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Therapy

David Lodge · 320 pages

To all appearances, Laurence Passmore is sitting pretty. True, he's almost bald and his nickname is "Tubby," but the TV sitcom he writes keeps the money coming in, he has an exclusive house in Rummidge, a state-of-the-art car, a vigorous sex life with his wife of thirty years, a flat in London, and a platonic mistress to talk shop with on his regular business trips. What his money can't buy, and

Mislaid

Nell Zink · 257 pages

Startlingly radical, dazzlingly witty, unlike anything that has come before - this is the most exciting debut novel published this year. 'Nell Zink is a writer of extraordinary talent and range. Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know.' Jonathan Franzen Virginia, 1966.

Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man

Fannie Flagg · 336 pages

Nothing to See Here

Kevin Wilson

Heartburn

Nora Ephron · 192 pages

Is it possible to write a sidesplitting novel about the breakup of the perfect marriage? If the writer is Nora Ephron, the answer is a resounding yes. For in this inspired confection of adultery, revenge, group therapy, and pot roast, the creator of *Sleepless in Seattle* reminds us that comedy depends on anguish as surely as a proper gravy depends on flour and butter. Seven months into her pre

The Twisted Ones

T. Kingfisher · 385 pages

March

Geraldine Brooks · 304 pages

Chemistry

Weike Wang · 224 pages

"A novel about a young Chinese woman whose graduate studies in chemistry go off track and lead her to discover the truths about her goals and desires"-- Three years into her graduate studies at a demanding Boston university, our unnamed narrator finds her one-time love for chemistry is more hypothesis than reality. Tormented by her failed research, there's another, nonscientific question looming:

The Vacationers

Emma Straub · 372 pages

Celebrating their thirty-fifth anniversary and their daughter's high-school graduation during a two-week vacation in Mallorca, Franny and Jim Post confront old secrets, hurts, and rivalries that reveal sides of themselves they try to conceal.

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Muriel Barbery · 325 pages

EA novel by the French professor of philosophy Muriel Barbery. The book centers on a working-class concierge of an upscale apartment building in Paris, Renee Michel. She is an auto-didact of immense learning who deliberately conceals her intelligence. Her secret is discovered by a young resident of the building named Paloma. The novel is narrated alternately by each of these two characters. Fir

The Bean Trees

Barbara Kingsolver · 240 pages

Taylor, a poor Kentuckian making her way west with an abandoned baby girl, stops in Tucson where she finds friends and discovers resources in apparently empty places.

The Ponder Heart

Eudora Welty · 156 pages

Edna Earle Ponder, who runs a hotel in a small Mississippi town, tells the story of her beloved, softhearted, but trying Uncle Daniel.

The Education of Dixie Dupree

Donna Everhart · 352 pages

The Last Original Wife

Dorothea Benton Frank · 376 pages

"Experience the sultry Southern atmosphere of Atlanta and the magic of the Carolina Lowcountry in this funny and poignant tale of one audacious woman's quest to find the love she deserves, from New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank.Leslie Anne Greene Carter is The Last Original Wife among her husband Wesley's wildly successful Atlanta social set. His cronies have all traded in th

No! I Don't Want to Join a Book Club: Diary of a Sixtieth Year

Virginia Ironside · 240 pages

A screamingly funny and poignant story about embracing life beyond middle ageMarie Sharp is heading toward sixty and is just fine with it. She's already had plenty of excitement in her life: sex and drugs in the freewheeling sixties, career and children, marriage and divorce. Now she's ready to settle into a quiet, blissfully boring routine. No Italian classes or gym memberships or bicycle trips a

The Provincial Lady in London

E.M. Delafield · 302 pages

The provincial lady finds an apartment in London, visits nightclubs and casinos, and meets the intellectuals and eccentrics of London society.

The Spectator Bird

Wallace Stegner · 214 pages

Joe Allston is a retired literary agent who is, in his own words, "just killing time until time gets around to killing me." His parents and his only son are long dead, leaving him with neither ancestors nor descendants, tradition nor ties. His job, trafficking the talent of others, had not been his choice. He passes through life as a spectator. A postcard from a friend causes Allston to return to

Gone Girl

Gillian Flynn · 440 pages

Gone Girl is a 2012 crime thriller novel by American writer Gillian Flynn. It was published by Crown Publishing Group in June 2012. The novel became popular and made the New York Times Best Seller list. The sense of suspense in the novel comes from whether or not Nick Dunne is involved in the disappearance of his wife Amy. ---------- Also contained in: [Les apparences suvi de la novella Nou

Love in a Cold Climate

Nancy Mitford · 324 pages

The story of coldly beautiful Polly Hampton, her aristocratic parents and the denizens of Alconleigh, reintroduces many of the characters made familiar in "The Pursuit of Love".

Earthly Possessions

Anne Tyler · 208 pages

Une mère de famille de 35 ans décide de prendre des vacances sous forme de fugue. Un jeune homme de 20 ans la kidnappe ... Situation que la romancière traite avec humour dans ce récit mouvementé de 1977.

Elizabeth and Her German Garden

Elizabeth von Arnim · 137 pages

Told in a series of diary entries, Elizabeth and Her German Garden recounts one year in the life of an Englishwoman determined to revitalize the neglected garden of their German estate. It is in the process of laying out flower beds, ordering rose varietals, and supervising the planting that she finds peace and escape from her three young children (referred to simply as the April, May, and June ba

The Epicure's Lament

Kate Christensen · 351 pages

For ten years, Hugo Whittier, upper-class scion, former gigolo, failed belle-lettrist has been living a hermit's existence at Waverly, his family's crumbling mansion overlooking the Hudson. He passes the time reading Montaigne and M.F.K. Fisher, cooking himself delicious meals, smoking an endless number of cigarettes, and nursing a grudge against the world. But his older brother, Dennis, has ret

That Old Cape Magic

Richard Russo · 272 pages

Following Bridge of Sighs--a national best seller hailed by The Boston Globe as "an astounding achievement" and "a masterpiece"--Richard Russo gives us the story of a marriage, and of all the other ties that bind, from parents and in-laws to children and the promises of youth.Griffin has been tooling around for nearly a year with his father's ashes in the trunk, but his mother is very much alive a

The Marvelous Misadventures of Ingrid Winter

J.S. Drangsholt