, unsol...More |
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2000 |
Back Roads |
Tawni O'Dell
Book list Harley Altmyer, a 19-year-old living in the Pennsylvania backwoods, works two jobs to support himse...More |
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2000 |
Daughter of Fortune |
Isabel Allende
Book list The latest novel by one of the most internationally appreciated writers draws on two of the environ...More |
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1999 |
Gap Creek |
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Robert Morgan
Library Journal Hard work and suffering seem to be Julie Harmon's lot in life. The ablest bodied of her f...More |
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1999 |
A Map of the World |
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Jane Hamilton
Library Journal This second novel by Hamilton (The Book of Ruth, LJ 11/1/88) is a stunning exploration of how...More |
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1999 |
Vinegar Hill |
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A. Manette Ansay
Library Journal Ellen must go with her unemployed husband to live with her in-laws. Their home in Hollysfiel...More |
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1999 |
River, Cross My Heart |
Breena Clarke
Library Journal YA-Set in Georgetown, this poignant coming-of-age story begins with the drowning death of six...More |
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1999 |
Tara Road |
Maeve Binchy
Library Journal Abandoned by her husband, a Dublin woman named Ria meets American Marilyn via the phone, and ...More |
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1999 |
Mother of Pearl |
Melinda Haynes
Publishers Weekly In prose both rugged and beautiful, Haynes plumbs the secrets of the South in her stunning ...More |
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1999 |
The Pilot's Wife |
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Anita Shreve
Book list From the initial knock on the door at 3 a.m. to some five months later, Katharine Lyons finds herse...More |
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1999 |
The Reader |
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Bernhard Schlink
School Library Journal YA?Michael Berg, 15, is on his way home from high school in post-World War II Germany ...More |
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1999 |
Jewel |
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Bret Lott
Publishers Weekly Jewel Hilburn, the strong-willed narrator of this haunting novel set in rural Mississippi, ...More |
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1998 |
Where the Heart Is |
Billie Letts
Kirkus A debut novel whose rose-colored glasses yield a happy-go- lucky portrait of the down-home lives of un...More |
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1998 |
Midwives |
Chris Bohjalian
Book list During her hippie days, Sibyl Danforth delivered a friend's baby on a blizzardy night. From thi...More |
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1998 |
Breath, Eyes, Memory |
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Edwidge Danticat
Publishers Weekly A distinctive new voice with a sensitive insight into Haitian culture distinguishes this gr...More |
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1998 |
Black and Blue |
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Anna Quindlen
Library Journal Actress Lili Taylor reads this riveting new work by New York Times columnist Quindlen, who ha...More |
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1998 |
Here on Earth |
Alice Hoffman
Publishers Weekly Often, in her soulful novels, Hoffman (Practical Magic, etc.) lets mystical atmospherics-an...More |
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1998 |
Paradise |
Toni Morrison
Library Journal Nobel laureate Morrison creates another richly told tale that grapples with her ongoing, cent...More |
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1997 |
The Meanest Thing to Say |
Bill Cosby
School Library Journal K-Gr 3?Cosby turns his hand to writing, telling stories about situations that children...More |
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1997 |
The Treasure Hunt |
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Bill Cosby
School Library Journal K-Gr 3?Cosby turns his hand to writing, telling stories about situations that children...More |
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1997 |
The Best Way to Play |
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Bill Cosby
School Library Journal K-Gr 3?Cosby turns his hand to writing, telling stories about situations that children...More |
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1997 |
A Virtuous Woman |
Kaye Gibbons
Library Journal Alternating chapters narrated by Ruby Stokes (who is dying of cancer at 45) with those told b...More |
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1997 |
A Lesson Before Dying |
Ernest Gaines
Library Journal What do you tell an innocent youth who was at the wrong place at the wrong time and now faces...More |
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1997 |
Songs in Ordinary Time |
Mary McGarry Morris
Publishers Weekly Set in Vermont during the summer of 1960, Morris's latest concerns a dysfunctional fami...More |
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1997 |
The Heart of a Woman |
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Maya Angelou
Kirkus Another installment in Angelou's remarkable autobiography--beginning with would-be singer Maya in ...More |
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1997 |
The Rapture of Canaan |
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Sheri Reynolds
Kirkus A second tragedy-laden southern coming-of-age tale from Reynolds (Bitterroot Landing, 1995)--this one,...More |
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1997 |
Stones from the River |
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Ursula Hegi
Book list "Every time Trudi took a story and let it stream through her mind from beginning to end, it gr...More |
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1997 |
She's Come Undone |
Wally Lamb
Kirkus A tremendously likable first novel about the catastrophe- marked childhood, youth, and mangled adultho...More |
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1996 |
The Book of Ruth |
Jane Hamilton
Publishers Weekly ``In her first novel, Hamilton takes on a challenge too large for her talents,'' sa...More |
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1996 |
Song of Solomon |
Toni Morrison
Library Journal This new version of Morrison's 1977 novel is a fitting reminder of her early creative mas...More |
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1996 |
The Deep End of the Ocean |
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Jacquelyn Mitchard
Kirkus Madison, Wisconsin, newspaper columnist Mitchard (Mother Less Child: The Love Story of a Family, 1985)...More |
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