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  • Once Upon a River: A Novel

    From the instant #1 New York Times bestselling author of the “eerie and fascinating” (USA TODAY) The Thirteenth Tale comes a “swift and entrancing, profound and beautiful” (Madeline Miller, internationally bestselling author of Circe) novel about how we explain the world to ourselves, ourselves to others, and the meaning of our lives in a universe that remains impenetrably mysterious.On a dark midwinter’s night in an ancient inn on the river Thames, an extraordinary event takes place. The regulars are telling stories to while away the dark hours, when the door bursts open on a grievously wounded stranger. In his arms is the lifeless body of a small child. Hours later, the girl stirs, takes a breath and returns to life. Is it a miracle? Is it magic? Or can science provide an expla... [Read More]
    Best Literary Novels Of The Decade

    • ASIN: 074329808X
    • ASIN: 074329808X
    • ISBN: 074329808X
    • Brand: Atria/Emily Bestler Books
    • Manufacturer: Atria/Emily Bestler Books

  • The Optimistic Decade

    "Abel is a perceptive writer whose astute observations keep the book funny and light . . . An exploration of the limits of idealism . . .  subversive." —The New York Times Book Review   A smart and sly story about a utopian summer camp, a charismatic leader, and the people who are drawn to his vision, The Optimistic Decade follows four unforgettable characters and a piece of land that changes everyone who lives on it. There is Caleb, founder of the back-to-the-land camp Llamalo, who is determined to teach others to live simply. There is Donnie, the rancher who gave up his land to Caleb and who now wants it back. There is Rebecca, determined to become an activist like her father and undone by the spell of both Llamalo and new love. And there is David, a teenager who h... [Read More]
    Best Literary Novels Of The Decade

    • ASIN: 1616209348
    • ASIN: 1616209348
    • ISBN: 1616209348
    • Brand: Algonquin Books
    • Manufacturer: Algonquin Books

  • Black Sheep Boy: A Novel in Stories

    Winner of the 2017 PEN Center USA Award for FictionMeet Boo, a wild-hearted boy from the bayou land of Louisiana. Misfit, outcast, loner. Call him anything but a victim. Sissy, fairy, Jenny Woman. Son of a mixed-race Holy Ghost mother and a Cajun French phantom father. In a series of tough and tender stories, he encounters gender outlaws, drag queen renegades, and a rogues gallery of sex-starved priests, perverted teachers, and murderous bar owners. To escape his haunted history, Boo must shed his old skin and make a new self. As he does, his story rises from dark and murk, from moss and mud, to reach a new light and a new brand of fairy tale. Cajun legends, queer fantasies, and universal myths converge into a powerful work of counter-realism. Black Sheep Boy is a song of passion and a nov... [Read More]
    Best Literary Novels Of The Decade

    • ASIN: 1942600372
    • ASIN: 1942600372
    • ISBN: 9781942600374
    • Brand: Rare Bird Books
    • Manufacturer: Rare Bird Books, A Barnacle Book

  • The Fire by Night: A Novel

    A powerful and evocative debut novel about two American military nurses during World War II that illuminates the unsung heroism of women who risked their lives in the fight—a riveting saga of friendship, valor, sacrifice, and survival combining the grit and selflessness of Band of Brothers with the emotional resonance of The Nightingale.In war-torn France, Jo McMahon, an Italian-Irish girl from the tenements of Brooklyn, tends to six seriously wounded soldiers in a makeshift medical unit. Enemy bombs have destroyed her hospital convoy, and now Jo singlehandedly struggles to keep her patients and herself alive in a cramped and freezing tent close to German troops. There is a growing tenderness between her and one of her patients, a Scottish officer, but Jo’s heart is seared by the pain ... [Read More]
    Best Literary Novels Of The Decade

    • ASIN: 0062459104
    • ASIN: 0062459104
    • ISBN: 0062459104
    • Brand: William Morrow Company
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow

