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Doorways

Doorways

by Douglas Smith
Fiction
Aurora Award Finalist story from a multi-award winning author. The House promised Jack wealth, fame, and revenge...if it...
Lucky Bat Books • 60 pg • 2016-11
Metamorphosis

Metamorphosis

by Penelope Lively
Fiction
Wry, compassionate and glittering with wit, Penelope Lively's stories get beneath the everyday to the beating heart of h...
Fig Tree • 2021-10-14
The Catcher in the Rye

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger
Fiction
The Catcher in Rye is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages. The story is told by Hold...
Penguin Books Limited • 192 pg • 2010
The Matriarch

The Matriarch

by Witi Ihimaera
Fiction
At once a vigorous social history, an intensive course in Maoritanga, and an imaginative study of human relationships.
Raupo • 476 pg • 1996
Make Dust Our Paper

Make Dust Our Paper

by Joseph M. Reynolds
Fiction
Carrigan approaches the millennium New Year craving climax and culmination. What he finds instead is constant anti-clima...
• 122 pg • 2017-07-20
The Blue Guitar

The Blue Guitar

by John Banville
Fiction
Oliver Otway Orme, a semi-famous artist and petty thief, despairing of limits in his talents, flees when his latest thef...
Knopf • 274 pg • 2015
The Blind Earthworm in the Labyrinth

The Blind Earthworm in the Labyrinth

by Wīraphō̜n Nitipraphā
Fiction
Tuned to the rhythms of the soap operas that air on Thai television each night and written with the consuming intensity ...
• 216 pg • 2019-03-20
We Are the Light

We Are the Light

by Matthew Quick
Fiction
"Lucas Goodgame lives in Majestic, Pennsylvania, a quaint suburb that has been torn apart by a recent tragedy. Everyone ...
Simon and Schuster • 256 pg • 2022-11
Back to Moscow

Back to Moscow

by Guillermo Erades
Fiction
"Martin came to Moscow at the turn of the millennium hoping to discover the country of Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and his bel...
Macmillan • 385 pg • 2016-05-03
Ugly Girls

Ugly Girls

by Lindsay Hunter
Fiction
Traces the chaotic breakdown of a friendship that shapes and unravels the identities of two rebellious girls in the wake...
Macmillan • 241 pg • 2014-11-04
The Giving Quilt

The Giving Quilt

by Jennifer Chiaverini
Fiction
When the creative residents of Elm Creek gather the week after Thanksgiving to work on quilts for Project Linus, they re...
Dutton • 370 pg • 2013-04-02
The Best of Uncle John's Bathroom Reader

The Best of Uncle John's Bathroom Reader

by Bathroom Readers' Institute
Fiction
Finally--after seven years and seven volumes of bestselling bathroom reading, the Bathroom Reader's Institute has compil...
Portable Press • 528 pg • 1995
Why Not Me?

Why Not Me?

by Al Franken
Fiction
Al Franken gives a satirical account of what his campaign and office term would be like if he were to run for President.
Delta • 318 pg • 2000
The Year of Saying Yes

The Year of Saying Yes

by Hannah Doyle
Fiction
'Hannah's writing makes me laugh and laugh and LAUGH... I am officially a fan girl' Lucy Vine Welcome to Izzy's rollerco...
Hachette UK • 285 pg • 2017-07-01
Anxious People

Anxious People

by Fredrik Backman
Fiction
The funny, touching and unpredictable No. 1 New York Times bestseller, now a major Netflix TV series 'A brilliant and co...
Penguin UK • 336 pg • 2020-08-20
The Wedding People

The Wedding People

by Alison Espach
Fiction
The smash-hit international bestseller A Read With Jenna book club pick Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction...
Hachette UK • 404 pg • 2024-08-01
Hasty (Do-Over Series #4)

Hasty (Do-Over Series #4)

by Julia Kent
Fiction
I never thought my perp walk would lead to true love. Then again, I never thought I'd be arrested on RICO charges and ha...
Julia Kent • 336 pg • 2020-07-28
A Killing Cold

A Killing Cold

by Kate Alice Marshall
Fiction
A woman invited to her wealthy fiance’s family retreat realizes they are hiding a terrible secret—and that she’s been th...
Flatiron Books: Pine & Cedar • 2026-02-03
Ruth's Journey

Ruth's Journey

by Donald McCaig
Fiction
This prequel, inspired by Margaret Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind," recounts the life of Mammy from her days as a slave ...
Simon and Schuster • 384 pg • 2014-10-14
The Red Badge of Courage

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen. Crane
Fiction
The finest literature in the world is now accessible to new readers!
• 228 pg • 1990-10-21
David Copperfield

David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens
Fiction
Charles Dickens's classic story of orphan David Copperfield growing up in nineteenth-century England.
Everyman's Library • 1014 pg • 1991
The Metamorphosis

The Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka
Fiction
Originally published 1915. Kafka's bizarre masterpiece in which modern man is portrayed as an insect struggling toward h...
Bantam Classics • 228 pg • 1972-02
Barchester Towers

Barchester Towers

by Anthony Trollope
Fiction
A small, mid-19th century English cathedral town is the setting for this gently-paced story of intrigues sparked by pett...
• 552 pg • 1952
The Warden

The Warden

by Anthony Trollope
Fiction
When an honest clergyman finds himself charged with financial impropriety by a Fleet Street tabloid, scandal, pathos, an...
• 328 pg • 1980
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