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Middlesex

A Novel

Jeffrey Eugenides Picador

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

"A towering achievement . . . A story that manages to be both illuminating and transcendent . . . [Eugenides] has emerged as the great American writer many of us suspected him of being."—Jeff Turrentine, Los Angeles Times Book Review

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ALA Stonewall Book Award - Honor Book - Literature
Audie Award Winner - Fiction-Unabridged
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award - Nominee - Fiction
National Books Critics Circle Awards - Nominee - Fiction
Ambassador Book Award - Winner - Fiction
Lambda Literary Award - Nominee - Transgender
Pulitzer Prize - Winner - Fiction
Great Lakes Book Award - Winner - Winner - Fiction

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One Thousand White Women

The Journals of May Dodd

Jim Fergus St. Martin's Griffin

One Thousand White Women is the story of May Dodd and a colorful assembly of pioneer women who, under the auspices of the U.S. government, travel to the...

Mountain & Plains Booksellers Association - Winner - Fiction

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Gilead

A Novel

Marilynne Robinson Picador

Twenty-four years after her first novel, Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three generations from the Civil War to the...

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ALA Notable Books - Winner - Fiction
L.A. Times Book Prize - Finalist - Fiction
National Book Critics Circle Awards - Winner - Fiction
Ambassador Book Award - Winner - Fiction
Book Sense Book of the Year Award - Nominee - Adult Fiction
Christianity Today Book Award - Fiction
PEN/Faulkner Award - Nominee - Fiction
Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award - Winner - Nonfiction
Society of Midland Authors Book Awards - Winner - Adult Fiction
Pulitzer Prize - Winner - Fiction

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Housekeeping

A Novel

Marilynne Robinson Picador

A modern classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent...

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Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award - Nominee - Winner - Fiction

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The Natural

Bernard Malamud; Introduction by Kevin Baker Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"Malamud [holds a] high and honored place among contemporary American writers."—The Washington Post Book World

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At Weddings and Wakes

A Novel

Alice McDermott Picador

"As rendered through Ms. McDermott's rich, supple prose, and infused with her quiet emotional wisdom, the story of these three children and their family assumes a kind of mythic resonance: it becomes a parable about all families and all families' encounters with love, mortality, and sorrow."—The New York Times

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One Foot in Eden

A Novel

Ron Rash Picador

Will Alexander is the sheriff in a small town in southern Appalachia, and he knows that the local thug Holland Winchester has been murdered. The only thing is...

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Home

A Novel

Marilynne Robinson Picador

"It is a book unsparing in its acknowledgement of sin and unstinting in its belief in the possibility of grave. It is at once hard and forgiving, bitter and joyful, fanatical and serene. It is a wild, eccentric radical work of literature that grows out of the broadest, most fertile, most familiar native literary tradition. What a strange old book it is.”—The New York Times Book Review

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L.A. Times Book Prize - Winner
National Book Awards - Finalist

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A Yellow Raft in Blue Water

A Novel

Michael Dorris Picador

Michael Dorris has crafted a fierce saga of three generations of Indian women, beset by hardships and torn by angry secrets, yet inextricably joined by the...

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Saints at the River

A Novel

Ron Rash Picador

When a twelve-year-old girl drowns in the Tamassee River and her body is trapped in a deep eddy, the people of the small South Carolina town that bears the...

SIBA Book Award - Winner - Fiction

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A Sport and a Pastime

A Novel

James Salter; Introduction by Reynolds Price Farrar, Straus and Giroux

“As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know,” is how Reynolds Price (The New York Times) described this classic that has been a favorite of readers, both...

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I Am Charlotte Simmons

A Novel

Tom Wolfe Picador

"Charlotte Simmons is . . . brilliant, wicked, true, and, like everything Wolfe writes, thematically coherent, cunningly well plotted, and delightfully told . . . I Am Charlotte Simmons is so intricately imagined and carefully reported that it's no wonder the book is mistaken for social realism. It is indeed scary how close this story comes to the real world."—Mark Bowden, The Atlantic Monthly

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Audie Award Finalist - I Am Charlotte Simmons was a finalist in three Audie Categories: Fiction-Unabridged, Fiction-Abridged, and Solo Narration-Male

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Annie John

A Novel

Jamaica Kincaid Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Annie John is a haunting and provocative story of a young girl growing up on the island of Antigua. A classic coming-of-age story in the tradition of The...

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Mason & Dixon

A Novel

Thomas Pynchon Picador

Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland...

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Day

A Novel

Elie Wiesel; With a New Preface by the Author Hill and Wang

"Wiesel has taken his own anguish and imaginatively metamorphosed it into art."—Curt Leviant, Saturday Review

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The Milagro Beanfield War

A Novel

John Nichols Holt Paperbacks

Joe Mondragon, a feisty hustler with a talent for trouble, slammed his battered pickup to a stop, tugged on his gumboots, and marched into the arid patch of...

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What I Loved

A Novel

Siri Hustvedt Picador

What I Loved begins in New York in 1975, when art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a SoHo gallery. He buys...

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Little Children

A Novel

Tom Perrotta St. Martin's Griffin

A New York Times Notable Book

"[An] extraordinary novel about adultery and child-raising in a generic American suburb . . . At once suspenseful, ruefully funny, and ultimately generous . . . [Little Children] represents a sterling comic contribution to the growing literature of the Bad Mommy and the Bad Daddy . . . What is Tom Perrotta but an American Checkhov whose characters even at their most ridiculous seem blessed and ennobled by a luminous human aura?"—Will Blythe, The New York Times Book Review

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The Echo Maker

A Novel

Richard Powers Picador

Winner of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize Finalist

"A wise and elegant post-9/11 novel . . . As the features of life after 9/11 come into focus—the engagement in Afghanistan, 'that bleak, first anniversary' of the attacks, the march to war in Iraq—Powers accomplishes something magnificent, no facile conflation of personal catastrophe with national calamity, but a lovely essay on perseverance in all its forms."—Colson Whitehead, The New York Times Book Review

National Book Awards - Winner

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The Brooklyn Follies

A Novel

Paul Auster Picador

Nathan Glass has come to Brooklyn to die. Divorced, retired, estranged from his only daughter, the former life insurance salesman seeks only solitude and...

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The Interpretation of Murder

A Novel

Jed Rubenfeld Picador

International Bestseller #1 U.K. Bestseller The Wall Street Journal Bestseller Los Angeles Times Bestseller In the summer of 1909, Sigmund Freud...

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Fieldwork

A Novel

Mischa Berlinski Picador

“With its offbeat style, Berlinski's consummate fieldwork—fictional though it may be—produces an intricate whodunit, both disturbing and entertaining. Even as he confesses to feeling ‘like the baton in a relay race of faulty memories and distant recollections,’ Berlinski meticulously unearths Martiya's ‘good story,’ taking readers on an intoxicating journey filled with missing souls and vengeful spirits.”—Terry Hong, The Washington Post

National Book Awards - Finalist

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Stonewall's Gold

A Novel of the Civil War

Robert J. Mrazek St. Martin's Griffin

Winner of the Civil War Society's Seal of Approval
Winner of the Michael Shaara Award for Civil War Fiction

"Tailor-made for young adults who enjoy historical adventures."—Booklist

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Child of My Heart

A Novel

Alice McDermott Picador

"A meditation on the massacre of the innocents . . . Child of My Heart concerns itself with . . . the almost timeless, action-free lagoon of the spirit, the territory of dalliance and delight—and also with its paradoxes, and also with how to make a story out of it."—Margaret Atwood, The New York Review of Books

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