  • The One & Only: A Novel

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The beloved author of Something Borrowed and Where We Belong returns with an extraordinary story of love and loyalty—and an unconventional heroine struggling to reconcile both. Thirty-three-year-old Shea Rigsby has spent her entire life in Walker, Texas—a small college town that lives and dies by football, a passion she unabashedly shares. Raised alongside her best friend, Lucy, the daughter of Walker’s legendary head coach, Clive Carr, Shea was too devoted to her hometown team to leave. Instead she stayed in Walker for college, even taking a job in the university athletic department after graduation, where she has remained for more than a decade. But when an unexpected tragedy strikes the tight-knit Walker community, Shea’s comfortable world... [Read More]
    Best Literary Novels Of The Decade

    • ASIN: 0345546881
    • ASIN: 0345546881
    • ISBN: 0345546881
    • Brand: Ballantine Books
    • Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

  • Collected Fiction: The Young Lions, Bread Upon the Waters, Short Stories: Five Decades, and The Troubled Air

    Three acclaimed novels plus collected short fiction by the New York Times–bestselling author of Rich Man, Poor Man.The Young Lions: Irwin Shaw’s New York Times–bestselling debut is widely considered one of the four great World War II novels, along with From Here to Eternity, The Naked and the Dead, and The Caine Mutiny. Ambitious in its scope and robust in its prose, this “masterpiece” is also deeply humanistic, presenting the reality of war as seen through the eyes of three ordinary soldiers: a Nazi sergeant, a Jewish American infantryman, and an idealistic urbanite from New York City (TheBoston Globe).  Bread Upon the Waters: No good deed goes unpunished? The Strands are a happy family, though not without their financial struggles. When their daughter helps a mugging victim by... [Read More]
    Best Literary Novels Of The Decade

    • ASIN: B075KY8L4D
    • ASIN: B075KY8L4D
    • Manufacturer: Open Road Media

  • Telex from Cuba: A Novel

    Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction The debut novel by New York Times bestselling author Rachel Kushner, called “shimmering” (The New Yorker), “multilayered and absorbing” (The New York Times Book Review), and “gorgeously written” (Kirkus Reviews).Young Everly Lederer and K.C. Stites come of age in Oriente Province, where the Americans tend their own fiefdom—three hundred thousand acres of United Fruit Company sugarcane that surround their gated enclave. If the rural tropics are a child's dreamworld, Everly and K.C. nevertheless have keen eyes for the indulgences and betrayals of the grown-ups around them—the mordant drinking and illicit loves, the race hierarchies and violence. In Havana, a thousand kilometers and a world away from the American colony, a cabar... [Read More]
    Best Literary Novels Of The Decade

    • ASIN: 1416561048
    • ASIN: 1416561048
    • ISBN: 9781416561040
    • Brand: Scribner
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

  • V for Vendetta

    Set in a futurist totalitarian England, a country without freedom or faith, a mysterious man in a white porcelain mask strikes back against the oppressive overlords on behalf of the voiceless. Armed with only knives and his wits, V, as he’s called, aims to bring about change in this horrific new world. His only ally? A young woman named Evey Hammond. And she is in for much more than she ever bargained for… A visionary graphic novel that defines sophisticated storytelling, this powerful tale detailing the loss and fight for individuality has become a cultural touchstone and an enduring allegory for current events. Master storytellers Alan Moore and David Lloyd are at the top of their craft in this terrifying portrait of totalitarianism and resistance. This paperback edition collects the... [Read More]
    Best Literary Novels Of The Decade

    • ASIN: 140120841X
    • UPC: 761941251059
    • ASIN: 140120841X
    • ISBN: 9781401208417
    • Brand: DC Vertigo
    • Manufacturer: Vertigo

  • Train Dreams: A Novella

    A New York Times Notable BookAn Esquire Best Book of 2011A New Yorker Favorite Book of 2011A Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of 2011 Denis Johnson's Train Dreams is an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fictions. It is the story of Robert Grainier, a day laborer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century---an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainer struggles to make sense of this strange new world. As his story unfolds, we witness both his shocking personal defeats and the radical changes that transform America in his lifetime. Suffused with the history and landscapes of the American West, this novella by the National Book Award--winning author of Tree of Smoke captures the disappearance of a distinctly America... [Read More]
    Best Literary Novels Of The Decade

    • ASIN: 1250007658
    • ASIN: 1250007658
    • ISBN: 9781250007650
    • Brand: Picador USA
    • Manufacturer: Picador

