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A novel that pans in on the Norfolk holiday home of the Smart family one hot summer. There a beguiling stranger called Amber appears at the door bearing all sorts of unexpected gifts, trampling over family boundaries and sending each of the Smarts scurrying from the dark into the light.

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Explores the place of Asian Americans in contemorary American politics and society, the nature of race, and the price of assimilation.

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Maggie and Sylvie are perfect strangers: two very different women, living very different lives on opposite coasts. But they share more in common than they could ever imagine. Both women think their lives are seamlessly secure, but they couldn't be more wrong...

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When Bea receives a love letter that isn't addressed to her, the temptation to open it and reply is too strong - changing her quiet, lonely life forever.

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How does a man addicted to routine - a man who flosses his teeth before love-making - cope with the chaos of everyday life With the loss of his son, the departure of his wife and the arrival of Muriel, a dog trainer from the Meow-Bow dog clinic, Macon's attempts at ordinary life are tragically and comically undone.

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For Maria, nothing is certain. Her life is a chain of accidents. Friendship passes her by, and she's unimpressed by the devoted Ronny and his endless proposals of marriage. Maria lives in a world of her own - yet not of her own making. Stumbling through university, work, marriage and motherhood, she finds it hard to see what all the fuss is about.

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"Following the death of their mother from a botched backwoods abortion, the McAlister daughters have to cope with the ripple effect of this tragedy as they come of age in 1950s Mississippi and then grow up to face their own impossible choices"--

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An eerie, unforgettable story of power, loss, and family curses in early 20th-century Princeton.

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Searing fiction smuggled out of North Korea - the English PEN Translates Award winner, now in paperback

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An amusing collection of stories by the author of Trainspotting, in which the characters are often, on the surface, depraved, vicious, cowardly and manipulative, but their essential humanity is never undermined.

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No man has ever loved a woman and not imagined her in the arms of someone else.

Felix Quinn calls himself a happy man. But a childhood experience has taught him that loss is intrinsic to love, and Felix realises that he can only be truly happy if his wife is sleeping with another man.

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A novel of a time, and an age, that comes to us all.

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Steinbeck's first posthumously published work, The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights is a reinterpretation of tales from Malory's Morte d'Arthur. In this highly successful attempt to render Malory into Modern English, Steinbeck recreated the rhythm and tone of the original Middle English.

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The story behind The Actual belongs to Harry Trellman, an aging, astute businessman who has never belonged anywhere.

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"Natalie, a college freshman from a remote small town, is drawn into an all-consuming affair with an older woman"--

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The most hilarious and heartwarming debut of the year, from a totally fresh and original new voice.

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"This abridgment is based on the 2007 edition"--Colophon.

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The fictional autobiography of a rumbustious adventurer and poker-player who sets off his native Chicago in the spirit of a latter-day Columbus to rediscover the world-and more especially, twentieth-century America.

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An irresistible novel of love, music and comedy - 'A master storyteller' Independent on Sunday

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For fans of Siri Hustvedt and Nicole Krauss, THE AFFAIRS OF OTHERS is an exceptional debut about the awakening of a young widow and 'carries a considerable erotic charge, but there's much more to it besides: grief is Amy Grace Loyd's subject and her narrative is as psychologically acute as it is sensual' (DAILY MAIL). Includes reading-group notes.