What I Talk about When I Talk about Running by Haruki Murakami
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
An intimate look at writing, running, and the incredible way they intersect, from the incomparable, bestselling author Haruki Murakami.While simply training for New York City Marathon would be enough for most people, Haruki Murakami's decided to write about it as well. The result is a beautiful memoir a ...Show more
The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore
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Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Leningrad, 1952. Andrei, a young hospital doctor, and Anna, a nursery school teacher, are forging a life together in the postwar, postsiege wreckage. But their happiness is precarious, like that of millions of Russians who must avoid the claws of Stalin's merciless Ministry of State Security. So when An ...Show more
The Siege by Helen Dunmore
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Category: General Fiction
Leningrad, September 1941. Hitler orders the German forces to surround the city at the start of the most dangerous, desperate winter in its history. For two pairs of lovers - Anna and Andrei, Anna's novelist father and banned actress Marina - the siege becomes a battle for survival. They will soon disco ...Show more
Geisha of Gion by Mineko Iwasaki
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Category: General Fiction
For more than four decades, Mineko Iwasaki has lived within the confines of powerful but invisible constraints.Bound by an ancient, unwritten code -- 'by the robes of tradition and the sanctity of our exclusive calling' -- she and thousands of other women over the course of three centuries of Japanese h ...Show more
Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe by Sandra Gulland
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Category: General Fiction
Josephine begins to awaken to the reality of her recent marriage to Napoleon Bonaparte. Through Josephine's diary entries and Napoleon's impassioned love letters, an astonishing portrait of an ingenuous, compassionate woman emerges.
The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B by Sandra Gulland
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Category: General Fiction
'You will be unhappily wed. You will be widowed. You will be Queen.' To fourteen-year-old Rose, eldest daughter of a poor plantation landlord, the fortune teller's prophecy is both thrilling and laughable. Poorly educated and without a dowry, it seems unlikely she will find any husband, much less a king ...Show more
My Father's Fortune : A Life by Michael Frayn
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Category: General Fiction
'An unknown place.' This was what Michael Frayn's children called the shadowy landscape of the past from which their family had emerged. In this book he sets out to rediscover that lost land before all trace of it finally disappears beyond recall. As he tries to see it through the eyes his parents and t ...Show more
Tatiana and Alexander by Paullina Simons
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Category: General Fiction | Series: The\Bronze Horseman Ser.
The epic saga of love and war continues--the heart-stopping sequel to Paullina Simons's beloved international bestseller "The Bronze Horseman." Tatiana is eighteen years old, pregnant, and widowed when she escapes war-torn Leningrad to find a new life in America. But the ghosts of her past do not rest ...Show more
The Invention of Solitude by Paul Auster
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Category: General Fiction
A work of fiction which represents the author's personal meditation on fatherhood. The first section reveals his memories and feelings after the death of his father, and in the second the perspective shifts to Auster's own role as a father.
Tuesdays with morrie by Mitch Albom
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Category: General Fiction
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A special 20th anniversary edition of the beloved book that changed millions of lives--with a new afterword by the author "A wonderful book, a story of the heart told by a writer with soul."--Los Angeles Times Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Som ...Show more
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
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Category: General Fiction
** NEW ** Mitch Albom's timeless tale, a book that readers of fine fiction and those who loved his blockbuster "Tuesdays With Morrie," will treasure is now available in a specially produced paperback edition with flaps.
The Beginner's Goodbye by Anne Tyler
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Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
When Dorothy came back from the dead, Aaron noticed that some people simply ignored the fact; some seemed to have forgotten she'd died in the first place; and others just walked straight on by. The accident that killed Dorothy - involving an oak tree, a sun porch and some elusive biscuits - leaves Aaron ...Show more