  • Do Not Say We Have Nothing: A Novel

    Winner of the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalist for the 2016 Man Booker Prize "A vivid, magisterial novel that reaches back to China's civil war and up to the present day" ―The Guardian“In a single year, my father left us twice. The first time, to end his marriage, and the second, when he took his own life. I was ten years old.”Master storyteller Madeleine Thien takes us inside an extended family in China, showing us the lives of two successive generations―those who lived through Mao’s Cultural Revolution and their children, who became the students protesting in Tiananmen Square. At the center of this epic story are two young women, Marie and Ai-Ming. Through their relationship Marie strives to piece together the tale of her fractured family in present-day Vancouver, seeking ... [Read More]
    Best Literary Novels Of The Decade

    • ASIN: 039360988X
    • ASIN: 039360988X
    • ISBN: 039360988X
    • Brand: W W Norton Company
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

  • Best Friends Forever : A Novel

    With incomparable humor and heart, Weiner presents her latest novel, which depicts the nuances of female
    Best Literary Novels Of The Decade
    From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes "a smart, witty fairy tale for grownups" (Maureen Corrigan, NPR).Addie Downs and Valerie Adler will be best friends forever. That’s what Addie believes after Valerie moves across the street when they’re both nine years old. But in the wake of betrayal during their teenage years, Val is swept into the popular crowd, while mousy, sullen Addie becomes her school’s scapegoat.Flash-forward fifteen years. Valerie Adler has found a measure of fame and fortune working as the weathergirl at the local TV station. Addie Downs lives alone in her parents’ house in their

    • UPC: 11975146
    • Rating: 3.3

  • Where the Crawdads Sing - Hardcover

    "A lush debut; Owens delivers her mystery wrapped in gorgeous, lyrical prose." --Alexandra Fuller, author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs TonightHow long can you protect your heart? For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in
    Best Literary Novels Of The Decade
    Where the Crawdads Sing - Hardcover

    • UPC: 693317719
    • Rating: 4.5

  • The Best of Youth: A Novel - eBook

    What happens when an introverted young writer takes on a ghostwriting gig for a violent, drug-addicted Hollywood star? In the case of Henry Lang, the result is a string of outrageous disasters, but disasters that are ultimately hilarious, gripping, and deeply moving.When twenty-something Henry Lang loses his parents in a sailing accident, he’s left entirely alone in the world but also with an inheritance of fifteen million bucks. He decides to head to Brooklyn to immerse himself in the place he’s quite sure is the absolute heart of American youth culture to try and make it as a writer and
    Best Literary Novels Of The Decade
    The Best of Youth: A Novel - eBook

    • UPC: 561065618
    • Rating: 4.0

  • The Best Bad Things : A Novel

    "A period novel about a female detective who goes undercover (occasionally as a man), to infiltrate a smuggling ring, and navigates shifting allegiances once on the inside"
    Best Literary Novels Of The Decade
    “A brazen, brawny, sexy standout of a historical thrill ride, The Best Bad Things is full of unforgettable characters and insatiable appetites. I was riveted. Painstakingly researched and pulsing with adrenaline, Carrasco’s debut will leave you thirsty for more.” —Lyndsay Faye, author of The Gods of GothamA vivid, sexy barn burner of a historical crime novel, The Best Bad Things introduces readers to the fiery Alma Rosales—detective, smuggler, spyIt is 1887, and Alma Rosales is on the hunt for stolen opium. Trained in espionage by the Pinkerton Detective Agency—but dismissed for bad behavior and a penchant for going undercover as

    • UPC: 111840496
    • Rating: 1.0

  • Best Boy: A Novel - eBook

    **New York Times Editor's ChoicePeople Magazine Pick of the WeekA Washington Post Notable Book of 2015Library Journal Top Ten Books of 2015BookPage Top Five Books of 2015"Raw and beautiful. . . . What rises and shines from the page is Todd Aaron, a hero of such singular character and clear spirit that you will follow him anywhere. You won’t just root for him, you will fight and push and pray for him to wrest control of his future. You will read this book in one sitting or maybe two, and, I promise, you will miss this man deeply when you
    Best Literary Novels Of The Decade
    Best Boy: A Novel - eBook

    • UPC: 691888533
    • Rating: 4.3

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